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Mark Levin
David McCormick: Bob Casey Jr. Stays Quiet on Philadelphia Looting
"Da Larry Krasner. But bob Casey has been a wall and this is also the result, as you know, of a progressive liberal ideology that wants to defund the police, does not support law and order, puts dangerous felons on the street and uh, and hasn't done anything to stop the fentanyl crisis that's killing people in tensile million around the country. And so this is all coming to a head in our urban centers. Philadelphia is just disgraceful to see. I honestly got bob Casey's always a wall. He's a wall on everything. Um, he's not just not a leader, he's really not a senator. And I'll be honest with you, I can't tell which more senator dim with it. is Fetterman or bob Casey. Now bob Casey supported Fetterman even knowing he wasn't up to the job. Bob Casey is down the line, radical Democrat. He poses as a moderate. His father was moderate. a Bob Casey the son is no moderate. But on a matter like this, when cities in Philadelphia, in our cities, all throughout Pennsylvania are united in their objection to this kind of lawlessness and brutality, and these retail stores now leaving these communities, bob Casey's afraid to speak. So I assume you've challenged him or something or saying, Bob, we can't you? hear
Dateable Podcast
A highlight from S17E5: Should you stay or should you go?
"Hi, I'm Yui Xu and I'm Julie Krafcik. We're active daters turned dating sociologists here to dive into everything modern dating and relationships. Welcome to the dateable podcast. Welcome back, friends. We are you and Julie back for more of love radio on a one point five FM. People are like, am I in the right place right now? That was a good sexy radio voice there. Here to answer all of your love questions. Is this what you do at night at practice? How do you know? Have a side gig? You know, that's what I did. I used to listen to a lot of late night radio in high school because that was kind of our podcast back in the day. Yeah, I was like, does this actually exist? OK, so this is a story I won't like out our friend. This is a mutual friend of ours. I don't think you know the story. She wrote it to Dr. Drew. This is what she was dating her husband at the beginning. And she was unsure about was he ambitious enough? Was he a career driven enough? And she called in the late night radio. They put her on air and heard it. And they were just like, shut the fuck up. Like this guy treats you great. Just get over it. And it helped her move forward. Look, I know she's married to him, so it worked out good for Dr. Drew. I used to give shout outs to boys. I had crushes on on the radio. Did you ever do that? No. I'd be like, is there someone you want to give a shout out to? Dial 1 -800 -da -da -da -da -da -da. So I did that. I remember doing that. There was a guy named Bradley. I was so madly in love with him. And I used to give him shout outs all the time. He didn't even go to my school. I don't even know if he knew my name. I'd be like, this message is for Bradley. This is UA. I just want to say I really love you from afar. And if you get this message on air, give me a call. And I would give my phone number and the radio station would be like, beep, beep, beep, beep. Like, little girl, please do not give out your number in public. That's amazing. Did I tell you I used to work at a radio station back in the day? What? Look at that foreshadowing. I was at the promotions department. I wasn't actually on the on air team at all. But yeah, I guess there was something there. All that to set you up to talk about this very deep topic today. Oh, yes, it's a good one. We're just doing another one of those episodes where it's just Julie and I to discuss a topic that we have such a strong interest in. So you'll hear our voices on this episode. Yes. You know, this is a topic that we feel very, very strongly about. But we did a call out in our Facebook group of what type of topics are you interested in for this upcoming season? And someone put this down and we're like, this is a good topic. Like, what is the line of when you should stay and try to, like, make something work versus leave and go? This topic is such a popular one because we are told such contradictory messages about relationships. On one hand, you're told relationships are hard. You got to work at them. And on the other hand, we're told when you're with the right person, things should be easy and you shouldn't have to work too hard in the relationship. But once you're in a relationship and you feel like you're really trying hard to make it work, what is that point of saying I've tried hard enough? I've tried my very best. I've tried everything and it hasn't worked. Yeah. So it's time to get out. Or is it the point of like, we could try harder? This applies to when you're in like the committed, full on relationship. And I think it even extends earlier. We hear of people all the time being like, oh, I went on one or two dates, should I go out with them again? You never know. Like, when is that inflection point that you should give something more of a chance versus cut your loss and try to meet other people? And I think the other piece of this is so often there's a camp that doesn't try hard enough, right, when things get tough in a relationship or when, you know, maybe it's not fireworks or the spark at first sight, but then on the flip side, I've been here before. I don't know about you, UA, but like when you overstay and you know, something's not working yet, you just continue to try to make it work. And we see this all the time, especially like when people are in situationships, it's like, oh, if they only see how good of a partner I can be, I'm going to just keep trying to like make them see what they could be missing out on instead of just being like, this person doesn't want the same thing as me. I'm going to move on. How many times have you talked to someone who've been in a long term relationship and you ask them how long it was, and they always say two years too long or one year too long or should have ended at the second year. And I would argue that there is no overstaying in a relationship. I feel like the overstaying years are the trying years. You're just trying, right? We only think we overstayed in hindsight, but when you're in the relationship, I get it, like you really just want to try your very best. So as we go into this conversation, maybe we can just get that out of our heads. It's like, you're not overstaying. You're just trying to work through the entire process. I agree with you in most scenarios, but I do think there are some when like you're clearly not on the same page and some of it's in fantasy worlds. And I've been there before and I'm saying this from someone that's been there. Like when someone's clearly not telling you, like they don't want a serious relationship, I've stayed to try to make something work where it's just an uphill battle. And I think we also need to recognize those situations, too, because, yes, if two people are fully in it trying to make it work, I agree with you. But a lot of times that's not the case. And it's like we have selective vision of what we want to see is happening. I wonder about that sometimes, right? Because our conversation today will be about your voluntary decision to leave a relationship. When should you leave and when should you stay? But in some situations, like in your previous relationship, you almost need something to happen or realize something for you to want to make that change. Yeah. And I have a friend currently in this situation. She just cannot see, although everybody around her sees that this relationship cannot last. I almost feel like she needs something externally to happen for her to like really see this clearly. Well, we're going to go through it today. We're excited to dig in very deep, because as you could already see, there's a lot of different scenarios. This is a very wide topic, but we're going to go there. But before we do, let's hear a message from our sponsors. 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The Tennis.com Podcast
A highlight from Eric Diaz's Journey From the University of Georgia to Coaching Rising American Alex Michelsen
"Welcome to the official tennis .com podcast featuring professional coach and community leader Kamau Murray. Welcome to the tennis .com podcast. We are here with Eric Diaz. You remember the name? Eric is son of Manny Diaz, coach of Alex Mickelson, Werner Tan, and right now has his own thing called tier one performance out in the Irvine area. Welcome to the show, Eric. How's it going? Thanks for having me. Thanks for having me. It's great to be on. Great to be on. So I interviewed your dad probably about 2 months ago. That was, you know, we were poking fun about him redshirting Ethan Quinn, you know, not choosing not to play Ethan Quinn later. You know he wins NCAA the next year. It was kind of like, what were you thinking, right? Yeah, one of those tough ones. Oh yeah, it was kind of like, did you think he wasn't ready? Was he, did he think he wasn't ready? Like, you know, you probably could have won NCAA twice. That kind of thing but you obviously came from good tennis pedigree. So, I guess the first obvious question was what was it like growing up with your dad being Manny? You know, because I, it's hard not to take work home, right? Let's just put it that way. You're a tennis coach and a child of a tennis dad. Yeah. You know, I don't know. I think anybody that's been in tennis for a long time knows it's kind of a lifestyle a little bit. You know, there's definitely being the tennis coach and kind of, you know, working toward things but it's also, I don't know, the sport takes so much of you that sometimes, you know, it just feels like, you know, it's second nature. It's kind of a part of it. So, I mean, growing up in Athens, growing up around Dan McGill Complex was always a treat. That was back when NCAA's were kind of always hosted in Athens. So, I got to watch, you know, all the college greats. I grew up watching the Bryan brothers get, you know, sadly then they were kind of pegging some of our guys in doubles matches but, you know, it was really cool being able to sit court side, watch those guys and then, you know, be able to watch them on TV a little bit later. Really cool. Really cool experience growing up. Now, from a junior career, did your dad coach you your whole career or did he hire private coaches to sort of teach you technique? Because I know, you know, coaching at a program like UGA, it is very demanding and sometimes the children of the tennis coach lose out to the actual players and the people who are paying. So, did he coach you? How was that? You know, he coached me. I think he tried to coach me but at the same time, he also didn't want to put too much pressure on me to like, you know, really play tennis and go in. So, he kind of let it be my own thing. I started, I actually went to Athens Country Club, great little spot on the outside of Athens. Alan Miller was the main coach there. So, he helped me out a lot. He actually, he was on my dad's first, you know, assistant coaching team where they won a national title. I think he paired with Ola who now obviously has been with USGA for a while. I think they played doubles and I think they won a doubles title as well. So, I think Alan was a part of the first team championship and then he was also, you know, he won a doubles title there too. I think he might have won two. So, I spent a lot of time around him which was also, it was really cool. You know, it was a guy who was a part of the Georgia tennis family. Athens is really tight -knit like that and so it's special to be a part of that family both, I guess, through blood and through, you know, the alumni. It's cool. Now, let me ask you, did you ever consider going anywhere else, right? I mean, successful junior career, one of the top players in the nation, tons of options. You know, it could be like, you know, there's always sort of the, oh, his dad's going to give him a scholarship, right? You saw with Ben Shelton, you know, Brian Shelton. Obviously, he's going to look out for his kid. Did you ever aspire to like go to another top program or UCLA or Texas or Florida? I think growing up, you know, because I got to see all those teams play. You know, I remember in 1999, I looked up this guy who, he played number one for UCLA. I don't know, this guy showed up. I'm a little kid and he had half of his head was blue and the other half was gold and, you know, UCLA was firing it up. They were really good at the time. I remember that was my dad's first national title in 99. And, you know, ever since then, I really, you know, I looked up to the guys. Every now and then, I got to sneak on to a little travel trip and, you know, I got to see what it was like. But, I mean, for me, it was always Georgia. I thought Athens was a special place, you know, getting to see the crowds that they get there and being able to kind of just see the atmosphere of everybody caring about each other. You know, it was cool looking at other teams. You know, the Brian brothers had the cool Reebok shoes, you know, the UCLA guy with the different hair. But at the end of the day, it was always the dogs. It was always Georgia. So, I was really lucky when I got to be a part of that team and I got to kind of wear the G that, you know, through my junior years, I was always wearing it, you know, but I guess it was a little bit different when you're actually, you know, on the team and representing. I think it's a different feeling. Yeah. So, if you didn't go into tennis, what else would you be doing? Like, you know, I didn't, you know, I'm obviously coaching now, but I didn't go right into coaching. I went to work into pharmaceuticals like marketing, sales, you know, finance. It's always, I always find it interesting to say if I wasn't coaching, I got my degree, I would be doing this. Yeah. You know, if I was a little bit more prone, I think to just loving schoolwork and loving studying, you know, everybody's always told me that I would make a pretty good lawyer just because I'm a bit of a contrarian. I like to argue. I like to challenge everybody that's kind of around me. So, I'm always looking for a good argument. So, I'll go with that. Everybody's always told me, you know, maybe you should have been a lawyer. You argue a Hey, lot. well, I'm sure, I'm sure your tennis parents, right? The parents of the academy probably don't like that one, right? They like to be in control. They have the last say and be contrarian. A lot of the time they do. A lot of the time they do. Yeah. So, you're sort of like stepping out, right? Out of the shadow and you're now on the west coast out there in the with Irvine area tier one performance and quite honestly, making your own name. I know you've had opportunity to coach Alex Mickelson as well as, you know, Lerner, Tan who are both like doing real well, both like main draw this year at US Open. Tell me about the process of moving way west. Yeah. And starting your own thing. Well, you know, it kind of started with, you know, I took that leap and I moved away from home for, you know, the first time because obviously being born and raised and going to school at UGA. I took my first chance and I went to Boise State and I worked under Greg Patton for a year who I'd heard great things about and, you know, all were true. He's a great guy. I thought it was a fantastic experience. So, I did that for a year and then over the summer, the UGA swim coach's son that I kind of grew up with, he was in Newport and so I kind of came to visit and then, you know, all of a sudden the opportunity to be coaching out here, you know, came about and, you know, I did my due diligence a little bit. You know, I looked at the old tennis recruiting pages and, you know, I'm looking at all the talent over the last like 20 years and, you know, statistically, you look at the list and you're like, okay, you know, if I'm in this area and I give myself, you know, the right opportunities and I, you know, learn how to coach properly, you know, I feel like I've had some pretty good experience from some good mentors. You know, then I kind of thought, you know, okay, maybe I can kind of control my own destiny out here a little bit and, you know, over time, it's taken a lot but, you know, over time, I feel like I did get myself some pretty decent opportunities. So, when you first laid eyes on Mickelson, how old was he? He was 12. He was coming out to some point place. It was the first place I kind of rented courts. It was this old rundown beat up club but beautiful. There were some trees there. Nobody wanted it. The courts were kind of run down and everyone's like, oh no, nothing there and I was like, I'll take it. So, you know, it gave me space. It gave me courts. It gave me the ability to kind of try and market. I made things cheap so I could get a lot of kids out there and try and get a competitive environment going and luckily, you know, had a good bit of talent out there where, you know, the kids kind of attracted the kids and I was this young coach, 23, 24 and, you know, over time, you know, people started to kind of gain trust and realize, you know, this guy isn't that bad. So, you know, over time, it kind of, you know, worked in my favor and, you know, everything kind of worked out. I eventually switched clubs to a nicer one and, you know, you move up. You earn your stripes. Now, when you saw him, did you initially see, you know, like super talent because he won our ADK this summer and, you know, it was full of Steve Johnson, Su -Woo Kwong. It was Ethan Quinn. It was other names, right? Kanee Shakuri. And Alex, okay, you know, he got the USTA wildcard. He's a young kid. You know what I mean? Like, sort of under the radar and then he wins the whole tournament in finals Newport on the grass like a week later. So, did you see it right away? Was he like a typical kind of 12 -year -old throwing his racket, having tantrums? What was he like at 12? Alex has always turned on tantrums. But, you know, when he was 12, he was good. But, you know, I'll be honest, there were a handful of kids out there that, you know, Kyle Kang, who's had a lot of success. I saw him. Sebastian Goresney, who Alex won doubles with. There were a handful of others and, I mean, Alex, they were, he was good. If I thought that he would be this good, you know, at this point, I think I'd I don't think I saw that. But, you know, you definitely see that this kid's capable of playing at a pretty good level while he's young. And then, you know, as the years kind of go and then as you sort of see him and his personality kind of develop, you kind of recognize, you know, this, you know, this isn't too normal of a 16, 17, 18 -year -old kid. And then, you know, sure enough, eventually the results followed, which was pretty fun to watch. Yeah, I mean, I felt it was interesting because he was here with like his friend. Yeah. You know, not even like a coach, trainer, physio, nothing. Like him and his homeboy. Yeah. He didn't look like he played tennis. You know what I mean? So, yeah, it was like, it was interesting to show up without, you know, completing against guys who are here with like coaching that they're paying six -figure salaries and who are scouting, right? And for him to kind of move through the draw, honestly, I mean, you know, maybe he split sets once. Yeah. It was actually really interesting. He's an extremely competitive kid. And so, you know, throughout the last few years kind of as we've traveled to some events and as he's gone to some like by himself, you know, the whole understanding is, okay, how well do you really understand, you know, your day -to -day process? How well are you able to, you know, nowadays, you know, with challengers, everything you can stream, you can watch. So, you know, both myself and, you know, Jay, the other coach that's here and helping him out, you know, we watch, we communicate. But, you know, at the end of the day, you know, it was one of those big decisions, okay, are you going to go to college or are you going to go pro? And he's kind of weighing those two things. And it's, you know, if you really think you want to be a pro, show me. And so it's one of those things, luckily, when he's young, you know, you have the, you know, it's kind of freedom. If he loses some matches, okay, you're young. If, you know, you win some matches, okay, great. You're young. So it's one of those things where, you know, we really kind of wanted to see, you know, what he's able to do sort of on his own. How well can he manage emotionally? How well can he, you know, create some game plans and stick to his day -to -day routines? And he, I would say he passed. And did he officially turn pro? He officially turned pro, yeah. Yeah. So I know UGA was going to be where he was going. I know he was undecided this summer, but UGA was going to, was there a little bit of an inside man kind of happening here, right? You know, I mean, you know, I think that, you know, I'll definitely say, I think he had some exposure to hearing about, you know, some Georgia greatness. I think that for sure. But, you know, I'll say it was his decision. Ultimately, I tried to not put too much pressure or expectation on where he was going to go. You know, I think Georgia has a lot to offer. So I think, you gone that route, I think it would be, you know, I don't think we can really fail if, you know, you're going and you're trying to be a tennis player and that's a place you choose. I think it's a pretty good place. Now tell us about Lerner Tan. I'll admit as a player that I hadn't had the opportunity to watch too much. I had not watched him in the challenges at all. But was he also sort of in the program at a young age or did he just sort of come later on? My partner actually, you know, kind of helped him when he was young because Levitt Jay used to be incorporated at Carson, which was kind of where Lerner kind of had his, you know, beginnings. He was a little bit more, I guess I'll say, you know, his talent was Federation spotted, I guess you could say as to where Alex was kind of, you know, the guy on the outside a little figuring his own way. Lerner was kind of the guy that everybody kind of thought was, you know, the guy. Right. And so, you know, it's been fun kind of watching him, you know, see his transition, you know, from juniors to now, you know, kind of becoming, you know, the top of juniors, you know, winning Kalamazoo the last two years and his transition. It's been fun to see. So, you know, I've seen a lot of him out of the last, you know, two and a half to three years. So it's been, it's definitely been a different transition. I feel like, you know, it's a little bit fire and ice there. You know, Alex is the fiery one screaming a good bit and Lerner is the silent killer. So it's, they're definitely different, which I think, you know, is pretty refreshing and it's kind of cool to see them both have success in their own accord. So tell us about Tier 1 then. So how many courts, obviously you grew up, I mean, like, you know, I started in the park years ago, right? In Chicago Park, right? And now I got 27 courts. But tell us about Tier 1 performance now. Where are you? How many courts do you now have? How many kids are you serving? Yeah, we're in Newport Beach right now, which is great. Weather's nice. We have, right now, we're running our program out of only five ports. It's not that big. You know, we take a lot of pride in just kind of being individually, you know, development based. I feel like if you're in our program, you're going to have, you know, a good bit of time from the coaches. You're probably going to have a chance to hit with some of the top guys. We try to be really selective with who we kind of have. Just because in Southern California, it's really difficult to, you know, get your hands on a ton of courts. There's so many people in tennis. There's only a few clubs now. You know, pickleball, even at our club right now, you know, pickleball is booming. You know, so many people are playing. It's keeping clubs alive, which, you know, I think is nice. But at the same time, I would love to see, you know, a lot of tennis courts and tennis opportunity. But, you know, it is what it is. Yeah, man, pickleball is definitely taking over. You see clubs getting rid of one court, two courts, and they think that it's not that big of an impact. But I mean, two courts really makes a difference in terms of being able to spread kids out, get them more time, get more balls and more balls at the time. But it's, you know, I think in tennis, if we want to fight them off, we've got to market better and we've got to grow, right? They're in this growth sort of stage and we're sort of stagnant, you know, so it's not like we're not leaving the club with a lot of choices other than to diversify, you know what I mean? Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. So, let me ask you that. So, you've obviously had two kids that are going on. What do you tell that next parent, whose kid's 14, right, may get to see learner Alex come to the academy and number one, they want to homeschool, right, or ask you whether or not they should homeschool or B, you know, whether or not they should choose to go to college or, you know, turn pro. How are you advising parents? Because I get the question all the time. Should we homeschool, right? Should we do whatever? And I always, you know, the answer is always, it depends. Yeah. But what would be your answer in terms of homeschooling to train? Well, look, I definitely think that if your primary goal is to be a tennis player and I think, you know, if you're an athlete and that's kind of what you want to do, I think there's a lot of benefit in homeschooling just because, you know, it enables you to travel. You know, if I get to the ITF level, you know, I need to be able to travel. Those tournaments start on Monday and they go through Friday. So, you know, if I'm in a regular school, if I'm a high school kid, you know, that's a pretty difficult life for me to be able to justify or to, you know, be able to get my excused absences and stuff like that. You know, we're definitely big. You know, if you show me a 14 and under kid and I feel like I had pretty good experience in this just because I saw a lot of kids from the age of 12 to 14, you know, I got to see an entire kind of generation out of SoCal and a lot of them were pretty good. You know, the one thing I think, you know, when you're 12, 13, 14 years old, I think the primary thing kind of for level, obviously it matters how you're doing it, but I think the primary thing is the repetition. You know, I saw a ton of kids where they had a bunch of practices and I knew that that kid probably, you know, had 30%, 40 % more time than some of the other kids. And, you know, sure enough, that kid is more competent at keeping the ball in play. You know, they're able, you know, they've just seen and touched more balls. So, you know, they're going to make more balls. I think it's a balance. I think it really depends on the parents. I think it really depends on the kid. And I think it depends on the environment that they'll be in if they are going to be homeschooled. You know, I will say that, you know, we've had a handful of kids kind of switch from high school to homeschooled and they're in our program. But I feel like there's still strong social aspects in our program. You know, all the boys are tight. They compete a lot. They, you know, I feel like they get their social, you know, they go to lunch. And just kind of our standards are really high. I think this past year we had five kids that graduated that all went to IVs. So, you know, it's totally possible whether you're homeschooled or whether you're in school, I think, to, you know, kind of pursue academic excellence. I think, you know, just because you're doing one thing and not the other, I don't think that that necessarily, you know, takes that away from you. I think tennis can open a ton of doors. And I think I kind of, you know, we've kind of seen that in the last few years. I've seen a lot more tennis kids choosing IV ever since 2020, I feel. I feel like the IVs have been pretty hot, especially for some blue chip players, which I think, you know, if you look prior to 2020, I think the percentages took a pretty drastic jump, which is interesting to see. Yeah, you know, it's funny, you know, in some markets you see people playing for the scholarship and in some other markets you see them playing for entrance, right, into the Princeton, the Harvards. And one of the myths, like, I think if you think about basketball or football, right, the better basketball football players are obviously choosing the SEC, right, Pac -12, whatever that is. But in tennis, you know, I think that, you know, your academics and your tennis have to be, like, at the top scale to go, just because you're not like a bad tennis player if you go to Harvard, you know what I mean? Like, the kid that goes to Harvard or makes the team probably could have gone to PCU, right, or Florida or whatever, you know what I mean? And so it is interesting to see the number of people who say, yes, I've spent 30 grand on tennis for the past eight years and I'm still willing to pay for college, right, because I got into Princeton, Harvard, Yale, etc. But I think it's a big myth where, you know, the United States is so basketball focused, we see Harvard basketball as, like, okay, that's everyone that didn't get chosen by the Illinois, the Wisconsin, the Michigan. And it's not the same, you know what I mean? Yeah, it's different for sure. So when you think about, like, the Ivies, right, you see a lot of kids go to East Coast and you think about, you know, COVID obviously changed something with the home school, you know, sort of situation. People who never considered that it was possible were like, okay, well, we've been living at home for a year and a half and doing online studies, it's not that bad, you know, they're more focused with their time. Did you see more people from families who you thought would not have done it try it post COVID? Yeah, definitely. I think the really popular thing that a lot of people are doing now is kind of a hybrid schedule, which I actually really like a lot. At least in California, I don't know if the schooling system is different everywhere else. I know it was different where I was from. But a lot of these kids, you know, they'll go to school from 8 to 1130 or 8 to 12. And, you know, they have their three hours where, you know, I don't know how they stagger their classes and stuff like that. But I know that pretty much every kid at every school in SoCal is at least able to do this if they so choose. And so they're able to get released around 12 or something. And, you know, they're able to be at afternoon practice and get a full block in. You know, for me, that still enables you to get the hours you need on court and to be able to maintain some of that social. And, you know, if you become, you know, really, really good, I guess, okay, by junior year, maybe you could consider, okay, maybe I should take this a little bit more seriously, maybe I should go full time homeschool. Or, you know, a lot of these kids are in a place where it's, you know, I'm comfortable with my tennis, I like where it's at, I feel like it'll give me opportunity in college. My grades are great. And, you know, maybe that person's a little more academically inclined. And, you know, they want to have a career and they feel like tennis is that great stepping stone. Which I think is a really cool thing about our sport is it just opens a tremendous amount of doors. I feel like if you figure out how to develop and be a good tennis player and how to compete well in tennis, you can you can apply that to almost everything in life. Yeah. So you talk about opening doors, right? When Alex or Lerner were sort of deciding whether to walk through door number one, which is college, or door number two, which is which is obviously turning pro. Right. How did you advise them? You know what I mean? If I say, hey, you know what? Take a couple wildcards. If you went around or two, maybe you go to college. If you win a tournament, maybe you stay out there. If an agency locks you into a deal, right? Then, you know, they normally know what good looks like and they normally have like the ear of the Nike, the Adidas, right? Then you turn pro. What was your advice in terms of if and when, right? Yeah. For those who ask. Well, they were both in different places. I'm gonna start with Lerner cuz he's younger. He actually, you know, did a semester in college. You know, Lerner finished high school, I think, when he was sixteen, sixteen and a half. And so, obviously, your eligibility clock starts, you know, six months after you finish your high school. So, for him, it was, you know, he was so young, he didn't really have much pro experience at that time. You know, he did great things in juniors. You know, he won Kalamazoo. He got his wild card into the men's that year and then, you know, he played a little bit of pro kind of and then, you know, that that January, he went in and and did a semester at USC which I think was a good experience for him socially. He had some eligibility problems which, you know, only let him play about five, six matches toward the end of the year which was kind of disappointing and then, you know, he won Kalamazoo again and so, you know, that was the second trip there and then, you know, by then, he had a little bit more exposure with, you know, agencies and brands and kind of, you know, the stuff that you'd like to see that'll actually give you the financial security to kind of, you know, chase your dream and pass up, you know, the the education, I guess, for the time being. So, you know, I felt like that was really the security was a big was a big thing for him. You know, prior to winning Kalamazoo for the second time, you know, he still had Junior Grand Slams to play. He wasn't playing men's events. So, for him being that age, you know, it was, well, you know, I'm I'm not in a massive rush so why not get a semester in and I think he had a great time. He really liked it. I mean, he he speaks pretty positively about the dual matches. He actually follows college tennis now a little bit more. You know, he will talk about some dual matches which I think is pretty cool and you know, I think it gave him some confidence getting to play for university, getting to represent, you know, seeing that university promotes you. I think there's a lot of benefits there and now, you know, he's got an alumni base. You know, people talk about all, you know, he's a USC Trojan and stuff like that. You know, you see it at all different tournaments. You know, guys are wearing a USC hat and, you know, hey, learner, da da da and you know, I think that that's pretty cool to be a part of, you know, a big family of people who are proud that, you know, they can say they played in the same place and then Alex. Alex was, you know, he was a little old for his grade and he was one that he committed and, you know, the whole time him and learner kind of, you know, talking and, you know, about going pro and da da da da. You know, obviously, it was their dream. You know, I just kept telling Alex, you know, I don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear it until, you know, it's a real problem and so, you know, he gets to 400 in the world and, you know, it's what you do. You get to 400. You know, it's good but at the end of the day, you know, you're not, your life's not changing because you're 400 in the world. You know, so he's 400 in the world and he's, you know, saying stuff to me and I'm like, I could not care less you're going to college and then it was, you know, this was probably in January, February, you know, he starts to kind of do a little bit better and I think at that point, I recognized that he was better than a lot of the guys kind of at the challenger level. You know, just from my perspective, I was seeing kind of what it was, what it was to be 300, what it was to be 200 and I think at that point, like February, March, I fully knew that he was good enough to be there and to be winning those matches but at the same time, you know, having financial security, having set, you know, all of those factors that kind of go into whether I'm going to pass up my education and go pro. You know, it's a big decision and so I remember we were putting it off. I just said, you know, nothing till US Open. I was like, we're not, we're not talking about college till US Open. I said, you know, when we get to US Open, you finish US Open, you have that exposure, you know, we see what happens in those two weeks and then, you know, then we'll kind of make a decision but until then, like, don't even think about it. Don't talk about it. Don't care. You're going to school and I think that mentality really helped him kind of just play free. He was, you know, I'm not playing to go pro. I'm trying to do my job in school, finish my high school. I'm going to tournaments, playing great, just trying to compete and, you know, lucky for him, you know, well, I guess it's not lucky at all. That kid worked his absolute tail off but, you know, he had that success in Chicago at your club and then, you know, he made that little Newport run and I think by then, that was his third or fourth former top 10 win and, you know, he won his challenger. He final the challenger. He'd semied another one. He had kind of shown and, you know, some people have gotten attention and they started believing in him and so then, you know, that's when that big decision kind of came but I feel like for him, he really established himself, improved himself amongst pros which I think is an interesting thing because a lot of the time when you see these juniors kind of go pro sub 18, a lot of the time, it's because they had tremendous junior success which then made them, you know, they had grand slam success and stuff like that but Alex didn't have any of that. You know, Alex was kind of the late bloomer that, you know, in the last year when he was already 18 and aged out of ITF, the kid really just took it to a new level and, you know, I think he really showed that he's kind of ready for what the tour has to offer.
Bankless
A highlight from SVM on Ethereum?! Bullish or Bearish $SOL? with Neel Somani, Founder, Eclipse
"Solana on Ethereum? That is the question we explore on today's episode with a new product release as well. This is an opportunity to pick into a topic we haven't yet touched on on Ethereum, which is a virtual machine that Solana has called the SVM. That's the Solana virtual machine. Proponents have said for a long time that it's much better than the Ethereum EVM multi -threaded execution, lots of bells and whistles that Ethereum doesn't have. Now on today's episode, we're finding out that it is coming to Ethereum in the form of a layer 2. The Eclipse Mainnet is what it's called. That is the layer 2 that is launching today with the SVM embedded. Eclipse is not only a new layer 2 on the scene, but it's an entire framework similar to the Optimism Superchain network as well. This poses a lot of interesting questions as you might imagine that we're going to dig into today, including who wins? Is this a W for Ethereum? Is this an L for Solana or maybe the reverse? What does this mean for the future of our industry? A lot to unpack on today's episode. I would even say that a lot of Ethereum people will say that the SVM is a fantastic piece of technology and it is better than the EVM, especially when it comes to the things that virtual machines do, which is execution. There are some massive questions that this brings to the table and I'm about to ask them. But first, I want to talk about our friends and sponsors over at Layer Zero who have a brand new announcement on the scene. This came out of Permissionless. Google Cloud and Layer Zero are partnering together to help thread together 15 different chains across the Web3 ecosystem. So what does Layer Zero do? It passes messages across from chain to chain. What does Google Cloud do? Well, it is the service provider, the Oracle that does that message passing. It is the default Oracle for Layer Zero. But if you don't want Google, you are free to also pick your own Oracle. You could just like Google, how Google is the default search browser for many browsers, Google is the default Oracle for Layer Zero. There's a link in the show notes if you want to find out more, layer0 .network. And so that is a call to action there. There's a link in the show notes. There are some big questions on today's episodes. And so we have the founder of the Eclipse Layer 2. His name is Neil Samani. And he's going to be jumping on the podcast in a minute here. But David, we're going to be unpacking four different protocols. All right. So it's not just Ethereum and Solana. There are a few others as well that are woven into this Layer 2. So what are listeners in for? What are the big questions to prepare us? Yeah, the question doesn't stop at is this Ethereum versus Solana, Ethereum or Solana? Celestia and risk zero are also relevant here. And I think one of the questions is like the big question, if we are investors in this space trying to invest in the future, we want to ask the question, who wins? What are these components doing together? And does some of these components win more than others? What does it mean to win? Or am I just using this lens of winning versus losing because that's my lens for all blockchain systems? And is that even the right lens? So the first question I think we're going to get at is does the Solana VM as an Ethereum Layer 2, is that a bigger win for Ether than it is for Sol? The Solana fanboys in my mentions are convinced that this is the Ethereum protocol moving closer to Solana. But the Layer 2 centric take is that all good execution tech will eventually settle on Ethereum liquidity and security. But then what the hell does Celestia have to do with this equation? And what's risk zero doing there? So this is not just a question about like the tug of war between these two cooperating competing protocols, but what does this mean for the modular thesis at large? So some very big questions. And I think I listened to Neil Samani over at the Modular Summit back in ECC and some of his talks around this base, and I think he's got some of the answers. So we're going to ask all of these questions to Neil here in a second. But first, a moment to talk about some of these fantastic sponsors that make this show possible, especially Kraken, our preferred exchange for crypto in 2023. If you've not had an account with Kraken, consider clicking the link in the show notes to check them out right now. Kraken Pro has easily become the best crypto trading platform in the industry, the place I use to check the charts and the crypto prices, even when I'm not looking to place a trade. 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Bankless Nation, I would love to introduce you to Neil Samani, the founder of Eclipse, a project working to bring the Solana virtual machine, the SVM, to Ethereum. Today, Eclipse has announced their SVM mainnet, the first Eclipse layer 2 on Ethereum that uses the SVM as its execution engine, but Ethereum for settlement and liquidity. Is that a curveball? Well, it doesn't stop there because Eclipse is also using Celestia for data availability and RISC -0 for fraud proofs. So Solana's execution environment, settling on Ethereum with ETH as gas using Celestia for data availability and then security offered by RISC -0 fraud proofs. My first big question to you, Neil, is what the hell is that? What is this? Who even allowed you to put all these forms? What did you create? What is this? I love this image. This is amazing. What the hell is this family guy meme for the people listening on the podcast? It's like Noah on the ark and there's some kind of hybrid animal, like a giraffe, elephant, like I don't know what that tail that is, but some kind of hybrid animal that's been created, like the platypus. That is awesome. David, Ryan, thank you for having me. Yeah. So Neil, where did this idea to put four different networks together come about and maybe talk about some of the motivations here? So the original idea was just to put Solana Ethereum and that was the motivation behind the concepts. And what we ran into was just a ton of constraints and things that you'd expect to be true for a virtual machine because that's how it is in the Ethereum world. So an example is like a chain ID. When you switch your MetaMask wallet to another Ethereum chain or another EVM chain, then they actually have like a well -defined mechanism for doing that. Another example is there's no global miracle tree for Solana. So the lack of these primitives means that that initial idea was not so easy to implement. So we basically implement, we had to add in Celestia or risk zero out of necessity in order to make this possible. Wait, so you had to add Celestia and risk zero, like it wasn't an option to just do a layer two. Just pure Ethereum. So it depends on the amount of transaction volume that we end up running, but at our projected amount of transactions, Ethereum DA would just prove to be very expensive. And it would also lack a lot of the benefits of the Solana VM, which is that you're going for scale, meaning that you want the transactions to be really cheap. So right now it's like the base cost for writing 200 bytes to Ethereum is about 15 cents. So that would be like much more expensive transactions. And that opens us up to account from the Solana community, which is like, oh, we're much cheaper than you. But if you're doing it this way, then we can actually be competitive on price too. I want to get back to why Solana, because that's the big question. Why the SVM, right? But before we do, just really quick, yes, data availability is very expensive in today's world. However, there is some hope. We just did release an episode earlier this week with Dom from Eth Research on Blob Space, an EIP 4844, where the cost of data availability for rollups is going to drop quite significantly. Or maybe let me just rephrase that and say the availability of data availability is going to be increased massively in the form of these blobs. Does that change the calculus at all for you or is it kind of the same? It's still more expensive than something like Celestia. It definitely changes the calculus. Given that it's a fee market, we have to see where that fee ends up landing. So I want it to be live. But yeah, there's great research going on in the Ethereum community for scaling DA. We're watching it closely and we have ambitions to eventually just be fully on Ethereum and just use that for DA as well. Okay, well, let's talk about the big thing here. So the Solana virtual machine, the SVM. We've not done an episode comparing the SVM versus the EVM. We've been thinking about doing one. This maybe gives us a little taste of that. Can you tell us what is so great about the SVM? Why do some people sing its praises and seem to prefer it for certain things? The way to think about it is by starting with the EVM and just understanding the failures of the EVM so far in scaling Ethereum. And I think that if you asked a lot of the researchers in Ethereum community, scale is pretty much the biggest issue. But it feels kind of redundant for me to be saying that because everyone's talking about it. Yet, the way that they've tried to bring scale to Ethereum is just by taking the EVM and turning it into a roll up, effectively. But what's nice about a roll up is that once you've decoupled the execution, consensus, settlement, and DA, is that you can make that execution layer whatever you want. So the issue with the EVM is that it's single -threaded as it exists right now, meaning that all the transactions get in a single file line, they're executed one at a time. And that means that if there's a big NFT drop, for example, then that's going to really spam the network. And there's no way to get your DeFi transaction in unless you're competing with all those other transactions that are in line. But what's nice about a parallelized virtual machine is that you can execute those transactions concurrently, given that they're not touching the same piece of the state. So that's what the Solana virtual machine primarily brings. And it's the most battle -tested VM in the sense that Solana has been around, as opposed to Moov or some other parallelized virtual machines, which are much newer. And that means that you also get the benefits of the existing Solana code base, any existing libraries that are written for the SVM, and we can take all those and immediately port it to Eclipse. So that's the main reason to use the SVM, which is just scale. And scale is inherently maximalistic for a roll up to claim, because we're basically saying that if you have one SVM, you don't need all these other single -threaded VMs around it. Yeah. So one of the reasonings I've heard around the EVM is that while the EVM does execute, because that's what virtual machines do, it was not built for execution. It was built for the Ethereum layer one, and that has prioritized other properties. And while the EVM has had a ton of just network effects, the open source network effects around the EVM are super, super strong. I think in this day and age, in the year 2023, one of the things we're seeing is that the around the SVM are growing sufficient tailwinds that, Neil, I think what you're saying is that, well, I can feel safe that there is sufficient momentum in the network effects of the SVM code base that is going to be an alive code base moving forward into the future. And so it is going to be the execution virtual machine that we can deploy to Ethereum, because if we have a roll -up centric roadmap, we aren't beholden to the EVM on layer twos. This is my interpretation. Is this about right? Yeah, that's right. And what's cool is that it actually goes beyond just the existence of the SVM per se. It's a bit of a misnomer because the SVM is actually the Berkeley packet filter virtual machine. And that's been in the Linux kernel for like decades. So this is a very old virtual machine and it has raw support, raw can compile to the byte code. And there's a few surrounding extensions that are pretty battle tested as well. So we're taking all this existing wealth of open source code and just repurposing it as an Ethereum ML too. How much better is it, Neil? How can you quantify that? I would argue if it's like orders of magnitude, like a hundred times or something, some ridiculous magnitude or faster. Yeah. Okay. So like if we take a roll -up with the exact same stack you're talking about, but rather than the SVM, we have the EVM versus what you're doing with the SVM, how much better is yours? You're saying an order of magnitude, like 10X, 100X? Yeah. It's always tough to talk about throughput because the reality is it depends on what are the state access patterns. Like if everything, let's say every transaction the SVM was accessing the same piece of state, then you actually can't beat sequential because that's just like the fact about databases, right? You'd have to impose, if it was sequential rights, let's say. So then you have to lock that piece of state to execute the transaction, then do the next one, then do the next one. So you're not saving anything in the sequential case, but assuming they're all touching different pieces of state, which if the crypto thesis is right, we're gonna have all kinds of applications doing all sorts of different things. And that's effectively what these EVM roll -ups are mimicking. If you look at OPStack, the reason why people are deploying these is a lot of time they cite dedicated block space, but that's exactly what the SVM already solves for them. So our thinking is why fragment liquidity, fragment the user experience, make them switch networks. It's looking like a mess already, but you can prevent all that by just keeping it all in the same chain. Okay. So one of the, I guess the bull case for the EVM is basically, I don't think anyone really prefers it for its execution prowess and capabilities. They all prefer it because of network effect. It's because we started with the EVM, a whole bunch of apps were built, and now we could just very easily port those apps to roll -ups. That's kind of why. And I guess with SVM, you're making the case that it is much better for just the execution layer type thing, and you're still taking advantage of some of the network effect that Solana has built as well. I want to ask a question here because I'm not sure I fully understand this, but about different fee markets and resourcing, how does that work? So is it the case inside of your roll -up that if there is a big NFT drop or some sort of app that is consuming a large quantity of the block space inside of Eclipse, is that somehow isolated or segmented, or is there some kind of bifurcation of resources between another layer? Localized fee market is - This is a term that I've not fully understood, but I know our friends on the Solana side really purport this as one of the main virtue of actually Solana is these localized fee markets. Tell us about that. Yeah, it's critical. And if you've looked at Arbitrum lately, fees still spike substantially on roll -ups if they're single -threaded. And that's because of that exact reason that you're mentioning, the global fee market. If GMX gets a bunch of activity, then everyone suffers as a result. But economically, that's not actually really the way that it should be because there's this negative externality to GMX being imposed on all of the other apps, but really it should be constrained to that one app. So it's as if you took all these global fees and you just concentrated it on the one app that's actually causing on the hotspot or a state hotspot, as some of the folks on the Solana side will describe it as. And everyone else can just keep merrily happily walking along and they can execute on other cores. So it's really a property of the scheduler within the validator because in every validator, they have to somehow decide what order am I going to process transactions. And they're saying everything that's accessing this piece of state is going to all go on a single core and everyone else can use the other cores. And there's no contention on those. So Neil, this is really just a statement. The design philosophy of Eclipse is just a statement that it's a bullish statement on the growth of the SVM network effects. So maybe in this day and age, if you are like optimist or Arbitrum, you're going for this thing called Ethereum equivalents. And they are making a statement that, hey, we are bullish on the growth of the EVM network effects. And I mean, network effects of different virtual machines can grow independently. It's not an either or. But the philosophy of Eclipse is saying like, hey, there's the SVM network effects are going to grow. They're going to grow a lot. We want to take that and couple it into whatever the value is of being a part of the Ethereum ecosystem. That's my like synopsis of this. Yeah, I'd even argue that EVM network effects have proven to be not so important. And I think it made a lot of sense initially a few years ago when you had Polygon and BSC launching. But if you look at the types of apps that were deployed there, you get like SushiSwap, which is effectively a fork of Uniswap. And now I recognize they deployed even to like Ethereum. But those are the types of apps you often get. And it's rare that those apps are actually net new. Whereas by bringing the SVM to Ethereum, I think we're going to see net new applications in the Ethereum ecosystem, just given that there's a lot of apps that just couldn't exist without parallelism, central limit order bugs being a great example. We've seen a lot of decentralized physical infrastructure networks on Solana, so we can bring those to Ethereum as well. Apps like that, I think, are going to be more interesting to me rather than porting apps that already exist.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Demonic Influence of Marxist Ideology
"Karl Marx in the mid 1800s wrote a couple books that many of you may or may not be familiar with, Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital. Karl Marx also had some involvement in the occult. There's a whole great amount of literature there. But basically, Karl Marx took demonic ideology and ideas from the enemy that all that God created must be challenged and must be criticized. In fact, direct quote from Marxist writings. You must engage in the ruthless criticism of all that exists. Said simply, Marxists are trained, and this is what happens when you send kids to college, to deconstruct, to pick apart, to complain against anything that exists. And that includes the natural law and the natural order. Now, you're probably starting to connect some dots. Like, oh, well, that makes sense. That's why they're always trying to go after why what is a man and what is a woman. Now, I believe that if the American church spoke more about the first 11 books of Genesis, we'd be in a much better place. I believe that there are eternal answers to so many of our problems in the first 11 books of Genesis that the modern cool kid, the skinny gene church, does not like talking about. They say, oh, it's allegorical. It's the word of God. It's the truth. Now, in the first 11 books of Genesis, the distinctions that our entire existence rely upon are set up. I mentioned this briefly yesterday. The distinctions between God and man, the distinctions between holy and profane, the distinctions between man and woman, the distinctions between good and evil, the distinctions between man and nature, the distinctions between God and nature. So let's focus on that one. Every ancient false pagan religion before Judaism, before the Torah and eventually Christianity, God was in nature, not above nature. You worship the river. You worship the sun. You worship the mountain. This idea that God spoke nature into existence was unheard of in the ancient world. Now, these distinctions are important because that's where we get very basic morality.
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Leonardo de Vinci and da Vinci glow
"Hello friends, the dark windy glow, a glimpse of the dark windy glow was witnessed. It is a phenomenon that can happen around sunset when a crescent moon is on the horizon. But the outline of a full moon is visible about Da Vinci Glow, named after Leonardo da Vinci. This phenomenon is named after the legendary Renaissance artist and scientist, Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo da Vinci in the 16th century became the first person to describe this spectacle. Intertuning his artistic perception with scientific curiosity, the sky retains a touch of darkness. During the Da Vinci Glow time, the sky retains a touch of darkness but is not completely devoid of light. A minute from light reflected by the Earth, this enchanting glow, also known as Earth sign, a minute from light reflected by the Earth onto the moon's surface, making the lunar night an astounding 50 times brighter than a typical full moon night on Earth, provided a deeper understanding although Da Vinci's original explanations had slowed subsequent advancements in technology and lunar missions have provided a deeper understanding of Da Vinci Glow, enhancing the appreciation of this celestial phenomenon.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Why You Should Mine KASPA And Stake ADA!
"Why does he look like Tom from Myspace? Go back one more time. That is Tom from Myspace. Tom from Myspace is just missing the whiteboard, I think. This picture's gonna give me nightmares. This is the worst. Here it is. That's our Casper minor down in the basement. What we have is basically a picture of Tim. Look at, or a picture of me. Don't say that's a picture of Tim. Okay, this is the chaos that's going on in our basement. Just one more time. Yeah. You know? Just absolutely. There's no hot way to frame that picture. Why does he look like Tom from Myspace? Go back one more time. That is Tom from Myspace. Tom from Myspace is just missing the whiteboard, I think. This picture's gonna give me nightmares. This is the worst. Here it is. That's our Casper minor down in the basement. Let us know in the chat, what are we gonna name this minor? That's what my sleep demon looks like at the foot of my bed when I'm in paralyzed mode. I've never had sleep paralysis. It probably sounds, it sounds scary. I hate, would anyone here experienced sleep paralysis? No. Yeah? Scary? Scary? Very, very scary. Can you describe in one sentence what, was there a demon? And if so, what did the demon look like? Scary. Scary, scary. They say it's common. And my fiance, she sleep walks a little, but sleep talks, she has a slept with, like she's real, real tired. Yeah, she'll get up, she sleep talks. Oh yeah, my wife, my wife sleep talks to me all the time. Shout out to my friend, Wesley Miller. He would sleep sing church songs back when we were in middle school. What a good guy. I don't know what he's, he went to Baylor. I hope he's doing well. All right, it was me that threw an egg at your dad's truck and I still feel bad about it. All right, this is a mining dashboard here. It says Ice River. Is the mining settings, IP settings. Okay, so a hash rate. Okay, 30 minute hash rate. There's no way I'm ever gonna get this. Okay, I could see the next tab says KAS. Is this a CASPA mining portal? It's a CASPA miner and a CASPA mining situation we got going on. Wait, wait, this whole segment was guessing what it was mining? No, well, no, we're naming the miner. Oh, I was gonna say, yeah, I don't think this was a guess that because Nick is like, he talks nonstop about his CASPA mining. Yeah, we're getting CASPA in the basement. I liked, let me see here, going up to. Thank you, The Damned, thank you. The Mine Tater, Silver Surfer, Yukon Cornelius. We've got some ideas coming out of this. Okay, what are these? Are these comic book characters that mine crypto? Say one of those again. Yukon Cornelius. Okay, that is The Simpsons character, right? That sounds like a Simpsons character, does it not? All right, it looks like, so that was for CASPA. CASPA is still under a nickel, everybody. If we look at all time high, got as high as peaking at a nickel. Now we're peaking back at a nickel. I'm really not a fan of buying wicks of coins. So, you know, I'm not gonna buy any CASPA right here, even though I probably should. And you're probably gonna laugh at me when it goes to 50 cents, goes to a dollar. I just can't do it. I just can't do it, folks. I see this and I'd rather just buy Chainlink. Ah, that being said, I definitely should have bought that dip into the threes. I feel like a dum -dum. I guarantee if we touch 3 .99999, I will buy some. If we get anywhere below four cents, I'm gonna get in on some CASPA. Is that too soon? Is that too late? Should I just buy it now? Anyone hold some CASPA, let me know. You know, what do you think of my CASPA strategy? It's more at this point, I don't even care if I have great X return. I'm just mad at myself not having any. And so I'd rather have peace of mind. Peace of mind, just being able to lay your head on the pillow at night, just going to sleep easy. I highly, highly value that. And so I think holding a little bit of CASPA will also make me feel good there. It might not be the best time to be filling your bag with it right now, though. We're currently working on a double top at a level that, back a long time ago on a DA, this was the prediction I called, I hear, right under five cents. We went slightly above it. But right now, when you're looking at oscillators, four hour chart, daily chart two, we're getting overbought flashes at that double top. So I'm not saying it has to fall back down here towards this golden pocket, but more than likely there's a decent chance you could potentially scoop some more up around three cents. All right, so Brian is just too much for him. You know, he said, I give up Deezy, it's too late now. You know, should I buy like, if I buy 20 of them at a nickel for a dollar, like will y 'all not hate me anymore? I just gotta, I'll just get 20 of them. Oh, you can mine it. I do, all right, so I have a 1070 that's like four or five years old in the office. I wonder if it will work with that. I think you need one like Nick got. I think it's a very specific miner. Is it GPU? Yeah. Okay. Just take a better picture with it. All right. One more time. Just for good measure. That's perfect. All right, let's talk a little Cardano here. ADA upgrade, Cardano staking game changer, multi -pool delegation with LACE. The LACE wallet takes a huge developmental leap forward by allowing users to diversify their stake. Joining the ever expanding ecosystem is LACE wallet's latest feature, multi -pool delegation. Employing a unique strategy, they generate several stake keys from the same account, creating a new address for each pool with the set portion of the ADA the user wants to stake with the mechanism. They can now simultaneously stake their tokens in up to five unique pools, diversifying their stake. So yeah, it just makes Cardano more decentralized here. I stake mine with the default NAMI stake pool, Berry, made by Berry Alessandro. Great, great phenomenal builder on Cardano. I have a pinned tweet that'll show you how to download the NAMI wallet. If you wanna, you got some Cardano on an exchange and you're like, hey, I can get three, four, 5 % if I get lucky for free. Meaning if I got 100 and I wait a year, I'll have 104. I don't have to do anything. Okay, yeah, that sounds pretty cool. What if I have 10K? You might get 400 ADA for free. Let's say it does hit $5. That's gonna be $2 ,000 that you can earn by actually just clicking right, clicking, dragging, and then just hitting delegate. Like two mouse clicks can make you 2K if you had 10K Cardano that is. Other new multi -pool delegation feature is vital to the commitment to decentralization, allowing holders to stake across multiple SBOs, centralization, prevents overall promotes a more distributed network that aligns with Cardano's core vision. A shout out to BJ's NES pool, right? He has the NES pool. Pretty good builders on that as well. All right, it looks like we have a updated FTX asset report on Wednesday. We're falling into the X minute. Yeah, okay, okay, yeah. I thought the ADA would have more than one story. Yeah, just one story there. All right, now we're into the X minute, the Xs. Shout out to X -Pac. All right, on Wednesday, they likely get approval to liquidate their 3 .4 billion worth of crypto. Remember, there is false information in this. They can't sell all the Solana until 2028. And, you know, maybe there's going to be a similar situation with something like, I don't know if NIR's on here, but Aptos, I could see a similar situation happening with Aptos. Now their Bitcoin, yeah, they could, I think they'll actually hold it in Bitcoin. The Bitcoin, yeah, they could probably dump all the Bitcoin, but I think there's going to be some tokens with vesting schedules. I think a lot of that information is hidden in secret. And so it's like, we're relying on the whistleblowers here. So just be careful with what you see regarding FTX liquidations. There's a little bit of a false news out there.
Crypto Critics' Corner
A highlight from SBF Deserves Human Rights
"Welcome back everyone. I am Cass P. Ancy. I'm joined as usual by my partner in crime, Mr. Bennett Tomlin. We're both good today. We have already recorded an episode, so we're dumping in... dumping in? That's probably the wrong way to put it. Get him out! What happened to the other? Can't even stop it! The episode's just sliding through its walls! We're pouring trash out of our mouths! We're vomiting and spewing all over you. Hey, works are all in! Not the way I wanted to start this episode, but there you go. Welcome back everyone. We're going to be talking about a subject that I wrote an op -ed about, and Bennett wrote a piece about as well in the newsletter for Protos. Something we both seem to care about that the reaction to was pretty mixed. Honestly, I expected more vitriol for my statement, but yeah, it was pretty mixed. Some people liked it, some people hated it. We're both making the argument that while it is pretty funny, in a sense, to see SPF struggling and in pain, I think everybody gets some real value out of that in terms of they're like, yes! A guy who's hurt so many people, and legitimately, right? This guy has damaged thousands of people, probably ruined dozens if not hundreds of people's lives for a significant, if not forever, amount of time. So seeing him in pain, people are enjoying a lot. But I think that it's a more important point that's being stated by him. And basically, he went to court and said that he's not getting his medications on time. He's on, as far as we know, I don't know how many medications he's on, but we know for sure that he's on NSAAM, and he's on Adderall. Now, Adderall, I'm sure most people are familiar with. It's for treatment of ADHD and some other mental disorders. NSAAM is a pretty serious drug, as far as I can tell, in terms of its effects on you. And it seems like he's taking a lot of it, for both of them. For both the, I guess I don't know, I don't know, I'm not a doctor, I don't know what a lot is. Basically, he's not getting his drugs, and he's not getting the vegan meals he wants. He wants vegan meals, and he's not getting those vegan meals, because I guess the prison system is basically like, why should he? He's not special. But therein lies the problem, which is, don't you think prisoners should be getting the medical treatment they need? And don't you think they should be getting basic food given to them, even if it's something demanded like vegan food or vegetarian food? Yeah, why don't you get us started off on that? No, I think this issue is kind of multifactorial and multifaceted, and I understand why a lot of people are having the feelings they're having. And so first I want to acknowledge that Sam Bankman -Fried's experience with the justice system has been one very much shaped by his privilege, right? Like he was able to find the people to put up his massive bond, and even after like repeated bail violations connecting with the VPN, doing all these other things, he remained free until he started doing what I'm not going to say is legally witness tampering, because I'm not a prosecutor, but that feels a lot like witness intimidation. As soon as he started doing that, now he has to go back to prison. In case anyone is unfamiliar, let me stop you right there. In case anyone is unfamiliar, just so you understand, Sam Bankman -Fried released Caroline Ellison's personal diaries. Now Caroline Ellison was the head of trading over at Alameda Research at the time of the collapse, and he released these very personal kind of sensational diaries to the New York Times, which is just wild, as you said, like he had been reprimanded before for his bail violations and kind of pulled to, he was skating on thin ice already. And I do get why people are like, well, if you didn't want to go back to jail and get treated like crap, maybe you should have thought about that. Understood. But anyway, sorry, I just wanted to give, paint a little color there. Like that's absolutely true. Sam Bankman -Fried was lucky to get the bail conditions he did and should not have been violating them. And repeated violation of bail means he should be in pretrial detention. And like one of the other things that's come up is Lawrence Tribe, a constitutional lawyer, wrote a motion, wrote a letter to the court describing Sam Bankman -Fried's treatment and like insisted that if Sam Bankman -Fried were to be detained, where he was talking about being detained, not having access to a computer would make preparing his defense much more difficult and that represented like a potential constitutional issue. And I think there's a bit of merit there. But, and this gets into like the bigger problem here, that these problems are so much bigger than Sam Bankman -Fried, right? Like not just Sam Bankman -Fried should be able to get their medications and like a diet in accordance with their moral wishes. Everyone being held in pretrial detention is presumed innocent until proven guilty. These are people who deserve to be, like, to have reasonable standards while they're being detained, should have access to things that help them prepare their defenses, should be able to receive medications they need, and the United States justice system fails to provide that for such a vast number of inmates, including, because he is there right now, Sam Bankman -Fried. Yeah, I mean, I think actually part of this for me calls into attention how serious the issues are in the justice and penal systems of the United States of America, right? Because here we have possibly one of the most famous white collar criminals of all time, not just of the past year or two, of all time. He's up there with Elizabeth Holmes and Bernie Madoff. Like this guy is going to go down in history as one of the biggest financial scammers and possibly, allegedly, maybe he'll get off and no crimes were committed in fucking La La Land. But anyway, my point here being that this guy is as big as it gets. And the fact he's still being mistreated in prison or in, sorry, excuse me, in pretrial detention in jail speaks to how broken the system because imagine how the people with no voice are doing right now. Imagine how the people who don't have money to pay for bail even, so end up in prison or in jail for weeks, if not months before they go to trial. Like these are real issues that are happening every day to millions of people, not just SBF. And that's the important part of this. That's why I'm glad there's some attention being brought to it, whether or not people agree with whether SBF should be given these basic human rights. I think he should. Whether other people think so, I guess is just how angry they are with him. Yeah, I especially understand why like other people who have had experiences with the criminal justice system might end up feeling particularly frustrated themselves because they'll be, they may see it as, I had it even worse than that and I didn't even steal $9 billion from my customers, you know? And so I certainly understand there's lots of reasons for lots of people to be lashing out, but like you said, fundamentally the thing is people deserve rights. They deserve to have access to these things that help them form their defenses and they deserve a strenuous defense on their behalf in the justice system. And those things are important, those things, we should strive to provide those to everyone. And everyone happens to include him. Yes, and a lot of these issues are totally fixable as far as I'm concerned. Like vegan meals, there's a lot of people pushing back on my statements about that. I was like, oh, give him his vegan meals, just give it to him. Everyone's like, well, he doesn't necessarily deserve to have, it's not like it's covered by the Constitution. And i .e. there are prisoners who are Jewish or Muslim in prison who are given kosher meals and halal meals, right? To meet their religious needs. The pushback for the veganism that I heard was, well, this isn't a religious thing. I want to push back on that and just say one, vegan meals are incredibly easy to cook. We're talking about rice, bread and vegetables. Like if you're not already, if you don't already have those things available for prisoners, there's a problem. All of those ingredients should be actively there for you to be able to make this thing. I know that they make vegetarian meals for vegetarian, probably because there's Hindu prisoners, and some of them need to follow strict vegetarian meals and guidelines, right? But we are equipped to handle this. We have the money, we have the rules and regulations in place that this should not be an issue. It's crazy to me to push back on the idea that this guy can eat vegan food in prison. The thing I want to highlight there is there often are legal protections for people with sincerely held religious beliefs to get access to certain things, like you're talking about kosher halal and things like that, and often our prison system fails to do what it's legally supposed to in many of those cases as well. Again, this is just an example of the pattern and history of human rights abuses across the U .S. penal system. There's a reason international human rights organizations regularly raise alarms about the U .S. prison system, and it's because there are regular and massive human rights abuses in our prison system. Yep, and that brings up another point that I brought up, which is people I think like to assume like, oh, well, this guy's a big fucking scammer. He deserves to rot in jail and get shivved and get treated like shit. I hope that's what happens. And I go, okay, just for some perspective here, 5 % of the entire U .S. population is going to spend some time behind bars. So if you're not the one who ends up in jail at some point or in prison at some point, someone you know absolutely will, 100 % sure, 100 % sure, right? If you go outside and meet people, someone you know will go to jail or prison. Do you want them to be treated respectfully and with dignity, or do you not give a shit? Do you really think like anyone who's in jail, anyone who's in prison deserves the worst kind of treatment? It's time to reflect on these things, you know? We live in a society. It's true, though. Like we shouldn't be, the fact that it's such punitive measures, right, instead of worrying about recidivism, instead of worrying about rehabilitation, instead of worrying about making sure that these people don't repeat their fucking problems when they go back into society, we're focused on hurting people as much as possible. And the reality is, if Sam Bankman Freed gets 15 years in prison or something, 10, 15, 20, and is treated like horseshit the entire time, like no human rights, do you think he's going to come out a like capable and reasonable human being? At least if you try to rehabilitate him, he's not necessarily going to be as bad. At least you can say you tried. Like just damaging someone repeatedly, we know what that does to people. So I just don't understand this at all. And I think people need to reevaluate their, like vengeance is just so easy. And I think people really need to reevaluate where their morals and ethics lie when it comes to this. I get it. It's easy to hate SPF. He is a total scammer. He lies constantly. The dude cannot open his mouth and speak any honest truth for years on end. He's like, his behavior is disgusting. He's as despicable as it gets without getting into like murder and other horrifying crimes. Right. He's disgusting. Fine. He's also a human being. Like, I don't know, man. It just the reaction was just so it was kind of like, man, I don't understand how so many people think this is acceptable. Yeah. And like that's what you're up with. Ed was about. And there was definitely a lot of people who agree that human beings deserve treatment as human beings, which is good. The other thing I want to talk about besides this, which is also something we talked about a little bit in our Reggie Fowler episode, if people want to go back and listen to that. There's been still conspiracy theories about Sam Bankman Fried and his ongoing criminal prosecution, including the fact that as part of our extradition treaty with the Bahamas, we have certain responsibilities about when charges are introduced and when people are extradited. And those were not necessarily followed with Sam Bankman Fried, which has since required certain charges to be removed from the current trial date. And the allegations either incorporated in to other existing charges or other charges are pending reintroduction for months down the line. Yes. And so those charges are not really going away. And as we've talked about before in the case of Sam Bankman Fried, if prosecutors really wanted, they could go through and add one wire fraud charge for like every single person who sent money to Alameda Research under like the false pretenses that it was going to FTX or something. Right. And so prosecutors can and potentially will still scale up his prosecution in the future if that's what they think is justified and appropriate. So I've just been a little bit frustrated with some of the conspiracy theories around those dropping of charges. And like the other thing I want to emphasize, just to kind of make sure people understand this, just because Sam Bankman Fried is pleading not guilty right now does not mean he will continue to plead not guilty. Often you are required to plead not guilty initially, even if you think you are guilty, just because like the system's not ready for you to plead guilty yet. And like that's an actual thing that exists. And I want to be clear here, too. If you have a capable legal team behind you, which as far as I know he does, you're generally not going to plead guilty right away. Why? Well, you're not going to get anything in return, right? If they don't offer you anything and you go, I plead guilty. Well, they're going to accept your guilty plea and they are going to hang you from the gallows. You've got to get something in return. And to get something in return, you're going to play a little bit of a game. And that, unfortunately, whether we like it or not, is a part of the legal system. Right. So you have to have something for them, for you to plead guilty, give them something and them to be like, OK, well, then we'll cut you a deal. And that's what SPF is hoping will happen. That doesn't mean that's what happens. That doesn't mean he gets only five years or only 10 years or who knows. But that's what SPF wants to happen. And we don't know if it will. Yeah. Sam Bankman Fried's goal, as far as I can tell right now, is basically to muddy the waters, cast doubt on key witnesses and the evidence they're introducing. Try to place the blame like his mens rea, his head state for many of these decisions. Say that that state was induced by legal counsel and other things to make it so that prosecutors don't want to add more charges. That'll be hard to prove. So that, like you're saying, he can eventually come up with some deal where he shares whatever information he does have in exchange for a reduced sentence. Yada, yada, yada. That's the meta probably of what his team is planning to do. The other thing I want to emphasize to people is from where I'm sitting, and again, we're not lawyers, we're definitely not prosecutors, we're not experts. But it seems quite likely to me that Sam Bankman Fried is going to prison for much longer than Sam Bankman Fried would want to go to prison. Any time is more than he wants. Yeah, but there are already guilty pleas from almost all the rest of like the top executives at FTX. They have full cooperation, access to all the communications, like all the text messages, all the records, all the logs. They have such an over what, four million pages or something was the initial like discovery they're sending over to him. There are massive quantities of evidence, powerful cooperating witnesses, like he's in a really bad place. And that's just for evidence. I want people to understand that. This is just, we're just saying like, oh shit, there's a lot of evidence against this guy. So he's in trouble on that front. But I want to point people to a recent guilty white collar criminal, Elizabeth Holmes, okay? She is going to be doing nine years in a federal prison, okay? She just had her second baby. She was pregnant during the trial. If that isn't going to win you some, you know, benefit of the doubt and some, oh my gosh, well at least, you know, she's a mother now. We got to make sure that she's able to spend time with her kids and they don't grow up without a mom and blah, blah, blah. She's doing nine years behind bars for her crimes. She didn't hurt nearly as many people as Sam Bankman Fried. She only hurt mostly just very wealthy people. So like in terms of that, just reflect on that, right? That's nine years for someone who did essentially a smaller fraud that hurt less people and is a more sympathetic character. You think SPF is going to get off? Fucking wake up, dude. There's not a chance in the world. I'll bet anyone. If you think he's not going to, if you think he's genuinely going to do no time, I'll bet anybody. I'll bet anyone. But Cass, Cass, he donated to President Biden and was part of some vague conspiracy involving Zelinski. And he met up with Gary Gersler, right? Whatever. I just don't, it's so, it's so, I'm so past it. And then, and for me, the one thing I also want to emphasize here is how obviously failed the cash bail bond mechanism is in general, right? And I think proof of this is SPF. SPF gets $250 million bail bond. Obviously, the way it works, in case anyone's unfamiliar, is you pay roughly 10 % of that and you can get out. If you don't have the money to pay for it yourself or the collateral to pay for it yourself, you can usually get a bail bondsman to take on that, that collateral obligation for you partially, and then you have to pay back a loan on that obligation. What did this accomplish, right? We have to reflect on this. What did it accomplish? He put up, they put up $250 million to get Sam Bankenfried out of detention. Then he goes out, he starts spreading rumors, getting in touch with journalists he's not supposed to, breaking all the rules of the bail that he was given with this money and this collateral, and now he's back in detention again. So it accomplished nothing. It allowed him to break some rules and, as you said, muddy the waters and make things more complex and weird. Another individual who just got a big, gigantic, I think the largest in history in terms of actually being paid for, Joe Lewis, who is the owner of Tottenham Hotspur and the Albany, which is where SPF was living when he got in trouble. This guy just got in trouble, too, for insider trading and fraud, and he put up a $300 million bail with his yacht and private jet. So what do we think this is going to do? I mean, this guy's a billionaire. He can buy a new jet tomorrow. He can buy a new yacht tomorrow. It doesn't matter. He can go run away if he needs to. Nothing is going to stop him from doing that, right? Unless you put an ankle monitor around him. You ensure that you're tracking him with GPS and satellite tracking, that you ensure that he isn't leaving the country. You take his passport. There are protocols to ensure it, and none of it has to do with money. We need to get rid of this cash bail bond system, like, immediately. It doesn't make any sense at all. I strongly agree. I think the cash bail bond system is, like, one of the clearest examples in our criminal justice system of how we have codified a certain privilege for the most privileged, right? That once you have money, you can avoid these things that others can't. And as you're saying, the only real differentiator between these cases is whether or not you have money when you're accused of a crime. That shouldn't be the goal of our system. The platonic ideal of our legal system is one that treats, like, the most downtrodden and the most, like, wealthy and powerful as equal as you possibly can. And, like, there's limits within reason of how far you can take that, perhaps, but, like, that's the ideal, and cash bail bond is just one example of where we don't even try to do that. Yeah, that's right. It's just an obvious advantage for rich people, and really no advantage for anyone who doesn't have the income to deal with this kind of thing. Yeah, it's just a very gross, gross, broken system that needs fixing. Well, and if you listen to, like, testimony of certain convicts and stuff, like, when you are destitute prosecutors and DAs have been accused of using that as leverage, basically, because they know you're going back into whatever horrible detention facility you're in, they know you're more desperate to strike a deal or to say whatever to do whatever because you don't want to go back. Right. And to be clear, like, it's one of the founding principles of our country is kind of this innocent until proven guilty, right, that you aren't going to be treated like you are guilty, even if everyone, like, watched you do the crime. Like, until we prove it in a court of law, you are innocent, and so, like, reasonable bail without having to pay an arm and a leg just seems like the right thing to do here as a country to follow our guiding principles. Like, maybe I'm shouting into the void here, but like this, it's just something I think is necessary for us to talk about, and something I really do think can be fixed within our lifetime. Like, I don't expect the entire penal system to get overturned. I hate the idea that private prisons do what they do in our country. Yeah, that they exist. Like, that they aren't more heavily regulated. Like, that's why there's so many people in prison in our country. I have no doubt about that. But, like, if we're not going to change that anytime soon, and we're not, then the least we can do is ensure that bail bond is working properly, that prisoners are getting their medicine, that prisoners are getting the food that they need. Like, obviously within reason, right? If somebody says, I'm on an only Wagyu steak diet or something, I understand being like, go fuck yourself. Who's going to be the first indicted Bitcoiner to argue that they have a moral conviction that requires them to have only red meat? I would think they would already be in there, right? There's got to be a few dudes who are already in prison trying to argue that already. That I don't fucking buy. There's a limit to even how far I will go in terms of my sympathy. But yes, I do think we need to reform this stuff. SPF is a good jumping off point for that, so we thought it was worth talking about. I understand some people are just going to be like, SPF isn't going to change this. But we can make this a point of retention of this information for everyone in crypto. To be like, we need to change this. A lot of people do focus on this stuff and they understand the corruptness of it in cryptocurrency, and that's good. But a lot of people also don't care about criminal reform and the justice system. And I think it's probably time to think about it. Because some of you are definitely going to go to prison.
The Dan Bongino Show
Georgia Judge Shuts Down Effort to Try Trump & Co-Defendants Together
"It's not easy, I'm going to take the easy way out and give you a little bit of a sweetheart plea deal. We'll see. But there was another issue that happened, two issues actually, that happened legally speaking in the course of the last 12 hours or so. You had one rejection of a shady tactic by the Fulton County DA go down. I mean, you got 876 more of them to dismiss. But at this point, the good news for Donald Trump and others is that the request by the DA, Fannie Willis, out in Fulton County, Georgia, she where attempted to try all, how many people have been indicted, 12 million people because they breathed a error in a state while using the system to challenge results the way that they're allowed to do. She took them all at the same time, which was never, ever, ever, ever, ever, plus 12 more evers times times pie ever going to happen. And that she brought it up suggests that she's an even bigger clown than any of us ever realized. And I think most people probably saw when she made her announcement a few weeks ago in that late night conference, we saw incompetence behind that podium. But now, I think everyone can say, Yeah, no, we thought it was kind of weird. She wanted to try everybody at the same time thinking that was that even feasible. We thought that that was weird. I guess it was because the judge Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McCaffie said, Nah, not going to do it. He's quoted as saying in his decision. The court joins the skepticism expressed by several federal courts that denying severance always ensures efficiency, especially in mega trials such as this. Now, what does this mean? Other than the obvious of not everyone's going to be tried at the same time? Well, it means Trump is not going to be in a courtroom
Mark Levin
Sen. Tom Cotton: Why Dems Are Relying on the 14th Amendment
"14th Amendment. The 14th Amendment says that if you committed insurrection or rebellion against the United States, you're not eligible for federal office. This is written in the aftermath of the Civil War. It was used then to ensure that unreconstructed Confederates could never serve in federal office again. Obviously, it doesn't apply today. Donald Trump hasn't been convicted of much less even charged with insurrection. And we all know that if Jack Smith, the rabid zealot that Merrick Garland appointed prosecute to Donald Trump could have charged insurrection. Obviously, he would have. But now got you've Democrats in places like Colorado who are talking about unilaterally through partisan officers state like a Secretary of State or Attorney General removing Donald Trump from the ballot in those states. This is a very, very dangerous road to go down. And I would suggest to the Democrats as I have from the very beginning about Donald Trump. And for that matter, any other Republican they don't like, they're going to take him at the ballot box. You know, it's amazing, Senator, you make great points. On the one hand, they say he's the easiest to beat. On the other hand, they're doing everything they can to bury him alive. What do you make of 91 charges? really different, one, two, I guess five different grand juries. Democrat DAs, you have a Democrat regime special counsel. All the juries will be up made of largely anti -Trump Democrats. The judges are largely anti -Trump Democrats, not all but most pretty bad, don't you think? Again, Mark, it gets back to the point about trying to stop Donald Trump by means other than simply defeating him at the ballot because Democrats the could have pursued these
The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from The 110-Year War
"Full disclaimer, I will be watching NFL football tonight. I don't like it. They're a little too wokey for me. I just like football too much. I think it's the Chiefs and the Lions. Don't sleep on the Lions everybody. I'll tell you, they want it bad. So as tonight NFL football begins and it is the kickoff, if you will, of the NFL season. There's also another kickoff. You know, we asked Charlie, what about the 2024 election? The 2024 election is about a year and a way. No, no, no, it's happening right now, obviously. But there's a very, very important fight looming in real time right now. I believe it is the opening kick of the 2024 election. It's 930, September 30th. The federal government needs to pass a short -term funding bill by September 30th or there will be a government shutdown. Now, you may or may not remember this, but you remember about a year and a half ago, there was a massive bill that was passed, a huge bill, not a year. It was voted on by Senator Shelby from Alabama. He was the chief person who brought this forward where they basically robbed the House of Representatives, the incoming class. It was about 10 months ago of their ability to negotiate the budget, where they kicked it all the way to this date, September 30th. So the federal government needs to pass a short -term funding bill by September 30th. The Biden regime is asking that in addition to all the normal stuff, that Congress adds $44 billion on top of that in emergency spending, $16 billion for FEMA, $24 billion for Ukraine, on top of the $200 billion already spent on Ukraine. But the most important thing is this, is that we're seeing in real time the destruction, the erosion, the shredding of the United States Constitution. We see Jack Smith, an out -of -control rogue prosecutor, Merrick Garland, the Department of Justice. We see the number one political opponent to the regime who is beating him in the polls. Fact, he's beating him in the polls, whether they're truth polls or not. It's just fact, he's beating him in the polls, facing 500 years in federal prison. Many people are asking, Charlie, what can we do? What can we do? What can we do? How do we fight? How do we push back against? How do we fight? The 30th of September is a day where we can fight. It's a day where we can draw a line in the sand and we can defund the deep state. We have the House of Representatives. We have a majority. Now, I'm going to say something that is a little bit not unpopular, but it's different. I fully support the impeachment of Joe Biden. In fact, we should have done it three or four months ago. But I actually think defunding these agencies should be a bigger priority than the impeachment of Joe Biden. I'm not saying that we shouldn't impeach Joe Biden, but I actually think a more effective way to make long -lasting change, a more effective way to use the political power that the people gave the Republican majority is to defang the tyrants, is to go after these agencies. Now, let's play this out for a second. Joe Biden is a traitor to the nation. So I think that we should pass a clean impeachment resolution, send it to the Senate. But I don't think we should spend too much time on it. I think that's a very valuable time to go and impeach and investigate a guy that we already know who is an outright criminal. He's a traitor. He should be in Gitmo in federal prison for the rest of his life, as is his son. But does that have long -lasting change? Wouldn't it be more effective to tell the FBI you don't get your new building? You have to reduce your headcount by 20 or 30 percent. Tell the Department of Defense you're not allowed to have gay poems on aircraft carriers anymore, that trans whatever individuals are not going to be allowed in the military. Isn't this a more effective way? And the most important one that's obviously staring us in the face, Department of Justice. Are we going to keep on funding Merrick Garland? Will we have the leverage and we have the ability to say no? Now, the bad guys, the Democrats and the Uniparty Republicans, they want a clean resolution, a clean CR. Well, time out here. Hold on. You guys are going after every potential political dissident. Steve Bannon, 1 ,200 January 6 defendants. You're weaponizing the entire government and we're sitting there and taking it. And we've been saying on this program time and time again, well, where are the Republican AGs? Answer, not around. Not interested in doing anything bold or courageous. Where are the Republican DAs? They're not interested. They do not want to do anything bold or courageous. So how do we end this abuse? Now, understand this is not standard politics. This is a crisis. And in a crisis, we should act differently than we normally do. The one way we have to actually act at a federal level is for the House not to fund what Biden needs. So directly focus on five or six. Don't ask for the whole world. You're not going to get the world. But identify five or six of the Soviet Gestapo pressure points of the regime. Star of the beast. All funding must start in the House, period. Nothing the Biden regime does can happen without the House GOP offering up money for them to do it. Now, we should not fund a single dollar to Ukraine. But if we're thinking realistically, they're going to figure out some way to get Ukrainian funding. So if we were smart, we'd say, OK, they really want Ukraine funding. Use that as leverage then. Say, OK, so you really want Ukraine funding. Then there has to be border wall, border security. But more important than all of that, it is the lack of funding that we have to draw the line on. You don't get Jack Smith. You want Zelensky? No Jack Smith. And they'll say, well, you're going to shut down the government. OK. You want Zelensky? No Jack Smith. That's a popular position. And by the way, if you pick the fights, you can win. Majority of people are not in favor of the criminalization of Donald Trump. Jack Smith is the bright line. No Jack Smith, period. Jack Smith and his entire operation. Now, this is an interesting question, Blake and the team. Is Jack Smith an essential government worker or not if there was a shutdown? If we shut down the government, does that mean that Jack Smith and his team would still be operating? Now, again, one of the most frustrating things we go through every time there's a government shutdown is all of a sudden they say, well, these are essential and not essential government workers. If they're not essential, why do they have jobs? If they're not essential, why do they operate? Now, under Bob Mueller, when Bob Mueller was a special counsel, his office continued to work in the event of a government shutdown. OK, but even beyond a government shutdown, we need to defund Jack Smith, line item Jack Smith, carve it out and say, Jack Smith, you do not get another penny of U .S. taxpayer dollars, period. That's a good way to end Jack Smith. And the House Republicans have the entire ability to do that. We need to find the parts of the deep state that are grinding the American people to a halt. And it goes to the FBI, the DOJ, DHS, isolate them and starve that beast. And you're not going to get the entire budget down to zero. So get even more particular. Again, Congress, they don't do their job, unfortunately. So find Jack Smith's budget, which by the way, Jack Smith's budget is probably like $15 million. Like maybe, maybe, maybe like $9 million. And you could say in the funding resolution, you're done. Your team no longer authorized. These agencies have to go to Congress for money. And on the 30th of September, it is all bubbling up. Matt Gaetz and Andy Ogles have introduced similar pieces of legislation to deny federal funding for the special counsel. This is the line, everybody. We will not put up with our funding, our money to a Democrat super PAC, which is what Jack Smith has become. Jack Smith is a Democrat super PAC operator with subpoena power and the ability to put people in prison with handcuffs. Shut down the government over this, over the very specific principled stand. You go after Donald Trump and try to put him in 500 years in federal prison. The government's getting shut down. That would be hardball. I want to tell you guys about Good Ranchers. You heard me talk about it before, but it's new and improved Good Ranchers. I had Good Ranchers for our Shabbat dinner last week, and it was amazing. Look, Good Ranchers, they have better beef than ever. Their ground beef is better than ever. 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The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Who Is Worse? Blackrock Or The Catholic Church (Biggest Money Cartel In History)
"Are you ready to wage a war without end against you? Are you ready to wage that war armed with nothing but bottomless poverty? I didn't think so. In that case, stop talking bullshit. And get yourself some shoes, because the air in here is unbreathable. Money corrupts, and that's not news. Today, it's Black Rock, Vanguard, and State Street. But not too long ago, there's an entity that held even more power than those multinational conglomerates. We're going to take a step back in time to the Catholic Church of the Renaissance and learn how it basically controlled everything it touched and how the game has stayed pretty much the same through the 21st century. We may just find similarities to how banks, hedge funds, and the uber wealthy elite wield political power today. Let's get it. Now, before you get your commenting fingers twitching about how I'm being mean to Catholics, know that I'm just talking about a political institution 500 years ago. I'm not talking about Catholicism as a religious practice or the church today. You do you when it comes to religion. This is America. Okay, now let's get back to the Renaissance. One big similarity the old school church has with our tradfi overlords is the emphasis on secrecy. Both institutions are shrouded in mystery. No one really knows their entire net worth or their intentions. Well, other than maintaining the status quo so they can rake in as much money as possible, both the Catholic Church and the banks have covered up scandal and corruption time after time so they can continue business as usual. Back in Da Vinci's time, there are all sorts of rumors of popes and other church officials not exactly keeping up with the Christian morals they were preaching. There is abuses of all kinds, incest, orgies, mistresses, bribery. We're not even talking about the polycule. You name the sin, the Renaissance popes were probably doing it. There is even a pope who supposedly drank children's blood. And that same corruption seems to be rampant within the banks and hedge funds in modern times. JP Morgan was found to be handling the payments between Epstein and the people he was trafficking with. In fact, the number of billionaires with connections to Epstein are startling. What were you doing on the island? And we'd probably hear more about similar corruption and scandals within Black Rock, Vanguard and State Street if they didn't own basically every news organization in the US. But we'll get to that a bit later. For now, the big boys just pay a lot of fines for doing bad things. And that brings us to the first tool you need if you want to control everything. Here's a hint. It's all about the money. Have you ever heard the phrase, money is power? Well, I'm pretty sure the Renaissance Church invented that concept. Most economists reckon the wealth of the modern day Catholic Church is actually immeasurable due to all the priceless artwork, artifacts and the money laundering going on. And the reported $30 billion net worth is still high despite countries going through a Protestant Reformation during the Renaissance and subsequently reclaiming church lands. So just imagine how much land and property the church owned back when Catholicism was the only thing on the Christian menu. Although it's really hard to know for sure just how much cash the pope was raking in during the Renaissance, economists estimate it would be a little over $40 million annually in today's terms. And remember, this income doesn't include the land or artwork they're receiving as gifts or claiming by force. This gave the pope the kind of capital countries are usually playing with. And thus, the church had the same power as monarchs. Some would argue even more. And folks, we may have ditched the funny tights and corsets or maybe you have, but we have the same kind of issue today. Vanguard, Black Creek and State Street manage almost $20 trillion, which is almost more than the U .S.'s GDP. And not only do they control more wealth than most countries in the world, those hedge funds are also managing wealth for countries, which creates a vicious, incestual cycle of corruption. Back in 2016, Forbes reported that the wealth gap is worse today than it was in the Middle Ages. And that's not very hard to believe when we know the top 1 % holds 15 times more wealth than the bottom 50 % of America. And during the COVID lockdown, the 10 richest billionaires doubled their fortunes, while 160 million people fell into poverty. So how did both the uber wealthy of the modern day and the ancient Catholic Church amass this kind of wealth? Well, the church had millions of people tithing 10 % of their income. Doesn't this sound a bit like the interest we pay banks on loans and banking fees? And 10 % is nothing in comparison to the types of interest we pay just to exist in the modern world. The highest credit card is over 30%, and most of us are paying somewhere in the 20s. And because the Fed is raising rates, other borrowing is getting more expensive, too. Student loan rates have increased, and taking out a loan to buy a home is nearly impossible these days because rates have almost tripled. mortgage rates haven't been above 6 % since the housing crisis in 2008. And yet, somehow, it's only us plebs who are paying these kinds of rates to borrow money. The corporations like BlackRock and JP Morgan take out loans with nearly 0 % interest. In fact, the wealthier you are, the less banks deem you as a risk. So you get the best rates. But in reality, this turns into a vicious cycle where the hyper wealthy hoard more money and the poor can't afford to borrow. Right now, the average interest for a personal loan is between 6 % and 36%, where the average interest for businesses is 2 % to 13%. Interest is leveraged against the average American the same way the Catholic Church used to leverage Ursary Usury is the practice of charging interest, and it used to be the biggest sin you could commit. But the church got creative with how it weaponized usury. It didn't go after wealthy banking families like the Medicis, who supplied the church with gifts and managed church money for free. The church conveniently cracked down on the practice so that the lower classes wouldn't have access to the extra capital that would give them the opportunity for upward mobility. It's wild how the past is so similar to our present. Why do you think day traders and TradFi have to keep at least $25 ,000 in their accounts? Supposedly, it's to protect the poor from the volatility of the market. But the way I see it, it's just another method of keeping smart people from changing their economic circumstances. And who do you think pressured the SEC to create that law in the first place? I'm willing to bet it was a giant money manager like State Street, Vanguard and BlackRock. They would like to have a monopoly on trading and hand all of us regular Joes a measly little 0 .01 % or whatever the bank interest is these days. I say no. And I want more than a toaster. And speaking of monopolies, the Catholic Church had a monopoly on salvation during the Renaissance, so people couldn't exactly go around negotiating that 10 % tithing rule or what exactly counted as a sin. It's really similar to how we can't really negotiate modern prices in this supposedly free market. The monopoly aspect is something the church and our wealthiest modern day corporations have in common. Look at the bank failures recently. Despite Jamie Dimon claiming the smaller banks are good for our financial ecosystem, Chase was very quick to gobble up the banks that went under. If we weren't there already, we're scarily close to a bank monopoly. Another way the Catholic Church made money was selling indulgences to rid the nobility of their sins. The Renaissance nobility were up to some shady things too and needed to be seen as moral so they could stay in power. The most corrupt nobles could buy a spot in heaven by donating land or commissioning artwork. Doesn't this feel a lot like government subsidies and contracts for major corporations? Hey, you want to look like you support green energy? Give Elon Musk millions to play with. Oh sure, Blackstone, we'll subsidize your billion dollar debt with taxpayer money because it makes us look like we're stimulating the economy. No problem. Another modern means of absolution is corporations using carbon credits to pay off their climate sins. This is how companies like Exxon have a higher ESG score than Tesla. They know who's palm to grease. Another great way to amass incomparable wealth is to be able to claim yourself as tax -free. If you can pull that off, it's an amazing feat. Just ask the NFL. Throughout history, the Catholic Church found ways to skirt taxation by the state and that practice is alive and well today. Do you think Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos are paying income taxes? I hate taxes. You hate taxes. We all hate taxes. But in our current society, we pay them. And it's a little more than unfair that the wealthiest among us are acting like they're tax exempt. Both the mega wealthy and the Catholic Church of the Renaissance controlled education and access to information. So kind of like mind control. The church kept their religious texts in Latin to keep the masses from being able to access it themselves. We already talked about how they also chose a lot of their sins to maintain the status quo in social hierarchy. It's a sin if you don't hit the like button. Similarly, corporate lobbyists have forced the government to slash education funding. That combined with other factors have made tuition exorbitantly high. We already talked about the student loan issue. Most people can't even afford college anymore. And if you take your education into your own hands by trying to stay up to date on news and media, you'll quickly realize almost every media company is owned by major corporations who have BlackRock and Vanguard as their primary investors. So you can't always trust what they're telling you because they have an agenda to stay in power. That's why it's hard to find information on the full extent of the corruption of the likes of BlackRock and Vanguard. I'm sure many reporters have pitched stories that have been shut down by the shady higher -ups. But here at BitBoy Crypto, we're proud to bring you the content that can't be bought by dark Wall Street money. Finally, that brings us to the third way the church and finance sectors control the world. It's not what you know, but who you know. And you know me. And I know you know that I know you. Political wheeling and dealing. And if that doesn't work, position your family members in places of power. Every royal court and government had pupil ambassadors that would ride back and forth through the Vatican and other church lands negotiating with church officials. That sounds a lot like a very early version of a lobbyist to me. And because as the head of the church, the pope had immense power, he was able to recommend marriages, which usually involved installing a member of his family at a high position. Pope Alexander VI married his daughter, Lucretia Borgia, off three different times. He simply annulled her first marriage when her husband was no longer politically advantageous and the Borgias may or may not have been responsible for murdering Lucretia's second husband. Pope Clement VII married one of his family members, Catherine de Medici, to the future king of France, which was a helpful political alliance during a time fraught with Protestant uprisings. This should all sound very familiar because the majority of our politicians, no matter the political party, have familial or social ties to banks, hedge funds, and the uber wealthy elite. There are so many examples of this, we can't list them all, but here are a few to sink your teeth into. George W. Bush had an uncle who provided discreet banking services for people in Washington, DC, and his brother Jeb also worked in banking before politics. Then you have the Clintons, whose son -in -law is an investor at a Texas private equity firm. Trump is friends with all sorts of sketchy billionaires across the globe. And look at Jared Kushner. And then you have Biden, whose son Hunter has been a hedge fund principal, venture capitalist, private equity fund investor, and painter. And now we have even more of Jamie Dimon's shenanigans. He doesn't have enough power running the largest bank of America. He's thinking of going into politics? And remember, guys, political corruption is like an iceberg. The evidence we have is just the tip due to how good they are at covering their tracks. And the Renaissance pope's habit of just making princes is exactly what our financial overlords do today. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne the Holy Roman Emperor out of nowhere, and Pope Alexander VI made one of the sons he had with his official mistress, a prince who supposedly inspired Machiavelli's The Prince. I don't think he inspired the artist, though. BlackRock and the likes are making princes, too. This is where we get into the modern day campaign financing, where it costs millions to be democratically elected prince. In 2016, only 158 families controlled 50 % of campaign financing. Our biggest banks spend millions on campaign financing for Republicans and Democrats every year, and that's just the money they actually report. There's a bigger, more illicit pool of dark money that controls politics. And if you think they're spending billions on these politicians just to be nice, think again. Nobody spends something for nothing. Billionaire Bernard Schwartz is quoted as saying, I don't ask politicians to do what I say. I want them to hear me when I have a problem. And according to Vanity Fair, BlackRock's CEO Larry Fink loved to go around saying that he told Washington what to do. Doesn't all this sound a bit like the Catholic Church saying, Well, you technically can do what you want, but if you don't do what I say, your soul will spend eternity in a very hot, not -so -nice place. You don't want to know where that poker goes. And now we get to number four on our list. It is better to be feared than to be loved. Also known as scare tactics. If the immense wealth, information control, and political corruption wasn't enough to scare the living daylights out of you, the Renaissance Catholic Church took it to a whole other level. The way the church portrayed hell through artwork and story was absolutely terrifying. Of course you're going to do whatever the Pope says to save yourself from eternal damnation. And the banks and hedge funds do this too. Make sure you have an IRA because if you aren't getting our measly 5 % every year, how will you possibly be able to retire? Don't worry, that number barely covers inflation on a good year. And if you don't buy things with credit cards or open a car loan and pay his interest, you won't have credit to buy a house later. And finally, this one's my favorite, guys. If you don't bail us out, the entire world will explode. We're too big to fail. And now we get to the final element you will need to succeed at controlling everything. Drum roll, please. Military power. Plato said, All wars are fought for the sake of getting money. And folks, he was probably right. The Pope would also deem certain wars holy and approve military actions. When Henry VIII left the church, the Pope excommunicated him and told his people that rising up against him was holy because he'd gone against God. Pope Alexander VI issued the Enter Saterra, which authorized Spain and Portugal to colonize, convert and enslave the Americas. And sometimes the Pope would even command armies himself. Did you know the Pope raised and commanded the army that was responsible for the Crusades? So I guess that we can be thankful that the hedge funds and banks haven't started raising their own armies. But then again, why would they when they have the entire government under their thumb and they could spend the free time bathing in gold? Today, massive corporate institutions lobby in favor of warfare because it benefits them financially. Corporations have made billions from the war in Ukraine and the Iraq war was conceived to financially benefit oil companies and their investors. Just look how much BlackRock has invested in military weapons. $56 .74 billion. And you can't tell me they don't have a financial interest in the military industrial complex. That was a lot of info, guys. And I'm impressed you stuck with us for this trip down History Lane. I don't want to leave you on a gloom and doom note, however. Here's the bright side, folks. The Protestant Reformation did come as a reaction to the Catholic Church's corruption and power. And hundreds of years later, the church is still powerful. Nowhere near as powerful as they were during the Renaissance. We have the same opportunity to throw off the yoke of the banks and hedge funds that control our current financial system and government. That's where crypto comes in. No matter how much they try to manipulate the market, they can't control our gains, especially when we think long term. Do your research. Find out who the biggest investors are in the companies you buy from and patronize smaller businesses. Take your business or credit unions instead of feeding the pockets of the giant banks. Really question what politicians are telling you and push for campaign finance reform. This is a potential future where we all are free. That's all I have for you guys. DZ out.
The Breakdown
A highlight from The Treasury's Broker Definition Could Crush US Crypto
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me and LW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Monday, August 28th, and today we are talking about the new broker definitions from the US Treasury and all of the scuttlebutt around them. 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 late summer weekend. Today we are getting into news that broke just before the beginning of the weekend but has continued to reverberate throughout. The US Treasury has finally released their definition of a broker as part of broader crypto tax reporting rules. The nearly 300 -page rule proposal was published on Friday to codify language in the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The rule would require centralized crypto exchanges, payment processors, and other entities that regularly redeem crypto issued by them to report customer transactions to the IRS in a similar way to stockbrokers. Now the issue is that the definition of broker is so broad that it captures some hosted wallet services, some DeFi applications, and potentially much more. In addition to the reporting requirements, the rulemaking introduces a new dedicated tax form, the 1099 -DA, which settles confusion around which form crypto brokers should file. Miners and validators are expressly excluded from the reporting requirements, but the rules seek to capture essentially all other web -based services that provide access to trading platforms within their own user interface. Now of course, this set of rules was controversial from the start. In late 2021, as the infrastructure bill was being negotiated, there was an industry outcry that the rulemaking instructions as drafted would be unworkable. These concerns were shared by many lawmakers, including a small group of pro -crypto -democrats. Still the loudest complaint came from Republican Patrick McHenry, who said the current language is completely unacceptable, it needs to be fixed. The major concern in 2021 was that the loose language would be used to put reporting requirements on miners, validators, and self -hosted wallet providers, who plainly did not have the personal information and transaction data required to comply. As the bill moved towards a vote, the Treasury attempted to ease nerves. One source told Bloomberg that the Treasury Department wasn't looking to go after businesses that don't have transaction data, however they noted that much of the lobbying was aimed at limiting the Treasury Department's authority to collect legitimate tax information. This was viewed as an indication that the rules were not intended to place an unworkable reporting burden on miners and validators. The Treasury has stuck to their word on this end and ensured that the rules do not apply to those groups within the crypto ecosystem. Alexis Goldstein, Financial Policy Director at the Open Markets Institute, and frequent anti -crypto witness at Congressional Testimonies, argued that DeFi protocols should not be given a carve -out from the new rules. She said at the time, Ultimately, an eleventh -hour effort to amend the language in the bill was snuffed out by an unrelated procedural quirk which forced an unamended vote. Crypto lobbyists recognized that the rules would need to be objected to once published. Since then, there have been multiple legislative efforts to repeal the rules before they were issued but none have progressed. The rulemaking is being justified as a measure to close the tax gap. The Joint Committee on Taxation estimated that these provisions would raise up to $28 billion in additional tax payments over the next decade. The Biden Administration and the IRS under them view unpaid taxes on digital asset trading as a major contributor to the tax gap which is the difference between taxes owed and taxes collected. Some estimates put this overall tax gap issue in the ballpark of $500 billion per year. The Treasury directly addressed this issue as the reasoning behind the rulemaking and stated that it was an effort to crack down on tax cheats while helping law -abiding taxpayers know how much they owe on the sale or exchange of digital assets. This isn't really the main point but obviously the crypto industry as a source of tax revenue looks very different to the way it looked in mid -2021 when the infrastructure bill was passed. And what's more, even if somehow this rulemaking brought in the entire $28 billion in additional revenue over the next 10 years, which most think is extremely overzealous, it would still barely make a dent in the $1 trillion price tag for the Infrastructure Act. Maybe because of that, the Treasury gave the impression that funding the Infrastructure Act was a secondary consideration. Now, speaking of Patrick McHenry, he said that he was Other than that, however, he was disappointed in how broad the rulemaking was. He stated that However, it fails on numerous other counts. Any additional rulemaking related to the other sections from the law must adhere to congressional intent. McHenry also directly called out the White House for yet another piece of bad faith policy, adding that Now on the flip side, Elizabeth Warren, leader of course of the anti -crypto army, didn't think the Treasury went far enough. She said in a statement Kristin Smith, the CEO of the Blockchain Association, noted that by overreaching, the Treasury has presented both an unworkable set of rules and failed to execute on policy which could lower the burden of calculating taxes for everyday crypto users. If done correctly, she said, these rules could help provide everyday crypto users with the necessary information to accurately comply with tax laws. However, it's important to remember that the crypto ecosystem is very different from that of traditional assets, so the rules must be tailored accordingly and not capture ecosystem participants that don't have a pathway to compliance. Another concern was the cost of implementation and the sheer difficulty of compliance, even for well -established centralized exchanges. Coinbase Vice President of Tax, Lawrence Latkin, said in a statement The practicality of the IRS's requirement to report, let alone enforce this incredible minutiae of taxpayer data, is questionable at best. Miles Fuller, head of government solutions at crypto tax software company Taxbit, was a little more credulous about the feasibility compliance for large firms, stating that Quote, There's obviously an immediate investment cost to brokers that will have to implement this and digest and figure out how to do it, but the longer -term outlook in my view is good for the industry because it'll help bring more mainstream adoption. Still, by far the most common discussion point on Twitter was that these rules were overly broad and capture far too much of DeFi infrastructure in their definition of a broker. Crypto commentator Spreak writes, So to recap the new proposed tax rules, Metamask is a broker and has to KYC and report all users unless it removes swaps. Uniswap is a broker and is required to update its UI to a new KYC version. Anything with a multisig is a broker and required to add KYC. For completeness, the proposed definition of a broker includes A person who, in the ordinary course of a trade or business, operate a non -custodial trading platform or website that stands ready to affect sales of digital assets for others by allowing persons to exchange digital assets directly with other persons for cash stored value cards or different digital assets, including by providing access to automatically executing contracts, protocols or other software that automatically affects such sales.
The Crypto Overnighter
A highlight from 650:IRS Tax Overreach, BRICS Anti-Dollar Alliance, Powells BTC Fluctuation
"Good evening, and welcome to the Crypto Overnighter. I'm Nickademus, and I will be your host as we take a look at the latest cryptocurrency news and analysis. So sit back, relax, and let's get started. And remember, none of this is financial advice. And it's 10 p .m. Pacific on Saturday, August 26th, 2023. Welcome back to the Crypto Overnighter, where we have no sponsors, no hidden agendas, and no BS. But we do have the news, so let's talk about that. I do seem to be coming down with a bit of a cold or something, but I think we can keep it together enough to put out the show. And it's a good one, because tonight we dig into the IRS's sweeping new tax rules targeting DeFi and NFTs. We'll also explore the significant implications of BRICS ditching the US dollar and what it means for cryptocurrencies. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell sends shockwaves through the Bitcoin market, and we'll tell you why. WorldCoin faces regulatory hurdles, and we examine why PayPal's stablecoin, PYUSD, is struggling. Finally, we discuss the recent moves by HashKey and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority to reshape the financial landscape. Strap in, it's going to be quite the ride. The IRS and the US Treasury have proposed new tax rules affecting the crypto industry. The proposal is part of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. It aims to define brokers in the crypto space, affecting centralized exchanges, payment processors, some hosted wallet providers, and some decentralized exchanges. A new tax form, 1099 -DA, has been introduced for these brokers. Miners are exempt from these rules. The proposal is open for public comments until October 30th, with public hearings scheduled for November 7th and 8th. The IRS's new draft rules are a double -edged sword. On the one hand, they bring clarity to an industry plagued by regulatory uncertainty. On the other, they're an overreach that could stifle innovation in the DeFi sector. The proposal's broad definition of broker could rope in entities that don't have the means to comply with such regulations. It's a clear sign of the government's lack of understanding of how decentralized systems work. Congressman Patrick McHenry criticized the proposal for not being narrow, tailored, and clear. The Blockchain Association and the DeFi Education Fund have also expressed concerns. The Blockchain Association warns that rules must be tailored to the unique nature of crypto assets, while the DeFi Education Fund called the proposal confusing, self -refuting, and misguided. The government's move to regulate crypto is not just about tax revenue, it's about control. The decentralized nature of crypto is a direct challenge to the centralized power structures that the government and traditional financial institutions represent. While the IRS assures that new rules could help everyday crypto users comply with tax laws, the broader implications are worth considering. The crypto community must actively engage in the public comment period to ensure that the final rules are fair and conducive to innovation. Alright, we've dissected the IRS's sweeping new tax rules. If you're enjoying this kind of deep dive, hit that follow button and turn on notifications so you don't miss a beat. Speaking of government oversight, let's pivot to international waters. BRICS nations are making some audacious moves that could redraw global financial maps. Buckle up, you don't want to miss this.
Epicenter
A highlight from Marko Baricevic: Cosmos SDK - The Internet of Appchains
"Welcome Epicenter, to the show which talks about the technologies, projects, and people driving decentralization and the blockchain revolution. I'm Felix and I'm here with Mihai Roy. Today we're speaking with Marko Bericevic, who is the product lead of the Cosmos SDK. Cosmos SDK is a framework to build application -specific blockchains in the Cosmos ecosystem. I'm Marko and welcome to Epicenter. Hey, thanks for having me. It's definitely an honor being on the show that I've been listening to for so many years. Yeah, we're super glad to have you as such a long -term contributor to the Cosmos ecosystem and beyond. So yeah, we're very excited to hear today about the Cosmos ecosystem, but as usual, we get started a little bit with your background and in crypto and how you got started and what brought you to where you are today. Yeah, I had a bit of a different entrance into crypto. Actually like during the 2017 ICO boom, a bunch of friends of mine were making a bunch of money and before that I read about Bitcoin, but never got fully into it. They're making a bunch of money and for some reason for me, I wasn't like, oh, I'm going to go make a bunch of money. I was like, I want to learn how this stuff works and why it is decentralized. And around that time is when I started to really dive deep into learning how to code. And then soon after that, I joined a enterprise blockchain company and that was a lot of fun. We were using Quorum from JP Morgan and writing a lot of smart contracts, writing a lot of tooling around that had a couple of fun projects. I find that consultancies are a lot like hackathons. Like every two, three months you have to develop a product and they just give you the specs of the product and you just have to write code. So it was a lot of fun. Learned a lot. And then I ran across a, like one of the senior engineers at the enterprise consultancy showed me a video of Ethan Buckman and Jake Kwan talking about the Tendermint and the Cosmos SDK at a Bitcoin meetup in like SF and I just remember becoming so enamored by it. And I was just like, I don't care where in the world this is. I just want to work with these people. And then a couple of months later I found out that they're actually, they have a team based in Berlin. And so I applied and then it took a bit of persistence. And four months later I joined All in Bits or Tendermint Inc. And the rest is history. I started out as a developer relations engineer and worked as an engineer on Tendermint for two years and then came back up to the Cosmos SDK. Right. Yeah. Awesome. So this is like you getting started. What year is this? I joined 2019. So like two months after the Hub launch, after the Cosmos Hub launch. And then I guess, yeah, now you're familiarized with Tendermint and you started to work on the Cosmos SDK, which we're here to talk about today and maybe for the listeners, right? Like you can explain a little bit on a very high level what the Cosmos SDK is and maybe how it has moved through the history since I think it's right. It's probably like the most integral part of Cosmos ecosystem in some way, right? So it really helps to get some context. The Cosmos SDK, like Tendermint, has had a few teams working on it. The Cosmos SDK, I think, were on the third team. So initially it was written by the team at All in Bits, which included Alex Bez, Rigel, Aditya, Dave, Sunny, Jack, Samplin, Zaki, like they were all involved. But back then it was a lot different than it is today. Like it was kind of all there was back then was forking Bitcoin, forking GATT, and then early days of Substrate and the Cosmos SDK. And that was really it. There wasn't much out there in the ecosystem, so there wasn't much user feedback. And then when Cosmos went through what we describe as like Gore 2020, the great organizational restructuring, we kind of like shifted and moved into a new team, Rigel Network, and they became the sole owners and maintainers of the Cosmos SDK. And they led it for about two to three years. And then I came in to kind of like the Cosmos SDK has this thing of it's very hard to hire a project manager because you get burnt out really fast because you have to deal with an entire ecosystem of people complaining, people asking for features, people wanting different designs, and it's just constantly like a feedback loop now, more so than it was before. But not only that is you have to also keep up with what's going on in the wider blockchain ecosystem. So it's like a certain balance to strike and there's a few people that attempted it and then kind of just gave up, you know, just too much work and too much overhead and too much craziness. I like to attribute my like not being able to be burnt out to Zucky and Jack just because they also just like constantly work. And so I learned that from them, but yeah, so came into the Cosmos SDK, started leading it alongside Regen. And then this year the entire like maintenance of the Cosmos SDK shifted to a new entity, Binary Builders, which the core focus of that entity is the Cosmos SDK and the builders program, the Energy and Builders program. So I guess maybe we can, you know, get into like what is the Cosmos SDK as well. So I guess most people are familiar with the notion of the smart contracts and Ethereum and you are building your application, you're building a smart contract. Now the Cosmos SDK is essentially the first or like one of the first like frameworks to build application specific blockchains. And that's become like much more popular nowadays, this sort of paradigm, which we'll also get into. But I guess at the start, maybe we can just dive into why, why is that, right? Why is, what's the benefit over having your own Cosmos chain in this case over like just writing a smart contract? So I mean, there's always this like dilemma of the single computer to rule the world where we all have to share computation versus like owning your own computation and then maybe posting data on this one world computer. And so the AppChain vision came from the need that, Hey, like we, well, first of all, the Cosmos SDK kind of came from like, Hey, we're building the Cosmos sub and we have this vision of AppChains and what better is it to like develop a software development kit, an SDK to allow people to build AppChains and this became, this was kind of like the early on vision and the Cosmos SDK, okay, now you can control your own computation. You can do a lot more things than you could in the Ethereum space or in other spaces because you control, you have a lot more granular control over your gas, your computation and over your logic as well. And so this really fed into, Oh, like we can really develop what we want to not be limited. And this is like when we had the like Cosmos summer, I believe it was like last summer or two summers ago, and we saw a lot of application specific chains coming up to Cosmos and kind of like really honing in on specific use cases for the application blockchain. Then I would say like people started discovering that like, Hey, it's actually a lot harder to get product market fit because everyone like in crypto, we have this like craze of like VCs come in, there's a lot of money and you launch a token, okay, now you have runway. Now you have X amount of years to figure out your product market fit. And a lot of people were kind of like going with that. And I think not only in Cosmos, but in the wider ecosystem. And then it all of a sudden shifted to like, okay, now we have to go. Now I believe that we are going into a world where we have to have a PMF before you launch your chain. Otherwise it's just going to be kind of a empty chain, no blocks and so on. But today it's like a, the SDK really like the sole purpose that by default it is able to do is like a application blockchain application specific blockchain. And for this, like everyone thinks that Cosmos SDK is like, this is all you can do, but we are kind of like shifting into the roll -up space and it's like kind of a like, why would we want to like shift away from blockchains into the roll -up space? Well it's like, if you look at the blowing a smart contract, like a smart contract is an amazing way to really go to market really fast and search for your product market fit. And it's very easy. You can deploy different ecosystems, you can partner with these ecosystems and so on. And then like, if we put that on a scale of zero through 10, let's say smart contracts are the easiest. It's like a zero, you can deploy it same day, launch your, launch your product and you don't have to worry about inflation, validators and so on. And let's say deploying your own blockchain is like eight to 10 because you have to now control a binary, you have to control your validator set, you have to work with them, you have to claim centralization, you have to work through governance and all these things. It is very difficult. It's not a easy endeavor to take on. And we have been fortunate enough that a lot of people in Cosmos have taken this endeavor on and learned, and we've been able to take that knowledge and give it to newcomers. But the problem is like, what is that in between? And that in between I'm kind of coming to the conclusion that it's kind of the rollups. So you have like the two, four, six, eight of the rollups from decentralized to shared sequencing to decentralized sequencing and that kind of like fills up. So it's like now all of a sudden it's like you deploy a smart contract, you're gaining a bit more adoption, but you don't know if you want to invest all this money into developing your own chain and doing a whole migration. So let's do a centralized rollup if you don't need the decentralization part. And then you start wanting to expand your product, then you go into the decentralized sequencing and then all of a sudden you're like, okay, wait, actually like we are seeing that we're paying a lot of fees to these different protocols for data availability and settlement. Now it's time that like, okay, maybe we own this for ourselves because our token may have a lot of value, a large market cap, and so then let's go to our own chain. And so I'm kind of seeing that as the direction that people are starting to go. And I think DYDX is kind of the perfect example of that. That's really interesting. Do you think that if the future customer journey is, is going to look more like DYDX, started off in a smart contract on Ethereum, then went to an LDO or a rollup in this case, Startmet. And then the third step to come in a couple of months, maybe is their own Cosmos chain. Do you think there's a, there's a risk that the Cosmos SDK is developing the application chain development framework, but it doesn't really have like a rollup development framework and ecosystem today that by default people will go and develop in the, their rollups with the Ethereum stack and then jumping from a rollup, working on the Ethereum stack to Cosmos SDK will just prove so much of a big software development challenge that nobody will actually go into the Cosmos SDK stack in the future at all, but rather some other stack will. So in this sense, we are like shifting a bit. So the idea, so we're working very closely with the Rollkit team from Celestia and teams like Dimension, and the goal there is that in the ideal world, so now we're doing it some refactors of the core layer, in an ideal world, the user will potentially, let's say a user developed a smart contract on Ethereum, now they want to still settle and do DA on Ethereum, they can use Rollkit with SDK, let's say with Polaris or Ethermint, and then they just migrate their contracts. They have the same UX, the users don't know there's a difference. And then in the future, the goal is that they can swap Rollkit out for Comet or different consensus engine, and then the actual state machine will be able to stay the same. And so this is kind of the direction we're going with the user journey we're trying to create. And so, yeah, we're working, we were just talking before, before the call, but we're just talking about fraud proofs and validity proofs and how like Cosmos plans to take advantage, enter into that world. And so we're working quite closely with the Celestia and Rollkit team in order to really dive into fraud proofs, first of all, and then later on validity proofs. That's super awesome, and I think we're going to go much back into it. I think maybe we can take it a step back also, because most people that listen to this probably don't really have a good view of like how the Cosmos SDK is structured. So maybe we can talk a little bit about, you know, like one of the core concepts in my view, right in the Cosmos SDK is this idea of the modules, right? You have like these sort of swappable features that you can kind of plug into your chain, or you build a new module that, that kind of can be used by the rest of the Cosmos SDK in your custom. So can you talk a little bit about that? What sort of modules are there? Warren is first being built. So like the SDK and the direction that we've been trying to articulate it to users and new users coming in is it is a separation between the kernel space and the user space. And when I say the kernel space, this is like where the modules live. And so the thing why we consider it the kernel space is because you can handle a lot more computation at this level. The functionality GAS is a lot more freeing and it's not limiting like you would have in a virtual machine. And so some of the modules are like staking governance, bank, some like authorization modules you have slashing, minting, distribution, kind of like these basic things. And these things they do and they do go by themselves in terms of like they don't need external intervention to it in order to like mint a bunch of tokens and everything. So they do handle a bit more computation. And so when users come to the Cosmos SDK, it's like, hey, like a lot of users are using VMs and we're totally fine with that. Then we encourage people to use VMs, especially if they're going into permissionless environment that they just want users to deploy like Juno and AVMOS and others. But like the kernel space is really where the application has the most performance, but also has the ability to do a lot more computation for the functionality they maybe want to do from the VM. So maybe the VM calls into the user space, so the VM calls into the kernel space, the modules, and then they are able to do a lot more, a lot more things there. So what can you like expand on, like what some of these things might be? I think like some of the things that like a VM would be limited by? So like within a VM, it's like you are gas metered. So you consume gas on every functionality, all the functionality, all the business logic. And so you don't want users to do a lot because it is potentially a permissionless environment. And so allowing people to have kind of unlimited computation is a DOS vector. And so within the modules, within the kernel space, like that's more of the application developer needs to, they need to propose an upgrade, and then the upgrade needs to be adopted by validators. And so it's a lot more of a involved process. And so here the computation is only around IO, around the disk. And so once you're doing computation, like let's say if you're doing some proving or capabilities, if you're doing some bridging technology, within a VM, you have to do gas metering on the actual computation of the proving of the hashing and so on, while within the Cosmos SDK, within the kernel space, that is a lot more freeing. And so you can do it, and then that won't affect your entire block gas consumption. And a lot of people may think that like, oh, this is a DOS vector, but if it does end up in some sort of chain, of the chain slowing down, then it is actually the application chain, it was application developer's fault because they did this premeditated computation in their chain before, and it wasn't like an end user just like causing this a lot, causing this amount of computation to slow down the chain. Right. I think one example here actually, I guess it's sort of this reward distribution on osmosis, right, where it actually, like we have these epochs and then at the boundary, you need to compute a lot how, where the LP rewards go to. And this, for example, can slow down the chain just so we have an example. Exactly. Like the interesting thing there is, so there is like this thing in the Cosmos SDK called begin block and end block. And what these really signify is at the beginning of every block, at the state machine executes the transactions, what computation do you want to run before that? And then end block does the same thing just after the execution of the transactions. And so within this, like in osmosis case, they are doing a lot of computation for the LPs of the pools. And so that is like causing a lot of, causing the chain, the state machine to kind of slow down a bit. But this is known, it's like as more users come in, it's just like, I think it's now that the chain kind of just like stops, everyone's doing computation. And then once everyone's done with computation, it continues as normal.
Ethereum Daily
A highlight from U.S. Regulations On Digital Asset Exchanges
"Welcome to your Ethereum news roundup, here's your latest for Friday, August 25th, 2023. The U .S. Treasury releases proposed regulations for digital asset exchanges, ETHOS sells out pre -orders for its Ethereum phone, Flashbots publishes a transparency report, and NOR is now supported on VSCode. All this and more starts right now. Gitcoin Grants 18 is now live. If you'd like to support this podcast, please consider donating to our grant by visiting ethdaily .io forward slash gitcoin. The U .S. Department of the Treasury and the IRS released proposed regulations for digital asset brokers, which includes crypto exchanges. The proposed regulations would require digital asset brokers to report new information to the IRS and provide users with a new form called 1099 -DA outlining taxes due to the government. The proposed regulations are part of the Biden -Harris administration's implementation of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. If passed, brokers would be required to report information as soon as 2026 for exchange sales in 2025. The agency seeks to extract $28 billion over 10 years in new tax revenue from digital asset users. ETHOS, an Ethereum -native mobile operating system, sold out over 48 pre -ordered editions of its first Ethereum phone. ETHOS will accept regular orders after it ships out the pre -ordered devices in fall 2023. ETHOS sold the pre -orders as NFT for 0 .39 Ether. The NFTs can then be redeemed for a Pixel 7a with ETHOS 2 .0 installed. ETHOS is built on a popular fork of Android called Lineage OS. The operating system features a native Nimbus -like client, enabling users to run a local node. According to the project, each ETHOS device will improve the decentralization of Ethereum itself. ETHOS also supports IPFS and .eth domains in its native browser. FlashPods published a transparency report covering the project's latest developments. Last month, FlashPods released Suave Centauri, an update to its software that introduces MEVM and a privacy -aware order flow auction. The project also open -sourced its Suave Geth client and its MEVShare node implementation. FlashPods Protect, an MEV -protecting RPC, was also upgraded to support order flow sharing, helping speed up private transactions. FlashPods also published a proposal for the PBS Guild, aiming to support research, development, and operations of PBS on Ethereum. And lastly, NOR, a native CK programming language, is now supported on Microsoft's VS Code Editor. Developers can now install a VS Code extension for NOR lang. The extension supports syntax highlights, code error messages, and code templates. NOR is a Rust -based, high -level programming language for writing zero -knowledge proofs. This has been a roundup of today's top news stories in Ethereum. You can support this podcast by subscribing and following us on Twitter at ethdaily. Also subscribe to our newsletter at ethdaily .io. Thanks for listening, we'll see you on Monday.
Coronavirus
A highlight from U.S. Regulations On Digital Asset Exchanges
"Welcome to your Ethereum news roundup, here's your latest for Friday, August 25th, 2023. The U .S. Treasury releases proposed regulations for digital asset exchanges, ETHOS sells out pre -orders for its Ethereum phone, Flashbots publishes a transparency report, and NOR is now supported on VSCode. All this and more starts right now. Gitcoin Grants 18 is now live. If you'd like to support this podcast, please consider donating to our grant by visiting ethdaily .io forward slash gitcoin. The U .S. Department of the Treasury and the IRS released proposed regulations for digital asset brokers, which includes crypto exchanges. The proposed regulations would require digital asset brokers to report new information to the IRS and provide users with a new form called 1099 -DA outlining taxes due to the government. The proposed regulations are part of the Biden -Harris administration's implementation of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. If passed, brokers would be required to report information as soon as 2026 for exchange sales in 2025. The agency seeks to extract $28 billion over 10 years in new tax revenue from digital asset users. ETHOS, an Ethereum -native mobile operating system, sold out over 48 pre -ordered editions of its first Ethereum phone. ETHOS will accept regular orders after it ships out the pre -ordered devices in fall 2023. ETHOS sold the pre -orders as NFT for 0 .39 Ether. The NFTs can then be redeemed for a Pixel 7a with ETHOS 2 .0 installed. ETHOS is built on a popular fork of Android called Lineage OS. The operating system features a native Nimbus -like client, enabling users to run a local node. According to the project, each ETHOS device will improve the decentralization of Ethereum itself. ETHOS also supports IPFS and .eth domains in its native browser. FlashPods published a transparency report covering the project's latest developments. Last month, FlashPods released Suave Centauri, an update to its software that introduces MEVM and a privacy -aware order flow auction. The project also open -sourced its Suave Geth client and its MEVShare node implementation. FlashPods Protect, an MEV -protecting RPC, was also upgraded to support order flow sharing, helping speed up private transactions. FlashPods also published a proposal for the PBS Guild, aiming to support research, development, and operations of PBS on Ethereum. And lastly, NOR, a native CK programming language, is now supported on Microsoft's VS Code Editor. Developers can now install a VS Code extension for NOR lang. The extension supports syntax highlights, code error messages, and code templates. NOR is a Rust -based, high -level programming language for writing zero -knowledge proofs. This has been a roundup of today's top news stories in Ethereum. You can support this podcast by subscribing and following us on Twitter at ethdaily. Also subscribe to our newsletter at ethdaily .io. Thanks for listening, we'll see you on Monday.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
A highlight from Trump v. the Others
"We get it. You're busy. You don't have time to waste on the mainstream media. That's why Salem News Channel is here. We have hosts worth watching, actually discussing the topics that matter. Andrew Wilkow, the next D 'Souza, Brandon Tatum, and more. Open debate and free speech you won't find anywhere else. We're not like the other guys. We're Salem News Channel. Watch any time on any screen for free 24 -7 at snc .tv and on local now channel 525. at preggertopia .com I'm not going to say that George Strait automatically means that I'm here, but it's a good signal. Mark Davis in for Dennis. A certain Texas twang coming from George, if not from me, but a certain Texas flavor when I am here and it is always a joy to be here. Mark Davis from 660 AM, the answer where I am the happy morning host. And boy, was I happy to be here this morning. Happy being a relative term. It was demanding for everybody because I'm here in central time talking to the West Coast crew out there in Pragerland where everybody was working really late between radio and the Salem News Channel. Just fantastic coverage last night, post debate, all kinds of opinions flying thick and fast. So I'm just really enormously pleased to be here in one of my frequent fill -ins. It's always a joy to be here for Dennis. And you can follow me on Twitter or X or Guacamole or whatever they're calling that thing these days, at Mark Davis, M -A -R -K Davis. And the best way to get ahold of us, of course, is the phone lines that are used in the show every day. 1 -8 -Praeger -776, 1 -8 -Praeger -776. Again, I'm Mark Davis here in the big bustling DFW. And wherever you are, I have some things I need to know from you. You ready? And what I'm gonna do is put some of it in question form. Most of my obvious offering is to get your thoughts and ask the blanket question. What did you think of the two big things that you could see last night? One of them was the debate on a stage in Milwaukee. And the other one was seen by perhaps 10 times more people. I mean, are we at 200 million? At some point, everyone in America, if not around the world, will have seen Trump on Tucker. And we'll talk a little bit about whether it was smart for Trump to do Tucker instead of the debate. It certainly wasn't dumb, it certainly didn't hurt him. Because after all, as we've learned by now, nothing hurts him, at least not yet. And by the way, every candidate on the stage last night, every candidate on the stage last night, dreams of having a bump, having a boost like Trump will get today from another arraignment. This time under the aggressive thumb of Fannie Willis in Fulton County in Atlanta, Georgia. He will turn himself in at some point and you will then almost be able to palpably sense the fundraising boost, the poll boost. Here is the truth of the Trump poll numbers. There's something we know, but there's something numerical we don't know. Again, one eight Prager 776, one eight Prager 776. Talk about Trump's decision not to be on that debate stage. And then we'll talk about everybody that was on that debate stage. Cuz it was a fascinating night for Vivek, a so -so night for DeSantis. A really good night for Tim Scott, a surprisingly, momentarily at least interesting night for Mike Pence. Nikki Haley did great, but did she get enough Mike time? Chris Christie, that New Jersey bully boy thing, that just gets really old, really fast. And Doug Burgum and Asa Hutchinson were there as well, which is about the old, I got nothing bad to say about these guys. I've got nothing bad to say about these guys. Hutchinson was an okay governor of Arkansas, really needs to be awakened on some of the gender clarity necessities. Doug Burgum seems like a wonderful guy, and what a tough nut, keyword nut. Who plays basketball the night before a debate? Who does something that has even a remote injury risk? My colleague Mike Gallagher and I were talking, and he said, if I'm on the debate stage the following day, I'm putting myself in lockdown. I'm gonna be in bed, in some type of pneumatic bubble. Nothing will get to me, but so that I don't rip open my Achilles tendon. Which he did, so he had to crutch himself onto the stage. And I don't wanna be cynical enough to say that this strikes me as debate theater and that it was faked. I don't believe that, I don't wanna be that guy, I don't wanna be that cynical, but I will be this judgmental. How dumb is it to do something the night before a debate that can hurt you? So of course, I know driving on the highway can hurt you and da, da, da, da. So I have all kinds of hot takes on how I think everybody did. I'm gonna frame it in terms of what I expected versus how they did. And then we'll talk about what I expected from Trump on Tucker. I expected it to be stratospherically good, and it was. So we have specific Trump on Tucker observations, and we have specific debate participation observations. And it all takes place against this glorious, fascinating backdrop of late August, 2024. Here we are, we are still September, October, November. So we're still four and a half months before anybody votes for anything. Change is still possible, but how plausible is it? How many times have you heard people say, yeah, in this particular year, by this point, Newt Gingrich was in the lead? Yeah, in this particular year, Rudy Giuliani was in the lead. Well, guess what was not going on when Newt, obviously, neither gentleman ever became president or ever will, it seems, for multiple reasons. There was no Trump, nobody had a 50 point lead. It was just wide open, it was five or six or eight or 10 or 14 or 17 people all running now. Trump is the alpha dog, the king of the hill. There is nothing that has dented his support yet. I will tell you the one thing, I wouldn't even say might, I'd say the only thing that can, the only thing that can, and I'll do that here in a second. In fact, probably got to get to that first. 18 Prager 776, 18 Prager 776. And again, my name, Mark Davis, follow me on Twitter, X, whatever you want to call it. I can't say X, it's Twitter to me, I don't know, I'm an old fart, what can I say? At Mark Davis, and I'll take a look at those during the break. But the best way to get ahold of us, of course, with your thoughts, 776. 18 Prager Okay, I do have a fresh column in the Fort Worth Star Telegram, I'm proud to write for the Star Telegram and the McClatchy newspaper chain and Newsweek and Town Hall, but the thing I did an immediate, I pretty well do mean immediate, turnaround reaction column for was the Star Telegram. So if you go to star -telegram .com and look at opinions, find me, Mark Davis, there is my column that talks about how Vivek and Pence and Tim Scott helped themselves. I mean, the only people who did, but they did. But the enduring question, the enduring question is, can anybody catch Trump? Is that even possible? So if we start with the premise that they say anything is possible, not anything, okay? Asa Hutchinson, Doug Burgum, or Will Hurd winning the nomination is as close to not possible as the English language permits, okay? But let's just say that in these turbulent times, where almost everything seems volatile, it was volatility that kind of lofted Trump in 2016. There were a lot of frustrations, there he was, he seemed anti -establishment, he caught the wind of that in the sales of so many Americans. The timing was just, it was perfect for Trump. Now, eight years, next month, wow, he and Melania came down the golden escalator at Trump Tower. In a way, it seems like yesterday, in a way, it seems like 100 years ago. But anyway, everybody knows him now. And the love for him and hatred of him are both baked in so solid, so two things are true at the same time. With Trump as the nominee, you're going to get two things, guaranteed two things. The love for him and the devotion to him and the desire to flip a huge middle finger to the establishment that now pursues and persecutes him, that will be on fire with energy. The other thing that's gonna be on fire with energy, every Democrat, Biden could be actually dead and on the ticket, and Democrats will crawl on broken glass and walk through fire to deliver another loss to Trump. So that will be in furious force. So which of those forces, which of those phenomena is greater? I don't know, and neither do you. Are there risks to making Trump your nominee? There sure are. But are there risks that a whole lot of people seem totally willing to take? Yes, indeedy. So what is the one thing that might erode Trump support? And I'm not saying it will, but it's the only thing that can. I'll tell you next, and take your calls next, 1 -8 Prager 776. Mark Davison for Dennis. The Dennis Prager Show. Gold dealers are a dime a dozen. They're everywhere. What sets these companies apart, and whom can you really trust? This is Dennis Prager for AmFed Coin and Bullion, my choice for buying precious metals. When you buy precious metals, it's imperative that you buy from a trustworthy and transparent dealer that protects your best interests. So many companies use gimmicks to take advantage of inexperienced gold and silver buyers. Be cautious of brokers offering free gold and silver, or brokers that want to sell you overpriced collectible coins, claiming they appreciate more than gold and silver. What about hidden commissions and huge markups? Nick Grovitch and his team at AmFed always have your back. I trust this man, that's why I mentioned him by name. 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I totally understand his logic. Why should I? They're 50 points behind me. I don't need to show up for this. I totally get it. He's right about that. It did not hurt him to not be there, but it was a missed opportunity. There are millions of people for whom the last 10 times they heard Trump talk, it was all about Jack Smith, and Fannie Willis, and Alvin Bragg, and this persecution, and that lawsuit, and this vendetta, and that witch hunt, all of which is true. But it can be fatiguing to some folks who are not a junkie for this. And this would have been an opportunity for Trump with a bunch of rivals, and a bunch of pretenders to be sure, and a bunch of people at 0 .5%, and I know, I know, I know, I know, I know. But it would have been him talking about borders. It would have been him talking about crime. It would have been him talking about climate, which by the way, he did with Tucker, but he could have done that too. Not to get greedy, but why not do the debate and then sit down with Tucker tonight? Wouldn't that have worked? So yeah, but it was a statement. I understand it was a statement. It was a positioning statement that says, I don't even need to be on that stage as they all run for who's going to be the last person left when there are two candidates left standing. That is, by the way, what last night's debate was about. It's what the entire campaign is about for everybody not named Trump. At some point in the spring, there'll be two candidates left. One of them will be named Donald Trump, and the other one will not. And everybody wants to be that other person. And forever it looked obvious that it was going to be DeSantis. It doesn't look that way so much right now. Now it could really be the vague. Will that sustain? Is this kind of a flash in the summer pan? I don't know. Your thoughts are welcome. 18 Prager 776. As I get ready to go to the phones, here's the thing. Everybody, I get asked this all the time. Is there anything that could change the calculus? Anything where Trump just doesn't have that 50 point lead anymore? Because while we're talking math, here's what's undeniably true. Trump can win the nomination, can breeze to the nomination without poaching one single supporter from anybody on that stage last night. Obviously, he could do it tomorrow. DeSantis, just to pick somebody or the vague, let's go with DeSantis for the moment. He needs to poach half of the Trump poll numbers. He's got to go get half of those people. Half of the people saying we want Trump, half of the 50 some percent, if not more, who say we want Trump, who say that now in August, have to stop saying that by the time people are really voting in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina, and Nevada, etc, etc. So what is the one way that happens? And this is a half court shot, maybe a full court shot. And that is that some of the poll emotions right now, some of it, most of it is we want this guy to be president. We loved him then, we love him now, we want this guy to be president. You know, the usual earth logic that people use in expressing support for a candidate. But some of it, and it'll have to be a lot of it. And I don't know that it is. But certain x percentage of it has to be folks who may or may not require Trump to be their next president. But they are furious at what's being done to him. It is a show of support. I mean, why do you think the poll numbers will go up after he is arraigned today in Atlanta? Is it because a bunch of people will just look at issues around America and decide, oh, he is my guy? Some may, but most of the poll bursts and the fundraising bursts that happen after each continuing litany of indictments is people saying, oh, hell no. It's what I call the Jason Whitlock effect. Jason Whitlock is the wonderful broadcaster, blogger, who was on the Tucker one, I think might have been after the first indictment or the second one, I lose track. Jason Whitlock was on with Tucker when Tucker was on Fox and said, I don't even know what I think about Trump. I'm halfway with him, halfway not. I like some of what he does, some of it not. I don't know. But tonight I'm hardcore MAGA. Tucker, tonight I am hardcore MAGA, Jason Whitlock said. And it was as a statement of revulsion at what was being done to him. Now, if that's a bunch of Trump support, cuz here it is in one nutshell. By the time we get to, we go through Christmas, we go through the holidays, everybody digests their holiday meals. And then we all get rolling in January of 2024. And millions of Republicans go, whoa, okay, now it's what's always been serious. But now it's time, time with a capital T. It's not about whether we don't like Jack Smith or whether we think 2020 was rigged or whether we're just not about anything else. Other than it's about one thing, one thing, who beats Biden? Who gives us the best chance of beating Biden? And if the similar numbers of people who think so today think that that's Trump, and by the way, it may well be, then nothing will change. All these campaigns, all the DeSantis's, all the Viv Hanks, all the everybody's, I don't wanna say it'll be for naught, but it will not bear fruit. It will not bear fruit. If, however, and it's funny because right now we got the sort of the fresh angst, the renewed emotion and determination of what will happen after Trump is dragged before yet another tribunal for yet another non -crime. And we can talk about this some today if you want. There's really only one thing out of every single one of these stupid persecution prosecutions, all these indictments, all these things. Really, they only got him on one thing. There's one thing that he just really should have done differently. And that's the handling of those stupid documents. Give back the stupid documents. If you do that, then that's not even a problem. But all this election related stuff is insane. He thinks he got screwed. And guess what? So do I. Guess what? So do most of you. We don't get to believe that. And if we're him, we don't get to act on that and make phone calls and secure meeting space and tweet to somebody to watch a TV show, all of which has been criminalized by these lunatic prosecutors. But in January of 2024, it's not gonna be about that anymore. No matter how we feel about that. No matter how we feel and no matter how resentful we are of that and how much we wanna stick with him. And I mean, in that regard, if millions of people say, God bless you, sir, God bless you, we love your presidency. We want those policies back, but the damage seems to have been done.
MMA Roasted
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"And then you see them winning. Like, in your mind, you hear music like in movies like da da. Literally, I feel like it's we had COVID really like put a number on some of these kids like well kid told me he couldn't do sprawls because his grandmother had breast cancer. And he was worried about hurting his past when he hit the mat. I mean, it was like excuses that I've never heard before, you know? That's pretty extraordinary. I mean, a couple of years ago I had a mother. Where did it. Be funny if his grandma got breast cancer from doing sprawls? Like, that's what we've been ironic. Yeah. I don't want to get breast cancer. You okay. All right. I had a kid that was telling me he was like, like, most ADD never listening. He goes on gets pinned off the mat and goes coach who won. Hey, that sounds like a Romero Wilson. And then he told me one time he was like, listen, please refer to me as Stephanie or I'm not going to name because I'm now transgender. Like one day just walks in and I'm like, well, you gotta both, you need to work harder. No one's quicker than you, Adam. Dude, it was. I mean, just, but yeah, some of these posts are unique to work harder. I look at me going blind during a match. He was like, I can't see. I'm like, dude, how many fingers? But we did it. We pulled it off. I was so proud. I was almost tearing. And then when I saw my wife and to go see the high school team and 13 of the 16 kids, 'cause I coached. And the mom came up to me and she's like, you know, I just want to say, we're all here because of you and she's like, you made these kids into men and women that they are..
Hack
"da da" Discussed on Hack
"By this case. Hacks thankful to the media. You've kept the story running and everyone and that's really important entrepreneur. This is hack. i'm avenue dies. We're talking about cleo. Smith who was found this morning after going missing for eighteen days and police told the media this afternoon that yet. Ten thousand coils made in that time about the case. They've said that is a crazy amount of interest in cleo's disappearance so why are australians obsessed with stories like this every group chat. I'm in has been going off with theories on these case today. John safran is a writer. He's a dog omega. He actually used to host a show on triple j. That's not really related to what we're talking about. But he's ridden a true crime book code motoring mississippi's got into true crime communities. Thanks for coming on the show. Welcome back to triple j gay. How you good so. Obviously this much interest in this clear. Smith case texans going off but people who've been talking about it today. Why are we so obsessed. Well i think when you talk about true crime more. Broadly like to get to Touch danger and with and particularly if like other aspects of your life on that dangerous. So they'd be that aspect i mean. I don't want to be like super cynical because obviously the police of said it's like great that People got involved in this. And we're kind of interested in listen. Might all the phone calls. So it's like this early a bad thing but they they they does seem to be that aspect and also it's just again. I'm talking particularly about this case. But this more. Broadly like this like crime is just a great framework for like discussing broader issues. Like if you think about how how boring it is if an academic is talking about this that or some political presence. You'll get out this little that as soon it's like a crime involved he suddenly get to like talk about all these issues Like whatever they like issues about cloth issues about racism issues about community issues about family. You just get to talk about all these things that are just people wanna talk about him and should talk about and and you get to talk about it through this kind of interesting framework. Do you think he's an australian thing. Like a uniquely australian thing these sort of obsession with true crime on a broad scale. Well i don't know if it's uniquely starring but i was really surprised as i went to america years ago and i went to a bookshop bookshop and i was looking for the true crime section because all of those when i was in mississippi riding my crime. I thought look at some book. And i didn't have. They didn't have the specific true crime section. They just had like no it was amongst nonfiction and three that i learned. 'cause they'll say talking to people at penguin or whatever like these real kind of obsession about true crime is really emphasized in australia. Well like there is something like like the fact that the equal first place biggest section of bookshop. He's gonna be true. Crime that's true in all countries. So god lord noise i mean we'll need like a historian and a psychologist to get to the bottom of that has anything to do with full being convict for something. I don't know why. Adrian texted ozzy coaches compassion. We'll say we survive because we have an inbuilt need to care for our young no-show. How true that is but you know could be a theory obviously an interesting pot of every slee these clear smith case but putting that aside every be case the media and countries get consumed with these that online forum. Stott trying to crack them right. Why is that such a phenomenon. I think there's a bit of again like it's obviously great when people have real leads and they're getting them to law enforcement so that's really cool or whatever but i mean there is another aspect to it where i don't know people just excitable and i i think about how in the boston there was a bombing at the boston marathon. Not long ago. And that was one of the first sort of register. Investigations like everyone was like drawing like like looking at all the photos and zooming on in and and getting the you know the google maps out and and sort of an ever. Suddenly everyone was a forensic investigator and everyone was wrong there. You know what. I mean like so it. It is easy to sort of get over excited and think you like cracking the case. When like maybe you know maybe in the same way as doctors are better at things in amateurs on the internet Maybe forensic investigators that are these things on the internet. Then yeah they're the of okay. Our responsibility where. I noticed how like even articles written about the boston marathon. It's being cracked open on the case. Or whatever like that and it's all unread it. This is the future of crime investigation. You know open source da da da and then it turned out. Everyone was real unread. It like you never heard about it again. Like those those people like. Yeah maybe maybe like e can't really solve through reddish yet so we have to be in a sec but do you know any crimes have actually been cracked online. I'm sure i'm sure in some sort of roundabout way. I don't know how directly whatever even i mean. Even as well as writing my book. I might be about half a dozen or something like true crime things off to that feature stories and all of those came to me because like people were able to contact me Over just direct message me and stuff like that so it definitely in the sort of in a broader sense like yeah online is kind of amazing. Totally john safran. Thanks so much for chatting to us. Thank you bye-bye bye. John safran is a yeah dolkar make harada and he's yet into the true crime. Space doctor say rise in teen girls experiencing tick like behavior candy linked to tick talk just right doctors around the world have noticed a strange trend during the pandemic tain goals developing random uncontrollable jerky movements and verbal outbursts. That cooled ticks. They don't usually call goes medical. Experts was super confused. About what was happening and i realized it was one thing in common. They all use tc talk cool me. Have you been getting ticks off to going on. Talk you into threats to talk one three hundred archer five three six magna bali's been looking into what's going on because it is a bit more complicated than that explanation. It's like a random afternoon in july. Las t it's cold and fourteen year old michaela colby is sitting in jeanine history class. She's learning about the holocaust. It's a pretty hectic topic and she starts to get upset and then suddenly a my brain just snapped and i started trying to chew iron finger. Her hands going blue and she can't go because her jaws locked that go next to me saw angie. She was yelling at the teacher and the whole clauses kinda stopped looking at me and my teacher comes over and she was trying to like pull my finger out mathis sticking her finger in my mouth. Try and get it up eventually. She's taken to the school office and someone finally wrenches her hand free using vaccine command. It was also like i felt extremely bad. This wasn't the first all the loss. Time michaela's takes would disrupt her life like this. The ticks started out of the blue in january loss g. Sometimes michaela would hit a cell for others. She just chuck things that were in a hand. All the times should say these random woods like pola ben would just straight up start swearing because icon actually control. My body's doing so. It was very very scary because there was absolutely no hinson anything that was going to happen. Her mum takes it to the emergency department. But no one can figure out what's happening to these. Ticks went on for months. It was very frequent. It was ten minutes. Michaela tells me it was a pretty terrifying time. She'd be having today. These.
Bald and Blonde
"da da" Discussed on Bald and Blonde
"We'll be able to fix so many more. Things are issues and actually do many more repairs than the handyman who has only one tool and now if we just reflect that beck on ourselves. If i only have a coping skill that's to become out now and i told you da da da da da and so i'm this creamer wherever i go. Well that's a little bit sir I say bory to right. Because i can not have a variety of actions that i can take. I think that's a really great analogy daisy to help people understand that there are so many tools we can help them. Put in that toolbox. Yeah i really like it absolutely liked it like us okay. We are going to wrap it up there guys. This is a great episode on observation. We look forward to hearing your fate back. We want to thank you for your time and your support and for sharing this view. Family and friends is a wise. And all of you. They're supporting us on. Patron thank you so much. We really appreciate that. If you would like to ask a cup of coffee or more you can go either to boredom. Blonde dot live. Hit the patriarch button right under the episode platt and support us. We would thank you for that. Yes and thank you so much. Last month we have received more and more patients supporters. Thank you so much. I join in with kathy and i so appreciate all. The different supports that we're receiving we have gained more supporters last month. And which really appreciating it because it goes into one direction making this world a better place and together we can thank you absolutely absolutely one hundred percents i k. We'll see next week guys staging for another amazing topic top state. Kurt till i drop it you. We love doing this. And we hope you lovely singh way bowed at plunge mindset evolution..
MasterMindSet
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"Try and speak prior to the interview with someone inside the organization. I daily the harming manager and to try and understand what the key. What the real challenges. All that. this is going to tackle over the next six to twelve humps if you think about job description. Typically it's a long list of responsibilities and not all of them are key priorities. And so if you can get the add insight by talking to somebody in advance of your interview to really get a good understanding real. The real hot button saw you. Becky lives that that is what's gonna come up in an interview so so going through the job description and also getting handed inside prior to the meeting china's damn what the key challenges that the role will face. I really worked through your experience and think about examples of situations that he's been in the post way you've had to display where you've had to tackle seminar challenges. Competency based interviewing is something that seems really profoundly in in harming these days. Which is the tell me about a time where you were required to do. Da da da da and this kind of question requires you to articulate. A specific sample gives a context to give your actions that you went through to give the results and also to give your takeaways or your reflections on what you've learned from that situation and say you want him reading no before you get into the interview which your experience which your kind of wool stories you're going to pull out from your repertoire to talk about when you're in ninety and and you wanna make sure that you're talking about relevant relevant topics so that's the full even got to the interview is is to is to make sure the preparation so much pause there and ask if you've got any any questions at that point so okay i'm just thinking about that. So.
Best Friends with Nicole Byer and Sasheer Zamata
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"Your belly seems full of hate and then skip away. That's really i'm floored. Shook f- shocked. Wow wow also like for them to be like did. They say they're christians. The guy asking for food or something or religious religious their religious the but our friend is the one doing the most you think this is why religion when you get to use it to be a big is not correct No person is canceled. Canceled canceled great. Thank you for your story your thing. You want more advice. Please tell us tower name. Her name is pronounced in other languages. Were you know. Give me a little spanish phrase to learn i. Nicole insists year My name is ulsan. Equality and i just have a little question. It kind of a censure question on a really know how to it. But so basically i had a falling out with the friends three years ago and to try to get me back. She left me some chocolates and a little plant. And she's not when you act. However i did eat the chocolate and I've been reading this plan for like three years now. And i'm about to move out of my current house Should i take the plant with me. Purview kinda wants to throw the player away. But then i feel bad about hurting planet. Pardon me doesn't really want to bring a plane anymore. Because then it's like you know i don't know symbolic something but i do realize the plan it up my best room. Okay anyway Thank you very much the fan of both of you. I love you guys so much. Can you leave that plan. Yeah leave that plant planet outside leaving in the apartment with the note that says keep keep it keep. Keep it going that way. You're not hurting the plant. You're not bringing like old plant. Juju the has feelings for you into a new place. Yeah yeah you can pass it on bringing with you yeah give it up land. Yeah get rid of it. The podcast and talk about the plant. All right cool well if you have any questions or queries or pronunciations. For us you can email us at nicole sheared at jamal. Dot com or call us at forty four six four five seven zero zero three. We also have merge episodes by dot com slash best friends. Lastly don't forget to rate review described. That's the easiest way to support this. Show hell yeah dude. We'll see you next week with another episode of best friends. Podcast romy and so sheer t- chuckle and talk about lives queries. We answer questions. It's real joel's about it. Literally was an hour of the show. We'll be next week with more fun things. Don't forget friends starring nicole by dari. Here's da da.
Bald and Blonde
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"Even add the gaming manga to that because i definitely think that they're actually exposing at generation of young people to a lot more violence than previously people have been exposed to at such a young age and that does give me great concern. That is happening because that's got to affect a young sake surely exposing them to that amount of violence whether it's in movie form game form. Yeah what do you think about that. I'm very much with you on that when we have look where. It's originated where these video games originate. They were great to train military to be more sufficient and efficient having faster response and numbing them to the levels of violence so when we now think that something is used for military for them to be more efficient and more brutal that's face it And colder and okay. So i don't have a problem cooling da da da da whatever military well when you sign up for military. That's what you sign up for too. It's not about going and meditate and tepe it just. I know this is a stretch but you know what you signed up for now when we look at it that it was made for training a specific group of people for specific purpose and now it's released or unleashed on the public end in addition to it it's very addictive huge damage to the brain irreparable by the way one of the neuroscientist are very much like to listen to. He's a german scientist. Professor doctor gerhard twitter and he mentioned in one of his lectures that it's irreparable because in the stages of development where we would develop healthy bonding creativity belonging and that's all miss and we cannot develop in bed while we're playing these video games more and more in specific age groups and also later on and as you mentioned too it's numbing even more just released. I do not say which company it is. Because i am not going had. This is my low tolerance level. Ucy i'm not going to make advertising for company that i do not appreciate what they just release says program a video game where it is. Stay home it's video. Game where people who are in the lockdown and they see someone is violating the lockdown or they're exempt of lockdown for whatever reason that then they take measures on them now imagine what is teaching to the population. What is sicko. Group of mines is behind that. Now you see. This is low tolerance. that's extremely concerning. I agree with you..
Inspiration and Spiritual Awakening from Live. Love. Engage. with Gloria Grace Rand
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"It's like this. What is what informs me. And i have an opportunity now to understand that and maybe choose a different path in be able to. He'll he'll that kaley. The mother wound is is actually. It's a personal healing and it's an ancestral healing and it's a spiritual healing at. It's a healing the planet because we're all pieces of the planet earth right so as we heal. Were also healing our relationship. Humanity's relationship with the earth so. Yeah there's a lot here and unwinding it and unwinding it. It's kind of like sometimes. You might feel like you have like. If you've opened your spirituality you might feel like It's not fair that had of mother. That couldn't love me. The way i i know in my heart i i can be loved and it's you might feel like life's not fair and what i posit is that life is extremely fair. Life is so fair that it put you with the parent as a team. Right to heal these patterns ancestrally. And when you really get that. It's like there's no more. B s you know. It's kind like okay. That's my soul's curriculum chose this and now it's time for me to heal it from the inside out and not to say that you're not gonna feel Those feelings like i definitely felt all my victim. Energy all my. It's not fair. i shouldn't have to love my mother more than she loves me. Da da. you know stories in my head. And what i really wanted. Ultimately i wanted to things from his work i wanted number one to love myself so fully so completely that nothing outside of me could rattle my cage that i would stay in my love and my compassionate my integrity and my desire to show up the way i wanna show up no matter what's happening around me and no matter who's doing it. That was like my number one and then the number two was of course may secret desire of all desires. Is i have this beautiful relationship with my mother. And my son's you know that. I have a loving open respectful honoring relationship where i can see who she really is and she can see who i really am and that was like the cream of the crop like i would love that relationship and because i did the work i have that relationship now and even as i'm saying that i also wanna like back up in like the doolittle sweeping little clearing. I had to do it without any hope that she was gonna come along. I had to do the work for myself without any expectation that she would come along and do the work and a miracle happens. Of course as i let go of all my stories in my ideas about who she was in my resentment grudges and all this stuff. I held onto my whole life and even very picture of her a put in my head and i lived by. This is who my mother is a str- same stories told over and over as i said okay. I'm letting go. Maybe i don't know who she is today. Maybe that was just story. Maybe i don't even know my own story. Maybe i just need to look inside myself. And do my soul's curriculum and find out what that is and as i did that work in discovered myself and i looked at my gene keys and other tools to see like what's my actual souls them. I could see the divine design. I could see and i looked at my mom's because i was curious and i could see the interplay. I could see my mom's work and my work as a handshake as she taught me like. For example she has the gene key of struggle the shadow of struggle and shadow of provocation. Well i did not like that as a young sensitive person right as an impasse. A heated that. I didn't want like conflict. Didn't what conflict no conflict no conflict and i kept trying to avoid it and push it aside and be like no and mom kept trying to make me strong by giving me this this this these gifts of like being a warrior. You know like here. Like stand up for yourself. And and i wouldn't do it and now we can see it. I see her mike. You're a button presser. And she's like i am and i was like utah me. I had this conversation with my mom. I said mama you. You taught me how to provoke awakening. You taught me that. Do you see the divine design. We did this as a team. It wasn't me doing this alone. My mom played the role. I needed her to play. So i could be the leader. I'm going to be today. Sorry i got very emotional there because it was crap that's my story too. I mean that's exactly. Because i i hated conflict and yet i can absolutely see that i mean because even my sister used to complain that i was like you know this crybaby and stuff you know and then i didn't stick up for myself and people would pick on me and things and then i can see now that yeah. I think my mom was definitely provoking me to help me to have that backbone. And then i know also that my daughter since i didn't get it from my mom. That lesson was that. When i used to say she was three going on thirteen. Four going on fourteen. 'cause she was always pushing my buttons now. Of course we get along much better now but she's all grown up and i've also done a lot of work myself in the process but that that's so powerful so so tell me how to even. Where did this idea come from. How did you did you come up with us. I mean working on this my whole life. But i didn't know it. You know how it is. This curriculum is hidden from me. But you're just taking steps in. You're getting the circumstances and is all coming right to your doorstep. And so my whole life i've dealt with not wanting conflict i've dealt with not feeling insecure. I was so in messed with my mom as early child. Because i had we went through very traumatic things together between zero and five and that that enmeshed us in so i couldn't even find my voice like i didn't even know where my voice was for a long time and i was trying to Find my way. In the world. So i had moments of brilliance. I had moments of strength. And all of that. But it wasn't really until i collapsed until i said you know this life that i bill in order to to look good or do it the right way or the waiver says you're supposed to be happy and it didn't work for me. I had to walk away from it. All and i trusted that inner voice for the first time that said. That's the end of the rope kid. Now's i call. That's the end of the rope. Okay i got to take a leap. And i took that leap and i started following it. And i led me to shamanic healing. I had traumatic healing. And i was changed in one hour and i thought after two decades of weekly psychotherapy sessions and then i'm changed in one hour. I'm doing this. I don't care what this is a resort. I felt a difference. I felt a change and it didn't go back like i'm all my whole life. I would i got these diagnoses and all kinds of things and it just felt.
Down To Folk
"da da" Discussed on Down To Folk
"Bruce needed a vacation. After spending some time in the san francisco bay he had decided to go visit somewhere warmer than the frigid waters of the north west coast though it took him a while he arrived on the east coast. Ready for some fun and relaxation. Being friendly guy he thought the name of the island in which he was to vacation on fit him perfectly after some rest in the deep waters of the atlantic. He went sightseeing. Bruce was minding his own business humming to himself dada dada dada that atta that. It Looking for food as one does when they arrive into a new town and to his delight you found something fresh and different swimming in the moonlight. At first the food was difficult. Screaming and making a ruckus but after a few days on a nearby buoy hip relaxed and bruce was able to enjoy his meal. The next day. Bruce decided to visit the beach as bruce swam in warm shallow humming to himself and data. Da da da da da de data at data the sudden urge to eat came upon him as it does when one is on vacation so we decided to swim by the buffet that was laid before him. There was so much to choose from big fat bites old skinny nibbles and various sun drenched morsels. He saw something he had never seen before a yellow land fish on its own just floating away. Bruce loved variety however he also loved rarities and seeing that there were no other yellow and fish. He believed this to be the last one and he snatched it right away but it must have been reserved for someone else because once he bit into the yellow land fish all the other food quickly and rather rudely vanished thinking he had done something wrong. He shyly and quickly left the beach that night. While cruising the beaches he came across a large piece of meat just floating on its own. He was cautious at first but once he took a bite he knew it was the right thing to do until it tried to escape and in doing so began to drag bruce towards the land. This would not do so. He put all his strength into pulling away and after a bit of a struggle he was able to eat them more so whole dragging a whole bunch of wood behind him. Not wanting to be rude he quickly returned the would back to the shore as a thank you for the dinner. The next day must have been some sort of celebration on the island as there were so many votes in the water and food to bloody mounds of meat being flung into the water just for him however he found the whole party to be noisy fireworks and explosions were not his thing and he decided to leave early that night. One of the revelers must have been separated from the party and bruce decided to thank them for such a wonderful stay. He swam close to the boat only to have the land fish inside the boat strike him. Bruce was upset and his natural instinct kicked in and he fought back causing the boat to break up in the land fish to sink to the bottom. And all this bruce lost a tooth which happens a lot but it didn't make him feel any better. In fact bruce felt horrible about how he reacted and decided he needed some alone time so he ventured further down into the ocean hoping to find some peace as he swam in the cool of mandic he thought about the world and how funny it was. He was always a loner but he thought maybe this time he would make some friends. Yes it's true. He wasn't apex predator. But that didn't always mean he had friends. It's lonely at the top. He also was ashamed of his behavior and made up his mind that the next time he saw land fish he would apologize and as luck would have it. Later that day a boat came out to the deep and to bruce's surprise they brought treats the land fish on the boat. Were throwing large amounts of bloody fish guts into the water. Bruce felt like it was an olive branch being extended and so as he promised himself he would. He accepted the peace offering. He even peeked his head out of the water to say hello and thank you and sorry for destroying the other boat. He swam around a bit to show them that. While he was a giant creature he was also very peaceful he followed the boat around hoping for some more chow and even played a game of tag with a boat tapping gently and then swimming away and chasing it down and swimming away. The boats seemed to like it as it followed him and then ran away to. It was a lovely afternoon. But bruce began to tire. And so one last chase. He hurried towards the boat to say goodbye. And lo and behold the land fish had tricked him. They shot at him. What the actual fuck. I was trying to be friendly. Didn't we have a nice afternoon. But even then the land fish shot at him some war and this time they hooked him onto yellow floaters. Bruce was confused even more. So i know how to swim in float. I'm a frigging shark. Guys i don't need help in that corner seeing that he was unsure of the joke that the land fish were playing at. He swam away and with all his might took the floaters down with him later. That night tired from trying to keep the floats underwater. Bruce decided to go back to the boat and ask for help and an explanation as he approached the boat he could hear the land fish singing. Oh where have you gone my sweet spanish ladies aware. Have you gone you ladies of spain. Which infuriated him as they seem to be enjoying themselves while he was miserable. Bruce figured the only way to get these damn things off of him was to return them to the boat which he did and then to show. The land bitchy was upset. He decided to tap the bottom of the boat and scare them a bit but he didn't know his own strength and when he nudged the boat he broke through the bottom. It was like the other evening all over again. When was bruce gonna learn. He quickly swam away in. Shame would never make friends if he kept destroying their boats the next morning he swam back to apologize for his actions the night before but the land fish were not having it this time they chased them and harpooned him again with more of those damned floaty. Bruce tried to swim away but they began to pull him towards the shore. Bruce was pissed and with all his might swam away pulling the boat with him. A struggle commenced but bruce and felt the slack on the line and it released intention from the boat. Bruce hurt confused and dejected from his experience. Swam away again to gather his thoughts. What had he done wrong. It was in his nature.
Dealcasters
"da da" Discussed on Dealcasters
"It's a lot of fun so so are you gonna come back and do that again. Is that in the play hoping to. I'm hoping to i really don't know when it's gonna resume it's usually January the beginning of january every year. And of course last year didn't happen and i'm not sure if this year is going to happen it really. It depends on vaccination stuff so we'll see if it does let let us know because you know kristen. I can be your road. Easer microphone. Well yeah with a band you can imagine we have roadies beyond your podcast is about audio branding and i think a lot of people when they when they think of audio branding the it's kind of like the last thing they might they might think about and it's like Let me go let me go. Licensed some free thing on premium bed or story blocks and kinda like toss it into an underneath something So if somebody were watching listening right now and They were like well. How do what is. How do i create an audio for myself for either my podcast or for my business in. How important is Is an audio brand to To someone's overall brand not just logo color codes and in everything else. What how what would you say to someone that would say you. Know what Can i just get music. How important is an audio brand for anyone's business. I think it's important for being memorable. One of the things about sound is that it hits us really fast and really deeply and it's an emotional shorthand it gives us that emotional context for what we're seeing. So if all you're looking at is the the visuals of your brand and your logo and all of that stuff. That's not bad. Certainly that's going to help you become memorable but it's not gonna be the whole picture if you think about the other senses and use them along with the visual it makes more of an impact and it's way more memorable and the key thing with audio if you're going to actually have an audio brand is consistency and and You know doing it over and over again. It's like you you can't just you can't just do it once. Expect people to remember it so You know repetition and consistency is kind of what you're going for an eye on a lot of cases people use this in advertising so the idea being that the more time you hear something the more you're going to remember it and if you see that with a visual and then you take away that visual and you've heard that thing often enough all you have to do is hear it and you see that visual in your mind's eye right so that means that then your audio brand whenever that happens to be is translatable in any different language all across the world right like think of intel. Think of mcdonald's. These are brands. That have used that kind of thing to their advantage. And now you don't need to see the logo of intel. When you hear that da da you know my guy. I immediately when you said until yeah yeah i was. It's there it's all there it's in your head but it's because you saw it so often and heard that that sound associated with it in like every tech commercial you watched over twenty years or something like that. It's been huge and mcdonald's it's the same thing it went from. One song to core is to five notes from that chorus. But we've heard it so often now that it's you know da da da da like we know that song right. That's it right so severe things. And i think in a lot of aspects that the the advertisers aren't necessarily thinking about this consciously until it works on their behalf and i think that's what's been happening that we're starting to become as these things are twenty thirty years out. We're starting to recognize that. This is actually a thing that this is a human behavior we can take advantage of and it's time and start now because you're gonna reap the benefits of that twenty thirty years from now right i love. I love how you talked about the repetition. And i'm an jim can attest i'm i'm very impatient. And i liked to move things around and i love to change things up and be fresh. But you're right in that. If you're if you're promoting yourself there are lots of people that are seeing you and hearing you for the first time and a your sound it. You have to continue to get those impressions before eventually when someone. Here's something as well as as site like you said multiple senses that they're going to associate that sound with you and that's what you want you want. You want to be known and eventually liked and trusted in order for for that business to happen in jimmy Obviously do a ton of video. That's that's what we do but we always say when people come to us and they say you know where do we start. You always start with the audio it. I don't care if you've got you know a huge sony Zeevi one camera murless cameron. You've got all this great gear that You know we're showing on on amazon and these really great You know things. It's like you have to work on mike technique you have to you. Don't need to spend six hundred dollars if you if you got six hundred dollars to spend on a mike you know. Knock yourself out but you should probably learn on something. That's great in affordable for yourself and your environment yet your environment. What you're recording in is what's gonna make that microphone sound good you can make a okay. Microphone sound pretty decent. You have sound treatment around you. Yeah jodi we. We've talked about that before You know we had you come on the show. We were talking about that and you talked about how you have built like mini studio. I guess that we're seeing you in right now. I have a yeah. It's by four so it's not like a telephone booth. It's a liberal arts than that thankfully so i don't feel like i'm claustrophobic but But yeah it is sound treated and the walls are pretty thick. And what i love about this particular one is it was custom made for me so it doesn't have that dungeon look of all the dark foam that every single booth i've.
Marsha's Plate: Black Trans Podcast
"da da" Discussed on Marsha's Plate: Black Trans Podcast
"You know how yeah you you. You may be A pillar of the community. You help some people but you also close the door on some people and so yeah we appreciate you. 'cause you probably are all that we got in regards to Being you know like the black church like you the church is a place that has historically been a part of you. Know how we activate community how we A place a week and meet up when we need to strategize da da da but it also has been a place that kick pregnant teens out is also a place that kick queer people out so we always have had to make those kind of I don't know what the word is. A you know compromises where where people stay the nuance of people saying out of just having a conversation with a friend about just how do you navigate being part of this institution like for me. It's a church as a pastor and also like being accountable to the violence if done in your name and I'll never forget this was twenty eight teen and he'd vassal was murdered by the nypd. And you know. I decided to go soon individual because it was very close to where i was at the time and You just feel emotions like high in like very awful. Incisive critique like Just really brilliant ways of not just talking about this one debt as we should warn but as part of a bigger structure so Somebody called out to the audience. Or they got on the mic. They were like So we're going to have someone sell from the nypd. Chaplain office in a crowd was like no i. On the mike now it's It's not nypd its clergy and somebody yelled from the audience. Clergy is the cops and like everyone laughed. Because you really had to sit there and think about like yeah you know christian clergy and the cogs do tend to you know. Cover each other's backs in so many ways I was just having a conversation with a friend about like. What can you do this. Work from the inside with integrity I don't think it is the same as like cops or military. Although you know our most mainstream in our most popular representatives would have you believe otherwise. 'cause they all kind of ride with each other but I do think particularly the black church and lectures that are accountable to a radical history in radical beginnings Is very different from like. Oh but i'm i'm just as bad as iraq. You know But i do think about that sometimes. Like is the kind of work that i want to be in And every time. I even think about putting the total out of the door. It's the people that back and make me feel like it. Not so much about the religion or the tradition or Building even at this point. 'cause what building are we in the people if the relationships is when she talked about the the kind of gathering and like intimate space holding that we do for each other now people are formed when people are very and people get married to the wars. Like all of that kind of life cycle stuff.
No Agenda
"da da" Discussed on No Agenda
"A major development overnight from the crisis in haiti officials arresting a man with florida ties accused of playing a central role in the assassination of president. Giovanelli's christian emmanuel sanon a haitian-born doctor based in florida allegedly used a us security firm to hire colombian nationals under the guise. That they'd be his security guards but san and then presented the guards with an arrest warrant for president moi's with the alleged intent of assuming the presidency himself haitian officials have not explained. How the mission to arrest the president turned into a deadly plot but now in a political vacuum people hating face chaos and desperation. Haiti has been in the midst of a gas shortage. At least two seems like this people lining up for fuel up because the opportunity to get gas is spontaneous agents from the f. b. i. An us homeland security have arrived in haiti to help with the investigation but us troops. Despite requests from haiti's interim leader are not expected to be sent haiti's former first lady who was critically injured in last week's attack had surgery this weekend and is now recovering. Why are we. Why are we in. why are we in. they're investigating. What because it's our spook somehow. The did this or some willing participants who were told. Yeah i'm going to. I'm going to be the rightful president. You hi. I'm going to hire you. Take me and we'll just arrest him. Don't worry about you get one guy in there. Who's a shot and they kill him and and and there's trigger-happy maniac. Well who would have been. Maybe this guy breaking overnight. One of the suspects in the assassination of haiti's president was an informant for the us drug enforcement agencies. The da says the suspect reached out to his contacts at the agency. After haiti's president was killed. An nda official urged him to surrender. And we know that from. I witnessed it was. Da da. Get on the ground..
Ball & Buds
"da da" Discussed on Ball & Buds
"Three window. Maybe one month on the really do that. I want to talk about. I'm gonna i now. They don't want to see your signs to understand. Though you've been suntan a suns fan. He assad said about minnesota teams jersey worn every at least once a week once a week. Maybe you're buying beyond that little sons bass bumper in for david slade old allied. You still have. It prompted water. Oh abbott broncos whatever. He's like a small ta da da and then hey y'all he does by which do that with seventeen hundred nineteen was like i looked alexi baer by hate that shit man that this new age era of a player is going to hop melt man trump that why would he jumped your team about non spine if you jump teams you find your your have favorite players like players and plan redoing. Give us today family as with and so with this my friends i bid you adieu for at least a month. Maybe two don't think i will leave you. I promise you. I will be back for season three. Just give me a month or so to get my affairs in order and we'll be right back on top of it and we will be shooting up the charts. Baby we're going to the top of the podcast charts and you're coming with me family. Love ya on that note. Thank you for tuning in my friends. Make sure to the boy and as always subscribe to stay updated. Download all new episodes until then stay safe. Jake carry yourself be kind to each other and spread love the omar..
Podcast Insider
"da da" Discussed on Podcast Insider
"Maybe i should start doing that. More having guest. I get some feedback. Sometimes just be yourself in da da da da but anyway all right. Let's move on here. Focus on features about the blueberry player. So we've got a blog post up. And i've actually read this one yet about our talks about her exclusive player for our hosting customers. And how it all works awesome so gives them the the dirty dancing deep. Details glacier is over type of content as they go that far. No no no just about you know it can be embedded it can be Or automatically is added to your post and wordpress if you're hosting with us and you select that player and so it's good little overview of what What we have to offer all right. So if you're if you're not using our blueberry player check it out if you are then go look some options dot for customizing a little bit okay. This month. podcast of the month. And i'm going to let you introduce kim. Because i'm going to destroy her last name. I have a announcer. Actually i listened to her show. So i know how it sounds now so anyway. It's craggy crashing okay. Yeah and she's doing her toastmasters one one show. But she's been selected as our podcast of.
Untrained Wisdom
"da da" Discussed on Untrained Wisdom
"You only get better help more help. What do you think is common about him. And also maybe even mental illness in the black community. Will you hold way bad. Who told me that he in the er and no one talked to stop or he'll go with a serious problem and they send them right back or they discharge him out times in the shelters opened. He's experienced water racism. He's phone not believing in. You know you hear a lot about that amongst black women's especially during pregnancy but my dad black man. I've seen them be like no. You're fine they just sent you like our ec we use or because he's all my odd or because he's homeless. No we do it sometime. We walked past a homeless person. You just ignore them. And that's what they do. But i'm like literally this is. Your job was don't ignore history and in the black community mental illness. She's not a thing you go to church and get it together. I don't know if it's like this. Combination of being we re sources education and. I know for me accessibility. There seemed like very white. My my. I don't have the resources to do that. Seems like a luxury thing that you do. You talk about your problems like that. Sounds like a luxury but i think like i said equating it to physical health. It's a lot of different things. But i think they all go back to your perspective on it because even if you're ignorant towards you your perspective on it after the fact you could still be like no even out grades. These things therapy if you already think. That's not for you. it's really disheartening. Especially when. I talked to family members about my dad and outs childhood. It's very much so like it is what it is. It was what allowed for. Who's choices and i'm like when you have a mental illness. If you have room for tweet. I feel like you're taking on so much responsibility. Caregiving for your dad. Also in some respects your mom maybe even do you feel like the message is being heard by other people in your circle. The importance of mental illness are awfully. Everyone's expecting chain situation has impacted everyone around me giving them also a different perspective on everything perspective on parents on homelessness boundaries. Up a big one. It's so complicated. A growing up. I wasn't taught boundaries that if i don't like something i don't have to do it. I don't i wasn't being with my dad. There's been some moments where i'm like. I have two adult. Have you sold any of his work all together. I've sold about okay. Would you want people to know about your dad and just other creatives like him who are living with a mental illness people to know that with mental illness you have to realize that they're not on the same thinking cleaners us. It's completely different. I think that was the most leading moment when i realized that could see things. I was hearing things likely to. I'm literally in a different dimension and changed the way. I looked at him the way i talked to him. There's just so much going on in his head. I just want people to let go their expectations. Man had to let go of mine. You're doing so much for him. How does somebody listening to you. Talk about your experiences with your dad. How do we help somebody with a mental illness that we are close to. How would you do it. And i know it's going to be different for everybody. I would validate them. Don't try to diminish whatever it is. I used to be. Oh but it'll be okay. It's not that bad no. He's literally living in nightmare on helms name and then unfortunate law enforcement because it is a prophet and you do have to let go especially if you are so close where their mental illnesses affecting you. Yeah you don't you can give them some resources talking about an awesome. How they're feeling unless you are an actual therapist. You're not there What's your natural doctor. The doctor be supportive. But don't lose yourself. It's hard to let go. I remember there was a moment where i was really looking at my dad and i was like. I can't do this anymore. i can't do this. This is how you're meant to go. Oh because it's either. You can't be both of us. But if you're not advocating for yourself if i'm leading to the water and you don't wanna drink house to let go. I think that's the hardest step. You can look up how to support friend what you say that it up. But it's like how do i let go someone who can't help himself so yeah. This is all important stuff that you're talking about. And i know everybody's experience is going to be different. And i actually can relate in terms of setting your boundaries trying to help somebody but also letting go in recognizing that it's not good for you. You're not serving your on purpose. I have to remind myself. And i'm gonna martyr myself. I will not. I remember before i was able to slow down and get it together. My dad what he was doing and needed to do as top tier. It was more important than anything i ever had to do. And there was time where i literally almost died because i got in a car accident on my way to t- consume a doctor's opinion. Okay in that moment. I was on the furthest backburner i could be. I did not know it was my dad. I di di di da da da da and that parthenon. I'm like wait. Hold on seventy one white wave so hard never multiple times. I had to back off. When about your dad. Are you proud of. I'm proud that survived. I would tell him. Oh my god say i was home. I'm so proud of you. And i'm sure he felt like he didn't have anything to be out. I went out of him for making it this far. He should be dead. It really anyone. I feel like most people in his situation. That have overdosed. How many times. He's overdose been homeless. How many times been homeowners. We wouldn't make it. He'll i sometimes trauma survivors. They feel like an accomplish anything. Nobody i am is my momma and i have to remind myself my mom. May dad your survivor proud. That you survived all this bullshit like you went through all right and you'd it. That's an easy sorry. Have you told him that i have. How has he responded. You just said okay. He's not very emotional responses. Live but i knew what i was saying. Thank you so much for talking about your experience as a caregiver as a young caregiver i think is so valuable and i hope your experience what you've been through what. Your dad's story is his artwork. I hope it resonates somebody out there. 'cause it is sort of like a hidden story. It's not something that a lot of people talk about. But i think it's an important piece of reality. Even though a lot of my interviews are relatively positive this is something that a good chunk of the senior population. they're dealing with and in a perfect world. I would love to have both you and your dad on the show. But i know that's not realistic. And i i understand that. I i would like yeah i think he can when we did his neuropsychologist. Oh my god. I don't think you'd every saddam well at least recognize that. That's okay but yeah no i. I appreciate you sharing your story. It's something that i hope gets. Amplified really also helping us as a society better understand and take mental illness justice seriously. So i appreciate you speaking out about this. Thank you for starting that instagram account. What you're doing with your dad's work and showing it to the world. I hope more and more following it. So let's lighten this up.
H-sana
"da da" Discussed on H-sana
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Serifacast
"da da" Discussed on Serifacast
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The Ladies of Strange
"da da" Discussed on The Ladies of Strange
"He's a toddler knows eleven. He's a giant toddler. Hey hey tiffany. Who actually has an eleven year. Old in your life is reading about with you. My almost thirteen year old brother that hurts to say But no my mouth twelve year old brother that does he has been quote acting Where he does like video game moves from fi fright nights at freddie so it kind of sounds a lot like what ashley's describing so desperate for help the glass holes finally called ed and lorraine or an da da da who began to make regular visits to their home and they would bring multiple priests they would bring different priests to perform exorcisms many of those took place while david was fitted sitted seated in the rocking chair line so once the exorcisms increased the chair not only would rock by itself but it would move throughout the house on its own no no disappear and reappear in different places okay. So can you imagine for a second like a rocking chair moving by itself just like using the momentum discourage across the floor light jog. Who'd and it's but just scooted across the floor. That's it's not that terrifying. If you think about it that way it wouldn't it would just like you would wake up in the rocking chair. It'd be at the foot of your bed. Wake up and it would be in the middle of the kitchen no or hallway or whatever maybe he just wanted cuddles book that maybe it just wanted cuddle would just sit on me please. Hey the most incredible movement of the chair happened during one of the exorcisms and it actually levitated in front of the warren's clergy members and family members while david was sitting in it during an exorcism. Oh so it's zero gravity chair. God oh my god. That sounds so awful. He just turned upside down the chair lubricated. It flew up into the air in a room full of people. I'm uncomfortable uncomfortable being in a new room by myself. All we listen to this. you're fine. is there a rocking chair. There is not that you have left screaming. And maybe the person's house that you're at is to pure your true. There's no demons there. This is true if they did they hitchhiked up for you..