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A highlight from Short Stuff: The Dakota
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Yeah, she's in the lobby of a hotel. I go in that hotel to pee I'm always got my head on a swivel in that town, especially in fancy hotel lobbies Sure, and I was like, hey, this is Dakota Fanning and I was like she was sitting with people I was like, there's got to be somebody else famous went to the bathroom came out sitting next to Jessica Chastain Wow, pretty major sighting then at one of my pavement shows I saw Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig Yeah, they're married okay Wow say so power couple yeah, I mean he co -wrote Barbie with her and Dean Wareham of Luna, they're all good friends and they were all together So that was a three banger in one and this this lady near me was jumping up and down like screaming it at Greta Gerwig and she was very sweet from up above in the balcony and like made the little heart symbol and like said she Loved her was very sweet. Oh, that's sweet. And then sat next to Tiffany Haddish on the way on the flight home Wow She was a girl across the aisle from me. Did you but did you bug her the whole time? No, I didn't say anything. Were you like, hey, hey Tiffany, you remember this one joke you told? Layers She's great though. She's very pretty too. Yeah. Yes. It is. Wonderful. I like that voice. She's got that sort of a low voice kind of like this I'm Tiffany Haddish. That's right Okay. All right. We got to go cuz we're talking the Dakota here and not Dakota fanning or Elle fanning No, the apartment building in New York City. That's right. The one where John Lennon was shot in front of Live there. No, no. No, he lived there and he was he was shot on the sidewalk outside the Dakota. So That's not the only reason the Dakota's famous. Although it's probably the biggest reason the Dakota's famous One of the reasons that Dakota is famous is because it was one of the first apartment buildings in New York City like they didn't do apartments back then and even more spectacular than that it being one of the first apartment buildings is that it was Plunked down in the Upper West Side at a time when Central Park West one of the most What is it white healed high healed? Well healed well healed like Bits of stretches of real estate in the world was a dirt road still and nowhere's Phil nowhere Yep, nobody wanted to go up that far. They're like, there's nothing up there That's right. Hey seeds in in fact, it was so far out that The guy who built the Dakota who will meet in the second Edward Cabot Clark bought it from an industrialist Whose wife threatened to divorce him if he built their house out there and he's like, I don't just get rid of this piece of Land then yeah, she's like I want to live down here where it's posh in alphabet city You know, it's funny is if you you remember if you go read our book There's a whole chapter on keeping up with the Joneses in it Oh, yeah talks a lot about this part of of New York history where there are all sorts of nowhere's Ville's around that today are just like incredibly and famous Expensive that's right. All right, so the Dakota like you said people were not living in apartments at the time they were living in brownstones, which were single -family homes and There were a couple like a couple started to spring up in the 1870s They weren't great. They were Kind of like you think of New York apartments. They were small. They didn't have a lot of light People didn't love renting And living in them and along came this guy Edward Cabot Clark that you mentioned He was the president of the Singer sewing machine company So he was loaded and he got together with an architect named Henry Janeway Hardenberg a great name and to get into real estate and the first thing they built which is sadly not there anymore is Kind of a prototype for the Dakota called the van Corlier a red brick five -story 36 apartment building that was on 7th between 55th and 56 Yeah, and it immediately improved on its predecessors Because the rooms were larger the apartments themselves were larger. There was a courtyard. So there was plenty of like natural light and air Had elevators apparently which are we're talking like the 1880s 1870s and there was also I think a What was there oh there was a ramp that went beneath it so then You didn't have to solely your family reputation by accepting deliveries out there in public You could go down to the basement and meet the delivery driver to get them to take whatever they gave you Yeah, and it was just nicer overall I think there was a an intercom system and you know, like Spanish tile. It was just it was just a step up for sure and all of a sudden in 1878 They rented out very quickly and so Clark was like, alright it turns out if you if you build it nice enough they will come and Apartments can be a real thing and like you said bought that property or I guess it was just land at the time, right? Yeah, yeah bought this land from Jacob Henry Schiff way way uptown and Decided to build his second Sort of dream property there. Yep, which would be the Dakota and I say that we pause for a message break and then return and begin talking about the Dakota some more and Tiffany Haddish right after this I'm Jonathan Strickland host of the podcast tech stuff I sat down with Sunun Shahani of Surfare Mobility, which recently went public We talked about flying and electric planes and regional air mobility The future of travel doesn't have to include crowded airports cramps seats or long road trips It can be as simple as using an app to book a short -range flight on an electric plane Learn more on tech stuff on the I heart radio app Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcast This episode of stuff you should know is brought to you by t -mobile for business Hey everybody have you ever been driving around looking for a parking spot getting more and more irritated and you think why can't I just Look up parking spaces around my area I mean like wouldn't that make sense and if you find the spot faster You're going to create less traffic and in that sense Everybody's life is made better just by the ability to look up a parking spot. 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That's right offering the nation's largest 5g network T -mobile is the best network partner to take your business to the next level now is the time to business Bravely and start building your future today Just go to t -mobile .com slash now to learn more So Chuck we're talking about the Dakota now starting now Okay, so if the van Corleer was a Advancement based on the stuff that came a few years before it the Dakota was an even better advancement Improvement based on the van Corleer. It had big apartments big rooms Courtyard lots of light Ramp underneath and all that stuff, but it was also like even more Luxuriously designed like if you came over to someone's apartment, you couldn't see through down the hallway to every single room the walls were kind of like designed around so that you couldn't like there was a Separation between your visitors in the living part of the apartment or the sleeping part, you know the family part I guess is what you call it just little details like that Another big detail is that it had its own power plant that generated electricity for it in the 1870s Yeah, not bad the kitchens had little balconies so if you had stinky stuff like garbage that you couldn't get down or Maybe even stinky food or something. You could put it just right outside the kitchen, which was something that a lot of places didn't have Yeah, they had a boiler So they had insulated pipes bringing steam and hot water into the building Which was a big innovation at the time and they had tennis courts. They had croquet courts It was it was a real gym. It still is it's one of my favorite buildings in New York Every time I go up there to Central Park, at least I try to pop out on that area and just go go Give it a look Because it's a beautiful building. It's sort of a mishmash of styles It's been called, you know, French Renaissance or got German Gothic or even Victorian and it's kind of a little bit of everything But it's it's beautiful. I don't think I've ever seen it in person if I have I didn't realize it You may have it's it's lovely. It's right there on a corner. So here's the thing when Edward Cabot Clark was creating the Dakota He was widely derided for it. They called it Clark's Folly because people were deeply insensitive in the 19th century and the reason why they call it that is because again, it's in the middle of nowhere and People aren't really into apartments Like we said they live in like three -story Brownstones like they live in homes They don't live in apartments the people who lived in apartments as far as this house stuff works article points out were widows Widowers and people who are waiting for their wealthy relatives to die so they could inherit their house And all of a sudden Clark is like no. No, we're changing the game Anyone who is anyone is gonna want to live in an apartment and it turns out his gamble paid off. He was right Yeah, he sadly he died before it was finished So he didn't get to see it come to fruition But it was certainly not his folly because like you said people lined up to rent these things or I guess I don't know were they all rentals at the time. I wonder if anyone were available for sale. I think they were all rentals Okay, well people rented him, but they were people that had money. They just weren't like robber barons who wanted to live in mansions They were they were sort of the early New York, you know upper class They were people who like were bank presidents and people who like the CEOs of the time, right? Apparently the Adams sisters were heirs to a chewing gum Fortune they live there with it and that flavor tea berry one of the greatest gum flavors of all time. That's a Was it tea berry? Now, are you kidding? Cuz I can't tell no. No, that's for real. It's like a Kind of salmon pink colored Gum, no, no the the wrapper is okay It tastes like salmon too. No, it's a really delicate unique flavor and you could probably find it like Cracker Barrel Don't they have all sorts of old -timey candies or one of those rocket fizz places? I have no idea anywhere that sells candy I'll bet they have tea berry stick gum and it's really worth trying. All right Nice tip there. Thanks. So The Dakota started a trend all of a sudden luxury apartment houses started popping up all over the place Kind of in the same model with like bigger rooms and higher ceilings and stuff like that and the Upper West Side it wasn't right then but around the early 1900s that really started to take off and Really changed the face of New York of New York, you know, they they started building up more after World War one, obviously when New York said they could and Apartments became the way to go. Yeah Eventually, the the Dakota started seeing a different clientele not you know Straights and squares like bank presidents but like stars like Lauren Bacall and Judy Garland Wowie Wow horse Karloff, too That's pretty cool Imagine living next to him and then of course two of the most famous residents John Lennon and Yoko Oh, no Is blamed widely for moving John Lennon to the Dakota and he would have lived had she not done that Do people say that? Probably somebody out there. Okay poking fun at those people. No, I think he loved the Dakota Yeah, it would seem to be his home. They were there for like a dozen years. I think right before he died I'm not sure how long he loved New York City though. It was it was a great scene for both. He and Yoko. Yep You anything else? I got nothing else go check out the Dakota if you're in New York It's a great great looking building.
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Mark Levin
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Stephanie Miller
Fresh update on "colored" discussed on Stephanie Miller
"Huh you know it happens every once in a while the good guys win you know what i mean very happy about that yes well obviously this felony you said that someone in the news media is chasing down whether trump actually bought glock the right i mean it would be a serious felony and all um i mean as usual haven't they their changed story like six times they're like you know oh no he didn't buy it oh you know and then he he said he did because of course he wants to see macho and you're just like they just i i i love our national attitude where it's like we see a video like that we just go oh look it's trump committing all what's next what's up what's on tv yeah here's andrew weisman there is a motion before one of four judges who have the criminal cases of donald trump there is a motion pending by the government saying do something judge you've got to restrict in some ways what he is saying saying about witnesses and jurors and judges and their families you have to do something while while that motion is pending as you said we're waiting for the the um defense brief tonight he he has done a number of things he has made these statements about the former chair of the joint chiefs of staff i'm sorry that was the previous felonies this is the glock and then we'll get your reaction he has has been on air today about possessing a firearm well you know you and i were were on air together when uh in the dc case the magistrate judge know said what you the most important thing is mr trump when you are out on bail do commit another crime well it is a crime for somebody who is charged with a felony just charged with a felony to receive a gun and he is there are pictures on twitter of him holding the gun i mean it's just you can't write this this is the exact charge that hunter biden they think hunter biden should get the death penalty for that he owned a gun for like 11 days or something and do nothing with it yes would it be awesome if uh because of this ruling by judge anger on yesterday that the seizing of the trump organization would then repossess that gun wouldn't it be fun if if the glock was in the name of the trump organization like he bought it with company money right and then he would lose the glock because of this decision see i'm tying all the crimes because together you know what he also he may have also committed another or admitted to committing another crime in in his reaction to the ruling yesterday where he was saying and i think it's like the second time he said this where he said his assets are much greater than what is on the financial statement like with e .g carol he just keeps doubling and tripling down yes so on his financial statements he's down he's downplaying or actually low -balling his assets which to me would be an issue with the IRS i mean i'm i'm not not an auditor or anything like that but if i were an IRS employee i'd be thinking why why is he lying about this on his financial statements but that's just the start of all of this right yeah just donald trump makes things worse for donald trump and this is another example where in the process of reacting to crime one he's committing possibly another crime i don't even know which scene i'm thinking of is is it stooges yeah curly standing there in that cage with water shooting out everywhere he steps in the water and then a hubcap is stuck to him and then he gets six other things stuck to the hubcap yeah that's right that's right but i mean there's no surprise here that donald trump is a gigantic fraud because everything about him is is a fraud you know what guess what trump supporters his face isn't really colored like that his hair his hair doesn't really look like that he's not really that tall he's inflating all these things to make him seem bigger than he actually is i wonder if you might do that to his finances as well i think today you know how many hundreds of thousands of people died because of one man's vanity you know the whole thing about not wearing a mask because he's speaking of because he's orange and his makeup got him yeah that foppish bronzer got smeared on the mask so he wouldn't wear the mask in fact you know what that's a good point because uh... uh uh... michael bass was brought up on twitter i think last night what should happen to trump tower what should happen to the space and i had a couple of ideas one is not such a fun idea which i think they should demolish trump tower and put a covert memorial on that site and i'm one hundred percent serious when i say that four thousand people died on from swatch during his final year in office and the study author pump was a comorbidity yeah exactly right exactly right so i think it's only right that there be a memorial to all of the victims of covert that donald trump was responsible for in his final year in and office i think the alternative idea for trump tower is maybe just change the name to marry trump tower there you please there you go i like it i would love that that would be so great and plus great justice for her as well so exactly i know it just you know is this news broke yesterday bob we're all kind of trying to huh you know uh andrew finder we did uh new if i'm reading this right just found that donald trump committed fraud and has ordered the cancellation of all all of his new york business certificates and the dissolution of the trump organization like i think once again bombshell shell fatigue but we're like oh this is big yesterday right a new york that judge trump has committed ruled fraud that by submitting forms exaggerating his wealth the judge has given trump 10 to days dissolve the trump organization way to go new york attorney general tesha james because i just i was kind of like because it's not a criminal one of the criminal ones that we think of as you know sedition and espionage but we're like wow this is bfd a like um joice vance said the same thing we just played a soundbite jody she said uh this is new york's corporate death penalty applied to trump because of years of misconduct justice i mean this is what the main question is how has he gotten away with this all his life it's so oh yeah yeah well the other he's thing is obviously going to appeal this once the decision is final once the uh because well even things though there was a summary judgment they're still going to go through a process and i think he's going to appeal after that but he's probably going to lose that appeal there's nothing he can do to escape this this is done i mean this is essentially finished for donald trump the trump organization is no more uh... i saw this morning david k johnston who's just been pursuing like he's david k johnston is like mister mcgee in the incredible all hahahaha and donald from perpetually and he treated uh... donald trump is no longer business and in business in new york state a judge canceled all of his business certificates appointed a judge to monitor the assets i love that a he needs babysitter to because he's so incompetent borrowing and unlikely reversal by an appeals court the assets will be sold and trump don junior and eric are barred from business and i've been just staring at that we've since i got up this morning and just like it's it's like one
Mark Levin
Caller: Impeaching Biden Is a Great Idea, But Harris Is Just As Bad
"As bad as making speeches as he you is hear that speech which she made you know about time well there's something about time well we have time and there's i mean what in the world are you talking about she's as bumbling as he is yeah i i now hold on now come on let's be realistic here she she's not the smartest chick you've ever seen in politics but she's not as dumb as joe biden is right now all right let's let's dial back the crazy joe biden's on a different scale right now with with not being able to put together coherent sentences but this idea as klyburn says that you know hey this is a guy that are you know 31 percent of americans have a favorable view of kamala harris even lower than biden it's because she's quote a woman of woman color to and be vice first president so she'd be just fine as the president look if you're at the white house tonight you're concerned over this uh in a way that would make many of you very very i i mean you got to be sitting around going we need a vice president to bring something to table because there's no way that you can vote for joe biden this election not think hey there's a real chance his running there's hate okay a real chance that his running mate is going to end up being the president of the united states of america and i also say this i know why kamala harris was picked it's because she looked at joe biden on stage and called him a racist this is the same guy by the way just called an african -american l l o o j a boy this week right so it's real like the racism is real and they basically like all right crap we gotta we gotta go with this right like this is what we're gonna have to do we're gonna have to we're gonna have to find a woman get kamala harris on here so she'll shut up about the race baiting all right that's gonna shut up on the race baiting and that'll be it well that'll
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Mark Levin
Rep. Jim Clyburn Blames Racism for Kamala Harris' Low Approval Rating
"Has the capacity and the capability uh... to be president of the united states have called upon to do so i know that your i mean uh... i love this rights because she's a woman jim kleiber and you don't like comma here she races because she's a woman of color in the first woman to be vice president and so that's the reason why people don't like because her she's black you're racist so you better supporter because she's black i don't think that's going to bring people around i may be wrong but i don't think yelling that if don't you like kamala harris you're a racist is going to bring a bunch of voters all are yep you're right jim kleiber said it spot on right right spot on here yet i'm sorry you have you figured it out i'm a racist i hate black women that's what he's saying if you don't support kamala harris and that's part of if you remember what they did the media did and what democrats did never forget with barack obama right remember when he was running it was like well if you don't support barack obama that's your racist tendencies coming out you couldn't disagree with him because of policies you couldn't disagree with him because of what he stood for no no if you disagreed with him you disagreed with him because the color of his skin and you're a racist and they shame people into voting for barack because obama people are like well i'm not racist i'll prove it here i'll vote for that guy there see i voted for that guy now you can't tell me i'm a racist jim cliburn's like hey if you don't like kamala then it's because she's a black woman so you hate women and you're and you hate and you and racist that's what you are you are a racist 1 -877 -381 38 11 1 877 38 1 38 11 let me go paul
Jim Bohannon
Fresh update on "colored" discussed on Jim Bohannon
"Sarah Pelfrich Duncan Park STEM 35 years Academy old on allegedly took September a 12th picture during an event at with two of her of the students that were there the students noticed her unusual hair scrunchie after they both were juveniles stated inside that Duncan the let photo her booth hair down according for the photo okay to the police that was the first mistake after the photo the juveniles cleaned up the area and located a bluish colored velvet she was heavier type of than scrunchie the typical with scrunchie a they white opened zipper the zipper on and the table observed they a glass vial noticed that contained that the a scrunchie white powder powder substance in it that the the two believed to be students drugs immediately along with a notified cut straw another with teacher who instructed them to throw it in the trash getting rid of the evidence the teacher then secured after the the event scrunchie ended in at her 6pm classroom and notified Duncan the school's principal and assistant principal was seen by two taken at janitors the school frantically during searching the event for shows some Miss sort Duncan of hair who tie security was an eighth grade teacher camera wearing footage the of the scrunchie earlier that night a field test for methamphetamine administered on the scrunchie came back Duncan to positive a nearby days clinic later so the she school's could take a deputy drug chief test of her staff and first the police two chief urine went samples were with too small and did not reach the temperature for testing police said while she's made a third attempt officers observed an some other urine unauthorized with her Duncan collection container stated that fall she was not out aware of her of shorts the she container in her shorts until after when the she pouch was providing got in her her shorts second sample Duncan Duncan stated that there stated may be another that she does one not of know them at how her or residence when but that they were not purchased by her but by someone she knows who probably uses them to pass other was booked into the county jail tests and you would think this she is comedy the is teacher facing a she criminal count of possession was released and on a criminal a count thousand dollar bond of possession she of drug paraphernalia was also fired according to WFI e -news I got it in so their hair teachers ties are now absolutely showing up to school parties taking pictures crazy with to students me the with whole thing is meth just insane is in Bedford Indiana I WBIW don't know let's go to the phones Sarah on this one welcome you're on with let's Rich Valdez go to Sarah she's in Hi I'm Sarah and I work at a middle school in India but it's not me and it's not my school but I gotta tell you as a custodian yeah I isn't must this a throw crazy a story bunch of I scrunchies mean away I'm and now just I I'm think I'm gonna have to check just them I out mean I mean I get it if you're an addict you're gonna try and get high whenever you got to get high but you don't expect your kids eighth grade teacher to be 35 years and old and addicted bringing it to to meth family to fun night the right level Sarah where I she's hiding it in her hair know doesn't sound like habit I if hear you're the going into comment school kids will and drive me a drink you got but to have drive your meth with do drugs you I and mean that's you gotta have so a you pretty I guess bad sensibly can do it sometime during the school day I mean Wow we've come a long way I guess but it's pretty scary really yeah absolutely I shocking have very to agree you with you I know think I hate that to the say whole thing that is a just few like things shocked me this kids is one are older of those actually that definitely today did was I my youngest hear daughter's 18th this birthday and it's I think finally man here we're I've in been saying bad she's shape and about I'm to glad be 18 that my she's finally 18 today and and I'm glad that you know I don't have kids that are in grade school because I horrible never thing in a that million it's years happening would right have thought now that something it like this really would is happen when anyway my kids are in Sarah grade school and thank it's you for your it's call a let me Let me ask you one more question Sarah before you go did you hear the story about the the woman that killed yeah her mom I with a frying did pan and see stabbed the headline her 31 I times have not because her read mom the found story out she got what kicked out of do you college? 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The Breakdown
A highlight from ByBit Vacates United Kingdom as "Crypto Hub" Dreams Falter
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Monday, September 25th, and today we are updating ourselves on the geopolitical landscape of crypto. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. Hello, friends. Hope you had a great weekend. There are lots of interesting things to catch up on. And today, a slight theme in some of these stories is where different countries are positioning themselves vis -a -vis crypto. Now, the UK has had an interesting relationship with the industry. They were for a time very harsh. The Financial Conduct Authority in the UK has never seemingly been that into the whole space. But then when Rishi Sunak became chancellor of the exchequer, he declared that the UK would be open for crypto business. He wanted to make the UK the most crypto friendly jurisdiction in the world. Well, of course, over the next few months, through a variety of weird ups and downs, Rishi eventually ended up the prime minister. And of course, it might be reasonable then to ask, is the UK getting friendlier for crypto companies? Well, on that front, Bybit have announced that they will suspend service to UK customers next week in response to regulatory changes. The UK's Financial Conduct Authority, or FCA, will begin enforcement of new marketing regulations starting on October 8. The regulations require crypto firms to ensure advertising is clear, fair, and not misleading, as well as presented alongside a risk warning. Advertisements are required to be certified by firms, but this process requires crypto firms to be registered in the UK. So far, UK licenses have been difficult to obtain for non -domestic exchanges. The rules also require a number of technical changes to exchange business operations around new customers. For example, exchanges need to implement a 24 -hour cooling -off period before a new customer is allowed to make transactions. They are also required to put in place client appropriateness testing and client categorization features. These measures could involve limiting the size, for example, of crypto investments based on the customer's net worth. Now, penalties for non -compliance in these new rules are harsh, with unlimited fines and even criminal charges available as punishments. As you might imagine, the crypto industry has been highly critical of these elements, especially those that require technical changes to platforms. In response to those critiques, the FCA said that they would provide a transition period for firms that request it, potentially giving exchanges until January to come into compliance. Last week, however, the regulators said that they are alarmed at the lack of engagement with foreign firms. Only 24 firms have responded to a survey sent to over 150 companies. In response, the FCA wrote, "...this lack of engagement gives us serious concerns about unregistered firms' readiness to comply with the new regime." Now, in their announcement that UK services would be suspended, Bybit claimed their "...primary objective is to operate our business in compliance with all relevant rules and regulations in the UK." Bybit said that they were making "...a choice to embrace the regulation proactively and pause our services in this market." They said that the "...suspension will allow the company to focus its efforts and resources on being able to best meet the regulations outlined by the UK authorities in the future." Practically, this means that from Sunday, Bybit will no longer be accepting new accounts from UK users. Existing users would be barred from making new deposits or increasing existing positions from October 8th. They will have until January to manage and wind down their existing positions. Bybit, as you might imagine, is not currently registered in the UK and is based in Dubai. Importantly, Bybit is not the only firm suspending service to UK customers in light of the new regulations. Last month, PayPal announced that it would temporarily pause crypto services in the country until next year. On top of that, crypto exchange LUNO said that it would be restricting some customer accounts from being able to invest on the platform until further notice. Bybit CEO Ben Zhao had flagged the firm's exit earlier in September warning of how overly broad the regulations are. He said, "...FCA has explicitly contacted all the major players — us, OKEx, Binance, everyone — and asked what our plan is to deal with this new law. And the new law is that if you use English as a language, they will see you as trying to solicit their users, so you cannot claim that you are in reverse solicitation. Everyone is in trouble. So everyone is thinking of plans of how to deal with this new law." George Morris, a partner at Simmons & Simmons, explained that the marketing regulations had been enforced for securities firms for decades but were now being expanded to cover the crypto industry. He said, "...the rules are extremely complicated and they're quite wide -ranging. It's not just UK firms that are subject to these rules. Anyone with a website that can be accessed in the UK is subject to these requirements." So there are a lot of different elements of this. One challenge is, yes, these advertising standards. But the bigger issue is this whole need to evaluate client suitability and potentially restrict investments. Practically, that either means a ton of financial disclosures from customers that they would have to manage and verify, or there's simply some self -attestation checkbox, which might not be that effective. Basically, with a set of marketing regulations, the FCA have figured out how to limit small retail's ability to buy crypto in the country. Now, one thing that is notable is that we haven't heard anything from the really big international exchanges yet in terms of how they're dealing with this. But in any case, it seems like a big detriment for UK crypto. As Leon TK put it, so much for the UK being a crypto hub, failing already. Now, speaking of places where there is more optimism, last week was, of course, the token 2049 conference in Singapore. And that led to a lot of different discussion around how different the Asian environment for crypto felt as compared to the US and European environments. Indeed, while Western jurisdictions seem to be bogged down with regulations that are unclear at best or hostile at worst, the vibes in Asia are reportedly immaculate. Major conferences around Asia during September saw an uptick in attendance, and regulatory regimes across South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan appear to be giving the crypto industry a clear set of workable rules to allow firms to re -establish themselves coming out of crypto winter. The block's Frank Shapiro spoke with some conference attendees and reported on an optimism emerging in the East. One conference attendee said that South Korean retail is flocking back to crypto. They argued that young investors in particular view real estate and equities as massively overvalued and out of reach, so are instead opting to buy cryptocurrency. They said they don't buy houses, but they can buy tokens every week. There is a huge market. Another attendee spoke about the difficulty of accessing the Korean market due to South Korea's notoriously tough corporate climate for international firms. They said the liquidity is insane, but it is siloed and protectionist. You have to speak Korean. On that front, crypto custodian BitGo recently partnered with domestic juggernaut Hana Bank due to the difficulty in accessing the market without a local connection. What's more, one anonymous trading firm said they had been waiting five years to operate as a liquidity provider on domestic exchanges in South Korea. They said when they open up, we can be first in line. It's a great retail market. To get a sense of scale, the largest Korean exchange, Upbit, regularly outperforms Coinbase in terms of spot trading volumes. Then there is of course Hong Kong. Their new regulatory regime is off to a tough start in some ways with fraud investigations into crypto exchange JPX becoming public earlier this month. The most recent update is that there have been 11 suspects brought in for questioning and losses have been estimated at 178 million across 2 ,265 victims. Local police have said that the ringleaders of the operation are still at large and have enlisted the help of Interpol. Some are referring to JPX as the largest financial fraud to ever hit the city. Yet despite the major investigation, there are currently no signs that Hong Kong regulators are seeking to reverse course on unexpectedly open crypto regulations. Indeed, on Monday, the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission said that it would be releasing the full list of current applicants to ensure that users are able to identify false claims from exchanges. The theme appears to be the same across multiple Asian jurisdictions. Basically, that individual incidents of fraud and malpractice haven't tarnished enthusiasm for the industry as a whole. Another conference attendee told Chiparo, This Asia trip blew my mind. The excitement in Korea and Singapore is the polar opposite of what's going on in the U .S. Alex Vannevik of Nansen wrote, Vannek portfolio manager Pranav Kannadi added some color around how local investors are thinking about the space as well. On September 14, Pranav tweeted, Conversations were mostly positive and a key question was, We're in a crypto winter right now, but when should we expect the next bull run? Not a single convo mentioned the merits of the tech or whether the space survives, feeling optimistic. Now, hopping from Asia over to Europe again for a moment. According to a report from Fortune, Coinbase considered acquiring FTX's European business in the wake of FTX's November bankruptcy. Apparently talks never progressed to a late stage, but the preliminary interest highlights how important international expansion is to Coinbase, particularly regarding its derivatives products. Before the bankruptcy, FTX Europe was the only European firm registered to provide perpetual futures trading. And while derivatives trading remains heavily restricted in the U .S., both Coinbase and Gemini have launched offshore trading venues this year to provide derivatives markets to international customers with a keen eye on Asian regions. For Coinbase, the pivot to derivatives could provide a much needed boost to flagging spot volumes. According to Kiko Research, derivatives volumes in Quarter 2 of this year were six times large than spot. Now, the entity that became FTX Europe was originally acquired in late 2021 for 376 million. The firm was already licensed in Cyprus at the time, which allowed it to access European markets. Since the bankruptcy, the entity, along with its valuable license, have attracted interest from Crypto .com and Trek Labs as well. According to documents viewed by Fortune, Coinbase expressed interest immediately after the FTX bankruptcy and again as recently as last month. That said, FTX Europe has also been in the crosshairs of the U .S.-based FTX bankruptcy team for clawbacks. The estate launched a lawsuit against FTX Europe executives claiming that the original acquisition was a horrendous business decision, arguing that FTX effectively paid 376 million for a $2 million operating license, and on top of this, the sale of FTX Europe seems like a difficult task with active litigation surrounding the firm. In July, the U .S.-based FTX estate said, The FTX debtors' professional advisors have concluded that there is no realistic possibility of a sale. However, last Thursday, they said, The FTX debtors are committed to maximizing the value of FTX's assets to drive customer recoveries. As such, the FTX debtors are continuing to evaluate whether there are viable options for the sale of some or all of the assets of the FTX Europe business. Now one small aside on Coinbase. Arkham Intelligence claimed to have mapped Coinbase's bitcoin wallets and according to Arkham, Coinbase holds almost 1 million bitcoin worth around $25 billion at current market prices. This would amount to almost 5 % of the bitcoin in circulation, similar to the amount held in wallets believed to be owned by Satoshi Nakamoto. Arkham's report showed that Coinbase's largest cold wallet holds around 10 ,000 bitcoin, and the firm believes that Coinbase has additional bitcoin holdings which are not yet labeled and could not be identified. According to data published by CoinGecko, Coinbase only owns around $200 million worth of this gigantic bitcoin stash, with the rest attributable to client custody. However, staying on the Europe question and how valuable this Cyprus license actually is, with Europe's MICA regulations coming into force from June of next year, some firms are beginning to warn that a clear lack of guidance could lead to disruption. The MICA rules were intended to provide a comprehensive framework, but there are still numerous grey areas. One of the major problems surrounds stablecoins. There is currently no guidance on how MICA stablecoin regulations will apply to foreign and decentralized issuers. The default scenario seems to be a ban in Europe unless these issuers can obtain the appropriate licensing, with no arrangement to recognize approvals in other jurisdictions. The European Banking Authority has warned that there will be no grace period for coins already on the market. The EBA and its sister agency, the European Securities and Markets Authority, ESMA, are currently taking public consultation on how the MICA regulations should be implemented. Relatedly last week, the head of legal at Binance France said during a public hearing hosted by the EBA, we are heading towards a delisting of all stablecoins in Europe on June 30th. This could have a significant impact on the market in Europe compared to the rest of the world. Now, Binance CEO CZ quickly walked back the comments claiming, it was a question taken out of context. In fact, we have a couple of partners launching Euro and other stablecoins in fully compliant manners of course. A blog post from Binance explained further, stating that they would be required to delist stablecoins that fail to gain registration in Europe and that no licenses have been granted to stablecoin issuers currently. Binance wrote, While we are confident that there will be constructive solutions in place before the mid -2024 deadline, if left as is, this could have an impact on the European crypto market and the competitiveness of European crypto exchanges in the global market. Now the requirement that stablecoin issuers are EU -based could cause further problems for decentralized organizations. Thomas Vogel, a partner at law firm Latham & Watkins said, So, this is sort of the challenge with MICA. As comprehensive as the regulations are written, how they get implemented is still fairly up in the air. There was commentary around the time that MICA was being voted upon that it could either be a big step in giving the crypto industry a clear set of rules to function, or work as a de facto crypto ban depending on how it was implemented and whether enough licenses were granted. Now, with a little over nine months until MICA comes into force, there is still time to ensure that rules are workable for existing firms, but it appears that there is a lot of work left to do in that regard. Anyways, it's definitely a story to keep an eye on, as something that was seen as largely positive could become quite bad quite quickly. However, friends, that is where we're going to wrap for today. Lots going on in this fascinating world of crypto. Wherever you are enjoying it from, I appreciate you listening. And until next time, be safe and take care of each other.
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.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
A highlight from The First Edition of Would You Let Joe Biden"
"Good morning America. Good Monday. Some of you are getting up and getting out the door. I'm glad I am with you. I'm Hugh Hewitt in Studio North going down to the Beltway this week. Oh, back to the Beltway. Gotta go do my work. Gotta go do my job. I want you to begin this segment with me by reflecting on how bad can the polls actually get for one person. Because John Ellis, now you've heard me mention John. John has been on the show before. Ellis on items the site formerly known as Twitter, now known as X, he produces two sub stacks. News items, which I read every morning before I go on the air. That's where I learned about Amazon investing in AI this morning. And political items, which is a second sub stack. And that just collects all the political data. And for years and years and years, John Ellis was the man behind the curtain at News Corp. And he ran the decision desk when it actually ran well. And he ran many, many other things at News Corp. And he's a very, very smart guy. So Ellis puts out these two news sub stacks that I read. And one of them, political items, carries with it the additional benefit of sparing me from having to figure out which polls to read. Because every couple of weeks or three weeks, he puts out the polls in one place. So John Ellis knows polling. He knows which ones are trash. He does not send you the trash one. So I ignore all polls until I see a poll show up in the news items or political items. So polls in one place rolled in on Saturday morning. And I don't want to get sued for copyright. You should subscribe to polls in one place and political items. But John summarized three of these. Number one, NBC News. Three quarters of voters say they're concerned about President Joe Biden's age and mental fitness. Three quarters. Three quarters. Number two, Washington Post ABC News. A Washington Post ABC News poll finds President Biden struggling to gain approval from a skeptical public. With dissatisfaction growing over his handling of the economy and immigration, a rising share saying the United States is doing too much to aid Ukraine in its war with Russia, and broad concerns about his age as he seeks a second term. More than three in five Democrats say they would prefer a nominee other than Biden. And the Post ABC poll shows Joe Biden trailing Donald Trump by 10 points. Then number three, the New York Times. President Biden is underperforming among nonwhite voters in the New York Times Santa College national polls over the last year. And this result marked a — represent a, quote, marked deterioration in Mr. Biden's support among non -Anglo voters. Those are the three big polls of the weekend, and they're all related to Joe Biden's age. So I've asked Generalissimo to assist me in diagnosing the problem here. And so just a yes or no, are you with me, Generalissimo? No. All right, good. Would you let Joe Biden prepare dinner for eight people? No. Would you let Joe Biden do the shopping for a dinner for eight people? No. Would you let Joe Biden make your family's reservations for a week's vacation at Disney World? Oh, hell no. Would you let Joe Biden book the flights for that vacation? No. Would you let Joe Biden drive the youth group van to the beach for Sunday at the beach? Absolutely not. Would you let Joe Biden chaperone the sixth grade astronomy camp overnight trip? Not even with your kids. Would you let Joe Biden invest your 401k? Would you let Joe Biden pick the paint colors for your church or your school remodel? No. Would you let Joe Biden select the menu for your daughter's wedding? No. Would you let Joe Biden lead a group of second graders through the Smithsonian Natural History? Stop, stop. I gotta... No. Just stay in the lane, please. I just want to know. These are just questions. Would you let Joe Biden lead a second grade group through the Smithsonian? Would you let him lead a high school group through the Smithsonian? Would you drop him off in front of an NFL stadium, give him a ticket, and tell him you'll see him in the seats? I don't think so. Would you let him be the president of a state university? Oh, no. Would you let him be the president of a private liberal arts college? No. Would you let him run a large public high school? No. How about a small private high school? How about a junior high school? Nowhere near kids, no. How about an elementary school? Absolutely not. A preschool? Absolutely not. Would you let Joe Biden run a 7 -Eleven? No, he doesn't have the right accent. Would you let Joe Biden run a sporting goods store? No. A multiplex? No. Would you let Joe run the candy and soda counter at the multiplex? It's too confusing, no. Would you let him run a Macy's? A McDonald's? No. A Houston's restaurant? No. Would you let him run an airport? Negative. Would you let him run the parking at the high school football game? No. Would you let him run a high school speech tournament? Too many kids, no. How about a swim meet? No. Would you let Joe Biden run any business with 10 employees? No. Would you let him run a business with 100 employees? No. Would you let him do HR for a business with 10 employees? No. Would you let him run the gift wrap sales fundraiser for your kids school? No. Would you let him run the thrift shop inventory day? No. Would you let him run a car dealership? Negative. Would you let him run a church fundraiser? No. A church service? No. A service station? No. Would you let him run a piano recital for 20 students under the age of 10? How about 10 students under the age of 10? No kids, no. Would you let him announce graduation at MIT? Would you let him announce graduation for any college? Have you heard him? No. Would you let him run an eighth grade graduation? No. Would you let him run the change of command at any duty station for any branch of the armed services anywhere in the Americas or in the worldwide distribution of our defense facilities? Not unless you wanted to create an incident, no. Would you let him drive a truck? Well, he's already claimed it, no. Would you let him drive a car that you're riding in the passenger seat? Not unless I was heavily insured. Would you let him fire a pistol at a range? Oh, hell no. Would you let him fire a rifle at a range? No. A machine gun? No. Bazooka? No. Would you let him get into a tank and fire a tank? I'm seeing a pattern here, no. Would you let him direct the drone strike? No. Would you let him drive a little tiny boat whaler, you know, a 12 -foot whaler? I would let him pilot your dinghy, no. Would you let him drive a criss -craft with an outboard motor? No. Of a yacht, a big yacht? No. Would you let him command the deck of a freighter? A freighter? No. How about a destroyer? Uh, I'm thinking not. Submarine? No. Aircraft carrier? No. All right. Could you imagine Stav with him on deck? What would you let Joe Biden do? Retire. No, but I mean, really, seriously, is there anything you'd let him do to put him in charge of, because this is my first edition of would you let Joe Biden dot, dot, dot? Nothing complicated because he gets confused easy. Nothing with kids because we kind of know about that. No, there's nothing the guy can do. He has shown no knowledge of market economics, free market economics. He has no idea how supply and demand works. No, but I'm just talking about give me something that he can do because we've got to get a retirement hobby for him. A retirement hobby? Checkers. Do you think he could win at checkers ever? It's yeah, he could he could run he could run an ice cream stand. I we I covered that. You were gonna let him run a 7 -Eleven. I don't know. I covered the gift wrap. 7 -Eleven is more complicated than an ice cream stand because gas is involved. But but I asked you about the the gift wrap fundraising. I want every mom in America ice cream. Well, no, every parent driving to school in America right now knows fall is the season for fundraisers. So we got the call from the granddaughter over the weekend. Hey, Nana, which is the fetching Mrs. Hewitt, right? Would you buy gift wrap? And of course, we're probably gonna have enough gift wrap for the rest of the five seasons. Yeah, yeah. Five seasons of gift wrap. Yes. And and now the flash is probably going to come up with candy bar. You know, it's just fundraising season, right? And so it's better than raffle tickets. I hate raffle tickets. Yeah. Gift wrap you can at least put in the closet and it'll be there when when she has to clean out the house. You are what we call in in in the school trade. You are what we call an easy mark. A mark. Yeah. Yes. And and you wouldn't even let Joe button out. For those of you who are new to the audience, we've added affiliates recently. Dwayne is an ex band parent who keeps getting dragged back in. And when he was a band parent, he ran parking at the at the battle of the band. Do you know what I'm doing now? Do you know what I'm doing this this year? What I'm doing? What? I had to stand up along with my wife, stand up a snack bar outside of girls volleyball. All right. Would you let Joe Biden run that? Not in your wildest dreams, because because one money's involved and two girls are nearby. But I mean, OK, then Paul back a year or two. No, you let him direct parking at the Battle of the Bands. Oh, not unless you wanted a wreck.
Veteran on the Move
A highlight from Bank of America Military Affairs with Lindsey Streeter
"Army veteran Lindsey Streeter leads the Military Affairs Strategy at Bank of America. He joined the Bank of America family in 2016 upon retiring from the U .S. Army as a highly decorated command sergeant major with 31 years of military service. He's been a leading voice in Bank of America's commitment to recruit, develop, and retain military talent, and Lindsey was recently named 2023 Veteran of the Year by the Military Times. Coming up next on Veteran on the Move. Welcome to Veteran on the Move. If you're a veteran in transition, an entrepreneur wannabe, or someone still stuck in that J -O -B trying to escape, this podcast is dedicated to your success. And now, your host, Joe Crane. As a member of Not -for -Profit, Navy Federal puts members at the heart of every single thing they do. Find out more at navyfederal .org. Alright, we're talking with Army veteran retired command sergeant major Lindsey Streeter, who leads the Military Affairs Strategy at Bank of America. Also, the 2023 Veteran of the Year by Military Times. Wow, what an awesome award there and great title. So, Sergeant Major Lindsey, thanks for being here today. Before we get to talk about all the great things Bank of America is doing for hiring America's veterans, take us back, tell us what you did in the Army. How many years was it, 33, 34? Hey, Joe Crane, I'll tell you what, man. I appreciate the opportunity to be on the show here today. And yeah, it was just a little north of 31 years that I did. Started out as a logistician, was an Army parts guy. Spent a lot of time in aviation units, you know, chasing Black Hawk helicopters around, trying to keep them flying, and I did that for 10 years, and then I transitioned over into recruiting command where I absolutely found my niche there as an Army recruiter. Ran a couple of recruiting stations, found a lot of success running those stations, a lot of promotions that came along with that, and ascended into leadership in recruiting command, ran the Army recruiting school, ran two companies as a first sergeant, and I was tagged to go to the Sergeant Major's Academy. Came out of the academy and pinned on Command Sergeant Major and headed up to Nashville, Tennessee, to head the Nashville recruiting battalion there and part of the command team there. Did that for about three and a half years, and then the Army saw fit to bring me out into training and doctrine command to run a leadership academy to round out my career, so I served as the commandant of the NCO Academy down here at Fort Stewart, Georgia, where I retired and then smoothly transitioned over into Bank of America. Yeah, so Bank of America was your first job out of the Army? It was. It was. I had a soldier that had worked for me about nine years earlier, and he had been with the bank about a year and a half, and he called me one day. I was driving home trying to contemplate whether or not I was going to retire or take another position in the Army, a nominal position as a sergeant major, and I got a call asking me to send him a resume. I believe there's a little divine intervention at play there because I prayed a prayer for some guidance with regards to transitioning, and I got the phone call and I quickly crafted a resume and sent it in, and said he something that was profound to me. He began to talk about the company, but he knew me very well, and he said to me that you fit here at this company, and I don't believe there was any more profound of a statement that could have been said to me. I think when veterans are transitioning, they're oftentimes looking for an organization that they believe they'll go there and do good, but where do you fit? Well, within that organization, and my colleague believed that from what he knew about me and my traits of character, there'd be a perfect marriage with me coming to Bank of America, and I thank goodness that he gave me that call. Yeah, no kidding. I mean, talk about using your network. I mean, a guy I know used to work with him in the Army. He's there. He brought me in. I'm good. I mean, that's how you get a job right there, but let's face it. Most guys aren't that lucky. I mean, you know, especially nine years before you're eight, you've actually kept in touch with him, and it worked, but ultimately that's the golden goose right there. Yeah, that's the formula. I think if they know you and then they know the organization, it automatically triggers in their mind where to stop on the Rolodex when they begin to seek referrals to bring it to the company. So I was thankful that he thought of me, and he got it right. Absolutely. Now, over the years I've heard a number of things with Bank of America, and before we hit the record button, I was talking with you about, over and over we talk about transition and getting out and getting a job. A lot of us want to go into entrepreneurship, run our own business, but let's face it. Some of us, if you're the main breadwinner, you've got to go get a JOB in the meantime and work on something on the side. So transitioning and getting a job as you get out of the military is definitely something you still end up having to do even though you want to run your own show. And some folks think, oh, you're retiring. You're a member of the Paycheck of the Month Club. What stress do you have, man? You already got a check coming in, whatever. Sometimes it's harder to find a job when you're retired from the Army because you're older, you're stuck in your own ways, you've never done anything else with the Army. You're kind of boxed in, and companies are looking at you like, well, what can you do for me? You spent almost all of your adult life in the Army. It can be much more difficult to convince a company that you can still speak civilian and you're able to put on a suit and you're able to show up to work and blend in, and sometimes it is harder, you know? Yeah, Joe, you really touched on a few things that I found were a challenge, and we continue to, as we invite new talent into the company, to work on these veterans with those attributes of assimilation, as I call them, demonstrated assimilation. You know, less than 1 % of the country serves, and so we're scared when we go in, but we're absolutely horrified when it comes time to take the uniform off and to depart. And, you know, so you're entering a realm of the 99 % that did not serve, and so what you owe to them is not for them to bend to you, but for you to bend and mold and become one of them and to really demonstrate that. And I believe it begins with being humble during your interview, especially as a senior leader in transition. You know, a lot of times we want to boast about our leadership ability and leadership demonstrate capability because of our past and those things that are contained within our resume. And those companies, if you can lead, they're going to afford you an opportunity to lead, but what they want to know is can they trust you with their brand and reputation of this company? Can you get here and humble yourself enough and be vulnerable enough so that they can hang some skills on you and you can demonstrate business acumen and how to dress and how to really work in a collaborative environment that's demanded by corporate America? And so I thank goodness I had some coaching and some grooming to help me with those things, and I work for a company that spends a lot of time trying to get that right. And what we do is we've invested into the scaffolding that's required to ensure that our veterans smoothly transition. So we charged ourselves with not just joining a crowd of being veteran friendly, but we wanted to demonstrate that we're veteran ready, and we did that by, or we do that by being meticulous in our selection process up front. We want to give the veteran the best opportunity to succeed at the company, and we do that by matching up their skill sets with an opening in the company. So we want to get this right fit piece fixed from the beginning. And then we want to make sure that the living room is straight inside the house. And so we have a robust ERG in our military support and assistance group that helps us with onboarding of our veterans, and we pair them up with a more tenured and seasoned veteran, and they hold their hands for about the first 90 days that they're here just to get them through the fits and jerks of assimilation. And it's a soft space, right? It allows them to ask the stupid questions to match a pair of loafers with a belt, you know, to understand which color suit pattern that they need to wear. And so it's those sorts of things that they feel like they can feel safe and feel welcome while they're going through that transition. And what we're hopeful is that what we're seeing is that it closes the back door, and we know that because we survey them. We use employee satisfaction surveys, and we gauge the morale and the motivation of our veteran cohort that way. And so we're proud of that work that we put into those challenging times. And the other thing is that, you know, we have a problem with our resumes and bridging the gaps, bridging our skill sets. And so we know that, we understand that, and we try and take that into account when we're placing talent that those resumes may have gaps in them, that they may be missing pertinent information. And so we've invested in a veteran recruiter that helps us to look at those resumes in detail and tell the story that the veteran's resume may not be telling. Absolutely. Hold that thought. We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back.
The Breakdown
A highlight from How the Crypto Investing Landscape Has Changed
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Sunday, September 24. And that means it's time for Long Read Sunday. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review. Or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. Hello, friends. Welcome back to Long Read Sunday. Today we are getting into a topic that relates to maybe one of the biggest themes that we're watching right now, which is capital fun flows and the institutional engagement with the cryptosphere. Now, our piece today comes from Jeff Dorman, the CIO of ARCA, who has some really interesting insights to share about the time that he has been running his fund. The piece is called What I Learned Managing a Crypto Fund for Five Years. And because I am recording my sixth podcast of the day, I am going to enlist a little help from AI me, but I will be back as regular old NLW with some wrap up thoughts at the end. I've been running a crypto fund for one thousand eight hundred and twenty five days. ARCA just achieved a major milestone, reaching a five year track record of managing outside capital in our liquid hedge fund. Five years in any other industry may not seem like a long time frame, but in crypto, we often joke that one crypto year is equivalent to five normal years. And with twenty four seven trading hours, it's not untrue. During these past five years, I have seen many of our peers come and go, leaving a bit of survivorship bias as it pertains to crypto asset management. As chief investment officer overseeing this fund, as well as three others under the ARCA umbrellas, I experienced firsthand the evolution of this industry through good times, bad times and constant innovation. The five year anniversary provided a natural timestamp to reflect upon what I learned about managing money and about the industry. Here are five of the most important takeaways from managing a crypto portfolio for the last five years. In short, investing in these markets is very challenging. One tweak assumptions and risk models. This perhaps goes without saying to any person who has invested in this market, but this is not an easy asset class to invest in. For starters, the frequent booms and busts creates a false sense of liquidity and an often accurate depiction of expected beta and returns. All risk models, expected loss provisions and sizing parameters are based on historical data and correlations, which change incredibly quickly. There is a reason why most funds in this space are early stage venture funds, where many of these real time market related issues are not relevant. For those like ourselves who manage liquid funds, it is a constant game of tweaking assumptions and risk models to interpretation over speed. Contrary to popular belief, just because crypto markets trade 24 seven globally does not necessitate 24 seven trading coverage. Overtrading every tick is costly in any asset class, and the additional hours of crypto trading often try to lure you into more activity. But the reality is that the fragmented global investing landscape actually gives you more time to react to news and information. While there will always be bots and algorithms that react immediately to news, much like after hours equities trading post earnings, these initial knee jerk reactions are often wrong. And since one third of the world is sleeping at any given time, it often takes days for the true market reaction to play out. A correct interpretation of information is much more important than the speed with which you react. Three, careful documentation is crucial. On the flip side, the 24 seven workday does lead to difficulties not seen in traditional markets. In TradFi, even your worst day week eventually comes to an end, giving you ample time to reset and think through decisions while markets are closed without price gyrations clouding or influencing your thought process. In crypto, these natural resets often don't exist. Take the events of Terra Luna, for example. The entire unwind of a 30 billion dollar ecosystem happened within three days, with continuous trading and new information flow over the 72 hour period. We made decisions during this stretch that in retrospect would not have been made with more of a grace period. And we have since learned how to better implement risk management during a future period like this. In hospitals, mistakes don't often occur because doctors are overworked or tired, but rather because of improper handoffs to the next doctor who lacks that full set of information because the previous doctor failed to document fully. Crypto asset management requires similar knowledge, handoffs and documentation for balance between short and long. In debt and equity markets, quiet periods of time, summer holidays often lead to slow grinds higher in price. It is expensive to stay short and dividends and coupons continue to accumulate, adding more buy interest to the market. The opposite is true in digital assets, since the majority of crypto projects accrue value through network activity, slower periods of time tend to slow momentum of an asset. And since most assets have no distribution of cash flows, the cost to short is minimal. As such, negative price action tends to be more prevalent when markets are slow, leading to difficult decisions with regard to hedging and long exposure. As a result, active management continues to trump passive indexes. Rules based passive index strategies simply cannot keep pace with the innovation and changes to these markets. Similarly, these indexes can't take advantage of the volatility, which creates quite a bit of alpha. Over time, this will likely change as the market matures, but we're not there yet. Building a good team is fundamental for success and incredibly challenging. I've worked for seven different financial firms over the past 25 years. I've seen thousands of resumes and have interviewed hundreds of people. I've worked personally in just about every financial department, banking, trading, research, sales, business development. If a TradFi Wall Street firm asked me for a candidate, I could find them one pretty easily that best fits their needs. Five, hire people passionate about the industry. But what are the best attributes and qualifications for a research analyst in crypto? What makes the best trade ops person? Who is best suited to handle investor relations? These are still not easy questions to answer in crypto. During the first few years of our fund, we took what we could get, which is to say, whoever wanted a job. The pay sucked, the hours were long, and the future was very uncertain. Anyone who wanted a job in this industry in 2018 shared a true passion for blockchain success and was willing to learn any part of the job necessary to succeed. Most people who joined this industry pre -2020 are still working in this industry, and their job responsibilities evolve in real time. But in 2021, I could have handpicked any person I wanted from every major bank, brokerage, and hedge fund, who all had zero crypto experience but saw big money ahead. The resumes were pouring in. Many of these employees didn't work out. In 2023, we're back to the passionate souls who will do anything to work in this industry. Six, everyone wears multiple hats. This is a very hands -on business where research analysts have to test functionality of applications, challenge status quo financial modeling, and network live with other industry veterans at conferences. Traders have to navigate back and forth from US macro to Asian currency markets to crypto -specific on -chain wallet movements depending on the current correlation du jour. Back office employees have to test new service providers every three weeks to keep up with changing regulation, best practices, and LP demands while navigating constant bankruptcies, closures, and hack attempts. The common denominator seems to be a real willingness to test new theses. If you give 10 equity analysts the same inputs, they will give you largely the same answer and will present the same homogenous modeling techniques to arrive at this answer. If you give 10 crypto analysts and traders the same inputs, they will most likely give you 10 different answers using entirely different analyses. That's refreshing and often leads to outsized alpha, but also creates challenges when it comes to creating a repeatable formula for success. Seven, trade ops is the most important department. When I worked at credit and equity funds, the back office was overlooked. They were usually young kids eager to move into a real trading role as soon as they could. The job was basic blocking and tackling. Make sure trades settled, make sure your brokerage statement was accurate, and make sure the fund admins did their job. Compliance teams were there simply because they had to be. We all knew the rules, we obeyed them, and if there was any doubt, we checked with compliance but knew the answer would be, don't do it. We should be so lucky in crypto. Trade operations is the single most important job in crypto. You have to touch the assets every single day and a single mistake could cost the firm millions of dollars. As a result, not only do these need to be the most trustworthy people in the firm, but they need to build redundancies that can still operate even if they themselves vanish. Getting into a trade ops role is more glamorous than getting out of trade ops, and those who build their careers in this subset of the fund business end up learning the most about blockchain. Similarly, compliance is not an afterthought in crypto. Unlike in TradFi, it cannot be assumed that your employees know the rules, as most come from completely different backgrounds than Wall Street. Constant education and monitoring is a must. Further, a compliance officer can't just read the rules and assume compliance since there are few clear rules to follow, despite Gary Gensler telling us otherwise. To do your best as both a fiduciary and a law -abiding company is a Herculean effort. 8. The sell side is getting better. In traditional finance, the sell side offers a pretty valuable role. They underwrite new transactions, create novel financing ideas, advise companies on how best to participate in the capital markets, facilitate trading in existing securities, write research on new and existing securities, and pass along market color between participants. Both full -service investment banks and niche broker -dealers exist, but regardless of whether you use a one -stop shop or piecemeal the services with multiple firms, the services themselves are all covered. While the sell side is getting better in crypto, it is still incredibly fragmented and many of these services still do not exist. As a result, fund managers are often on an island, forced to manufacture its own deals, structure its own financings, and do its own research from scratch. Written research from OTC trading shops has greatly increased in volume and improved in quality, providing a necessary channel check on the state of the markets. But the trading itself continues to be very exchange -based, black box, and therefore lacks natural axes between investors. Trading color about flows and activity has improved, but there are fewer market participants to glean information from. There is still no full -service investment bank, and in fact, true investment banking services for underwriting and advisory of token launches is probably the biggest white space going forward. I'm constantly shocked at how few well -known Wall Street capital markets tools are utilized within crypto. Most token launches are doomed from the start. From low float, high fully diluted valuation, FDV token launches, to direct listings at insane prices, to poorly written tokenomics, token issuers, who are often developers and lack financial knowledge, continue to have to come to market without the assistance of those who know how to do this best, which subsequently leads to worse investment opportunities for asset managers. Some service providers are getting a lot better, like Custody Solutions, OTC Trading, and Options Liquidity. Still, others are getting worse, like fund admins and auditors, who in the wake of FTX are pulling back from these offerings. On the tech and research side, it's amazing that Bloomberg's crypto services continue to be irrelevant. The coverage list, their index, and all functionality is still from 2017 and does not take into account how much this industry has grown and evolved. Fortunately, newcomers like Nansen, Masari, Glassnode, Dune Analytics, Telegram, and others have innovated fast enough to take this corner, and we are grateful for these companies. It is entirely possible to run a crypto fund in 2023 without ever logging into a Bloomberg terminal. Overall, fund management is still challenged by the lack of sell -side tools. As the sell -side improves, so will the number and breadth of funds. 9. The investor base is getting smarter. When we began our fund five years ago, we knew the educational journey for prospective LPs would be slow. We were learning constantly as we invested and doing our best to educate interested investors in real time, but it was not practical to expect anyone who wasn't focused full -time on this industry to keep pace. Questions from prospective LPs tended to focus more on how we invest versus what we invest in, and there was definitely a bit of a leap of faith by investors. Fast forward to today and the script has completely flipped. LPs are getting much smarter about the asset class and the investment universe, thereby asking better questions. In some cases, the LPs now know more than we do as they are exposed to different areas of the industry that may not be in our everyday focus. That said, the amount of bad information that continues to flow effortlessly through the media and influencer accounts continues to reach LPs as well, often surprising us in regard to certain topics of interest that we deem irrelevant, but our investors believe are topical. As investors start to become more digital asset savvy, they want far more control over investments and specificity has increased. Asset managers in this space have launched highly specialized funds based on investor demand, including DeFi focused funds, NFT funds, etc. Many asset managers, including ARCA, have started creating funds of one inch that allow for more specificity, but provide the professional team to manage the investments. In 2018, if you asked us, we would recommend going with a professional investor, but as information is more readily available and UI UX of projects get better, we encourage retail investors to research and invest. However, to generate alpha where information asymmetry exists, it's still valuable to have professional fund managers who can take advantage of the 24 -7 news cycle, market volatility, and a murky regulatory environment. Overall, running a fund in this new and innovative space has been incredibly rewarding and we look forward to the next five years. Fund managers will continue to straddle the line between becoming more TradFi -like and adopting best practices of Wall Street, versus finding ways to take advantage of crypto -only opportunities, yield farming, airdrops, testing new applications. The most important factor for success in the digital asset space is faith in the future. We have to believe we are at the frontier of building a new financial system that has the capacity to transform society. While we fully expect bumps in the road and pushback from incumbents benefiting from the status quo, we know that as long as we continue to move forward, fight for the necessary changes, and adapt as needed, this industry will succeed. Okay guys, back to regular old non -AI NLW. The thing that stands out to me after reading that article, as trite and as cliche as it sounds, is just the how early we are theme once again. Every cycle it feels like we see it as the mass flow of new institutions into the space and to some extent it's true. We obviously got a lot more market participants from the traditional sector last time around than we had before. It feels, however, now that we're inching ever closer to a period in which those traditional actors aren't just tourists, but are long -term participants in the space. Certainly right now you have an interesting jockeying for position where the Blackrocks and Fidelities and Franklin Templeton's of the world are laying the foundation for what seems like a much more proactive end -to -end from the beginning of the cycle on through whatever happens after kind of approach. I've said before and I'll say it again that I think Blackrock's ETF application will mark a significant pivot inflection point of this cycle when we look back at it historically. I think we will see it as a firewall that stopped whatever further slide might have happened and reinforced for market participants that crypto, despite being as down as it was in every sense of the word, was going to come back. And so I think about Jeff's next five years running a fund and how different they'll look. The different participants that will make up the market. The different ways in which people will engage. It's pretty hard to imagine from where we are, but it's certainly interesting to think about. Anyways friends, that is going to do it for today's Long Read. I hope you are having a wonderful fall weekend wherever you are. Until next time, be safe and take care of each other.
On The Rekord
A highlight from Episode 123 - Sept. 25th, 2023 - 2 Many Toos
"Yes, indeed, yes, indeed, yes, indeed. DJ Intense here from On The Record Podcast. I'm your host for the most. And to my left of me, I am Walt. What's up, Walt? I'm pretty good for the most part. I slept in today. I also linked up with my guy, Louis P. Shout out to Louis P. Big shout out to Louis P. Can't wait to get him on the podcast for an interview, one of these days. Definitely need that. Or just a joint venture. Yup, friend of the show. You know what I'm saying? You can, you know, we'll do an episode with them and then they can do an episode with us. That's perfect. That works. We need to do more of that, for sure. We went to go see, it was me, some other mutual friends that you're familiar with. We went to go see Expendables 4. Oh, really? Big shout out to 50 Cent, huh? Yup. No, no, no. Big shout out to Fifth. There's one thing I can say about 50 and stuff like that, regardless of all his antics, shenanigans, real life situations that made him who he is. He's always been professional in all aspects and willing to do the work and endorse whatever his he is tied to brand wise. So I respect him a lot. And, you know, inspired by a lot of his own, what he's done so far. And he's super smart. Very, very, very, very intelligent in a lot of different areas. Excuse me. I find it unique with 50 Cent or just unique in general with all these movies coming out promotional. It's terrible because the sag are still striking right now. Yeah. So it's a it's a it's a tough situation because because on one hand, you know, I just want, you know, these productions to keep putting out high quality stuff. But on the other hand, they got to be fair to their workers. Exactly. You can't just be having like, you know, like like three fourths of the pie. And in this twenty five percent is split among like 100 ,000 people. Exactly. That's that's that's ridiculous. Not at all. And we never see out of those out of those 100 ,000 people, maybe only one percent getting the top earnings. Yeah, man. The rest is fighting for scraps. Absolutely. So because you're in a you're already in a business where it's high risk, high reward on both ends. Yeah. The actor, the studios and all that stuff like that. The writers and the producers and the directors behind the scenes and the costume designers, editors. It's just so many. And we're never talking about just simple, you know, regular editing as far as script. Why about video editing? Then you have the guy, people who do the coloring for videos. It's a very, you know, strenuous process of how to actually put a movie out, the editing of the group behind it, get the color scheme right, the right focus going, the right cut scene, the right angles. Just imagine who oversees all those emails and all them up and have to check them constantly and stuff like that. It's just man. Yeah, a lot of manpower. Oh, absolutely. OK, was it a good movie? It was it was a bit it was a bit underwhelming. I think it had some really good moments and stuff like that. But listen, I get I get what you're saying. It's just like it is. I'm not I'm not asking for no Oscar worthy performance or anything like that. I don't I don't expect to get that out of those type of movies. And I'm not sure I'm not sure a movie like that would ever fit whatever fit like their criteria where you win like those big awards and stuff like that. But I will say out of out of but I will say I've seen enough action movies where I could be like, yo, it's kind of this. This could have been a lot better given given like, OK, I will say this could be a lot better given all the action movies I've seen in recent times, like like one of the one of the action movies that I like a lot. And I think it's a really good look for him is the redemption movies with Chris Hemsworth on Netflix. Who's in that? I'm the guy who played Thor. Oh, OK. Yeah. Yeah, I like those movies. He has to have two outs so far. And they've been good and stuff like that. I don't know how how much further they're going to keep on going with it. But it's just like you've seen enough action movies and you know enough about everybody's, you know, resume in that field to be like, OK, this could have been a whole lot, whole lot better and stuff like that. Wait, was Chris Hemsworth in The Expendables? No, I was just making an example of like, you know, a dude who's done action films. That's not, you know, that's a bit different what he's accustomed to do it. But it's still really good. When I look at Expendables, I think of like, oh, what was it? It was Action Bronson, Charles Bronson, those movies. It was a death, death, death wish, death, death wish, right? Back in the day, early 80s, 90s. I think I know what you might be talking about. Well, you know, it was just it's like a.
The Café Bitcoin Podcast
A highlight from Swan Private Macro Friday with Steven Lubka, Sam Callahan, John Haar, and Terrence Yang - September 22nd, 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. This is like a rabbit hole, but, you know, posture is a very interesting topic because there's lots of studies out there that show that actually fixing posture doesn't do absolutely anything to preventing pain. So you could say posture is a shitcoin. The best way to fix your posture, I think, is just sell your chair. So, Sam, I've been doing a muscle activation technique, which is basically a realignment of your nervous system, I guess, so you have a bunch of different muscles that help your joints to mobilize your joints, and oftentimes we get micro injuries and some of these slow twitch deep muscles stop working and then your body compensates, of course, by utilizing other muscles around that muscle group or within that muscle group to compensate, and sometimes those muscles start refiring again and sometimes they don't. And so I've been doing this thing called muscle activation technique, and my posture has actually improved because this technician has gone through and ensured that all of these muscles that are around these joints for mobility and range of motion are activated. And I feel I actually it's almost like magic. It's just really weird thing because you don't really you can't really tell what's going on because you don't really feel a lot of these muscles individually. But after doing this for about 10 sessions now, I feel better physically than I have in a long time. My posture is better. It feels like my body is working in much better than it has in the past. And it's really been it's really and he and he actually and people have noticed my posture getting better. And it's just a really it's it's probably the best health care money because he doesn't take insurance or anything. It's probably the best health care money I have spent in the last 20 years. Wow, that's quite an endorsement. Well, that's great. Happy it's up for you. Muscle activation techniques. What's up, Terrence, Dom, good morning. Yeah, I've been working on my posture, too. I look back at like old bull market charts, Bitcoin, and then in my posture, I like puff up and my everything kind of comes much better. I just have to go on internal team videos, watch my great colleagues, Steven Lubka and put them. Sometimes they look the same to me because they have the exact same posture and they're the same height. But yes, that's always a good reminder to improve my posture. That is true, as you learn about Bitcoin and you stop watching every single five minute candle staring at the chart and just stop worrying and go outside and start learning about other things, start learning about the network, reading books, the posture improves. So there's a little benefit there. Dom, yeah, I saw you make an announcement about the proof of workforce. Congratulations. Pretty cool. You want to tell us a little bit about it? Yeah, thanks, Sam. I got a little background noise because I'm on the big red. But yeah, really awesome to get that thing up and going. We put it, we tweeted out our board, which is, in my opinion, an unbelievable board of directors, including, I see in the audience, the one, the only Joe Carlasari. So I got mad BJ Dictor sound effects. I got my BJ Dictor sound effects loaded up right now. So, yeah, no, just doing great stuff, doing some great work, really excited for it and excited to talk more about it at Pacific and connect with anyone who's looking to bring Bitcoin to workers and unions and other membership based organizations. So really cool stuff. And yeah, man, super pumped. Yeah, I think it's a super cool nonprofit just working for, to educate people about Bitcoin, these unions, these pensions. Congrats on getting that off the ground. I think it's a really important effort for the next bull market to kind of start protecting workers and their future retirement. So with Bitcoin. Yeah, it's a tough group to crack sometimes. And it really helps, you know, was thinking about like, what's the best model and the nonprofit model being able to come in with no product? No, like, hey, sign up here. Like, hey, here's the cards on the table. We want to help you figure out how this works with your organization, whether that's just education, whether it's adding Bitcoin to the balance sheet, you know, enabling lightning payments for your members, you know, whatever that is, we just want to provide the tools and then let them kind of find their way on their own. Yeah, probably use the Nakamoto portfolio. That's a great tool right there. It's going to help a lot. Check it out. Nakamoto portfolio dot com. Play around with those tools. Extremely powerful. Yeah, that's a great tool for sure. Kind of pivoting a little bit, but like. Did you guys see that video of the guy getting his engagement ring back on like a reality TV show and then saying, you know, oh, that's a Bitcoin. That was hilarious. I could play it for you if you want. Yeah, why don't you play it? Vanderpump rules, right? You're still wearing your engagement ring, huh? Yeah. Yeah. I'm I'm going to give it back to him. Do you want to know? I mean. Don't give it back. No, I'm not going to keep it right here. Thank you. That's a Bitcoin. I love that so much. It's like every Bitcoiner thinks that you start like pricing in everything in Bitcoin. It really does become your unit of count in your head. Once you give the girl the ring, don't take it back. Yeah, you're going to want to make sure you're. You're positive on that one. Another reason not to put data on the base layer, right, like marriage certificates. I kind of think the days of expensive engagement rings and expensive weddings are going to end fairly soon with housing affordability at all time lows and so forth or in all time lows for at least for decades. You mean because diamonds are a shit coin and they dump them in the in the ocean off of the coast of South Africa? Yeah, basically, I think it's already the demand is already down, but it needs to kind of die a permanent death. I think the greatest marketing campaign ever. Yeah, diamonds are a rabbit hole. Like I'm going down that rabbit hole, the De Beers company and how they control a monopoly on the entire supply. And it was a huge marketing campaign. And there's no scarcity there. Girls aren't going to want to hear that, but only it's only for certain only for certain sizing and color. But yeah, then there's like these lab diamonds, right, that you can't even tell the difference now that are better. Yeah, I'm not going to get one of those, but they're shit coins. There's no scarcity to them. And they're wow. Really, Sam? It's progressed that far. You're already thinking about a ring. Congratulations. You heard it here first on Cafe People. I wouldn't go that far, Peter, right? But if I was, there's no way I'm going to get her a lab diamond. I saw this video of somebody like in the front row of an NBA game. And I guess there's like a gun that you could check rings to see if they're lab grown or they're regular. And they were going down looking at the big rocks of these celebrities. And this guy, his wife's ring, and then it shines red that it's a lab diamond. And she just gets so pissed off and throws it at him and runs out of the game. Whoops. Rug pull. Rug pull. Or that gun was inaccurate. Because again, you're like trusting the third party source. That's the whole point of bringing it back to Bitcoin. But that's the whole point of Bitcoin is you can self verify that you got real Bitcoin from whoever sent you Bitcoin because you're running your own node. Whereas with whether it's gold or diamond, like the Chinese got swindled for billions of dollars. I think of fake gold bars that were actually tung sun and just gold plated. I like how quickly you think on your feet, Terence, but I don't think she's going to buy it. Yeah. Terence is like, oh, did you think about the gun? It was the gun, bitch. It was the gun. Oh, my God. Hey, guys. So a friend of mine, actually, this is timely. A friend of mine just bought a lab grown diamond and he paid 1500 euros for it. It was 3 .07 carats. And a traditional diamond would have cost about 50 grand. So it's completely destroyed the price of diamonds, man. That's insane. Yeah. Over three carats. And it's chemically, he showed me the certificate is chemically identical. It's still got slight flaws in it, but they literally just they're basically just printing diamonds now. Right. So they've become dollars. I thought it was funny. That's hilarious. The stock to flow is going down for diamonds. Anyway, his wife, she's delighted. She's got a $50 ,000 diamond around her neck. Does she? Got to get one of those guns around here. So check out, check them all. Yeah, I'm intrigued about that gun because what he was saying to me was that he said chemically, they're identical. So I'm not sure what the gun's doing to identify it being a... They find the flaw, right? Because natural diamonds have flaws. So if it's natural, there's going to be a flaw. It's inevitable. You can't see it, but you can see it under like a magnifying glass or whatever. Well, I saw the certificate of this lab grown diamond and it had flaws in it as well. Oh, wow. Yeah, they artificially create the... Yeah, Chris, did you verify that there was a flaw? That's a valid point. I mean, I did trust. I didn't verify. So I stand called out. Yeah, a lot of Bitcoiners are pretty hesitant to separate with their sats. But I think a white is a good investment. That's when you know you got a keeper. Like I was going to buy you a diamond ring, babe, but instead I stacked into cold storage for us. For us. Sam, you might have something there. A ring that's a self -custody hard wallet. You might be something there, dude. I'm actually seeing... I remember in 2017, I saw rings and watches with like little tiny QR codes in them. I don't know if it's a good idea to have a lot of your Bitcoin on a ring or I saw another person with one in a necklace. So there are like things like that. It's not great security. It reminds me of how like in India and stuff, they wear their gold. You know, they keep it around their neck and wrists just because it's the safest place to be. I mean, I guess if it's just a receiving address, you know, I mean, somebody could hold me down and track it down and figure out and whatever. But I mean, you know, that could be your diamond ring. You know, instead of the diamond up there at the crown, throw a QR code up there. Just be like, babe, you're going to be stacking. We're going to stack for the rest of our lives together now. We're going on a stacking journey together. How do you carry across the border more than $10 ,000 in value without having to report it? You wear it. Or Bitcoin. I have friends who move tens of millions of dollars or millions of dollars of their net worth, like 90, I don't know, 98 % plus of their total net worth to leave China, leave South Africa, come to the U .S. and never go back. And at the time, at least, they were too dumb to stop them or even question them. We just left, one -way ticket. Yeah, the fact that Bitcoin is digital and that anybody can escape like an authoritarian regime or war with some of their wealth, you know, that's when you think about like the ESG narrative and even like KPMG report talked about the S and how that characteristic of Bitcoin really helped people in really tough situations and think about how else they would do that and kind of realize that like Bitcoin is a solution there to a problem. And BlackRock and State Street are closing up ESG funds as we speak, which is, I think, a positive development. Yeah, I kind of reject that entire framing. I think it's led to a lot of misallocation of capital and kind of influencing boardrooms about how they invest their capital kind of impeding free markets. Yeah, ESG is a control scheme. I mean, we've seen that, but what are you talking about about BlackRock shutting down ESG funds? I don't know about that. Yeah, BlackRock and State Street have just been closing ESG funds in 2023, kind of shutting them up. And that's a reversal of the trend over the last couple of years. And BlackRock, Larry Fink, I mean, in the early 2010s kind of spearheaded a lot of these efforts, really gung ho about ESG. The last couple of years, they've seen a ton of pushback. And now we're kind of seeing them close up ESG funds. And I feel like we're seeing a shift in sentiment around the entire movement because I think people are realizing that like, A, some of these goals are completely untenable. And then secondly, you're hurting the poorest countries amongst us, like the developing nations, by preventing them from accessing cheap energy sources. And you're really making us weaker and less resilient by shutting down oil, gas, and fossil fuels. And so you're seeing a ton of pushback on it. And so BlackRock and State Street are starting to shut down ESG funds. It's just kind of like a flag post in my mind of this ESG narrative that was so, so strong the last decade. I don't know if anyone else has opinions there, but... Yeah, the only thing I have to say is I feel like Larry Fink kind of jumped on the bandwagon somewhat later after the ESG narrative got a lot of traction. Then he kind of added fuel to the fire, which is a huge name and was very outspoken. My point is he's added fuel to the fire. He didn't start the fire, but he kind of... So he's a politician ultimately, right? Like he's very political, even though he knows finance. To a manage massive fund that manages, I don't know, $9 .6 trillion or whatever, you have to be political and you have to read the tea leaf, so to speak. And yeah, react to the times. I think the exception would be somebody like Vanguard that might do a lot less in terms of ESG or jumping on the latest trendy whatever, because they're so focused on index funds and they're member -owned. This was not an ad for Vanguard, but... I just remember Larry Fink writing... And I just remember it made a lot of waves and kind of definitely added fuel to the fire, like I said, Terrence. So they shut down two dozen ESG funds this year, just to give some stats there. Yeah, I wish I could say like, you know, oh, maybe they really are being orange -filled and whatever, whatever. But it's probably like you said before, I mean, like ESG stuff, it's untenable over time and you get to a point, it probably just isn't profitable. I don't know than any of this, any of what I'm talking about, but just I'm just going off a gut, like the ESG stuff is unprofitable because the economics don't work. We've talked about that. You can look at the windmills and the solar panels as perfect examples of that. But I mean, just the overall thing, there's a good book, I've talked about it before, called The Prize. And it talks about the control of energy on the planet and how there are groups that seek to control other groups through the narrative of controlling what type of energy you're using, what is acceptable energy use, all of this stuff. But in the end, if you're going to try to make like, you know, bets and gambles off of this stuff, like you're going to have to pull your rug early because it's not, at some point, the economics don't work. Well, not to mention too, you know, it's the trend of like having an ESG report for a company. I want to see some of these companies that are like, you know, Nike's ESG report, which I don't know the details, you know, but you know, there's some low wage labor being done. And then, you know, you got this shiny ESG report that's like, you know, sustainability, we've done this and ethically, we've done this. And also, you know, behind the curtain, we've got this going on too. Yeah, I mean, it trickles all the way down, even now, like in web design, web development, like if you want your website to rank well on Google and whatever, then, you know, you have to build your site, you have to have that in your mind while you're building your site. You have to make sure that it's going to be well received by Googlebot and, you know, all these other stuff. And one of the things that they've been pushing is how ESG friendly is your website? Like your, the processes that it runs and, you know, are you doing it correctly and coding it correct? There's more than one way to code. And, you know, it's like, man, okay, I understand the idea, like, make your website work more efficiently. Like, of course, duh, like, that's what we're doing. But Google of all people to tell me about energy use of a web platform? Come on. Yeah, Chrome is pretty bad. Yeah, go ahead. I was orange peeling and no, I was I was just like at insurance, kind of talking to them about Bitcoin. And it was a bunch of claims professionals and lawyers. They were very like, you know, obviously, these are like super risk adverse cohort of investors. And so we were there just like talking Bitcoin as like the weird Bitcoiners at this conference. But I found out that 90 % of them take into account ESG when they're thinking about investments today. And that's in the most recent Goldman survey. So 90 % of insurers consider ESG when making capital allocations today. And at the same time, their number one worry in that survey was inflation. And so it's one of those things where I don't want to give credence to the framework. But it's so ingrained in some of these like traditional capital allocators minds that maybe just by playing into it and saying like, well, here's how Bitcoin is actually, you know, quote unquote, ESG and just kind of like Trojan horse in it through their their silly framework is the strategy that I took. And it kind of kind of went well. I kind of like said, like, although I reject this entire framing, here's why Bitcoin actually kind of achieves your goals. That's kind of the tactic that I took.
Epicenter
A highlight from Misha Komarov: =nil; Foundation The Marketplace for ZK Proof Generation
"Welcome to Epicenter, the show which talks about the technologies, projects, and people driving decentralization and the blockchain revolution. I'm Brian Crane and I'm here today speaking with Misha Komarov. He's the co -founder of NIL Foundation. NIL Foundation is basically working on a marketplace for zero -knowledge proofs. So we're going to dive into what NIL Foundation is, a zero -knowledge proof, zero -knowledge proof market. I think this is one of the areas where there's been a lot of interest, a lot of buzz about it, right? There's a lot of investment in this area and yeah, so really excited. So thanks so much for joining us, Misha. Yeah. Thanks for inviting me. So I just mentioned, right, like, okay, a lot of like ZK interest happening now. Now, an interesting thing about NIL Foundation is that you guys actually started in 2018 and it says on the website kind of that this initial focus was on sort of best practices for database management systems for crypto. And so I'm just curious if you can talk a little bit about how did this get started and what was the original vision for NIL Foundation and yeah, well, what is this database management system? Why is that important? Okay. So let's go into that. Basically the reason why NIL Foundation was started is because prior to that, it's like me and well, it's like, it's like we were together doing a fork of STIMIT, basically like European dedicated fork of STIMIT and I was kind of a fellow who was responsible for all the technical part in there. And it's like, from my perspective, I was dealing with all the technical issues, with all the data management issues. And I, I literally, it's like, I was, I was literally like in pain by the absence of proper data management tools back then. And it's still kind of absent to be honest. Like people still struggle with like access to Ethereum data and yada yada. So I was, I was struggling with the absence of that and considering that all the STIMIT stuff and all the color stuff was actually kind of a social network and something, something you have, you obviously were required to have proper data management, I mean, like proper one, just like they do in traditional, in traditional web industry. So we had no such a thing back then, and we still have no such a thing. So I was like, so in April of 2018, I was like, it costs, let's go do a DBMS, right? I mean, I don't want anyone to struggle that I don't want to struggle myself. I don't want anybody to have that issues. So that's what it was. Right. So this will be like, okay, you want to have a database where like you store in there, I don't know, these are all the users, these are all the posts and then like use that information to serve a web application. Yeah. Yeah. Since it was required for such a database to work in untrusted environments, like to be basically BFT compliant, right? So it's like database for crypto, right? So I had to, so we had to think about how to mix these two industries together to make it, to make it basically, to make it basically work, to make it, to make it suitable for hosting BFT drive calls, for hosting BFT applications. So yeah, that's what it was. That's, that was the idea, to merge two industries together. Yeah. And then, cause the idea with this databases were basically, I'm curious if you can expand a little bit more on this aspect of have the database be trustless. Did you kind of imagine that the user would have some way of verifying that, you know, the database functioned in a particular way and, you know, sort of serve the results in the right way? That's one of the critical components, because if you weren't, if you weren't like the DBMS or like the database to work in untrusted environments, you've got to be able, you've got to be able to verify what's going on in there. I mean, you can't just like go and access, for example, somebody's data, like Ethereum's data or like some rollups data or like some other product or data, something, something, whatever. You can't just come in and, you know, and trust what, what has been given to you. Because I mean, this database could have easily just, you know, screwed yet. And this, this, this, this can result like in something very nasty. So basically it is required and it was required to make the interaction with this thing as trustless as possible. Because I mean, like one more trust point, come on, we don't want to be that trust point, right? So we do not want to have that responsibility on our hands. So basically to make it as trustless as possible, it was required for people which operate over some data inside this database or through this database, like over Ethereum's data, for example, right, it was required to make it, to make them capable of like verifying whatever they have done. And for the sake of this, it was required to have an, it's like, it's like a like provable execution environment. Right. And so that's basically a desire and how to do that, like provable execution environment. It's like, you also, it's like beside the people, it's like how to do this. I mean, you've got to prove somehow what was executed and the most, it's like the most convenient, the most suitable thing, which we had back then was some like modification of growth and you know, some theoretical constraint system based proof systems. So that was the best fit back then. And we were like, it's not sufficient, it's not good. And we would need much more than that. So we started working on the cryptography suite. We've embedded proof systems in there. And once we realized that, okay, it's like, we got, it's like the industry got to that point when there is, when there is enough of like tech and theoretical research available to make such a executable environment, we were like, okay, well, it's like blonde case proof systems were introduced. We got the, we got in the pursuit of ours and not a question arise. It's like the second question which arise is that besides just proving the execution of whatever was done with the data inside the database, you've got to prove that the data, which was taken as an input to this database was basically taken from a right place because otherwise, I mean, how can you be, how can you be sure that the data that you're operating over wasn't, you know, just made up out of nowhere, that it's actually, for example, Ethereum's data, right? So for the sake of this, we needed state and consensus proofs. And that's how we got together basically with Ethereum foundation, with a lot of foundation guys, because that was like our, that was like our desire to do state proofs and consensus proofs. And they were like the only ones which had any idea about this, about this back then. And once we got this, once we got together in 2021, this collaboration of ours evolved into the birth of ZK bridges. I mean, like so many projects are built in ZK bridges now, right? So, but like back then it was, back then it was like, Hey guys, we need state proofs, you know how to do them. We want to learn, let's do something together. So that was basically like, it were just some ZK bridges in general. So that's, that's like what it was. So, and when we, it's like, it's like in the process of doing all that, we were like, yeah, well, it's quite a lot of circuits. I mean, like very, it's like too much circuits. All right. And they're very complicated and we don't want to do that like manually anymore. Cause we spent like a couple of years before that already, like crafting those circuits we and were like, nah, we're not going to do that. I mean, probably somebody else has this kind of problem. So we need a compiler for that. Let's just do a compiler for that. So we took LLVM. I mean, like just, just, just the compiler, like which everybody uses, it's like, you know, very solid. And we just took it, we made it provable. So that's how ZK LLVM was born. I mean, because, because we were like sick and tired of building circuits like manually. And apparently the rest of the market was also sick and tired of doing that. And the proof market is basically, it was born out of our realization that all of those state proofs, consensus proofs and state transition proofs we worked on for the sake of, you know, making this as transparent and as trustless as possible. We're really heavy and we were not willing to make like, you know, anyone to generate it themselves. And we will always like, we didn't want to generate it ourselves. So we were like, okay, well, we'll just make marketplace since, since so, and basically, and basically we just slapped the marketplace on top of the same database that we're doing and we were like, okay, well, we were building a database, we tried to make it as trustless as like, you know, as transparent as possible, so we'll just slap the proof market on top of it, so this could also become like, you know, decentralized and like distributed, whatever, whatever, whatever, like for pro generation. That's what it was. Cool. Cool. No, I think that was very helpful. Actually, I think what would be great to talk a little bit about, and, you know, I think for some, many people, this will be familiar and for other people, it's still kind of like maybe a little bit new, but it's like, some of the like use cases for ZK tech, right, because what you mentioned, right, basically, okay, you want to have like this provable, you want to have some code, right, and that's like provable, so of course, like sort of an obvious thing would be, well, you just use a blockchain for it, right, put it on a blockchain. It's not that simple.
Milk Crates and Turntables. A Music Discussion Podcast
A highlight from Ep.118 - Rewind to 1967: The Year That Changed Music Forever
"Well here we are episode 118 I think I think I forgot to list a few this might be like episode 120 or 121 I don't know I guess that's a good thing when you do so many you lose count anyway on this episode we're gonna be talking about the year in music 1967 and as usual I have the wrecking two in the house Mark Smith and Lou Colicchio of the music relish show very interesting yeah a lot happened sit back relax it's gonna be another two and a half hour podcast but we love it enjoy the show the KLFB studio presents milk rate and turntables a music discussion podcast hosted by Scott McLean now let's talk music enjoy the show yes let's talk music thank you Amanda for that wonderful introduction as usual welcome back my friends to the show that never ends welcome to the podcast you know the name I'm not gonna say it was streaming live right now over Facebook YouTube X formerly known as Twitter twitch D live and again I always I don't know how many other things and this podcast will be heard on every podcast platform yeah yeah 1967 so it was quite a year think you're in for a little little ride tonight yeah and you know who wasn't born in night oh he was three in 1967 marksmen from the music relish show good evening I was two years from being on this earth so you weren't even really thought of no you thought of it 67 think of that think of that yeah you weren't even thought of you weren't even like a sparkle in as they say in your father's eye there might have been the beginning of a sparkle who knows so let me see I'm looking at my is my screen still fuzzy on my end but I'm not even seeing it on YouTube right now I'm seeing it's live but I just got the image of the vinyl really yeah what the hell wait wait wait wait yeah no it's on it's on I see it I see it but my screen looks fuzzy right yeah that's how I'm seeing you from my end yeah what the hell let me check something here hold on okay let's do a little in show my you know that smooth little March of colors next to you when you open up the show yeah happy it's all like gone really weird I'm looking at this right let's go back to this see what happens I'm supposed to be in 1080 and I'm looking at it right now now you're sharp you just got sharp it goes back and forth it's a strange see like hearing yourself huh I guess I don't know what do a refresh here I'm playing it right Tom Benwald says it looks good patty says it's blurry that was in the beginning and it looks like it's sharp now so it goes back and forth you're starting to get blurry again it's strange got any storms down there no this this would this will drive me crazy now this is it's not supposed to be like this come on it's like a Grateful Dead show warts and all rice we're talking about 1967 there's no digital so it was still waiting for Luda come on so you know I'm going to do I hate doing this but I'm going to do it to you buddy what's that no don't cut me I'm not cutting you I'm gonna I'm gonna hit a refresh which might take me off the screen so the show is yours for about I don't know 60 seconds let's see what happens here let's see reload I'm gonna reload it so I'm going off the screen I guess it's time to advertise the music roll show with my friend Perry and my friend Lou we discuss opera we have fun how am I now you look better look yeah yeah looks better yep and I just advertised my podcast is that the opera I'll pay you I'll give you the money later on then I lose my this is like okay here we go you look better though all right good yeah good you know me I the technical stuff drives me crazy especially you know it's not only sound it has to be oh it's this is a live stream so it has to look yeah good and you don't want to drop out in the middle of the show no like me and Lou do once in a while race right let's see is the chat working let's see now I'm not seeing any I'm not seeing any comments so let me try this well sorry for the podcast listeners but I gotta get this shit right hey it's okay I should be seeing I should be seeing comments because people have already made three comments you over here maybe they're bored and they don't want to comment anymore no it's there it should be showing up on my screen over here right we know that my boss you busting balls only Bono does that let's see public so it should be getting huh this is crazy seven minutes in and I'm here we haven't done anything yet let me see send comment test I just sent a text to message I see I see you as I see mine okay good we're good we're good let me switch over to my other account and do the same thing I just want to make sure yes just our audience is bored they don't want to comment actually this is all Lou's fault yeah yeah always the you know I would probably lost the other comments is because I rebooted so hmm all right well you know what we're gonna start without Lou right as I say that as I say that does he have what does he what do you let's get the full screen nose is that why you were late you had to clean your nose and he's back in Paris again you brown nose er I've been a bad dog my laptop and he's back in pair you left here in Paris you must have left it back in the United States I did I left on the plane how you doing Lou I'm doing alright how are you guys doing well I just had a little technical difficulty and we blamed you because you weren't here so you left me alone and I had to talk opera with myself talked opera yeah rigoletto did you talk about rigoletto this time I'm just really boring you know I'm like all right this is why this is a two and a half hour podcast some of us have to work tomorrow all right here we go let's jump right into 1967 musical events in 1967 and the year kicks off right away with a bomb a bomb on January 4th the doors release can arguably one of the greatest debut records ever arguably if you had a top 25 greatest debut that albums would have to be in the top 10 it would have to be yeah you know if you had a top 50 that would have to be in the top 10 right even if you don't like them you have to say that was so ahead of its time oh it's so different nothing out there was like the needle and all you hear it kicks I mean fucking what a way to start an album it's a heavy song it with a bossa nova beat yeah I mean that's pretty clever yeah 67 so you know bossa nova was pretty hip again John Densmore over underrated underrated underappreciated I think you are you are so correct you know never gets the the the consideration that I I don't know you can't put him in greatest of all time but could he be okay if there's a top there's a top 25 drummer top 25 drummers is he in it good question and in rock we'll just say in rock I think he could be I could see him making so I don't know if he's a universal pick but I could see him on some list I mean he's something you'd have to think about like you said like it doesn't get noticed so much you know yeah yeah or it I mean although his drumming wasn't shy I mean he's jazzy as hell I heard um writers on the storm yesterday and his adjustment playing is great in his adjustments during the shows just for that yeah yeah the unpredictability of you know how the how the song was gonna go right because they could rehearse it all they want once Morrison got into that zone well in the drama keeps the beat right yeah yeah the drummer has to stay up with that yeah and played to the clown so to speak right you know and my my problem is if some of the clowns don't have the beat you know at one point they've got to give in like I said Morrison or even Dylan they'll set the tone but they've got to be steady themselves you know it's yeah otherwise it's just erratic but you know yeah guy like Dan's more I mean I had skill I had a lot of a lot of technical ability right feel yes cool so obviously his drums always sounded good yeah on the earlier on the other records even you know three years worth of music whatever I guess I would be who produced some Jack Holtzman was the producer did a good job Jekyll or now wait so no what was it Paul Rothchild yes yes yes I'm sorry Holtzman was he on the record company yeah yeah was that it was that chrysalis or chrysalis I think or just like yes that's a lecture a lecture weren't they on chrysalis though also I thought they were yeah maybe maybe chrysalis was a subsidiary but uh yeah Jack Holtzman's son is Adam Holtzman he's a keyboardist right now he plays with here we go Stephen Wilson but he does a little blog on Facebook and he talks about growing up and he was like six years old and his father brought him to a club to see the tour Wow at six years old he just talks about like yeah it's a great little blog Wow all right and four days later on January 8th Elvis Presley turned 32 on January 14th the human be in right the human be e -i -n human being takes place in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park polo fields with spoken words from Timothy Leary Allen Ginsberg Gary Snyder in others live music was provided by Jefferson Airplane the Grateful Dead Big Brother in the holding company and Quicksilver Messenger Service speeches from Jerry Rubin and others were also given at the event although it's one band there I liked yeah Quicksilver Messenger Service who was it on January 15th 1967 who is your favorite poet of all them I know you're not asking me Arthur Rimbaud who influenced Jim Morrison good answer good answer way to bring that first opening segment rough full circle we're getting better Scott we're good now you guys get a lot of good trust me I'm getting a lot of good feedback so let's keep it at that I don't want you son ask for more money and on January 15th 1967 the Rolling Stones appear on the Ed Sullivan show at Ed Sullivan's request finish it he asked them to let's spend sing let's spend some time together is that the one there you go yeah and then he told him a really big shoe I hate to do this I mean I come back on penalty box I don't say just he beat my record okay look he just got on the show after late and these are either he's stuck he's frozen put the dog nose back on where'd it go are you throw it at the camera like your headphones on January 16th 1967 the monkeys begin work on headquarters the first album to give them complete artistic and technical control over their material and it was fucking horrible fucking horrible what were they thinking they know they were thinking the egos got too big they thought they were the music well the argument can be made that you know Mike Nesmith did write different drum yeah so he could write songs but I don't think he was a pop songwriter you know headquarters and they try to be all fucking like 60 ish and shit they weren't looking for pop were they they're trying to be like more psychedelic yeah I think so there were their channel on the Beatles with those quirky little yeah with anti -grizzelles on that I don't know some weird shit I'll tell you what though I don't care about it myself but it was surely a harpsichord on it because that's what all those records had they had to have a harpsichord and I have the book this the 100 best -selling records of the 60s the monkeys got a they've had quite a few albums on there oh they do yeah they were they were but I mean I thought it was just a condensed period of the show which it probably was but it's still I mean they've got I mean most of their albums sold really well yeah yeah ah you like the show what's it is like the show I did I still like it I still love it I love that that that's so that humor is great like dumbed down brilliantly done though humor yeah way was what they were supposed to act like that yeah you know what I mean there was no like these guys are bad actors they knew exactly how to do that they pulled it off great it was campy it was great for its time it's still great to watch now yeah I do think that banana splits were a better band yeah that's I'll give you the banana splits were a kick -ass band yeah yeah kick -ass man did you see the movie recently came out it's a horror movie with the banana splits the banana splits movie it's a horror movie yeah yeah it takes place in an amusement park and they're they're robotic and in Dyson and slicing baby Dyson and slicing I have to say oh man that's yeah okay yeah Dyson and slicing it's good it's kids again campy movie but I couldn't not watch it yeah I have to say I'm sure Fleagle is a total psychopath well I'm not gonna give you any and no no no spoilers here those was it just Dyson and slicing on January 17 1967 the daily mail newspaper reports four thousand potholes in Blackburn Lancashire and Guinness air Tara Brown is killed in a car wreck these articles inspire lyrics for a day in the life a day in the life yes on January 22nd 1967 Simon and Garfunkel give live can't give a live concert at Phil harmonic Phil harmonic call in New York City some of this concert is released on October 4th 1997 on their box set old friends but most is not released until July 2002 that's some more okay January 29th mantra rock dance the quote ultimate high of the hippie era is organized at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco featuring Janis Joplin grateful dead big brother in the holding company for three Moby grape quirky that would've been interesting that's the best man that's the best as though for they're almost like the MC five kind of I think they were just kind of but they're they're a San Francisco band and beat poet once again Allen Ginsberg shows up to do his spoken word I heard he was a member of NAMBLA I wouldn't the National Association of Marlon Brando look -alikes I heard I'd someone I remember he actually he was a sponsor of NAMBLA but anyway on January 30th 1967 the Beatles shoot a promotional film for the forthcoming single strawberry fields forever at Noel Park in Seven Oaks have you seen it I have seen it I haven't seen it in a long time it's really cool yeah yeah it's kind of dark speaking of dark on February 3rd 1967 UK record producer Joe Meek murders is it his landlady and then commits suicide by shooting himself in the head in Holloway North in London it's kind of dark didn't he produce sleepwalk yes letter Telstar some early we talked we did it bit of a genius really yeah let's see February 7th Mickey Dolan's no let me stop February 6th Mike Nesmith and Mickey Dolan's of the monkeys fly into London Dolan sees till death do us part on British TV and uses the term Randy's scouse grit from the program for the title of the monkeys next single release Randy's scouse grit not releasing it is an offensive term Britain's British census forced the title to be changed to alternate title and then the next day Mickey Dolan's meets Paul McCartney at his home in st.
The Dan Bongino Show
Leo Terrell: Lee Zeldin Is the Reason We Have a Republican House
"The Senate we took an L and I'm not doing that again Leo I'm not you're right listen Dan if it wasn't for BBB overtime work of Lee Felden we would even have a house right and could you imagine what we have what we have discovered as a result of a house majority just imagine we control the Senate and the White House we can really eliminate the deep state if we I mean but but Lee Zelda deserves a lot of credit because that is the only reason why we have the house such a good we're talking to Leo Terrell you know him you love him Leo is making an amazing point that is frequently left out folks I know you know Lee Zelda is I would never talk in a condescending film but if you just got into politics Lee Zeldin is a Republican congressman who ran for governor in New York and ran an absolutely campaign unbelievable he almost won in a state he had probably a 50 to 1 odds against him but what Leo's trying to tell you is we picked up a number of congressional seats in New York because people showed up to vote for Lee but then voted down ballot for their congressman if Lee Zeldin doesn't run this campaign Leo's right we lose the house there's no Speaker McCarthy or nothing Nancy Pelosi's in charge that is such a good point Leo that's why California is important anyone out there going we don't need the register votes in California Trump's gonna lose California and lose New York okay they may there's a darn good chance they probably will but that don't mean we can't pick up five or six more congressional seats down ballot absolutely Dan absolutely absolutely and that's what we have to do and we have to go after the entire country and let's not play the race card people of Americans kids regardless of color have the same concern inflation school choice homelessness border crime it's just we
Cinemavino
A highlight from Battle Royale
"And welcome back to Cinema Vino. It's another Two -Man episode with Sean Jordan and I. Two -Man, yep. Exactly. That's all I got. Oh man, I need to record that. That could be our thing. Our little blurb. Our little bumper. Yeah. So this will be the penultimate episode of our Summer of Chaos with Battle Royale, which is Sean's pick. This is my pick? Yeah. This is one I've wanted to get on for a while. This has been on my list to like throw in here. I'm glad we did it. I'm glad we covered it. It's the perfect format to do it too, you know, where anything goes. It doesn't fit many other places. It's a weird kind of wheel that we, you know, spin the wheel. Strangely enough, pick two whites, two French whites. Just like this podcast. Exactly. Oui. Oui. So this is Sauvignon. So S -A -U -V -I -O -N. Sauvignon Vouvray. Vouvray is going to be the name of the region where this comes from. I was going to say is Sauvignon the winery? Sauvignon is going to be the winery. Kind of pretentious to call it Sauvignon. Exactly. I know. But it's not Sauvignon like Sauvignon Blanc. It's like Sauvignon. Yeah. But again, my French just can't do that justice. No. Nor can mine. So Vouvray is going to be Chenin Blanc grapes. And these are going to be on the right bank of the Loire River. Chenin Blanc, 100 % one grape? Yeah. That's a varietal. It's going to be in kind of west central France. And a lot like Riesling, these Vouvrays will cover a wide flavor palette. They can be dry. They can be sweet. They can be in between. This to me is kind of in between. Definitely. I mean, compared to the Bordeaux that we drank earlier that's dry, this is way, the sweetness is way more pronounced on this one. I think overall, I would classify this as probably off dry. If one is bone dry and 10 is super sticky sweet, I would put this at about a 5 .5. This is right in the middle? Mm -hmm. Right down the middle. But yeah, most of the... What have you got going on here? If you go to your wine store now and you see a lot of Vouvrays, a lot of them are going to be bubbly. They're going to be sparkling. They're going to have the champagne method. You'll see, there'll be some still wines. Oh. But you'll see a lot more sparkling Vouvrays out there, like Champelou. That is definitely less dry than the last one. Yes. You'll get more sugar on that. It's also got... Feels like more... It's like almost a minerality of like the... It's not bubbly. It's almost just like a soft water, you know? Well, this also has kind of a floral... Like an effervescence. Yeah. Yeah. It has a real floral kick to it. And you look at the... It has more of a hay color. Like the Bordeaux that we had was a lot more light pale. This one has a little more haze and a little more of a kind of bright hay color, a little more yellow to it. Yeah. But it has a little more body. It has a little more of a creamy flavor to it, a little more creamy texture. But I mean... But not buttery. No, it's not buttery. It's not chard buttery. No. But it also has kind of a honeysuckle texture, I think, to it. There's some... Honeysuckle? You are breaking out the big guns. I'm going big. Wow. But yeah, it's definitely sweeter. But not sticky sweet. There's definitely sweeter stuff out there. Yeah. It's not like a Moscato. It sticks out more because of the Bordeaux. It's kind of like if you're in a really cold pool and you get into even a lukewarm hot tub, it's going to feel really hot because you've been in a cold pool. I was in the pool. But drinking that fairly dry Bordeaux makes this one feel that much sweeter. It does. But it's pleasant. I like it a lot. Yeah. It's a good companion with that. It's two different tastes completely. So we talked on the last episode about the white Bordeaux being paired well with fish. Yeah. I mean, same thing here? I think this is another one of those that I would do with Thanksgiving stuff. I would do... I was going to say turkey would be really good with this. It'd be a great pair. But pretty much all that stuff, cranberry. I mean, pretty much anything would go well with ham. Yeah. Any of that kind of stuff because of the honey flavor that you'd get from it. But I think it would go well with salad. It would go well with the entire holiday meal that you would do. A little cranberry sauce? Yeah. I think that would be a perfect pair. A little creaming casserole? We're about two. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think it would go well with dressing, stuffing, whatever you want to call it. Yeah. I think there's a difference between dressing and stuffing. There is. Yeah. That's a different podcast. Yeah. But we're a couple of months out from Thanksgiving, but if you're looking ahead, vuvre would be a good choice. If you're looking for something to do kind of before the meal, a sparkling vuvre would be a good way. Or even after the meal when you're settling down to watch the game or whatever, a bubbly vuvre would be a good pick. What I like about this is it's not super bubbly. It's not bubbly at all. No. No. It's going to be still. It has that lightness of like almost an effervescence, but not an effervescence. Yeah. It's kind of, it's refreshing, you know, but it's unlike the Bordeaux, which was refreshing to kind of a dry, crisp way. This one has a little more bright, fun, like fruit. This is kind of more... The other one's more tart. Like you feel like that, like unripe and peach. Yeah. You know, this one's more like ripe, sweet, grassy, kind of like a ripe fruit. Yeah, exactly. But yeah, two completely different personalities between the Bordeaux and the vuvre. And I'm kind of glad we got contrasting French whites. Yeah. But yeah, so you'll see a lot of sparklings out there. So when you see these, they're on a scale. Brut's going to be the driest. Demisek's going to be sweeter. And then you'll see everything up to like Moliot, which is very sweet, the sweetest of all the vuvres. So if you're looking, then that's going to be your scale. Basically, it's the like higher the scale, the more sugary sweetness is going to be on them. So they do vuvres? Yeah, they do. Because they're made in the Champagne method, they'll have a lot of the same scale when they do bubbly. But yeah, in a bubbly section of a good wine store now, you should see a few vuvres, sparkling vuvres. They'll be cheaper than Champagne, so they're actually a good pick if you're looking for something on a budget. Champagne is only from the Champagne region of France. Exactly. And so yeah, these will be made in the same style, but not the same region. No. But anyway, yeah. So this one, the Sauvignon runs around 20 bucks. I think it's like 22. Pretty good buy. Yeah, it'd be a good holiday wine if you were looking for something that it's good, it's well made, but it's not crazy expensive. Impress your wine friends with this? Exactly. Yeah, it should. And you can impress them because it's a good wine. You can say, I didn't spend a whole lot of money on it. It's like, it's one of those deals where it really helps to know what you're looking for. Oh, this is a real, you know, it's a real hole in the wall kind of wine. Boutique. You know, it might not be a wine you really heard of. Yeah, exactly. It's like the kind of the hipster thing where it's like you impress people like you found something that they didn't know about. Yeah, it's underground. Yeah, exactly. So Battle Royale. This is a it was restricted, not released in the United States until 2010. Many countries did not release it due to its violent subject matter. This is probably, in my opinion, the most culturally touchy film that we've examined. Probably the most controversial film that we've examined for this podcast. Really? Because it was not released in quite a few countries because it was so violent, so graphic. Which after watching it, do you feel like that's this movie now would not be considered super violent? Yes, which is one of my, which altered my perception of it. Had not having seen it before, having seen it now changed my opinion of it. So we'll get to that in a minute. So this received a direct -to -video release in 2010. It's received strong reviews, 88 % Rotten Tomatoes. Quentin Tarantino declared it to be his favorite film released since 2000. It set the template for The Hunger Games, which came later. A lot of people commented when they saw it. The Hunger Games came out in what, I think it came out around 2010. Yeah, somewhere in that range. A lot of people said that it had a lot of similarities to Battle Royale. Yes. I don't know when the books, the Hunger Games books came out. Definitely after the book that this was based on came out. Okay. Because I think the book that this was based on came out in 1998. I don't want to, I don't want to definitively say that The Hunger Games was based off of this, but. Definitely inspired by it. Yeah.
Woz Happening!!!!
A highlight from Phone Booth (2002) (Thriller/Psychological Thriller) Movie Review
"What's everyone? happening It's Kira and Ben back again. Today, we're doing a user suggestion phone booth from 2003 starring Colin Farrell. So I saw this movie when it first came out and then I had not seen it again, and re -watching it for this podcast was an absolute wild ride. Ben, let's talk a little bit about your history with the film before we get in it. So I never watched it. Naziru Wanda from Ghana suggested it, and this is my first time actually watching it too. This is your first? Okay. So I knew going in, I had remembered the main plot points of this movie. I had forgotten a lot of the other plot points of this movie, and I forgot what big of a cast this has. So our main man, Stu, is played by Colin Farrell. Our main police detective is played by Forest Whitaker. Colin Farrell's wife is played by Rahata Mitchell, and then his wannabe mistress is played by Katie Holmes, and then the voice over the phone is Keither Sutherland. So a wildly large cast for this film. Obviously, this movie has come out post 9 -11, which I think you can see a lot in the blue tint of the film. If you guys look at color theory, and we're not going to talk about color theory too much about this because the movie is so wild, but if you look at movies that come out directly after 9 -11, there is this very odd bluish tint to a lot of them. I think in my heart, like when I've done research about this and what I've viewed from it as well, is when you're watching films like this, I think it's because it kind of portrays this surreal sadness that everyone was feeling. Kind of like when you look at films made in that time that are set in the Middle East, they film everything with this yellowish tint to make it seem more like third world. So I thought the bluish tint of this movie was so insane, especially having it be set in New York. Then when I was doing some research about the film, this movie was actually supposed to be released in 2002, but it didn't get released until 2003 because there were actual sniper attacks in DC that delayed the release of this film because this movie is about a sniper terrorizing a man in a phone booth. Like I said, first time seeing it and the character of Colin Farrell reminded me of the character from Fast Timer at Ridgemont High that was selling the tickets. They mimicked each other. I was sitting there going, wait, I'm expecting Spicoli to walk out any second. I mean, they were just to the T, the exact same character. I was like, whoa, what's going on here? Yeah. I think that character is such a classic archetype of asshole. I think that was the point. Colin Farrell is this publicist. He's a liar, he's a slick talker, he's a fast talker, he dresses well, he uses people, he manipulates people, he doesn't care, he's all about himself. We see this in the way that he treats his assistant. We see this in the way that he treats one of his clients, which was an uncredited Ben Foster. I was losing my mind when I saw that. I was like, Ben Foster, what are you doing here? Then he manipulates the owner of a restaurant. He smooth talks this client that he has that wants to be an actress. It's Katie Holmes, she's a waitress. Then he even smooth talks his wife into being like in the beginning when he's not confessing his crimes. So this movie is so insane and I do not want to rag too hard on this movie because it was a user suggestion. But the plot points made to me legitimately no sense. So the pacing of this movie is incredibly fast. It's only an hour 20 and I swear to God, if this movie was longer, I would be like, Keith or Sutherland, shoot me because I can't handle it. So obviously, Stu goes into the phone booth to call his mistress because his wife tracks the phone calls that he makes on his cell phone. Which I was like, first of all, if you're keeping tabs on like your, you don't do that unless you don't trust your husband automatically. Then it comes out later in the film that they've only been together for three years married for one. So they're very new in their relationship. So Colin Farrell goes in to make a phone call to Katie Holmes. You can see he's trying to be slimy and she's rebuffing him. She's like, no, I have work, I have this. He's like, well, let's do this. He takes his wedding ring off. Very just much not a nice guy. Then that phone call ends and the phone starts ringing so he picks it up and on the phone, dun, dun, dun, is Keith or Sutherland's voice. He starts terrorizing him and being like, you can't leave this phone booth. If you leave this phone booth, you're going to die. A pizza man comes up to him and tries to deliver a pizza to him and he's like, you're a dick, I didn't order a pizza. Who orders a pizza to a phone booth? We have this other sub -storyline of sex workers, which to me was the most pointless storyline. I get the point of the storyline. So we have to have him have this interaction with these sex workers to then get their bouncer involved, to then have Keith or Sutherland kill the bouncer and frame Colin Farrell for it. Which first of all, makes no sense because you can see the bullet marks on the outside of the phone booth. So how is he shooting? How is he shooting? How could he shoot? That makes no sense. Then everyone's like, he killed him. It's like, no, he didn't. So this sub -storyline is so insane because first of all, it's like 2003, so you either have a beeper or a cell phone or you're using this phone booth. If all these girls work in this club, that's right across the street where this bouncer is, that Leon, that they get involved, why can't they just use the phone in the club? Why are they terrorizing Colin Farrell? He's just like, let me use the phone and then they're all screaming. I thought it was such a weak portrayal too, such a cop -out portrayal of sex workers. Like very, I don't know, just like what you would think of when you think of a man -written sex worker. Just loud, brash, unkempt, very, do you know what I'm trying to say? Yes, I'm a street kid. So yeah, I hung around with the prostitutes and drug addicts and drug dealers. So I totally got it. I mean, I saw people that did act like that, but those are the ones that were really hooked on drugs and were just like, half the time when they were acting like that, they were on something. It wasn't like a normal way for them to behave. Most people don't want to draw attention to themselves because they don't want the cops on their ass. Exactly. So this dude dies and Kether Sutherland is like, look what you made me do. Actually, he's like, you had me kill him. The guy was like, no, I just want this to end. So Kether Sutherland is, in his own mind, a pioneer of justice. Entrapping these men that he watches somehow, he watches and listens and convinces them that they're either going to die or confess to their crimes. So the two examples of the people that he has done this to before, I view are actual bad people. We have a director of adult films who actually directs child pornography and is a pedophile. So I'm like, okay, deserves to die. Then we have another man who's an insider trader on Wall Street. I mean, you don't have to die for that, but it is like a real crime. Then we get to Colin Farrell, whose crime is wanting to cheat on his wife and being an asshole. So to me, none of these make sense. The first two, kind of get. The third, Colin Farrell, not at all. I get it because they're trying to make him more likable. We have to be on Colin Farrell's side, right? So if he's a real criminal, we're not going to be on his side. I wasn't on his side. But you know what I'm saying? He's our protagonist. So we can't have our protagonist be as awful. But at the same point, it's like, well, then maybe you should have just had him kill adulterers because this makes no sense. So he, in his mind, Keither Sutherland, is this vigilante that is cleaning up the streets in New York because he wants people to atone and commit their crimes. So he's holding Colin Farrell hostage. Forest Whitaker comes in. He's trying to negotiate with Colin Farrell. He thinks he killed this guy. He's like, let me help you, let me help you. Up until this point, they think he's armed and dangerous. It is not until Colin Farrell's wife, Kelly Rahada Mitchell, comes in, which for some reason in 2003, you can just run through police barricades and just be like, I'm his wife, run through police barricades, and then be on the front line with the cops. I'm sorry, that never happened. No, not at all. No, they would have her pushed to the side. She would not be in a hostage negotiation. It wouldn't happen. She would not be front and center to the point where he can put a mark on her. So then we see that Forest Whitaker kind of actually comes around to see that Colin Farrell is being terrorized. He is not doing this of his own free volition. He sees the little target on Rahada Mitchell and he's like, oh, OK, maybe this guy is like real. So then they start looking for him. They're like, OK, we're going to find him. We're going to find him. Colin Farrell's delaying him. And the guys and then obviously Colin Farrell comes clean. He's like, OK, I'll come clean. Like, I don't want to die. I don't want my wife to die. I don't want this girl who I want to be my mistress to die. So he confesses all his sins of being an asshole, which everyone's like, OK, you're a dick, whatever you're holding up the street. We got half the police force here. What? And then obviously when they think that they kill the killer, when they think that they kill Keither Sutherland because they go up to the apartment where they trace the call from, it is actually, plot twist, the pizza boy. And it's like, OK, so he's killed Keither Sutherland for this one person. Two people just sacrifice them for no reason to get this guy to confess that he's a slimeball. Feel like we could have done this a different way. And then so then another so we're going to get to all the insane points. But this is the end of the story. And this is the last insane point. Or one of them is that Colin Farrell is now alone in the ambulance. They put something in to make him fall asleep. So he's all loopy. He's all daisy. And then active crime scene in an ambulance. Keither Sutherland walks up and just starts talking to him just like, oh, like you passed the test. You did it right. Like what happens? Like and OK, so he's like talking to him like, oh, you did the right thing. You did the right thing. And Colin Farrell is like, what the fuck? I thought we killed you. And then he walks away. And the last thing he says, which I think is legitimately the stupidest thing. And if this is the point of the movie, it is the dumbest point when he goes, well, if a phone rings, do you have to answer it? I would say no. I would say no. And that is the last line of the film. And then it goes into this like ringing sound, goes all the way out into the satellite shot, goes to black, and then you hear another person pick up and say hello. So it's like obviously this is like a cycle for him. But the way that he picks his victims is makes no sense to me. Yeah, no. And if a phone rings, you don't have to answer. You don't have to answer it. Look at all the things like when a stranger calls bad. They picked up the phone, bad tidings, scream, scream, picked up the phone. Bad tidings. No, you don't have to pick up the phone, especially like if you don't know who the person is. Hang up, hang up. And I did think at some points the voice that Keith or Sutherland used did sound like the ghost face voice, like to the point where I was like, do they have the same voice actor? Is this even even Kiefer Sutherland? Like I was like, this movie is so bad. So I thought a lot. So let's talk about Keith or Sutherland's character. And I obviously am not a fan of this movie, but I thought the way that he was poorly written was like they were trying to make him like John Doe from seven, kind of this vigilante who lives by his own rules, has his own code of justice and kind of is enacting on that code of justice and terrorizing these people. I think in seven it is done much better with an actual point, with an. We have fully fledged characters. We have reasons that make sense in this. We have no back story. We don't know what he why or why he's doing this now. And you think you think they're given a back story when he when he's talking to about Nam and stuff and he's like, are you stupid? I'd be 70. Like and like I'm like, so who are you? Why are you doing this? Well, what is your point? I mean, did you just one day wake up and say, hey, you know what? I'm just going to execute people I feel are bad. I mean, and that's your concept of bad. And your concept of bad is another person's concept of good. I mean, it's like when people go to war. Yeah. The countries fight, but each country thinks they're right. Of course, there's a right and a wrong. But both countries think that they are the right ones. Of course. And the only one that actually like comes out to be the right one is the one that wins, is the one that wins. And I would say in this movie, no one wins now because everyone's motivations make absolutely no sense. I would say the only motivations that make sense is Forest Whitaker's, because he's literally just trying to do his job. Yeah. And then like I was watching when he's his his rapper talent comes on and I was like, what the hell is this, Malibu's Most Wanted? Oh, my God, I thought the same thing. I was like, why are we watching Malibu's Most Wanted? I was like, this is this is this. And then it looked really bad because they get these two big black guys and this little tiny white guy. And he looked terrified to be around the black. And I was like, this is so stereotyping. This is awful right here. It is awful. It was so stereotypical. It was like someone just kind of grabbed at archetypes that they see in pop culture and was like, yeah, we'll throw this in the film. So I also thought the film was shot horrendously. There is it felt like it wanted to be a Tony Scott film, which RIP Tony Scott, I love your films. But it had this kind of like shaky camera. We're switching in and out of views of like like digital versus like these split screens versus like this like granule kind of like VHS effect. And I was like we're like fast paced moving through the city. And I was like, this movie makes no sense at any point. Did this movie make any sense? It does not. No. Like I said, I thought the character was the guy from a fast time at Ridgemont High.
Game Dev Unchained
A highlight from 0331: Making Lucid with Eric Manahan
"What's up everybody, welcome to another episode of Game Dev Unchained, the number one game development podcast about game development and the lifestyle thereof. I am your host Brandon Pham and with me a special guest, Eric Manahan. Oh, look, did I do it? Perfect. Yeah. All right, man. So this part of the podcast where I let our guests, which is yourself, to introduce yourself to our listeners and viewers out there of where you are, where you're heading, where you've been in the past, you know, all that good stuff. Just a little synopsis. Okay. I can do that. I think you can do that. As you said, I'm Eric Manahan. I am essentially, I'm the Matt Black Studio. I'm making a game called Lucid. It's a love letter to my childhood gaming experiences. Like those, I don't know, like the SNES era, like 32 -bit era kind of platforming Metroidvania. I've been affectionately calling it the world's first celestoidvania because of the heavy Celeste influence. But yeah, I've been doing game dev as a hobby for, I don't know, for like 10 years. I used to be an architect and I was doing it then as like a hobby and architecture sucks the soul out of every living thing in a 10 -mile radius. So I was really not enjoying it. And yeah, my little side project, my little bedroom project, Lucid started picking up some steam with support from my fiance. She was just like, go for it. She helped me pull the trigger. And a few years later, we're talking to you, Brandon. Geez. All right. What a journey. Believe it or not, you're like kind of my second architect -turned -developer. Get out of here. It was a good friend back at Turtle Rock, but his entry was back in Valve and Half -Life where they were very open to other disciplines coming in, one of the first, right, 20 years ago. And he ended up working on Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2. But yeah, I mean, that's actually an amazing journey. So that understanding you went through the schooling, college route, dedicated a good portion of your adult life to architecture. So when exactly did you feel, is it just like the industry started like, hey, this is not exactly how I felt it would be? Pretty much. Yeah, man. Yeah, I went to school for the five -year program. For anyone that cares architecture, you either have to do like four -year, then go back and take a test or you go to a five -year program, you don't have to take some tests. So I did that. And the schooling portion was awesome. I love the concepts, the design, it teaches you how to like think about traversing through spaces and color and shape, all that fun stuff. And that was awesome. I really loved that. Then you enter the workforce and then it changes because then you have to deal with like clientele. And I happened to stumble into a high -end residential in New York City. And there is a very specific kind of person that you deal with a lot. And it was just kind of oil and water. My personality just really didn't buy it. And I just always felt wrong and out of place. I met some like really cool people, like coworkers, but for the vast majority of my experience it was pretty, pretty miserable. So yeah, I fell out of love and I tried to, I was like, I'm going to, I'm going to like this and I tried to for the longest time and it just never worked. How many years did you? About 10 plus -ish, like give or take with like interns and stuff. That is a sentence. I can totally relate to that. I mean, longtime listeners know kind of my story, but as a background, I always felt it doesn't matter what industry. I think as a creative, I think back my college years were the most fun in terms of the purity of it. It's like the art, you know, just making a game. But going into the industry, it's like you said, you know, the, the political side of things and it became less as you climb the ladder, it become less and less about the art. It becomes managing a lot of people, right. Dealing with a lot of people. And the funny thing is, yeah. And, but like we found like really lifelong friends as well, right. The guys in the trenches are good, but like, yeah, anything outside of that was, was very deterring for, of our creative output. So it was a very similar journey. And a lot of people, I think in AAA have the same exact feeling. I, a lot of what you see in, in games is that a return to more indie, more side projects, hustles, smaller teams, you know, just. Yeah. It's like less, a little more like honed in creative vision, a team of, I've been doing my very best to work with people I, a like are super talented and I respect and, but on the secondary, secondary, but first just get along with and can like hold a conversation and just enjoy being around. That was a big, big priority to the little team that I've been developing behind the scenes. All right. Let's get into the, the heart of it, man. We're talking about, you know, the passion project. So when exactly did you start tinkering? I mean, similar, you know, I'm guessing with architecting, well, different, completely different tool sets, right. But like, really, are you guys using the same Maya Mac? I thought you had like your own, like it was AutoCAD or like, my bad tool sets, like literal tool sets. Yeah. Sometimes I know of the one I'm using for the game I'm making. You're right. Like very different tool sets. But I've seen, I've seen Maya used in architecture. I've seen like Rhino, Maya, 3D Max, but yeah, I'm a, I'm a 2D guy. Okay. Oh, you're the straight up sketch guy. Oh my God. Even more impressive. So you're just hand drafting these blueprints? Oh, they started sketches and then I turned them into tiny little pixels. I pushed pixels all day. Okay. So when you started to kind of rediscover yourself, right. Explain to the good people, what exactly this hobby festered like into... Good question. It actually started in studio. Studio is kind of your architecture in school. That's like your main class. You care a lot about studio. You live in studio, actually. You have no social life as an architecture student. And it was late, I think it was like maybe my last year or second to last year, but it was super late at night, like three in the morning and I was trying to rush to a deadline and I was like burnt out and I was like, I need to take a break. And I start reading some articles on Destructoid and I stumbled upon an article about a demo to this little pixely Metroidvania game called Iconoclasts. And it was like this alpha build of this game I've never heard of and it looked gorgeous and I played it. I'm like, oh my God, this is awesome. And I read the article further, it's made by one guy. I'm like, get out of here.
WTOP
"colored" Discussed on WTOP
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Fertile Ground
"colored" Discussed on Fertile Ground
"These resources so that you can get active with your journey. And again, you know, our goal being to keep the conversation going. You know, we have to keep the conversation going. We have to keep each other encouraged, to keep each other engaged. Because as large as this fight is, I still feel like it's only taking up a small corner of the room. And I want it to expand. And I wanted to be known and to have that lens of visibility where people know. This is an impacting factor for women and especially for women of color. So we're going to get that done. Any final thoughts that you have for our listeners or that you want to share? Yeah, I think just a couple of things. One, for those who are in need of a book resources, a book resource I have a book that's entitled hold on to hope stories of black women's faith fertility and fight to become mothers. If you're interested, you can get that at doctor Stacey L Edwards done. Dot com. I believe that it will bless you. It has 28 stories of black women and couples who have experienced infertility, different causes of infertility and also chose a different path to become parents. It has a section on about marriage and relationships and informational. It has a glossary so that you will understand the language when you walk this fertility journey. It has a faith sex faith section. It's just a really awesome book. And so if you would like to get it again, check out my website for that. And then finally, I think for closing words, I just want you to know that you are not alone. This is a very tough journey, but no there is a village of women in the name of fertility for colored girls and I should say men and women infertility for color girls, both married and unmarried who are here to support you. You do not have to hold up the sky alone. But we are here for you to walk with you to make sure that you have the tools that you need to navigate this journey, but also to support you and to encourage you as you go on this journey. We get it. And so again, if you need anything, please reach out to us. We would love to support you. And if you want to be a parent, I encourage you to go for it. Don't let anything stop you. And you need to begin to access help now. Get you some go see a doctor because oftentimes black women and couples, we take our time, our sweet time to go to the doctors, go now. Don't wait any longer. Go see a doctor and get the support that you need. So that you can be the parent that you believe that God has called you to be. Well, thank you. Thank you so much for every doctor Stacy. I appreciate you joining the show today. I know my listeners are going to be super excited just as much as I am. To hear this show and to all my fertile ground listeners, remember this is real talk, real discussion with real women about a real issue that is impacting us. So make sure that you continue to follow the podcast wherever you get your podcasts, follow us at fertile ground podcast. And if you're looking for resources for women who are expecting, please make sure you're following us as we go on Instagram and our Facebook communities. Again, thank you, thank you so much. I appreciate it. And I will see you guys next time. Yes. Yes, yes, yes, yes. What an amazing interview. It was just awesome to listen back to it and just to be able to hear her story again her talk about her twins and just her journey with the infertility and reproductive fertility process. And how she was successful. I love everything about her. I think that she is just a positive force in the world of infertility. And I admire what her organization is doing. I can only hope that fertile ground can continue to advocate in the advocate in the same way and that we can bring resources to women and to just continue to push forward the conversation on infertility, break down those barriers so we can heal some hearts. That is my goal. All right y'all, that's it for this episode. Make sure you go out and follow our Facebook page and our Instagram at underscore fertile ground podcast. Be sure to tune in. We've got motivational inspirational stuff out there all the time. I'm so, so, so happy to see this growing and you guys are listening. Please share this with those that you know. I love you. Stay safe until next Sunday. When we're gonna be talking about miscarriage. Whether you had one or whether you don't know, you've had one. We're gonna talk about all of that next week. So make sure y'all keep fighting and tune in next Sunday to fertile ground. Have a good one. Sunsets. Bye bye. Take a picture in my life a little longer game yeah you can do this while I walk away and I'm not coming back to you 'cause baby we love you spend too long thinking about the way you dreaming boy we brought it just to damn I guess you think that I'm a toy to play with you but baby I am through. I walked by and don't you want me baby say goodbye say goodbye now I want my body..
Fertile Ground
"colored" Discussed on Fertile Ground
"So that they can live out their purpose here on earth. Absolutely. Yes, I did. And I was hoping that you were going to share that because I knew that that would be an inspiration for a lot of women who are listening. You know, I turn 40 this year and my goal is still to continue my journey to bring my family to fruition. My husband, he doesn't have any biological children. And it is our goal and our wish to make that happen. And you know, it's funny that you talk about, you know, how God will prepare you because before we started our infertility journey, my husband always, he always says, you know, it is amazing, you know, God is so amazing because, you know, look at all the things that have to line up just perfectly in order for a child to even get here, you know? Things have to happen in your body. You have to contribute this. I have to contribute, and we have to come together perfectly in order to make a child. And I feel like that it is no accident. It is no accident that tomorrow is an accident. It's not the guy says that it's for you, it is. And we can always tell when God is moving because we always make a joke about our life, you know? And say, well, there's too much like right, you know? It doesn't happen, you know, it's too much like right. You know, but at the same time, we see guys shifted moving our lives where, you know, we are in this point of our lives where things are happening, our businesses are moving. We're staying for what progress. We are changing and growing, you know, our daughter is in college and, you know, we're getting to a point where we are stabilizing. That's a family. And I told my husband, I say, you know, that could be the case, is that, you know, when God is ready for it to happen, you know, we remain diligent. And when he's ready to move, he will move. On our behalf, just like he does with everything else that happens in our life, you know? So I just feel like that is true encouragement for my listeners to understand that, you know, one, your journey is never going to be like anyone else's. You know, my journey, your journey, whatever point or stage that you're at in your journey, it belongs to you. No one can tell you about what that is. If you're young or whether you're getting into your late 30s or 40s, you know, doctors do not have the final say on what happens to you. And I think that that's something else, you know, or for women to understand and to know is to be encouraged, you know, just because, you know, I've been diagnosed with unexplained infertility, but that doesn't mean that you can't get pregnant. That's not a death sentence to your pregnancy. That just means that they don't quite understand what, why the factors are not aligning to get you there. In a good doctor will help you to figure that out. I think that that's what happened with me. And by the time I made it to, that's why the 6th cycle worked because I had the by the time I got to my one, two, three, fourth doctor. She said something is not right. Yeah. And she said, you know, I want to do some exploratory work and figure it out what's going on. And she did. Exactly. What other doctors were not able to tell me. She was able to figure it out because she took the time to do so. And so it's very important for those who are listening to make sure that you do have a good doctor, that those the doctors that you're working with that your soul as well with it, right? That their partnering up with you in your treatment protocols and they're listening to you. If you don't feel listened to and something in your spirit feels funny about that, there are so many other doctors out here. So, you know, listen to your spirit, listen to your body and what it's telling you while you're walking the journey because your body speaks our body speaks to us. And so really listen as you know, and that's not just with reproductive health doctors. You know, just make sure that you're listening, advocating for yourself and know that you deserve to be listened to when you go in to see a doctor. Exactly. And I talked about that on my last show is that, you know, me and my last guest, we kind of got into the subject of making sure that you find a doctor that is for you, you know, the doctor that believes in what you want just as much as you do, who is willing to go above and beyond or your cause and go to bat for you when it comes to your infertility. And I think that that alone, you know, seeking that out, you know, having a Doctor Who wants to seek out. What is it? Let me try to put my hands around it because I want you to have this more than you do. So you need to make sure that if it takes you going through 5 or 6, you know, especially as black women because I know that even in my circle, you know, we're starting to become a little bit more engaged with the type of obi that we have, the type of primary care doctor that we have. We'll go through three or four. I know I will. I don't feel like, you know, I'm getting what I need. I will move to something else. So that's important advice, ladies, to take, and to make sure that you are just as actively engaged in your journey with infertility as your physician is. That's important. We just do it a webinar last week with it was about 15 African American doctors. We celebrated doctors and they also answered some questions that women and couples had. And for those who are listening, you can check out fertility for code girls, Facebook page, as well as our Instagram page, and here that webinar, we premiered it last night. And it's just some really great information. And it was also, of course, beautiful to see all of these African American doctors reproductive endocrinologists and urologists who were sharing this information. And black reproductive endocrinologists only make up 3%, 3% of reproductive endocrinologists. And so we were blessed to have about and that's only about 40 of them. If that they are beginning, there are more in medical school now who are seeking to come fertility specialists, but they're very few to come by. And so, but if you go on both our website, YouTube as well as Instagram and Facebook, you can be able to see some of those doctors. One, which is in Charlotte, doctor matrika Johnson. She's in Charlotte. She just opened up her own clinic. And that's another thing. There's only few African American doctors that have their own fertility clinic. And you guys, those who are in Charlotte in particular are doctor matrika Johnson, who we love so much. We will definitely be reaching out to her. She's awesome. And so check her out when you get an opportunity. Absolutely. And you guys see a down below if you're watching or if not, then let me say it again that you can visit fertility for color girls dot org. You can find them.
Fertile Ground
"colored" Discussed on Fertile Ground
"Don't really want to start the conversation. They don't really want to engage because, you know, for whatever reason, I mean, if you, if you're dealing with infertility, then you know how ostracizing it can be. So, you know, a lot of women from what they're telling me, you know, there's like, well, you know, I didn't really talk about it or, you know, well, I had a child, you know, I have a child now. So, you know, I don't think that's what it is. I don't think that couldn't happen to me, you know, sort of mentality. So that's what I'm hoping to break, you know, I'm hoping to break that barrier down that conversation so that women have more access to organizations like fertility for color girls so that they can strengthen themselves and that area. And get out because there are things that you can do, you know, obviously, you know, reproductive assistance is there, you know, I'm all about, you know, maintaining your faith and what God has for you. I've had two children myself, you know, my daughter is getting ready to be 20 and I lost my son at 5 months to sids in 2004. So, you know, when you've had a couple of kids, you know, and then kind of years down the road, you know, you're in this. It makes it difficult for your mind to try to process exactly why this is happening to you. That's right. And there are multiple reasons. You know, there are a lot of different factors. And I like you was diagnosed with unexplained infertility as well. And that in itself is frustrating, you know? Because they can't really point to one particular thing, you know? So you have to kind of keep your faith, but at the same time, you have to look out for these resources that can help you once they encouraged and to help you figure out what you need to do next. Yes, certainly. I think that one of the places that we as a community, particularly black women and black women and men who say we are Christians get things messed up is that we say God is going to do it. And God is going to do some things, but God also requires some things of us to do. And so in God, in praying to God and then trusting in God God provides us with resources that we can lean into to help us to navigate our journeys. And so that's why God gives us doctors. Yes. God gives us organizations, people. Because people become, you know, as scripture says you never know what people when you're entertaining angels. And so people become angels and messengers of God. And so it becomes essential that even as people of faith that we become discerning, as we're seeking to listen to God, what God is calling us to do and needs us to do so that we can accomplish that what you got is accomplished needs us to want this to accomplish in our life and also so that we can become parents. I think that's so, so important. We can't just sit back and just say, okay, God is going to do it. We're going to do it, but got faith without works is dead. And closed mouths don't get fed. Open our mouths, advocate for ourselves. And we have to do some work as well. Even as much as it may hurt us. Because even with all of the pressure and the pain, the reality is, there's no beautiful diamond comes forth without some pressure. And so we have to undergo some pressure in each and every aspect of our lives and even within fertility to be prepared because I think the pressure, the challenging that challenges that we experience in infertility, the reality is for me, it prepares us. It proves us. It gets us ready for the assignment that God has for us. I know for myself, in as much as I want to have a baby at 37, the reality is, is that in a year for it, you know, I wanted it so bad. I know, as I look back on my journey, I wasn't ready at 37. And so one thing I didn't share is that at 43, I did have my first child after my 7th in vitro cycle, the lord blessed us, and I understand now as I look back what God was doing. The gift and my daughter, there was no way I could have been prepared for her at 37. She is called to do because this is a calling, I believe. And assignment just isn't for us, it's for this life that is coming that has a huge purpose in this work. So everything has to be lined up when the time comes because when the child comes, it's a reason why this child is entering into the universe because God has a great assignment for them. I should also share with the audience really quickly that my infertility journey. One thing about infertility, it really, in a sense, it doesn't stop. You know, it kind of holds onto you grips you and especially if you desire to be become a parent again. And I never only wanted one child, right? And so I grew up in a house of 5. And I was the youngest. And so in some ways, I wasn't only child because my siblings were older than me. But I wanted to make sure, and then also as a pastor, I see so many people that are only children who have lost parents or don't have anyone. So I never wanted my daughter to have to, you know, grow up like this. And so we had moved forward and I had a few failed frozen transfers, but just this year, I don't know if you know, you may know, but just last year in 2021, I gave birth to twins at 50 years old, identical girls that I would never thought that I would be a pair of twins. Frozen transfer, the embryo split. And God's all fit to assign us these two beautiful little girls that we feel so honored to be parents of. And so one thing I've also learned on this journey is that the God does everything well and perfect in God's time. And so it was the perfect timing for them to come forward. And so even though others may be like, oh, she's 50, you know, what's she going to do? You know, God does everything perfect and well. God knows what God is doing. And my journey may not be somebody else's journey. The journey that God is called us to, and there's a reason again why God has called us to be the parents of these three beautiful miracle children. And I feel very honored. And I know that when God gives something or calls us to something God makes provision for it. And so I'm not worried about any of those things and factors that people try to grow up. But I believe God is going to make provision. God is going to make sure I'm around long enough and I have the health that I'm healthy enough to care for them and the energy to do whatever I need to do.
Fertile Ground
"colored" Discussed on Fertile Ground
"And I founded it in March of 2013 and I had just actually just finished my 6th in vitro cycle and first it was the first cycle that was I got a positive beta for and a few weeks later I would find out that pregnancy test was negative. So I was in a very, it was a very fresh it was a very raw tie. I was very raw in the midst of that, but God still had me bring Burke give birth to something that God knew would be was going to be would make an impact to women and couples all over this world. And so I started filter leaf color goes to 2013 and our mission is to provide fertility to provide educational awareness support and encouragement for black women couples who struggle with infertility miscarriage and loss. We were the first organization of our kind and still really are the first organization of our kind to do the grassroots work. To meet physically, not just meet on social media, but to also have physical programming, all of this country, and to provide grants, but also to be to target black women in couples. You know, we're not an exclusive organization because we do realize that other women of all ethnicity struggle with infertility, but is to raise awareness and educate black women and couples. So in 2013, when I launched fertility for color girls, my thought was that we would be in Chicago. Little did I know 9 years later that we would be the African American organization for black women couples who struggle with infertility. So we declare ourselves to be that as we have 16 locations all over this country. And we are still growing by leaps and bounds. And so we're 15 states 16 what we have 16 locations where we have support groups that meet in each one of those locations. Hopefully right now they're meeting virtually due to the pandemic if we were not in the pandemic, we would meet physically face to face because I believe there is something about physical touch and being in the physical presence of a people. And so, but now we really have no choice. But there's been a blessing as much as COVID has been a burden. I think there's been a blessing because it has helped us to extend our reach. Yes. Competition to that. Those support group meetings. We also provide educational programs to women and couples about the variety of topics that may impact one who is struggling with infertility. We also we have relationships with doctors all over the country and each state that we're in, we have doctors that we vet to ensure that they're going to care for our women couples rightly if we in turn say if someone calls us for a recommendation, we provide them a list and say these are the people that we have vetted. They're going to take care of you. And if you choose one, we have a contact person within the clinic who will walk you through. And we do the because we know there's so much distrust within the community. We have been blessed to have to build these relationships with many a doctors. And every state that we're in, we have them, but also in states that we're not in currently, we also have relationships there. In addition to that, we have prayer circles every Monday morning. So we join on Monday mornings at 7 a.m. central 8 a.m. eastern for prayer to pray for each other. Regardless of where we are on this journey, it's a safe space where we share our program concerns and praise reports. We've seen God move on behalf of women. From, you know, babies being born to not just through in vitro or IUI or naturally, but, you know, people using surrogates, people, babies being placed via adoption. And so we've seen what we've seen people be healed as a result, you know, when they go experience miscarriages and feel fearful about moving forward. So we've seen, as a result of our prayer time together, women's faith be strengthened, their mental and spiritual and emotional well-being also become stronger so that they can take the next leap of faith forward to move forward and build their family. So we've seen we've seen God really move on the behalf of our women and I think that that prayer call has been also a source of encouragement because women are able to hear other women who have walked a fertility journey who have overcome some of them have now have children and they're able to tell their story to the women on the call and say if God has ever for me God can do it for you. In addition to that, we buddy women up on the journey. And so if people are going through in vitro, we have cycling buddies. Women are looking for surrogates. I have a group of women who have used surrogates that walk with those women. So women who have adopted whether through foster care or domestic adoption, we have a group of women to walk with those women. As well. We also provide grants as each year we have what's called a gift of hope grants. And so every year, usually in August, well, actually in May, we release our application in August, we provide those grants and we usually give between 50 and $75,000 a year. To those to women and couples who will indeed be the awardees of the grant. I would say currently what we do because of our relationships with folks in the community, fertility clinics, we have been blessed also for them to pour into us. And so actually, last year, as well as this year, we've had one of our partners gave us $50,000 in treatment. And so we made four in vitro cycles, warm freezing, egg freezing, cycle away, and this year they've given us another which we will be sharing information more about that. And we have another fertility clinic that has done the same thing. So between these two fertility clinics, we received a $100,000 so that we can give away treatment to women and couples, particularly black women and couples who are struggling with infertility and don't have the wherewithal to move forward. Right. Well, those are some of the things that we do as an organization and that's who we are. That is amazing. That is amazing. And I knew that, you know, the majority of that, just kind of taking the look at your website and looking at what you're doing. As I'm kind of coming in contact with a lot of women of color, you know, that seems to be the running theme that most women really don't know where to begin. And even if they do, they.
Fertile Ground
"colored" Discussed on Fertile Ground
"Can you hear me? I can hear you. Can you hear me? Hi. I can. How are you? I'm good. Thank you. Good. Oh, I'm so excited that you were able to come on and talk with me. Oh, excited. I may have to go to a lot of light behind me today. Go down. It's bright out here today. Where are you actually located? Chicago. Oh. Okay. I'm down in Charlotte. Oh, are you? Yeah. Yeah, we have a chapter in Charlotte. Excellent. Well, I will definitely have to connect with that. Yep. All right, that's a little bit better my hair so wild today. Well, thank you. I appreciate you taking the time. I just wanted to talk with you and kind of find out a little bit more about your organization and a little bit about, you know, kind of what Laura kind of know a little bit about, you know, how your organization started. I've done my homework a little bit. So before you joined, I was kind of telling my listeners a little bit about who you are and about what you've been doing and how I found out about you, I was watching the PBS special. My husband and I and I just, I just fell in love with it. Because it's so much a part of what I'm trying to do. So I'll tell you a little bit about me and then I would love to hear all about you. Hey, your story. So myself. So I am CEO of a company called sweet pea chic baby box company. And I started that a few years ago and basically what that is is a subscription baby box company that provides essential items to women who are expecting. So thank you. So then that kind of branch off and kind of became an umbrella company because I am an infertility survivor myself. I have had four miscarriages and three ectopic pregnancies. One of which is currently coming to an end at this point. It's been a long road. It's been a long road, it really has over the last decade. For my husband and I just dealing with this and trying to educate ourselves on all of this. So that journey spawned fertile ground. And what I want to try to accomplish with fertile ground is to create a resource community and network for women who are battling infertility. I want to, which kind of spawned my next venture, which is the fertile ground foundation coming this spring where I just, you know, I want to focus on the conversation piece. I want to focus on getting women comfortable with having the conversation around infertility and giving them kind of a resource network where they can come and engage where they can be uplifted, where they can't find out about how to deal with it. Looking at the mental aspect of infertility from the physical, the emotional aspect and. Trying to and understand how we can move through. The battle of infertility. So that is my ultimate goal and I want to pull as many women that have dealt with this or deal with this now into this walk because obviously through my journey of infertility, I realized how many women are actually suffering. From infertility. And especially how many women of color are suffering from infertility and look at why, why that is. So that's what I am trying to do. So I appreciate you taking the time. I love your foundation. I love what it's about. And I'm hoping that I can help contribute to that cause in any way that I can. So I'm going to open it up to you to tell all the fertile ground listeners who you are. And talk a little bit about what fertility for colored girls is. Thank you. Well, thank you so much for sharing your story and again. I am so sorry for all of your losses. We will continue to keep you in our prayers as you continue to heal and grieve from all you've been through and lean into it as well so that your steps can be ordered. Forward toward your next steps as well as all that God is seeking to do in you and through you as a result of this experience. Again, my name is reverend doctor Stacey Edwards Dunn. And I'm the founding president of fertility for color girls. Also, I serve as the executive pastor at Trinity united church of Christ, one of the largest African American churches in the Chicagoland area, I've been on staff there for 20 years this year. I started my infertility journey where I learned of my infertility journey in 2007. I had just gotten married to my husband with my and we began to move expeditiously to build our family. He had already had children himself. I had none. And so as we move forward, we found out, of course, that we not, of course, we found out that we had some challenges. And we were both diagnosed with male factor infertility at that time, and then also I was diagnosed with unexplained infertility. And upon my diagnosis, I was very surprised because I never thought that I would struggle with infertility because in my mind that was not something that black women dealt with. Which was a myth, which is and was a myth in our community. Yeah. So, and I would find out very differently as I began to move forward on my journey that there were more women dealing with infertility than I thought. And so I would find out through encounters, I would find out, you know, just kind of going to the doctor myself. And I would find out through research because there was no one really for me to talk to because again, no one in my community in our community was really knowing the family, no one in the church. None of my girlfriends were really having this conversation as well. And so as I continue to move through my journey, which ended up being a first part was 7 year journey, I had a mini account encounters with black women and couples and particularly most of them encounters happened in my office at the church. Women and couples were coming to me after miscarriages or they were doing treatment and they had no idea that I was undergoing treatment as well. And so God kept bringing these women and couples to me. And I was, you know, for them, I was the only safe space that they could come to. And talk to. But there was no other space, no other grassroots space or community space where we could go to and talk. And so as a result of my own experiences with infertility because my own experiences and those encounters in 2013, I founded fertility for colored girls here.
Fertile Ground
"colored" Discussed on Fertile Ground
"A short break. And then we'll be right.
Fertile Ground
"colored" Discussed on Fertile Ground
"As we are shifting our conversation. If you've been listening to the show, you know that we've kind of been talking about how infertility has been impacting mental health. And I will post that question to reverend doctor Stacey Edwards done. And ask her what her thoughts are on this. And how it may have impacted her journey as well. But more importantly, looking at statistically, why does infertility impact women of color at such a higher rate than any other cultural group? It's boggling to me. And I'm sure that there are multiple factors that are contributing to that, but I definitely would like to know more. And would like to, from a doctor's perspective, find out what her thoughts are on this. So I am super excited, you know, we have been and we'll be talking about mental health impacts from infertility, all year long. Because as I've said, that's one of the huge, huge barriers. Barrier conversations that I want to break down because most women who deal with infertility aren't in a place where they're comfortable talking about their story, talking about their journey. And then there are those who for fear of what people will think, guilt, shame, you know, are not, you know, just don't know where to start the conversation. Whether that be with their doctors, whether that be with, you know, with their circle with their friends or support system, you know, or they're significant other, you know, that's a conversation as well that I feel like, you know, it can be difficult to have that. Trust me, I know I've been in that arena before. And still in that arena. Where it can be a difficult conversation between you and your significant other to have and just say, you know, accept the fact that yes, we are dealing with this. Yes. We are, this is impacting our lives, and we need to find out what we can do about it. We need to do our research, do your homework and find out what we need to do to battle against this. On my next show that comes out this weekend, you guys will hear me talk with an amazing young lady about ectopic pregnancy. And that is another factor of infertility and another huge, I think another big part of infertility that comes with those same emotions, and a lot of times don't realize how it is impacting. Our health, our mental health, as well as our visible and emotional health. That's when infertility does. It tries to train you. It tries to pull the life out of you. And isolate you, but we're not going to let that happen. We are going to continue to strive to be warriors for this cause. All of you who are out there listening, we are going to continue to fight on the side of women who are battling this condition. And look at ways that we can provide more resources to women, start the conversation with women and help them to get comfortable in a space where they are dealing with it on a day to today basis. Whether that is keeping you encouraged through our online communities, if you're fertile ground, podcast, or through the fertile ground foundation, that's also coming soon. So I am excited about that. Doctor Stacy Edward stem will be joining us in just a minute. And I just can't wait to talk to her. So if you have any questions or concerns or anything that you'd like to pose to us to the community, please make sure you go out and do that. If you have not already joined the fertile ground podcast, Facebook community, please go out and do that. That is a great opportunity for you to get acclimated to get engaged to stay encouraged. Be sure to follow us at the fertile ground podcast Instagram. There it is down below so you can see it there and we will we will work to engage with you and build this community. That's the plan is to build up this community. So we are going to do that just that. So as we wait for doctor Stacy Edwards done, we will take.
Fertile Ground
"colored" Discussed on Fertile Ground
"You should begin to see something. And I'm just speaking this according to my o-b-gyn, do not quote me on this. I am not a medical professional. I'm just telling you what I know based upon what I have dealt with. I've been pregnant 8 times, and I've had three ectopic so quite honestly, I really feel like that I can be a resident expert on this. It's unfortunate, but is that true? So usually around 5 or 5 week 5 or 6, you know, they're looking to maybe hear a heartbeat or either see some type of sign of pregnancy or intrauterine pregnancy. Based upon your HCG numbers. Once your HCG numbers get up around 2000 or over 2000, they're looking to see an intrauterine pregnancy there. And if they do not see it, it's not necessarily doesn't necessarily mean that there's not a pregnancy there. Trust me, I've read enough forums to know that there could absolutely be a pregnancy in there. And it's just too early to tell. But if those numbers are really high and they don't see one in there, then they are going to start trying to treat you possibly for an ectopic pregnancy. So ladies, just look out, you know, while you're on your reproductive health journey, especially if you're going through assisted reproductive health procedures. Just keep an eye out. And I'm sure that they will be monitoring you closely. Your doctors will be monitoring you pretty closely just to make sure that everything is okay and you're not experiencing that. So I continue to be prayerful that I can, you know, I can get out of the ectopic zone. But the unfortunate part of ectopic pregnancy is just like with miscarriages, you know, once you've had one, your risk to have another does increase. So that's just the downside of it. But, you know, it is what it is. We're going to deal with it because we're warriors and we battle through. And that's just what we are. That's just what we do. So, you know, in talking about ectopic pregnancies and just like any other part of infertility, it can be really, really taxing on you. It took me a little bit to get adjusted, you know, with this ectopic pregnancy, it did have some impacts on me emotionally, just the possibility of having to lose another two because I had to have a tube removed due to ectopic last year. And just thinking about the fact that if I had to have a tube removed, I can't get pregnant on my own again was just enough to bring the well, start the well and run it. So that's just what it is. It was difficult at first, you know, I'm keeping it running tally of how many times I've been pricked by a needle over the last two months. I think I'm somewhere up around 21 or 22, something like that. Between hospital visits and just regular HCG number checks is getting ridiculous. But it can really, really do something to your self esteem to your confidence and to your emotional and mental health too, and you have to find ways to bring yourself out of that ladies. You really, really do. You have to redirect those emotions. Lean into your circle, lean into your family, lean into your significant other. You know, find ways to channel that. Because it can be hard some days. You know, I'm not gonna lie to you. It can be hard. It can be difficult. You know, there are days when you just wake up and you just want to cry all day. And then there are days when you feel stronger. And you can get out here and you can take on the world and you can deal with that lady and the Chick-fil-A line who's pregnant. In front of you, or you can deal with that friend who makes the announcement that, oh my God, I'm gonna have a baby. At Christmas, you know, you're strong enough to handle these situations, but when you're in the midst of a bad day, you are just not strong enough. And that's okay. You know, that's perfectly fine. That's perfectly okay. I want you to know that that is okay. Because there are just so many of us. Who feel like it's not, you know? Every day is a bad day. And I'm telling you every day is not a bad day. So, stick with it girl, stick with it, my queens. I'm right there with you as I always say. Now, I want to get into introducing you to this amazing woman who you're getting ready to hear me interview. Reverend doctor Stacy Edwards done, she is the founder of the nonprofit organization fertility for colored girls. They are their mission is to help women and couples of color get resources and support to battle infertility. And that is exactly what she's doing with over 1516 chapters across the U.S. with a chapter that's even here in Charlotte. She has been providing resources and support to women and their families over the last almost decade. And she's just awesome. All the things that she's accomplished. She has an amazing book out. That you have to take have to read your in she'll talk about that in the interview. She's been an educator. She's a pastor. So many things that makes up who she is and you'll hear her talk about that. And you're going to hear her talk about her amazing journey with infertility. And how she found success. So I want to introduce you to this. I hope that you will love it. I hope you'll like it. I hope it will bless your life and you get something out of it. I hope that it puts some hope back in your heart just like it did for me and I will continue to stay in prayer for all my queens because I know that your day is coming. So please, please, please, please take a listen to this interview. And I hope it blesses you. All right, here goes. I am super, super excited to welcome to the show today. Reverend doctor Stacy Edwards done. She is the founder of the fertility for color girls foundation. She is an amazing individual who is going to join us in just a few minutes, but I wanted to take a little bit of time to introduce her to you guys because I really feel like she is one of the reasons why I do what I do. I found out about doctor Stacy when I was watching PBS special on her organization on fertility for color girls. And it was just so amazing to hear her story. It was amazing to hear more about what it is that she does every single day and how far she's come in her own journey. With infertility. So it has been a pleasure to. Get to know her on paper and I'm really excited to get a chance to speak with her today. She's been so gracious as to allow us some time out of her schedule. So that we can meet with her and talk to her and hopefully in the future partner with her on some infertility causes and we can grow the conversation around how infertility impacts women of color, especially here in the United States. So just to tell you a little bit about doctor Stacy Edwards or reverend doctor Stacey Edwards Dunn. Obviously by her title, she is an ordained minister. She is a certified life coach. She has been a teacher for many, many years. She taught reproductive health education. She was a director of community education at Planned Parenthood. I mean, her resume goes on and on. And of course, her organization was inspired by her own journey with infertility. So I'm really excited about that.
Fertile Ground
"colored" Discussed on Fertile Ground
"Good day, ladies and listeners. My queen's welcome back to another episode of fertile ground. I'm your host shemaine pickens. And today we're going to be talking to the founder of fertility for color girls, so let's go..
Enlightened Empaths
"colored" Discussed on Enlightened Empaths
"I'm not a big fan of the drab like olive green. Or oh yeah. I don't i just as it doesn't. It's not a good color. Show my skin tone but it's also not a colored have been really drawn to but one of my sons loves the earth tones loves browns greys olives like those are he he blends into the woods like spectre. It's it's so. But i am not big on browns or a certain brown's if i act was something else so i maybe i need to get grounded or maybe because this all great or greens in general are colors that are are colors about opening your heart and being open to the fluidity of life and all of queen is the beginning of it and it's more of like an increase in fenway. Was the word i'm looking for. All green is more about like grounding this love keeping the slough letting yourself keep it and not you know when you have a cake you don't need to share all the pieces of it just Thing that's that's the message Received more would that make sense denise. You're such a giver early. Does so you. You will use not only with a space that you using color with bet with the people. You blend your intuitive connection in as well when you're doing color reading cult meetings really talk really talos about you know what we're born to be the day you're born is the sole energy you. Kate will color energy. You came with your months that you were born is the challenges that you came here to learn to overcome and then the year you were born represents wear your soul actually wants you to go on your journey but then we intuition is important in this because we have these you know frank. We have this framework of how each color effects us also. We need to see your choices. How did you choose. What did you choose if your your colors in your energies. So it's a. It's inexperienced that i love giving and sharing with people because it just opens their eyes on their talents on. How why. it'll just give them why they feel a certain way why they just have different understanding about colors about their own colors who they are. It's a beautiful experience. What does it say about someone who wears the same color. Like you know how thomas wolf the writer always wore white or steve. Jobs only wore black. What does that reveal about. Someone's personality it. Someone who doesn't care about expressing themselves because they want to do something else their purpose like especially when we're talking about riders Steve jobs he did it. Because he doesn't wanna think about his floats. He just wanted to work. That's what i.
Enlightened Empaths
"colored" Discussed on Enlightened Empaths
"That sounds a little wingnut that in anyway but it was almost like pay attention to and then when i was getting ready to to sell the house of course i went everything off white that now i find myself as i have sold the home in. I'm not thinking of doing that right now. Like integrating the color back in. And it's almost like the house will talk to you if you listen. Yes so this is one of the things i do whenever designing a house Touch the walls. And then i will ask an alaska will house. Would you wanna be missing. And then i'll i'll when. I'm working online with people to do hewing spaces. I will ask them to do the same thing. And see what the house wants. And then see what they want from the house and then we'll find a middle ground and that makes perfect sense because yes it's alive and be not well it is everything is as we said frequency of vibration but it also aligned so basically with your color work. You're connecting with the energy of the space connecting with the energy of the person that's in the space and melding those two together so it's a cohesive. He arranged supportive environment. I love to tell people k look at your room and say okay. What do i want my living room to do and look at what is happening in the house. Like if you're a family do you have a communication problem or challenge do struggle relaxing etc. What are the challenges. Which room do you want. These challenges to be solved in. It's a whole process but it's really really important for us to do to to create that sanctuary for ourselves and it's fun. What does it say about someone. If they have certain colors that they just don't like. Are we supposed to listen to that or should we just accept that. We don't like that color or this color I always tell people the color you hate. The most is the color you need. The most is because these are colored unless hey this is what you need and were repelled by it because we're like no. I'm not gonna do this. I don't wanna do. I don't want to deal with this. Wanna go there. Wow okay so. I don't like a plant purple but i love lilac. Lavender interesting okay. Excellent purple is a color. That is quite shadow we and really about going into the ego and really going into the depths in depth of you know like a really solid layer down and this is why it's really hard for people to to connect with it But i'm assuming your subconscious saying it's time to dive deeper into your fears into the void. Let's let's get you out. Let's get you out on the other side even more and then the lilac is telling you to have faith. Wow that's so cool. I i love light purple but the darker purples. I'd aren't they make e sad. That's interesting yeah. I would definitely do some shadow work. Yeah so i gotta look into the void and need she says. Be careful you look into the void in it. Looks back at you. Couldn't i would have out you. Denise diva color. That just doesn't resonate with you i..
Enlightened Empaths
"colored" Discussed on Enlightened Empaths
"Incredible at. Do you feel that the different frequencies. Because i i agree with you. Everything is frequency and vibration. Do you feel that. An alliance with the shocker system the different colors and what we're meeting at the time it definitely does because again. They're all the same frequency. They're all the But i find in color therapy. There's a bigger expansion on the colors. 'cause you'd have colors. They have more white in them. Colors have more lacking them in than a combination of color so it goes deeper into the frequency of light but the frequency of light is also something that affects us and affects chalker system. Very interesting and in the book. I do have a section of every color. Its meaning It's chocolate connection. Thank you why do you think as a society. We tend to go through color phases in terms of interior decorating like in the seventies. Everybody had avocado green kitchens now. It's all stainless steel or marble. What does that say about the collective conscious. Do you think. I always tell people. Your favorite colors are the colors that you're attracted to shoe would change because that also means that you know you're done with this lesson that you're working on now you're moving to the next one or the next level of it or if you're stuck on one color maybe you need to keep going deeper so the changes of color in society interior Interior design wise. I think it's such a powerful strong thing that means we are evolving. In we are reacting. We are reacting to the environment around us. And i will bring last year for example last year with coded. Everybody went to a shock so everything you saw online started. Becoming neutrals in the beginning is because people wanted something that would neutralize this heavy crazy energy that we all had to deal with because we had to be confined and then after that thing zayed's came up and then you started seeing a steles lilacs really soft colors coming into the pallets of people's houses people's clothes and that's also a response from from our system in what we going like. Okay now we need to walks now. We need to tune and now this year you're seeing more neon brighter. More vivid colors coming up because we spent the end of last year and this year covered faces covered expression covered and the way were reacting. Now is that we are expressing through sean colors. Swick we need to be out. We need to be to be there..
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Books and Boba
"colored" Discussed on Books and Boba
"All unnamed interesting. I do read. I'm sorry yeah so. I don't know like i think about it and i bet all of us have moments where we've gone somewhere else. That's maybe lessened. Some of the internalized feelings that we've had maybe no. Actually i find this whole time chilly. Oh no i mean. I'll i'll speak certainly like oh like i've been great this whole time and honestly yet think it's the experience of yes but not even necessarily like always like being in another country but just even like switching up your location even being where you grew up like in another neighborhood or in like another space. It's like there's something about just like being elsewhere that allows you to really like decide who you actually get to be because it feels like so much especially when you're growing up in this kind of environment. It's like it's like i don't have a choice as far as like who i am calling me gay and doing all this other shit like i like. It's just like i wear is the room for me to actually create that space for myself. so yeah. I wanted to add some context that too. Because this story takes place in canada the narrator grew up in edmonton which is an alburto. Which for those. Who don't know is pretty much the texas of canada. It's a it's oil-based energy economy They're known for their cowboys and ranchers a very rugged culture and interesting thing is the narrator and his girlfriend moved to toronto. Which is the you know. It's essentially like moving from dallas to new york. That's kind of the the the parallel. That's your fun. Canadian packed from your resident canadian resident canadian canadian. I had no idea mickley canadian. Go off i mean thank you for telling. It's like texas of canada. Because when i when i was reading the book i was like where's edmonton so google mapped. It and i was like this. Is the middle of nowhere keep. It's so far north of canada. And i'm like dang must be cold. People actually live here like how comedians not that bad But yeah admitted. There's a little bit. North of calgary in calgary is i've had friends in calgary. I used to go there For their stampede which is their berry texas. Yeah yeah. I like low. Because i used to live in texas for a while like i had friends who were like barrel racers. So when you were like okay. Yeah the radio. Of course this parallels like wild for digital barrel racers. Yeah bell racing. Your horse like goes around the Oh i thought there were like racing in barrels and barrels. More sense was okay but yours is like. I'm terrified of yeah. I don't know it sounds kind of fun. I i sorry my mind canada mixing. There's hope you're not going up like the niagara falls in the bear. Hannah arousing marvin bruce back yeah going back to talking about the fact that there are no character names. Re-re i was curious what you thought about because i know you're very particular about pros and style. What did you think about the way this book was written. I think it was very very clever. Because it's going to mean it's gonna hit differently for for depending on the reader's experience right for me as like assist head person having an unnamed narrator. It's like i'm kind of seeing the world through that narrator right but for people who are reading this book it's like they're reading their own experience. So by having an unnamed protagonist. You're you're giving. I don't want to say like equal footing but I guess like it makes it more home. Like i'm losing losing like my head. You know what. I mean right like you're able to just get into the characters heads more and it's also like how this book explorers language policing and how labels can be restrictive. So having an unnamed character of removes like at least one barrier right. So i thought i thought the That decision was pretty. Clever and also like vivek is a multimedia artist so she does music she does Art and poetry and books. And i know that for her other book. Even this page is white. It also plays with it also plays with aesthetics Most of the text is at the bottom in margins of the book. And it's like a commentary on how oftentimes people of color are pushed to the margins and there is so much space that is created for whiteness. And i like well. So i yeah i mean. I really want to read that book to physically. I need to read all of her books. The happening yeah. So i didn't know. She was a singer songwriter. Until diene when i read the the bio but it makes sense because i mean the narrative parts of this like the novelty parts do kind of like a songwriting kind of approach. It like music where You how when you listen to music. There's no main character right. There's no there are no proper nouns in a lot of songs for the most part. They're there for the listener to interpret ran. That's why you know people relate to taylor swift songs or whatever she's talking about me my thong song about our love story and the way that this book is written invokes those that like that technique where you can put yourself in the shoes of the main characters and because they have no names you can i don i feel like you relate to them more regular more tuned i guess and it makes it easier for you to relate. Yeah about not having. A name is so interesting because like reading the book. I didn't feel like oh. I don't know their names. Like what are the names. I just felt like they just didn't have names. I was like oh whatever and something about. That is just really praying. I think especially when you consider that like for a lot of us. The names that we use or names that we did not ourselves choose they were given to us something about just like not having one just feels like oh you can just truly be whoever. There's there's like a freedom there that recognize until reading it and interestingly to think about what we're talking about earlier with brown and everything having like kind of a default character like series of characters like be brown and kind of like explore what it means to like navigate language policing all these different things. It's just it was such a great normalizing technique that was like. Oh like okay like. We're literally literally not centering whiteness year. That's actually not home.
Books and Boba
"colored" Discussed on Books and Boba
"Been bride like lake. Should that that smith and the narrator dunks on like white dude's a lot right because the only other character named is another way. That was his girlfriend's ex. Oh my god. This whole thing was that guy is like he's mediocre basis. Trashy must be good in bed because there's no other way she be with them right. God you sounded boring. I was whoever listening thing like cheese. Can you personnel the uk. You know more. And i'm like i like vega doesn't flare chicken hauling taken. It could be vegan. And i'm like me anyway. You were making beautiful point. Thanks yeah like and like vivek mentions like oh there. There are the good brown girls right. The the good brown girls who always dress like business casual never like they go to nightclubs but they make sure that nightclubs play bollywood and with the narrator. It's like i'm alternative. Broward brown that Traditional parents don't see as a good match. And you know like circles back to language policing like identity policing and i thought like as a non queer person i could really relate to that. And that's because i'm a person of color. It's amazing how these things intersect right no role. It's just. I have so many thoughts. Oh my gosh. I love everything that yellow saying about language policing and how in a lot of ways. This book kind of showcase that like in a traditional sort of western sense like coming out can almost replicate going from like a like a small caves to a like a slightly bigger cage. It's like there's a socialization process that like especially when you're off color and like intersecting marginalized identities like it can yes representing freedom but like it feels kind of like a trade off like trading something in return and that is not guaranteed that you're going to have volt visibility and like access to community just because you might align yourself with the queer identity i think especially white gays and the situation that probability of that happening is a lot higher so death appreciate that but i wanted to talk specifically about the um what you just said about sort of how the main character kind of came to understand and appreciate his brownish dating his girlfriend and i liked that it kind of like that whole thing yuma. I loved that kind of subverted. This idea of like you have to love yourself before you can love anybody else. I've always kind of struggle with that. And that i understand the intention behind saying that about behind you know like like a sense of like like self worth myself. Understanding in like self-reflection can certainly help you know. I guess presumably a romantic relationship but also to. There's a lot that can be learned from our experiences with other people. We cannot always just by ourselves in solitude like completely figure showed out and be perfect and then it's like okay well ready for love and it's like game that from others to go through. That process is a really beautiful one. In like i think it also is really realistic. Just being like wow like. I really am learning so much about myself. Value in my own like like these shared characters is that we have like it just makes me able to access beauty more readily when i'm looking at myself and thinking of myself and things like that so i just like really loved back because i was like yes. Love yourself period that fact but also to like it's okay to like be sort of like you know an process while we're in these relationships because frankly we're always going to be kind of in process throughout our lives not dislike some golden era. Were like perfect figured out everything like nothing to figure. You're always going to be so so so yeah. Yeah and unlike speaking of love. I think we're able to feel that message. More of like a loving yourself is important but also people who we love can teach us to love ourselves more into to explore ourselves and it's kind of like we have missing puzzle pieces to our identity and the people that we love are able to fill pieces and for us and but to understand that love you have to understand. Hey eat i guess and you see a lot of hate in this in the beginning of this book in the beginning. It's from outside parties. Burt halfway in its very much internalized. In the hate has embedded into the narrators psyche and body and at towards the end of the book. They have dismore via and by dismore fiat. I don't mean the traditional sense seeing yourself as As like fatter than you. You look in the mirror. It's like literally seeing extra limbs and head tails. And i thought that was like i thought that was relatable because i think everybody goes through self loathing at some point and they'll always see like the worst parts of themselves and No matter how much you bury the hurt that buried like the pain inflicted on you. That's still going to be a part of you and it's always gonna like manifest in in ways that other people can't see them. Yeah you know. It's interesting because we the narrator has the community is is teaching him to hate himself at the beginning of the book and yet society demands. And that's kind of what. I feel like the authors telling us then demands that you like alchemist by yourself and become a full fledged person by yourself to them beloved. You know what i mean. It's a weird. It's not like the main character. Hated himself on his own with no communities. So why must you know. Why was he learned to love himself without community. And i think we do that in the real world to. They're like we'll just get over it. Well you know. Just forget about those boy just like move on as if as if it wasn't a powerful social thing you know they're doubt seated that inside of you And then humans are such social creatures so to ask you know like we we we find ourselves in the eyes of other people. We're not singular. I remember when i was traveling. This is like a weird story. That i tell. Sometimes you black traveling so weird stuff. Happy love it but so sometimes you know i was not the gender people assigned me. I was not the race. People decide re assigned me. I was not alive as some people thought i was not alive and it's interesting because Because i was transient. None of those things stuck by where. You're not transient where you're still there. For your whole life the way people sees see you becomes you which is why they leave the author and not the other the protagonist and girlfriend. I can't remember her name. That's why they leave an.
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