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CRYPTO 101
A highlight from Ep. 571 The Next Generation of Open Source Tech on the Blockchain
"All right, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another episode of the Crypto 101 Podcast. I am your co -host dutifully and cheerfully. You guys know me, Bryce Paul. You guys also know my notorious co -host, Brendan Veman. Brendan, how are you doing today, man? I am doing good. What's up, everybody? We're seeing a lot of life in the crypto markets right now, Bryce. I don't know about you, but I am riled up and I am excited. I'm making it all back in one trade. In a long time, because it's October and we're feeling the effects of it. I'll tell you what. Yeah. It's crazy because everybody was talking about October. It's always on record as one of the best months in crypto's market. And then we just were dragging and dragging for the first, what, two weeks. Finally, over this past weekend, we just saw a tremendous bid in the market and we're excited. Clearly, it's a builder's market still. And that's why we have a builder with us today who we're going to introduce. But maybe the speculation will return here to the market as the bull unfolds. But we're always excited through the bear and through the bull. And we don't like to call it bear markets. We like to call them builder's markets because this is when the actual real stuff gets done. This is when nobody's really paying attention and everybody's stopped calling you and texting you to hear about the latest price of Bitcoin. But the real crypto aficionados and the real builders stick around and they build what ends up being the infrastructure for the future. We have joining us a very special guest, Matt Bell, who is the CEO of TurboFish. So Matt, welcome to the Crypto 101 podcast. Thank you so much for having me. Yeah. We're really excited. How do you feel? Are you feeling excited or are you just... You don't even check price charts. What do you think? I check a little bit. Yeah. I mean, yeah, we've been in the builder's market. I've just been building and not checking. But then now, it feels good when you have a chance to like, okay, now I want to check it because I'm going to look and see a bunch of green on coin market cap and stuff like that. So yeah, I'm feeling pretty good. Just like we have Bitcoin right now. It's up 5 % in the last 24 hours. That's pretty good. That feels good. I mean, you make a good point because there are times in the market where we are checking our phone. I find myself opening up the TradingView app just to close it and then open it back up and then close it and then open it back up like it's a social media page. You're an addict. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. It's the same hit of dopamine as social media. It's just like refresh. You're like, oh, my bags went up a little bit. So that's good. And then there's other times where I'm like, I do not want to look at the market. I am deleting my TradingView app and I'll look at it next month. And luckily, we're on the first scenario where now I'm constantly refreshing my feed and I'm just excited to be a part of it. Just happy to be here, right? Well, Matt, let's dive into a little bit about your background prior to founding TurboFish. And we'll get into that and all the amazing things you're building there. But what were you doing before and how did you find your way into the blockchain and the crypto markets? Yeah, so it's been a long time now. I got into the industry just on accident. I was just interested in Bitcoin in 2012, just learning about it and like, wow, this is a really cool thing. And back then it was such a small world, like a subreddit with a few thousand people, basically. And it was just a small community and just like in, yeah, Bitcoin was like $1 back then or something, just like in all these different chat rooms talking about this stuff. And I never really thought like, oh, this is going to be something that I should invest in, that's going to grow a lot. It was just for me, it was like, this is some cool, fun, little like niche technology, you know, and it's interesting to me. And so I was interested in it. Then I just sort of, you know, there were some companies in the space that had raised money and stuff. So I like started working in that world, you know, and then it's just sort of stuck. And now it's been a decade of working in the industry and at, you know, all these different projects and seeing it evolve. And it's gone way farther than I ever thought it could. It's exciting. And kind of, you know, what made you decide of all the companies you could found and work on, you know, what was it about Turbo Fish that really made you land on that? Yeah. So at Turbo Fish, we're just focused on, you know, we've seen the trends come and go in like, you know, how things are built, the different engineering, the different platforms people have built on. And we think we have, you know, a special take on how to build things the right way, sort of how to get the core engineering really right to build everything, how it will, you know, how it will last, like, all the if you think of all the crypto and blockchain products people will use in the future, you know, that'll support billions of users. We just really want to build that rather than, you know, there's been so many platforms that are just sort of like the transitions to get us there. But we really want to build the future of this technology.
Ethereum Daily
A highlight from Chat: PoolTogether V5 And ERC-4626 Prize Vaults With Tim Cox
"Hello, everyone, and welcome to Ethereum Chats. This is our new interview -based podcast series. On this episode, we're talking all things Pulled Together and their recently launched v5 release. We're going to dive into a little bit into the Pulled Together origin story. We'll dive into all the cool new features that v5 unlocks. With us today, we have Tim Cox. He is the director of partnerships at Generation Software, and Tim will let us know how that relates to Pulled Together. Tim, thanks for joining us. Yo, this is so great. It's fun running your own podcast and then being interviewed for a podcast. This is a treat. I'm on the other side of the table. And for those that don't know, Tim is also the host of the Pulled Together Community podcast. I'll link that down below. Tim, do you want to give us a quick background on yourself and what you do and how it relates to Pulled Together? Yes, I've had friends in my life who care about me and want me to do things that will benefit me. And so in 2019 and 2020, I had friends who were like, you need to get into crypto. You need to get into Ethereum. And I dabbled in it. And I like to do things, right? If I'm on the bleeding edge of technology, I want to do stuff. And I was able to swap and NFTs were around, but I'm like, and then like DAOs were a thing. And there wasn't a lot to do to hold my attention. And so I dabbled in 2019 and 2020. We all know what happened in 2020 globally. And I worked in nonprofit marketing. And what happens in a donor based organization is they look at what can we cut because the donations are probably going to go down and they cut marketing, which I led. That was rough on me. That was a really tough time. I looked around and my friends were like, you should get back into crypto. And so this time I actually listened to them. So November 2021 is my is basically I was heads down full time attention in crypto. And I joined the pool together community because why I was friends with one of the co -founders Leighton and Leighton told me about airdrops. So I got some airdrops, thanks Uniswap for that. And was like, Hey, why don't you join a community like pool together? And so I just was like, let's do marketing at pool together. Then I found out there's not very many people in crypto. And so marketing is very difficult to do, but the best marketing in crypto is partnerships. Very quickly, I realized that, Hey, we should work with as many protocols and builders as possible to spread that pool together goodness around. And so that's how I started doing partnerships and business development and growth minded things. And in July Generation Software formed co -founder of pool together, Brendan, formed a software company and then asked me to be the director of partnerships there. So that's how I got there full time. And so since July Generation Software has existed and we just launched the new version of pool together. I think that's a little bit of my, that's my origin story. I talked a little bit about pool together's origin story. Pool together came out in 2019 after eat Denver Leighton went to eat Denver to get involved with hackathon and then ended up meeting Chuck and Brendan, the other two co -founders of pool together just out one of those parties, things that you go to and then pool together formed quickly after that we're on V five of it. And this is the final version. This is the thing that will live on and will be immutable forever. That's where we're at. Pool together launched in September, 2019. It is an OG protocol. I grew up with Ave, with Compound, with MakerDAO. I think the first iteration might have generated yield from either the die savings rate or from Compound, but so much has happened since. Do you want to give us a summary of how the protocol has evolved since you've been a part of it? I'm going to go high level and like less detail. And the more recent I'll get into more detail, but basically price savings account concept of pool together is a long time financial privative. It's existed in the UK to help the United Kingdom pay off a word debt. And there's billions of dollars and they're called premium bonds. And so people just save their money and the yield from that money is distributed in prizes. And it's perfect for crypto, right? In crypto, it's very easy to save money. That's one of the dynamics is staking and then you get yield from it. And then why not, if you're only doing $10, a hundred bucks and the APRs are lower, why not make it a little spicy and distribute that yield as prizes, right? That was the core idea to encourage financial literacy, financial freedom in a place where there's a lot of speculation and a lot of degenning and using that cool mechanism to entice savings.
Coronavirus
A highlight from Chat: PoolTogether V5 And ERC-4626 Prize Vaults With Tim Cox
"Hello, everyone, and welcome to Ethereum Chats. This is our new interview -based podcast series. On this episode, we're talking all things Pulled Together and their recently launched v5 release. We're going to dive into a little bit into the Pulled Together origin story. We'll dive into all the cool new features that v5 unlocks. With us today, we have Tim Cox. He is the director of partnerships at Generation Software, and Tim will let us know how that relates to Pulled Together. Tim, thanks for joining us. Yo, this is so great. It's fun running your own podcast and then being interviewed for a podcast. This is a treat. I'm on the other side of the table. And for those that don't know, Tim is also the host of the Pulled Together Community podcast. I'll link that down below. Tim, do you want to give us a quick background on yourself and what you do and how it relates to Pulled Together? Yes, I've had friends in my life who care about me and want me to do things that will benefit me. And so in 2019 and 2020, I had friends who were like, you need to get into crypto. You need to get into Ethereum. And I dabbled in it. And I like to do things, right? If I'm on the bleeding edge of technology, I want to do stuff. And I was able to swap and NFTs were around, but I'm like, and then like DAOs were a thing. And there wasn't a lot to do to hold my attention. And so I dabbled in 2019 and 2020. We all know what happened in 2020 globally. And I worked in nonprofit marketing. And what happens in a donor based organization is they look at what can we cut because the donations are probably going to go down and they cut marketing, which I led. That was rough on me. That was a really tough time. I looked around and my friends were like, you should get back into crypto. And so this time I actually listened to them. So November 2021 is my is basically I was heads down full time attention in crypto. And I joined the pool together community because why I was friends with one of the co -founders Leighton and Leighton told me about airdrops. So I got some airdrops, thanks Uniswap for that. And was like, Hey, why don't you join a community like pool together? And so I just was like, let's do marketing at pool together. Then I found out there's not very many people in crypto. And so marketing is very difficult to do, but the best marketing in crypto is partnerships. Very quickly, I realized that, Hey, we should work with as many protocols and builders as possible to spread that pool together goodness around. And so that's how I started doing partnerships and business development and growth minded things. And in July Generation Software formed co -founder of pool together, Brendan, formed a software company and then asked me to be the director of partnerships there. So that's how I got there full time. And so since July Generation Software has existed and we just launched the new version of pool together. I think that's a little bit of my, that's my origin story. I talked a little bit about pool together's origin story. Pool together came out in 2019 after eat Denver Leighton went to eat Denver to get involved with hackathon and then ended up meeting Chuck and Brendan, the other two co -founders of pool together just out one of those parties, things that you go to and then pool together formed quickly after that we're on V five of it. And this is the final version. This is the thing that will live on and will be immutable forever. That's where we're at. Pool together launched in September, 2019. It is an OG protocol. I grew up with Ave, with Compound, with MakerDAO. I think the first iteration might have generated yield from either the die savings rate or from Compound, but so much has happened since. Do you want to give us a summary of how the protocol has evolved since you've been a part of it? I'm going to go high level and like less detail. And the more recent I'll get into more detail, but basically price savings account concept of pool together is a long time financial privative. It's existed in the UK to help the United Kingdom pay off a word debt. And there's billions of dollars and they're called premium bonds. And so people just save their money and the yield from that money is distributed in prizes. And it's perfect for crypto, right? In crypto, it's very easy to save money. That's one of the dynamics is staking and then you get yield from it. And then why not, if you're only doing $10, a hundred bucks and the APRs are lower, why not make it a little spicy and distribute that yield as prizes, right? That was the core idea to encourage financial literacy, financial freedom in a place where there's a lot of speculation and a lot of degenning and using that cool mechanism to entice savings.
CRYPTO 101
A highlight from Ep. 569 Disrupting Big Pharma with Blockchain Technology
"All right, everybody, welcome back to another episode of the Crypto 101 podcast, where I am joined as always by my co -host, Mr. Brendan Veman. Brendan, how are you doing today over on the East Coast? You're hanging in there, no storms ripping through your neighborhood today? Despite it being hurricane season over here, we are hanging in just fine. We are starting to get the beginning of fall, the weather is starting to cool down, and I am feeling amazing. I think I'm going to go play some pickleball after this, Bryce. Yeah, love it. Yeah, America's fastest growing sport. Also, I heard very much responsible for quite a lot of medical bills these days. People are getting hurt left and right on the pickleball courts. The actuaries have not been pricing this in, but anyhow, we are going to have a very interesting discussion today with the co -founders of PharmaDao. We've got Israel Merski and Gennaro Durso. I apologize, I'm not Italian and I know I didn't get that right. He'll say it beautifully in just a second. These are the co -founders of PharmaDao. Gennaro is also the CEO of Genetics Network. We're going to be learning about really the big pharma industry and how we're going to disrupt it, how we're going to bring decentralization and transparency and sovereignty and all those good, beautiful things that blockchain can bring to it. Let's introduce our guests here. Gennaro, we'll say hello to you first. How are you doing today? I'm doing great. Really nice to be here and give you some insights, I hope, into how decentralization can make a difference in this very important space. Can you say the last name without butchering it like I just did, please? My name is Gennaro Durso. Beautiful. I love it. Just something about the Italian love language. It gets me every time. Israel Merski, it's a beautiful name as well. How are you doing today? Thank you very much. Very well, thank you. Good to be here. Absolutely. We're going to bust into the big pharma industry and how we're going to disrupt it. Before we do that, I want to get you guys acquainted with our audience. We want to know a little bit about how you guys came into the market from the pharma industry, now into crypto and blockchain. Gennaro, let's go with you first. Tell us a little bit about you and how you found yourself here. Well, I guess the story really begins that I'm a scientist. I was trained in the classical sense of basic research, doing all the things that we do to get to a point where we can run our own laboratory. I was running a lab in the University of Miami as a professor. I really was under a rock for the most part. I was working really hard in science and decided to do something very important during the pandemic, was find treatments to save lives. Our technology was used in that case, but then I realized that it was very difficult to bring these things forward just due to the system, the way it works in the large pharmaceutical industry. That's not to say it's necessarily awful, it's just that it's And so along that path, I realized that there might be an alternative way when I learn more about blockchain and the technology. And I thought of it at that time as a really powerful approach to form a distributed ledger that people could join in and do something more direct towards the things we needed at the time. So one thing led to another. I spent about a year and a half really pursuing the dream of saying, can we decentralize, can we drug democratize development, drug production? And the answer to that question is, I think we can, and I think we can do a very effective job at doing that. And so PharmaDao was born, at least conceptually. And then that's led to basically creating something called Pharma Collective, which is a foundation 501c3, but also has the infrastructure being run by PharmaDao and this decentralized tech to develop or produce drugs in the public interest is our main job at this point. And I should say that Israel and I are co -founders, but we also have several other people that have joined the community and are actively pursuing this mission.
The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
A highlight from Preseason Begins & The Annual GM Survey
"This is the crossover NBA podcast Chris Mannix joined as I always am by Chris Herring and Rohan Nadkarni. Quick housekeeping note fellas the NBA preview issue is out I guess the basketball preview issue because there is a lot of college stuff in there as well but the cover is NBA Jimmy Butler guest editor for this NBA preview issue Rohan you spent some time with Jimmy Butler in parts unknown I assume South Florida did a a story with him it's excellent check that out I've got a piece on the Phoenix Suns spent some time talking to Matt Ishbia James Jones Frank Vogel key pieces of that organization trying to recreate exactly what happened after the season ended how they got this point where they have one of the most expensive teams in NBA history a lot of good stuff there scouting reports different elements as well make sure you pick up the magazine on stands right now. So fellas we've got the NBA GM survey that's out and I want to dive into some of the elements of that but before we start recording this podcast I was just going through social media looking up some clips and all that stuff and I came across one from the Pat Bev pod the Patrick Beverly pod he does with Barstool Sports I just want to play this clip for you because Pat Bev was joined by Michael Rubin the former owner of the Philadelphia 76ers now this still the CEO with fanatics someone who has a strong relationship with a lot of players including James Harden who they discussed in this clip here as a past NBA owner obviously you're close to the Sixers the situation that's going on with James Harden how would you handle it it wouldn't have happened you know first of all James is family to me and like I'm not going to hide about that I love James this thing is breaking my heart this thing was just not handled well he was playing with us in practice and boy he was cooking he was oh I'm talking about the pot was out and he was stirring that bitch up there's nobody who wants to win a championship more than James Harden I know this guy like my brother people give James a hard time because you know he likes to have fun it's bullshit like the guy the guy's work ethic for basketball is insane and his attitude has been great he's been leading he's been giving advice so you might hear all the bad shit you know TV from reporters that's not there but actually being a teammate that's there he's he's been phenomenal I block out the noises really same because I think a lot of people just don't know like the real James Harden how badly he wants to win I think he's in great not good shape he's in great shape yeah he's in great shape right that's right body looks great yeah every time I'm in the weight room he's in the weight room he's gonna ball out this year so herring I know my blood shouldn't boil when I hear stuff like this and I know it you know the podcast is doing its job if it gets me kind of drawn in and talking about it but to hear Michael Rubin say that James Harden wants to win a championship more than anyone at the same time that James Harden is trying to force his way off a championship contender that is a Rubik's Cube of nonsense that I'm really having a hard time wrapping my head around your thoughts on the propaganda emerging from the Pat Bev pod about James Harden I'm just trying to think of a stranger mashup than the one you just explained I mean the the whole universe of Michael Rubin and all the there's so many things lately that just on social media that I've wanted to mute and I don't think I know enough about how to do it I haven't taken the time to do it but if I had a way of muting like Michael that Rubin parties James Harden and any other number of athletes are at or like all these white parties and everything else it's like I would do that but that makes this element of this story this this framing odd because it's like okay well he presumably is friendly with James Harden or James Harden is friendly with him but also the fundamental standpoint now at this point that maybe there are people in the organization that instead of kind of just gloves off which it seemed like it would be based on what James Harden said about Daryl Morey earlier this summer that there's also the very real possibility that maybe he's not traded and so they need him to feel wanted and they need him to feel like they want him to perform well which is what you would want if you're a team that at least there's a you said in one of the last pockets we did it's not out of the realm of possibility that they could be a winner a contender a champion if everything fell right you know the right way so I think that's all this is is just positive reinforcement but I mean it's also silly from the standpoint that you're saying that clearly people that are making trade demands whether it's behind the scenes whether it's publicly whether it's saying my general manager my president is a liar it's hard to hold those two thoughts in the same time in your head that you know on the one hand he can say those things but also nobody wants it more than he does come on like I did I know it's just you know the first thing probably that popped into Ruben's mind but it's just silly Rowan I know you're you're a regular at these white parties but do you have a issue let me just first of all echo my esteemed colleague Chris herrings fatigue with Michael Rubin just this guy's everywhere all the time fanatics sucks I'll say it fanatics is not good wow let's start there I mean like kudos to Michael Rubin you know what he did getting involved with meat mill etc but like we could have left it at that listen I if I were James Harden I might be living my life a similar way I let me put it that way but there is now a what is it a preponderance of evidence that winning a championship is not necessarily number one on this guy's priority list just not only in terms of how he's carried himself this offseason but how he likes to carry himself during the season when he's staying in Miami or Vegas for an extra night I'm away from steam mates are flying separately etc that all that stuff's been reported I'm just I'm sick of the the Sixers offseason I'm sick of the Embiid hard in partnership I respect you Mannix for still holding out hope having faith you've always been kind of an optimist a wanderer a dream I died that's why I don't describe you but I'm just so over this it just well like you said I mean respect to that podcast we're here talking about it I love Pat Bev he's a good personality but like what are we doing here Michael Rubin who are you who are you fooling okay we are familiar with James Harden's game okay you're not fooling us game off the court specifically right like you you can't say James Harden is misunderstood or gets a bad rap when right he he forced his way out of Houston by throwing a multi -week temper tantrum he effectively quit on the Nets which forced them to make a when deal they probably didn't want to and now here he is trying to get out of Philadelphia after holding you know one of the worst holdouts in holdout history to stay away from the team it just the the I mean just trying to get us to believe that is just wild so you know we had to talk about it you know James Harden still officially member of the 76ers we'll see what happens as these preseason games go on and what they do with them but right now James Harden kind of between a rock and a hard place might have to play for Philadelphia this season so I want to talk in this episode about the GM survey which always provides good preseason material whenever it comes out and there were some interesting elements in this year's GM survey guys and I want to start with the championship prediction from the NBA GMs which turned into a two -way tie between the Boston Celtics and the Denver Nuggets Milwaukee coming into third place 23 % Phoenix 7 % they came in fourth in the LA Clippers finishing at 3 % last year the Bucks were the leader at 43 % Denver doesn't surprise me Denver has the core of that team back we've talked about this before I think they can expect some organic growth from Christian Brown I think Peyton Watson might be able to play they've some other guys on that roster that can take steps up by the way while we're speaking of the Nuggets condolences to Mike Malone's family for the passing of Brendan Malone his father that was revealed by the organization this week but when it comes to Denver on the floor I can see why they'd be a championship contender the Celtics I might be one of the few pessimists I don't know if I'm pessimistic about the South I have more questions about the Celtics than many people do my good friend Scalabrini was on TV recently and he said every GM would want this roster and I tend to agree with that sort of because if you could bubble wrap this roster and guarantee that it plays 65 to 70 games together and will be healthy going into the playoffs I think you're absolutely right I think the backcourt is really strong especially defensively Drew Holliday elite defender Derek White big time defender we know what Jalen Brown Jason Tatum can do you know that that that speaks for itself the front court is good right Chris has Porzingis good player Al Horford good player but Porzingis chronically injured right like he played what 60 -65 games last year but that was a contract year and I have less confidence he's going to be able to repeat that he was already injured this off season with whatever happened with his foot over in the World Cup Al Horford's 37 by design he's probably only going to play like 50 games this year because they want to keep him healthy for the playoffs so we don't know what's what Al Horford is going to look like at the end of this season after that what is there they signed Wennion Gabriel Wennion Gabriel last year played 68 games for the Lakers in the playoffs he played 10 he averaged 3 .7 minutes per game in the playoffs with the Lakers last year that is the definition of playable in the regular season and unplayable in the playoffs like it just is what it is Luke Cornette is still there he was unplayable for Boston in the playoffs last year you know this is a team that was already thin when Grant Williams was there now Grant Williams is gone and I don't know what they do if one of these two guys goes down for any length of time so that's a long way of saying like yeah I can buy the argument that the Celtics are the team to beat Eastern Conference I can buy the argument that they are a championship contender but Rohan I just I have a lot of concerns about what happens if anything goes south in that front court I agree I mean that's why I thought the holiday trade was so fascinating and why I wasn't sure how seriously to take Boston as a contender for holiday even though his name was obviously their name was obviously coming up that entire weekend before he was traded a huge reason why they've been been special the last few years is kind of the alchemy of their front court mix -in matching Horford, Rob Williams, and Grant Williams that's gone entirely I see people saying now Porzingis and Horford might start together this talks about does Derek White come off the bench there's a right that's another thing I don't understand I mean you don't you don't have a backup really for either guy right now why aren't they backing up each other that already is starting to not make a ton of sense for me the way I look at it Mannix is I do think we're starting to see some trickle -down effect of the second apron because you look at the top teams right now whether it's Milwaukee, Boston, Phoenix, Denver to an extent it's not that the championship teams of yesteryear were flawless but we're looking at teams that are especially top heavy these days and Boston doesn't have a lot of avenues to improve the roster same for Milwaukee I mean I think Milwaukee has a great five and uh Holliday, Conaton, Middleton, Giannis, and Lopez but then they have Bobby Portis and they have a bunch of question marks after that they don't have a lot of playoff rotation guys uh Phoenix is in a similar boat Denver I think you and I are probably high on Denver's bench than most people we like what we think Peyton Watkins can do Peyton Watson can do Zeke Najee Swarther had a nice pre -season debut but those are a bunch of question marks for them right now so on one hand I echo your skepticism about Boston only in terms of Horford's coming off the worst postseason of his career um I think on both ends of the floor and he's only getting older Porzingis he's played 10 playoff games in his life but when you match them up against kind of the other contenders unless you think like a team like the Lakers or Warriors who have a little bit more depth maybe not quite as much top and talent uh can make a push I understand why you'd put Boston there only because I think a lot of the contenders are really top heavy right now well I mean but the the front court like to get out of the Eastern Conference you gotta get through Milwaukee and Milwaukee's front court is still really strong they still have all the pieces that were in place they still got Giannis still got Brook Lopez still got Bobby Portis they've still got all the guys that have the potential to give Boston a lot of problems and I go back a couple of years and the Celtics back when they had Rob Williams and they had Grant Williams they were in the mix for Yaka Purdle when San Antonio was trying to deal him they wanted to get Purdle they didn't want to get two first -round draft picks back then but they knew back then when they had you know three you know strong front court guys that they needed one more to get through Milwaukee that was when they made the deal for Mike Mascala and he turned out to be unplayable in the playoffs as well so I have concerns about Boston's front court anything about the predictions hearing concern you or you know stand out to you whether it's the Celtics or somebody else I mean I can admit to the same thing you guys are saying that I was surprised that Boston was tied for first for just you know the team that GM's thought was the most likely to win the whole thing it's really hard for me to look at this roster without wincing just a little bit we all can acknowledge that there's a lot of top and talent in this team there was before the moves they made this summer there is now the Porzingis fit is interesting I think everybody can look at that and say wow that if this works out they can win a title obviously no one's denying that it's just to have him and Horford as your two centers and then Wendy and Gabriel who I really like but I don't think of as necessarily my second or third string center or you know if he's even a center he's like six nine or whatever he is so that's all it's just you know and look I've been critical of the Celtics from the standpoint of you're trading away a lot to get Porzingis if only you're talking about Marcus Smart from the standpoint of you know a backbone a heart and soul obviously a very versatile important defender within that cog that they have defensively so they go get Drew Holliday and I think it does kind of answer a lot of those questions a lot of those criticisms but I just I still wonder a little bit of if now you're doing that and in doing that you give away Robert Williams if it makes you thinner at the spot that I was most concerned about now you know it's center even when they had those three it was kind of a weird hodgepodge of guys that you're not for any reason you're not gonna feel comfortable about whether they can hold up and be healthy the whole year also stylistically if you're missing one of guys it changes the way your offense looks because two of them are guys that can shoot from three one is a guy that's kind of more around the rim and setting screens and stuff like that so anyway I was just a little bit surprised that as we're all acknowledging the potential thinness of this group that they would be a co -favorite here I think the Nuggets still deserve to be the favorite and I personally would probably take the Bucks over the Celtics as a favorite but but all that said you know I don't think there's a runaway team here after the Nuggets I would probably leave them at number one because there was a lot of other stuff that happened between the depth of the Lakers the top end stuff of the Celtics the top end stuff of the Bucks to me when I see that much stuff happening I'm just going to defer to the team that won last year that granted they did lose some things but they have the potential to get better with more continuity of the top end guys that they have that haven't been healthy up until last year so I would you know I was a little bit surprised to see that Boston pulled into a tie with Denver among the GMs well we as we know the Boston media mafia is working over time in these kinds of situations I'm kidding I know it was the GM survey one thing I want to throw out there is in a in kind of a funny twist like the Celtics have had the best Joel Embiid defender over the years in Al Horford and Horford was giving Embiid problems in the semis last year to the point where Tucker had to get in his face and be like bro you need to take this matchup but what does Boston do now in that matchup because if you're playing Horford against Embiid does that mean you're playing Porzingis and Horford together and which of your guards are you keeping off the floor does that mean you keep Derek White off the floor it's kind of an interesting problem they've created for themselves unless they're willing to live with Porzingis on Embiid but that kind of takes away one of the biggest strengths they've had in that matchup over the years yeah is it going to be a challenge for them because Horford has been excellent I mean Embiid he gives him so many problems he clearly has the timing down on Embiid like he does he knows yeah it's fat it's fantastic to watch he pushes him off his spots he's he's just got a lot of you know and maybe some of it's mental too like Embiid's seen him so many times over the years that it's like all right well Al Horford again and you know he's asked about every single postseason he's had great games against Horford don't get me wrong he's played really well at times but it is I have a little surprise guys that the team nobody's really in on the Suns yet seven percent seem a little low for me you know man look I understand maybe Herring you got to give this team time to figure itself out and see if these guys can play together and see if this mix of players can work but you know if that team gets the playoffs fully healthy hard to stop very hard to stop in the postseason no no question I mean you know I watched clips I watched bits of the the game that they played against the Pistons and granted it's the Pistons you know one of the youngest teams in the league but to watch the Suns who you know have just started playing together that you know have 80 points between the first and the third quarter of a road game road opener for preseason there's obviously a lot of potential there offensively I would say that as we talk the things we like and dislike about teams the thinness the depth of these rosters I'm a little bit surprised that the Suns haven't done a little bit more to go out and get a a bonafide point guard I think it's a big granted you have a lot of ball handling on that roster it's not to say you don't and top level guys that can do it but it's a big change to go from having Chris Paul be your point guard and even to have campaign be your backup point guard to then going and just saying we're you know we're going to kind of take the Clippers route to have our forwards handle the ball to have Devin Booker handle the ball again all guys that can do it but these are also guys that you like to just kind of throw in iso situations you don't want to wear them down the whole season of having them handle the ball so I they've added depth and I think they need that they obviously needed it last offseason or I'm sorry last postseason and so they've done well to add to that but I think that they still it would do them well to have even if it's you know I look at something like what the Bulls did they went and got Javon Carter someone that played for the Suns at one point the sort of guy that could really be helpful to this team I also wonder just a little bit just a little and I think I saw some of this in their first preseason game as well Yusuf Nurkic is an interesting fit I think he can do good things for them he's good you know as a playmaker here and there defensively I worry just a little bit about him of how big it seemed like he took in Portland and you know for all the problems Ayton has at times I wonder if he's more nimble defensively and would work better defensively with that team but we'll see we'll see what happens I think that the Suns absolutely could win it they absolutely have the talent and skill to do it I think they have you know a coach that I really like one of my favorites in league and Vogel but I definitely have some questions about them which is why again would still take Denver head and shoulders above everybody else for now I actually am a little bit surprised the Lakers didn't get more picks here as well in this in the survey I maybe would have liked the Suns more before the Nurkic trade I'm just I'm replaying that Denver series in my head and while Landry Shammet was getting a ton of open threes and theoretically that could be Bradley now I mean I look at them as even worse or you know more poorly equipped to slow down the Nuggets than they were last year and while we're on the subject of health I mean Durant you know he missed some time obviously he came back right before the start of the playoffs and looked great at times and I think bookers only continue to improve but I mean there's a health there's a health question mark hanging over them you know as long as Durant is there and I I need to see it I mean there's definitely some exciting moments just watching kind of Beale Booker and Durant take their turns in that preseason game and it's like oh man like they have three guys who can go just iso and get a score seemingly anytime they want but and I'm I'm warming to the Nurkic move more than when it first happened but I really need to see that defense in action for a little while before I can take them seriously as a title contender yeah I think you guys just articulated why they only got seven percent of the vote there's a lot of question marks out there about them until we see them actually come together and play all right we had Nicole Jokic picked up first place in two different categories and I want to talk about both of them first was the player most likely to win the 2023 -24 MVP he got 43 percent of the vote in that category Yanis at number two at 20 percent and then if you were starting a franchise today and could sign any player who would it be he got 33 percent of the vote in in that category Victor Webayama coming in second with 23 percent on the subject of MVP guys let's start there 43 percent of the vote I'm actually shocked it wasn't higher like I thought it would be like 70 percent because not look first he's 28 years old he's in his prime he's durable he's just won a championship he was you know the best player on the best team in the NBA there's no reason to believe he's not going to come in next year and put up comparable or this year put up comparable numbers and I do think that the people that were divided on Nicole Jokic last year are not going to be divided this year the people that were skeptics about his ability to win and use that against him when it came to MVP voting and use that as a reason to vote for Joel Embiid those people aren't going to exist or that feeling isn't going to exist if Nicole Jokic puts up MVP numbers on the guy on the team that is at or near the top of the western conference there is no doubt in my mind he is going to win MVP he is going to get deservedly I think every benefit of the doubt this year when it comes to MVP votes so whether it's you know Embiid, Giannis, Jason Tatum, Luka Doncic I think Jokic is going to get the benefit of the doubt there Herring I think he's going to be by far and away he is by far and away the front runner to win the MVP.
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A highlight from Ep. 568 How Fund Managers are Investing in Web3
"All right, everybody, welcome back to the Crypto 101 podcast. My name is Brendan Veman. I'm one of your hosts over here, and we have a very special podcast in store for all of you today. This is actually someone that I was talking to a few months back during one of our Crypto interviews that I have ever done before, we got a guy that is very passionate when it comes to web three gaming and decentralized gaming. And for all of you out there, that's something that I am certainly a little bit biased on as well. It's a space that I really enjoy hearing about. So we had to break in the heavy artillery to kind of catch us all up to date until what's happening over in that space. So without further ado, I want to go ahead and introduce my dear friend, Mr. On Yavin. He is the managing partner of the Cointelligence fund, excuse me, and he's also the co -founder and CBO over at syndica. He has more than 19 years of experience as an angel investor, and he is one of the top dogs that I look to when it comes to the metaverse and blockchain based games. So On, welcome. It's great to have you here. Thank you very much. And thank you for the very, very kind introduction. Hey, well, this is going to be an exciting one because both of us are very heavily involved when it comes to this side of things. And there's a lot of developments we're seeing global developments. It's one of those spaces where we truly are seeing worked on an infrastructure built all over the globe. It's not something that's just in the United States and it's a growing industry as well. So I'm excited to kind of pull you in here, get your thoughts on this, but for everyone that's tuning in and asking what is Cointelligence and what's the Cointelligence fund, how can you catch everyone up to date on what you're actively doing? Yeah, absolutely. Thank you for asking. So Cointelligence fund is a crypto VC fund completely focused on the metaverse and blockchain based games. We usually invest in the most early stages seed or press seed. And one of the things that we are very proud at Cointelligence fund is the fact that we are actively helping the founders of the projects that we are investing in. And I have to tell you that even though it's supposed to be an industry standard to help the founders, it's actually exactly the other way around. And most of the investors, unfortunately, will not do that. And that's why I am really, really proud of the fact that we've helped so many founders already. And obviously what I'm saying is based on the founders' feedback, not just based on my personal opinion. And lastly, with regards to Cointelligence fund, it is very important for me to make a note that we are mainly investing in tokens unless we get both tokens and equity. We never invest in equity only.
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A highlight from Ep. 567 Full Update on the Solana Network with Austin Federa
"All right, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another episode of the Crypto 101 podcast where I am your co -host Bryce, and I'm joined by my trusty compadre, Mr. Brendan Veman. Brendan, how are you doing today? Hey, I'm doing good. Welcome back everyone. You're hanging in through the chop in the market. You're not overtrading this, are you? No, definitely not. We definitely are seeing a bit of range -bound activity, but we're surviving it. Good, man. You saw the Philly game the other night, I hope. Yeah. Big Eagles fan over here. I'm satisfied. We're 2 -0 now. Your boys are looking good. Let's freaking go. Your boys are looking good, and yeah, fantasy season. We've got a whole Crypto 101 podcast, 12 -man fantasy league that we've been competing with, so it's been a ton of fun. And yeah, anyhow, we're joined by an awesome guest. This is one that we've been really, really excited to dive into. Everybody who's listening has probably heard of Solana. The soul token is burst onto the scene, and it is just an incredibly vibrant community. You've had your members go across the world to some of the hackathons that Solana continues to host. And we're really excited to speak with the head of strategy, a gentleman and a scholar named Austin Federa, who is joining us today. Austin, welcome to the Crypto 101 podcast. Hey, excited to be here. Thanks for having me on again. Yeah, we're excited. Yeah, we had you on maybe six months ago or something, and it's just crazy how quickly Solana keeps rolling out developments and partnerships. You guys don't sleep. I know you're across the world right now hosting hackathons, and it's just crazy. So before we really dive into all the new things that have been going on, just catch us up for new listeners who are curious about what the Solana Foundation is and how you guys are a part of the ecosystem here. Yeah, so we are the nonprofit Swiss foundation that's sort of behind a lot of the ecosystem development work of the Solana network. And so you can think of this very similar to the role the Ethereum Foundation played in the Ethereum network. But we are basically an organization that got a grant from basically the Solana network at the beginning to issue grants on the network to act as a group that helps sort of solve those public resource goods problems that no one is economically incentivized to necessarily solve without a nonprofit stepping in. And that's kind of the work that we do, right? We're not the main marketers of the network. We, you know, talk to probably less than 5 % of the applications building on the network. This is a global decentralized permissionless network that anyone can build on and thousands of people do build on. But you know, our role is to do things like make big bets and fund things like fire dancer and new validator clients and make sure that the open source tooling that people are building is something that they can actually afford to build. And that's kind of the grant giving component is a major function of what the Solana Foundation does. There's also Solana Labs, which is sort of you can think of it as similar to the world consensus plays in the Ethereum ecosystem. They build products and services on the network. There's sort of a profit motivation behind what they do. And you know, there's about five different core contributor teams at this point, all building software and services to keep the Solana network running. And then, of course, it's run by thousands of individuals all around the world. Yeah, that's incredible. And you're also no stranger to podcasting. You've got a great podcast of your own called The Validated Pod. Tell us a little bit about that and what kind of guests you have on and kind of what your goal is there.
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A highlight from Ep. 566 Deep Dive Into L2s with Industry Expert Jacobc.Eth
"All right, everybody. I hope you're having a fantastic morning, noon or night, wherever you guys are in the world. You're in the right place because we are joined with another awesome guest today on the Crypto 101 podcast. We have today joining Brendan and I. By the way, Brendan, hello. How are you doing today? Feeling great. Hey there, everyone. Feeling good. I'm stoked to introduce our guest because this is a Web3 expert, a gaming expert, all things crypto, all things blockchain. We've got JacobC .eth, the founder of Hyperplay joining us today. Jacob, how are you doing today? I'm doing great. Thank you so much for having me. Oh, man. We're excited to dive in because not every day we get to really speak to somebody who's diving into the niche that you are with Hyperplay. So we want to dive into that. Before we do, we want to get your background. And really, how did you come to be in the position that you are? Yeah, I guess like going way back, I was really attracted to early Bitcoin from a political activist worldview. It was an interest to me, but it wasn't ever something I was like seriously or like from a career perspective involved in. And I worked in Web2 tech. And when I read the Ethereum white paper and started seeing that, I got really kind of annoyingly obsessed. My coworkers would tell you. And so, you know, I went and some early grant funding DAOs. I got to join the MetaMask team. And I worked as operations there and worked on a lot of the growth and monetization strategies. And I had really seen that the biggest area of growth that MetaMask and de facto, the decentralized web we're seeing was coming from gaming use cases. But the wallet experience and the user interactions between a game and the player's wallet, there were challenges that needed to be solved. And so, I, you know, I am still advisor for MetaMask. And I still work really closely with the MetaMask team. But I started Hyperplay to solve both the wallet to game interaction problem for games and also the censorship problem. Because game developers were being forced to build very strange and bizarre user experiences in order to hack around App Store policies. And there needed to be a censorship resistant and developer loyal distribution platform that actually encouraged people to build in a way that makes sense for Web3 instead of making them terrified that their business is gonna be deplatformed. So, yeah. We launched Hyperplay in March. It's available today in early access. And we're super excited for all the games and projects that are building on top of it. Let me just start this off by saying one of the first conversations I had with Bryce was what do we think or what do I think about like Web3 and gaming because that is really my niche. And I'm super stoked to be able to just talk about this with you today because this is really kind of hitting home. So, you have this big experience. Brandon's a big gamer if you couldn't tell. Oh, I can. If only you could see the PC that is sitting right behind the camera. It would tell wonders as to where I stand in the scene. But no, no. Everything else aside, Jacob, you have this big extensive experience when it comes to Ethereum and Layer 2s and crypto as a whole. Why are you just now starting to get really excited about Web3? Like what has you excited to really kind of dig deeper and invest a little bit of extra time and resources into Web3 now? Well, I've definitely been involved in Web3 for a while. So, I'll just say I think that blockchains are about more than... I think a lot of people see this as the next thing or something and that they're going to get rich or something. For me, I think that this is a tech that was built to make people more free, to help people to build and structure human social interaction and human collaboration in a way that we want it to be structured. And I think that what's so exciting about Ethereum is its composability and its interoperability. And so, the composability allows us to structure our social interactions in the ways that we think make the most sense. And the interoperability, the early vision of the internet was a more interconnected world. And then we got a bunch of silos based on surveillance. And today, by building the internet around interoperable rails and giving the internet a financial and transactional layer, it allows us to build ethical business models that ultimately distribute more ownership and power to the people who participate in these systems rather than for Web2 corporate monopolies. Yeah. It kind of hearkens back to in your introduction, you talked a little bit about what really got you inclined to the space was kind of like that political idea of Bitcoin as this new free money that kind of drew you in. And it's almost like what Bitcoin did to money Ethereum is doing to corporations, if you will, or it's that same level of disruption. But it's like more than corporations. It's identity, it's everything. And it reminded me of your name. I wanted to ask, a lot of people are probably like, jacobc .eth. Does this guy have a last name? People might not understand what this is. So tell us what your identity, jacobc .eth is and what does that mean to you and how did it kind of come to be? Yeah. I think that Web3 identity and Web3 reputation is super important. I think there's some larger meta conversations about how we think about identity and reputation in Web3. And certainly, there's a number of people that want sort of what I would consider a pretty dystopian form of Web3 identity that's based on like hashing people's biometric data or something like that. I think that people should be free to have one or many identities and that we need reputation -based governance. The civil problem isn't universally solvable, but we can understand the long -standing reputation of an identity, what kinds of contributions it's made, and to allow people to hold their identity and use it in a way that has reputation. So my ENS name is an example of that. But I generally think that we'll see a lot more reputation -based governance models for the protocols that people are building. And that's going to play a super important and positive role in terms of how people think about identity. Yeah. And even like when I think like with DeFi, even identity is going to come to play a huge part because there's systems that are out there. Maple is one, True Finance. There's a couple of them that use like reputation -based lending. And you could kind of have like an on -chain sort of credit score that's tied back to your ENS or your address. And I just thought that was interesting if anybody at home wants to check out those platforms. It's really cool because like you said, it's a blockchain technology that's really inclusive. For people at home who are listening, they're like, well, why do we need an on -chain credit score? I could go to a bank and I got my credit score. But if you're listening to this, you're probably privileged. And you probably do have some level of like, you could go anywhere and swipe your card, but that's not the whole world. And the whole world sometimes, if they want to get a loan or if they want to get a mortgage or whatever, they need to have identity documents, they need to have credit scores and reputations, or else they're going to get fleeced by a loan shark at 25 % rate. And so this technology does blow open the doors to financial inclusion for sure. But yeah, I definitely want to zoom in on Hyperplay and the things that you're building there. I would love for you just to describe how like a listener at Hyperplay, we've got lots of crossover between crypto lovers and gamers. And so how can somebody kind of bust into the platform and what should they expect? Yeah, so Hyperplay is a Web3 native game launcher. So if people are familiar with Steam, that's a Web2 game launcher and distribution platform. Hyperplay does the same kinds of things that Steam does. It helps you discover Web3 games, download those games, and it is also an aggregator of multiple game stores. So we have our own store, the Hyperplay store. It's got about 50 plus or minus Web3 games that are a part of it. We also aggregate the entire Epic game store. So all of your games, Web2, Web3 games that are in the Epic game store, you can actually play inside of Hyperplay. You can build on -chain representations of your gaming reputation. There's a lot of really exciting things that you can do by aggregating all of the gaming world into the decentralized web and to have an interface for that. And then any game that you launch from within Hyperplay, Hyperplay has an overlay similar to the Steam overlay. So people who've played games in Steam know that you press tab and then you see a chat window. You can see if you have a notification or achievements, Steam is going to overlay those on top of the game that you're playing, your friends requests. So Hyperplay does the same kind of overlay, but we actually are persisting your Metamask wallet into the game. So you can actually approve transactions without ever leaving the context of the game. You can sign in using your wallet instead of a native game. And we support both native or browser -based games. And we'll also be supporting other stores in the future. So we really... Our goal is from an infrastructural perspective to allow the player to carry their wallet, all of the assets inside of that wallet across every game that they play, across every game store. And really to also provide a really developer loyal platform to the builders so that they're not living in fear of being censored or deplatformed for building a Web3 game. I love that you brought up Steam as an example, because it is probably the closest thing that we have to this quasi Web3 marketplace. And I say quasi, right? Because you can trade items between players, between games. If I have something from CSGO and someone else has something from Team Fortress 2, we can make a trade for that. But we still can't trade across marketplaces. Say someone has something in Fortnite, someone has something in Valorant, League of Legends, another one of these games that's made outside of Steam, then you can't trade with them. It's cool because you can. You can trade, you can buy, you can sell. The CSGO marketplace alone is a multi -billion dollar marketplace, which is just a wild thing to say. But do you think that we can get to a place where we can have these cross -platform trades and orders going through? Because that's what I see as the end game of Web3 and gaming, is that I can trade stuff from Riot's platform and items on Riot. I can make those trades with people who have items in CSGO on Steam and so on and so forth. All right, listeners, if your business earns millions or even tens of millions of dollars of revenue, please stop what you're doing and take a close listen. Because NetSuite by Oracle, it's just rolled out literally the best offer we've ever seen. NetSuite does a lot of cool things, but I want to run you through what it does primarily. Primarily, it gives you the visibility and the control that you need to make better decisions for your organization faster. And now for the first time in NetSuite's 22 freaking years as the number one cloud financial system, you can defer payments of a full NetSuite implementation for six months. Not bad. 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A highlight from Ep. 565 The Truth About Inflation with Truflation
"All righty, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, gather round. We got a big episode for you today. This is what I'm going to call the de facto episode on inflation. If you ever were confused about what the heck inflation is or why it's here or how we track it, we're going to have really the best guy for you. Not only was he the former CEO of Bitcoin .com, Stefan Rust is currently the founder and CEO of Truflation. We have him joining us today on the Crypto 101 podcast. We're going to bring him on in just a minute. Okay, so hang tight. But first I want to check in with Brendan Veman on the other side of the country. Brendan, how's your trading going, my man? Hey, the trading is starting to go good. I've been talking to a bunch of buddies and traditionals. They're actually coming to me and saying, hey, we're seeing a lot of fundamental activity between all these ETFs, traditionals looking at putting up exchanges, PayPal's adding cryptocurrency options. Everyone's starting to get excited again, not just on the trading side with the charts, but also fundamentally in a lot of different ways. So, you know, as we'll see in just a second, the future is indeed looking bright, just like Stefan's background. Yeah, we're looking good. Good. Yeah. We're going up. You're long, I take it. You're still long. Yeah. You know, I'm really optimistic. Kind of the way that I've been looking at it is that maybe the short term is kind of choppy, kind of unknown. Maybe we move up and even down a little bit. But the mid and long term for crypto is really starting to look good. You look at things like placing consistent higher swing lows on the daily timeframe. And that's the opposite of what we've been seeing from the top of the market, where it was putting in lower swing highs from that oversold territory. Now we're seeing higher swing lows from the oversold territory. So it's, you know, things are starting to really look bright for those longer term outlooks of crypto once again. Absolutely. The technicals are looking good. And I think fundamentally, one of the other big talking points we're going to hit on today with Stefan is the Bitcoin halving. Because if this is an episode on inflation, we've got to think about Bitcoin's monetary policy and how it is the antidote to the rampant and criminal inflation that is a hidden tax on wealth and that is exorbitant in countries like Zimbabwe or Lebanon or Syria or Argentina, where they have their wealth eradicated on a decade basis. So anyhow, we're going to stop ranting. We're going to shut up. We're going to introduce our guests because the tension is thick. I can feel everybody in the audience want to hear your voice. Stefan, how are you doing today? Doing great here. Thanks. Thanks a lot for having me and excited for this podcast and love, love preaching to the converted. So excited.
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A highlight from Ep. 563 Bringing Traditional Finance Securely Into Web3 with CertiK
"All right, everybody, welcome back to another episode of the Crypto 101 podcast. It is good to be here. I hope everybody's having a great day or morning or afternoon, evening, wherever you guys are in the world. You're in the right place because we are joined by Certic. In today's episode, I'm joined by my trusty compadre, Mr. Brendan Veman. Brendan, how are you doing today? Things going good on your side of the country? Yeah, you know, we're holding it down over here on the East Coast. Things are doing well. Still I'm normally hot, but we're living in the great world of crypto, so it's hard to go along. It's been a crazy heatwave. I was just at Disneyland and it was like, man, like one hundred and five degrees. I was melting, but it was totally worth it. It was a ton of fun. Have you been there recently? Anybody? Disneyland, Monier? I've been to Disneyland, not recently, but I sympathize with you because I know it's exhausting doing the whole round. You know, if it's in one hundred and five heat or whatever, that's probably worse. Yeah, it is pretty, pretty out of control. But speaking of heat, I mean, there's been a lot of heat here in the crypto world recently as well. There was a field feels like there's exploit after hack after this or that insertic. You know, your guys's job is protect against hacks to audit smart contracts. So so let's get a deep dive here on Surtic. And what are you guys all about and what's your mission? Yeah, it's a great question. So I think you kind of hit the nail on my head. It's a little bit more expansion beyond auditing. You started out a while back doing auditing, 2018, and now things have obviously progressed beyond that. So in a nutshell, it is end to end security as it's demanded by the expansion of Web3. What I mean by that is just as we kind of evolve in Web3 and grow that ecosystem, we are leading the way and paving the way and discovering and launching new services. And we'll go into those services as well later on. But that's pretty much in a nutshell. We've been around since 2018. And if you go to our website, you'll see a lot of the products that we have on the product pages themselves. And then you can look at our just leaderboard itself and look at all the projects that we have, you know, thousands of projects that are from all walks of life, all segments of life and from large to small. So, yeah. Incredible. What does a smart contract audit look like? Yeah, great question. So it starts off in the kind of lifecycle with the project approaching us as early as even having an idea of what they're going to launch. And they may not be at a point already and we still have that conversation about what their intentions are. it But eventually evolves into really a smart contract of code and available to us to have a look at. And our job really is to look at the code itself, do the analysis, walk through the code, have our security experts take a look at that and discover vulnerabilities and issues in that. Now, our job is not to fix those issues. We're there to provide a recommendation and a report. And if you go to our leaderboard, you'll see the thousands of projects that are there and you'll see project pages that have the reports there for the community to take a look and see what issues are flagged and what have been remediated, what's outstanding. So in that whole process from start to finish, we give the project the ability to fix any issues that we find and recommendations are to fix those to the point where eventually the report is released to the public for everybody to see. And that's available on our website. And I'm curious, what are the main differences when it comes to cybersecurity between Web 2 and Web 3? Yeah, that's a great question. When we talk about Web 2 security, we're more referring to security related to centralized issues, protection of centralized data or a website or an application, better centralized access controls for users. Web 3 refers more to security around smart contracts and blockchains, specifically risk and vulnerability around code and security insights around on -chain data. What I mean by on -chain data, I mean suspicious activity, transactions, fund movements. That's Web 3. However, the so -called Web 3 ecosystem is not made of purely Web 3 building blocks. Web 2 plays a big part in this. You've got on -off ramps to articles, wallets, exchanges, NFT marketplaces, and those bring Web 2 security into consideration. So you have concerns on wallet access, privileged access issues on Discord servers. You've probably seen those being hacked and compromised through social networking attacks. And then you've got the exchanges themselves, which are driven out of applications or websites, and those fall prey to traditional Web 2 application types of attacks. So it's not a demark completely between Web 3 and Web 2. There is interconnects are The hacks evolving. Are they changing? Here we are in the middle of 2023. Certik has been around for a lot longer than that. How have things changed since you guys first got founded? And what year was that, by the way? Yeah, it was 2018. I think the growth of crypto has seen new and emerging technologies with the expansion of Web 3 ecosystem itself. And with the ecosystem evolution and new technologies comes increasing threat landscape, right? So hackers look for new ways to exploit. One good example of that is technology that drives new attacks is that for cross -chain bridges. Cross -chain bridges act as interconnect hubs between different chains. They were prevalent when they launched, I'd say about a year or so ago, and accounted for a good amount of lost funds, only because the cross -chain bridge sits as an interconnect between multiple chains, making the exploit potential larger, right? So the evolution of hacks and exploits ties kind of closely to how the Web 3 ecosystem and technologies introduced into the Web 3 ecosystem evolves over time. So that's what we tend to see as we kind of look at this. Yeah. I'm curious, I think a lot of people at home are thinking like, man, crypto's got all sorts of different pitfalls and you don't know what you don't know. What are some of the key tools or best ways that the average consumer can kind of protect their crypto? Do you guys have any recommendations or best practices people at home can kind of follow? Yeah, I think I like that you've put security as part of the tool sets. And typically we don't see it there, but what we encourage folks to do is their research. And we recently launched Skynet for community. And if you go take a look at that, you actually see there's a lot of information you need related to security and more on that site. So if you go to skynet .certic .com, you'll see a lot of information. And there are tools all over the place. There are tools scattered everywhere. But it typically starts with the risk of the project. And you're trying to understand risk versus investment typically. And so you're going to look at the project itself, what level of risk is associated with that project. And for our case, when we put a security score around that, which ties to a lot of things, really the risk of the code, the sentiments of the project, the volatility of the market for that token, and so on. And then we go into details obviously on that. So it's not just a snapshot of what that looks like. It's more details in terms of the risk itself and how we came up with that. But I would encourage folks to go out there who are community investors and start there, start at a central point where they can look at that information and then make their decisions based off that. And you've already partnered with some pretty well -known big names in the industry. We're talking like Polygon, Tether, Sandbox. How are you currently helping them and just, I guess, providing that extra layer of security for both them, but also just additional transparency for their users and their audience base? Yeah, great question. I mean, we typically partner across the board with folks that allow them to kind of publicize their credibility around security in a better way or build confidence. And through that entire process of auditing, as well as providing services, we also then help co -market promote them or even flag them in our leaderboard to show that they've either gotten a high score or whatever score it is, and either they've got a leading badge of some sort that promotes them to be better out there. So those are things that we do to highlight the situation with the project. And they do appreciate that from that perspective because we do have a good founding marketing layer that allows us to do that. A pretty big large ecosystem around the marketing machine that does that for them. In terms of specific partnership, which are more strategic, you can go to our partner page, and there's a list of strategic partners there that we've signed up. And we pick partners carefully. It involves a better together strategy where we believe there's a longevity in providing security services with certain partnerships, at the same time expanding our presence and diversity across the ecosystems.
CRYPTO 101
A highlight from Ep. 562 Our New Co-Host A Crypto Analyst Joins the Team!
"All right, everybody, welcome back to another episode of the Crypto 101 Podcast. It is a big, big day in Crip Nation. Man, sound the alarms, bang the pots in the pans because it is a momentous occasion. We are joined by a new co -host, or I should say I am joined by a new co -host, Brendan Veman, who has been working with us behind the scenes at extreme length for the past two years. He's getting called up to the big leagues. So, Brendan, dude, welcome to the Crypto 101 Podcast. This is your new home, brother. Welcome. Hey, excited to be here. Like Bryce said, it's crazy because I've been working with you guys for almost two years now, and it's been awesome. Excited to come to the forefront. Excited to connect with more people in the cryptocurrency space and preach the great gospel that is crypto and blockchain. Yeah, dude, this is awesome. I'm so, so pumped. I learned so much from you, so I view this as just great for opportunity this podcast to just get kicked up to another level. I've been following you for a long time. I'm very pleased that you've been choosing to work with us. Man, we're going to have an awesome time. I want to make this episode all about you. I know that we've had you on previous episodes, so I think anybody who has been watching religiously for the past couple months or so, they've for sure run into you. But I want to have them all hear it from the horse's mouth. So, Brendan, this is your episode. We're going to introduce you to Crypt Nation if they don't already know you. So I'm going to ask you some questions. You feel good about that? You feel okay revealing a little bit about who you are? Yeah, I'm ready for the barrage of questions to begin. Awesome. Let's just start off high level. So what do you do? Who are you? What do you currently do? How did you make it on the Crypto 101 podcast? Yeah, man. So I started off in the early days of Bitcoin. My realization point or what got me interested is that I found this thing early. A lot of people around me had unpopular opinions, or maybe at the time it was popular opinions, but they were more anti -crypto. That motivated me and inspired me to really dig into this thing more. And so I did. And so as the years went on, like a little hot button issue, and you were like, oh, this is kind of getting people's gears going. There must be something here. Is that kind of what it is? Yeah. I mean, exactly. Like at the time, Bitcoin was worth a couple of times more than what the US dollar was. And it was this asset that just stood out. And me being the curious individual that I was, was like, hey, this is making people angry. It has a crazy pairing against fiat currencies. Like, let's really explore this thing. That's where I found my base. And so as the technology expanded and grew over the years as blockchain tech really begin to kind of, I guess, show its fruits. And then you had Litecoin and Ethereum and Monero and all those early stage cryptos really began to show just how versatile and helpful blockchain could be. That is when my interest in crypto went from just kind of this side interest, the side hobby to like, hey, this is going to really change the world as we know it. And that leads me to starting the crypto analyst YouTube channel in 2017. That's how I found you. Yeah. And I, and I'll tell you why I started that originally because I had so many people around me not understanding crypto. Crypto wasn't super mainstream yet. It was a kind of on that brink of that big bull run that it had, but I was still getting the same questions asked to me all the time. And I'm - I'm pre -recording answers for family and friends, go to my YouTube channel, and then it just kind of caught fire. I mean, exactly. That's kind of what it came down to is, here are all the answers that you're going to ask me anyway. And so that's really why the YouTube channel originated, but also because I love talking about it. I loved it. I believed in it. And also I didn't want to answer the same stuff all the time. So I was like, boom, YouTube channel is born. And that was like my real step, like full time. I'm into this thing. I'm committed. Like, here we go. And you know, man, I've ran that every single year. I mean, I have over 750 public videos now since 2017. We're at 10 ,000 subscribers. Like it's grown into a really cool thing. And, you know, occasionally I still see people that are from the very early days of that come around and they're like, Hey, Brendan. And it's great to see the community go strong as we are over here. So, you know, we're going from one strong community to another and the mission is still the same. Yeah. No. And it's been awesome working with you for the past couple of years here. And for folks who are listening, you don't know, behind the scenes, we've got, you know, premium subscriber only content that we roll out every single day, every single week. Brendan has been hosting live streams with me. He's been doing all sorts of amazing, you know, written and video content for the Crypto 101 University video course that we have. So if you want to check all that stuff out, we will link to it in the show notes. All the stuff we've been working on and the Crip Nation private group, guys, it's an incredible community that Brendan and I have been building up for, you know, along with our whole team here for the past several years. And we're so excited to be bringing Brendan to the Crypto 101 podcast. And with that being said, Brendan, I want to ask a little bit of a lightning round sort of rapid fire question and answer. How do you feel about that? I kind of prepared some things. I know I didn't show you ahead of time. I want it to be surprising. Does that sound okay? Let the surprises begin. I will do my best. Okay. I've got a long list. And so this is going to go quick. And when I say one word answer, I mean, one word answer. I don't want you to go off off the rails or anything. Maybe if you need two words or I'll give you three is the most. Okay. No tangents. Okay. No tangents. So I'm going to start easy and then I'm going to ramp up. So first is like Bitcoin or Ethereum. Ethereum. Okay. And by the way, I almost started the tangent I'm breaking my rules, but these will definitely inform all of us of really who you are and how you think. And this is on the record. So I want you to know that. So you say Ethereum, the next question I had after that was proof of stake or proof of work. What do you think is better? See the one world answers are already killing me here. We'll go with proof of stake. I'm sorry everyone out there. Then you choose proof of stake, which is the consensus model that it uses. Whereas Bitcoin uses proof of work. Let me ask you when you're analyzing the crypto markets, if you had to choose one technical analysis or fundamental analysis. Man, technical is all the way. I'm a trader at heart. Yeah. What I always say is price is the final arbiter. Price knows everything. Good fundamentals kind of put you in the same place as good technicals. So price should have all the information. So I would probably side with you on that one. Let me ask you this, trading or holding, what is your style? Trading. I'm a trader at heart. Okay. You're quick hot potato. Timeframe trading daily or monthly? Daily. Okay. Making trades daily, closing positions out. Leverage or no leverage? Oh, one word answer to this one. Leverage yes or no. We'll go with no leverage. No leverage anymore. Honestly, a man after my own heart. I've always advocated to stay away from the leverage. There's a great quote that it's like a Warren Buffett quote about the way people go broke is like ladies, liquor and leverage. And that's like the three ways that men go broke, ladies, liquor and leverage. So stay away from the leverage. But let me ask you this, what's your favorite exchange? Kraken recently. Okay. Kraken. I'm a big Kraken fan, but favorite wallet. I'm going to roll with MetaMask. I'm going to roll with MetaMask. I don't think I expected that. I don't think I expected anybody to like MetaMask, but here we are. God bless them. Everybody uses them. I think they've been getting better. Yeah. They've been getting better. I agree. And I have to say recently I've been liking treasure wallets. Obviously they're safer, but I've been really digging them, especially more than the nano ledgers. I have both and treasure has been standing out to me. Okay. I like it. It's a hot take. Trezor. T -R -E -Z -O -R. Kind of a play on words of like a treasure chest, right? Where all your crypto gets stored. Let me ask you this, Brendan, your favorite dap, and I'll restrict it to your favorite dap. DeFi Okay. Hot take here as well. I'm going to roll with, I think most people would expect maybe like Uniswap, but I'll roll with Osmosis here. I'll throw a wrench in everything. Hold the door. Hold the door. I did not expect it. I did not see that coming. That's a great pick though. The cosmos decks, the cosmos DeFi one -stop shop. Osmosis. Hot pick.
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 12:00 08-31-2023 12:00
"Three billion dollars and then they upped that to four and a half billion dollars so the costs associated with them are pretty steep. And I wonder how this plays into ongoing discussions with the United Auto Workers unions with between General Motors, Ford, Stellantis. Yeah absolutely I mean there's a big big discussion point there about EVs and what it means for the workforce of course for these automakers so we'll have more reporting on that coming up. This is Bloomberg. Broadcasting 24 hours a day at Bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg Radio. This is Bloomberg Markets with Paul Sweeney and Matt Miller. We got a lot of green on the screen here but the volume is light. We constantly underestimate the strength of the US consumer. This is a market that's much more optimistic or bullish than maybe its central bankers are. Breaking market news and insight from Bloomberg experts. There's still some concern out there in the market that there is room for things to deteriorate a little bit more than what they're indicating. As small and medium -sized businesses struggle they don't present as much competition. The supply chain has still got dislocations globally and here in the US. This is Bloomberg Markets with Paul Sweeney and Matt Miller on Bloomberg Radio. Alright coming up in this hour we're gonna talk to Molly Smith she's a US economy editor. We'll talk a little bit of economic news but I really want to get her thoughts on the US Open. She's the big tennis fanatic here in the building so we'll get the latest what's happening out at the US Open in Queens. And then we're gonna talk about the retailers. Brendan Case US retail reporter with Bloomberg News. We're talking about Dollar General's earnings miss and I'm gonna preview the Lululemon earnings coming after the close today. Then ETFs you can never talk about ETFs too much because that's where the money's going. Bill Davis managing partner and portfolio manager at Stance Capital. He's gonna join us to talk about ETF investing where the money is in fact going what strategies are.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Disney's Epic Fail: CEO Bob Iger Admits DeSantis Outsmarted Them
"Bob Iger, the head of Disney, I mean this is the headline over at National Review. Disney admits, DeSantis beat us. The brief article by Michael Brendan Doherty over at National Review says, You can think that DeSantis' actions against Disney were needless, spiking the football, bad form. What we should not be hearing after Bob Iger's remarks are arguments that Disney won the battle with DeSantis. Disney is telling us, plain as day, this fight was a loss and should never have been fought at all. Bob Iger is sending a message to every CEO in America. Because as Disney goes, so goes a lot of corporate America. You get involved in this back and forth and alienate your own customers, you're going to lose. And it's going to be a terrible price that you're going to have to pay. You have a responsibility to sell your product, sing your songs, sell shirts at Target, sell fun at Disney. And of course the dilemma for these major corporations, BlackRock, you know the banks and the financial community that is demanding that they play ball with the woke leftists. Well guess what, BlackRock's waking up too. The banks are waking up as well. And it's because of the strength of the American people
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from Biden Whistleblower Gal Luft Charged, VEEP's Selina Meyers VS. Kamala Harris, and more!
"Ignoring the noise, man, that's a challenge, isn't it? Sometimes it's tough to know what to pay attention to, what to ignore. Any confident prediction of who's going to be the Republican nominee in 2024 today is absurd. Don't pay attention to people who confidently tell you they know who the nominee is going to be. My buddy Kurt Schlichter is on this anti -Trump tear. Every day it seems like Colonel Schlichter. We ought to maybe get Kurt on the show. We haven't talked to Kurt in a while. He's guest -hosted before, I think, in the past. We've certainly had him on as a guest many times. He's one of my favorite voices in America. He's a town hall columnist, rock -ribbed conservative, and it feels like every day he's tweeting out, Trump can't win. Trump's unelectable. All right, so he's all in for DeSantis. We get it. But nobody knows today who the American people are going to pick to be the Republican and the Democrat nominee for president. It's not going to be Joe Biden. So I don't know if it's going to be Gavin Newsom. I don't know if it's going to be Kamala. I don't know if it's going to be Pete Buttigieg. I don't know who it's going to be. It ain't going to be Joe Biden, in my view. But I don't know that, because I don't have a crystal ball, and I have no way of guaranteeing that to anybody. Be wary of people who make confident predictions because they can't find their Fannie with both their hands. They're just trying to get clicks and views and responses. And listen, we all love responses. Every single day, I stare at those lines and wonder, are my phone lines going to light up today with a bunch of engaged people who want to call this show at 1 -800 -655 -MIKE? So I get it. If I don't see those lines light up, I get obsessed. I get worried. I get down on myself. I think I'm doing something wrong. But I'm not going to pretend that I know what's going to happen six months from now. I don't. You don't. Saying that it's Trump's nomination in the bag is preposterous. We got a debate coming up in August. We got debates that are going to start rolling out. We got a president who's stumbling around looking like a very, very elderly guy lost in the woods somewhere. I don't know what's going to happen. We've got whistleblowers who are saying all kinds of horrible things about the Biden family. I don't know what, where that's going to go. And right now, all of the men and women in the race have to make really important decisions. Ron DeSantis made a decision. He's going to blow off Charlie Kirk's big turning point event this weekend. I don't know if that's a good decision or not. I'm surprised at that decision, frankly. I was kind of looking forward to the prospect of all of the Republican nominees being at Charlie's event. Brendan Leslie on Twitter writes, I think Ron DeSantis is missing such an easy layup by not going to the Turning Point USA event this weekend. Right now, he should be focused on gaining as much conservative and populist votes as possible, aka Trump's base, because they've done a great job of painting him as a globalist puppet. This event is the perfect place to do so. I don't think not showing up will make or break the election. That's nonsense, but it definitely could have helped his chances. Brendan tweets, you can't win a primary without prying off some votes from Trump. I believe that's true. I believe that's true. Here's a text message on the MyPillow text line. I've got no use for any pundit who is not for Donald Trump. But I'm glad they are outing themselves like Kurt Schlichter. I learned I don't need them in 2016. That's from Linda in Pennsylvania. Again, I don't know the answer to this. We don't know what the future holds, and we've got to be careful not to predict things that we don't have a clue about. You can't tell me you know Trump's the nominee. You can't tell me you know DeSantis is going to be the nominee. Maybe they'll cancel each other out. I kind of doubt it. But anything can happen. Anything can happen. Somebody just texted me from Orlando. Just wait till I tell Chris Hart that tonight on the American Adversaries. Haha. Just kidding, Mike. Where's Chris? Is Chris a DeSantis guy or is he a Trump guy? Or maybe Chris is just very, maybe he's just very confident. Listen, we all like to be confident. We all pretend that we know everything. We don't. And anybody who tells you they know what's going to happen in 2024 is clueless. They are blowing smoke up your ear. Happy Tuesday. It's July the 11th. You believe we're almost in the midway point of July already? Holy cow, the months are flying by. 1 -800 -655 -MIKE is our number. Let's start with Joe in Philly where I'm going to be this weekend. I'm going to be in the city of brotherly love, Joe. How you doing? Good, Mike. How you doing? I'm good. I'm good. Do you agree with me that it's foolish to make confident predictions about whether it's going to be Trump or DeSantis? That part, yes. But what I disagree with is that going around talking to everybody the way you do, everybody is sick and tired about being sick and tired of all this nonsense, all the media bias. And whether it's Trump or whether it's DeSantis, I'm going to vote for the guy that's the Republican nominee and everybody should do the same thing because we need our country back. And we got to draw a line and say no more. And if you notice that it's happening, you know, months ago, Disney put out a report that suggested that their park attendance was not dwindling. And I knew that was wrong. I mean, I knew that because like Bud Light found out, like Target found out, like Bed, Bath & Beyond found out, all these woke companies are finding out that they're paying a heavy price. I mean, they're losing billions and billions of dollars in market share because people are fed up. Like you said, Joe, they're sick and tired of being sick and tired and they're taking a stand. Oh, and a great example is Target. They had all that stuff that was woke in front of the store. And now if you go into a Target, all that stuff's gone. And Wall Street Journal this week confirmed what I've been saying for weeks and for months, the park attendance at Disney World is considerably down.
Mark Levin
Sen. John Fetterman Stumbles Through Remarks With Biden
"With just hours hours after that bridge collapsed there and and he promised to make sure that any resources that they needed and any help and support and guess what and guess what that bridge was rebuilt less than a year well well in front of time and again and now I'm standing next to the president again next to a collapsed bridge here and he is here to commit to work with the governor and the the delegation to make sure that we get this fixed quick fast as well too this is a president that is committed to fracture yeah and then on top of that the the jewel kind of a law the of inflation in fact inflation bill that is going to make sure that there's going to be bridges all across like this all across the America getting rebuilt it's a pleasure to here be and to introduce my friend congressman Boyle Bile is that really the guy's name Boyle Bile Brendan Boyle he called him Boyle Bile could have been worse I suppose and by the way you couldn't see it but cringing the whole time even he was like oh I God and blame his wife for this that is Federman's wife she knew he was ill she knew he wasn't up to the job she know all about it it's like Jill Biden she doesn't want to give up the White House and so I claim this on birthing people in the case of Jill a formerly person may I say
The Eric Metaxas Show
Brandon Straka: Former Liberal's Journey to Understanding Trump
"I am really, really thrilled to have with me in the studio Brandon struck Brandon. I am just tickled that you are here. In the studio, some people know your story, some people don't. We've got a lot to kind of go into some new stuff in your life, but tell me, tell my audience who's not familiar with your story, the nutshell version of who is Brandon struck, what's the walk away campaign and so on? Sure. Brendan strock is somebody who was a lifelong liberal and Democrat two time Obama voter actually voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016, had a nervous breakdown when Donald Trump got elected, crying on Facebook, going crazy. And then went on a journey of research to understand how the media that I trusted, CNN, MSNBC, New York Times, et cetera, had gotten the election so wrong in 2016. I was all but promised and guaranteed that Hillary Clinton was going to win. And so I was confused and shocked and outraged, but also scared because I believed also the media narrative of what Donald Trump was. Like many of my friends and former friends still do. They believe you. They earnestly believe that stuff, which is why I feel obliged to give them grace. Because they really believe he's Hitler two. And we've got to do anything we can. And it is fascinating to sit here and to talk to somebody who was one of those people and who kind of amazingly went on a journey and found your way out of that. So that's a loan fascinating because how did that when you say you did that? I mean, did you know growing up that you were the kind of person that would do that kind of because most people just kind of go with the flow. The idea that you were so independent minded that you could be crushed by Hillary's defeat and then go on this exploration is investigation. Well, yeah, and that wasn't my intention. I mean, my certainly my intention was never to come to a point where I was okay with Donald Trump or his supporters or that I legitimately just wanted to understand it. I mean, my journey began with just a couple of questions. How did the media get it so wrong? And why would anybody vote for a man who was so terrible?
AP News Radio
Gorman hits 2 homers in St. Louis' 9-4 win over Toronto
"The Cardinals down the Blue Jays 9 to four to take two of three in their season opening series at Busch stadium, the red birds belt three first inning home runs off of losing pitcher Chris Bassett with Brendan Donovan and Alec bergelson going back to back to start the game before Nolan Gorman would hit the first of his two homers later in the inning. I think you see guys in front of you, you know, doing well and swinging a hot bat and brings confidence to you that you can go up there and do the same. Gorman finished with four RBIs Jordan Montgomery would work 5 innings and give up three runs to pick up the win. Mike Reeves, St. Louis.
AP News Radio
Aho's hat trick lifts Hurricanes past Flyers 5-4 in OT
"Sebastian aho's third goal of the game gave the hurricanes a 5 four win over the flyers. I was able to gather a lot of speed and there was like a offensive gap there. So I just went for it. Martin H asked tied it with just .3 seconds left in regulation, allowing ajo to beat Felix sandstrom 28 seconds into OT. Brady Shay also scored, and frederik Andersen stopped 29 shots as Carolina expanded its lead in the metropolitan division to three points over the Devils. Tyson Forrester Noah Kate and Brendan lemieux each had a goal and an assist for the flyers. I'm Dave ferry.
The Dan Patrick Show
"brendan" Discussed on The Dan Patrick Show
"Cry. Because he's taking you to where very few voices can take you. Todd I'll start with you. How was the three minutes that was about an hour and a half ago? It wasn't great. I don't think we needed it. Okay. See, no Connor. It was similar to the moment when we were listening to your sylvain and it's like, oh, these Mick Jagger vocals are going to be you got to listen to these. And then they never came. That was almost the exact same bit just like different words. Yeah, Mick Jagger. We looked it up afterwards at the last verse of the song. Yeah. We didn't know that before. So Marvin being a good op there. You mentioned a song, he accuses it up and gets it ready. That's good. No, I didn't ask him to do it. No, but that's good producing on his part. He didn't know and no one told him that the best part of the song the part you were referring to was in the last third, not the first three minutes. Yeah. So it started bad because it took so long to get there. And then the awkwardness took over and it actually became really great. Because it was so awkward. Correct. All right. That's fun. It's content. Yeah. Yeah. If you're just describing this show, awkward. Accidental awkward. Because this show is about relationships, not sports. Yes, it is. Something like that. And that's what works. Yeah. This is no different than a movie formula. Yeah, somebody tweeted that earlier. They were like, I finally get it. This show. Yes. Yeah, that's right. It's about relationships. It's not really about spam. How about this day in sports history? How about that? Talk about soft day in 1941, the Brooklyn Dodgers announced that their players would begin wearing batting helmets during the 1941 season. Soft. That's why they shipped them out to LA. They're too soft for Brooklyn. I don't know if that's true. Wow. 2002, ESPN aired their first ever ever original motion picture. Anyone want to take a shot at the name and the person? Dale Earnhardt. That was second one, but you're right there. Bob knight. Bob knight is season on the brink. I didn't think it was good. No, no. There it is. Okay. Let me see. Let me save. Is there anything else that needs to be mentioned here? Anything. Oh, 1976. Texas tech rallies in the southwestern conference basketball tournament championship game. And the sports director, sports information director with Texas tech, Ralph Carpenter, is quoted as saying the following. The opera. Ralph. I got it. I think gutsy move. I didn't get it at first either, but now it's hilarious. 'cause you're eating. Of Carpenter. Is quoted as saying. He's rapping. He's not Ralph. God. Can we play bridge over troubled water? The opera ain't over until the fat lady sings. He's the originator? Yes, the earliest recorded usage of the phrase in conjunction with the sporting event. All right, Ralph. How often do you think people went up to Ralph Carpenter and went. Oh, my God. Let's charge it in the weekend with this. Yes, charge. I'd rather listen to me as people say. That's pretty good. Easy. You don't know anything about music. Oh, stay in your lane. Now it's getting personal. Come on. I'm over here teaching you guys during black history month at Marv madness. I gave you a couple of weeks in Marv madness. We could be playing Bon Jovi, wall to wall. Let's go. Billy Joel. Yes, Paul. What gives a sports Emmy now? What a waste of time. Todd, what did you learn today? He and his manager and Brooks because his antics forced him to be on the side of draymond green. See no Connor. Actually had to defend draymond. I know. You said Rolling Stone was trash. Yeah. Yeah, because they didn't have Art Garfunkel in their greatest voices of all time. Pauly, what did you troubled? I will leave that we now have something where a segment has been Garfunkel. That was established today. You just Garfunkel. All right. Uncle it up. Come on. Todd wood and I learned. 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"With Tex win. Happily. Folks might know Phil Jackson, who, of course, his glittering career got really going when he was a coach of Michael Jordan at the bulls and they won the 6 titles. And but his offense was a triangle offense, which was accredited to his assistant coach Tex winter, who literally written the book on the subject decades earlier. And Tex winter was just happily an old man with gray haired and a real nice suit that got nicer every year. Sitting a few seats down from Phil. He had no, you know, Julius Caesar aspirations or Brutus aspirations of taking any other seat. He was perfectly happy to where he was and he knew his place and he'd be there for Phil no matter what. And that's really what beard is. You know, he's the opposite of like, say, you know, Charlie Weiss, who's like, wow, we're really good team. I should probably be ahead. Coach now. Not being Charlie wise, as much as I am about trying to be anyone else. But Tex winter. Yeah, I'll stick with that. Are you in the bracket? Celebrity bracket challenge with us? March Madness. Knowledge, but you know, I've been losing brackets for decades, Dan. I'd happily do it here too. All right, fritzie, did you reach out to Brendan? We did. It sounds like we're going to work that out and he'll be a part of it. Okay. Can you teach timing? Comedic timing? I think you can. But you have to start young and you have to really drill it. I think I learned timing from neglectful parents who didn't necessarily know for sure that I was going to school even as far back as first grade. And so I stayed home and watched every day watch Bugs Bunny and Tom and Jerry and woody woodpecker. And those were violent, you know, that allowed to watch them anymore. But my God, the clinic in timing was invaluable. And so I don't know, I don't know if you can just show up to some random masterclass a video and get it. But Bugs Bunny, I'll set you straight for sure. What was it, the advice Jerry Seinfeld gave us loud and fast on a sitcom? That has been the rule for many, many as it come for the last several years, and that's because it's been the rule. It's kind of been maxed out by essentially the greatest sitcoms of all time. So we very consciously has sort of broken that rule from the beginning. We go a little quieter and a little slower. And we lure them in with our hypnotize them. And no dog dies in season three. I can't speak to that. All right, okay. All right. Does anybody die in season three? Oh, everybody dies. Is this like The Sopranos of soccer, like everybody dies at the end? Yeah, it fades to black in the 89th minute. I like it. I like it. Great to meet you. Congrats on being an overnight success after 49 years, but we look forward to season three that drops as we like to say Wednesday, march 15th. Thank you, Brendan. Thank you, Dan. This is a thrill man. I appreciate it. It's a Brendan hunt. Actor writer producer. All around good guy and coach beard on Ted Lasso. It was a little jarring when they killed the dog in season one or season two episode one. Wait, they do fun things. They do huggable episodes here. Everybody loves everybody there. Then it started to turn a little dark. A Nate, you know? Where are you going? Wait a minute, what's going on here? 8th grade. Coach beard's story arc has been really interesting. He had one of the last episodes of that season two was fantastic, where he just sort of go through his personal life on the show, was always it was kind of hinted at or just little bit, but there's one episode where they just spent diving into coach beard that was really good. Let me take a break. Last call for phone calls, what we learned, what's in store tomorrow, if you're watching on peacock, we will take the food off the triggers there. We're back after this. Every week we talk about panini America, the official trading cards to the Dan Patrick show. 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When I said to Marvin, why didn't tell Marvin, I just said, last night at dinner, I played Simon and Garfunkel, and I said to my wife, just listen to Art Garfunkel sing bridge over troubled waters. Now she had heard that, it's legendary song, but I said, if I went to see him in concert, this would make me
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"In my shoes, it's a benefit. Because it turns out, even though we have some English people on the writing staff, I'm like the soccer guy. And everyone's in a while. It's a dis get turned into like, okay, Brandon, what would happen here? And I tell them about what really happened for a given situation. And then we generally ignore that. But it's good to know what's supposed to happen before we break the rule of what we decide to actually do. Because you're sort of a savant, but I don't know if people realize you're a soccer savant during the show. Is that fair with your character? Yeah, I mean, I think it's kind of at least comparatively compared to most of the rest of America. Because I didn't get into soccer till I was in my mid 20s. And when I had this job in Amsterdam, doing comedy out there, and then I discovered that soccer didn't suck. And I became a sponge and tried to just soak up every bit of history and trivia and factuality that I possibly could. And it hasn't gone away since I've, since I moved to the states, I'm still now full on soccer nut. The reaction in the United States compared to the reaction in England. How big of a discrepancy disparity between the two? When it first started? Well, when I first started, yeah, no one in England knew who we were at all. And we could walk freely among them. And then shooting the second season was COVID, mostly. So we could still kind of walk around. But now, year three, you know, I decided that for your three, I was going to live in Richmond. I could sure I could do so quite anonymously. The UK has been watching this show yet. And I wanted the pub from the show to be my local. Well, by year three, the UK has caught up to Ted Lasso, and I can no longer go to that pump. It's like, if tourists go to Boston and they go to the cheers bar and suddenly cliff is that. So you actually would go to the bar that you go to, a local pub. Yeah. Yeah. Richmond's awesome. And the Richmond green, you know, that little that little park basically where the pub is in real life in the show is hypnotically quaint. I would spend weeks at a time there if I possibly could, except now I absolutely can't. The timing with COVID, it felt like we needed feel good. A lot of these shows are, let me pick out the guy that is the least detestable and everybody's detestable, like Succession. You know, you watch and you go, well, you don't like any of them, but you do love the show. It was different with Ted Lasso. But I don't know what role COVID played or the pandemic and we're at home and needing feel good stories played. In the success. Yeah, we're not quite sure either. I mean, and obviously, you know, we sure would have preferred the people who were watching it of their own volition and despite having plenty of options of how they could do their night. Now, here we were with a captive audience and if we're going to have a captive audience at least at least make them feel a little better. But certainly the show was written before COVID and edited during COVID and then it finally came out. Yeah, it had a real COVID high point about 6 months into it, I guess. And whether that was a multiplier or not from then on, the reaction that we were getting from people, even before a lot of people were watching the show was immediately intense and really like elevated kind of connection for a show that had only just come out and it's been pretty breathtaking to be and to be part of. We're talking to Brendan hunt, the actor writer producer, he's coach beard on Ted Lasso, season three, final season, apparently. Apple TV plus that will be Wednesday, march 15th. Final final season? We just don't know for sure right now. You know, again, we've always saw this as like a three sweet movement and here we are. With the conductor, waving that baton with a sense of finality. And we're definitely ending this story. We started out to tell, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's the end end. It does mean we're going to finish this up and we're going to take a little break. Because we're very tired of each other's adorable hairy faces. And after about a year and a half or so we'll come back together and see what's up. Give me the episode where you go, I can't believe we're doing this. I guess season the first episode of season two where we really felt it was important to start things off by killing a dog. Because we had become by then, you know, the feel good show, the shield that flight could hug. I don't know, we're kind of a sitcom, guys. Just a little just to remind everybody what's up here, we're just gonna peel a dog right away. The first rule sitcoms. And everybody can just put this little further away from their television for a little bit. And we'll look at you back. We'll get you back, but whose idea was it to kill the dog? A 100% Jason. Of course there was. Jason was meeting with reading Twitter. He was crying and all the reactions. Like, oh my God, this show means so much to people. We have to kill a dog. I wonder if he had a spin off of one or two of the characters coming to the United States. I mean, there have been some pitches. There are some things on the table. And I'm not at liberty to say, but to your on the right track, Dan. Oh, okay. That is going to happen, but you're on the right track. When's the last time you got mad at Jason? I mean, bless Jason's heart, he's built to suffer a million micro meds. Because he's on his own time, he will answer emails and texts at his own at his own pace. Which is very understandable. The man's got the weight of the world on his shoulders and all that, but Jason, please, I just got to let this guy know if I need three tickets or four. Please, just tell me. Just tell me. So I'd say ten times a day. Really? Final answer? Who do you model your acting career after? Well, I mean, I mean, you know, whenever you're trying to set your life up, you definitely want to try to find that person who no one knew about until they were 48 years old. Tommy Lee Jones was like that though, Brendan. Tommy Lee Jones. We did it. Tommy, Tommy Lee Jones. I could have had a vice president for a roommate. This all would have happened just a little bit faster, but you know, we can help you. Okay, but you're playing a coach. Do you channel any coaches? You know, you're obviously, you grew up in Chicago's here, sports fan, do you kind of say, okay, this is the coach or coaches I'm going to kind of form my personality with. I am a rather poor athlete, Dan. And I just have not had many coaches in my life. I've had a lot of acting teachers, and I've had a lot of cool bosses. And I've watched sports, you know, Phil Jackson or it might be, you know, the football coach, it could be Bill Parcells, Bill Belichick. Mike Ditka. If anything, it's Tex winter. Because it's a guy who is perfectly happy being on the sidelines. And you got to explain text to people who aren't
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"You go. Yeah, Marv. I haven't had three women claim for me in my entire life. I've got three at one time. I think they love the fact that he's gone for 9 weeks. And then he comes back for three. I mean, that to me, you keep a marriage, you know, going for a long time. Yeah, I'm gone for a while, and then I'll be back. Hey, when are you leaving? I'm leaving in a couple of days. Yeah, more. I should have asked him, who do you like the best? Liking somebody is, to me, more important than loving someone. There's people that are in love with one of them that are divorced. My grandfather asked me that when I moved in with my girlfriend, now wife, oh, Marvin, you know, do you like her? I was like, I love her. He's like, I didn't ask you that. I didn't ask you that. You better like there with you every single day. You better like that. I think it's the valid point. But if she was in Playboy, you don't have to like her or love her. That trumps everything. Yes, Tom. She was in Playboy, was this ten years ago, 20 years ago, last Thursday, when was she in Playboy? You don't stay looking like that. It's just the way the world. Have you looked at yourself? I know that. Okay. I wrote my constant reminder with that picture you got back there by the weights of what I used to love. Yeah, this woman is dying. Yeah? Yeah, but is she still like Playboy hot? Wait, she's dying. But he described her. Why does he have to describe her? Whatever her name is as a former Playboy. Obviously that's important to him enough to describe this person as someone that used to be in Playboy as opposed to she's just this nice person that's got a great personality. It's steak break. Ready? Take a break. Yeah. Coach beard will join us on loan from Ted Lasso. What would Ted Lasso do in this situation? What would coach coach beard has some relationship problems in Ted? We sure does, yes, he does. How about we take a break, everybody? Fellow that loves love. Yes, he does. So do I. 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And you were like 18 and she was 25. It was 19 and she was 34. 30 four. Met her on a boat. It was my parents anniversary of bone chips a day. Holy smokes. Did you dip anything else in the crudite? We went to see a movie called wild orchid, which is like 9 and a half weeks. Yeah. He plays coach beard on Ted Lasso. I don't know if Brendan wants to join us now, but Brendan hunt joining us on the program. Come on in, stay a while. Good to talk to you. How are you? I mean gosh, do I got to start my day with talk of filthy crudite? Yeah. How many days? Well, that's a normal day for you. So take me back to when this all started. Sure. I mean, first of all, Brendan hunt 6 foot, nothing, one 95. Yeah, we did these commercials for NBC sports. Because they got the coverage of the Premier League back in 2013. The offer was to fly me and Jason Sudeikis and Joe Kelly to London for three whole days. And we were like three days in London. That's the job of a lifetime. So we happily took it and now we are three years into a TV show this crazy dumb thing. But when the promos were done, when did the idea of we could make this a show? We did the promos to use in a row because the first one went well enough that that ad company won like whatever kind of awards they win for ads. And after the second one, me and Joe and Jason, that means let Jason particularly was like, hey guys, this thing is fun, right? There's something more to this than some of its parts. Let's figure out something more to do with it. We didn't know if it was a movie or a more commercials or a TV show. When we started thinking about a TV show and thinking about it in the model of the UK office of 6 episode 6 episodes and a special, you know, sort of three chunks. We wrote up a pilot. We put together a structure and then nothing happened for about 5 years. Jason and Joe's careers were going very well. I was rotting on a block. Very much considering a career return to dinner theater. And then at the last minute, a couple of years ago, Jason was like, oh, I haven't launched with Bill Lawrence tomorrow. We'll see what happens. And this happened. Is it a benefit, an advantage to know more soccer or less soccer?
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"Of conference tournaments, no bids handed out last night. Patrick queuing out as Georgetown head coach and the name to keep an eye on Rick Pitino, Rick Pitino has done a wonderful job at iona and St. John's is going to be open. You're going to have Georgetown open, Texas tech open, and I know Rick Pitino said to me a couple of times. I own is my last stop. Well, maybe it was easier to say that instead of saying, hey, I'm going to go to iona for a couple of years, and then I hopefully will get a bigger job. He's been great. He can coach. He's one of the great coaches of all time. I know there's a lot that comes with Rick. But when it comes to coaching, he knows he's on the short list of great college coaches. And I would think he's going to have an opportunity here. If he's interested in St. John's, certainly Georgetown in Texas tech or opens there. Marv madness is going on right now, go to Dan Patrick dot com, go to the sales section, got t-shirts on sale for as low as $15. Thanks to Marv, while supplies last out of the day, brought to you as always by panini America, the official trading cards of the Dan Patrick show. Poll question for the final hour of this award nominated program. Dan, this is going to surprise you, but daylight saving time? Yeah. Not popular. Yeah. I didn't think so at all. 70. Actually, though, it could be more unpopular because 29% of the audience want to keep it. 70 something percent want to dump it. All right. Yeah. Are we going to stay with that final hour poll question? We could go with so there's a bunch of going on this weekend. You can only watch one of these. Okay. Selection Sunday, the Oscars, players championship, NBA, NHL spring training, soccer, throwing there. Okay. Any of those getting you going? They all do. Yeah. Yeah, I've been watching a lot more. I've been watching the world baseball been watching some of that. And watching more spring training this year. I'll watch the players. What else is going on this weekend? So you got players Oscars. I'm not as interested in the Oscars. It doesn't seem like there's any real, oh wow, that's going to be the moment, or it's going to come down to those two actors or those two movies there. It's kind of, I think, for us personally, it's more about the Top Gun noms than anything. Yeah, it is. That's really the only thing that I'm most interested in. Yes. If now, Top Gun's not winning the best movie. 8 or 8. No, I'm the one I'm the big proponent for Top Gun. Oh, so you're going lower low expectations, yes. I don't want to be disappointed when they, when they announced that it's not Top Gun as the best movie. But I think that Tom Cruise should still get an award. Just for bringing everybody back to the theater. I don't know if you can say and the winner, best actor, the most important person for bringing people back to the theater, it's Tom Cruise. And then he gets, yeah, he gets an award. I think that would be nice to give Tom and award. He's not going to win an Academy Award. Yes, yes. Quick question about the Oscars. You can take your time. Okay, I will. All right, so there you threw me off. Now I'm like, me asking deebo Samuel question. So pop Warner, all right, anyhoo. How crazy is it that so many people watch the Oscars, but we only know maybe four people that get up there and actually win the award? Well, we like seeing famous people. It doesn't mean that they're winning, but they could be presenting. They could be in the audience. We like seeing famous people, like Jennifer Lopez and Shan Tatum are presenters. Yeah. They won't be up for it. They will not. Magic Mike XXL is not going to be up for an award. I think it's XXL. Oh, oh, okay. And then J.Lo, what movie did she have? The one with Josh Duhamel. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. What's the name of that? Something honeymoon. Shotgun wedding? Shotgun wedding. It was nominated best picture. No, no, no. It's not just that. It was great. Fritzie, I'm sure you reached out to Josh Duhamel to be in our bracket challenge. Did you reach out to J.Lo. I don't think I invited you. Oh, you've invited everybody in the hospital. Makes sense. Yeah. We still have time to invite her. Yeah, sure. Just see. She's got 5 days to get it in. Okay. Yeah, Pauline. A lot of people think, for best actor, I'm looking at the odds, Austin butler who played Elvis, a lot of people think he's gonna get it. The award, but the spoilers, Brendan Fraser, in the movie the whale, and that's a good story. It feels like it's more Brendan Fraser. And Austin butler. Maybe. Brennan Fraser, you have, he had a great career. No, he didn't gain 600 pounds. No. He portrayed somebody who waged 600. Correct. Yes. But this is kind of like one of those, he was a hot property in Hollywood. And everything. George of the jungle and the mummy was he in the moment too? School ties. Yeah, he was a big deal. Yes. Yeah. He was in everything for a while. Yeah, women liked Brandon Frazier. And too bad he didn't fully commit though. He should have gained the way. Okay. I mean, what are we doing? De Niro would have. Of course. It always comes back to, well, De Niro would have done it. Come on. Yeah. I don't know how much weight De Niro gained for raging bulls. They said, at least 60. Okay. And do you know, I had met Jake LaMotta a couple times. He was a wonderful character, and his wife, Vicki, was stunning. And we found out how stunning she was in Playboy. I don't know how old she was, but in person, those two, you'd meet him, and you'd go, all right, Jake LaMotta, and that's your wife. Okay. Beautiful. Beautiful. That he was a character, Jake Lana, who De Niro portrayed in raging bull. Alrighty. It's a meet Friday, case you're wondering. Grilled chicken fajitas. Is it fujita's or fajitas? Because I called them beef and cheese to quitos. And then seeing goes, well, did you drink some to quila last night? And as a matter of fact, I did. I had some sinco taquila. And we also have chips and guac. That's who has it better than we do. Nobody. Let's see. So no bids last night, Kevin Durant out two to three weeks. The grizzlies with John morant all quiet right now and Patrick queuing out is the Georgetown head coach. Here is something to keep an eye on. There'll be some names that'll be released with free agency coming up and probably mid level, but the Vikings reportedly are going to release Adam Thielen. Okay. I don't know what his numbers were last year. there with Justin Jefferson, but Adam Thielen was a great story. Came out of nowhere and probably went to a couple of pro bowls, but he is going to be released. Also, here's another thing. Complicating the Lamar Jackson situation. If a team signs Lamar Jackson to an offer sheet. The ravens have 5 days to match. And then that means the team will be out of free agency and lose out on the other available quarterbacks. If they do this, because Baltimore can match that. And you're wondering, okay, do we tire self up for 5 days in free agency? And we lose out maybe on Jimmy Garoppolo, if he goes someplace else. But the NFL reminded clubs according to Tom palo sero, the NFL network, sent out a memo on Wednesday that next week's two day negotiating period applies only to unrestricted free agents. So for the 6 franchise tag players including Lamar Jackson, no contract is allowed or no contact. I'm sorry, is allowed with other clubs until Wednesday, march 15th. So this is dragging out and the question is, is Baltimore going to have to match this? Is somebody going to be willing to give two first round draft picks for Lamar Jackson? I'm also wondering if this could happen. And I'm wondering this with the
Awards Chatter
"brendan" Discussed on Awards Chatter
"We can create any image we can do anything if you can imagine it. It can be on the screen. And you know that. You're students. It's what you do. You're the next generation. I'm excited for you. You're going to find so many cool things to bring to this screen. We need to keep doing what you're doing. Anyway, I digress. Believe in what you're doing. I think the characters requirements for Georgia is a jungle. Yes, I watched a lot of cartoons. Yes, I went to the gym a lot. No, I didn't wear much clothing at work. It was the job. To prepare for that, it was really for that one. It was just all about energy to do Charlie. Again, I had to believe in who he was and. Do the research that comes with. Understanding his world. And trust actually just really in the process. And in this case, in the director to guide us, the best directors are the ones who just kind of go, it's over there. They direct you, just go over there. And you'll find where you need to be. Occasionally, there are those who do that even better. And Darren's definitely one of them, yeah. My name's Mackenzie. I just wanted to say me and my mom love with honors. So it's just a fantastic film. And my question was working with so many different actors. Has anyone ever given you advice that you have taken with you through your career? Ian McKellen, in some conversation, left me with some you need to approach the work as if it's the first and the last time that you ever will. Yeah, think about that. That's great. That stayed with me. That in be good, be brief, be seated. Please join me in thanking Brendan so much for coming up here. And being so generous with your thank you. Thank you, everyone. Thanks for
Awards Chatter
"brendan" Discussed on Awards Chatter
"His team for best hairstyling and makeup. So my final question to you is, what has this last, I guess, 6 months been like for you to see the response to your work and also to yourself personally, it seems like in a way that is not at all common. People are really excited and thrilled to have you back. I'm humbled. I don't know what else to say. I'm grateful. It's affirming, I think we made a film that's really reaching people in a meaningful way. That's the hope, you know? No one deliberately sets out to make something that sucks, but sometimes you don't have control over how things are received and this is a film that has spoken to people. It's open hearts and minds and also a dialog. The number of men and fathers who I've met in the last 6 months or so who told me that that's my relationship with my daughter, I want to go and re approach it in a new way to mend fences. There are, there's some healing that's coming of the drama that we see on the screen. So that's what's most rewarding to me. That's great. We are now going to hand some mics to students. And then we're going to come over here. Hi, my name is Sebastian. Big George at the jungle fan. So thank you. So I don't know if you heard, but kiwi Kong came in yesterday to do masterclass and I know this has been kind of like a big comeback here for the two of you with the whale and everything everywhere all at once. So could you kind of describe your relationship in this award season with him? Sure, key and I were in encino man together. Did you know that? It's true. 32 31 years ago. Right. He ran the computer club. I was the new guy. And there were two dudes who were kind of not being cool to him. I said, come be my friend. And that's how we met on screen. A lot of years later. I ran into him in the office of building for a round table. Yeah. We're still in here, man. He was like, he was like, yeah, we are. We're still here. Can I just tell you? I knew that he was here last night. You know why? Because he's a Googly eye.
Awards Chatter
"brendan" Discussed on Awards Chatter
"If you need a resource to look towards, I would point you in that direction. Anyway, their mission is to change this prevailing attitudes. If we accept that the shaming that comes along with a person who lives with obesity is to my understanding, almost like the last refuge of prejudice that we still abide and I think we could do better to change that. So this was a film that can change hearts and minds. From what I could see after we finished it, and I can tell you right now,
Awards Chatter
"brendan" Discussed on Awards Chatter
"Offers no easy answers to the thornier questions. He asks of his audience about the human condition, dares you to look away. Clearly, as you saw, he's a very courageous artistic suna east and I will admit to no small measure of creative intimidation when I met him at first. He was honestly he was a gentleman and he was quite forthright about the task he had to create Charlie. Charlie is a unique character. He's a man whose body weighs hundreds and hundreds of pounds. He is not who he is as he presents his father. He's an educator. He was a husband. He's a man. And he was someone that a character that Darren saw and thought, this is someone who you would easily dismiss or disregard, and for that he wanted to know more about who this man is at home. And we see his world dim two bedroom apartment in anywhere, Idaho. We're Charlie lives. Somehow, inside of the world of this little apartment, he's like a Beacon of light. He's like a lighthouse at sea. And there's a conversation that we had when we first met. Which was the result of just to quickly just document it. He had of all things seen a trailer for your picture called journey to the end of the night, I did with Scott Glenn. Back in 2006. That's right. So I guess there's a quick lesson is you never know what's going to what's going to be the thing that really matters, right? I guess you got to bring your a game all the time because you never know who's going to see what work you do. And hey, that got Darren to pay attention and go, hey, Brendan Fraser is still alive. Get him in here. And again, he was really, he had a challenge in casting this role.
Awards Chatter
"brendan" Discussed on Awards Chatter
"Just for people, because I guess the business is always changing. And this may be in some ways indicative of a new direction, some places are going in. Can you just explain for people who don't know, what exactly happened there? No, I don't know the exact dude. Is that the word? Are they kidding? He was about saving money. The film was Leslie grace was fantastic. I'm sad that this film won't come out because of how terrific she really was in this part. I was there. I saw it. She was really, really good. It's really cool. And it pains me to think that a little girls are going to have to wait a lot longer now before they can see a back earlier they can identify with and say, she looks like me. I want to be her. It was a really empowering story in that way. It really was. Dylan Bilal, who did the bad boy movies, shot it. They're really good at blowing shit up. And they love doing it. They're so good at it. They love practical effects. I personally dislike pyrotechnics. They love them. And my character is called firefly. He's the firefighter. He was a good character. He was, I thought he was really cool. I liked him. He was sympathetic and interesting way. He was a vet who fought in the Gulf War. He helped put out oil derricks that were aflame as Saddam Hussein, this escaped cowardice back to Baghdad. He knew what he was doing with flash bangs and things that go boom. And he got out of the service, his benefits got cut. And he was very angry about that. And he's a bad guy. He's got a screw loose, but what's he going to do, but burn Gotham to the ground? I thought it was a really cool character with some social consciousness. Snuck in there at the same time. So I was all in. And again, and Leslie was just fantastic. I don't know. Look, it was formatted for shot conceived of created for the streaming service on HBO.
Awards Chatter
"brendan" Discussed on Awards Chatter
"Was really big in those days. Dual wielding. I know. Cool. Cool. We were in. We were in a shot maker, which is a flatbed. You put the vehicle on it and you drag it around the place and it looks like you're driving, but you're really not. And we were in Mexico City. We were going around the Victoria monument in the middle of town. It's downtown Mexico City and late at night. And I look out the window and I see this wheel just like. What the shit was. Sure enough. The wheel came off the back of the trailer. You remember Mexico city, South Africa. So we pulled over. And Sarah to fix it, I guess. I'm pretty much found the wheel. She looks at her phone this next telephone. She's like, oh look, one, you guys, you won for best picture for crash. Early, yeah, great. Awesome.
Awards Chatter
"brendan" Discussed on Awards Chatter
"And thank you for joining us for the 481st episode of The Hollywood Reporter's awards chatter podcast. I'm the host Scott feinberg. And for those of you tuning in, we are recording this episode in front of an audience of students at Chapman university where I'm a trustee professor at the Dodge college of film and media arts. My guest today is a widely admired and much beloved actor whose big screen work now spends 30 plus years. The Los Angeles Times once asserted, quote, he exudes a masculine and earnest accessibility. The throwback charm that harkens to an earlier Hollywood era and brings to mind names like Flynn and Gable. While GQ opined, quote, he exudes a kind of solid decency and equanimity that makes the implausible plausible. His presence in a scene makes you believe it. All of this made him into what The Guardian described in 2008 as quote one of the most bankable and audience friendly stars in the industry. Shortly thereafter, though, he began to fade from the public eye. But never from the hearts and minds of filmgoers and filmmakers, many of whom grew up with him and were vocal about how much they missed him and yearned for his return. That, of course, has finally happened in a major way. Via Darren Aronofsky's the whale, for which this actor is now at the age of 54, a critics choice and sag award winner and a Gotham and Bafta Award nominee and is also, for the first time in his career, up for an Academy Award. In short, welcome to the renaissance. Would you please join me in welcoming to Chapman university, mister Brendan, Fraser. How's everybody doing? Welcome,
The Podcast On Podcasting
"brendan" Discussed on The Podcast On Podcasting
"Pot page. And if you haven't heard it, you probably ought to try it. Most of you know that my team we serve a lot of podcasters. I've got three podcasts myself. Two in the real estate space and then this one. And then we also serve about 60 or more now podcast clients with just different podcasts. And one thing that we started doing just recently, I would say just over the last couple of months, actually, even though the company Brendan founded it back in 2020, we just grabbed a hold of it recently and what we did is I had one of my virtual assistants take one of the podcasts that we produce. And I had them jump in to pod page just to see if it was something we should be using. And the feedback that I got was that it was super easy to create a podcast page, literally like a podcast website. And she said that even though she's never built a website ever in her whole life, my virtual assistant said that it took less than three minutes. She said it was easy. It took less than three minutes. And when I went to the website, it's totally branded. I don't even know how this could have taken three minutes or less. So Brendan is on the podcast right now. And we're going to be talking just a little bit about if you don't yet have a website for your podcast, you need one. That's the first thing. And then if you need one, what are your options out there? How much do the different versions cost to make? What does it cost to hire somebody to create a website? We're going to be talking a little bit about that so that you can really have a podcast website yourself for your show and we'll talk about how it can be branded. So Brendan, just first and foremost, your bio is already in the show notes..
Agency Ahead by Traject
"brendan" Discussed on Agency Ahead by Traject
"Big traffic they do the the old school like they they get all their keywords from a tool. They sort the columns by like most traffic and lois keyword difficulty. And then that's just boom boom boom knock them out and it's like that's really a strategy. It's you can work but what you end up with. You're just going after traffic numbers actual business right. Let's like actually look at this. Let's instead take all of our keywords and let's sort them by levels of awareness and then start with the things closest to the money. So i'm always scared. I'm always so jealous of email marketers. Because they can be like. We helped a client make an extra fifty k. This month and i'm like i have no idea how much i made this client right like we're so far from the money. Get closer to the money right like start with that bottom of funnel whatever like anything near the end of the customer journey. Were pretty ready to buy. This could be anything from a competitor page to like. How much does this cost like. what is like. There's a lot of people that don't put their prices online especially in software. You gotta talk to a salesperson. It's very custom okay. Cool but stand up a page that says blah blah like company pricing. And then. at least they're not going to g to in getting some misinformation or capterra and it's like that's not even our pricing like cool if they're wrong like just stand up the page and even if all the page says is like how you think about pricing your service and then it's like if you want quote call talk great but rank for that in on that conversation versus sending it up to somewhere sending it to capterra were then you have to pay for the lead right so i think like i would start closest to the money. I think that makes a lot of sense. And i think that's a good blueprint for agencies of about one one last question on kind of the agency side of things is in terms of doing your own marketing..
Agency Ahead by Traject
"brendan" Discussed on Agency Ahead by Traject
"Today. I'm really excited. Talking to one of my favorite people. Brennan suffered brendan is created. This really cool kind of ongoing education center called. Seo for the rest of us. He has a podcast. He's all about helping people you know. Create great content that does rank for search We're gonna talk about search. Thank you for joining me brendan. Yeah thanks so much for having me. I really appreciate and be fun. Also i'm i love chatting with you online. We had a few times before. I'll dive right in today. We're gonna talk about in ten. And it's something i know you think a lot about just high level. How do you. Kind of approach modern Intent when it comes to creating content. Yeah so my background is as an educator. Because at eighteen years old i was alive. The for some reason decided. I was allowed to decide what i want to do with my life and i decided to be a teacher and then did that for ten years so a lot of my teaching and thinking about seo is not just like what is right. But like how do i teach this so search intent very often is talked about in a way that is certainly intentive a user is informational navigational transactional or commercial right. They want one of those four things. And i don't think that's wrong but i started to feel like that's not helpful because it doesn't actually inform what you do right if it's like well this is an informational search. Okay so i just put information. And that's how i rank like probably don't like if it's a navigation search from googling like how to get somewhere sure like maybe a long form blog posts like this isn't the day like if you're one of the olds like me you remember like printing out mapquest and stuff like that was the thing. But we don't need that like an informational. Post is not gonna work there or if you google something and a lot of people are buying stuff. It's a lot of products like they probably don't want long blog post however it just tells you what goes there and not the how or as marketers what the heck to put on the page. So i did some homework. And i was like where did you know i want to know before i like. Poo poo something on twitter. And give my hot take where this come from. And i dug and duggan you know you have to the the link chasing in stuff is just like this person cited this person who said that this person crap. It's back to the first person you end up with thirty tabs. What i found was our model in twenty twenty one for search intent comes from me two thousand seven blog post from rand fish skin not wrong. He's brilliant because what he said in two thousand seven for context in two thousand seven. That was the year that like leave britney alone and chocolate rain popular out through so we can have. Yeah you just happened to the real way back machine and like but he's not wrong. It's brilliant because he's still correct right. That is still part of the intent. But i thought to myself part of seo for the rest of us. How do we make this more accessible. How do we give people something they can. Actually use will all right. We have to figure out if something is commercial or transactional or whatever like. I can't really help you if you're trying to drive somewhere like that's not what i'm doing in my marketing. That might be part of it if you're like a local business or something but for me the really like the informational or the transactional commercial came down. Like what the heck do we put on. The page is introduced to a really cool model for copyrighting by my buddy joel key from business casual copywriting. He also runs case. Study buddy now. That came from eugene schwartz in his book breakthrough advertising the kind of walks. It just walks through like levels of awareness. Now it's meant for ads right depending on what level of product or service awareness there at what they're searching. You can kind of figure out what needs to go on the page. What do they need to move. Not to the next step nazi-like book damn o or whatever but like just to the next piece of the puzzle and that's been really really helpful if you if you want. I can kind of get into a little bit of that one thing. I'm really interested for his is. There's a lot of kind of maybe. It's the controversy but but people talk about the idea of on the one hand you have. Seo's who just tried to mimic what the top ten pieces of content are that rank on page one. And doing exactly that in. That's how you're going rank and then there are other folks who say we'll just do better by you don't know if that's necessarily going to become visible for what you're trying to rank for. So what do you say to those people in how they approach creating content for you know. Can we trust google that they're actually going to surface the right content. So this is like i said something. I remember saying something the other day of like. I'm pretty sure that the quality of the top ten like the reading the top ten results quality of content is not a ranking factor anymore. It's i just. I i was reading stuff. And maybe it's because i was reading about marketing things. Half of them were unintelligible. There was no narrative to take you through you could tell each of the sections was based on like a people also ask or whatever and it was just like literally like imagine you know. You're you think you're sitting down like a ten course meal and somebody they're just throwing random food at you the whole time like here's your salad and now here's desert and then there here's a pizza and then like a piece of chicken and you're like what the there's nothing that makes this flow. There's no s- craft of writing here. It might as well be written by a robot pains me because these are humans that are spending their lives doing this. And they think they're doing a good job because they got the traffic and the conversions and blah blah blah. I think first of all. I empathize at the human writers. Who are writing these things like that must suck for you to write to just spew out this stuff all day and be on on the content marketer writer and that's what i do commodity kind of content so i would love for it to be better to encourage people to do better work. We can elevate the craft of writing that would be
The Ray & Dregs Hockey Podcast
"brendan" Discussed on The Ray & Dregs Hockey Podcast
"Brand we know it's An incredibly busy time of year or not just in toronto but around the national league so we really appreciate you taking the time to join us here on the podcast extras. Thanks read all right. Thanks again to the president of the toronto. Maple leaves brendan shanahan throat. Punch not a big challenge. This week you know. I i i feel as the hockey gets going then. Obviously more game specific throat punching candidates for. You're going to emerge but renew at all surprised. Because i was at how much reaction there is been do the national hockey league selling ads particularly the helmet ads. I don't i don't. I don't understand why people care i don't care if there's an ad on the ellen or not that is my throat punch to the people that are complaining about this because in anything you do was advertising it so why can't the nhl advertise on their most notable product. Which is the players. So people always send. Oh yeah it's going to end up like this. Where the european teams have ads. All over their sweaters and pants and socks. I told you and i spoken about this. I went to the game and berlin last year landed was playing there right. Nobody looked like they weren't having a good time. That was the best game atmosphere. I'd been at in a long time. Remember back in the day. Because i was playing. I hate saying that. Jesus back in the day down anyway. There were no ads on the boards and when they put the first few ads on we were like. That's ridiculous those save never last. Now you're like you don't even notice them unless you see it in its advertising. What about the four places on the ice where the ads are what. I can't believe they haven't done. Why isn't there ads in the faceoff circles. That to me makes sense because everybody's stopped. You're not skating across the ad right where you might only catch a.
The Mindless Morning Show
"brendan" Discussed on The Mindless Morning Show
"Hey everybody welcome to another episode of the mindless midnight show today. We have brendan black. He's a host of a podcast called talk adamy and it's an agricultural podcast. Which is awesome. Because i feel like a lot of us don't really know a lot about agriculture. And it's a really good way to learn so brendan. How are you man. Doom birdie good. Thanks for having me awesome dude. We're really glad that you're here. So tell us about your show for sure. So i started my show back in april twenty. Eighteen seven running it for almost three years now and it kind of started as a project for a couple of friends of niger's to kind of mess around with We were all seniors in high school when we were doing clubs. And we're learning law in our agriculture classes and we just had a lot of information second our heads because we were doing speaking teams and we were. You know we're officer so we were really involved than leadership that kind of stuff so we required to know a ton about agriculture so we could teach others about and that kind of overloaded. Our brains a bit so you know since our parents retired listening to his rant about basically started podcast as a way of just you know sitting around the table just talking about issues and over time that evolved the moved off in went to college. I went to community college. So i stayed in my hometown and i just started interviewing farmers and other industry professionals around the area and i started to notice that the issue that i was addressing in the podcast wasn't really being answered by podcast. I wanted to be a way of teaching people who don't really know much about the About agriculture more about you know where their food comes from and just wasn't really happening as most you know reaching just just farm so far by farmers for farmers which is great but wasn't really my ideal audience. So i right around the time. We're all shutdown started happening. I decided to you know. I was on a at that time. I was on a four or five months. Break from my podcast. I almost considered quitting. It bows like nothing else. Going on school shutdown. I might as well take this time to start working on the project again. And so i reach out ready atlantis koran if you other platforms start connecting with people who didn't know anything about agriculture. But we're really interested in had some good questions asked are bringing them on the show. Instead became you know more of a conversation between somebody who knows about the industry and some who has questions about it so i can answer their questions and do that kind of dynamic and it's been really really successful ever since that's awesome so is it considered. Would it be considered like almost unusual for somebody really young like i would consider young. I'm thirty. I would still consider you relatively young into agriculture. Like to the point where you'll start to show for it. Oh absolutely senior in high school. I don't.