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Stuff You Should Know
A highlight from Night of the Grizzlies
"Get ready to dive into the future with Technically Speaking, an Intel podcast, the groundbreaking podcast from iHeartMedia's Ruby Studios in partnership with Intel. Each episode unveils the incredible ways AI technology is transforming our world for the better. Join host Graham Klass as he speaks with the experts behind the technological advancements that are powering a brighter and more accessible future for everyone. Listen to Technically Speaking, an Intel podcast, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Following in your parents' footsteps is never easy, especially when mom or dad happen to be superstar athletes. What kind of lessons do Hall of Famers like, oh I don't know, NBA legend Tim Hardaway and NFL icon Kurt Warner impart on their kids as they chase professional sports stardom? How do they teach them the importance of prioritizing health and how to overcome adversity? Well, you can join Heart of the Game as they explore these questions and more with some of the greatest families in sports. Listen to Heart of the Game on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey everyone, we want to let you know and remind you that our first ever Stuff You Should Know episode on vinyl, a podcast LP, is out and available for purchase. Yeah, and the episode is vinyl. Our episode on vinyl is now available on vinyl, if you can wrap your heads around that. That's right, and they're beautiful, they look amazing. We partnered with Born Losers Records and they were great to work with and it's just a real feather in our cap to be able to hold some Stuff You Should Know physical media finally. Yeah, and they make a great holiday gift for the Stuff You Should Know fan in your life, a great Halloween gift, a great Canadian Thanksgiving gift, a great regular Thanksgiving gift. They're appropriate for all those jams. So just go to syskvinyl .com and order yours now. They ship out on October 20th. Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of iHeartRadio. Hey everybody, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant. Jerry's here too, and this is Stuff You Should Know. Let's go. Oh, you like that one? I did. I'd also like this title that Livia gave this one. Yes. It's very fun. Can I read it? Sure. The night that transformed bare human relations. It's pretty straightforward and says everything you need to say. Yeah, it's actually sadly very accurate. Yeah, and yet, despite it being that straightforward, there's a pretty interesting story hidden amid those letters. Sounds like a crossword clue. It does. I feel like we should tell that story now, or else really what are we doing here, Chuck? Alright, well I think this is one of those, unfortunately, we can't just sort of play out as a teaser to reveal what happens. I think we kind of need to say what actually happened and then tell that story, yeah? Alright. Did you want to tease this thing out? No. Okay. I'm just being difficult. Because what we're talking about is a very sad night, August of 1967, when two young women, two 19 -year -old women were killed by two, and here's the kicker, two different bears in two different places in the same national park. If it was one bear that just went crazy or something and they were all camping together, that would be obviously tragic, but not like, hey, we need to really look at what's going on here, and that's what happened because it was two bears in two places. Yeah, and the reason why it was such a kicker is because in the 57 years leading up to that, that Glacier National Park was a national park, only three other people had ever been killed by grizzly bears, and then all of a sudden it went from three people in 57 years to two women in two separate incidents in one night. That is crazy, and it really did kick off this national conversation about should grizzly bears stay alive as a species because we like living in national parks. Do we have the right to do that kind of thing? It's a pretty interesting story. It's got a lot of facets to it, and I feel like we should talk a little bit about grizzly bears first because I didn't realize that they were just a subspecies of brown bear, although that makes a lot of sense. Yeah, grizzlies are brown bears. They are generally darker than brown bears in coloring. They're generally smaller. They can be a couple hundred pounds up to about 600, and it's interesting here because I think it depends on where you live and who you ask. Usually bears brown are called brown bears when they're more coastal, like the ones you see grabbing that salmon out of the river you would call a brown bear. I thought that was a grizzly. Whereas if you live inland and you're a bear, a brown bear, you're called a grizzly, but then I also saw people talking about coastal grizzlies, so it may be one of those names that's just sort of been tacked onto a lot of brown bears. Yeah. I think it's just, you know, it's confusing. Yeah, but they're brown bears. Yeah, they're brown bears, which makes them, you know, and they're a relatively small brown bear. There's a type of brown bear called a Kodiak that gets up to 10 feet tall when it's standing on its hind legs. No, thank you. Grizzlies are not nearly that big, but they're still big enough. I mean, the males can get up to about 600 pounds, and there used to be a lot more of them than there are today. The early 19th century, I think around the time of Lewis and Clark, there was an estimated 50 ,000 to 100 ,000 grizzly bears. They went all the way from Canada down to Mexico. They were in every what's now states along the West, all the way over to the Great Plains. There was a ton of them. And then as we started to move out there, we meaning white American settlers and colonists, part of what that whole westward expansion included was not just wiping out Native Americans, it was also wiping out large carnivores too. Yeah, like when they talk about taming the West, that's what they mean. It's like, let's go out there and kill things. And they did this for a few reasons. Sometimes it was because they had cattle that they wanted to take care of, or, you know, occasionally if they thought they were in harm's way, they might kill a bear. But a lot of it was just that sort of, I was about to say human nature, but really man's nature, at least some men, not me or you, to want to kill big, beautiful animals because they're big and beautiful and, you know, I guess could be considered dangerous. You got to keep an eye on those people because they can very quickly become real like most dangerous game types. Right. That's right. So by the time 1967 rolls around, when the two 19 -year -old women who died lost their lives, and I'll just go ahead and say their names are Julie Helgeson, man, and Michelle Koons, by the time they died in August of 1967, grizzly bears had been wiped out so thoroughly that they had a territory that was about 2 % of what it had once been. Mostly they were in national parks because those were protected areas, and there was something like under a thousand of them in the entire continental United States. Yeah, that's, 2 % is great when you're talking milk, it's not great when you're talking about animal populations. Did you write that one down? I didn't, it just came to me when I saw 2%. Good stuff, man. Very nice. Here's the weird thing though, is, and it seems rather counterintuitive, there were more, even though there were fewer bears, there were more human encounters with these bears for this very reason, and as we'll see, this is what, part of what led to this huge mess, and it's really hard to, if you're our age, and maybe obviously younger, you don't realize that national parks weren't always these places where they really were smart about everything they did, because at the time, they would do some crazy things in national parks. They would try and get bears around, they would leave food out. They would, there was one story here that Livia found where, and luckily a park ranger kind of stopped this in the act, but these parents brought a bear over with some food with a candy bar, and then tried to put their 18 month old on this bear's back to take a picture. Yeah, there's a story in that same article about a guy who was trying to lure a bear into his car to get a photo of it behind the wheel. Yeah. Just people interacting with, again, 600 pound grizzly bears, they can just take your head clean off if they want to, but that's the thing. They are really unpredictable, and for the most part, they're vegetarians, I think plants make up something like 90 % of their diets, and a lot of times, they're, I don't want to say docile, but the 18 month old baby survived, and so did the mom, and so did the dad. If that bear had acted any differently, they wouldn't have survived, so I saw that their personalities can best be summed up as unpredictable, but at the time, in the 60s, that is not the impression people had of bears. They were kind of considered a lot more gentle. There was a park ranger who was quoted by Jack Olson, who we'll meet in a little while, who said that on a scale of, a danger scale, where a butterfly is a zero and a rattlesnake is a 10, the grizzlies of Glacier Park would have to rate somewhere between zero and one. That is entirely wrong. He really should have said they rate between a zero and a 10, and you have no idea what it's going to be at any given moment if you encounter a bear. Yeah, and like a lot of large animals like this, when there is a, you know, their accident, so I'm going to call it an accidental killing, because bears weren't like, ooh, human, let me go eat them. Like you said, they're mostly vegetarian, and even when they ate stuff that was non -vegetarian, it wasn't like, oh, boy, let me go chow down on that person. It was, let me go chow down on that person's steak by the fire or the fish that they're cooking or something like that. And so when there is an accident, it's usually one of a couple of things. It's either the sort of familiar scenario of where you stumble upon a bear and scare them, or they may have their cubs around them, might be a mama with some cubs. Or it is that bear that's like, wait a minute, that's my food. You're eating that fish out of that river. I want it. So let's go. Yeah, apparently they defend their food like it's, like with the most jealous violence that they need to, like that is their food, even if it's your food. Yeah, exactly, because that bear thinks it's their food, because it's their territory. And the other thing that Libby was keen to point out, which is like, it sounds sort of funny at first, but it really is a thing that you need to pay attention to, is the Yogi Bear cartoon was a big thing. And Yogi and Boo Boo as these sort of friendly bears going after the picnic basket, that came about because that's what it was like. It wasn't like someone said, I got this crazy idea. Let's take these ferocious animals and make them Hanna -Barbera, and let's make them into a lovable cartoon character. It was like, no, that's when you went to these national parks. Like you said, people are luring bears around. They're like, ooh, take my picnic basket if I can take a picture, pick a picture, pick a picture, pick a picture. I'm just trying to make that into a funny picnic thing. Anyway, that's how things were. So that's why they made that cartoon. And that was just sort of what was going on. Like they literally at Glacier, at one, oh, I'm sorry, this is at Yellowstone, but they were doing similar things in Glacier. At Yellowstone, they put bleachers up around the open air dumps so people could show up and watch the bear show, which was bears wandering in to eat. Yeah. So a lot of people rightfully lay a lot of the blame for the deaths in 1967 at the feet of the administrators of national parks at the time because they were using the bears as entertainment. And at the very least, even if they weren't in some of the parks, they were not instructing the public on how to interact with bears and just how dangerous bears were. And that was a huge problem because like you said, people were treating them like they were just these docile, gentle animals that wouldn't do them any harm. And then the other factor that kind of gets overlooked is that this is right after the national highway system had really been developed and people were hitting the road. So these national parks were suddenly just swamped with tourists for the first time in their history. So people were, there were far fewer bears, but there were a lot more people all up in the bears' drills than there ever had been in human history. Yeah. And leading up to this specific incident, and we'll detail a little bit more of this after, I guess we'll take a break here in a couple of minutes. But at Glacier, there were sort of in the days leading up, there were a lot of alarming incidences where bears were becoming way more aggressive, or if you're watching a cartoon, way more friendly than they had been. There were fires that came through the park in the summer of 67, so that shrank their habitat some and kind of squeezed them into a smaller area. And there was one bear in particular that had been reported a few different times. I went back, I'm sure you did too, and read this great original Sports Illustrated article. Who was it that wrote that? Jack Olson. Yeah, Jack Olson is kind of the standard account of this horrific event. But this bear, it was an emaciated female who was underweight, had been reported a lot going up to people, being very brazen and, you know, not like typically when you see a bear, if you ever watch these outdoor shows, you start yelling at the bear, like get out of here or clank in a pot and the bear usually is going to leave. Bears are scared and they don't want to be around people. But this bear was not taking any orders and not doing any of the things that a bear would usually do. It would just come into a camp and start eating and not leave until they wanted to leave, this skinny lady bear. Right. So we have in the Western National Park System, a situation where bears have become acclimated to humans. They're totally fine with being really close to humans, kind of not scared of us. And then also they had become habituated on human food and garbage. And they now associated humans with food and they were no longer scared of humans. There were a huge population of bears in the Western parks with lots of humans coming to see them. All right. Well, let's that sounds like a very natural place to stop things and never come back. But we do. We have to tell this this bad story. So we'll be back right after this.
The Dan Bongino Show
Fresh update on "canadian" discussed on The Dan Bongino Show
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Mark Levin
Barnes & Noble Makes It Hard to Buy 'Democrat Party Hates America'
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Mark Levin
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Coin Stories with Natalie Brunell
A highlight from Finding Freedom on Bitcoin Island in the Philippines with Marc Mantini
"In El Salvador, they have Bitcoin Beach, and in the Philippines, in this little island, it's called Bitcoin Island, and they've onboarded about 260 merchants right now on the island. Welcome to the Coin Stories podcast, where we get to explore the future of money, business, technology, and Bitcoin's revolutionary promise to boost economic prosperity around the world and mend our broken financial system. I'm Natalie Brunel, and I'm here to learn with you. This podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only. None of the discussions should constitute as official investment advice, and you should always do your own research. Please make sure to subscribe to the show so you don't miss out on any new episodes. This podcast is made possible through partnerships with companies I trust, and I'm very picky about who I choose to partner with, so I hope you take the time to listen to the ad reads throughout the show. Thanks for joining me, and if you like this type of content and want to see more of it, make sure to hit that like button. All right, it's time for the show. Welcome back, everyone. A couple of weeks ago, I put out a tweet, and I asked for Bitcoiners from around the world to get in touch with me if they want to share their Bitcoin story. I just want to hear from other people about how they got into Bitcoin, why they believe in it, maybe their struggles with fiat, and I got a lot of responses, and I'm really excited to share these stories, starting Mark with Mantini, who is living on Bitcoin Island in the Philippines, has a fascinating backstory. So, Mark, thank you so much for joining me. Hey, Natalie. Thanks so much for having me. It's great chatting with you, and yeah, I'm glad we're able to connect and happy to be here and share my story today. Okay. So, Mark, you're originally from Canada. You learned about Bitcoin in 2016. So just tell me a little bit about your backstory and how you actually heard about Bitcoin. Yeah, for sure. So, like most people, I actually heard about it prior to sort of jumping in, right? So I came across my path maybe in 2014, and I kind of dismissed it, just, you know, busy with life. So I didn't really think too much into it. And then in 2016, my wife, her and her siblings are all sort of computer engineers background, software engineers, network engineers, and it was her brother in Australia who actually told us about this new technology where we can sort of send money back home to the Philippines and Australia where some of her other siblings live at cheaper, faster rates. So at that point right there, I mean, that sold me. At that point, I didn't know anything about the network, difficulty adjustments, having cycles. I didn't know anything about the underlying technology. We just knew we could send it home quicker, faster, instant than Western Union and other remittances that the Philippines typically uses. So once we found out that, I was pretty much sold at that point. Yeah, I mean, millions of people around the world, they're sending money back home to their families and they're spending. I was surprised by how high the fees are with companies like Western Union. So for you, it was like this solves an immediate problem. Exactly. It was a no -brainer really, right? So once we found out that, it was just, that was it. And then it took me another maybe year or so before I really started going down the rabbit hole and understanding the whole underlying technology and everything that comes with it. But at that time, we were just like, we can get it there instant. You know, mom didn't have to take a bus to go get it. They didn't, you know, take their 15%, didn't take three days. So like I said, we were all in just with that alone. And then once we started digging deeper into it, then we just fell down the hole. And then, yeah, so it's been almost seven, eight years now. Wow. Well, so how did you learn about it? Because I think that there is this wide chasm between when you first hear about it, you're skeptical, you maybe dip your toe in, and then going on a Bitcoin standard and moving to Bitcoin island. So what was that process like for you and how did you actually learn about it so that you have total conviction in it? For sure. So once I started to put my mind to like learning about this new technology, obviously started with reading the white paper, right? I think that's where you start understand what it's about, all the underlying technology. And from there, it just started getting into sort of podcasts. Although back then, it wasn't that many podcasts, I guess, it was just as many videos, I could see YouTube videos, anything that came across our path, we were just all over it, basically trying to gather as much information as possible. And then speaking with my wife's brother, they were just kind of helping explain sort of the technology about it from the network standpoint. And then from there, we just started stacking as much as possible. And we really haven't stopped since. And about the Bitcoin standard. Yeah. So the Philippines, we're on an island called Barakay right now. And it's also known as Bitcoin island. So in El Salvador, they have Bitcoin beach. And in the Philippines, in this little island, it's called Bitcoin island. And they've onboarded about 260 merchants right now on the island, accepting Bitcoin. So it's pretty amazing, actually, yeah. What made you decide to move there from Canada? I know that you were really involved in in the meetups in Toronto, you helped out with the first Canadian Bitcoin conference. So what made you leave? You know, really, it's, um, the world is changing. And if you follow anything that's happening with Canada, it's pretty much run by like, a tyrant government right now. And we were personally affected with our jobs. And once that happened, I mean, I'm Generation X, so we don't trust in general, a lot of things. And when that happened to us at work, that was kind of the final tipping point for us. So we went out to the trucker convoy in Ottawa back in early 2022, just to support the whole trucker movement. And it was just a great experience, Natalie, so many great people we met, that we probably wouldn't have met, if that didn't happen. So it was kind of a blessing in disguise, although going through it at the time, obviously, it wasn't a lot of fun. So that was the tipping point for us, right. And then once we heard about Bitcoin island, and all the things they're doing, my wife is originally from there. So we just decided to make a move. So we're just out here right now, basically, on an open ticket, just exploring, having fun, contributing just from a sort of a grassroots level, trying to help out as much as we can with people who are interested in trying to help them out. So, you know, the Philippines remit, I think the fourth largest company that country, excuse me, that remits money back home. So this is just another way to basically help them do it at a cheaper, faster, more efficient rate. So we're just kind of doing our part, like I said, at the grassroots level. And, yeah, we're just gonna be out here and see how it goes and plan to stay for a while and help out as much as we can. Yeah, you know, I actually met a woman from the Philippines here in St. Louis, she's on a work visa. And she was mentioning to me how she sends money back home and the inflation that she's experienced in her country. And I was trying to tell her about Bitcoin, but you know, it's so hard. It's really hard to get people to understand and to trust it, since it's all digital. And a lot of people, when they look at this space from the outside, they feel like they could potentially lose their money. So there's that, you know, initial hurdle. But I want to ask you a little bit more about the Philippines. But first, you know, in terms of Canada and that trucker protest, I think that that was a huge orange pill moment for so many people, including even a presidential candidate here that we have, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., said that that's what made him realize that we really need Bitcoin and Bitcoin freedoms need to be protected. So, I mean, were you surprised that the government today in 20, well, it was 2022, I think at the time, but overreached in that way? And I know your family was personally affected. I mean, lost your jobs because of the decisions that you made. Did you think that that was possible in this day and age? I didn't really think it possible, but I did. If you look at the history of our current prime minister, I mean, his father was prime minister and it's sort of they're cut from the same cloth, right? So it's a good point you mentioned, Natalie, because there was a lot of money donated to the truckers via different methods. And the only method that wasn't confiscated was donations. Bitcoin So all the GoFundMe, all of the other avenues to help out the truckers, they got confiscated by the government, frozen bank accounts. I mean, Natalie, we were talking about single mothers donating 10 bucks, you know, just to help out the truckers getting confiscated. Meanwhile, we already know what's happening. Did you know people who had a and year seven months, eight months now, and people are still going to court for that and people are still trying to fight those in court? And it was really unfortunate. So circle back to your question, was I kind of surprised in this day and age? Not really, not from the current government in Canada, unfortunately. So it's just a really, really sad situation. But we're proud to be a part of the Trucker Convoy supporting. We were there for four or five days. We met some great folks who are still in touch with today.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from UNCHAINED: Why All 10,000 OnChainMonkey NFTs Will Move From Ethereum to Bitcoin
"Arbitrum's leading Layer 2 scaling solutions can provide you with lightning -fast transactions at a fraction of the cost, all while ensuring security rooted on Ethereum. Arbitrum's newest addition, Orbit, enables you to build your own tailor -made Layer 3. Visit arbitrum .io today. Buy, trade, and spend crypto on the crypto .com app. New users can enjoy zero credit card fees on crypto purchases in the first seven days. Download the crypto .com app and get $25 with the code LORA. Link in the description. Today's guests are Danny Yang and Bill Tai, co -founders of Medigood and creators of Onchain Monkey. Welcome, Danny and Bill. Hey, Laura. Great to be here. Thank you, Laura. Honored to be here again. Bill, you were my third guest, if I remember correctly. So… Yeah. Pleasure to have you back. You're the star of the industry, kind of, at the Necker Blockchain Summit. I know. I can't believe that was over seven years ago now. But anyway, so part of the reason that I brought you two here was to discuss some recent issues, you could call them, in the Bitcoin ordinals world. And it affects you as creators. But first, why don't we give everybody the backdrop of what you've been doing. And we'll start with your backgrounds pre -Medigood. So, Danny, would you like to start? Yeah. So, I'm Danny Yang, pre -Medigood. I started a Stanford Bitcoin meetup back in 2013. That's when I met Bill, actually. So that's how he connected. True OG. Yeah. Early days of Bitcoin when we were all very, I guess, excited by what we could do. And I had the sky's the limit. And Bitcoin was the center of attention for everything. It was really the only thing. And I started a cryptocurrency exchange in Taiwan called MyCoin, that's doing well today too. And then a couple of years later, I started a blockchain analytics company called Bloxier that was then sold a few years after that. And Bill also was the first investor in both of my, those two Bitcoin and crypto companies that have been busy in this space. And just excited to see what's happening today too, what we're going to talk about because of the new happenings for Bitcoin in particular. And Bill? Yeah. And Laura, I think obviously you've known me for quite a while, but I somehow was able to see some kind of interesting future for Bitcoin back in 2010. That led me to doing some work on a bunch of different things. Some of the more notable companies that came out of the industry at that time were Bitfury, of course, where I put together the funding for their first major ASIC chip. Still chairman of the board of Hut 8 Mining, which we spun out of Bitfury, it used to be our Canadian operation and had funded a bunch of interesting projects like AirSwap with Joe Lubin and Mike Novogratz and Power Ledger and some other things. But Danny, having been the founder of the Stanford Bitcoin Meetup Group, and Laura, you will remember even back on Necker Island, what I wanted to do was create something like the Homebrew Computer Club for this segment. And Danny had already done that. So as I was attending the Stanford Bitcoin Meetup Groups, young startups like Zappo or BitGo or Coinbase or whoever would come and present at his meetup. And I just identified Danny as a node with a lot of talent given his PhD in computer science at Stanford and every question that I had that was technical, he could answer. And so one day I walk up to him and I said, hey, if you ever start a company, I'm writing a check. And that became the first company he mentioned. And I funded it along with some real OGs like Charlie Lee, Bobby Lee, Jed McCaleb, people like that. And then that turned into another funding for Blockseer. Both of those companies have been successful. And third time around, you know, I was like, Danny, let's do this one together. So I wrote a check and we put together Medigood.
The Dan Bongino Show
Steve Schmidt: 100 Days Legislative Timeframe Is Racist
"Well, that kind of narrows it down. How did this guy get in front of the Canadian Parliament, folks? I have no idea. Liberals are so dumb. I But again, the point is everyone's a Nazi to the left except actual Nazis. here's what I mean. Cue up for me. Cut five. This is Steve Schmidt. This guy's just a clown. He's an A clown, a total A clown, if you know what I mean. This guy was a Republican grifter. He wound up losing just about single every campaign he was involved in got smoked. So now he figured he could grift off the MSNBC crowd. So he goes over to MSNBC and spouts out a bunch of nonsense talking points. Listen to how they work, though, because this guy's a modern day liberal, even though he pretends to be a Republican. Anyone who doesn't toe their line is a Nazi or a fascist, except actual Nazis. Take a listen. The people who are trying to tear down democracy in the country keep telling the rest of the country what it is they plan to do to such a degree that they have announced their plans six months into 2025 to have taken apart the whole of the federal government. Now, since FDR's time in office, the legislative metric in the United States has been 100 days, not six months. This is a racist code whistle to every white supremacist in the country because it's how long it took Adolf Hitler to take one Weimar to Germany a complete and total dictatorship. Folks, these people are freaking crazy. They are absolutely nuts. There's an actual Nazi up in the Canadian Parliament. They can't see that, but they can
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from GENC : Innovation at the Core of Marketing with Alyson Griffin, Head of Marketing at State Farm
"Gen C is the generation of the new Internet. In Gen C, the C stands for crypto, but it also stands for creators, the connected consumer and collectibles, both digital and physical with on -chain provenance. It stands for culture and characters, the ones we play in games and the companion ones that AI is building alongside us. It stands for community and digital citizenship and the new set of transparent and trustless tools being built to govern them. These are the people who were raised on a different philosophy on how they look at money, how they look at identity, how they look at privacy and how they look at the hybrid, digital and physical spaces being built all around us. And finally, how they reimagine their relationships with the communities and companies they interact with. We focus on how brands large and small are building for these audiences. Welcome to Gen C. Avery, I have to play you the new intro that I just made for Gen C. So here it goes. Edge of my seat. All right. So you might've noticed that was me not speaking English, but I am going to Portugal next week. So that was me speaking Portuguese. And how did I do that? Well, both you and I have been experimenting with, Hey, Jen's video translation software that utilizes AI to speak in multiple languages. You added an amazing piece that you put up on LinkedIn the other day. If you speaking Hindi, I don't know if you actually speak Hindi or not. Very limited. Very limited. But I just want to throw this stat out before I want to get your thoughts, which our is old friend, Mr. Beast, 50 % of the people who watch his videos don't speak English. And so what he does is hire voice actors all over the world to be the Mr. Beast in their local areas, because he knows that for him to go as global and get as many views as he needs, he has to be in language. And so what do you think about, Hey, Jen, and some of these new tools that are coming that will allow for video translation that is not only only, audio but as you and I have both been playing with, it also literally changes your mouth movements to be speaking the language that you've selected. Sam, thank you for turning me on to Hey, Jen. My first thought was that I was going to use it to connect my grandparents along because we do have a language barrier. And while I was sad to see that Telugu was not a supported language, I was like, it's okay. I'll do it in Hindi. And I sent it and they actually thought it was real because, you know, not everybody is familiar with powers of AI, especially with this sort of intonation, which is amazing. And then I started playing around with it a little bit more. And I want to call out Hey, Jen, but also 11 Labs, which is the voice translation that is powering all of this. Hey, Jen is sort of bringing that video, but 11 Labs does the audio. And we've been working on a couple of little things with 11 Labs in different capacities. I'm really impressed with what they're building. And it's critical because only 14 % of the world speaks English, yet 59 % of the world's digital content is in English. So if you're a person who doesn't speak English, much less, God forbid, is not literate, then you can't access the amazing, wonderful world of the internet that we all know today. It's a massive thing. I think it's early days. And of course, everybody rightfully so has questions on where is this data going? Who owns it? Who's storing it? Hey, Jen is an LA based company. And 11 Labs has raised from a number of investors, including Andre Sinso. We've done some diligence on them, but I think it's early days. But this technology is insanely powerful for brands, but in the immediate term for content creators. If I was a content creator, I would be using this immediately for my target languages, because it'll expand your reach so much, enable you to connect. And by the way, it's not going to be long before that's happening on demand. In real time, I mean. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I did the same thing you did. I recorded a video that I translated into French and I sent it to my friend in Paris. And I said, I've been working on my accent. What do you think? And he gets back to me and goes, oh, like, you're really nailing the language, you're really nailing the accent. Like, you've come a long way. I don't speak French. Because the intonation is like you, right? Right, exactly. It's cloning your voice. It sounds like a white person speaking Hindi. Like, there's some things that are colloquialisms that a local person would never say, but it sounds like how you would speak Hindi if you were very good at it. Yes. I will also say what was fascinating to me was Angelique Vendette, who I also sent the video to, responded and say, okay, here's the problem. It's speaking French Canadian. It's not speaking Paris French. And then I had other friends who because I had put it up on Instagram and for the one in Spanish, I had tagged Mexico and I said, can't wait to get back to CDMX. And someone tagged me and said, no, this is speaking European Spanish. This is not speaking Latin American Spanish. So I do think there is like a lot of nuance that still needs to get worked out in it. But just the fact that I could record a 48 second video that people in Paris and people in Mexico didn't recognize that it was AI at first. I thought it was fascinating. I think you hit it exactly, which is, oh, yeah, if I was a content creator, if I was a brand marketer and I was doing shorts, I think this is a perfect way just to get more reach for your content at a 30 to 90 second level, which should be labeled as AI also. Agreed. Definitely. Cross -country transparency, 100 percent. Yeah, we'll talk about that in a second. But I do think that anyone who hasn't played with the page and video translator or there, you can now do it just by uploading a photo and snippets of your voice powered by 11, as you mentioned. So you can actually create yourself saying anything without even having to record a video at this point. You could all do it by text. So it's pretty fascinating. I'm very excited for where this stuff is going, because this is the kind of use case that I think you and I look at this and we're like, this has a very tactical, tangible opportunity. And I think the stat that you just mentioned, only 14 percent speak English, but 60 percent of the content is in English is such a big business opportunity when you really think about that. So, so relevant. Let's pivot from there to a very related topic, which is I don't know if you saw this week, but TikTok has started using AI labeling and Reddit and Reddit. Right. Exactly. For TikTok, anytime you use one of the filters that utilizes AI, now it's going to be labeled as AI. They also are doing auto detection for people who are utilizing AI software and they want anyone who is utilizing AI for their content to have a label on it. I think this is a step in the right direction. I would love all news content also to be labeled like this, because there's a lot of stuff out there. I read an obituary that was driven by AI about a basketball player who had passed away and it said the basketball player is unliving. So that was the way that AI described him being dead, was that he was unliving. And so clearly there's a lot of stuff that needs to get worked out. But from a brand perspective, from a creator perspective, I think that the idea that we should know when things are being modified feels like the right thing. But do you think that affects the creator economy in any way? I think it's similar to how we do hashtag ad, like trust or transparency is key. We just need to be transparent about using these things. I've thought that for quite a while as it relates to Instagram and TikTok filtering because people get unrealistic like body images. I mean, yes, some of this happens in like magazines and photo shoots and all of that stuff it has for a long time. But I'm all about trust or transparency and the digital ecosystem. Agreed. And I also think there's a healthy respect for knowing when someone might be utilizing a tool. It's a productivity tool. It doesn't mean it has to be less entertaining. It doesn't mean it has to be less interesting. I think our enterprise brands, though, we're still at a place where like we can't just use 11 labs like at scale right now. It's not ready yet. It's like a proof of concept. This is how it could be going. And back to what we've talked about before, it's building the muscle for when this really hits scale, we're going to be ready. Correct. And in terms of just going back to Mr. Beast, who has these 13 actors that play him around the world, he said, our team is very actively looking because it's not cheap to do that. And he said, our team is very actively looking. He thought from his perspective and when their research that it's going to be still a couple of years before we actually see it being good enough where he's comfortable. What he said, which was interesting, is they've done some AB testing where they use the voice actor and then they'll use a cloning. And he said every time he does a cloning, people are calling out that something sounds wrong and it distracts them from the content in the video, which I think for someone like him is just really important to make sure it's landing. Totally, totally agree with that. Yeah. All right. Final story before we get to an amazing guest is Crossmint and MasterCard are going deeper together. So Crossmint powered this artist portal that MasterCard released a couple of months ago. It actually brought one hundred thousand people into blockchain. It was primarily based on music and that was also powered by Crossmint. And it seems that Crossmint and MasterCard are getting in bed together even more with an eye toward small business, which I thought was kind of interesting. Just the idea of easy ways when you think of utilizing your MasterCard to pay for something and then thinking about a reward system that can be on chain, that feels like it makes a lot of sense, right? I hit my 10th time at the coffee shop. I get a little NFT that says I'm a 10 timer and maybe that gets me a free coffee later. But this feels like a very natural, easy way for blockchain and brands to get together. And I want to know if you have any thoughts about that. Yeah, well, I love Rodry and the team and of course, Raja and his amazing team at MasterCard and everything that they've done in this space. So recently connected with Raja and he was like, I'm still very bullish on Web3. And one, I love him for saying that because there's so many mixed reactions right now. And it's amazing to hear leaders who continue to invest, continue to launch programs like their startup accelerator and continue to support these sort of Web3 native businesses, massive bands of what Crossmint is doing. And I think that a partnership between a payment processor and a minting tool makes a lot of sense because you're likely going to be paying maybe not thousands of dollars, but a couple bucks for some of these things. And having that super integrated is a great fit. And shout out to MasterCard for continuing to innovate in this space. I see them. I see Visa. I see the banks really continuing to lean in and identify these enterprise use cases that can make their customers both B2C and also B2B customers lives a little bit easier. Well, we have asked Raja to be on the podcast 27 times, so we're going to continue to ask until he shows up. So, Raja, if you're listening, we're coming for you. Avery, after the break, we are going to come back with Allison Griffin from State Farm, a big brain marketing thinker, so excited to hear her perspectives on marketing, on the metaverse, on Web3, on innovation in general, because she's such a great thinker on that. So we will talk to her after the break. Sounds great.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
A highlight from Operation Atlantic Resolve
"Well then, welcome to the Dennis Prager Show. Bob France sitting in and yeah, you hear the music, you know where I'm coming to you from. Cleveland, Ohio, the home base, therelieffactor .com studios if you will. Our WHK radio, AM1420, the answer here in Cleveland, Ohio. An honor to be sitting in for Dennis once again. And of course today being Yom Kippur, which is why Dennis is off today. As he has of course been celebrating the holy days and starting back with Rosh Hashanah. The Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. And it's a wonderful thing. It really is. I kind of have to familiarize myself not being Jewish myself. I have to familiarize myself with some of the days and some of the reasons and the explanations for the calendar. And Yom Kippur is one of the ones that to me is the most solemn. A Day of Atonement, a day of reflection and looking inside and asking for forgiveness for the shortcomings that perhaps we have and so forth. And so to Dennis and to everyone who is commemorating and or celebrating and or taking part in participating in the Yom Kippur day today. This very important Day of Atonement. God's blessings to you all. Seriously, really appreciate that. In the meantime, we've got work to do. We have a lot of very important things to talk about and I want you to be a part of the show. 8 Prager776, that's 877 -243 -7776. I want to know, is it acceptable for me to be concerned with the plight of others but being unwilling to do any more than I have already done? And yes, if you're wondering, I'm talking about Ukraine. Yes, if you're wondering, I'm talking about the 113 billion dollars we have already sent to Ukraine to help them ward off the invasion of the Soviet, well, the Russians. Who are trying to rebuild the Soviet empire, I suppose, if you think that they are going to not stop in Ukraine and then advance to other European nations and so forth. I don't think so. I don't think they have the ability to do that any longer. I don't think they are the fearsome foe they were when the Soviet bloc was, of course, raining havoc on Eastern Europe and raining havoc on the world. But I want to talk about the Ukrainian situation. Here's two reasons. Two reasons why. The first of which is the fact that in Canada, over the weekend in front of the Canadian Parliament, the Lord Mayor Zelensky, the President of Ukraine, who came to the United States for the second time, hat in hand, saying please drop all you can into the hat here so that we can go back and continue our war with Russia. They came looking for more money, asking for another 25 billion dollars. And again, I'll get to the point about how I feel about spending that money and how I feel about it going forward in a moment, but he came to the United States and then he went up to Canada. And he went up to Canada before the Canadian Parliament and he sat there and he asked for support and financial remunerations from the Canadians as well. And the Canadians, of course, listened happily. And, you know, we're all all for supporting this. But what they did after that is something that is quite simply incomprehensible to me. Canadian organizations Jewish are among those now slamming the Canadian Parliament for giving voice to and a standing ovation to a man who fought for the Nazis during World War II. All because he is Ukrainian. All because he's Ukrainian. Video and photos show the Canadian Parliament erupting into cheers on Friday after President Zelensky's visit to the capital of Ottawa, when Canadian lawmakers also honored Yaroslav Hunka, a 98 -year -old Ukrainian immigrant who fought for the 1st Ukrainian Division, according to the Toronto Star, the division also known as the Waffen -SS Galicia Division, which fought for the Nazis and its paramilitary arm. The Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center said in a statement, the fact that a veteran who served in a Nazi military unit was invited to... And by the way, this story that I'm starting with, this day, this first hour, this story is not because of today being the Jewish Day of Atonement. This is outrageous. This is when it happened is when it happened. Understand that. The fact that it is occurring, though that we're talking about this and it just happened during these holy days, is another point entirely. The fact that a veteran who served in a Nazi military unit was invited to and given a standing ovation in Parliament is shocking. At a time of rising anti -Semitism and Holocaust distortion, it's incredibly disturbing to see Canada's Parliament rise to applaud an individual who was a member of a unit in the Waffen -SS, a Nazi military branch responsible for the murder of Jews and others, and that was declared a criminal organization during the Nuremberg Trials. Some are calling for full -throated apologies from Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau and from Ukrainian President Zelensky. This honor was given to a Ukrainian because everything now has to go Ukraine's way, because Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine. We have to come up with untold, unlimited amounts of treasure and time for anything having to do with Ukraine. So they brought a Nazi military fighter, 98 -year -old Nazi fighter in World War II before the Canadian Parliament, and because he's Ukrainian, he got a standing ovation. That's how, beside ourselves, I think we've become with this, we have to do anything and everything we can to help Ukraine. So that's number one. The second reason, by the way, is we continue to try to make some sense out of the, you know, now that we have the actual official figures confirmed by the White House of $113 billion already spent in support of Ukraine. In addition to that, they say that our commitment to helping Ukraine has no end and there is no cost limit. They will do this no matter what the cost for however long it takes. The problem is, of course, there is no end game in sight. There's no end to the commitment that has been identified. When does it end? What standard would it be to say no matter how long it takes to finish the thought? Chuck Schumer? Joe Biden? Mitch McConnell? I don't care if you're Democrat or Republican. If you are giving an unended blank check, an unending blank check to Ukraine, what does that mean? What does that look like? You say for as long as it takes to... fill in the blank. What? Does every Russian in Ukraine have to retreat back across the border or is that not enough? Does every Russian have to leave Crimea, the peninsula that Russia took in 2014 when Obama was president? Or do they just have to stop bombing and stop the fighting? What exactly does it mean to say we're going to give this money until... or I'm sorry, no matter how long it takes to do what? Define the end game. There isn't one.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Interest Rate Hikes FINISHED?! (Crypto War NOT Over)
"Welcome to Discover Crypto! It is September 20th. It's 11 .30am. How are we all doing? We got Drew and AJ on the ones and twos today, folks. We're going to talk about the Fed. We're going to talk about what are they going to be saying with the interest rate hikes. And also we're going to be talking about Bitcoin and other cryptos. AJ, how are you doing today? I'm doing great, man. Another day in the life. Let's get it. Drew, how are you doing? Oh, just great. You know, can't complain. Well, you can. You can. You complain when you get home. You'd like, you know, just really vent to your two -year -old. Yeah, that's where I do it. Deezy, did you see the tweet that went out yesterday about the show I'm doing with from George from Cryptos R Us? What? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, he's with Blockchain Boy and Neutron. Joshua Jay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. So we're all like, it's for crew, like, plus, you know, and basically we're all doing something different. I believe, like, Josh is doing like a news kind of show and Blockchain Boys. I'm not really sure what Blockchain Boys doing, but I know the videos are going to start coming out here pretty soon. We're still like brainstorming my concept, but I have a really good, like, rough idea of what I'm doing. But it's going to be really interesting to see how, like, where this goes. And I'm just fun to excited to do something different, you know? And I'm excited. We got Frankie Candles doing the charts today. I see Frankie getting ready in his neon square. He's in his, like, little neon area. I don't know if, oh, he can hear me. He's showing some recognition and anticipation of what Deezy is going to say next. Yeah, we saw the Donald Trump Jr. tweets. It looks like he got hacked. Also, Rob, you're popping it. Hey, we're going to see you back. Can't wait till you come back. All right, let's just get right into crypto. Marc Kepson's Drew is done. Am I too tall? Am I too tall? Too tall for the camera? Look, I got to stand. I got to do these shows a lot, you know? I take the shoes off. So I shrink, you know? They come in. I'm like 6 '11", and I take the shoes off. Then I drop back down to 6 '3". I got the Tom Cruise lifts. All right, Bitcoin is falling a little bit, folks. We were in the green this morning when I first woke up. Now we are down 0 .6%, and Ethereum is down 1 .3%. But XRP looks pretty good. XRP is up. It is up 0 .8 % on the day so far. Meanwhile, Cardano, I woke up this morning. It was up, but now it's down. It is down 0 .7%. Dogecoin down 1 .3%. TonCoin finally cooling off a little bit for the week here. It is down 1 .2%. Litecoin has taken a little bit of a beating, folks. Litecoin is down 5%. We talked about Litecoin a little bit yesterday on ATB. I highly recommend you check that out after this stream. All right, let's look at the top gainers. Then we're going to look at the top losers. You know, I have a streak of keeping my coins in the losers, but not today, folks. I'm feeling good. In fact, maybe I'll have a coin in the top 10. Who knows? All right, here we have Caspa leading the way. Caspa is just on fire, folks. The people who bought Caspa at $0 .01, $0 .02, looking good. Just put in a higher high too. You got past that last one, yep. All right, we are now above a nickel, and it looks like maybe price discovery mode for a Caspa. XDC is up 4 .3%. Maker is up. Radix is up. Aave is up. I have a coin in the ties. A little Solana. I think maybe I have some Arbitrum. Maybe. I'm not even sure I have to check. Then we have, you know, XRP is up 0 .8%. We got gold. Gold's moving to the upside. The graph moving to the upside, even though Bitcoin and ETH are down. Okay, so it's not all blood in the streets, but hopefully, it's not going to be blood in Deasy's wallet, guys. And again, I promise you, I do not check this ahead of time. I kind of like being surprised. I like discovering it with you. So let's discover cryptos, Deasy's coins in here. I'm looking good today. All right, I don't know how long the streak has been continuing. I don't know when's the last. I think I last held Litecoin in 2021. Never had Thor, Phrax, eCash, or I know Frankie likes to trade Adam. I like to trade Eve. So maybe we'll talk to him about the Adam is falling 4 % here. Litecoin down 5%. Thor chained down 5%. Any of these coins, you know, peak it. Well, if you go at it, I do have two in the top 10. I got two in the top 10. Just, you know, just to make it feel good. But any of these screaming at you here? Yeah, Thor, Litecoin, Phrax. Not surprised really to see. I mean, everything kind of came up yesterday. I'm still kind of sticking to the theory that the pump we're seeing could possibly be a bull trap. I think, you know, when we get into the FOMC news, the pauses that is likely coming is going to be bullish for the sentiment. I'm just still like kind of macro worried based off of the stock market sharks. Actually, the Algorand, you know, down 2 .8%. That one's kind of obviously yelling at me a little bit. I have a theory coming up, but I'm not going to say it right now. But I'm making a video about it, about Algorand. So stay tuned for that. OK, so you're going to create more? I'm going to create more. I create more crypto content every day and some of it's about Algorand. But I like how it's a period. Create more. No exclamation point. Just create. It's more like create more. Oh, OK. Great. More. Great. Great. Yeah. All right. Well, we're going to create some stories here about the feds. What are they doing? I don't know if we've ever had an article from this news organization. ABC. Shout out to Mickey Mouse and the Disney crew here. Fed to decide on a rate hike. Testing optimism about a soft landing as inflation rises again. Upon announcing the Fed Reserve's latest rate hike decision in July, Jerome Powell spoke out a lectern in Washington, DC for a half hour before he dropped a bombshell. The Central Bank staff has abandoned its forecast of a recession. Staff at the Fed, in other words, now expect the Central Bank to achieve a soft landing, an outcome in which the US brings down inflation while avoiding a downturn. Inflation has ticked up for two consecutive months, reversing some of the progress made in the effort to bring price increases down to normal levels. Meanwhile, oil prices have soared, threatening to push inflation even higher. Well, they got like moving ads. Whoa, whoa, what's going on here? Calm down, ABC. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg expect the Fed to leave its benchmark interest rate unchanged, affording policymakers time to weigh their next move as a rapid series of previous rate hikes take full effect. I was looking at Caleb Franzen's tweets. We're at 99 % on the prediction market unchanged today, right? Have you been looking at the, when is the next one? Is it November? I can pull the calendar. I'm pretty sure it's the end of October. I think it's like maybe on Halloween. Let me double check. Oh, on Halloween is going to be spooky. Okay, Drew, are you going to give out candy this Halloween? Absolutely. You know, but actually I'll be doing candied apples. Okay, I'm going to be giving out pamphlets on inflation to children. Yeah, you know, you could have got Reese's pieces, but blame Jerome Powell. You can take advantage of the time and the season to teach your children about tax. Tax them. Like attacking kids for their pillowcases of candy? Taxing them heavily. Yeah, take 33 % of every Snickers bar they get. That's right. Yeah, that's just the way it is. Why wait? Welcome to America, you know? And yeah, the next FOMC is October 31st, November 1st, so. Okay, okay. October 31st. All right, all right. Halloween, what's Jerome Powell going to dress up as? Alex from A Clockwork Orange. Pat, do you want us to dress up on the channel? I might be willing to dress up in a costume. I might be willing. You know, every - I could break out the green spandex, go old school. You know, every Halloween, AJ disappears and a Mr. Meeseeks just shows up. Okay, I heard existence is pain though. Existence is pain. We're not fumbling around for meaning here, Deezy. All right. Well, I'm fumbling around for this rate of inflation. It eases slightly 6 .7 % despite the oil prices surging. You know, like we said, I think the oil is going to be a leading indicator, so inflation will trickle down from the oil prices. If you want to think about it, it's going to cost more money to get those bananas to drive from point A to point B because they're going to have to spend more in the gas tank. This is going to be - It's just give it a while, let it roll out to the rest of the economy. Namely, food. Oil prices really, really like to impact food prices a couple months down the line. Well, we're looking at the ONS as the Office for National Statistics, and they said the consumer price index measure slowed in the 12 months to August from the 6 .8 figure reported the previous month thanks to food rising at a weaker pace during the month compared to August 22. During the X minute, I have a tweet about Canadian food prices, and I just kind of look at where they've gone over the past 20 years. It is shocking. It is shocking. I used Bard. I was like, this doesn't feel right for the price. I went to a Canadian grocery store, and I went low. I went low. There's expensive eggs and cheap eggs. I typed in the cheap egg price. It was still very scary. All right, well, we have predictions. Jerome Powell's got his ideas. You notice I was thinking about this BlackRock. What is BlackRock thinking about all this? BlackRock and others predict the Fed's next move. What does it mean for Bitcoin though? According to Marilyn Watson, is a BlackRock's head of global fundamental income strategy. The central bank's federal funds target rate will remain roughly the same until the end of the year going through its September, November, and December meetings. For the record, I think the economic data has consistently surprised to the upside, she said. That includes GDP, the unemployment rate, and the labor market. Beware, beware of recession. The analyst has previously argued that Bitcoin's price is macroeconomic determined by conditions, including its four -year cycles, which I am still a firm believer in for this cycle. Might be less of an effect of the previous one, but I'm still a believer in the four -year cycle, going to push Bitcoin to the new high. I do think we'll set in a new all -time high. I don't think we're going to hit a quarter million dollars in two years, but I think we're going to flirt with $100K, which they do not believe are related to the Bitcoin halving. So they're saying the four -year cycle is not related. I don't know what they're saying here. Risk assets go lower in recessions. So I'd expect Bitcoin would not perform well in that environment. It has not seen a real recession in its existence. It was birthed out of a recession, but yeah, hasn't really gone through one from the beginning stages to the end there. Yeah, there's never been a Bitcoin bull run during a phase of quantitative tightening. We've always been quantitatively easing the money supply anytime Bitcoin goes up into the right. And that obviously is what it takes. I think they're kind of leaning into if we're in a recession, and that lines up with the four -year cycle. But just so far, we're three for three with the having idea playing out. And the trend hasn't broken yet, so that's why I always say sticking to November 25 as a benchmark, but that's just a benchmark. It could be behind that. It could be in front of that. We don't have a crystal ball, but we can go off the pattern that we've seen before. All right. Well, speaking of quantitative tightening, we also have calfskin tightening, the tightest calfskin in the entire world. I don't care if you have a baby cow jacket for an extra small on an 800 -pound man, there is no tighter calfskin than the man I'm looking at right now. That is Frankie Candles. Frankie Candles, welcome back. How's it doing? Does it feel good? It feels good. The calfskin is tight, and so is Bitcoin's price action. But yeah, I don't want to waste time here. Let's go ahead and jump right into the charts here. Now, here we are. Now, obviously, I talk about this all the time. I don't typically trade on newsdays like this. It is usually a complete washing machine. Usually the shorts get wrecked, then the longs get wrecked, or the longs get wrecked, and then the shorts get wrecked. So I don't typically trade. Now, I am in a few trades right now. I am in this Bitcoin long right now. I have profits locked in on this trade and my stop loss is at my entry. So kind of how I am playing this today is I'm going to be holding my long. I am long from about $25 ,000 to $50 ,000 just below this range. And again, I have taken profits on that stop loss at break even. And then I am also in a short position from somewhere up here. I am slightly in profit on the short position. So I am long up and now I am in this small short position that is in slight profit. However, this is kind of how I'm playing this today, DZ. Because basically, like I said, I never recommend people trade on these newsdays just because of the complete unpredictable volatility that you're likely to see. Now, the last FOMC meeting, I believe, was on the 25th, 26th of July. I believe someone could correct me if I'm wrong on that. But we actually have seen a few FOMC meetings where we didn't really have too much happen. And I've been telling people that we are likely in that kind of boring accumulation phase of the bear market. A lot of times, if you go back to at least the 2017 or 2018, 2019 bear market, we had that bear market rally. And once we topped off at that point, we kind of just bled out. And for the most part, if you kind of just ignore this panic wick from March of 2020, which was obviously a Black Swan event, we kind of just wiggled sideways. We got that big bear market rally, we topped off, bled out a little bit, and then we just kind of went sideways again with the exception of that panic wick. And I do think we are in somewhat of a similar situation here where the rest of this bear market may not be the most exciting thing ever. But for today, basically how I'm handling this, DZ, is I'm going to be kind of...
Simply Bitcoin
A highlight from BREAKING: Bitcoin Ban Gathers Momentum in the US | EP 827
"It's all going to zero against Bitcoin, it's going up for everyone, you're against Bitcoin, you're against freedom. Yo, welcome to Simply Bitcoin Live, we're your number one source for the peaceful Bitcoin revolution, core breaking news, culture, and matic warfare. We will be your guide through the separation of money and state. We got a lot of comments starting off basically saying click bait title ugh, someone else said FUD, no, not at all, not at all, especially if you guys, Denver Hoddle said FUD, no, not at all. If you guys have been tuned into this channel, we've been like surgically covering all the moves by the Biden administration, the moves by the anti -Bitcoin senator, Senator Elizabeth Warren, and yet they don't like Bitcoin, they don't want it to succeed. Bitcoin succeeding would mean that they would lose their privilege of being able to create money for free that everyone else has to work for. I think the worst thing that Bitcoiners could do is think that Bitcoin's going to win by default, right? This is an adoption race, this is about getting the people around you to understand and to wake up to the fact that it's not left versus right. It is green, the party of green versus the party of orange, the party of state currency, the party of central bank digital currencies, the party of inflation, the party of nihilism, the party of slavery versus the party of Bitcoin versus the party of orange versus the party of freedom, Bitcoin, prosperity, opportunity, optimism. So, yeah, it's not BS at all. And today we're going to cover the fact that Senator Elizabeth Warren's bill, so -called the Digital Assets Anti -Money Laundering Act, got nine new sponsors. This is a bipartisan bill. This is a Republican and Democrat bill that's being pushed in Congress, in the Senate specifically, that Pierre Richard would literally, literally said this is not simply Bitcoin or Nico's wording. He literally tweeted, if this bill passed, if this bill would pass, this bill would ban Bitcoin mining in the United States. And I would even make the case that the bill would basically ban Bitcoin in the United States. And that's exactly what the bill was designed to do. Make no mistake. So, yeah, you can like, you know, push it aside and say this is FUD, you know, this is you know, this is this is bullshit. This is a clickbait title. This is the separation of money and state. Take it seriously. There's a lot of vested interest that it's not convenient for them if Bitcoin wins. They want you under a central bank digital currency. They want to control what you think and what you say and what you do. And one of the most effective mechanisms to do that is by controlling money. If you control the money, you control the incentive structure. That's exactly what the whole social credit system is all about. Right in China. So, you know, if you talk against the state, you know, they take a percentage of your money right out of your paycheck. They don't allow you to travel. They don't allow you to sign your kids up to certain schools. That is a forcing function. And that is no longer theoretical. This has happened in the West already. I feel like people have just forgotten about the Canadian truckers protest. They literally froze people's bank accounts because they were protesting the government because of the lockdowns.
Coin Stories with Natalie Brunell
A highlight from News Block: Bitcoin Outperforms Other Assets, FTX's SBF Jury Questions, Binance vs SEC, Anti-CBDC Bill, Grocery Inflation
"Welcome to the CoinStories news block. I'm Nathalie Brunel and in the span of just 10 minutes, roughly the same time it takes to mine a new Bitcoin block, I'll provide you with concise, insightful updates on Bitcoin and the global financial landscape so you're well informed on the week's top stories. Everything you need to know in one place in one block. Let's go. Bitcoin started the week with a nice little green candle. But zooming out, Bitcoin is officially the best performing asset class in seven of the last 10 years. That's according to data shared by market strategist Charlie Bilello. Between 2011 and 2023, Bitcoin's annualized return was about 145 percent. Compare that to the Nasdaq 100 index at 17 percent, the S &P 500 at 12 .5 percent and gold at just 2 percent. Sorry, Peter Schiff. And for those lucky enough to buy Bitcoin in 2011 and hold, their cumulative return exceeds 8 million percent. Wish that was me. More institutions are eyeing a spot Bitcoin ETF, the latest being Franklin Templeton, another giant asset manager with 1 .5 trillion dollars in assets under management. Franklin Templeton's application joins BlackRock, Fidelity, ARK Invest and several others. As I've reported here on the news block, a spot Bitcoin ETF would make getting exposure to Bitcoin as easy as buying any other stock or bond in a traditional brokerage account. It would increase access to Bitcoin and make it easier for funds to flow into the space. But of course, that's dependent on approval from the SEC, led by Chairman Gary Gensler. The SEC's main complaint for why it has rejected spot Bitcoin ETF applications is market manipulation and fraud. In a Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs hearing last week, Gensler answered questions related to the SEC's oversight of the entire crypto industry. Gensler testified, quote, given this industry's wide ranging noncompliance with the securities laws, it's not surprising that we've seen many problems in these markets. Thus, we have brought a number of enforcement actions, some settled and some in litigation, to hold wrongdoers accountable and promote investor protection. Gensler is continuing to hold the court decisions for him in the SEC's lawsuits against Grayscale and Ripple Labs. And when pressed in the hearing about how the SEC will protect investors from crypto fraud, Gensler responded by saying these companies need to be compliant with existing securities laws, adding this. But right now, unfortunately, there's significant noncompliance and it's a field which is rife with fraud, abuse and misconduct. We saw some of that fraud and misconduct with the high profile downfall of FTX. FTX founder Sam Bankman -Fried's case is set to go to trial October 3rd. But this week, a story gaining attention is related to the proposed questions SPF's lawyers want to send to potential jurors. And prosecutors are trying to stop this. The would attribute a crypto firm's failures to the owner of the firm and why, and whether they think it's wrong to donate large sums to political candidates and lobbyists. Another question was about SPF's effective altruism, the idea that he only wanted to amass wealth to give it away and improve the world. And yet another was about whether the juror had experience with people with the medical condition ADHD. Now, the DOJ's prosecutors are worried these questions are aimed at getting jurors that would see SPF in a sympathetic light and have written a letter to the judge to remove these questions entirely. SPF faces more than 100 years in prison if convicted of a number of charges, including fraud, conspiracy and money laundering after he allegedly stole and lost billions of his customers' funds. Meanwhile, Binance, another exchange in hot water with the SEC, also made headlines this night, including the CEO, the head of legal and the chief risk officer. Binance US has also cut a third of its staff. Binance issued a statement blaming, quote, the SEC's aggressive attempts to cripple our industry. Now, the layoffs arrived just as the SEC is accusing Binance of not cooperating with its ongoing investigation. The SEC says Binance US has failed to hand over proper documents that ensure that its customer assets are safe and in sole control of the organization. The recent resignations of Binance US leadership, including CEO Brian Schroeder, only added to the growing concerns. Binance CEO CZ responded saying, quote, there has been some speculation regarding recent management changes at Binance US. Brian Schroeder deserved a break after accomplishing what he set out to do two years ago. Ignore FUD. Keep building. Binance makes up about half of Bitcoin's trading volume, so the government complaints and investigations could delay any spot Bitcoin ETFs from being approved. So I'll be staying on top of this developing story. Now, in other news, in an industry first, Swann Bitcoin announced its plans to launch a Bitcoin only trust company with crypto custodian BitGo. This comes after Swann's former custodian Prime Trust filed for bankruptcy in August, and its current custodian partner, Fortress Trust, was acquired by Ripple Labs. The creation of a Bitcoin only trust company is a positive development given the risks that we've seen arise when custodians hold other cryptocurrencies or do business with companies that handle them. Let's turn now to a bill reintroduced by House Republicans that would outlaw a central bank digital currency or a CBDC. Last week, Republican House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, along with forty nine co -sponsors, reintroduced the CBDC Anti -Surveillance Act. The bill aims to prevent the Federal Reserve from issuing a digital dollar due to the risk it imposes to privacy and individual freedoms. Tom Emmer tweeted, quote, if not designed to emulate cash, a government digital currency would dismantle Americans' right to financial privacy and embolden the administrative state. I won't let that happen. Specifically, the updated bill prevents the Federal Reserve from issuing a, quote, intermediated CBDC, which would be a digital currency issued by the Fed but managed by retail banks. This is a similar system to what's currently being deployed by China with its digital won. Congressman Emmer adds that this bill puts a check on unelected bureaucrats and ensures the U .S. digital currency policy upholds our American values of privacy, individual sovereignty and free market competitiveness. Whereas Republicans are focused on stopping a CBDC, the Fed is only concerned about bringing down inflation. But this past month, inflation was on the rise again. CPI rose to three point seven in July, and that's mainly driven by rising energy and food prices. But don't worry, economist Paul Krugman, the guy who famously said the Internet was a passing fad, notes that if you exclude everything people actually need, like food, energy, shelter and used cars, inflation is actually down. But here in the real world, people continue to struggle with the rising cost of essentials like groceries and gasoline. And instead of taking responsibility for their inflationary policies, some politicians are identifying scapegoats for the rising cost of living. In a speech last week, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau blamed grocery stores for price rises and said the companies could be hit with new taxes if they do not take steps to control food prices. And let me be very clear. If their plant doesn't provide real relief for the middle class and people working hard to join it, then we will take further action and we are not ruling anything out, including tax measures. Leaders of the Canadian grocery store chains responded by saying they are not profiting from inflation because although prices have risen, so have their costs. Grocery store profit margins remain razor thin. In fact, the CEO of one major Canadian grocery chain, Loblo's, said that on a customer's $25 grocery basket, they earn just $1 in profit. Performing price controls or taxing these companies would only negatively impact the available supply of food even more and risk putting these grocers out of business. But once again, government policies are threatening to worsen the problem they helped create in the first place. This is true in America, too. Grocery store profit margins remain some of the lowest in the economy, averaging about 1 to 3 percent. Some grocery stores are struggling to keep their doors open here, especially in big cities amid massive waves of theft. This has even led to cities like Chicago proposing to open government -run grocery stores. Will this help the inflation picture? Doubtful. Of course, inflation isn't the result of grocery stores profiteering. It's the result of central banks and governments injecting trillions of dollars into the economy since 2020. As politicians continue to blame inflation on everything but their spending and central banks continue to raise interest rates to try to bring it down, inflation continues to erode the savings of every household holding the currencies that these institutions manage and control. Bitcoin fixes this. All right, let's wrap up this news block with the craziest Bitcoin headline of the week. It was reported that Paxos accidentally paid more than $500 ,000, that's more than 19 Bitcoin, in a transaction fee. Bitcoin fees are up in 2023, but not by that much. Now, the good news is the mining pool that won that block is going to refund that payment to Paxos. That's got to be a relief. If you want to learn more about Bitcoin fees, full blocks, and what Bitcoin block scarcity means for your investment, don't miss my latest Coin Stories episode with Bitcoin miner Bob Burnett. That's it for the news block, your weekly Bitcoin and economic news update. I'm Nathalie Brunel. Make sure you're subscribed to Coin Stories so you never miss an episode. This show is for educational purposes and should not be construed as investment advice. Until next time, keep stacking.
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 18:00 09-16-2023 18:00
"With Bloomberg, you get the story behind the story, the story behind the global birth rate, behind your EV batteries environmental impact, behind sand. Yeah, sand. You get context and context changes everything. Go to Bloomberg .com to get context pursuing what seems like a relatively minor issue. Thanks, Kate. That's Professor Kate Andreas of Columbia Law School. This is Bloomberg Law on Bloomberg Radio. I'm June Grosso. Stay with us. Today's top stories and global business headlines are coming up right now. Broadcasting 24 hours a day at Bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg Radio. United Auto Workers are holding talks with Ford and GM on day two of the strike. Union members like this UAW worker in Toledo are striking for better pay and pension benefits. We need more money. I mean, we've gone years without a raise. You know, we want our fair share. And that's what we're looking for, our fair share. You know, for everybody, not just for me, but for everybody that works here. Representatives for both GM and Ford say negotiations resume today after Friday's pause. Union leaders are pushing for what they call a strong and fair contract. President Biden sent two high -level White House officials to help mediate the talks. Post -tropical Cyclone Lee has made landfall in Nova Scotia. The latest update from the National Hurricane Center says maximum sustained winds are near 70 mph, with Lee expected to continue to weaken as it moves north over the Canadian Maritimes. Forecasters say strong winds, coastal flooding and heavy rains are occurring in portions of Maine and Atlantic Canada. Congress is making little progress to fund the government and avoid a possible shutdown at the end of the month. Lawmakers must pass several spending bills or a short -term funding measure known as a continuing resolution by September 30th. Democrats have faced fierce opposition on both options this week from hard -line conservatives who are...
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Gad Saad (Encore)
"Welcome to The Eric Metaxas Show. Back again, eh? Glutton for punishment, eh? When will you ever learn? Now, here's the host that you hate to love, the man who was the reason your friend sponsored your last intervention, Eric Metaxas. Hey there, folks. Welcome to the program. It's always a joy to have someone on for the first time. I have heard such good things about today's guest. His name is Gad Saad. At least, I think that's how it's pronounced, or God Saad. G -A -D, first name, second name, S -A -A -D, Ph .D. He's one of the best -known public intellectuals fighting the tyranny of political correctness, so it sounds to me like he's interested in truth. He's professor of marketing at the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University, where he held the research chair in evolutionary behavioral sciences and Darwinian consumption. It goes on and on. It is just a joy to have Gad Saad as my guest. Welcome to the program, and congratulations on the new book. Thank you so much, sir. Such a pleasure to meet you. I've seen you on television before, so I feel as though I know you, but it's a pleasure to finally meet you. Well, that's very generous of you. So for my audience who isn't familiar with you, what is your background? I mean, you've been a voice for truth, which is a very rare thing, especially in a university setting. Where were you raised, and what is your background? How did you get to be who you are today? Sure. So I grew up in Lebanon. I was born in Lebanon. We were part of the last steadfastly refusing to leave Jews in Lebanon. Most of my extended family had left by the late 60s. They had left some to France, some to Canada, many to Israel, but my family had remained in Lebanon. We were well entrenched within Lebanese society. And then when the civil war broke out in 1975, when I was 10 years old, it became very, very difficult to be Jewish in Lebanon. So we experienced the first year of the civil war, and then luckily were able to leave. So that's my background in terms of where I was born. Grew up in Montreal, Canada, and then went to the United States to finish my studies, and then was a visiting professor at several universities in the US. But much of my career has been spent at a Canadian university, Montreal University. My general research area, just again for the folks who don't necessarily know who I am, evolutionary I marry psychology and evolutionary biology to human behavior in general, and consumer behavior in particular. What are the biological underpinnings that make us do the things that we do? So that's been my scientific work. But in the process of establishing my academic career, I started noticing that there was a second war that I was facing. The first war was the Lebanese civil war. The second war was the war on reality, the war on common sense, on reason, on evidence -based thinking. Which then led me to write my previous book, not the book that we'll be talking about today, but my previous book was called The Parasitic Mind, How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense. And so I've been one of the few voices in academia that holds no sacred cow to be untouchable. I critique any ideology that I feel like critiquing. Of course, it has made my academic career at times difficult, but you have to defend the truth. Well, you say you have to defend the truth, and I say you have to defend the truth. But many in the academy are not willing to defend the truth, nor even to defend the concept of truth. They don't seem to believe in the idea of truth the way Socrates did. They don't even seem to believe in defending reality, that there is a world, a real world, that there are things that are possible that are things that are impossible. I mean, that is kind of where we are today. So to believe in reality or truth in the academy is a rare thing indeed. And what do you suppose it is about you that made you willing to fight the battle for truth to not be silenced? Thank you. That's a great question. So I think it's just my personhood, the combination random of genes that make me who I am. Okay, now hold on. You're making it sound fatalistic. You're making it sound like it's not noble. It's just a fatalistic thing. It's just your genes are making you behave this way, just as Hitler's genes made him do what he did. That's clearly not what you're saying, is it? No, no. I mean, of course, I also have personal agency because I could say, hey, I'm going to succumb to cowardice and not rise up to the call to defend the truth. So you're right. So thank you for that. Maybe I was being falsely modest in my deterministic explanation, but in any case, I'm just, I mean, I'm a very, I think anybody who knows me knows that I'm a very warm, fun, affable guy, but I'm also very combative. Not because I want to be combative just to annoy people, but in a sense, I have this code of personal conduct, Eric, that makes it that when I go to bed at night and put my head on the pillow, for me to be able to not suffer from insomnia, I need to feel that I never modulated my words for pragmatic reasons, for careerist reasons. Then I would feel that I'm a fraud, that I'm a charlatan. And because of that exacting, punishing code of personal conduct, whenever I see nonsense, I attack it. Well, I'm just guessing, but having lived through what you and your family lived through in Lebanon, I mean, my father came to this country from Greece in the 50s. My mother came from East Germany in the 50s. And having stories, whether your own or those of your forebears, of people who saw that there were consequences to how one lived and that the world can be a very evil place, and that if you go along with it, you're complicit in the evil. I think many Americans and many Canadians haven't been forced to face that. They don't understand that there is a real battle for truth and that I have to be careful not to go along with things because then I am complicit. I'm just guessing that growing up in a home, as you did having left Lebanon under those circumstances, that that might be a part of why you're a brave voice in this culture. I think you're spot on. And if you look just anecdotally at some of the most vociferous defenders of Western traditions, they're exactly the type that you've mentioned. It's Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who is of Somali background. It's precisely because we have sampled from the large buffet of possible societies, right? We realize that the Western experience is an anomalous one. It's not the standard default society. That's not how humans have organized themselves. And so because we've sampled from that buffet, we come to the West and say, guys, be careful, you're not going down the right track. So I think you're exactly right, Eric. Yeah, I think, you know, anytime I meet somebody who has Cuban background or whatever, they typically, they get it. Somebody who's come from Romania or some Eastern Bloc country, they all get it. They all seem to understand, you know, we have to fight for what is right and true. We have to fight for freedom. These aren't normal. This is not the default situation. But many Americans and many people who've had the privilege of growing up in the West, they don't have a clue that what we have is a glorious, fragile thing. It's worth fighting for. Because you're new to the program, I do want you to talk about your book, The Parasitic Mind, before we talk about the brand new book. Tell us a little bit about that so my audience can understand where you're coming from. Sure. Thanks for that question. So in The Parasitic Mind, what I try to do is find some metaphor for why it is that living agents can engage in such maladaptive behaviors. And so I found it in what's called the neuroparasitological framework. The idea is that if you look at the animal kingdom, there are all sorts of parasitic infestations that happen. A tapeworm can infest your intestinal tract, but a neuroparasite is one that looks to, if you like, alter the neuronal circuitry of its host to suit its own reproductive interest. And so I had my epiphany, so I thought, well, okay, well, human beings can certainly be parasitized by actual physical brainworms, but there's another class of brainworms that they can be parasitized by. And I call those idea pathogens or parasitic ideas. So to your earlier point about, you know, in the academy, we no longer talk about some objective truth. Well, that's the granddaddy of all idea pathogens, postmodernism, social constructivism is another one. Radical feminism is another one. Identity politics is another one. Cultural relativism, biophobia, the fear of using biology to explain human behavior is another one. So what I do in the book is I trace the origin of many of these parasitic ideas and their downstream negative consequences. And then if I've done a good job, I offer a mind vaccine against these parasitic ideas. That's the general idea of the book. Okay, I wanna pick up on that. We are talking to GAD, G -A -D, SAD, S -A -A -D. And we'll be right back. I wear the black for those who've never read. Or listen.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from PayPal Launches Stablecoin That Could Change The World! (But There's A Catch...)
"The safest, easiest way to pay just got easier or at least has moved further into the cryptoverse. Online payment behemoth PayPal has launched its own stablecoin, becoming the latest TradFi company to make the attempt. You may remember Meta, the parent company of Facebook, trying to shove their own stablecoin down our throats and subsequently shuttering the project in early 2022. Will PayPal USD, aka PYUSD, succeed where others have failed? We're going to dive into the pros and cons. It's time to discover crypto. If you're new to the cryptoverse, you may be wondering what exactly is a stablecoin. It's a coin for horses. I'm kidding. It's all in the name, baby. A stablecoin is meant to do exactly that, maintain a stable price. Many of them are pegged to the US dollar. It's a way for investors and traders to keep their assets on the blockchain without having to deal with extreme price volatility. Well, at least that's what's supposed to happen with stables as long as they maintain their peg. If you want an example of what happens when a stablecoin loses its peg, take a look at our video on Terra UST. In case you've been living under a rock with all your cash buried in some dragon's lair, PayPal has a veritable monopoly on online payments. Founded in 1998, the company went public in 2002 and was soon taken over by eBay. Fast forward to today, the company has expanded astronomically and subsequently gobbled up would -be competitors like Venmo, Zoom and Zettle and many others. It also boasts 435 million users at time of recording. The original team is actually referred to as the PayPal Mafia. You'll recognize some familiar faces including Elon Musk, Yammer's David O. Sachs, LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman and Jawad Karim, who co -founded our own little slice of paradise, YouTube. So my question is, with Elon Musk's historic ties to PayPal, will the PayPal stablecoin become the favored cryptocurrency for X? Unseeding would -be Prince of X, doge? Leave a comment below and tell us what you think. PayPal's stablecoin release also comes a couple months after the announcement that Celsius will use it to distribute payments to its creditors, a decision that has sparked outrage and questions from Celsius's creditors. Raking in fees for millions of bankrupt Celsius isn't a great way to start your stablecoin debut. Now, PayPal has been interested in crypto for a while. They first allowed customers to buy, and hold a short list of cryptocurrencies back in 2020, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash. Then in 2022, they finally began supporting crypto withdrawals and deposits in and out of PayPal. And PYUSD is their latest attempt to make a name for themselves in the Web3 landscape. They announced its development at the beginning of 2022, but then pulled back citing regulatory issues. Was it you, Gary? But I guess their concerns are no more because there are full steam ahead with their stablecoin pursuits. Okay, enough about lost funds and heartbreak. Why would PayPal want to get into the stablecoin game in the first place? Well, it turns out stablecoins can be quite a lucrative business worth around $120 billion. PYUSD's top competitors Tether and USDC both have remarkable profits this year. Tether is projected to bring in $6 billion, while Circle, the parent company of USDC, has brought in $779 million so far this year. If PayPal can capture even a percentage of this market, they could bring in some serious bank. How do these companies do it? Well, both USDT and USDC maintain their peg by holding cash and investing in US Treasuries. And the yields of these Treasuries have soared to 5 % recently, so they're able to bring in a lot of profit and able to add to their reserves. PayPal intends to follow a similar model with the stablecoin being backed by USD bank deposits, US Treasuries and US Treasure reverse repurchase agreements held in custody by Paxos. You may recognize the name Paxos for managing the soon -to -be -deceased Binance stablecoin BUSD, which Binance has taken off the market due to SEC lawsuit. RIP. PayPal has announced that Paxos will begin issuing monthly reserve reports in September 2023, and these reports will be verified by an external and supposedly impartial accounting firm. Can we just get Kevin an Oscar? Remember, guys, having a public and verifiable proof of reserve is so important, not only for stablecoins, but also for exchanges. Make sure you do your research before you buy or send your crypto places. PYUSD is an ERC -20 token written in Solidity and running on the Ethereum blockchain. You can exchange PYUSD for fiat as well as send it to other PayPal users and buy crypto on PayPal's platform. You can also buy from PayPal's merchants, and PayPal will send PYUSD to make the purchase. There are zero fees to send this stablecoin to other PayPal users, but there are fees for buying cryptocurrencies and withdrawing PayPal USD from the platform. Currently, you can withdraw or deposit PYUSD and it's compatible with Metamask and Coinbase Wallet, soon to be supported by Venmo. A week after PayPal's stablecoin mania hit the media, Ledger, one of the top cold storage wallet solutions, announced that its users would be able to buy crypto with their PayPal accounts. Coinbase has allowed American and Canadian users to buy crypto with their PayPal accounts for a while, but recently, Coinbase partnered with PayPal to bring this option to users in Germany and the UK. This comes in handy since PayPal decided to pause crypto purchases on its own platform in the UK, citing financial regulatory shifts. With all these exchanges supporting PayPal accounts to purchase crypto, it seems like only a matter of time before Ledger and other wallets begin to support PYUSD as well. Currently, you can get your hands on some PYUSD on Coinbase, Kraken, Gate .io and Crypto .com if you don't want to buy it from the PayPal platform. Right now, we're a little less than a month into their release, so are people actually using it? Well, it seems like members of the crypto community have been a bit wary so far. The block reported that smart money is avoiding the coin and smaller investors are as well. And really, can you blame them? Most people are still traumatized from the Terra fiasco. And why would you switch your funds from Tether or USDC when they've stood the test of time? There have also been concerns about PYUSD launching on ETH and associated high fees. And there are real regulatory concerns here in the US. Congresswoman Maxine Waters, the top Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, was quick to wag the finger at PayPal and yell, Shame! Shame on you! She's mad at business as giant as PayPal would move forward with a stablecoin without federal regulatory framework. She may want to point that finger right back at herself because the Fed is at fault here twofold. One, they allowed PayPal to get this giant. And two, they can't figure out how to actually regulate the space. Probably due to our officials being older than dinosaurs. Look at this! Are you kidding me? Another issue that has some worried is that PYUSD is centralized and has a sordid history of randomly freezing people's accounts. And last year, the company threatened to fine users up to $2500 to posting misinformation. After immense backlash, PayPal retracted the statement saying it was an error. The terms and conditions of PYUSD also state, PayPal can stop supporting the stablecoin at any time without informing holders. All of this has members of the cryptoverse worrying that PayPal would arbitrarily freeze or deduct PYUSD from their accounts just like the big banks are able to do. Well, don't freeze up yourself. Hit that like button and subscribe to the channel to discover more crypto. PayPal freezing accounts is not good. We want control over our funds and the right to privacy. But just for context, Tether and USDC are centralized as well. Tether is held by an international company, and USDC boasts BlackRock, Fidelity, and Coinbase among their investors. So nothing is totally safe. And while it's great PYUSD has added the trove of stablecoin options, the space really needs more decentralized stablecoins. Okay, so now I want to mention a few reasons PYUSD makes me feel bullish for crypto in general. Anytime a TradFi company gets into crypto signals wider adoption. And PayPal could be going after a completely different retail demographic for PYUSD, which would explain the slow adoption. But the coolest thing about PayPal launching a stablecoin is the ability to pay for things IRL without taking funds off the blockchain. You can already use PYUSD to pay millions of merchants through PayPal. This kind of thing has started on a small scale elsewhere, but PayPal is going to majorly increase mass adoption. I don't think we're far away from being able to pay our rent with crypto through Venmo or PayPal. And that kind of thing makes me bullish. It gives me chills up my spine. Guys, I can hear the bull market calling. Can you hear it too? And it says, Wind Moon. That's all for me. Thanks for watching Discover Crypto! Hit that like button on your way out. And we'll see you at the top.
Awards Chatter
A highlight from Wim Wenders - Anselm & Perfect Days
"Wait. Are you gaming? On a Chromebook? Yeah. It's got a high -res 120Hz display, plus this killer RGB keyboard. And I can access thousands of games anytime, anywhere. Stop playing. What? Get out of here. Huh? Yeah. I want you to stop playing and get out of here so I can game on that Chromebook. Got it. Discover the Ultimate Cloud Gaming Machine. A new kind of Chromebook. Hi, everyone, and thank you for tuning in to the 506th episode of the Hollywood Reporters Awards Chatter Podcast. I'm the host, Scott Feinberg, and my guest today is one of the most significant filmmakers of the last 50 years. His credits include classic narrative films like 1984's Paris, Texas, which won the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d 'Or and brought him a Best Director BAFTA Award. And 1987's Wings of Desire, for which he won Cannes' Best Director Prize, as well as documentary films such as 1999's Buena Vista Social Club, 2011's Pina, and 2014's Salt of the Earth, each of which brought him Best Documentary Feature Oscar nominations. And now, at the age of 78, he is out with two new films, one a narrative, Neon's Perfect Days, the story of a Tokyo toilet cleaner, for which Koji Yakusho won the Best Actor Prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival, and the other a 3D doc, Janice Films' Anselm, about the art of the German painter and sculptor, Anselm Kiefer. The recipient of the Berlin International Film Festival's Honorary Golden Bear in 2015 and the Telluride Film Festival's Silver Medallion Award this year, he has been described by The Guardian as one of the key figures, along with Fassbender, Herzog, and Schlondorf, of the new German cinema movement that reinvigorated West German film in the 70s, and gave the country of Marlene Dietrich, UFA, and F .W. Murnau a bona fide cinematic movement to rival the Nouvelle Vague, by The New York Times as a film visionary and a great hero of art film audiences everywhere, and by Turner Classic Movies as one of his generation's most appreciated independent filmmakers, VIM Vendors. Over the course of our conversation at the Toronto offices of Elevation Pictures, the Canadian production and distribution company, the 78 -year -old and I discussed his circuitous path to filmmaking and the challenges of forging a career as a filmmaker in Germany back when he was starting out, what led him to America for a number of years and then back to Germany, why he moves between narrative and documentary films as often as any filmmaker except perhaps Martin Scorsese, and why he is particularly committed to making 3D docs, plus much more. And so without further ado, let's go to that conversation. Mr. Vendors, thank you so much for doing this. Great to have you on the podcast. And to begin with, just for anyone who may be living under Iraq and doesn't know, can you share where you were born and raised and what your folks did for a living? So I'm Wim Vendors and I was born in Germany right after the Second World War in August 1945, in a fateful week for the Japanese people. Grew up in post -war Germany, wanted to become a painter. First studied philosophy and medicine but then really drew up the courage to go fully for painting and cocky as I was, I went to Paris thinking that's where you become a painter and instead of becoming a painter in Paris, I became a filmmaker because I discovered the Cinematheque and that you can see the entire movies of the entire world and every screening was for 25 cents, so I saw about a thousand movies in the course of a year and after that it was decided. It wasn't painting, it was movies. Right. Now just to go backwards for a moment though, you've spoken about sort of this sense of growing up in Germany after the war, there were a lot of secrets, a lot of darkness, unanswered questions and you've talked about your parents having, I guess, photos that really kind of maybe opened your mind to the world beyond where you were from. Can you talk about that? Well, when I was a little boy and I started school, the growing up world was very, very busy, reconstructing the country and looking forward to the future and it was all positive and beautiful and you realize even as a boy there's something wrong. Why isn't the past ever a subject and why does nobody look over their shoulders? And eventually you realize all that building and all that effort to rebuild the future was in order to, as fast as possible, forget about the past. And when I saw pictures from the past, also family pictures, there were all these uniforms and, I mean, my father was a doctor in the Second World War and as soon as he finished his studies, they threw him to the front and he was a surgeon and for four years he didn't do anything but put people back together.
DerrickTalk
6.8 Magnitude Earthquake Devastates Moracco..Over 2,000 Reported Dead
"Happy Sunday everybody, welcome to another edition of Convo Over Cigars. I'm your host, Derrick Andre Flemming at 5 .28 PM. The world is watching and praying for Morocco after a devastating 6 .8 magnitude earthquake has left over 2 ,000 people dead and is responsible for enormous damage in the historic city of Marachech. Very, very bad news for Morocco and the people of that country. A devastating earthquake just happens out of nowhere. This is the deadliest earthquake to strike the country in decades. The numbers continue to pour in. They are expecting massive, huge amounts of casualties in this huge earthquake, but the numbers, according to the latest updates, are 2 ,012 have been killed and 1 ,404 remain in critical condition, according to Morocco State TV, citing the Interior Ministry. Rescue operations are ongoing and authorities continue to pull the dead from this rubble. Obviously, you know, it's a search and rescue effort at this point. Morocco's worst earthquake ever recorded was in 1960. This was near the western city of Agadir, which killed at least 12 ,000. Many Moroccans spent Friday night on the streets fearful of aftershocks from the 6 .8 magnitude earthquake. Many Canadians who are in Morocco say this earthquake, which has killed over 2 ,000 people in the North African country, is absolutely incredible and terrifying. So we know that, you know, Montreal and there's a huge Canadian population in Morocco. Those two countries are very, very well connected. And I think it was the Canadian Prime Minister, I think his name is Trudeau, he was really working hard to try to assist the people of Morocco. Also, I read where Spain sent like 56 rescuers over there to help these people. This is a terrible situation, man. Anytime there's an earthquake, obviously, it catches people by surprise. People were not prepared for something like this. So the casualties are huge. I mean, they are expecting, I mean, the biggest, you know, earthquake ever to hit Morocco killed like 12 ,000 people. We could be looking at those kind of numbers here. From the early reports, there is no telling how many casualties are still under all that, you know, rubble. And you know, this is just a really, really very, very bad situation. So we here on Convo Over Cigars, I'm your host, Derrick Andre Flemming, we are praying for the people of Morocco. You guys have been locked into another edition of Convo Over Cigars. Happy Sunday, guys.
The Mason Minute
Portion Sizes (MM #4553)
"The Minute Mason with Kevin Mason. In recent years, many restaurants, many stores have cut portion sizes down to keep cost down. What used to be a half gallon of ice cream is now less than a half a gallon. You're not supposed to notice. Yesterday, I was on the road and had a hankering for an Egg McMuffin. I hadn't had one in years, and they weren't my favorite sandwich at McDonald's, but I just had a taste for one. But I remember the one thing I didn't like about the Egg McMuffin is it was all Canadian bacon. There was just so much, but I ordered one anyway, and it was the best one I'd ever had because they've cut the portion of Canadian bacon, and now it fits better. Sure, the Egg McMuffin, it's gotten smaller, too. Those English muffins aren't as big. I don't think the egg part is as big either, and, well, cheese slices have shrunk as well. But all combined, one of the best Egg McMuffins I'd ever had in the world, and I just thought to myself, finally, something positive comes from a smaller portion size. I know it's a reality we're dealing with, and portion sizes go up, portion sizes go down, but sometimes they get the ratio right, I guess. It's not often they cut portion sizes, and something actually gets better. Go figure. Congrats, McDonald's.
The Mason Minute
Portion Sizes (MM #4553)
"The Minute Mason with Kevin Mason. In recent years, many restaurants, many stores have cut portion sizes down to keep cost down. What used to be a half gallon of ice cream is now less than a half a gallon. You're not supposed to notice. Yesterday, I was on the road and had a hankering for an Egg McMuffin. I hadn't had one in years, and they weren't my favorite sandwich at McDonald's, but I just had a taste for one. But I remember the one thing I didn't like about the Egg McMuffin is it was all Canadian bacon. There was just so much, but I ordered one anyway, and it was the best one I'd ever had because they've cut the portion of Canadian bacon, and now it fits better. Sure, the Egg McMuffin, it's gotten smaller, too. Those English muffins aren't as big. I don't think the egg part is as big either, and, well, cheese slices have shrunk as well. But all combined, one of the best Egg McMuffins I'd ever had in the world, and I just thought to myself, finally, something positive comes from a smaller portion size. I know it's a reality we're dealing with, and portion sizes go up, portion sizes go down, but sometimes they get the ratio right, I guess. It's not often they cut portion sizes, and something actually gets better. Go figure. Congrats, McDonald's.
The Mason Minute
Portion Sizes (MM #4553)
"The Minute Mason with Kevin Mason. In recent years, many restaurants, many stores have cut portion sizes down to keep cost down. What used to be a half gallon of ice cream is now less than a half a gallon. You're not supposed to notice. Yesterday, I was on the road and had a hankering for an Egg McMuffin. I hadn't had one in years, and they weren't my favorite sandwich at McDonald's, but I just had a taste for one. But I remember the one thing I didn't like about the Egg McMuffin is it was all Canadian bacon. There was just so much, but I ordered one anyway, and it was the best one I'd ever had because they've cut the portion of Canadian bacon, and now it fits better. Sure, the Egg McMuffin, it's gotten smaller, too. Those English muffins aren't as big. I don't think the egg part is as big either, and, well, cheese slices have shrunk as well. But all combined, one of the best Egg McMuffins I'd ever had in the world, and I just thought to myself, finally, something positive comes from a smaller portion size. I know it's a reality we're dealing with, and portion sizes go up, portion sizes go down, but sometimes they get the ratio right, I guess. It's not often they cut portion sizes, and something actually gets better. Go figure. Congrats, McDonald's.
The Crypto Overnighter
"canadian" Discussed on The Crypto Overnighter
"Now ballas nemethy is the CEO of very labs and is cofounder at KYC Dow. He doesn't believe in the solution. In his article on coin telegraph, he stated that proofs are sometimes not enough. Personal information sharing is crucial in a transaction, therefore relying solely on offchain solutions is advisable. Canada's security leader, the Canadian securities administrators, will soon make stricter rules for crypto exchanges. The CSA demanded commitments from unregistered crypto platforms last year while they seek registration. The CSA did not comment on changes to the PR U regime, but will release more information soon. The SEC has started to take stronger action against crypto firms, including kraken and paxos. Other G 7 nations such as Canada and the UK are also stepping up their efforts to regulate the industry due to last year's failures. Canadian industry members are concerned about the need for individual approvals from regulators in different regions. Canada's marketplace rules for alternative trading systems can't apply to other regions. One anonymous person stated that the PR U update will be devastating for Canadian crypto industry, making it too expensive to operate in Canada. The Ontario securities commission is driving this update. Some global crypto exchanges in Canada will be affected by the tighter regulations, finance Canada has had some issues with the OSC before. Coinbase is a U.S. regulated crypto exchange, and they operate in Canada under the AMF. The AMF regulates finance in Quebec, Canada. As I understand it, though, coinbase could switch from AMF to Ontario's OSC if it made more sense for them. And that's going to do it for us this evening. I want to thank you my listeners because when you stop listening, I will stop talking. If you enjoyed tonight's show, then please, like, follow and subscribe. Leave a rating or review. And in the meantime, we'll see you tomorrow night.
TMX Presents: The Podcast
"canadian" Discussed on TMX Presents: The Podcast
"Private equity industry by investing in these later stage technology driven growth companies. Yet, when people ask me, when I build Omar's ventures, did I create something new? And the answer was no. I just imported the best of the firms in the United States. Frankly. And felt that I wanted to disrupt the Canadian venture model. So just what you've said, I'm not inventing anything new. I'm actually borrowing again from the best of the U.S. model. And importing into Canada and I think by virtue of that disrupting what's currently largely the Canadian private equity model, which is virtually all of a buyout asset class and very little if any growth private equity asset class continuing on this disruptive theme, what areas of the economy do you feel right now are ripe for disruption? All of them. And part of the thing that I find rather amusing and I started to find it amusing back in 2015, 2016, when I started to see the application of technology cross the chasm and it started first with the financial services in particular the Canadian banks, but I found it amusing when the market didn't know what to call these companies that weren't really technology companies, but they kind of felt like it. So they made these cute names FinTech prop tech health tech, everything tech. Well, for God's sakes, every business will have to be supported by technology. And if you don't, there's another name. They're called bankrupt businesses. And that's what will happen to them. Because it just makes your business cheaper faster better. And you have greater customer insights. So all of the economy. And areas like one of the areas that I'm looking at right now that I never, ever thought I would, but mining technologies that I don't really know a whole lot about, but the whole mining industry is going to be technology based on the oil and gas already. That's happened. So if you think that technology will not apply to your particular industry, I will tell you, you will be wrong. And that includes, you know, the old joke was well. At least sweeping the streets, well, no, there's robots for that now. And there's robots for doing that inside. So everything will happen. And so you can try to fight it or accept it and realize, okay, what can be done to take our economy to the next level and ensuring that we're just not shutting out people as we make this massive transformation? Is it fair to say that in your former life that Omar's ventures, your looking at the technology companies to invest in? While today, you're looking at the companies that are employing that technology. Yes, that is for the most part correct. And it didn't really mean to exclude the technology companies themselves is not an opportunity to invest from a growth perspective. However, the capital dynamics are such that let's use a SaaS software business for the moment. There is so much capital chasing sass software companies that the valuations had gone to stratospheric levels and it was difficult to make a return or an appropriate level return. You know, what the businesses are great, solid businesses.
Voice in Canada
"canadian" Discussed on Voice in Canada
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The Heidrick & Struggles Leadership Podcast
"canadian" Discussed on The Heidrick & Struggles Leadership Podcast
"Hi, I'm Emily Johnson, principal at hydrogen struggles and member of the global industrial practice. Our HNS Canada leadership series shares timely and relevant leadership insights on what organizations and leaders should be thinking about to stay competitive, both in Canada and on the global stage. In today's podcast, I'm excited to be talking to chuck magro. Chuck brings nearly 30 years of experience across the agriculture and chemicals industries, including over 15 years with nova chemicals and 12 years with agrium and nutrient. As president and CEO of agrium, chuck led the company's $36 billion merger of equals with potash corporation of Saskatchewan to form nutrient, which he then led for three years as president and CEO, with annual revenues in excess of 20 billion 25,000 employees worldwide. Nutrien is the world's largest crop nutrient company, the largest agricultural retailer in North America and Australia. And one of Canada's top 20 largest corporations. Chuck currently sits on the Canadian pension plan investment board and has held several other board roles, including with the business council of Canada, the business council of Alberta and the international fertilizer industry association. Chuck, welcome. And thank you for taking the time to speak with us today. Hi, Emily. It's great to be here. Thanks for having me. Chuck, one.
Interviews Canadian Rap Edition
"canadian" Discussed on Interviews Canadian Rap Edition
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Interviews Canadian Rap Edition
"canadian" Discussed on Interviews Canadian Rap Edition
"Quite a few listeners. So if you want, send me your like your music through like an MP3 file and then I can add on it because I was trying to. It's kind of difficult for me to get from the YouTube. Oh, yeah. No, I see. I didn't know what you meant by that. So, yeah, I'll send you some MP3. Yeah, that would be great, because in that way, if there isn't because I track like I do the analytics on my audience. And if you ever need that, that for because we use that program or whatever, like they want to know every single aspect of the music. So I can also provide that for you, too. Yes, I can. Yeah, because the station like we play by request and so people will request and then the library picks up the music and whatever plays. So it's kind of cool though. That's awesome. Yeah, I'm trying to get to do some more like radio shows, like something funny, something fun for for entertainment. But yeah, I don't know that I might need a partner in crime for that. Yeah, it'd be good to have a kind of like a co -host or something. Yeah, yeah, for sure. Get born to do that. You'd be great at that. Oh, you think so? Yeah, you would. You would. Yeah, I'm going to try convincing him. Convince him one day. Yeah, that's good. Yeah, well, it was nice to meet you. It was nice to meet you. Yeah, we should keep in touch. And if you have any songs that you want to do, you want to talk about your new album before we? Yeah, sure. I just released a collaborative album called Slums Kitchen Volume One. Every song is a collaboration with another artist. I found when I got back into hip hop that that was a really fun thing to do. And I released a bunch of singles. I was on a bunch of other people's singles and then I just had a bunch more.
Interviews Canadian Rap Edition
"canadian" Discussed on Interviews Canadian Rap Edition
"The tickets out of someone's hand and was going to rip them in half. And was like. Oh my god. Put all your bugs on the ground and we were going to rip these tickets out. And I was just like. Oh. It was. It was. Yeah that night. And they were smoking. Oh yeah. That's it. Typically. Now he's a lot of fun. I lost contact with him for a while. I don't know. Probably four years or something. And then I heard he's got three kids. Yeah he's got three kids. It's crazy. I could never. I could never. I would never see him. Like. Being a dad. Like it was. Where did you meet him? Yeah. I met him. In Vernon. Yeah. Okay. I used to live in Vernon for a while. Yeah. I lived with him for a bit. So maybe we met each other before him. You never know eh? Like do you know Manson? Charlie Manson? No. Charlie Manson? Oh okay. That's who I met him from. Like. Yeah. From Charlie. But yeah. He's. He's pretty funny. He's got like those big blue. I don't know if it's blue or green eyes there. Like just pops. Like I don't know. Something about him is funny. I really like him. Yeah. He's a good guy. Yeah. It's good shit.
Interviews Canadian Rap Edition
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"So you. Every time. You like. 20 hashtags that. Can relate to. They can relate to your brand or whatever you're trying to show. Right. You can search. So then that's how you get people to look at your stuff. Outside of your kind of last radius. And it can be annoying because. Yeah. And also like you can get that. Shadow bundle like that too. Because some of the hashtags. No. When I believe when they have like a certain amount of posts. Under one. Hashtag. They block it. Right. So if you use it. It's not even going to be showed to the. The audience that you're looking for right. So it's a hit and miss. Yeah it's a hit and miss for sure. Yeah. And that method worked a lot well like maybe a year ago or so. And now they've kind of caught up to that. So they've changed it. Yeah. And I find that on Instagram right now lately. There's a lot of bots. Like a lot of people on your DMs. Trying to like get you to buy followers and things like that. I was like. Why? They should be like you know. I'm not going to collab with you. Yeah. But it's stupid because they're like. They say. Oh yeah. Do this. Do that. And then all of a sudden. Oh yeah. Thirty dollars. Forty dollars. Come on. You know the first one that does that. As soon as I get a. I just send them a link to my music. Yeah. They should actually like stop that. Because it's. It's. Pretty much against their like. Guidelines right. You're not allowed to buy followers. But then yeah. They don't monitor that. And it's kind of annoying. Yeah. That's a whole different rabbit hole too. Because people. Yeah. I don't know. That's a huge rabbit hole. I think it was just last year when. Spotify took down so many songs. Because they were all bought at plays. And then a lot of people were singing. Yeah.
Interviews Canadian Rap Edition
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"It's funny so I just released an album. My first album really. So in the online community. Basically it was explained to me that memes are a really good tool to advertise. When you don't have money to put into advertisements right? So a lot of people in the community kind of make memes to kind of get you to check out their songs. So I just had a. When my album released. I hired. Shout out to Moe Dirt. He's a hip hop artist. Coming from the coast there. And he's a really talented painter. So I got him to do my album cover. And I kind of made it into a meme right? So like. Oh. Yeah it's kind of like a meme. The album cover itself. So when the album dropped. Oh yeah. So when the album dropped. I got. I made a contest for. A hundred dollar contest. Whoever can make the best. To advertise my album. Gets to win a hundred bucks. Oh that's a good idea. So. You know. In theory. It was a lot easier. Because I just use their piece now. I don't have to make any. Yeah that's great. It's good. Yeah well there's. Like I love like doing digital arts. As well. Like I do. Make videos and things like that. And. Yeah it's. It's interesting how we can. Like to make a video and. Kind of like the memes or whatever. Cartoons. You can tell stories with that. It's cool. Yeah well you know what. Everyone is on the internet. Whether they're hip hop artists or singers. They have a crowd. But everyone's on the internet. Nowadays. Trying to get you to look at what you're doing. They're like come check out what I'm doing. And it's. Everyone's got something going on. It's wonderful. But it's like. Yeah. It's really hard. To get people to stop and look at what you're doing. Because there's so much. Yeah it is. There's so much. It's so busy.
Interviews Canadian Rap Edition
"canadian" Discussed on Interviews Canadian Rap Edition
"You can just download 30 seconds of the video. And then you can post it. That's how I get some of my content is from there. Okay awesome. Yeah it's called Rap Fame App. Rap Fame App okay I'll check it out. I think that's cool because these last two years I've been really connecting with them. I'm really disconnected from other hip hop artists and people before when I was doing it. And these last couple of years I've just really embraced the local culture and the underground scene. And connecting really with other artists and making friends with people who are truly passionate about making music. And people that have been doing it for a long time. And it's really made a huge difference in my perspective of hip hop right. Sometimes it's all about how successful you're getting or how many hits you're getting. But at the end of the day when you're at a place where you're not turning a profit off your music. It's really just about spending time with people who are as passionate about it as you are. And that just loves making music. Yeah but since you mentioned that. Sometimes that's where it comes from. The most great work comes from connections like that. You meet someone that comes through your life and then all of a sudden you make a hit or whatever. Yeah I can see that. Yeah I believe that also. I like connecting with people. I'm not a big social butterfly that goes meeting people. But I'm mainly just communicating through meeting different people. I find the internet really helpful because connecting with a lot of people that I wouldn't have connected with. Kamloops has a pretty small hip hop scene nowadays. I'm from the coast so now I get to connect with a lot of people from the coast or online. I've made a lot of really close friends. So Yudista has my crew and some other people. And it's just people that I talk to on a daily basis.
Interviews Canadian Rap Edition
"canadian" Discussed on Interviews Canadian Rap Edition
"It's been interesting because I moved up here to Kamloops about four years ago. I didn't really know a lot of people. I wasn't really sure if I was going to get back into making music. I just kind of randomly started doing some local shows. They were on tour. I think it was the Airborne Tour. They came through and they were so much fun. They're probably the best local performers I've ever seen. The biggest energy after they went. They ended up asking me to do a song with them. Eventually they were like, do you just want to be a part of that? That's kind of how that happened. That's awesome. I keep doing that because we need that in Canada. I come from Brazil. It's a different culture all together. I kind of miss the human contact. We used to go out a lot. There were always parties and shows. That's what we're missing here in Canada. That would give you guys, artists, a lot of support. When it comes down to finding it. I find it difficult to get up there. In comparison with the American hip hop. Which is way popular. There's a lot of great Canadian rappers. There is. BC right now is really big. You know the west coast of Canada, Alberta and Montana. They have a lot of really talented artists right now. I think they're really going to make some big waves. Hopefully you guys do. That's what I'm hoping. I've talked to a few from BC. A couple from Alberta and some from Toronto. There's a lot in Toronto I'm sure. I really like the Canadian rap. There's some history behind it. There's a meaning behind the lyrics. It's not just mumbles. Not just because I'm not. I noticed too what I've been noticing. I'm really starting to notice now. I was never really a part of the scene personally. I kind of dabbled like I said in hip hop. What I'm really noticing now is that a lot of these really talented artists.
Interviews Canadian Rap Edition
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"And a sign of 18, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. You're listening to Chameleon Radio Podcast. Delivering every week a new interview with the best hip hop rap artist of all time. From coast to coast with your host, Mia Marshall. Hey everybody, it's Mia Marshall here with Chameleon Radio. I have a new podcast episode for you guys. It's called the Hip Hop Experience. This week I interviewed a rapper from Canada. He is from April Ridge and lives in Kamloops, BC. It's a lot of fun. You'll hear some of his projects. I'll play his song at the beginning of the podcast. And then I'll play one in the end. So you guys can catch the vibe on how he raps. Don't forget to please follow us on Instagram. Our account is at chameleon .radio. And on there you'll find the links for the podcast and for all the other podcasts we've done so far. Thanks for the support and thanks for listening. I really appreciate you all. I'll play for you guys now. Let's
Republic Keeper - with Brian O'Kelly
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"Know the sorry. I found out what they blocked the video over. So for those watching on the rewind. You're hearing me talk about being blocked on facebook. I found out what it was is played the canadian national anthem and we played a copyrighted version and their copyright detection caught it and blocked the video from no one else can join the livestream for the rest of the video over that. So if you're on the livestream now you can stay on I guess no one can comment. I've filled out the form and submitted the dispute but it takes them a day usually resolve it. And anyway we're allowed to use it but they They're copyright detection caught him Msnbc says that republicans are worse than the taliban. I here this joe. I think what's really concerning here and we'll see this come down to a very. I think public vote very soon about this. Cheney's the majority of people in this party in their elected leadership is siding with the anti-democratic forces within the republican party. It's not that it's just a segment of the party. It's not becoming the entire party. I don't think there are enough of people who are willing to stand up to this iteration of the republican party to build another party at this point. I mean for all of the conversation about liz cheney or or mitt romney kindred but they're the outliers and it's really. It's really something hearing those comments from president george w bush. I've been thinking to myself this whole time. Al qaeda osama bin laden the taliban the people who wanted to do harm to our nation into our way of life and our democracy they got nothing on what this republican parties doing the idea that a member of their party of their leadership whose last name is cheney could be purged from their leadership for telling the truth so the people wanna do the country harm the taliban but republicans you hear him in the same sentence that the taliban the premises the republicans. They're all in the same sentence. Really what the sends should be is the k. k. k. planned parenthood and the democrats are all in the same sentence really Now again this is an attempt to paint. All republicans is bad and and as the source of all that is bad in america. So not only. It's it's two things. All republicans are extremist taliban religious You know zealots and all of the problems in america are because of republicans because of white supremacist religious people. Okay and so michelle. Obama says that she has to be concerned about her daughter's because this hero goal is to let leaders lead but in in certain times people look to us often what he thinks. How do you feel And we know that while. We're all breathing a sigh of relief over the verdict. There's still work to be done And so we. We can't sort of say great that happened. Let's move on. I know that people in the black community don't feel that way because many of us still live in fear as we go to the grocery store or worry about our adult walking our dogs or allowing our children to get a license mean. Just imagine driving. They're driving but every time they get in a car by themselves. I worry about what assumption is being made by somebody who doesn't know everything about them the fact that they are good students and polite girls but maybe they're playing their musical allowed. Maybe somebody sees the back of their head and makes an assumption. I like so many parents. Black kids have to that. The the innocent act of getting a license puts fear in our hearts So i think. I think we have to talk about it more and we have to ask our fellow citizens to listen a bit more and to believe us yet. No we don't want to be out there. Marching i mean so The act of getting a license puts fear in her heart. Well welcome to be an apparent. This is just normal when your kids get a license it's frightening. There's nothing abnormal about that. It's as normal as can be that. You're fearful when your kids are out driving. And you know all i can think of as i watched this clip and watch michelle. Obama is. i'm. I'm just thinking to myself man. I hope that america could one day be a country where a black woman could be first lady. I hope that one day we could be the kind of country where a woman like. Michelle obama could actually get a book advance in the millions of dollars. You know and it's it's such a tragedy that you know woman like michelle. Obama can't live in multimillion dollar mansions except that she does and so i'm trying to figure out how is how it is that a woman whose daughters have a a lifetime secret service detail there. They're protected forever. Everybody understands that were Malaria sasha to be kidnapped and held for ransom. That the fact that barack obama is not the president anymore would not matter. It would be an absolutely a national security issue right and so they've got secret service details for life. So why are you worried about. Your daughter's playing their music too loud would their protect. So it's just it's a whole thing is just a contrived lie and it's ally to accomplish what they really want. Which is the overthrow. The government which is achieved through chaos. And that's what's behind all the defunding police movements and these anti police movements here is representative. Jim clyburn talking about how we're gonna make sure we can prosecute cops eventually if we don't get it now we'll get it later. And the same thing with policing reforms lead. There's a tentative agreement. The biggest sticking point right now remains whether or not police can keep qualified immunity for officers which republicans led by tim. Scott of your home state. say they they need to keep again is is anything less. Do you need the whole loaf or are you willing to pass the bill. That has most of what you want but just not the end of qualified immunity know. I will never sacrifice good on the altar a perfect. I just won't do that. I know what the perfect bill will be proposed that i wanna see good leads license and i know that sometimes you have to compromise but let me say this. I have to say it from the beginning. We have well trained police houses. We've gotta do a better job of recruiting place. Offices began to get good people no.
Leon La Grey Podcast
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"When i hear stories like this to think it's entirely disgusting so either way back with cab and if the and let's just say if you're if dissimilar bill comes to to fruition and Goes along the way the way sites of australia. Dan cad canada. An self is just preschool. At this point to if discount comes to life. So i'm just saying right there too and to me that i this is just my opinion but those lockdowns doesn't represent any means of freedom so for those brazen presents. I don't know about you but nobody shouldn't be locked down for a very long time to. I think it's truly truly Disgusting so i will have the link down below it. Full context of the new york post parts of it. I've just read so you guys can read the post and a canadian. See ten bill in full context in full detail and in english and in french for all of you. French readers out there to listening and all that said i like to thank everybody for taking time to listen to the podcast episode. One fifty six. I hope this information was very informative. And if this is information you want to Send us out out there to anyone that needs to find out about seat. Ten please passes along dow be good to know so well. That's ed lee on the gray signing out you have a great recipe day where vr. Bye for now food..
WBEZ Chicago
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"Canadian turn of events. The Internet for an entire town of British Columbia went down after blank. Someone was playing hockey while curling and there were and there was peace and there was decent evolved and someone said a That's pretty Canadian. But you missed the one element. The Internet went down after a beaver chewed through the cable. Oh, everyone in the terror of Tumbler Ridge was without Internet for two days after a particularly hungry beaver eight. Not only all the cables but the 4.5 inch thick conduit that was protecting them. Really the city's fault, though that'll teach him to never, ever use bark flavored conduit Bill. How did Helen do on our quiz? Love had five right for 10 more points. She now has 12 and the leave, All right. Gonna arbitrarily choose Lacy to go next. So Lacey fill in the blank. On Wednesday, India reported another single day record for blank infections. Covert infections. Yes. This week, President Biden proposed an $80 billion plan to help blank crackdown on tax evaders. Iris Yes, this week to D C. Cop cars were totaled after the officers driving them blanked. Left them No. After they challenged each other to a drag race. This week, a probe uncovered that the Trump Administration blocked blank from receiving hurricane aid. Florida Puerto Rico On Monday, Tech giant Blank announced plans to build a new $1 billion hub. In North Carolina Bill gays? No, it's Apple. This time this week, a massive battle took place in a film in Nebraska or 50. People all claim Josh to be the rightful owner of the name Josh. That's right. Lacey. Last year man named Josh Swain invited a bunch of other people named Josh to a Battle Royale, which would finally determine who could legally use the name. Was delayed, but it happened this week when 50 people showed up for the fight. Most of them fought with pool noodles, which was a real advantage for the one Josh, who brought a machete. He had three right six more points. She now has nine. But Helen still has the lead with 12. Helen's okay. How many then? Does Adam need To win five. Condom five for Adam. All right, Adam. This is for the game fill in the blank. According to Census data, Texas, North Carolina and Florida will all gain seats in blank. The House of Representatives. Yes. On Monday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case that could make it legal nationwide carry blanks outside the home guns. Yes, concealed weapons. Specifically this week, Fizer. Said that an aural medicine to treat blank could be ready by the end of the year. Over 19 Yes, now entering its third month. Protests against the military coup in blank are now calling for work stoppages. Myanmar Yes, a man in the UK who robbed the McDonald's demanding money and chicken McNuggets got the money but was denied to the Nuggets because blank They were out of them because it was seven. I am and they only had breakfast. Of course. On Thursday, the administration announced a ban on blank flavored cigarettes. Mental Yes. On Wednesday, Michael Collins, the command module pilot on the blank mission passed away at the age of 90. Apollo Apollo 11 Yes, thanks to a clerical issue at the hospital, a woman in Seattle trying.
Horror Fictional and True Stories
"canadian" Discussed on Horror Fictional and True Stories
"One of you wash naidoo. I haven't got a clue how to celebrate this. I need your advice guys. Come on let me love. What should i well. Another story coming up on friday. Got a few things lined up for you. And i think you're gonna really really enjoy to wait and see okay sunny days away and the no you can join us again. But that's all for me for this evening. So sweet dreams. Everyone.
Poetic Earthlings
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