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Unchained
A highlight from SBF Trial, Day 2: DOJ: Sam Bankman-Fried Lied His Way to Wealth, Power, and Influence
"Hi everyone, Laura here. This is the Unchained Recap for Day 2, October 4, of the criminal trial of Sam Pinkman -Fried. The U .S. Department of Justice started the criminal trial for Sam Pinkman -Fried this Wednesday afternoon by declaring in its opening statement that Pinkman -Fried deliberately lied his way toward, quote, wealth, power, and influence, allegedly stealing billions of dollars from thousands of individual people. The defense team for Pinkman -Fried, on the other hand, described the former FTX CEO as, quote, a math nerd and a, quote, hard worker who acted in good faith and took reasonable business actions during his time as FTX's founder and CEO. The opening statements from both sides occurred on the second day of the trial, following the finalization of the jury selection process earlier that morning. Pinkman -Fried's trial also saw testimonies from a former FTX customer and a longtime friend of the defendant. Overall, the prosecution's opening statement was cleaner and easier to follow, using simple words such as lied or stole repeatedly, and sentences like, Pinkman -Fried, quote, was using his company FTX to commit fraud on a massive scale, and the money he was spending to build his empire, it was money he was stealing from FTX's customers. It even referred to infamous tweets of SBS that he deleted, as well as testimony to Congress that contradicted what prosecutors allege actually occurred at FTX. The defense's opening, which brought up terms like margin loans, collateral, and liquidity, was harder to follow, even for someone familiar with crypto and this case. Chosen jurors included numerous people with professional backgrounds far from finance, such as a retired corrections officer, a trained conductor, a social worker, and a nurse. The only juror with a financial background was a retired investment banker with a Stanford MBA. However, Pinkman -Fried's attorney, Mark Cohen, also had some easier -to -follow moments in his opening. He called his client Sam and said the government's portrait of him had been, quote, almost a cartoon of a villain. Cohen also used some simpler statements, such as, quote, The first witness called by the prosecution was Marc -Antoine Julliard, an FTX customer who had lost roughly $150 ,000 worth of cryptocurrencies and fiat money he had deposited into or purchased on FTX. He explained the due diligence he conducted before deciding to use FTX and how his research on Pinkman -Fried led him to have a picture of SBF that was, quote, Julliard shared with the courtroom how, on November 6th and 7th, the days before FTX's insolvency became public, tweets by SBF stating that customer assets were safe assured Julliard so that he didn't try to withdraw any of his funds. The second person to testify was Adam Yadidia, who called himself a close friend of Pinkman -Fried's since their college days at MIT and who also worked at FTX as a software engineer at the time of its collapse and Alameda Research as a trader prior to that. Yadidia said he had resigned immediately from FTX upon learning that Alameda, Pinkman -Fried's crypto trading firm, had used FTX customer deposits to repay Alameda loans. Just before the trial closed for the day, Yadidia acknowledged he had been living with nine roommates, one of whom was SBF, in a luxurious penthouse in the Bahamas worth about $35 million. The 31 -year -old Pinkman -Fried currently faces seven felony charges ranging from wire fraud to conspiracy to commit money laundering. The trial will resume tomorrow at 9 .30 a .m. Eastern Time with a continuation of Yadidia's testimony. The government then stated that its next witnesses this week will likely include Matt Huang, co -founder and managing partner at Paradigm, and Gary Huang, former CTO of FTX. Unchained will be back with more updates tomorrow.
Bloomberg Law
Fresh update on "cohen" discussed on Bloomberg Law
"-old as a calculating criminal who used investor deposits at FTX as a personal bank account. Bankman freed's lawyers said the prosecution was portraying their client as a cartoon villain rather than the math nerd he truly was. During opening statements his lawyer Mark Cohen said, Sam didn't intend to defraud anyone. There was no theft. I've been talking to John George Arras, a partner at the Warren Law Group. The judge has issued number a of pretrial rulings that were setbacks for SBF including revoking his bail and jailing him. He ruled that Bankman freed couldn't call seven expert witnesses and he made a this decision week that his lawyers couldn't refer in the opening statements to the advice of counsel defense which they wanted to use to show that Bankman free didn't have criminal intent here and was relying on the advice of his attorneys. How serious are these setbacks? These are fairly serious setbacks. The first one being revoking bail and being put in prison and that because was there was alleged tampering of witnesses occurring in advance of trial. So that shows that SBS is a bad actor trying to influence the trial ahead of time and SBS has been probably much to his lawyers' dismay very public about saying things, very public about saying messed I up, that people need to know the truth. He did I believe a 60 -minute interview on this. He really went out and put himself in the public sphere and already made a ton of statements that I'm sure the government is going to use against him. But as for the pretrial ruling, judge the is narrowing the case down to what the relevant defenses are that can be presented. And the fact that the judge struck down the reliance on counsel defense, it's a very, very powerful defense if you are able to show that an individual fully disclosed what was happening to an attorney and that an attorney rendered his advice and then the individual who gave him the advice followed that punctiliously and went along with what the lawyer said. What the judge's ruling indicates to me is that there were likely some communications about what was happening, but it didn't rise to the formal level of an advice of counsel defense, which is very formulaic and it has to be laid out clearly with evidence. Otherwise, anyone that had a passing conversation with an attorney would say, or even an accountant would say, oh, well, I relied on their advice and that should exonerate me completely. It's a blow for the defense because their story is getting narrowed in advance of trial. What they're going to have to focus on most likely is that, yes, things happen that may have been improper from a business perspective, but it does not rise to the level of criminal intent. And looping back on one of our earlier questions. I believe that's where the three witnesses that were formerly at the top of the SPX in Mayda will be able to give a lot of context into what those conversations were between themselves and SDF. The judge has left it open. They can't refer to the advice of counsel defense in opening statements, but later on in the trial, he may allow them to use it. Yes, so what the judge is signaling is that formal defense, in order for it to be advanced, it's going to have to out be laid through witnesses, through documents. There has to be an attorney -client relationship in the first instance. Then there has to be disclosure of what's happening at FTX. Then there has to be and then following that advice. At this point, the judge is likely not wanting to cloud the jury's mind with evidence that has yet to forward. come In a defense counsel, especially in a criminal trial, you want to be flexible, and you also want to play your cards close to your chest. When it's time to reveal the evidence, you start revealing it because the burden in all these cases, the burden of proof for a criminal prosecution is on the government, and they have to meet that burden of proof. When it comes time for the defense to lay out what their narrative is, what their defenses are, the judge appears to be giving them the opportunity to do that, but the saying, we haven't seen any of that at this stage. You don't get to just boldly refer to an advice of counsel defense without making the proper evidentiary show. Most don't defendants testify at their own trials, but how likely do you think it is that he will take the stand? It's a very difficult question because he does have so many prior statements there, out and he may need to give some them context. He may need to make certain things clear that when he was saying he messed up that he didn't have the intent to mess up, it was just that he didn't have the proper risk control in place. You know, given the stakes that we have here, if SBS is convicted of these charges, the sentencing guidelines provide that he could be in jail for over 100 years. So, with his life on the line, essentially, it may come a time after the presents government their case, which it appears it's going to take them about a month in total. You had mentioned the amount of documents that are out there, the amount of witnesses that they might proffer for the hearing. It'll take them about a month lay to it out, and then, based on the nature of that testimony, if they feel, the defense counsel feels that they can put SPF on the stand and have him contextualize or explain some things in a better way, they may call him, but there's a huge risk in doing that, because if you call the defendant as a witness, you are opening up them to cross -examination on everything that they testified about, and that might be the moment for the government to really go at SPF and damage him and to nail in the proverbial coffin for his case. So it's a very, very difficult question, and you've rightly pointed out that a defendant rarely testifies on his own case. For SPF, this is freedom on the line. For the defendant, this is freedom on their credibility. They are staking the regulatory environment of the crypto industry on this case. FTX, before the collapse, was the darling of the crypto industry. We have individual celebrities like Tom Brady endorsing them. They were all over Super Bowl ads. They had a huge public profile. So when the government takes on a case like this, it's a heavy burden for them. They have shown to the public or made allegations to the public that this was a resoundingly large fraud and that there are issues with the crypto industry and the people that are operating it. And this also sends a message to the crypto industry in general, which is you will be prosecuted under the laws that we have in place if you do not follow them. So this is a major pressure for the government to get this right, which is why I think they're going to go through an extremely detailed and lengthy presentation for weeks of putting on evidence in and of itself shows how much evidence that they have and how seriously they're taking this. So it is a big task for the government. I'm not sure that it's a huge risk because they seem fairly comfortable with the evidence that they have, but obviously if SPF is exonerated and he's found not on guilty these charges it is a major blow to the government. Thanks so much for being on the show. That's John George Harris, a partner at the Warren Law Group. Coming up next the Supreme Court appears ready to reject a challenge to the Consumer Financial Protection Board. You're listening to Bloomberg. Bloomberg Radio is where you get live business news and market headlines from anywhere 24 hours a day via your mobile device. Listen on the iHeart Radio app, tune in, the Bloomberg Business app and Bloomberg .com. This is a Bloomberg Money Minute. Uber is looking to follow DoorDash into a new line of business. package returns. Uber now offers to have its drivers pick up at your door. Packages you want to return and Uber says it'll charge $5 or less for the service. It's a growing market. 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Monitor Show 19:00 09-30-2023 19:00
"Today, ophthalmologists can get countless hours to practice their surgical skills before operating on real patients, thanks to Fundamental VR and Orbis' Metaverse training platform. Learn more at meta .com slash metaverse impact. This is Masters in Business on Bloomberg Radio. I'm Barry Ritholtz. Stay with us for today's top stories and global business headlines. They're coming up right now. Broadcasting 24 hours a day at Bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg Radio. A 45 -day stopgap funding bill to avoid the government shutdown tonight is now in the hands of the Senate. The measure was passed by the House 335 -291 earlier today. The question is on agreeing to the Speaker's approval of the journal. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, naypenny of the chair, the ayes have it. The journal stands approved. The bill passed with overwhelming Democratic support while dozens of Republicans voted against it. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy pitched the measure as an opportunity to give the House and Senate more time to get around the obstacles and get good bills passed. A White House official indicated President Biden would support the bill, which includes disaster relief and FAA authorization. Former President Trump could be in New York City on Monday for his civil fraud trial. Trump's lawyers revealed his plans on Friday while discussing another case, a lawsuit against his former lawyer, Michael Cohen. Trump was set to undergo a deposition in that case in Florida on Tuesday, but his lawyers asked the court to postpone it so he can go to the New York trial, which opens Monday. Earlier this week, the judge overseeing the New York case ruled that Trump had been overvaluing his properties and was liable for fraud. The NFL is going international for the first time this season. Here's Dina Kodiak.
Unchained
Fresh update on "cohen" discussed on Unchained
"Hi everyone, Laura here. This is the Unchained Recap for Day 2, October 4, of the criminal trial of Sam Pinkman-Fried. The U.S. Department of Justice started the criminal trial for Sam Pinkman-Fried this Wednesday afternoon by declaring in its opening statement that Pinkman-Fried deliberately lied his way toward, quote, wealth, power, and influence, allegedly stealing billions of dollars from thousands of individual people. The defense team for Pinkman-Fried, on the other hand, described the former FTX CEO as, quote, a math nerd and a, quote, hard worker who acted in good faith and took reasonable business actions during his time as FTX's founder and CEO. The opening statements from both sides occurred on the second day of the trial, following the finalization of the jury selection process earlier that morning. Pinkman-Fried's trial also saw testimonies from a former FTX customer and a longtime friend of the defendant. Overall, the prosecution's opening statement was cleaner and easier to follow, using simple words such as lied or stole repeatedly, and sentences like, Pinkman-Fried, quote, was using his company FTX to commit fraud on a massive scale, and the money he was spending to build his empire, it was money he was stealing from FTX's customers. It even referred to infamous tweets of SBS that he deleted, as well as testimony to Congress that contradicted what prosecutors allege actually occurred at FTX. The defense's opening, which brought up terms like margin loans, collateral, and liquidity, was harder to follow, even for someone familiar with crypto and this case. Chosen jurors included numerous people with professional backgrounds far from finance, such as a retired corrections officer, a trained conductor, a social worker, and a nurse. The only juror with a financial background was a retired investment banker with a Stanford MBA. However, Pinkman-Fried's attorney, Mark Cohen, also had some easier-to-follow moments in his opening. He called his client Sam and said the government's portrait of him had been, quote, almost a cartoon of a villain. Cohen also used some simpler statements, such as, quote, The first witness called by the prosecution was Marc-Antoine Julliard, an FTX customer who had lost roughly $150,000 worth of cryptocurrencies and fiat money he had deposited into or purchased on FTX. He explained the due diligence he conducted before deciding to use FTX and how his research on Pinkman-Fried led him to have a picture of SBF that was, quote, Julliard shared with the courtroom how, on November 6th and 7th, the days before FTX's insolvency became public, tweets by SBF stating that customer assets were safe assured Julliard so that he didn't try to withdraw any of his funds. The second person to testify was Adam Yadidia, who called himself a close friend of Pinkman-Fried's since their college days at MIT and who also worked at FTX as a software engineer at the time of its collapse and Alameda Research as a trader prior to that. Yadidia said he had resigned immediately from FTX upon learning that Alameda, Pinkman-Fried's crypto trading firm, had used FTX customer deposits to repay Alameda loans. Just before the trial closed for the day, Yadidia acknowledged he had been living with nine roommates, one of whom was SBF, in a luxurious penthouse in the Bahamas worth about $35 million. The 31-year-old Pinkman-Fried currently faces seven felony charges ranging from wire fraud to conspiracy to commit money laundering. The trial will resume tomorrow at 9.30 a.m. Eastern Time with a continuation of Yadidia's testimony. The government then stated that its next witnesses this week will likely include Matt Huang, co-founder and managing partner at Paradigm, and Gary Huang, former CTO of FTX. Unchained will be back with more updates tomorrow.
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Monitor Show 16:00 09-30-2023 16:00
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Bloomberg Daybreak Asia
Fresh update on "cohen" discussed on Bloomberg Daybreak Asia
"Dollars or so it once traded up just under fifty dollars a share and looking at the u .s. markets we had a pretty solid close is there s the &p five hundred up eight -tenths of one percent we had some relatively weak jobs data from p and that lessened uh... the the feeling by investors of higher interest rates are coming soon by the u .s. federal reserve and that is a check of markets twenty three minutes past the hour let's get back to doug business thanks brian well here in new york there were opening arguments today in the criminal fraud trial of sam bankman when freed he of course the former c e o of the crypto exchange f t x let's take a closer look what at we learned today bob fan boris is a bloomberg legal reporter he uh... joins us now from my here in new york bob there were obviously competing narratives so first let's take the prosecution side how is it's case laid out today well the prosecution i gave their opening statement today and try to paint a very simple picture according to prosecutors bankman freed lied to the world about the fraud that he was conducting at f t x and at the uh... affiliated hedge fund alameda partners uh... he uh... according to the prosecution's way of looking at that uh... bob fan bankman freed used customer funds uh... for his own purposes that included luxury real estate buying political influence for his company's and his own charitable pursuits when uh... crypto world started melting down last year she also use that money to plug big hole well in alameda research uh... and once customers try to get their money back they were left holding the bag and there was there was not left without company went bankrupt so did tutors allude to the witnesses that uh... the jurors will be hearing from in support of their argument yet they they should get it it has become pretty clear that they are focusing on uh... the testimony that's going to be delivered by a small core of people who were friends and work very closely with family and free when they the prosecutor said that he liked the world he told the truth to the people on the inside and they know where the bodies are very prosecutors are going to call uh... they're expected to call three of them including caroline elison who is his former girlfriend sent back to the street uh... former girlfriend who uh... he put as CEO of Alameda Research uh... the prosecutors claim uh... that that they are going to get on the stand they are going to be supported by documents that have uh... been unearthed from the company and that that story is going to be very devastating prevent the free so what did defense counsel have to say in support of uh... you know sam and fried and and uh... basically that the fact that he is not guilty of these charges let me ask where said you know what the prosecutors are doing is looking at the illusion of f t x and alameda and just concluding that there must be fraud that here that is what the case is about uh... mark cohen the lawyer for f b f told the jurors look he was making the best decisions he could he was making decisions people were reasonable at the time in the midst of an unprecedented crisis he was a guy who was a c e o of a very fast growing startup that went from very small company up to three hundred fifty employees and that basically what he was doing was building the plane while he flying was it unfortunately one of the things in the parts of the plane that weren't included according to prosecutors was a risk management function uh... and uh... yes i'm i'm sorry to interrupt there what what do we know about the judge who is overseeing this trial and and how will things did the judge's jurisdiction uh... judge louis caplin is a judge who was appointed by clinton he is uh... runs a very brisk courtroom uh... things uh... happen when they are supposed to uh... he has ruled against s b s on a number of pretrial motions which are kind of kind of make it a little more difficult for him to to defend himself uh... but he's gonna run uh... very efficient trial so is so there's a lot more to learn obviously is this trial unfolds do we have a sense very quickly bob uh... how many weeks we may be looking at here uh... we're looking at six weeks uh... if uh... passes any record uh... judge capital bring it on in a little bit under uh... but that'll will have to see to wait bob thanks for sharing your perspective bob then force their bloomberg legal reporter helping us understand and the proceedings in the trial of uh... sam bankman free joining us here on dv a we'll take a look few at a of the hours stop business stories in a moment this is bloomberg broadcasting live from the bloomberg interactive brokers studio in new york bloomberg eleven three go to washington d c bloomberg ninety nine one to boston bloomberg one of six one to san francisco bloomberg nine c to the country serious xm channel one nineteen and around the globe the bloomberg business app and bloomberg radio dot com this is bloomberg it's about eight twenty nine in the morning in tokyo the equity market will begin trading at the top of the hour will also have action in uh... trading of u s treasuries soul will be online at the top of or as well we do have action underway in sydney mild positivity for the a s x two hundred were up about two tenths of one percent will take a closer look at uh... market action in about ten minutes when brian curts joins us we begin right now with uh... an update on a few of the hours top business stories and i think we have to talk about politics uh... given what happened yesterday kevin mccarthy being removed
The Aloönæ Show
A highlight from S13 E13: 23 Years of Simpsonizing Real Life: A Writer-Producers Journey
"Hello and welcome to The Loney Show. I'm your host, John Mayolone. In this episode, we don't have regulars because, well, reasons. As for our guest, he's from Canada. He's a Simpsons writer, Emmy and Writers Guild award winner, and co -author of the occasionally accurate Annals of Football. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you, Joelle Cohen. I'm holding for applause. I'm sure there'll be a lot of it. Oh, yes. We'll get there eventually. I don't know. I've never experienced it before. Well, at some point, we will. Okay. I guess. So, how's life? I'd say life is fairly good. It could be better. I have some notes. I have some thoughts of life is listening. I have a few suggestions, but otherwise, all right. How's life for you? All right. Very good. Very good. Okay. And have you been up too much recently? Well, as you maybe probably know, the Writers Guild is on strike, so I've been picketing. That's very exciting. Okay. I've been hanging out. I'd like to say I've been cleaning my office, but that'd be a lie, and I'm not about to lie to you and everyone listening. So, I haven't been up to too much. How about you? Life is going great. Okay, good. So, yeah. I'm about to go back to uni again for a second year. Nice. And also working on a revival project for a discontinued app, but we'll get to that point when the beta comes out at the start of this set up start of next year. Okay. Sounds cool. That sounds great. You got more going on than me, certainly, than most people. Yeah. Seems like a yeah. Yeah. All right. We agree with that. Yes, absolutely. So, tell me more about the works you've done and your journey throughout. Well, I'll tell a quick version of the journey. I'm from Canada. I went to university in Canada. I stumbled forward getting degrees that I've found I don't want, like a degree in biology and a degree in business. And then I ended up working in the business world for about seven years and decided I wanted to be a TV writer. After working on kind of a horrible show, I started on this great show, The Simpsons, and I've been there for 23 years, you know, and loved it, written 36 episodes, and now I've written this book. Oh, okay. That's pretty cool. Something. It's a story. Yeah. Interesting. Yes, indeed. What inspired you to become a writer? Not knowing what else to do. So, confusion, I suppose. You know, as I mentioned, I was working in the business world and had taken these different paths in university and was not really intrigued or captivated or happy in any of them. And then my brother is also a writer, and I saw his experiences and life, and it seemed like a cool, fun, creative way to make a living and to kind of carry on one's life. So I just tried it, and to this point have managed to keep doing it. Oh, okay. That's cool. That's cool. Now, there is actually one question that I'm itching to tell you. Hit me. Hit me. All right, then. So during your time as a writer on The Simpsons, I was wondering, what is it you do that... I've heard a lot of things about The Simpsons, like predicting the future, whatnot. Yes. I just want to know is, what is the process and how you write each episode of The Simpsons and putting different references, not just what the people are saying about predictions, but any references whatsoever to put in behind each episodes in The Simpsons? Well, we obviously are pursuing a story and a point, but along the way, we want to make it funny. And sometimes just you'll make a verbal reference to something just sometimes to advance the story, but sometimes just for a joke. And then furthermore, sometimes we'll just do a visual reference to something. And then even as a background joke or something, we just want to fill in the color. And it turns out that after 762 episodes, there's a ton of references.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "cohen" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
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CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from SPECIAL REPORT: THE SBF TRIAL 9-19 Update
"Welcome to the SBF trial, a Coindesk podcast network newsletter bringing you daily insights from inside the courtroom where Sam Bankman -Fried will try to stay out of prison. Follow the Coindesk podcast network to get the audio each morning with content from the Coindesk regulation team and voiced by Wondercraft AI. Sam Bankman -Fried stands accused of committing wire fraud and conspiracy to commit several other types of frauds. His once mighty crypto exchange FTX collapsed in dramatic fashion nearly a year ago shedding billions in value and in two weeks he'll begin his effort to convince a jury of his peers that he didn't commit any of many alleged crimes while running the company. If convicted of even one of the charges Bankman -Fried faces years in a federal prison. If convicted of all of the charges he could well spend decades if not the rest of his life behind bars but there are some nuances here. The maximum prison sentences are just guidelines and like any criminal defendant Bankman -Fried is innocent until proven guilty even if the evidence made public so far seems damning. This discussion itself may be premature given his trial hasn't even begun yet. So how did we get here? Samuel Bankman -Fried who is 31 years old was arrested last December a few short weeks after his empire filed for bankruptcy and ejected the Stanford and Jane Street alum who helmed it. Federal prosecutors in the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York filed an initial indictment bringing 8 charges including wire fraud and conspiring to commit securities fraud, commodities fraud and launder money. They later filed a set of superseding indictments which the defense team led by famed attorneys Mark Cohen and Christian Everdell successfully argued can't be brought at this time due to international extradition treaty obligations. A second trial is tentatively scheduled for next year to address these charges. Over the estimated six -week trial prosecutors will place members of the FTX inner circle including former Alameda research CEO Caroline Ellison, former FTX chief technology officer and co -founder Gary Wang and former FTX engineering director Nishad Singh on the stand to testify against their former colleague, boss and roommate. They'll present information from FTX's systems and balance sheets and share audio recordings over the course of the trial all while the defense tries to poke holes in the case. In the lead -up these teams of attorneys will try to find 10 or 12 jurors out of a selection of hundreds most sympathetic to their case. Once Sam Bankman -Fried's criminal trial begins putting these months of paperwork docket fights behind us his fate will hinge on his jury's opinion. Is the former FTX CEO a crypto criminal or perhaps merely a victim of circumstance? They'll have to decide based on the facts of the case but their ranks haven't been filled quite yet. Right now the lawyers are debating how to determine who can make that decision. The process of jury selection heated up late last week after government lawyers blasted the defense team's proposed questions. A good number of them could influence potential jurors. They argued in a letter to Judge Lewis Kaplan. Some were too prying, others too specific the feds said. A handful are a thinly veiled attempt to advance a defense narrative the government claimed. Many of the questions they took umbrage with shared a common theme. They were about appearances. Sam Bankman -Fried is or was a master of appearances. From the first time this author spotted the sneakers and shorts wearing wild -haired billionaire on a yacht in To his final television interviews preceding his arrest the crypto wunderkind cultivated perceptions. He shuffled between personas that bolstered this image of approachable greatness. Sam was the guy you could trust to get it right even though he couldn't tie his dress shoes. I think it's important for people to think I look crazy the government quoted Sam as saying his crazy playing video games during interviews dressing like a dorm room schlub sleeping on a beanbag chair and oh yeah those disheveled curls made his greatness speaking on Capitol Hill pioneering massive philanthropic endeavors and oh yeah the crypto exchange FTX all the greater. But the government doesn't want to let the defense highlight any of that before the trial begins. They're calling on Judge Kaplan to reject jury questions that probe the righteousness of philanthropic philosophies and campaign finance. Sam's ADHD should be left off the table they say and don't even think about interrogating jurors FTX specific opinions. Real or engineered, Sam's game of perceptions has ended. He'll begin the trial as a well -dressed defendant just like any other. The government doesn't want his old image to dictate who might eventually put him in a khaki jumpsuit. We'll be in the courthouse each and every day of this trial bringing you news as it happens and keeping you updated. Want to follow along? Sign up for Coindesk's new daily newsletter, the SBF trial, bringing you insights from the courthouse and around the case. You can get the podcast each day right here by following the Coindesk podcast network. Thanks for listening.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
A highlight from Episode 11 The Drama of Atheist Humanism Fr. Joseph Fessio S.J., Vivian Dudro, and Joseph Pearce FBC Podcast
"Welcome, and welcome back to the Forum Book Club, with Vivian Deutero, myself Father Fesser, and Joseph Pierce continuing to discuss Henri Robach's classic, modern classic, the drama of A .K. Schumann. The last session we actually finished on the end of the chapter. Let's see what we can do this time as we begin chapter three, Positivist Transpositions. The previous chapter was about the alliance that he sought with the Catholic Church as an instrument of promoting the final status of civilization, namely the positivist order. So let's see how the transpositions take place. Joseph? Well, yes, at the top of page 12 and 16, again, I like there's an irony, a role irony, I think, in Henri de Lubac's voice here. He says, then, speaking of Comte, then the new Aristotle, so the philosopher, had changed into a new Saint Paul, so basically a religious zealot, in order to complete the edifice. Quote, I have systematically devoted my life, he says, in the systeme de politicians positif, to making real science ultimately provide the necessary basis for the sound philosophy, according to which I should then build up the true religion. So we have the evolution here. Real science leads to sound philosophy, which leads to true religion. This is where this positivism is going. And I would like to back up, if I may, to the very first page of the chapter, where de Lubac points out that this alliance that Comte wants to create to bring about his true religion was intended to be purely temporary. He thought it expedient because he no longer hoped that the triumph of his own church at any rate among the masses was as near as he had at first predicted. And I would just like to editorialize that every time people outside the church try to co -opt the church for their own purposes, for them, it's a temporary phase. You know, think about concordats with Mussolini or Hitler or any of these attempts to co -opt the church. Ultimately, the end is to destroy the church or replace it with this regime having total power. And so, thankfully, as we pointed out in the last chapter, de Lubac said this temptation will come again and again, but that it won't in the end. The church will, because of the Holy Spirit, will not be prevailed upon. But it's important to know that that temptation is a perennial temptation on the part of people seeking power to use the church and on the part of people inside the church to seek a legitimization on the part of the powers that be that want to use the church for their own ends. Yeah, but again, I do love, and this is such a, we might say, a dry topic, that I do like the Lubac's raw sense of humor. So even the first part of this, the true Catholicism, positivism through Catholicism. On page 219, three lines down, according to Kant, the new Catholicism is modeled on the old. The church had her sacraments. Skipping a couple of lines, positive has his rights to consecrations or social sacraments. And he says there are nine of these sacraments in positivism, including one that is received after death. That's an innovation. Right. Yes, he, so the transposition that's happening here is, you know, for everything that the Catholic Church offers its flock, he's going to transpose that with something of his own invention that resembles it, but is actually emptying it of all of its original meaning. Well, only these got out. Yeah, just these got out. No big deal, right? Including a liturgical calendar with saints, the cults of saints, prayers. All of this is spelled out in the next few pages of all the things he's going to make. It's sort of, as Lubac says, again, perhaps broadly, this process of incorporation after death, which may rather be compared with canonization. And in fact, it is, in fact, I think canonization, it's secular canonization. These people will be immortalized as heroes. It's going right back to paganism, right? You build statues of them all over the place. You put them on the calendar. And so, you know, if you're a good servant of the positivist religion, you will be immortal, not in the sense of going to heaven, but in the sense of being remembered and revered. Yeah, I'm going to jump way ahead to the conclusion of everything here. That's fine. Just one little sentence, 266 at the bottom, where the little box says here, Cohen's spiritual itinerary is that of man himself. Lost faith cannot long remain unreplaced. You know, you leave out God, something, some idol is going to take God's place. That's right. My father going right back 46 pages, you see it on the top of page 220. He's talking about that man becomes, quote, a veritable organ of the great being, capital G and capital B. I mean, what on earth is the great being if we're not allowed to believe in God? Is it Comte? Or if it's not Comte, is it humanity in some sense? Yes, it's humanity. The abstract deity, the great being. Yeah, yeah. That's I think, Chesson referred to that as similar to being on a crowded tram, as you would say, humanity. Amorphous mass all around you. I have something on page 229. Anybody before that? Let's go for it. Like the last part of that paragraph at the top. Apart from all questions of doctrine, this is Judelbach speaking. One cannot take seriously the musings of a man who never understood a word of the gospel and who sank deeper every day into the monstrous egocentricity. The crude and lacrimose consolations to which Comte innocently abandoned himself in his sanctuary cannot be taken for genuine spirituality. Telling it out how it is, basically, that's somewhere at the end. This is a madman, egocentric, narcissistic madman. And here's the Judelbach exercising that discernment that he says needs to be when we're dealing with these intellectual systems or ideologies, there's an intellectual discernment you have to go through and think about it. But then there's the spiritual discernment, right? That's what he said in the previous part of this book with respect to you. If we can go back perhaps to 224, just a footnote there, because this, I think, is very interesting and it has this wonderful phrase moral eunuch. This is somebody writing about Comte in a pejorative way, in a negative way, I should say. Comte is a man whom the exclusive culture of scientific ideas has reduced to a true degradation. He is a moral eunuch, all feeling, all poetry, which is to say, all manifestation of feeling is something he has completely disregarded or rather that is completely unknown to him. And now this whole different moral eunuch, not only is it a good phrase, a powerful poetic phrase, but it's really, I think, also a description of many of the worst psychopaths, right? Is that they actually have no moral compass. They have no moral feeling, no moral emotion. They can do hideous, horrible things dispassionately because they're morally impotent. Yeah, it's a strange thing. We all have a moral sense and we can't be human without it. And yet it seems to be a submersion of something. I remember years ago, I heard a confession of a young woman who is from a good family and actually lived a pretty good life. But this priest kind of seduced her. And so she was spending time in his factory bedroom and she confessed it. But it wasn't like it was something really serious. She didn't feel any moral seriousness about that, even though she did come to confession. But it just seemed like, for whatever reason, there was a colorblindness almost, you know? She could see some things, but couldn't see others. So it happened. A desensitization, which is, of course, dangerous, right? When you suddenly become so habitual, you no longer see it as being anything unusual and therefore nothing too much of an aberration, right? If you do it all the time, we excuse ourselves for it. I want to jump back to 229, unless there's something in between. The second section is called The Priesthood of the Scientist, which is a good description here. So far, only the most general of the transpositions in Catholicism has been considered. But there are two others that complete it, although he divides it into three here. A form of worship, a dogma, and a regime. In other words, it has poetry, it's philosophy, and it's politics. Those are the three transpositions I'm going to talk about. Here's one on page 232. You mentioned the thing I brought up before about the specialization of science. The new paragraph there. For what type of scientist would be worthy to belong to such a priesthood? Well, keep going. Comp never cared for empty learning. See, this is this dismissal of the theoretical pursuit of knowledge just for its own sake, which is what the pure sciences are. He has no time for that because that's just empty learning. And another quote from him, cloudy erudition that contents itself with mechanically accumulating facts and which is equally fitted to serve the most contradictory opinions. Well, that is right. When people are, you know, you might have run into somewhat the different theory from your own. Anyway, he just can't abide that. The irony is that, as I understood it from our early discussions of Comp's philosophy and positivism, was it was building a philosophy which denied the existence of metaphysics. In other words, the empiricism and scientific materialism were the only building blocks upon which any truth could be built. And yet he seems to outgrow that and sort of like a Saturn five rocket jettisons, the very thing that got him into orbit. And so the next sentence there, the true positive spirit, as he conceives it, is at bottom just as far removed from empiricism as from mysticism. So he seems to have no real connection with the very, very ladder by which he's climbed. And that's a brilliant expression of the fact that he rejects what he sees as wrong in empiricism, being too specialized. And he rejects mysticism, which is a transcendent, basically. And in the middle is what? Something's going to take the place of the mysticism, which is humanity, and him he as as the pontiff of them all. At the bottom, a couple more lines down, he blames, quote, the exaggerated intellectual narrowness that comes from an empirical specialization. And that is true. But what he says on page 233, about 10 lines down, the aim in view should be systematic generality. Analysis should be subordinated to synthesis as progress is to order in egoism to altruism. At bottom, the whole thing should be one single science, namely human, or rather social science. Social science. There it is. There it is. That's how we have departments of social science on every university campus. That's where it came from. But look how scary that is, that basically all analysis, in other words, all reason, is subject to synthesis, which is, again, it's the inversion, perversion and reversion of the whole Hegelian thing, right? Where you're using reason, you have a thesis, then you have an antithesis, and then you come to a synthesis. Well, now you get to a synthesis. This is the final synthesis. We will have no more theses and antitheses. This is this synthesis and all future reasoning, all future analysis is subject to this final synthesis to which we've arrived, right? That's absolute ideological tyranny and totalitarianism of the 20th century encapsulated. That's right. But ironically, on 233, he wants the scientist to be, this is the top of the second paragraph, to be a man with an encyclopedic mind. Well, I thought you just said you didn't want all these, you know, this detail, this clutter, you know, with, no, I guess he's going to handpick the details that are important. Yeah, the encyclopedia would be the positivist cataclysm. That's the encyclopedia, and you can't read anything other than that. But again, you know, facts themselves, you know, mathematical quantities, these have to, we have to exercise our faculty of judgment to decide of all of this litter of facts, what's really important and what's the hierarchy of value that they have and what is all of this knowledge to be in the service of in the first place, but to God. So you take that out. Now you're just going to have an arbitrary selection of facts. Okay, what does this sound like? It's going to be settled science. We're going to arbitrarily pick the facts that fit our program. Anyone who makes any questions or complaints about it is antisocial, by definition, going to be canceled, right? Like what you just said, Joseph, this is exactly the totalitarian ideological mindset that we're up against, even now. Which is putting the template in place, which will lead to the murder of millions of people or several decades later. We'll return to the Forum Book Club with Fr. Joseph Fessio, Vivian Dudrow, and Joseph Pierce in just a moment. Thank you. Did you also know that you can listen to Discerning Hearts programming wherever you download your favorite podcast, like Apple Podcasts, Google Play, iHeartRadio, Spotify, even on Audible, as well as numerous other worldwide podcast streaming platforms. And did you know that Discerning Hearts also has a YouTube channel? Be sure to check out all these different places where you can find Discerning Hearts Catholic podcasts, dedicated to those on the spiritual journey. 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Your feedback fuels our mission to help others climb higher and go deeper in their spiritual growth. Like, review, and let your voice be a beacon of light for fellow seekers on this spiritual journey. We now return to The Formed Book Club with Father Joseph Fezzio, Vivian Dudro, and Joseph Pierce. Well, on page 234 in the middle, this is what I mentioned before. He talks about the heredity and its characteristic of science only in its academic degeneration, when dispersive particularity hampers ascetic culture and the moral urge. Genuine science, on the other hand, establishes a double synthesis, first between the various branches of intellectual research and then between poetry and philosophy. But it's true that genuine philosophy would seek to find the hierarchy of sciences and show where aesthetics require human anthropology and therefore where poetry fits in. That's what true philosophy would do. But he subsides for true philosophy a kind of mechanistic social synthesis of all these dispersed facts, with no principle except his own ego. Right. And so this is the reason why we call totalitarianism that expression because of the word total. So these men who presume to be able to see the whole, right? And now they're going to impose their view of the whole on everybody else. But it can't help but be reductionist because no human being on Earth can see the whole. That's why our knowledge is in fragments. Yeah, who wouldn't like to see the whole thing? Well, when we get to heaven, even then, we won't be able to... You know, God is so beyond us, we're going to spend eternity reaching the whole, I guess. I don't know. It's why we should not trust politically or philosophically anybody who doesn't trust mystery, right? If someone hates mystery and we have to get beyond all mystery to some totality, which is encapsulated in the human mind, that person is leading himself and others to destruction. Because it can't help but be reductionist. It can't help but be reductionist. So what does that do? Oh, the man doesn't fit in this bed? Then we have to chop off his head and chop off his feet and make him fit. And it's true what Joseph said that, you know, this leaves out the transcendent in God. It also leaves out the cross. So the two main pillars of Christianity, Trinitarian God, incarnation and redemption to the cross are still rejected by him. He wants to have a utopia where there's no cross and no God, just us. Oh, by the way, and I'm in charge. That's right. And his priesthood is on 235 to spell this out even more. This priesthood in the middle of that graph on 235, in all things, this is the total, right? In all things that will decide what should be thought. Man's understanding will be subjected to it. In the positive regime, in fact, there can be no more question of free thought or of freedom of conscience. Just look at these attempts at lawmaking going on in our own country, taking away from doctors the freedom of conscience not to perform or to perform certain procedures or certain medicines or whatever. I mean, there is an all -out attack on freedom of conscience in medicine in this country going on right now. And this is a little box thesis for this whole book, the drama of atheist humanism, namely if you leave out God, you destroy man. That's right. Because the very thing that's being done here is everything which is really human, freedom of thought, freedom of choice, freedom of conscience is being subjected to some abstraction. The look -back kind of sums this up on page 237, sums up this section actually at the bottom there. Furthermore, there's nothing now to fear from complete subordination of the reason to faith because according to Kant, it's a kind of faith, but you can actually prove it if you had to, but most of them aren't capable, so they have to submit themselves. It is tantamount to that of the mind to the heart. That is to say, it subordinates personal to social instincts or more briefly, man to humanity with a capital H, and then the look -back asks the question, can humanity be a tyrant? And that the next chapter is spiritual. That's when you say, where does this lead when you suppress man's freedom of conscience? Yeah, it's interesting. I mean, that question, can humanity be a tyrant, should be an essay prompt, really, because an abstract concept itself can't be a tyrant, but those who subject themselves to the abstract concept can become and do become tyrants. That's the way I would ask it, if someone sent me an essay prompt anyway. Yes, well, and humanity can't be a tyrant because abstractions can't do anything. Right. If you claim to be the sole reliable exponent of humanity, well, then, of course, you will be a tyrant. And you can certainly, yeah, humanity is the totality. Of course, you can sacrifice people on the order of humanity, right? And on 241, de Lubac points out that it all, the purge was beginning, de Lubac says, meaning Comte was already threatening to, quote -unquote, unmask his false adherents, you know, already the purge was beginning. So this wasn't even something that was going to be saved for later. Comte was already beginning in his own circles to weed out, you know, weed out the unbelievers or the people who aren't the true believers anyway. Yeah, on 239, about six lines down, he's quoted some of this. The social order will always be incompatible with permanent freedom to reopen at will, an indefinite discussion of the rare foundation of society. So that systematic tolerance cannot exist, and it's never really existed except in connection with opinions regarded as indifferent or doubtful. So in the bottom of the page, in short, positive faith is not open to abuses because it is always demonstrable, but people cannot demand that it should be demonstrated here and now. So we've come to the truth. We're brilliant ones. Yeah, take our word for it, or you'll be shocked. Again, this quote, I'm backtracking again to 238, the beginning of this section, that block quote there, an indented quote by Mr Jean Lacroix. Competent men are so far ahead of the masses that all sorts of political and social catastrophes have tried to happen before the latter have reached a positive stage. Besides, the community as a whole must always lag behind the elite. And here we have something which is sociological and in some sense sort of socialist and certainly secular humanist, which is also elitist. And again, that also is very much what we have now, right, where basically the socialists used to be, and I think authentically, certainly in British history, was the working class. The Labour Party was a political organisation begun by the working class in order to give the working class, to enfranchise the working class politically. But now we see the elites have completely and utterly hijacked the machine and treat the masses with complete contempt. So a word like populism has become a swear word. You know, heaven forbid that a member of the elite should be popular. You know, that people might actually like him or he might be speaking for them. So this is just really systematic elitism as now the voice of the people. Right. And yes, so we must listen to the experts and suppress any opinions that are different from those of the self -appointed experts. That's right. And these experts, we see it now, cannot tell that what's in a woman's womb is a human being or can't tell what sex a person is or whether there are only two sexes. They're the experts. If you can't figure those things out, I don't want to hear your opinions on taxation or foreign policy. Well, with the famous line by William F. Buckley, he'd rather be ruled by the first 20 people randomly chosen out of the phone book than by the faculty of Harvard.
The Café Bitcoin Podcast
A highlight from Store of Value and Proof of Work with Ben Justman, Founder of "Peony Lane Wine" - September 18th, 2023
"Hello, and welcome to the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast brought to you by Swan Bitcoin, the best way to buy and learn about Bitcoin. I'm your host, Alex Danson, and we're excited to announce that we're bringing the Cafe Bitcoin Conversations Twitter Spaces to you on this show, the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast, Monday through Friday every week. Join us as we speak to guests like Michael Saylor, Len Alden, Corey Clifston, Greg Foss, Tomer Strohle, and many others in the Bitcoin space. Also, be sure to hit that subscribe button. Make sure you get notifications when we launch a new episode. You can join us live on Twitter Spaces Monday through Friday, starting at 7 a .m. Pacific and 10 a .m. Eastern every morning to become part of the conversation yourself. Thanks again. We look forward to bringing you the best Bitcoin content daily here on the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast. All right, all right. Good morning to all of you Cafe Bitcoiners. Happy Monday. It is time for another awesome week in Bitcoin. Man. It is so cool getting up on a Monday morning. You know, most people are like, oh, God, it's another Monday. They don't even want to get out of bed. They're dragging ass. They're like, oh, but Bitcoiners are like, let's go. All right. Good morning to all of you, Lisa. Good morning, Peter. Good morning, Mickey. Morning. Good morning. Don Bay Terrence. Good morning to all of you. Shout outs to my cobart in the audience. Joe Carla. Sorry. Hi, guys. Alex, the other Alex, there is another Alex. Alex talks tweets. She works at Swan. Shout out to you. You're welcome to come up. She does some amazing stuff. I'm not there's other people in the audience here who work for Swan. I'm not going to talk to you because you guys have some semi names. I don't know. Anyway, morning, Jacob as well. Welcome back from your golf excursion or the weekend. Tone vase morning there on you an invite. I just found out I'm on a panel with tone vase for Pacific Bitcoin. I'm moderating tone vase and Pierre Richard and Jimmy song. That's awesome. And I guess our mission is to talk about shit coins. So for whatever that's worth. All right. Welcome to Cafe Bitcoin episode four hundred and thirty six. Shout outs to our supporters on Fountain and Noster Nests. Our mission for this show is to provide the signal in a sea of noise, teach the other seven billion people on this planet why there's hope because of this bright orange feature we call Bitcoin. Today's show, we're going to be discussing BTC performance versus other assets. There's a tweet Saylor put out with a really interesting chart. We'll be talking about that. United States interest payments are at insane levels and the near perfect energy arbitrage of Bitcoin later today. We have Ben Justman from Penny Lane Wine coming on the show. Very excited. He's an example of the Bitcoin circular economy. So you've got people who are craftsmen making really fine high end things and they're selling them directly to big winners. And man, I love to see it because this is the future. Like we're moving away from this entire consumer rush, rush, rush, get on the hamster wheel, make money that is constantly devaluing and then spend it on shit that you're going to replace one month or one year from now because it's garbage. But that's the entire consumer economy system. It's insane. But Bitcoin is switching that. I think we're going to flip this thing completely on its head. How long will it take? I have no idea. But I think it's coming. Anybody have any opening comments you want to make before we start digging in here? Just that the coffee and the Bitcoin charts are hitting hard this morning. So let's go. Yeah, what's up with that? I saw there was something like, I don't remember the exact stat, but the open interest has is skyrocketing, I guess. We went from twenty six, what is this, five ish to twenty seven thousand two hundred and thirty ish per Bitcoin right as of right now this morning. Lisa Huff, what did you do? You know, I missed the days when Bitcoin was actually volatile, like I am excited to see that it moved and I was also excited to see that it moved down last week. But as for me personally, Alex, what you said is correct. Bitcoiners were ready to get up and do it. And in the last several months, I have, because of Bob Burnett's lovely wife, Lola, I heard a comment that she said she made about health and fitness. She said you have to approach it like it is your lifestyle. Yeah, kind of kind of changes things up. I'm raring to go at like five o 'clock in the morning. Start workout, just went to Pilates. That's my whole life story, guys. Now you know it. Nice. I like it. I think it's awesome. Like I've shifted also because now I'm on the East Coast. So the showtime starts differently for me now. And I have time first thing in the morning, get up and go do physical things. And man, it's it's been amazing. It's been awesome. You've got to exercise for life to keep your life long and healthy. It is a lifetime thing. And finding something that you enjoy doing while you exercise is critical to that. Personally, since I'm on the West Coast, I make my bed and it's a successful day before Cafe Bitcoin. And I am not qualified to discuss anything, just so everybody knows. It's all good. Shout out to Mike Germano in the audience, throwing you an invite if you would like to come up here and obligation to do so. Alex, good morning. Welcome. I think this is the first time you've been up here now. Hey, good morning, everybody. Yeah. Thanks for inviting me up. This is a lot of fun. I'm always listening while changing diapers in the morning and doing the whole mom thing before I clock in. So thanks for having me. Yeah. What are you excited about in Bitcoin and with Swan and with everything? What are you excited about? Wow. That's a loaded question. But I mean, short term, I am stoked on Pacific Bitcoin coming up. I sent out an email blast this weekend. Hopefully many of you guys received it. And I heard you mention your panel, Alex. And the description in the email of that panel is... So the title is Shitcoin Slayers, but that's pretty awesome. And basically, shitcoiners are shaking in their boots and stand no chance against Alex, Tone Vays, Jimmy, Pierre. There'll definitely be some fighting words and not some subtle jabs. It's going to be an awesome talk. Yeah, just a lot of good stuff in the pipeline for PB. Hope to see you guys there. Tone Vays, good morning. We're on a panel together. Good morning. Yeah, I saw that in the email that you were sending that over. Yeah, so that's great. Do you guys know which day that would be? That first day or second day? I have no idea. I just literally just found out myself because I got the email just like everybody else. It's funny, right? They're like, they don't even tell me. Yeah, no, it's good. I actually tweeted out just last night. Ethereum had a brand new weekly low 12 -month close against Bitcoin. And that is a very weak TA symbol for Ethereum. And it's already going down a little bit today as well. So I think, yeah, shitcoins are in a bit of trouble. But the weird thing is, though, have you guys seen what is going on over in Singapore right now with token 2049, which pretty much has become the biggest shitcoin conference in the world? It is crazy. That conference is so scary to me. It tells me that shitcoiners still have an unreasonable amount of money. And maybe the bear market's not over yet. I don't know if anyone's seen the party videos from there. No. What I wonder about is, in this next cycle, are they tapping Asia? Are you going to see a lot of shitcoin conferences over in Asia? And are they going to be gigantic? Oh, I was going to just say probably. But the scary thing is that that conference was massive. And they're renting out sweets with the best views of the... Let's get some context. Let's get some context. What do you mean by massive? What does this mean? What does massive mean to you? Numbers? Do you have an idea of a number of attendees kind of thing? I don't. I'm assuming 5 ,000 to 10 ,000 people. I wasn't going to watch that much. But it was like the after party, right? Like renting out the most expensive restaurant in Singapore. Getting front row seats or the best views of F1, a race that was happening the day after the event. If you just do the hashtag token2049 and just look at their after parties, I don't think anyone really cares. It seemed like a borderline Bitcoin 2022 or one of their older ones. It was insane. And based on how well the shitcoin community is doing, I'm like, man, this bear market may not be over yet. Well, Tone, they're long on other people's fiat, but that tells me they're short on their own tokens. That's why they're spending so hard. It's possible. Is Ethereum ever going to make new highs against Bitcoin? Nope. No, no way. And I said that on a show. I was on Ben Cohen's podcast and a lot of his audience is apparently shitcoiners. And I said that no shitcoin has ever made a new high versus Bitcoin in the following bull market of Bitcoin. Like it's never happened. Actually, I did find one exception. That exception was Doge. But that's because of Elon Musk. It's not because of anything Doge did. And BNB, right? No, BNB never really pumped in the 2017 market because it was just launching then. So BNB's high is the 2021 bull market, and that will never be surpassed. In the case of Ethereum, it's the 2017 bull market. In the case of Litecoin, it's the 2013 bull market. So if a token has been around for like a full year before the bull market, that is its ultimate high. Like it never breaches it. Ethereum will never break its 2017 high. No way.
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 13:00 09-12-2023 13:00
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The Maverick Paradox Podcast
A highlight from The problems of evil
"In today's episode I'll be speaking to Raphael Cohen -Algamal about the problems of evil. How can you reconcile individualism and collectivism? Has multiculturalism failed? And what happens when the rights of the state are in conflict with the rights of culture? Raphael discusses his book and provides an academic viewpoint on these tricky dilemmas. I create clear thinking and decisive leaders who can amplify their influence. Contact me to find out how I can help you or your organisation. And today our guest is Raphael Cohen -Almagor. How are you doing? Good, how are you Judith? I am doing great, thank you. Tell me what sort of things make you giggle or laugh out loud? What makes me giggle? Good, cynical, sharp, statement jokes. Things that make me think and then see the irony behind them. And yeah, make me giggle. Tell us a little bit about you. I'm an academic, I've been in academia all my life. I did my bachelor degree at Tel Aviv University in political science, sociology and anthropology and then continued to do my masters in political science at Tel Aviv University. I pursued a doctorate at Oxford University at St. Catherine's College. I'm very patriotic about my Oxford College and then started to research and teach at the Hebrew University, went to the and Institute then I moved to University of Haifa. I spent a year at UCLA, I spent a year at Charles Hopkins University. I spent some time at the Woodrow Wilson Centre for International Studies, then moved to the UK, been to of course Oxford and then University of Hull and then University College London and presently I'm the Olof Palme Visiting Professor at Lund University in Sweden. Besides academia, I am sort of a public person. I established some organization in my life. So back in 1983 I established a second -generation Holocaust Remembrance Organization in Israel and later I established a Centre for Democratic Studies and then I established the Palme Jews Institute and I established the Middle Eastern Studies Centre at the University of Hull. So I like to do practical things. I'm not the usual academic because I have many many interests. You told me that today we're going to speak about the contrast between group rights and individual rights which is subject of my two last books. One of them is Just Visible Multiculturalism, maybe you can see that, published in 2021 and I consider this as one of my major works. Took me 10 years to write this book and then the other one is my most recent book which is called the Republic Security and Secularism which is on the fight of France against how women dress, especially Muslim women dress. In France I was fascinated by the fact that in France people are so preoccupied by the fact that women dress. I mean why should you be? There are people that can think that the government should be preoccupied by rather than how a woman dresses. She does it every day. So I went to France to study that and that's a subject of my most recent book but other than that I'm interested in problems of evil.
Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life
A highlight from My Problem with Religion: An Open Forum
"Welcome to Gospel in Life. Today's teaching is from an open forum, My Problem with Religion, held at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City in 2003. This talk by Dr. Keller was given to introduce people to Christianity who did not yet have a personal relationship with Christ. I've been listening to that Leonard Cohen piece all week. I had never heard it before. I was getting ready for it tonight, and it's extremely tender. And yet, as you read the lyrics, did you get it? Of course not. It's impenetrable, though it's about David and it's trying to figure out what happened to David and the place where it talks about the fact that he wanted proof. What that really means is David thought that he believed, but he asked God to test him, and he failed the test. That's talking about the great failure with Bathsheba. But I think Leonard Cohen hits the cultural mood when he says, basically in that song, I got all these problems with religion, but that doesn't mean that I can just give up on God. Now, here's what I'd like to do. The two objections we just talked about, the two problems people have with God today, which are, first of all, the problem of evil and suffering. How could a good and powerful God allow that? And then secondly, the problem of the exclusiveness of religion. If you think you have the truth, if you think your religion is right, if you think you have the superior take on spiritual reality, doesn't that lead to exclusion and oppression and abuse? What are we going to do with those two problems? Now, the first thing I want you to know right off the bat, you say, well, you're a minister, so obviously you don't think they're that big, those problems are very big. No, I think that's quite wrong. They have great weight, and I think that whether you, we're all in the same boat here, whether you believe in God, or you really don't believe in God, you still have those problems. Those problems are with you whether you believe or not, because they're true, they have weight, that is to say, they've got substance. They get at something that really is a problem, so they don't ever go away. The real question is, can you, are they insurmountable? Is there a way through them? And I certainly, this isn't a sermon, and that's hardly a lecture, the more I look at it, because the lecture sounds like you're an expert on something, and I don't know who's an expert on this, but I would like to at least give you a way through. Let me give you something to consider as a possible way through, which I think the music shows us we need to at least be looking for a way through. And here are, here's two ways I think to get through. Number one, it's important to see that people's problems with religion are themselves beliefs with their problems.
Crypto News Alerts | Daily Bitcoin (BTC) & Cryptocurrency News
A highlight from 1376: This Will Send Bitcoin to $1,500,000 - Cathie Wood
"In today's show, we're going to be breaking down the latest technical analysis, as well as Michael Saylor, MicroStrategy and Bitcoin, three years after, now at 153 ,000 BTC on their balance sheet. We'll also be discussing Bitcoin's secondary scare now playing out, warrants top analyst Benjamin Cohen. But how low will the Bitcoin price plunge? We're going to be discussing that. As well as one catalyst which can trigger the Bitcoin price to explode by more than 450 % predicts fund strats. Tom Lee will also be discussing rich dad Robert Kiyosaki predicting Bitcoin rising to a million dollars per coin and gold hitting 75 ,000 while silver hits 60 ,000. If the world economy crashes, we'll also be discussing Cathie Wood confirming her one and a half million dollar Bitcoin price forecast for the king crypto. We'll also be taking a look at the overall crypto market, all this plus so much more in today's show. Yo, what's good crypto fam? This is first and foremost, a video show. So if you want the full premium experience with video, visit my rumble channel at cryptonewsalerts .net. Again that's cryptonewsalerts .net. With that being shared fam, welcome everyone. This is podcast episode number 1376. I'm your fearless host JV and today is stacking Saturday, it's August 19th, 2023. Let's kick it off with our market watch as we do each and every day. We got Bitcoin still in the red unfortunately, but maintaining that 26 ,000 support. We have Ether and many of the alts back in the green, but barely after one of the biggest bloodbaths we have experienced in several months, we have Ether maintaining 1600 and it's just above one trillion. So the entire crypto market cap right now is only a trillion dollars. Isn't that insanity? Now there's 26 billion in volume at the past 24 hours with Bitcoin dominance currently at 48 .1 % with the Ether dominance at 19 % even and checking out the top 100 crypto gainers in the past 24 hours, we have SUI up about 16 % trading at 55 and a half cents, followed by Hedera, HBAR up 11 and a half percent trading at six and a half cents, followed by AKT up 11 % trading at $1 .55 and checking out the top 100 crypto gainers for the past week. Finally, we have many of the alts back in the green, but we have to keep in mind the massive bloodbath with over a billion dollars worth of liquidations practically in the past 48 hours. So naturally a lot of these altcoins are bouncing back after 20, 30 % losses and checking out the crypto greed and fear index, we're currently rated a 39 still in fear. We were in fear yesterday at a 37 last week was a 54 neutral and last month a 56 in green. Greed. So there you have it. How many of you have taken advantage of this recent dip? Please do let me know. BTFD and Staccanem Sats, dollar cost averaging is the name of the game, especially if you're in this for the long haul and also want to ask you where my long -term hodlers at, make some noise in that live chat. Now we're going to do our technical analysis a little bit different today. Why not try something new? And yes, I got some color to my skin because I spent the day at the pool here in Puerto Rico yesterday with my daughter and it feels good. Soak it in those sun rays, free vitamin D, D3. Why not take advantage of it? But anyways, now let's break down our technical analysis. I'm using trading view today. You should be able to see this on your screen. Let me know in the comments. We're going to do the one day right now. It's a sell signal. Sell says 14 neutral is a seven and a buy is a five and you're going to check out these oscillators right here. It says buy and then you have the moving averages is a strong sell signal. You're going to see why here in a moment. Let's start with the oscillators, which you should be able to see on the left on your screen right now. Relative strength index we commonly cover, which is the RSI is a buy signal. The commodity channel index is a buy signal. The momentum indicator is a buy signal. The MACD is a sell signal. The Williams percentage range is a buy signal. We got some neutral signals, but let's check out these moving averages. Check it out. Sell, sell, sell, sell, sell. Everything virtually says sell for moving averages except the whole moving average. I'm not even familiar personally with that metric, but all the major ones, the exponential, the simple moving average, et cetera, all in the sell zone. Very interesting to say the least, but I want to know how many of you took advantage of this dip or are you expecting and anticipating the Bitcoin price to drop even lower? If you're one of those expecting a lower drop, how low would the Bitcoin price likely go? Let me know your honest thoughts in the comments right down below. With that being shared, now let's break down the latest with Michael Saylor and MicroStrategy because it was exactly three years ago today he got his infamous Bitcoin position and now today they hold over 153 ,000 BTC on their balance sheet, which is no joke. Some say when Bitcoin hits new highs, Michael Saylor is going to be amongst the richest persons in this world. That wouldn't surprise me whatsoever, especially with his attitude of there is no second best and continuing to accumulate Bitcoin and never selling, he said, for hundreds and hundreds of years to come, so we shall see how that plays out. All I know is Michael Saylor and MicroStrategy is the smart money, Cathie Wood is the smart money, and I like watching the smart money and not listening necessarily to what they say, but more importantly, always watching what they do. I'm watching you. You know what I mean? Anyways, fam, let's break it down. MicroStrategy's co -founder and executive chair, Saylor, who served as the company's former CEO for over 30 years, continues to remain bullish on Bitcoin three years after his publicly traded business intelligence company decided to make its first Bitcoin purchase. That's right. If you missed the memo, Michael Saylor, his company MicroStrategy was the first publicly traded company to put Bitcoin on its balance sheet. Saylor also made a big price prediction for the asset, believing it could exceed a million dollars per coin. I say that's conservative because I've covered Michael Saylor predictions here on the show of him talking about a $14 million Bitcoin price. Real talk. Now, MicroStrategy made history and headlines. It was August 11th, 2020, virtually three years ago after becoming the first publicly traded company to purchase Bitcoin. The firm initially hinted back in July of 2020 about its plans to invest in assets such as Bitcoin or gold rather than holding cash as a way to escape inflation, with the company later deciding to buy Bitcoin worth a quarter billion, 250 million, and adopting it as a primary treasury reserve asset. And how many of you remember the infamous quote where he compared keeping cash on the balance sheet as a melting ice cube? I'll never forget that personally. And according to Saylor at that time, who was MicroStrategy's CEO, the decision to go for Bitcoin was made because of the crypto, served as a better hedge against inflation and had a higher return on investment compared with other assets. Now, that purchase marked the beginning of several investments amid the crypto's volatile price movements, causing the company to hold a large Bitcoin stash. And in June of 2023, Saylor announced that the business intelligence giant bought 12 ,333 more Bitcoin for $347 million, making it one of the company's largest purchases in a single quarter since second quarter of 2021. And as of July 31st of this year, MicroStrategy officially holds 152 ,800 BTC, which the company said was purchased for roughly $4 .5 billion at an average price of $29 ,672 per BTC. Now the business intelligence software firm is the largest corporate holder of Bitcoin. Besides corporate holders, we have the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust, and they literally control over 400 ,000 BTC, just FYI. Meanwhile in a December 2022 SEC filing, MicroStrategy revealed it sold 704 Bitcoin to generate tax benefits. The sale was a first for the company with the action contrary to the previous statement by Saylor, who said that MicroStrategy would never sell any of its stash. Now Saylor is known as one of the biggest Bitcoin supporters and has continued to promote the asset as far superior to gold, which is fact, calling it digital gold. However, he has not always not been pro Bitcoin. I mean, there was a time it was actually against it. There's an infamous tweet dating back to 2013 stating it would suffer the same fate as online gambling. Meanwhile, online gambling seems to be soaring and thriving better than ever before. And the same thing with Bitcoin. Go figure. Even not a rocket scientist can be right every single time, right? But Saylor's view on Bitcoin has since changed and you got to respect he had the balls to change his opinion publicly. How many people like Peter Schiff refused to ever change their opinion, regardless of how wrong they clearly are. You know what I mean? Now the MicroStrategy executive chair in May of 2022 said the Bitcoin price can go into the millions per coin while stating it is the future of money. We know this is a fact. The following month, Saylor predicted Bitcoin price would skyrocket to a million dollars. And later in September of 2022, the exec said the crypto could be valued at 500 ,000 in the next 10 years if it matches the market cap of gold. And for context, Bitcoin's market cap is currently roughly 570 billion, while gold is currently estimated to be $12 .8 trillion. Now also, Saylor seemed to be unfazed by the ongoing enforcement crackdown on the crypto sector by the SEC, stating the regulators actions could benefit Bitcoin by boosting the asset's price and increasing its market dominance share to 80 percent. Could you imagine Bitcoin continuing to eat these altcoins kind of like Ms. Pac -Man? You know what I mean? I think it's likely to happen in just a matter of time. And Saylor, who served as the CEO of MicroStrategy for 30 years, left his position in August to become the company's executive officer, with MicroStrategy president Fongli serving as the CEO. The American business exec explained that his new role will help him better focus on the firm's Bitcoin acquisition strategy and related Bitcoin advocacy initiatives. So there you have it. The man just wants to focus on stacking more sets. You can't blame him. Much power and respect to him. Shout out to Michael Saylor. If he is one of your favorite Bitcoiners, do let me know. And which one of your favorite Saylor speeches? One of mine is, there is no second best. There's Bitcoin. And you got Bitcoin. Shout out to Saylor. Anyways, fam. Now let's cover our next story of the day and discuss when do you feel the bottom will be in for Bitcoin? Do you think the bottom is already in at 15 .7 or do you think we have lower to go? Let's see what some of the top analysts have to say. This is Benjamin Cohen. Cohen tells his 800 ,000 YouTube subs the current crypto downturn is in line with a pattern that occurs every four years. Quoting him here. The idea behind the secondary scare in crypto comes from the fact the S &P 500 tends to get a correction in August for September of its US pre -election year. As we know, we have a big presidential election in the US next year along with that having. So if we were to look at the 2023, you can see the S &P is in fact getting this correction, which we talked about. The S &P 500 is down a little over 5 % since the start of this month. And according to the widely followed strategist, Bitcoin has plummeted by between 39 and 83%. During the previous secondary scares, quoting him here in 2019, once the secondary scare got underway, once we got below the 20 week moving average, right, or the weekly candle that led us below it, Bitcoin dropped yet another 61%. This one, 2015, was about a 40 or 39 % drop. Then in 2011, you had an 82 .5 % drop before we actually finally bottomed out in the secondary scare. In all three cases in the pre halving year, the S &P dropped in quarter three of the pre -election year, and then Bitcoin entered into a downtrend for a while. And we have three examples, one where we went down about 80%, one where we went down about 40%, and one we went down about 60%. So on how long Bitcoin could fall going by historical precedent, Cohen outlines three scenarios, quoting him again. If it's a 40 % drop similar to 2015, 40 % drop puts Bitcoin at $17 ,500, OK? That would be the lowest. This would basically correspond to his 2015 move that would put Bitcoin at $17 ,500. A 61 % drop, which is what we experienced in 2019, would put it at around $11 ,400. And an 80 % drop would put it much lower, which I will say, I don't think it is going to go nearly that low. And to watch this video he did entitled, Bitcoin, the Secondary Scare Has Begun, check the show notes below the video in the description. And what are your thoughts? Do you agree or disagree with the analysts? My personal thoughts, the lows are already in. They were in a long time ago at the end of last year. We hit that $15 ,700 level. I personally am very skeptical that we'll ever see a sub $20 ,000 Bitcoin price ever again. But I could be wrong in the same token. That's my personal opinion. Is that OK? I'm just telling you how I really feel. I think it's a great discount to take advantage of buying Bitcoin right now, considering the all time high in November of 2021 was roughly $69 ,000. So you tell me the math, where are we at, like a 60, 70 % discount from the top? Not too shabby. I would be stacking stats like there is no tomorrow versus, oh, let's sell my entire Bitcoin stash and buy it back at $15 ,000. What if you're wrong? We don't go sub $20 ,000 and you lose out on a massive position. That could happen as well. I don't like gambling. I'm in this for the long haul and there's nothing like the real thing, baby. And that's the fastest horse in the race. That's the king crypto. We call it VTC. And with that being shared, fam, now let's discuss an $180 ,000 Bitcoin price prediction by the one and only Tom Lee of Funstrat Global Advisors, managing partner Tom Lees, is one of the catalysts which can spur the Bitcoin price to hit. Six figures is going to be Bitcoin ETF approval. Let's break down this Bitcoin ETF, because that's what everyone is talking about right now, right? Quoting him here from this interview, he says, if the spot Bitcoin ETF gets approved, I think the demand will be greater than the daily supply of Bitcoin. And so the clearing price, this is done by Sean Farrell, who is our crypto digital strategist, is over $150 ,000. It could even be like $180 ,000 per coin. A spot US because a spot Bitcoin ETF is approved outside of the US. When they asked him, do you think there will be a spot Bitcoin ETF? And with Bitcoin currently trading at what, roughly $26 ,000, that means he's predicting an appreciation between 467 % and 580%. Let's go send it. Now, on Bitcoin's likely price action, if a spot Bitcoin ETF fails to win approval in the US, Lee shares the following, they're still upside because of the halving next year. Yes, so you have a drop in supply again, so the clearing price has to increase, but it won't be six figures. So he's ultimately saying if we don't get the ETF approval, we can still go to six figures eventually, but not as soon as we would anticipate with the approval of a Bitcoin ETF. So according to the Bitcoin bull, the Federal Reserve's monetary policy going forward will impact crypto assets, quoting him again from this interview. Crypto is dependent on monetary policy, so if inflation is cooling, then we can start to bet on forward financial conditions, easing, and the central bank easing sooner. That's bullish for crypto as well as alternative assets. To watch this video he did on this interview, inflation is on the glide path towards sub 2 % by the middle, check the show notes below the video in the description. Let me know if you agree or disagree with Tom Lee, virtually predicting that the Bitcoin price will likely see 150 and 180 ,000 per coin between that range coming up here in the near future. And again, I'm going to read everyone's comments out loud, so please let me know where you're from and any comments or questions, address them right now in the live chat. Now let's discuss Robert Kiyosaki, the famous Rich Dad Poor Dad author, and his $1 million Bitcoin price prediction, followed by the one and only Cathie Wood of ARK Invest with her doubling down on her $1 .5 million price prediction and how she got to those numbers, you know, dates, et cetera, and everything that comes along with it, and then we'll dive into our live Q &A. Massive shout out to Kiyosaki, Rich Dad Poor Dad was a very influential book in my young adulthood, which absolutely impacted me in a positive way. So give kudos and flowers when they are due. In a tweet on Monday, Kiyosaki explained that while he expects the price of Bitcoin to reach $100 ,000 per coin in the near term, he believes that it can soar to a million dollars, while gold will rise to $75 ,000, I take it he means an ounce, and silver trade at $60 ,000 an ounce if the world's economy crashes, noting, he has been saying for years, that gold and silver are God's money, while Bitcoin is people's money, and he also wrote the following, bad news, if stocks and bond markets crash, gold and silver skyrocket, worse news, if the world economy crashes, Bitcoin will rise to a million dollars, gold to $75 ,000, and silver to $60 ,000. Now would you consider this bad news? If the markets crashed and Bitcoin skyrocketed to a million dollars, that'd be the best news of my life besides the birth of my daughter, just saying. He added that us savers who hold the US dollar will be called fake money, they'll be in serious trouble, noting that the US national debt is way too high, preach. Kiyosaki often said that gold, silver, and Bitcoin are his preferred investments, emphasizing they are the best for unstable times, and following his warning about the global recession, he cautioned in May the world economy is on the verge of a collapse, the renowned author predicted in February the price of Bitcoin would hit $500 ,000 per coin by 2025, the year preceding the halving, and while gold will soar to $5 ,000 and silver will hit $500 during the same time period, he recently started saying that the price of Bitcoin would $100 ,000 this year in 2023, and $120 ,000 next year in 2024, which is the same prediction made by Standard Chartered Bank, and FYI, guess who is the primary shareholder of Standard Chartered Bank? You guessed right, it's BlackRock, and did you know that BlackRock owns even a large piece of micro strategy? That's right, so they're already indirectly invested into Bitcoin, just pointing that out. This week, he urged the investors to buy silver before it's gone, noting that it is more affordable than gold. Kiyosaki has been warning that the US economy is headed for a crash landing, he previously said that America is bankrupt and warned of hyperinflation, the rich dad author has been cautioning that a giant crash is coming for quite some time, many, many years, right? Moreover, he warned that the US dollar will die as the BRICS nations, which include Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, and like 20, 30 plus other nations, plan to launch a common currency, and it's gonna be interesting to see how this plays out and what currency that they select. Could you imagine if BRICS adopted Bitcoin as their currency? Hmm, wouldn't that be a game changer? And also, there's other parts of the world right now with hyperinflation occurring in real time, I think Bitcoin is the only savior, just as it saved El Salvador, and if you translate El Salvador, it translates to the savior, go figure, could it be a coincidence? All by design. Let me know your honest thoughts, fam. And now let's break down our final feature story of the day, that's Cathie Wood of ARK Invest and her prediction of a one and a half million dollar Bitcoin price, send it and let's go, in a forecast case study released in February. Let me know if you can see the screen, I know the text is a little smaller on this particular article, but let me know in the chat, please. ARK Invest presented three scenarios for the crypto market until 2030. The bearish one suggests Bitcoin will just rise to 260 ,000. Not too shabby for a bearish scenario, send it, let's go, while the bullish one foresees a surge to one and a half million dollars per Bitcoin, and in the interview with Bloomberg this week, Cathie Wood said the team's confidence in the bullish scenario has increased. That's great, she's gaining more confidence, let's go. And as you can see outlined here, Bitcoin to likely scale into a multi trillion dollar market, you can see the bear case with a 2030 price target which shows 258 ,500 in this graph on the left, and then followed by that, the base case by 2030 represents 682 ,800 Bitcoin. I'd love that personally, I love all these targets, but could you imagine Bitcoin really hitting 1 .48 million, virtually 1 .5 million by 2030 in a bullish case, I most absolutely can see that happening. Wood believes Bitcoin will continue to establish itself as an insurance option against inflation. And that everyone will want it at the end of the day. Cryptos protect wealth from outright confiscation, great point, inflation and the risk of loss to third parties when stored or transferred. With the adoption of cryptos and the regulatory and legal framework in place, interest in Bitcoin will grow exponentially, I agree 100%. The SEC being flooded with applications right now to launch Bitcoin ETFs clearly indicates the same. ARK Invest teamed up with 21 shares and applied documents ahead of investing giant BlackRock, so they're actually first in line. The SEC has accepted this and other submissions as indicated in public records. A decision is due on 13th of August, but unfortunately, that decision ultimately shared that they were going to push back the decision now until I believe the first quarter of 2024. So sadly, there will be no Bitcoin spot ETF approvals anytime soon this year in 2023. That's the bad news. But some experts agree that BlackRock's participation increases the chances of a positive outcome existing crypto funds have already experienced an influx of capital from institutional investors not seen since quarter four of 2021 when we hit that all time high with over 700 million dollars invested into Bitcoin in just four weeks. So there you have it. And also, you can see here Bitcoin spiral for your cycle and you can see it shows you the bottoms, the halvings, and this is actually a pretty cool chart in this cycle with a record in 2026 Bitcoin will reach the maximum in the range, which is one hundred thousand to a million. I know that's a very wide margin and kind of the same as Stock the Flow model creator Plant B predicting Bitcoin being somewhere between one hundred grand and a million dollars after the halving. And in the next cycle, with a peak in 2030, the price will range from one million to ten million dollars per coin. Well, if you'd like to see a ten million dollar price action, let's freaking go. Now it's currently unknown whether the ARK Invest team was guided by the theory of cycles, but potential investors should consider that forecast and mathematical models give only a idea conditional of further changes. So there you have it, fam. How many of you are in agreement with Cathie Wood of ARK Invest that we likely to see that million dollar Bitcoin price or even above one and a half million by the year 2030, which is roughly seven years out? Let me know your honest thoughts in the comments right down below. And don't forget to check out CryptoNewsAlerts .net for the full premium experience with video and to participate in the live Q &A. And I look forward to seeing you on tomorrow's episode. HODL.
The Breakdown
A highlight from Crypto and the Major Questions Doctrine
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, N .L .W. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Monday, August 7th. And today we are talking about the latest in Coinbase's fight against the SEC. A quick note before we dive in. Sponsorship is back open again on The Breakdown. You've heard over the last few weeks a number of sponsors of the show, and we are currently booking out for the fall and into the beginning of next year. If your company is looking to reach easily the smartest audience in the crypto space, shoot me a DM or send us a note at sponsors at breakdown network. And with that, let's get into this show. Now, this morning, a really significant thing happened. And that is, of course, PayPal's announcement of PiUSD, which is their new stablecoin offering built on Ethereum. Right now, the leading contender for the most important trend of this bear market is TradFi muscling in on the territory that was seeded by crypto native companies behaving badly. And this could obviously be another big example of that. Now, this news just happened after I had already prepared today's show, so we will get all into that tomorrow. But for now, we have some big things from the end of last week to catch up on. On Saturday, CoinFund CEO Jake Brookman tweeted, This might be one of the most important documents ever produced that explains why digital assets are, in general, not securities. The document he was talking about came from Coinbase, and it was a request from that company to dismiss the SEC's case against them. Coinbase chief legal officer Paul Grewal wrote, Today Coinbase filed our brief asking the court to dismiss the SEC's case against us. Our core argument is simple. We do not offer investment contracts as that term has been construed by decades of Supreme Court and other binding precedent. By ignoring that precedent, the SEC has violated due process, abused its discretion and abandoned its own earlier interpretation of the securities laws. By ignoring that precedent, the SEC has trampled the strict boundaries on its basic authority set by Congress. So there is a lot in here. And even in that short thread, you can see that there's really at least two big things going on. The first is an argument about what is or isn't a security, and the second is about where the SEC's authority really begins and ends. So let's take a step back and get into it. Coinbase has officially asked the court to dismiss the SEC's lawsuit against them. On Friday, they filed a motion for judgment on the pleadings, which raised questions about the validity of the lawsuit and indeed whether the SEC even has the jurisdiction to police the crypto space. The Coinbase motion argues along two dimensions. First, they argue that cryptos are not securities. Now, the argument for Coinbase rests on the familiar Howey test analysis, which we've seen across all token cases to date. Howey, you'll remember, identifies investment contracts as a class of security sales which are subject to SEC regulation. And for a sale to be considered an investment contract under Howey, it has to satisfy a number of different elements. It must be an investment of money. That investment of money must be in a common enterprise. There must be the expectation of profit, and specifically the expectation of profit must be derived from the efforts of others. In other words, this isn't something that you are putting work into yourself and expecting to benefit from thusly. In their motion, Coinbase argued that sales of tokens on their platform, quote, do not involve contractual undertakings to deliver future value, reflecting the income, profits or assets of a business. They are commodity sales with the obligations on both sides discharged entirely the moment the digital token is delivered in exchange for payment. Now, of course, they also discussed last month's decision in the Ripple lawsuit. In essence, the judge in that case decided the tokens in and of themselves are not securities, but they are sometimes sold alongside promises from an issuer, which would make those particular sales subject to SEC regulations. Coinbase argued that the facts in Ripple were, quote, substantially identical to those alleged here. Specifically, one of the key decisions in the Ripple case was that anonymous sales of the XRP token through an order book were not considered to be sales of investment contracts. For that reason, they were not found to be under the SEC's jurisdiction. Coinbase are arguing that the 13 tokens named by the SEC in their case are substantially similar to Ripple's XRP and should have the same results from Howie analysis. This would mean, of course, that sales conducted through Coinbase's exchange should not be considered the sale of securities. Coinbase relied on similar arguments to claim that their staking and wallet products were not subject to registration under securities law. They claim that customers are simply using their commodity tokens within software products offered by Coinbase. This would, of course, distinguish these Coinbase products from more traditional asset management services, where profit is derived from the skill of the asset manager. Now, within the whole security discussion, there is one particular analogy that's getting a lot of attention. Austin Campbell tweeted, one of the interesting parts of the SEC interpretation for me is that, if correct, I don't really see a dividing line between crypto and many other activities. Are limited edition Nikes now securities? I think Coinbase lays bare some of the issues well. Now, the specific analogy in the Coinbase argument is actually around baseball. They write, one can invest in a baseball or other trading card company through an instrument that imposes obligations on the company, and that will be a security. Or one can buy baseball cards on the open market, hoping they appreciate in value, and one will have bought a commodity. That remains true even if the company makes representations about plans to create a premier trading card platform to drive up the value of the cards it sells. Those representations can't turn baseball cards into securities. Baseball cards are not shares in the baseball card enterprise. This principle applies equally here. Coinbase goes on, the transactions over Coinbase is platform and prime are not and do not involve contractual undertaking to deliver future value reflecting the income profits or assets of a business. They are commodity sales with the obligations on both sides discharged entirely the moment the digital token is delivered in exchange for payment. The SEC's complaint does not allege otherwise because it does not and cannot plead the required elements of an investment contract. The SEC's Exchange Act claims should be dismissed. Now, still, even with colorful analogies like this, the in many ways more significant part of Coinbase's argument involves the major questions doctrine. And this is something you've heard me reference a number of different times on this show, but let's give a little bit of background. This is a legal doctrine that has been relatively recently developed by the Supreme Court. The major questions doctrine, or MQD, holds that administrative bodies, such as regulators like the SEC, require explicit guidance from Congress when tackling issues which have a major impact on the U .S. economy. It was recently used to strike down the Biden administration's student loan forgiveness program as it exceeded the authority of the White House. More classic cases include subjects like the tobacco industry and emissions reduction within the energy sector. Now, the point of MQD is not that regulators are never allowed to take on new areas of responsibility, but rather that Congress needs to be very specific when expanding a regulator scope. In a way, MQD is a statement about how regulatory legislation should be interpreted. In the original Supreme Court case, Whitman versus American Trucking Association from 2001, Justice Scalia said that Congress, quote, does not alter the fundamental details of a regulatory scheme in vague terms or ancillary provisions. It does not, one might say, hide elephants in mouse holes. For the Coinbase lawsuit, the argument is that Congress did not intend to hide widescale jurisdiction over the crypto industry for the SEC within the Securities Act of 1933. In their brief, Coinbase claimed that, quote, the major questions principle applies directly here. The wholesale regulation of secondary markets for trading digital assets qualifies as extraordinary, and the digital asset industry worth around one trillion dollars is a, quote, significant portion of the American economy. Now, digging a little bit deeper into this from, you know, an actual lawyer, Morrison Cohen's Jason Gottlieb wrote a really good thread about this exact MQD issue. He writes, Coinbase's brief is fantastic. No surprise, given the strong arguments in their favor and great lawyers in -house and outside working on it. One point, though, the major questions doctrine, I think Coinbase actually undersold just how major a question this is. As background, the major questions doctrine is basically that when an agency claims the, quote, power to regulate a significant portion of the American economy that has, quote, vast economic and political significance, it must point to clear congressional authorization for that power. A different district court judge in the same courthouse recently found that the crypto industry, though certainly important, falls far short of being a portion of the American economy bearing vast economic and political significance, unlike, say, energy or tobacco. I think that judge and other folks, even within crypto, vastly underestimate the majorness of this industry. I often see references to it being a, quote, trillion dollar industry, which is basically just the headline market cap of all crypto. Coinbase's brief skillfully lays out the base case. The industry is worth around one trillion, one in five adults in the U .S. is on crypto. Hundreds of millions of people globally use crypto currencies for myriad purposes. But this is an underestimate that one trillion dollars is just the market cap of all the tokens. The value of the industry isn't just the market cap of tokens any more than the value of the smartphone industry is the stock valuation of Apple and Samsung. What about all of the people, the productivity of all the engineers, programmers, designers, lawyers, accountants, auditors, all the IP, the network of companies that don't have tokens but support the ecosystems, the interconnections with companies outside the U .S.? And most of all, our lives are becoming more digital with no clear line between cryptocurrency and other digital assets. So when the SEC says, quote, all tokens are securities, it is aggregating authority not just over crypto, but the entire digital asset economy. The market cap of all crypto tokens may be one trillion dollars, but the value of the digital asset economy is certainly many multiples of that. It is literally the future of the entire economy minus a few necessarily analog portions of analog industries. Coinbase was right and smart not to go into this depth and a motion for judgment on the pleadings. It's not the right legal or procedural place for it. But in future arguments on the major questions doctrine in crypto, let's not understate or undersell the majorness of the questions. If everything is becoming digitized, this fight isn't just about cryptocurrency. It's a much larger battle for the right to your digital life and whether the Securities and Exchange Commission is the proper regulator for the entire digital economy. Spoiler alert, it is not. Now, one of the things that really stands out in this whole engagement is Coinbase not really being super solipsistic in their fight. This is not a document that reads like an exchange fighting for its survival or even just asserting that they are in the right in a particular case. Instead, it's about these much bigger questions about authority and how authority is determined. It's fundamentally about questions of administrative power in America and what the limits on that should be. In many ways, crypto is just serving as the next logical battleground for that legal point. Now, tactically, right from their initial defense filing, legal commentators have suggested that Coinbase may be rushing to get a major questions doctrine decision on the books in a lower court. This would allow Coinbase to take the issue before the Supreme Court ahead of other crypto cases that also might deal with the major questions doctrine, including the Binance and Terraform Labs lawsuits. Some have speculated that Coinbase is concerned that having an MQD fight with those much less favorable lawsuits will be an extreme negative to the industry. In any case, the SEC will have until October 3rd to file a response. And overall, I think that the tweet that best captures the vibe of this weekend was Zcash founder Zuko tweeting, I never knew it could be so fun to read legal filings. Anyways, that is the big one that we wanted to explore today. But real quickly, before we get out of here, just one more from the rumor mill, New York Attorney General Letitia James is reportedly locking horns with Barry Silbert as the digital currency group empire comes under additional scrutiny. According to an article from Bloomberg, the AG's office is conducting a probe into DCG. According to anonymous sources, investigators have requested information from former Genesis executives. Genesis is, of course, the crypto lending arm of DCG, which filed for bankruptcy in January. That bankruptcy stowed controversy when it was revealed that the largest creditor was a group of Gemini customers who had lent out their crypto. Early during bankruptcy proceedings, it was also discovered that DCG had taken out 1 .6 billion in intercompany loans from their subsidiary. At the time, DCG had given the public impression that Genesis losses from the bankruptcy has been extremely acrimonious. The Gemini co -founders, the Winklevoss twins, have publicly called out DCG numerous times for failing to do enough to refinance the loans, along with a whole other slew of accusations. Now, the SEC has already sued both Genesis and Gemini for offering unregistered securities for sale in relation to the lending arrangement, and there had been rumors of a Justice Department probe in January, but nothing appears to have come from that investigation. According to this new Bloomberg report, former Genesis chief risk officer Michael Patchen has already been questioned in the AG's investigation. That investigation is rumored to have taken place over recent months, and according to one anonymous source, the DCG loans are a critical part of the inquiry. Particularly, it seems like the AG is interested in how they were characterized to investors in the market. Of course, DCG CEO Barry Silbert has remained adamant that the loans were, quote, always structured on an arm's length basis and priced at prevailing market interest rates. Following the Bloomberg article, a spokesperson for DCG said the company is assisting regulators and investigators upon request and that, quote, DCG has always conducted its business lawfully and with the highest ethical standards. So, my friends, that is going to do it for today's episode. There is a lot coming up this week. I tease the PayPal stablecoin story, and then there is also a lot of smoke around Huobi, although it may take a few episodes to really understand exactly what's going on there. In any case, it appears that we are not in for that quiet August that so often happens in financial spaces. So, as always, until tomorrow, be safe and take care of each other. Peace.
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A highlight from 1362: Bitcoin Advocate RFK Jr. Suing Google for YouTube Censorship!
"In today's show, I'm going to be breaking down the latest technical analysis and quoting Adam back. He made a big bet that Bitcoin reaches or exceeds $100 ,000 per coin between now and the halving, which is scheduled to be less than nine months out. We'll be discussing this as well as one catalyst which can trigger Ethereum to plunge 50 % plus against Bitcoin's top crypto analysts. We'll also be discussing breaking news of Tether and Bitfinex class action lawsuit thrown out by the judge. This could be a big win for crypto as well as US Ethereum futures ETF has a 75 % chance of approval this year in 2023. After recent flood of applications, analysts estimate we'll also be discussing the factors that can lead to another massive Bitcoin rally according to ARK Invest as well as breaking news. Kennedy Jr. sues Google for censoring political speech on YouTube, which is a big topic for the day. We'll also be taking a crypto market all this plus so much more in today's show. Yo, what's good crypto fam? This is first and foremost a video show. So if you want the full premium experience with video, visit my rumble channel at cryptonewsalerts .net. Again, that's T2. Welcome y 'all. What is popping? What is new? Happy weekend. Another stat stack and Saturday for you. Let's kick off today's show, checking out our market watch. As you can see here in your screen, we got Bitcoin back in the green trading just above 29 ,000, which is a good sign to see us holding this critical support. As many analysts are predicting, if 29 doesn't hold, we can drop all the way down to 25. We also have ether back in the green trading back above $1 ,800. Checking out coinmarketcap .com, the current crypto market cap since that $1 .16 trillion with about $22 billion in volume in the past 24 hours. We've got the Bitcoin dominance at 48 .6 % with the ether dominance at 19 % even. Checking out the top 100 crypto gainers for the past week, Shiba Inu leading the pack, pun intended, up 17%, followed by Gala up almost 6%, trading at 2 .3 cents, followed by DYDX up almost 5%, trading at $2 .05. And checking out the top 100 crypto gainers for the past week, we have SHIB also leading this pack up almost 17 % and Gala up 5%, but many of them are in the red and pretty stagnant losses for the altcoin market. And checking out the crypto greed and fear index, we're currently rated a 50, which is neutral. Yesterday was a 54, last week a 52, and last month a 56 in greed. So there you have it. How many of you took advantage of this recent dip with Bitcoin price being able to stack stats at 29 ,000? Let me know in the comments. Appreciate all the feedback in the live chat loud and clear on the PC. That's what's up. Much love and much respect. And at the end of the show, as we do on every episode, we'll be doing the live Q &A, and I'll be reading everyone's comments out loud. Now for our Bitcoin technical analysis, another day, another failure for Bitcoin to break away from its current range around 29 G's. They say there's never the whole moment in crypto, but if you're mostly following the performance of large cap coins throughout the past week, you can probably see that this is a bit of an overstatement. Bitcoin's price is completely flat line throughout the last few days and the past 24 hours have made an absolute no exception as seen here in this chart, Bitcoin made an attempt to push above 29 ,003, but was quickly reminded that it's not its place and retrace back to where it's trading for the past week, which is at that $29 ,000 level. Now for some recent interesting tweets from Adam Back, who I have a lot of respect for. He just made a big bet. He said the bet is on. I bet Bitcoin reaches or exceeds $100 ,000 per coin between now and the halving, he says March 31st, 2024. And he bet this person Viking, oh Bitcoin nine, 1 million sets to the winner. And checking out some of his other recent tweets that he shared here, he says, I'm okay with the 100 ,000 probably sooner than the having an April of 2024 through in my view. And you know, what's up, what's pretty cool is he put his money where his mouth is. So he's ultimately saying so greater than 100 ,000 by March 31st, 2024 midnight Zulu, or you win. So good stuff, massive shout out to Adam Back. Do you think he'll be right with his prediction? Let me know your thoughts. He also notes that by the way, I guess this is going to be block 840 ,000. Otherwise the date is estimated, seems a bit more auspicious to the relevant date. So getting the finite details all sorted out there. But I also agree that Bitcoin is likely to hit that six figure target around that time of the halving. I'd love to see that, especially considering it's after the halving, typically the year proceeding to happen, which would be in 2025 when we hit that cycle peak, which gives us a lot of room, you know, for growth and we can potentially hit a massive unexpected top. Imagine two, 300 ,000 as a cycle peak in 2025. Would that light up your, your year? Let me know. And how would that change your life? Welcome those just tuning in. Now let's discuss Bitcoin versus Ethereum according to some of these charts, which is quite interesting. How many of you are more bullish right now on the price performance of Bitcoin versus Ethereum? Let me know in the live chat and vice versa. How many of you think that Ethereum is likely to outpace Bitcoin this cycle? Let me know your honest thoughts. And now let's break this down, shall we? Bitcoin versus Ether. Wiley followed crypto analyst Benjamin Cohen says that one event can cause Ethereum to plummet relative to BTC and a new interview with the crypto banter hosts. Cohen says that ETH slash Bitcoin pair can drop by more than 50 % from its current value of 0 .063 BTC worth 1828 bucks. Cohen believes that ETH slash BTC is likely printing a bearish double top pattern on the monthly chart, suggesting that hollers are using any rally to trade their ETH into BTC. Now for me, I capitulated quite a while back as I foreseen this coming. What are your thoughts? Quitting him here to me, this just looks like a massive distribution phase on the Ether Bitcoin pair, not unlike what we saw last cycle, where you just get a massive distribution phase and you will get your initial pump up. You sell it off and then you go into your distribution phase. And I think that this is where we are right now, where there is a good chance here that the Ether Bitcoin pair is going to break to the downside as outlined right here in this chart. Now he highlights that historically, the ETH Bitcoin pair generally declines during the months of June through December, and he predicts a decline to as low as 0 .03 BTC, which would mean an Ethereum price of 871 bucks and over 52 % decrease from the current value, quoting him again. So what I would think is going to happen is that ETH slash Bitcoin could plummet to around that 0 .03 BTC to 0 .04 BTC level. And once the Ethereum Bitcoin valuation gets there, I think it could mark the end of the altcoin reckoning. How many of you agree and disagree? And according to Cohen, the catalyst for the 52 % ETH Bitcoin decline could be the stock market retracement, quitting him again. Remember in late 2017, the Ether Bitcoin pair dropped right here at 0 .022 BTC, but then it was the second drop to that level in 2018 that marked the end of a lot of the altcoin reckoning. And I think that we had that initial drop, but we still probably need to have a secondary drop to that level of 0 .049 BTC. And even from there it could drop and then maybe roll over and then we'll try to find the bottom, but I still think that is the most likely outcome here. And I think the reason that it could happen is because of a potential seasonal correction in the S &P 500. Now, could you imagine that ETH dropping another 50 % versus Bitcoin and Bitcoin massively outpacing the second largest altcoin by market cap Ethereum? Let me know your honest thoughts in the comments right down below, and we shall see how this goes. Yeah. And welcome those just tuning in. Welcome. Appreciate the love.
AP News Radio
Tree of Life shooting jury selection scheduled to begin Monday
"Jury selection is scheduled to begin today in the 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, the deadliest anti semitic attack in U.S. history. 50 year old Robert Bowers is accused of shooting to death 11 Jewish worshippers at the tree of life synagogue, Stephen Cohen is with new light congregation which was sharing the space when the attack happened. For 5 years, we've been sitting on tender hooks. We want there to be justice. Bowers offered to plead guilty in return for a life sentence, federal prosecutors turned him down. He's facing the death penalty. Rabbi Jeffrey Myers survived the attack. He hopes the trial exposes rising bigotry. Doesn't end with anti semitism. Someone is an anti semite, is most likely also the possessor of a long laundry list of personal grievances. I'm Julie Walker.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
We Don't Know What Happened With Trump and Stormy Daniels...
"I don't know what happened with Trump and stormy Daniels. I've talked to conservatives are like, you know that he did do something. And there are others who go, listen, there are all kinds of business people who are who are shaken down by people. And both companies and CEOs are often paying money under the table. And it's just to make the problem go away. It's not worth it for them to fight it out. So whatever the truth of the matter, you know, you have this hush money payment and obviously the hush money payment is because it's hush money. Stormy Daniels said nothing happened. Did she not? Stormy Daniels said nothing happened, Michael Cohen said nothing happened. My point is there's nothing here. And then you move on to the Georgia case. What did Trump do? He calls the Secretary of State Trump, genuinely believes he won the state of Georgia. Anyone who denies that, anyone who thinks Trump's near we lost, he wanted the Secretary of State to find some fraudulent votes. That's absurd. No, Trump believes he won Georgia affair and square, but there was cheating in Georgia that prevented the rightful Victor him from being recognized and he wanted this Secretary of State to look into it. And that was the meaning of the phrase find the votes. Find the votes is fine legal, legitimate votes. I think I do think, though, that sometimes he does things without proper advice or he doesn't take advice. And sometimes he can get himself into hot water because of it. If you recall that burisma, phone call, right? Well, we know that nothing happened there, but just the mere call itself was a problem.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Trump's Legal Loophole Exposed
"I'm continuing my discussion of Alvin and Bragg's indictment. Now, as I mentioned, the heart of Bragg's case is to take the violation or the alleged violation of New York's false records act. Which is in and of itself amidst demeanor and hitch it to a not mentioned federal felony violation, which is a violation of the. Campaign finance laws. Now let's look at the two parts of this for a second. The first one, the false records part of it. Turns out, if you read the false records act, it has a statute of limitations. And the statute of limitations is very clear. 5 years. Now, let's do the math. When was Trump's final payment to Cohen? These are the payments to Cohen that are supposedly the reimbursement. Now, Trump listed these payments as just on paying legal fees to Cohen. And but Bragg says, no, no, no, these aren't really legal fees. He didn't provide any services for these fees. These were a reimbursement, but the last payment was in December 2017. And that is more than 5 years ago. 18, 19, 20, 21, 22. And here we are in 23. So right away, the law, even if it was violated, and let's remember violated as a misdemeanor, the law is now inoperative. The date is passed. If you wanted to bring this case, you should have brought it, and you could have brought it. Before, but you chose not to. Too bad for you. So New York courts are themselves in an awkward position. They would have to somehow contend that this 5 year statute of limitations is somehow not operative because Trump has what left the state. He's living in Washington, D.C.. He's president at the time. He's doing other things. And somehow that the law is can still be applied.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Trump's Indictment Is One Absurdity on Top of Another
"Debbie and I last night watched Trump's speech. And I noticed my mood as the day was going on was shifting. Initially, I just felt just sad, not just for Trump but for the country, a little disgusted, outraged, and then as the day went on, I found myself becoming amused and even exhilarated the as I began to see that the 34 felonies are not really 34 felonies. In fact, they're not felonies. I don't think at all as I'm I'll explain, but they're 34 business entries and the business entries are so routine as to be almost comical. Apparently these are communications and payments from Michael Cohen, not from Trump, but Michael Cohen to Stephanie Clifford also known as stormy Daniels. And this is literally with the kind of stuff you have. Counts one through four, February 14th, 2017. Counts 5 through 7, march 17th, 2017, count 8, April 13th to June 1920 17, apparently Michael Cohen was making these payments one by one month here a month there with a couple of months in between. And each of these is now elevated to a felony count. It's the same thing over and over the same payment. It's almost like if Michael Cohen had written one check, $130,000, there'd be only one count in the felony. Now, when I say that this is an event with broad implications, here's a hint of what I mean. Here is the president of El Salvador and he's speaking for a lot of people around the world. In fact, I've seen Indian leaders make similar comments, this is El Salvador president bukele. Quote, think what you want about former president Trump and the reasons he's being indicted, but just imagine if this happened in any other country where a government arrested the main opposition candidate. The United States ability to use democracy as foreign policy is gone.
The Officer Tatum Show
Michael Cohen Can't Be Trusted
"There's no evidence that Donald Trump made Michael Cohen do this. There's no evidence that Donald Trump was aware of the ramifications when I say ramifications, meaning that these things were transpiring. Donald Trump is not his accountant and he was not made aware that these things were falsified. And then when they come back in the prosecution put on Michael Cohen, he has zero reputation. Michael Cohen is not a good witness. Because in the law enforcement field, there's something called an independent witness. And there's people who are not who are witnesses, but they're not independent witnesses. Meaning that if you were an incident happened in your girlfriend is with you, and she witnesses the incident, she's not an independent witness. Because she's your girlfriend. She has a vested interest in either telling the truth about you or lying on you. She's not an impartial person. An independent witness is a person that I don't know you or anybody related to the situation. And so Michael Cohen can not be in my opinion a solid independent witness.
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"cohen" Discussed on Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
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Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
"cohen" Discussed on Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
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Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
"cohen" Discussed on Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
"The heck presented me. My husband and I are cyclists, I decided I was doing the Jamaican reggae ride, which is a three day bike ride across the Jamaican island. Far my 50th birthday about four months after flying off my bike slamming into the pavement breaking my collarbone and having surgery to fix it. So why I thought that'd be fun for my 50th. I don't know, it was. We came home, a friend of ours called and said, I'm making plans for spring training, and I swear I think that was the day before my dad, all of this blew up. So my dad passed away, march 2nd, we put my mom and memory care on the 16th. There's a whole other story, and we went to spring training while the his funeral was the 18th, and we went spring training the following week. And trust me that really, really is a good solution to just get out, do something for yourself, do something different, because I lost my mom, March 31st, 2020. We have not had a service. She is not in turn with my dad. I have talked to the military cemetery. He is F actually my husband did and just hearing what he was saying. It was like, yeah, I will not be talking to them. I need to call the funeral home. But at this point, it's like, it's been so long. It's like, I'm sure people think I'm just a horrible person. I mean, for a while, okay, we had COVID, but now what's the issue, right? So I really, really, really wish we could have gone away afterwards because, you know, it was like we came home and was like, okay, well, mom's gone. We don't have to worry about that, but we haven't really had to worry about her for two weeks because we haven't been able to see her. And then you just kind of move on. You're just like, it's just doing the same stuff. And so it's been a lot more of a challenge than I thought. Oh, I thought I'd be ready for her to go. And it was a blessing. The timing was good. Because it'd still be a challenge to take her to the park to watch kids. But it's losing somebody during the pandemic is a whole other issue. Which is why I'm writing a book about it. I have to keep telling people that so hold myself accountable. So we have been talking and I've asked you like two of my questions. I'm sure it's some ways we probably covered most of the things we wanted to talk about. I think we did. So where can people find you? I'll make sure all of your links are in the show notes, but give yourself a shout out because continuing on as caregiver to the caregiver, which is what I call myself is. It's worth shouting out. All right. And as you can tell, just about everything I'm doing is in my mom's honor and memory. And I think you're doing the same thing. So two places, one would be my website. Caregiving support dot com. And my Facebook community, which is in most of those states, your provinces and 6 continents. I haven't found anybody or any penguins in Antarctica yet, but that is the dementia support group for caregivers with Bill Cohen. Okay, well make sure those are linked in the show notes. And you said you are flying where tomorrow? I am going to Chicago for a couple of baseball games since you brought up spring training. Yeah. Was that spring trading with the Giants? Yes, it was. Huge baseball fan, but spring training is a special experience that I suggest if you like baseball, you will like spring training. I just don't suggest three games in two days. A little too much for me. The hardcore baseball fans loved it. My husband was okay with that. I was like, can I go somewhere else? You guys watch this game. I lived in Sarasota, Florida for a while. So yes, I experienced spring training a bit and even went over the beach, saw the Yankees Dodgers game. But this weekend is a bucket list from last year, and finally get to Wrigley Field. I'm going to see the Giants of the cubs, but also I'm going to see my Red Sox against the.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
"cohen" Discussed on Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
"The heck presented me. My husband and I are cyclists, I decided I was doing the Jamaican reggae ride, which is a three day bike ride across the Jamaican island. Far my 50th birthday about four months after flying off my bike slamming into the pavement breaking my collarbone and having surgery to fix it. So why I thought that'd be fun for my 50th. I don't know, it was. We came home, a friend of ours called and said, I'm making plans for spring training, and I swear I think that was the day before my dad, all of this blew up. So my dad passed away, march 2nd, we put my mom and memory care on the 16th. There's a whole other story, and we went to spring training while the his funeral was the 18th, and we went spring training the following week. And trust me that really, really is a good solution to just get out, do something for yourself, do something different, because I lost my mom, March 31st, 2020. We have not had a service. She is not in turn with my dad. I have talked to the military cemetery. He is F actually my husband did and just hearing what he was saying. It was like, yeah, I will not be talking to them. I need to call the funeral home. But at this point, it's like, it's been so long. It's like, I'm sure people think I'm just a horrible person. I mean, for a while, okay, we had COVID, but now what's the issue, right? So I really, really, really wish we could have gone away afterwards because, you know, it was like we came home and was like, okay, well, mom's gone. We don't have to worry about that, but we haven't really had to worry about her for two weeks because we haven't been able to see her. And then you just kind of move on. You're just like, it's just doing the same stuff. And so it's been a lot more of a challenge than I thought. Oh, I thought I'd be ready for her to go. And it was a blessing. The timing was good. Because it'd still be a challenge to take her to the park to watch kids. But it's losing somebody during the pandemic is a whole other issue. Which is why I'm writing a book about it. I have to keep telling people that so hold myself accountable. So we have been talking and I've asked you like two of my questions. I'm sure it's some ways we probably covered most of the things we wanted to talk about. I think we did. So where can people find you? I'll make sure all of your links are in the show notes, but give yourself a shout out because continuing on as caregiver to the caregiver, which is what I call myself is. It's worth shouting out. All right. And as you can tell, just about everything I'm doing is in my mom's honor and memory. And I think you're doing the same thing. So two places, one would be my website. Caregiving support dot com. And my Facebook community, which is in most of those states, your provinces and 6 continents. I haven't found anybody or any penguins in Antarctica yet, but that is the dementia support group for caregivers with Bill Cohen. Okay, well make sure those are linked in the show notes. And you said you are flying where tomorrow? I am going to Chicago for a couple of baseball games since you brought up spring training. Yeah. Was that spring trading with the Giants? Yes, it was. Huge baseball fan, but spring training is a special experience that I suggest if you like baseball, you will like spring training. I just don't suggest three games in two days. A little too much for me. The hardcore baseball fans loved it. My husband was okay with that. I was like, can I go somewhere else? You guys watch this game. I lived in Sarasota, Florida for a while. So yes, I experienced spring training a bit and even went over the beach, saw the Yankees Dodgers game. But this weekend is a bucket list from last year, and finally get to Wrigley Field. I'm going to see the Giants of the cubs, but also I'm going to see my Red Sox against the.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
"cohen" Discussed on Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
"Many of us turn to books or the Internet, some podcasts, others turn to social media, looking for a community to support them. Imagine if you knew in advance what to plan for and what to expect. How much easier would your caregiving journey be if you'd already known someone who has experienced what you'll be experiencing? If you don't know where to get help or support this episode is for you. My conversation with Bill Cohen is specifically on caregivers turn dementia caregiving, support people. I believe you'll find that Bill and I have a lot in common in our respective journeys. With me today is Bill Cohen, he is from the Cohen caregiving support consultants and he is going to not only tell the story of his mom or also going to talk about some tips and advice for those of us that might be at the earlier stages of disease and or caregivers. So thanks for joining me Bill. I have been very excited to be able to join you today. Thank you. Awesome. So you ended up caring for your mom. So why don't we start with that story because it is I'm assuming it's very interesting. You've just told me tidbits, though. And such a story that if you had told me 1617 years ago, what was going to transpire and I was going to end up sitting here talking to you today and doing what I do now, I say you're crazy. You couldn't make up this scenario. So I mean, we were just talking before we started this about making plans, right? So I'm working full time. Here in Portland, Oregon area, my mom was living in beloved scene Mississippi, and she'd been living there almost 30 years. So around 2004, we started notice something was off. Something was wrong. We didn't know what. But she wasn't taking care of the finances. She wasn't taking care of the house. She was showing some signs of confusion mood swings as that type of thing. She was also in the caregiving role herself for my late stepfather with all kinds of conditions he was actually on and off in hospice. So we were wondering if he passed away or went into a care community, would mom, Sheila, pounce back, we never got that opportunity. What happened in August 2005, 16 years ago this past month on the Gulf Coast. Little winder, some rain or something. Yeah, Hurricane Katrina. And the storm surge was so bad on the back bay of blossom that is swept her house away. She fully expected to come back to that house and the trauma of seeing it gone. Accelerated and exacerbated her condition. So she was safe. She had evacuated, but she ended up moving out to our step family to North Carolina with my stepfather. And I started doing the cross country caregiving and visiting with her taking care of some from medical and legal things. I started attending a support group or talking to a care community here in Portland that I eventually wanted to move to. And she did end up staying for a couple of years also with her sister in Delray Beach, Florida. Mudra out here in 2008. It was about 5 years about a year in assisted living and then four years in memory care. And she passed away 8 and a half years ago at age 83. So, and then with me, after that, you know, most people when they are caregivers, when they're done, I've done my thing. I'm exhausted. I need to hear myself and would walk away and say, I'm finished. Well, I kept going to that support group. Make a long story short. I became the facilitator. I'm still facilitating 16 years from when I started. And doing the volunteer work, including the walk in Alzheimer's. And I was remarking about your beautiful requirements garden behind you. I carry the purple flower from my mother. And other fundraising and advocacy at the capitol. Let us say approached retirement from my state job after 25 years. I thought it was just going to do more volunteer work. I came across this concept of care giving support consultant, which we can talk about more. But essentially what happened was I turned my personal loss my pain into my passion and my honor career. That sounds familiar and I laugh because I also still attend my support group. I did miss last night because it was my anniversary. And I'm a little bit more hit and miss these days just because it's getting a little old to have to do it on Zoom. But I am able to give a lot of good advice because I talked to so many people like yourself that they have asked me if I would do the facilitator training. Yeah. So I'm like, oh no, I'm following his footsteps. Probably would be very good. They wanted me to do it here because we are probably more than like, it's the plan is to move about two hours away. I have not heard back from the gal who's in charge of the training. So I might have to nudge that. Let's see what happens. I did tell them I will be coming back to this city regularly for my hair appointment. I can manage to coordinate those together. My daughter will still live here, so I'm not like abandoning town and never coming back. But I do see a need up there because everybody I know it's moving up there doesn't happen to be that young. Not old yet, but we're all in our 50s, 60s. So it's something for them to think about. So I don't know where that's going yet. And the word very a lot fewer support groups back then the one I went to that continued was the only one at that time in the evening during the week. Rather than a week as I was working I needed that. And then I started another group for a nonprofit across the river Vancouver Washington, started the first one south of the Columbia river. And that's a weekly one, and I've been doing that one for about four years. And then I have a Facebook community to mention support for group for caregivers who would build Cohen and I have a monthly virtual support group. That one. And even though we're going shifting back and forth between in person and virtual or hybrid, that one will continue to be virtual because I get people from all over the country joining me for that one. There are people in my group that have said weekly would be would be helpful. Right now, I mean, my group when we were in person, there was one time there was almost 35 of us, which was like, you know, you walk in and you're like, I'm so glad all these people are here. And I'm so happy that all these people have to be here. It was definitely a too large. That's a too large a group for because.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
"cohen" Discussed on Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
"Many of us turn to books or the Internet, some podcasts, others turn to social media, looking for a community to support them. Imagine if you knew in advance what to plan for and what to expect. How much easier would your caregiving journey be if you'd already known someone who has experienced what you'll be experiencing? If you don't know where to get help or support this episode is for you. My conversation with Bill Cohen is specifically on caregivers turn dementia caregiving, support people. I believe you'll find that Bill and I have a lot in common in our respective journeys. With me today is Bill Cohen, he is from the Cohen caregiving support consultants and he is going to not only tell the story of his mom or also going to talk about some tips and advice for those of us that might be at the earlier stages of disease and or caregivers. So thanks for joining me Bill. I have been very excited to be able to join you today. Thank you. Awesome. So you ended up caring for your mom. So why don't we start with that story because it is I'm assuming it's very interesting. You've just told me tidbits, though. And such a story that if you had told me 1617 years ago, what was going to transpire and I was going to end up sitting here talking to you today and doing what I do now, I say you're crazy. You couldn't make up this scenario. So I mean, we were just talking before we started this about making plans, right? So I'm working full time. Here in Portland, Oregon area, my mom was living in beloved scene Mississippi, and she'd been living there almost 30 years. So around 2004, we started notice something was off. Something was wrong. We didn't know what. But she wasn't taking care of the finances. She wasn't taking care of the house. She was showing some signs of confusion mood swings as that type of thing. She was also in the caregiving role herself for my late stepfather with all kinds of conditions he was actually on and off in hospice. So we were wondering if he passed away or went into a care community, would mom, Sheila, pounce back, we never got that opportunity. What happened in August 2005, 16 years ago this past month on the Gulf Coast. Little winder, some rain or something. Yeah, Hurricane Katrina. And the storm surge was so bad on the back bay of blossom that is swept her house away. She fully expected to come back to that house and the trauma of seeing it gone. Accelerated and exacerbated her condition. So she was safe. She had evacuated, but she ended up moving out to our step family to North Carolina with my stepfather. And I started doing the cross country caregiving and visiting with her taking care of some from medical and legal things. I started attending a support group or talking to a care community here in Portland that I eventually wanted to move to. And she did end up staying for a couple of years also with her sister in Delray Beach, Florida. Mudra out here in 2008. It was about 5 years about a year in assisted living and then four years in memory care. And she passed away 8 and a half years ago at age 83. So, and then with me, after that, you know, most people when they are caregivers, when they're done, I've done my thing. I'm exhausted. I need to hear myself and would walk away and say, I'm finished. Well, I kept going to that support group. Make a long story short. I became the facilitator. I'm still facilitating 16 years from when I started. And doing the volunteer work, including the walk in Alzheimer's. And I was remarking about your beautiful requirements garden behind you. I carry the purple flower from my mother. And other fundraising and advocacy at the capitol. Let us say approached retirement from my state job after 25 years. I thought it was just going to do more volunteer work. I came across this concept of care giving support consultant, which we can talk about more. But essentially what happened was I turned my personal loss my pain into my passion and my honor career. That sounds familiar and I laugh because I also still attend my support group. I did miss last night because it was my anniversary. And I'm a little bit more hit and miss these days just because it's getting a little old to have to do it on Zoom. But I am able to give a lot of good advice because I talked to so many people like yourself that they have asked me if I would do the facilitator training. Yeah. So I'm like, oh no, I'm following his footsteps. Probably would be very good. They wanted me to do it here because we are probably more than like, it's the plan is to move about two hours away. I have not heard back from the gal who's in charge of the training. So I might have to nudge that. Let's see what happens. I did tell them I will be coming back to this city regularly for my hair appointment. I can manage to coordinate those together. My daughter will still live here, so I'm not like abandoning town and never coming back. But I do see a need up there because everybody I know it's moving up there doesn't happen to be that young. Not old yet, but we're all in our 50s, 60s. So it's something for them to think about. So I don't know where that's going yet. And the word very a lot fewer support groups back then the one I went to that continued was the only one at that time in the evening during the week. Rather than a week as I was working I needed that. And then I started another group for a nonprofit across the river Vancouver Washington, started the first one south of the Columbia river. And that's a weekly one, and I've been doing that one for about four years. And then I have a Facebook community to mention support for group for caregivers who would build Cohen and I have a monthly virtual support group. That one. And even though we're going shifting back and forth between in person and virtual or hybrid, that one will continue to be virtual because I get people from all over the country joining me for that one. There are people in my group that have said weekly would be would be helpful. Right now, I mean, my group when we were in person, there was one time there was almost 35 of us, which was like, you know, you walk in and you're like, I'm so glad all these people are here. And I'm so happy that all these people have to be here. It was definitely a too large. That's a too large a group for because.
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
"cohen" Discussed on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
"From the real size of salt lake city. Buying the bar jake cohen. Here's a cookbook. Jew ish cookbook. Reinvented recipes from a modern bench out now. So this is your first time in new york city since you've been a housewife right three inyo since the reunion right. But it's kind of your first time here since everything's open back. I mean i know you were in times square with your daughter last night or people recognizing you around new york and what is that like. It's incredible like we got vip for the ferris wheel in times square which you know boon right And yeah like a fan recognized us at buddha. Khan like it's been fun for ashley to kind of my daughter to see me like outside of just being a mom. It's great to show her the city. That's great and what about you. What's what's your life been like since you've been become a house wild. Yeah yeah. I love our fans. I'll tell you that. I appreciate each and every one of them I can't go to aaa. I'll tell you that before right now. It's different because now they know my story. okay. I want to go back to our virtual audience. Here's tricia and sarah from saint louis with the question for hydrogen. Sarah hi andy we love you love you guys are so thank you there. We are so excited. That salt lake city is back so we wanna know. Have you spoken to be honest since last season rat. And have there been any more famous people popping up in your dams in anticipation of season. Two good question. Great question and i really knocked all of the big celebs out season. Was you you really did. But i did re post riana rocky. He was wearing a shirt that could have been easily reduced to a thumbs up. But it was doing an actual finger gesture fun. Listen thumbs up asep oscar and oh they dropped all right. Forget it there. Peter m wants to know considering your bravo hollick. What's been your reaction to everything. Going on with erica this season. And what do you think. The biggest difference is between beverly hills. And how your friends have dealt with jen's legal troubles. Oh good question. The question yeah. Of course i've been watching everything. Play out because you know it's happening for salt lake city. It's almost parallel right. But unfortunately jen's at the hub of her issues and she has a lot more to answer for the erica. James eric has not been charged with. Yeah exactly jen. Jen is at the focus of her issues and erica's adjacent. So how have how. Would you say watching beverly hills. Those women have dealt with erika's issues differently than you all have dealt with jen's will the biggest thing is that jen is in it you know jen is honest and mike kind of open about her fears and what she's facing and the reality of what's going on and eric has very much. You know presenting okay. So the so. The difference is really between the two principals at the at the heart of it. John asking for help and support and compassion at america. Saying why would you do this to me. Got it mea leah. I want to know if you honestly think. Robin calls giselle out when she's being too messy or are they truly just a package deal there. Package deal Mia sara arwen if you agree with giselle that wendy is too sensitive to be in the group of women. I think wendy has second season. Like blows mommy. Oh four three one heather. Your friendship change of jenn is convicted. Like if she's truly found guilty mia ari season two step grandchildren yourself. What did you think of karen. Wanting to be called diamonds. she becomes a grandmother. Then i don't wanna be called grandma either. Okay it's mimi all day me me a diamond by the way. Mimi is a nickname for some delay. Other what kind of advice would you give to me for her first reunion. I mean don't be like me. Leave it on the table. They leave it all on the field. Don't don't leave it all on the field because there's a lot each hold back and hear me. It doesn't need advice for macy's killing heather and mia. Thanks for listening to the podcast. Everybody hope you enjoyed the show. Remember new episodes. Go live monday through friday at four. Pm eastern time. Make sure your subscribe to have a great rest of your night..
NEWS 88.7
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"Cohen. The 9 11 attacks 20 years ago Saturday prompted more than a quarter million Americans to join the armed forces in the year that followed, And of course, many of them saw active duty in wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in the two decades since. News 88 sevens, Andrew Schneider spoke with a pair of Houston area veterans of post 9 11 wars. First we'll hear from me A Garcia, executive director of the Texas Veterans Network at the nonprofit combined Arms She says she was in the process of joining the Marine Corps in September of 2000 and one but that the attacks further reinforced the feelings behind her decision. I remember being and a community college sand Jack College to be very specific. It was, um literally, Um two or three weeks before I had joined the Marine Corps. I had already sworn in and I knew that I was going to boot camp and I had not yet told my parents so seeing everything unfold on television. And made me really anxious and made me know that I needed to tell them that I would be going to boot camp shortly after What made you decide to join the Marine Corps? Actually, I have a cousin and she joined the Marine Corps as an officer and I went enlisted. I knew that the Marine Corps was the hardest military branch to get into. And that really enticed me to take on that challenge. And quite frankly, I was kind of bored at school. How did you find out the news about what was happening on that day? It was paused, a big pause button everywhere and even in the school, and then that classroom like the teachers, um, pause on on teaching, and there was a few televisions in the hallways that we could see everything going on. So I watched a little bit And then of course it was, you know, quite frankly, very frightening. So I left school and went home and I watched the rest of it. And then I remember telling my parents that I joined the Marine Corps, which they were very surprised at. Okay, So how How much longer after that, Was it that you before you went to boot camp, right? So I went to boot camp the very the end of November so right before Thanksgiving. And then um, so three months of training, And then um, we had additional training for our M O s and, um sorry, Mos. Yes are Mos is our military occupations specialties? There are military job. So all of that said after boot camp. It took me about six months to get situated and at the my location where I was going to station, which was Camp Pendleton, California and then from there we deployed, Um and I deployed to Kuwait. At the very beginning. I was in Camp Commando, and essentially, it was a desolate desert that we built a camp on. And that's where we launched convoys into and out of Iraq. What was it like for you watching what was going on in Afghanistan while you were training? Um Well, they didn't really show us what was going on during boot camp. They more unless they just articulated that what we were trading for was there was a purpose behind it and never was the purpose Greater. And there was a true mission at hand. And I think that that was really motivating along the way, and, um, I'll always remember my dad. My dad's reaction. Whenever I told him I was joining was that well? At least you have a reason. Now, At least there's you know, true purpose to joining the military and being activated in going forward. Um, and so I think that was greatly and still during the whole training kind of kept us posted on on some of the big things that were happening as they were developing. But it was just that basic knowledge of Hey, we're here to train because this is what's at hand and this is what you know Your mission is going to be. We're coming up on the 20th anniversary of 9 11, and I can only imagine it's difficult for you. Every time that anniversary comes around. I mean there. Are there any particular memories from past anniversaries that strike you? Um, like I would say me not so much, but my friends that lost their colleagues. Um I didn't lose anyone. You know, That was terrible. I was terribly close to during my time. Um, but I do have friends that that did And you know, every time that that time comes around or or maybe the date that they survived their friend next to them, didn't Um, you know, we have And you know we're brothers and sisters in arms. So I hold that grief with them, and my heart is happy for them. Especially now is every this added layer of everything with Afghanistan is is has been added to, um to kind of digest. It brings a lot of feelings for Back to those that served during that time, and even those that served in other words, Um, you know, because many of them have friends that served in Afghanistan. Have you been digesting What's been going on over the last Few days with the with the unraveling of Afghanistan. Like I said, it is hard to digest. It's hard for a number of reasons. Um one A lot of our our military gave it all for for this war, and, um I have a heavy heart for them and what their thoughts and feelings are I also have heavy thoughts and feelings for the the Afghan community, especially those special immigrant visas that we've been trying to get back over here. And, you know, I guess a little bit of hopelessness is what we have felt, but also just a heavy heart for for everyone. Um, obviously here in my part And with combined arms is making sure that veterans have access to all of the resources and services. They need One very important one being mental health, and so during this time, you know we've been very intentional with making sure that all of the veterans and those that start that support veterans veterans spouses have access to mental health and whether they be talking to someone or and having one on one with a professional mental health counselor. I mean, the short The short answer is, uh, there's a lot of feelings right now. But that's the answer that I've heard from a lot of my veteran fellow veterans. There's just a lot to take in and it's so early on. I just think that today is going to be a heavy week for for all veterans and veteran supporters. That's Mia Garcia, executive director of the Texas Veterans Network at Combined Arms where Brian Escobedo is system director and Runs the nonprofits expansion efforts to other cities. He says The 9 11 attacks spurred his decision to join the armed forces. When he was in high school. I was 16 I was going from first period of second period at Clear Creek High School. And one kid came out whose parents work for the government said, Hey, we're being attacked and everybody laughed at her. And then we walked to class and the principal came on and said today, September 11 2001 is a day that will live in infamy. And he said, Turn on your TV sets. So we turn on the TV sets in the classroom, and within two minutes we saw the second tower. The second plane hit the tower. And so it was that moment that I knew that we were at war. I knew at 16 years old. I decided I'm joining the Marines. But I remember way that was a commercial for a movie or something. When it first came on..
Mom And ... Podcast
"cohen" Discussed on Mom And ... Podcast
"Dot com for scripts and dialogues you'll find the series and it gives you a rights out what to say to write in different situations. It's so helpful. I want to revisit before we. I feel like we're going to run out of time and i'm starting to panic. There's so much now want to cover. I know probably have to have you back but really wanna revisit. That compensation see is something. We're hearing so often as that women especially when they relaunch take a huge pay cut and some of that pay cut the direct effect of having stayed home for awhile but some of that is wanting the control. Because we're in a different place in our lives and we can't jump on a plane tomorrow morning or we don't want to we could. We don't want to necessarily so. What are you seeing now. A postcode world compensation wise. And what are you seeing just in employer. Starting to get wise to the fact that relaunch are valuable right. And so. I don't want to hate that picture of the trading compensation for control of something that everyone does it something that some real interest and so on you know level and compensation when people were turned to work a fulltime job. And they're really they want to go all in and go work full-time in a job that they're interested in and what we've found is that sometimes relied hers. It takes them awhile and so sometimes they'll just take something much more junior just to get their foot in the door. I'm so actually. I wrote an article for harvard. Business review about this. I'm quite a series of articles for harvard business review on career entry topics if you've got. Hp are carol fishermen cohen g. Search that you'll see all of them..
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
"cohen" Discussed on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
"How many episodes gail. How many episodes did you make twelve excellent delicious. I am very excited okay tom. We've got a viewer question. Wanting to know it seems like you have more fun last chance. Kitchen than on top chef. Is that true. It's a loser for those. Okay adam are wants to know tom. If you could just one shot from season eighteen to work at one of your restaurants who would you choose. Sarah gale in honor of your new series top chef amateurs what was one of your most amateur hour moments that stands out to you early on your career l. My guy too. Many to count wrote about john your first book i think too i did. I mean there were many mess ups. That's for sure like in the kitchen. I mean accidents. I almost like my finger off several times for my hands. Many times made multiple mistakes in interviews with important people that would come back to haunt me for years. We off suivant that. Yeah donna from delaware wants to know who was the hardest. I send home this season in why you know. They're all hard to send home even the ones you know it should go home. It's never easy for me. I can't honestly pick one person who it was. You know hardest to send home. I'm sorry i don't have an answer for you but that's the moment in the show. That always sucks for me. Because i know how much it means to them and how much did given up to be on the show. Let's take another virtual audience question. Here's eddie from brooklyn who has a question for all of you. Oh hey everybody. Excellent job all this food. Talk i hate to say. I was just diagnosed with acid reflux. Don't even get me started. Oh my question is not about acid reflux. My question is how long do the judges debates last and how much disagreement occurs before a consensus is reached. Do your deliberations last as long as they used to. Because i used to sit there pulling my hair out in that video village. If you recall yeah we were a lot slower in the early days and then we just at some point realize you know we could never use all of it anyhow. Just take your job really really seriously yes. I just sitting there to in the morning. Listen to padma talking about cardamom. Andy deliberations have gotten a lot shorter since since you left just say. That's very funny. I know i hear it runs much more efficiently. i yes. There is a big change. When i had the baby because i would have to go nurse. Yeah so miraculously. We were able to get everything done in that three hour window whereas before we take five yes of the like middle stuff we sure would actually just quickly what. We realized that we were actually saying the same thing about three different times. Yes we saying. The same thing at the table then in the mini deliberation and then at the actual deliberation and so we realize you can cut a lot out. Yes you guys. It was. People were raving about this season..
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
"cohen" Discussed on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
"But i love man that stands up for his fanta. Wow casey sure. I'm gonna feed gylfi and here's why i liked in the episode where he was doing a gratitude list. He gave gratitude for his wife caboose. He'll be. I think his attitude is still fee. But i okay delfi or not. Dr daddy damon times. Everybody number one rather husband gylfi fate. All that's a man that loves. His wife loves family and he's smart. Yes dr david dan casey. I'm gonna give gylfi. I like daddy involved. I wanna give. I'm gonna give villafane. I know i'm throwing out these duties really be i've the attitude is still fee but yeah. Oh you're andy haden. I'm just playing till fear not delfi. Okay paul kevin sleeve. Pk ebony it's going to be a no for me. Okay kc. It's going to be a not guilty. Andy jolly joker. I'm going to do the same. Okay frank cassandra's senior. Do it for me. I know you popular opinion. Kc i'm going to give him a gop for for giving spongebob his ex wife's lover. I okay. I'm gonna do that to last. Stop jack's taylor. The age old question ebony pale know anything else. Okay case rose wilson disgusting. I'm going to say early. Jack's delfi all right. Thank you. I know i did a little. I know but i have more consequences here by the way avenue so much happening. Tonight's episode. is there anything else you wanted to get off your chest or clear up. Want people to know. I just want people to know.
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
"cohen" Discussed on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
"She appeared on. Watch what happens. Live reaction an honor. Yes honor honestly. I love it. I mean you remembered me. That would be a problem i think. Yeah what would it mean if she remembered you that has all sorts of implications. Actually i think it would mean something was very wrong with ramona. That she'd grown or changed. And i don't want that for her. There you go well speaking of growing and changing. I wanna get into questions about tonight's episode. God where to begin where to begin. I guess every. I'm interested in. I'm interested in your reaction to seeing leah and heather in the bus or van at the end of the show. Liam came in hot as she threw some flowers. I mean do you regret saying what you said to leah to kind of instigate that or where are you at with this. Yeah i'll say that what we saw the end of the episode. Andy as you know was just the beginning of the lien ever throwdown. I do regret what i said. Only because i had no idea that lee as i affectionately call. Her was going to call the way that she did. And you know what i mean and the reality is i did have my own feeling and perspective about leia's decision or at least contemplation. Rather whether or not she was gonna vote in. And we're so close. And what i love about lia and i- relationship is we loved each other enough to create space for us to be grown asked women and adult. They make our own decisions. So i probably could have expressed that without attaching heather component. Which just said it. All casey your reaction to leah versus. Heather ooh tough one. I feel like right off the bat. I knew this was going to be trouble. I personally did not want their back. I don't know why she's with us. And that's no disrespect to you andrew cohen but i am interested to see how it plays out. I am lee were you. How did you feel by the way. I mean watching it. It seemed like heather actually was helpful in the mediation of the sensitive issues. Earlier in the episode. Did you find that to be or not andrew. I think i'm just gonna call you that long by i. Didn't i think her intention was to be helpful. I wanna give her that much but actually found her to be extremely unhelpful unproductive. A came across to me. Andy like she was trying to kind of white splaine or translate for me and one thing i do. Criminal well is communicate effectively. Do speaking different language you feel or did you feel in the place. We are now in the series in a good place with luan and ramona. After all of what you had all of the places that you were lose house in sag. Did you feel at the end of this episode in a better place with lou better than leaving our house. Yes sure sure sure but not much better but not not that much better. Okay it was. I need to see more india. Okay how were you in lieu now. I'm not ideal. i guess. Uncuffed uncomfortably silence. Okay it's how stable all right. We'll casey when you're not starring in a show about the stock market. You're investing all your resources into bravo. So i want to get your thoughts on the latest drama. All over the bravo's fear in new york. Why do you think raimondo feels so uncomfortable every time a conversation turns to sex and human genitalia. I think my take is that ramona is so obsessed with sex that she's kind of a president throws stones the way like a gay closeted congressman critical of the lgbtq community. That's what i think is going on with. Ramon if i may interesting in beverly hills from sharing childhood stories to sipping energy drinks at one a m favorite.
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
"cohen" Discussed on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
"I do. I think he handles the crew. Unlike any other captains that we've seen sandy lee. He has a real sort of laid back attitude. But i mean he did look like he was panicking a little wars when you're crushing the boat. You're going to panic. I know but it was to keep my job. I understand that captains are supposed to be like We're coming into the doctor. i'd al everybody. Relax and glenn was like bird captain like but i do love him by the way jerry. Are you gonna come to bravo con this year. I mean we were kinda hoping you're going to come in costume again definitely. It was the highlight of my decade. I mean i'm definitely coming. It really is so much fun just going from room to room hall to hall. I can't wait gary jordan. S wants to know your reaction to danny telling john luke that she loves him tonight. That's a bit take to fall in love with someone after five weeks I mean don't get me wrong. But while i don't know how much time they spend together but to fall in love with someone after what four weeks. Five weeks is is a bit much for me to be honest jerry. I wanted to beat with jerry safe to say you were. You were in love with rebecca after five weeks right It was instantaneous. It was like getting hit with a thunderbolt. Just felt like my body was crazy. Yeah that's how. I felt. When i saw you without your shirt on earlier right i do want to say getting back to to jail and danny. I felt for sure that was going to end in a proposal. That's just how television has like like sort of like like pushed my mindset and then when it didn't end proposal it just goes to show how jaded i am i was like oh whatever it may have ended something else but we'll get into that letter at least they didn't have relations in captain glenn bunk thought for sure they were going to be like a captain is cool. We just headphones. It is time for watch what happens five.
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
"cohen" Discussed on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
"Love the audience applause. Thank you okay. Goal nasa greg de said. What was your first impression of new shah. Lunden when you met her. I think that it's amazing To have new friends come into the crew and stuff like that. I just don't really. I don't understand london's issue. Which is i think. She's a lesbian and she's happy to output. I think she spent so much time promoting that she's a lesbian instead of just being a normal person. So i don't know i don't think that the shah's group loves newcomers. You know what's so funny. Anti i'm actually friends with like every single new comer that came into this group. All of the others have written them off. Right good jackie randy w wants to know your reaction when you saw scott show the other man very attractive woman who. He interviewed to work at his practice. I wanted to know how dumb can you be. Why would you have another woman your phone right. What was he drinking like. Like stupid jews. We we had some interesting conversations with scott at the reunion. Didn't you think. Oh my god so many conversations it was like if you know anything about atlanta it was spaghetti junction for over here and over there and everywhere and back again. Yeah wow goal. Nasa to child am wants to know. Don't you think referring. Paulina as a bitch when talking to mike was counterproductive. I'm getting seventy hard questions. Sorry i haven't seen you in a long time g g we you know i gotta go in here i listen. I lost a lot of respect for paulina. I'm when she decided to just fan out. All of mike's information to everyone to see it just it. It gave me a bad taste in my mouth is just makes me think well. What does that girl up to. So if mike my boys. Since i was thirteen years old. Yeah that's how i put a muzzle on his bitch. Okay last question. Jackie's shelly said. How can dr jackie see. The toya's behavior is unbecoming but she does not see her acknowledge. That heavenly savior is not only unbecoming but downright disgusting says shell ep. So shelly pe- if you noticed. I took toya to the bathroom and i really didn't approach toya. Toya approach me and so a lot of bathroom conversations with heavenly you. Don't get to see okay there you go. I want on that note. I want to thank dr. jackie g. g. keeps keep watching Mary medicine and shahs of sunset and subscribe to vote of their podcasts. We will see you tomorrow night. Thanks everybody thanks. For listening to the podcast. Everybody hope you enjoyed the show. Remember new episodes. Go live monday through friday at four. Pm eastern time. Make sure your subscribe to have a great rest of your life..
Breast Cancer Conqueror Podcast
"cohen" Discussed on Breast Cancer Conqueror Podcast
"To another amazing episode of wellness warriors. Today i have another great yes. Jodi cohen enjoyed has a very interesting story to tell about Breast cancer so stay tuned. Because we'll talk about that in just a minute. But i met jodi at a conference. Several years ago Mindshare shared collaborative conference were poker. Practitioners get together and look how to be better practitioners in run our businesses. Better and and i really was impressed with jody's oil season Her her whole protocol and just her presence. I really appreciated getting to know your joni. So let me tell you a little bit about her. So jodie cohen is a bestselling author word. Winning journalist of functional founder of vibrant blue oils and. I forgot to grab him. I had a couple of them. And i didn't forget to grab a What i really like about your oils is that they're organic wild crafted and you've helped over fifty thousand clients around the world to heal from brave related challenges anxiety and song auto immunity on. Thanks jodi thanks for being here. Oh my gosh thank you and thanks for all the wonderful work you do. I love your book. I recommend it to everyone i know. Thank you. so let's start with the story right. The pain that triggered the fashion. So tell us about your story and wise essential oils important re now. yes so The the country is that essential oils. Got me out of a really rough patch. And i i've come to recognize a wounded healers. You know it's like living on a roller coaster. Right life hits rap rock bottom. You come back up then you do another rock bottom and you keep learning as you go because in that moment of intense pain. You can't stay there so you're highly motivated to figure out what gets you out of it. And then if it's easy and helpful you're motivated to share it with other people so I kind of down dip My second child was really That kid who did those things. No impulse control total sensory seeker at after three years of trying. Every parenting class. I took them to nutritionist. Change changed his diet and his personality was different. So that's how. I kind of got into nutrition because it was so remarkable how different he behaved with different food which was helpful. Because a second rock-bottom his his dad was bipolar and After my first child was born he got really manic than after my son was born. He got really depressed and for anyone who's ever lived with someone who's depressed. It's almost like You keep trying to do more and more on the more you do for them. The less they show up and it kind of got to the point where it became obvious he was going to die on. My watch and my friends staged an intervention and said this is more than you can handle. You need to move him to Professional setting a residential treatment facility and..
The Truth About Wealth
"cohen" Discussed on The Truth About Wealth
"Clark cohen so that i would be calling from clarkin cohen and there was really never any question in anyone's mind that i would end up coming into the business in what we do here is kind of fix other people's problems and it's kind of who i am i i you know i. I like to get involved and help other people out so it was. There was never a question in my mind that i was going to become a public adjuster and come to work in the family business. I had an amazing relationship with my grandfather. He was a really difficult guy he would fight with pretty much everybody and yelled everyone that ever worked for him but when it came to me he he was very calm and taught me a ton and then i had a wonderful relationship with my dad. We worked together for twenty five years and he kind of. Let me do things the way i wanted to do them and was very happy to allow me to pretty much. Run the company from the time. I got here so in that way. There was no question. What what he did in make sure that i had before i could come to work here was ahead to have a college degree because i was the first person in my family to graduate from college my father had my grandfather had no one else in my family had either so at that point i was the first one and they wanted. They wanted me too. Although i did everything possible to try to get around that it didn't work and they did make to make me get a degree before it. Can i hope. I hope for the best at the end of the day. No question question that when you look back no question at the time. I wasn't happy back. Then i wondered. Did you have that same conversation with your son as sort of a prerequisite to get into the business. I handed much different perspective of than my my father and my grandfather. It's very difficult business. It's twenty four. Seven fires and property damaged happen when they happen..
Around the World in 80s Movies
"cohen" Discussed on Around the World in 80s Movies
"Hoped that he could find it quick replacement so he wouldn't lose that much money within about an hour but goes did come back. He apologized and he told cohen that. He is hyper glycaemic. He goes crazy if he doesn't eat about every three hours or so and so he was definitely having a bout their cohen understood. He made sure that from then on he was going to have food available on the set to keep his star stable for the rest of the shoot and they didn't have any problems after that. Now around this time cohen. He was somebody who regularly read newspapers. He started to get film ideas. Many of them came to him later usually while he was showering and he noticed that there seemed to be articles every day in the papers. Some sort of product recall something that was dangerous to the public hamburger meat or bananas or poultry products. Spinach diet pills medication. You name it somehow. Almost everything was dangerous for humans and so he wondered why we have this food and drug administration half of the products that are out there at the market are at some point or another going to make people sick when they're supposed to be either feeding them or helping them feel better. And what's worse. Is that these products exist at the market. Not only of their harmful but people actually know that they're harmful and they still put them in their bodies anyway. Cigarettes alcohol saccharin fill diet soft drinks. People drank mcdonald's milkshakes even though they're made mostly of chemicals instead of ice cream but they don't care that he tastes so good they'll still put them in their body now. Cohen wanted to craft a black comedy about all of these things. He was experiencing anxiety about this stuff. He wanted to make something that was entertaining. That movie going audiences would still want to watch to get his ultimate message. Wanted to deliver a pointed satire on the ridiculousness of the food and drug industry. Something that he touched on in his nineteen seventy four film called. It's alive but he didn't want it to be too heavy-handed he wanted it to be still fun. You want us to draw in audiences to this message with humor and thrills so we came up with this story idea about this untested food product that goes to market and gets people addicted and these people would become very much like eric bogosian monstrous if they don't get this food that is controlling them and worse once they consume too much it will eventually kill them. Eats them as they eat it now. Coin decided instead of a drawing. He wanted to be a food and he thought that of all the foods he can think of is cream was perfect choice because everybody really has positive feelings about them. They might be nerve that this is something that could kill them. He thought back to the novelty song from the nineteen twenty s. That was popularized later. It became really a jazz standard ice cream. Use scream we all scream for ice cream. He thought it would be pretty subversive to make people really scream for ice cream at the very least it was an idea that had not been done before as far as he knew there were shades. There of invasion of the body snatchers in the blog. But definitely an ice cream as the monster was something new now. Corn would call this film the stuff that had kind of different connotations. Not only because it was dealing with a substance. Nobody knew exactly what it was but stuff is another word for drugs. Like hey man you got the stuff. Because like i said. And he didn't want to have a satire about drugs or drug addiction but rather the psychological examination of the addictive elements within american society itself and people see ear. Want whatever's advertise to them regardless of whether it's good for them the industry selling it really doesn't have any clue or care that there may be ill effects with their products that might be caused whether in the short term or long term. People are no longer people to them. They're really just this mass market from which to profit off of the tagline of the stuff is. Are you eating it or is it eating you. The addictive quality of the stuff has its own slogan within the context of the movie. Enough is never enough. Cohen concocted a comedic horror thriller with a setup involves this ex fbi agent. He's turned an industrial spy. He's hired by a very desperate ice cream industry to try to steal the secret formula for the stuff which is this newly marketed yogurt. Like food substance. He discovers the substance which is found bubbling up from seemingly deposits underground. He discovers it's deadly and humanity is going to hang in the balance as people get addicted to it. The stuff is delicious. No calorie dessert highly addictive to all who eat it so addictive that all people want to do is to eat more of it while it has some sort of living parasite inside that starts to control their minds as it eats them from the inside until it reproduces. The human host expires now. Cohen had a good working relationship with former universal president. Robert remmy the co chair and ceo of new world pictures now ramey agreed to distribute and also provide a four point five million dollar budget. That was later. Slashed about a third of that cohen had just a month to shoot his film mostly on location in new york. Kingston in manhattan primarily with short stints in new jersey as well as a little bit in los angeles and the stuff stars method actor. Michael moriarty cohen had work with him before he was to lead of his most popular film up to that point called q the winged serpent which came out just a couple of years before and moriarty was not the first choice for the stuff. Cohen originally had pursued mandy patinkin. But patinkin was starting to play. The lead on a broadway show called sunday in the park with george and he wasn't available moriarty came in. He wore a hairpiece to make him look younger. He concocted kind of a personality hook to make his character somebody. He had not done before moriarty came up with his character's name. David rutherford also known as moat rutherford. A southern guy with a slightly comic demeanor. He had a slow speech pattern. That would make others underestimate. His intellect. cohen. Did come up with most catchphrase. That he got the nickname of mo- because no matter how much give him he always wants mo- now moriarty came in. He basically quit the film on the first day of the shoot. He felt that cohen had started braiding. This crew member too harshly for something and he didn't want to have any more part of that. Cohen told moriarty he could leave. He wouldn't sue but the production would be severely hurt if he left and he really didn't want him to do that so moriarty after he calmed down a bit. He decided to stay and the worked out their problems after that. No another time a little bit later in the shoot moriarty did lose his cool even more so than that. When cohen put moriarty's twelve year old son in the trunk of this car up because he wanted to shoot a reaction shot for a moment when mo- opens the trunk to discover that the stuff is in there but instead of the stuff that would be his son looking in really bad shape and he wanted to get that reaction however the guy who had the keys to the trunk of that car had to leave into town to go get something which nobody knew about and panic started to sit in because it was his kid in the truck and there was no way out. Moriarty's son so they started to rip out seats to get to the kid and finally before the win. It's a full panic mode the guy did come back with the keys but moriarty was livid but he didn't manage to calm down and keep going to professional that he is singer and actress andrea markle vici. She plays nicolle candle. She's this advertising executive who markets the stuff. She uses a lot of fashion models and fashionable trends to try to make it appealing sex appeal really more romances her and then gets to see some of the inner workings of the products production. Now cohen did cast marco beachie because he liked her comic. Turn in a woody. Allen film called the front so she signed on board because it was difference. She was tired of playing victim roles in a lot of other thrillers. She said that working on the stuff was like dealing with two naughty boys because she was sticking with the script that she was given but moriarty and cohen to play jazz which is what they called improvising their way through each scene to see what could happen and that left her really at a loss as to how to react. A lot of the time moriarty actually did play jazz. He kind of a musician in his off hours in the loved. Riffing new music as well as improvising dialogue. So he's somebody who definitely doesn't like getting caught him patterns and cohen likes to encourage that when he can now marco beachie also kind of confirmed coen's belief that people would rather chemicals. She says she was upset to have to eat whipped cream which is one of the substances that used to simulate the stuff because it was fattening but she would rather have eaten the shaving cream because that would have been no calories but this angle on dangerous. Dieting is what attracted markle t to be in the film to begin with because she had been a serial dieter pretty much her whole life sometimes to unhealthy degrees and she thought that this would be kind of a message. That would be important to people like her now. Garrett morris he plays eight chocolate cookie magnate modeled after a real life one called famous amos this cookie magnate chocolate chip charlie. His company's been bought out. He gets ousted. He watches entire empire crumbles since the desert called. The stuff has arrived now. Cohen had originally wanted for that role. Not garrett morris but up and coming stand up comedian arsenio hall but new line. Wanted somebody more recognizable for that role. Morris was popular for his years on tv. Saturday night live. No more said that he only did not because he thought it would be a good movie but like many of the horror movies that he appeared in during this period he did it strictly for the money he does wish people would forget it. The colts status of the stuff did not really change his mind. Morris glibly says that we have to question the taste of some of the american public. That really thinks the stuff is actually a pretty good movie. He was not happy at all working. With larry cohen. And he really declined to talk about him because he doesn't really have a lot of good things to say. Scott bloom plays jason. He's this young boy who sees the stuff seeming to move on. Its own in his refrigerator and he gets very turned off to the possibilities of this but then he sees the rest of his family. Eat this thing and then fall under its insidious spell one by one scots. Real life brother an actor as well brian. He places older brother in the movie. Not brian. He's shown playing the home version of vaccine. And kind of coincidentally. He became a highly sought voice actor for many video games over the years and some cartoons and he also happened to write several games in the call of duty series as well so that early start with the video games i guess paid off for him for a career paul servino. He's cast here. After cohen ran into him in. This restaurant called columbus and new york. That's where actors regularly frequented and asked if he was interested in apart in his film. Servino said yes. He took the role of this ex military. Crackpot need colonel malcolm gromit spears who uses his private paramilitary militia to take on the stuff being convinced. It's part of some sort of communist plot to take over america. Sorvino had this habit of entertaining the cast and crew. When he was off camera he burst into his own opera songs to try to keep everything lively and engaged now. Servino teenage daughter at the time happened to be on the set co and asked. If she'd like to be in the movie she said of course. She put on a yellow uniform and played one of the factory workers where they packaged stuff and it became her first film. Experience for a young mira sorvino now in the film mo- visits this representative from the food and drug administration. The fda gave the stuff a pass to put out to market without really seemingly any testing at all this. Fda rep has played by danny aiello who cohen also medic columbus. The same place. He met servino the character. Has this great dane. That seems to be addicted to the stuff. And in one of the worst examples of dog attack kills the danny aiello character by wagging his tail and licking him. He really is a sweet dog and they couldn't really get them to act in any way menacing other than his size. I suppose cohen had a real reputation of being a temperamental director. And that's certainly was the case with the stuff. Often coen could be very open very encouraging he was willing to let his actors improvise to their heart's content and he would often yell out things of his own that he thought that they should improvise as they came to him. During their scenes he edited all of their riffing afterward to try to make some sense out of it other times. Though when things were falling behind schedule wise he could be very demanding very unwilling to stop and listen to his actors or his crew. He became very rigid about what he wanted. Usually because he wanted to catch up cohen does describe his outbursts as necessary cast and crew the would sometimes grew complacent on a very relaxed said that he tried to have so. We had to really bark once in a while to get the point across that they need to do something. Many of cohen's films were to a large degree self-financed so really was buddy directly out of his pocket if they were going to be wasting time so he had a personal interest in making sure that they did not the actors also claimed that cohen was having such a good time making the stuff that they had less of a good time he continued to want to work on the film very long hours sometimes very early the next day they didn't get a lot of sleep he really push them to try to squeeze out additional scenes. They were all very tired at the end of the day but he just wanted to keep going and moriarty says that cohen had this real technique of getting on people's good sides for him. Cohen had a really dead on impression of ed win. Edwin the actor and comedian who has a very distinct voice is often used in cartoons and such but moriarty really said that he sounded more like headwind and edwin himself now despite some rough patches moriarty did happen to appear in four of cohen's movies. This was his second but he also appeared in an episode of masters of horror. That larry cohen did sometime in the mid to thousands paul glickman. He came in. He served as both cinematographer as well as primary camera operator. This was his fifth collaboration. With cohen. for the opening scene there was an unexpected snowstorm. Came in cohen was happy with the production value of that snowstorm so it was kind of a blessing in disguise for him but glickman did point out that the equipment was really not made for snowstorm and sure. Enough lights began to blow out camera. Equipment started shorting out the cables lack proper installation. They took a lot of damage from the moisture. Cohen said keeps shooting. Get as much footage as they can because simulating such thing would be much more costly. Whatever equipment was still working. Just keep it going until they just couldn't anymore. Makeup effects were handled by steve neale. Who worked on several films and rick. Stratton who who is known at that time for working on the tv miniseries v as well. As michael jackson's music video for thriller the stuff depending on its used or the amount needed consisted of either is cream or yogurt or two foodi or whipped cream or custard. Sometimes it was mashed potatoes with baking flour flakes or shaving cream or liquid cement or in the worst case fire extinguisher foam which was made out of some sort of fish and animal bones. That really gave this odor that made everybody gags so much so that people at the end of the shoot would jump in the hudson river not really known for being something. That really smells good. It's a polluted river but they would jump in the hudson river at the end of the day with her costumes on to try to get that stinky smell out. A couple of the crew actually put on rubber undergarments. They wanted to ensure that this stench did not seep into their skin long-term or maybe permanently they thought now coincide. Jim danforth to provide some stop motion animation for the stuff but his asking fee was too high so we hired david allen who he had worked with on key the wing serpent. Alan was skeptical that he could create likud movements with stop motion as coen requested. Traditional animation was going to work better but cohen wanted real looking textures. For the stuff so alan crafted miniature sets to move this multiple plastic around in front of a stationary camera and hope that that would suffice but cohen was disappointed. When he saw allen's work because it looked to mechanical it looks like a wind up toy was beneath goop. Cohen regretted eventually not paying danforth. The additional money he had requested on because of what alan was producing alindo though accused cohen of poor communication with him and his technical crew. They were working in burbank while she was in new york so they needed real communication which cohen didn't seem to give cohen seemed to expect work to be done in hours instead of the days that were necessary and then he grew frustrated whenever you check into find that the only done a few seconds of completed work at the end of the day now as the effects were not ready when they were needed some of the work to be formed out to others including two. Jim danforth who did some of the animation the stuff down the hallways at the end of the film and the climactic explosion at the factory. A lot of others were called in a special effects. Company called effects associates were involved. They would sue cohen just a few years later in one thousand nine hundred for refusal to pay full compensation because cohen did not like the work the animation and the effects work that they did in this film and he refused to pay them the full amount for what they turned in. He did not think that it was very good. And cohen actually prevailed in defending this lawsuit the sequence where moe and nicole deal with the stuff in a hotel room a famous scene. If you see this film they utilized a room that could rotate upside down. So that when the stuff would pour out it looked like it was going up into the walls and that was done by the technical wizard to actually built a very similar set for sequence in a nightmare now street also in break into electric blue but contrary to what you might read on the internet trivia it was not the exact same room that was used in elm street that had been demolished since but the mechanism that was used to rotate that. Elm street room was the same. The difficulty of the scene is that the room was made to catch fire in that made especially dangerous but cohen was really doing some sort of bravado. Here he wanted to make it work in in the end it did. Cohen did in the end. Have arguments with new world pictures. They had a preview in santa. Monica was filled primarily with young people and the young people. Were just not vibrated. They were not into it. They gave it pretty low scores. New world sense that they might have on their hands at the end of this. And they blame the film for being just too much conversation too much. Characterization work not enough horror so an outside editor was brought in by new world and ten minutes were removed including many of the parody commercials. That cohen wrote and stage in the shot. They were going to be put at the beginning of this film. Set the table for the stuff and how it was marketed. New world thought that there was too much comedy not enough hor in this film and it slowed the film's pacing so they've suggested instead just sprinkle a few commercials throughout the film instead of just bogging it down at the beginning. One of the commercials that did remain in the film features clara pillar. She was wendy's phenomenon. She was the one who said. Where's the beef fantasy. Also av goethe. He did a parody commercial with her. That is kind of in the middle of the movie cohen. At the time claim that cohen. At the time i actually really liked clara pelley. He liked her so much. He planned to develop project for her in the future but in the end he realized he spent a lot of money getting her and it really didn't give them the publicity that he was hoping for so instead of her trademark whereas the b pillar does see in here. Where's the stuff an explanation of the stuff being an organism from outer space. That was intended for this film. It was mostly removed because cohen. Liked this idea that the stuff instead of being this organism with somehow made by the earth came from the earth as a revenge for all of the damage that had been done to the environment for the sake of money kind of the tables here earth getting revenge by putting out a product that people wanna make money on but that would destroy humanity. There was another love scene between mellon nicole. That was in a hotel room. That was excised again for pacing issues and they also slashed marketing budget at the end of this film and number of prints that were meant to be pushing out to feeders. They opted not to hold press screenings so positive reviews when they did come in. They were after the film had already been in. Release the critics actually like this film for the most part but it was too late to make much of a difference by the time it had already hit. Theatres in kind of disappeared without much of a trace now. Cohen also blames the lack of success due to marketing. This especially like a horror film instead of as a black comedy or a satire and that led the public who did go out to see it to feel misled and so word of mouth was not kind air either. Cohen had a lot of marketing ideas of his own. That didn't get used for instance. He wanted to set up this dummy company to market the stuff as a real product. The next big dessert item. He would up celebrity endorsers. Like george plumpton or tammy grimes to appear and tv spots. He also wanted to push out clinical supermarket coupons. That people can get in the paper they to drum up demand for the stuff he wanted people to go out to the market and ask people where they can get this product at the scene. Either on tv or in the paper. Cohen also wanted to hire helicopters to scout locations at the ten biggest airports in the country. Billboards we're going to be placed on building so captive audiences. Flying in airplanes can see these ads for the stuff on their way up and down to the airport. He also wanted to have giveaway swag items available for people at the theater including selling cups of ice cream. That was in a container that said the stuff inside for sale however new world. They didn't want to get into that because they didn't want anybody to get sick on their product whether because there was something wrong with the item or maybe they just thought that the eight stuff and started feeling sick psychosomatically but the also thought that all of these ideas were too financially risky. They didn't want anything out of the ordinary. They just wanted to market it just like any other film that they had done and been successful with now unfortunately as fun as the commercials are in this film. I do think that the story for the stuff does work better as a social satire than it does as a horror movie or even as a comedy. If you're expecting laughs there is kind of a slapdash nature to the stuff which is a trademark of cohen style. Really i mean it's kind of a an acquired taste for a lot of people. Cohen freely admits that he is more of a big picture thinker than he is a meticulous planner when it comes to how scenes should be placed. Or what happens to character is oftentimes character in this film and they disappear and you don't know what happened to them. That's certainly the case for many of the characters. In the stuff the actors here. I do think are very solid. The characterizations though are wafer-thin the relationships feel very manufactured very superficial. In the way that the develop. I do think that as a movie it leaves a lot to be desired. There's a lot of ideas here. That are certainly intriguing. And it's a hard for me to dislike even though. I don't think it's a particularly good film. If you're judging it by the traditional standards i do think that instead of being a full length movie it probably would have made for an excellent episode of something like a twilight zone type anthology because it's really not funny enough or scary enough to deliver what anybody who's looking for either laughs or either scares may be wanting beyond the unique premise and the kind of oddness of the delivery so in the end i do think the stuff is an intriguing film one. I like despite the fact that. I don't necessarily think i would recommend it to most people if you're into b movies certainly. You're going to be much more forgiving of this cult movies from one thousand nine hundred eighty s but mainstream movie goers will probably not appreciate a lot of what is in the stuff enough for them to be invested in this movie beyond. Its initial premise. It's a fun movie to think about to hear about. But it's not as much a fun movie for some people to sit for ninety minutes once they get the main premise. So two and a half stars out of four is what. I'm going to be giving the stuff to an f. Stars on ice kilmeade that it had. The tools had the talent to be a film. I recommend most people in that thing that is missing as i mentioned is a real emphasis here on characterizations on plot etc so it results in a very uneven delivery one. I can't quite get behind fully enough to give it more than two and a half stars out of four. now come on did intend to follow up. This horror satire with one done on health food was going to be called fit to kill or fit to kill but the lack of financial success of the stuff did make it a hard sell project and he was never able to quite make that so anyway. The stuff if you have your own thoughts on the stuff you can write to me by contact information at my website. That's a tipster dot net key. Wip s. t. e. r. dot net. If you have. Facebook twitter instagram. What have you. You can also find links to all of my presence there and you can write to me there as well e mail. I do encourage you if you really want to say more than a few words to get in touch with me now as far as what i was going to be talking about as far as the future of this show. This episode happened to come out a couple of days later than usual. And that's going to be the norm from here on out in twenty twenty because there were not a lot of films coming out in theaters. I took all the time that normally would spend on my other. Podcasts called equips film review podcasts and a really poured it into around the world and eighties movies. I put so much time and effort into that that now that we're starting to shift toward getting more movies into theaters through twenty twenty one. I really can't do both joe's still feel. I have the commitment to kind of bar that i set for myself for twenty twenty four this podcast in essence. What i'm saying is that i'm going to go for quality instead of quantity so my reviews for this podcast will not be weekly anymore as far as when i'm going to be putting them on i'm not gonna do it biweekly because that might be too long but i'm just gonna put them out when i'm done with them. Whenever i'm done. Researching and writing and editing. What have you. I'm gonna package together. It's just gonna get released. It could be a shortest five days between shows. It could be as long as ten days somewhere in there. But i've gotten a lot of feedback very positive feedback. As far as the shows that. I've done in twenty twenty. And i wanna keep a commitment to that quality in fact so much so that any show that i did before twenty twenty. I probably at some point will redo so some of the early episodes where i didn't get into a lot of the history of the stuff i just talked about. Mostly what i thought about the film. I'm going to revisit those somewhere down the road when the opportunity arises. I hope that you are excited for the possibilities as i am. If you have your own thoughts on this decision. I do encourage you to reach out to me. My contact information my website as far as what. I'm going to be covering next week. Well i covered a john carpenter film not too long ago with the thing. I'm going to cover one more. Featuring evil us prince of darkness from one thousand nine hundred seven on the next episode. So if you haven't subscribed yet. I do encourage you to do so. And you'll get that episode when it comes out anyway until dan thank you so much for listening and joining me on this trip around the world in eighty s movies..