40 Burst results for "Dodge"
Game of Crimes
A highlight from 123: Part 4: Rikk Rambo Survives Two Shootings, An Assassination Attempt, and an 800-Pound Grizzly
"I will tell you that we arrested, they came after my partner and I, they were surveilling my house. We caught them. We caught them surveilling the house. Like I said, this story would take a long time to tell about why DEA was slow to react. I can just say if management had been different all the way to the top, I think things would have been differently, but it doesn't take many cogs in that wheel to cause bad things to happen. But we documented surveillance on our homes. Nothing was done on a little island like St. Croix. Nothing was done. But yeah, ultimately they machine gunned my partner's personal vehicle. That day, one of my other task force partners and I, a guy named Chris, Chris and I had been Angel's babysitting son while he worked a second job. So we came back that night to the house with Bomb B, his little boy, the kind of kid that would make you wish you had him. I'd never had children, but I think about Bomb B and I wish I would have had kids. I mean, he makes you wish you had kids, but yeah, we dropped him off at the, dropped off the house, kind of hung out for a little bit, had a little bite to eat with the family and everything and dropped Bomb B off and then we all kind of left at the same time. Angel's dad, he's just an old fisherman, just an old St. Croix fisherman, he borrowed the truck that night. The truck that Angel and I went fishing in, you could ride it down the beach, just a little island truck, a little rusted out Nissan island truck. Angel's father, as we're all leaving, his father took the truck and was going to use the truck for something that next day and we all leave. Well, they were surveilling from a distance, probably from the mountain across the way. And so we all leave. Well, they always saw, they knew Angel, that was his truck and also Angel and I were always, we did stuff we did in that truck, but yeah, they let that truck get about a mile or two from the house into a kind of like a deserted part of the island and then pull it up next to it in a full -size Dodge Ram pickup truck with two automatic weapons and just let them have it. And luckily his dad, I'm telling you, if there's a big guy upstairs, he was watching out for Majean, that's his nickname, it was Majean, Angel's father, but yeah, somebody's watching out for him. He took five, I think it was five rounds, they were all skinning shots across his face. One went through a lip and in his teeth, but all of them were, and they were still rifled, I mean, they were still spinning straight and true through the window. So he took those across the face. The one that almost killed him went through his arm and went through the door metal on the car keyhole. The bullet turned sideways, full metal jacket bullet turned sideways, hit him in the arm and nicked his breaky artery. But nevertheless, they stopped their truck in front of him to finish, they figured probably it was either my partner or me or both of us. But they come back and Majean, who had been shot, he was still conscious, he saw them gal the truck putting magazines in their rifles through the shattered glass in the windshield. He carried a .357 Magnum because he worked for a restaurant and he did their night deposits for their money, so he had a permit to carry and he had a little .357 Magnum in the truck with him. Well he got, he just shot right through the windshield at him, he got five of six rounds, he passed out before he could get that sixth round off, but that was enough to scare those guys back into the truck, figuring it's one or both of us still alive and getting out of there. And then the ball rolled down from there. We arrested a bunch of people that we knew were involved in other things, we couldn't get them for that for that point in time, but we had them on other charges and the federal magistrate down there let them all go on bond, which is, yeah, so, but that was, you know, in the end analysis that was the best thing that could have happened because over the course of the next eight months we had eleven or twelve tertiary, I mean, primary bad guys and a whole lot of secondaries and tertiary bad guys, but the primaries in that case, of the eleven primaries, eight of them were killed within that next, I don't know, eight months to ten months. Some of them were killed typical island fashion where somebody just runs up real quick and shoots you a bunch of times while you're playing dominoes in like a little place or whatever. Other ones were pretty spectacular, getting shot from a distance, a team coming in that looked like paramilitary and taking them out, but in the end analysis, all those bad guys, except for two primaries, or three, I'm sorry, three primaries, they were all wiped out. I mean, very well done in that time period and the final three end up getting theirs. I think the two of them end up getting life in prison without federal life in prison. So it had a happy ending, but it took a little bit of time. The island was safe for everybody to go back. I know my partner, Majito, his whole family had a little girl, a little boy and his wife. They evacuated them off of St. Croix. They ended up being able to go up and visit my parents way up north in Ohio and get to see snow for the first time and go sled riding and all that. They had a nice time being evacuated, but it was actually by the time it was all said and done, they had a safe place to go back to. All the main bad guys, they were all kaput. And in the secondary and tertiary areas, they either went to jail or they were so afraid because they didn't know who did it. And it was done professionally. I mean, some of the hits, they were done quite well. And so a lot of those bad guys for a couple of years after that were like, oh, boy, let's hide in the basement for a while. Did you get any insight on who was behind those hits? Nope, nobody ever saw that one.
News, Traffic and Weather
Fresh update on "dodge" discussed on News, Traffic and Weather
"Tonight on stage at the University of Alabama, there will be four Republicans debating for a President fourth time, Donald Trump but former will not be among them. ABC News chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl has more on he where was last night and what he was saying. At a town hall overnight with Fox News host Sean Hannity, Donald Trump was asked would he abuse the power of the presidency during a second term. He dodged the question, but minutes later, Hannity pressed him again for an answer. You would never abuse power as retribution against anybody except for day one. Except for day one, meaning I want to close the border and I want to drill. That's not retribution. I'm going to be, I'm going to be, you know, he keeps this guy. He says, you're not going to dictator. be a I said, no, no, no. Other than day one, Republicans in Congress are refusing to approve any aid more for Ukraine unless changes are made at the border. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby on Good Morning America says the Biden administration has tried to discuss it, offering more Border Patrol agents, more asylum courts and court officers, more physical infrastructure. So I think we're willing to have a discussion on that. But what we don't want to see is Ukraine held hostage for it. Israeli forces have moved into southern Gaza where IDF spokesman Major Doran Spielman says Hamas is deeply embedded in the civilian population. It's face to face alleyway fighting. We try to call on aerial support. We try to call on artillery support, but because of the civilians, we're trying to be as really as targeted as we can to the terrorists. Thousands of Egyptian troops have been deployed to prevent a mass influx of Palestinian refugees who have fled south. Four people shot and killed in Austin, Texas. Three, two law enforcement officers wounded. Two other people found murdered in San Antonio. Police think all the shootings were related. There's one person in custody. You're listening to ABC News. Planning the perfect office celebration equipped with the right gift to show appreciation may seem overwhelming amid a stressful time of year, but with a little of creativity and expert help, everyone will feel the holiday spirit. TikTok star Corporate Natalie is sharing her tips on planning the perfect office party. Office parties. You either love them or you hate them, but either way, they're going to happen come holiday time. And if you're one of the lucky ones, you may even be voluntold by your boss that you need to help organize it. It's just one more thing added to your plate, but it doesn't have to be this stressful, time -consuming task you dread. As organizations look to plan their office holiday celebrations, Walmart Business is helping make it convenient and to get everything you need. Check out the Walmart Business app when shopping for supplies from decorations and shopping. Make it even easier in order for shipping or pickup to get it all brought to you. Get all your holiday party supplies at business .com. .walmart Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson admitting this morning his was government too slow in grasping the magnitude of the COVID crisis. Boris Johnson facing questions at a public inquiry investigating the response to the pandemic in the UK amid torrential flooding in Portland. Several rivers still rising and are expected to crest today, but more rain is in the forecast over the next few days. A lot of us trying to figure out AI and turning to Wikipedia for help. Do you remember what you searched for this year? Wikipedia does. The Wikipedia Foundation, the nonprofit which runs the publicly edited online encyclopedia, says its English language version topped 84 billion views this year. The most popular topic chat GPT that was followed by the annual list of deaths, which usually gets high traffic every year. The Cricket World Cup, Barb and Timer and Taylor Swift, Daria Ulbinger, ABC News. Quite a reunion on the ice, an NHL game between Knox last night. That call from Devil's Radio Network brothers Luke and Jack Hughes both play for the New Jersey Devils and their brothers Quinn, their brother Quinn plays for Vancouver. Luke and Jack getting the family bragging rights there last night with a win by the Devils. I'm Sherry Preston, ABC News. News Radio FM 1000 9077. Stay connected, stay informed. Good morning and thanks for joining us. It is Wednesday, December 6th and right now
Bitcoin & Crypto Trading: Ledger Cast
A highlight from Begging for bubbles
"Hello and welcome to LectureCast, my name is Brian Crossguard, here with the one, the only Josh Olszowiec. Mr. Brian. Josh, how you doing, man? I'm fully engaged. Training goes on. Fully engaged. Fully engaged. That is a readiness state I wasn't prepared for. We have charts on my end that are - Yeah, you did preparation. I'm impressed. I did not. That's okay. But you encouraged me to look up some stuff that I want to talk about on the show. We're going to talk about bubbles today because I titled it Begging for Bubbles. Well, you mentioned my moving average video and clearly that just set off - Listen, I just need the price. I need the price to separate from the fast moving averages and the slow moving averages to the upside, of course. We need some bubblicious behavior. And listen, if you're feeling some FOMO, don't worry, you're not alone. You're just like Isaac Newton. We were talking about people who had gotten fleeced in bubbles and I really enjoyed this one. Even smart people struggle with FOMO. Isaac Newton invests in the South Sea stock, exits with the profit, then his friends get richer than him and then he re -enters with a lot of money at the top and then goes broke. I don't know. A year later. It's almost like the investor sentiment chart or Wall Street cheat sheet. It is except for the whole re -entry component and he's just like you. So if you're feeling FOMO, don't worry, there'll be other trades. There'll be trades. Take your time. I was going to ask you this too. What do you think is the most important thing about trading? Trade management. Discipline. I'd go even more basic. I'd say just make sure you have a seat at the table. There's always another trade. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't go broke. So that's part of trade management, right? Don't blow up. Yeah, it is. Don't blow up. Like the Solana stuff, we can talk about Bitcoin in a second, but Solana with the 45 and all you had to do was wait, you know, all you had to do is be patient. And you had your entry. I think it was a great setup. Most of us paying attention caught that. Same thing with LINK, right? It was hard to mis -trade that, I think. I hope, but I don't know. We looked at LINK for... Everybody looked at LINK. I thought. I don't even like the token. Anyway, I don't like Solana either, but that's another conversation. Point is, there's always another trade. There's always a trade somewhere. Be patient. Pick your battles. Be super choosy and look for specific stuff, right? If you're looking for a fastball, don't swing at a curveball, you know? Oh, baby. Speaking of baseball, did you watch the World Series at all? I did. I didn't. I saw it was the lowest rated World Series in history. Dude, what happened to frickin' Twitter's pasting URLs on to TradingView? I used to be able to do that. Oh, I have my drawings turned off. There it is. Classic. Oh, yeah. You knew what I was looking for. Yeah. I mean, look at this. I've pasted it on here like 17 times now. There we go. Do it one more time. There we go. Look at this. I mean, beautiful. I mean, the divergent top. Arthur, what are you doing, man? Well, I woke up and saw that and I was like, what? I hope he's kidding. Like, I hope he's not just now buying all the way up here. Sometimes I wonder, like, did he really buy back here and then he's just, like, saying this stuff at the top? I don't know. He seems too smart for this. But has he a great success of calling tops when he does these types of tweets. Yeah. That was in the high 40s, wasn't it? Yeah. I mean, this is an hourly chart. It was literally, like, 45 bucks. Yeah. Yeah. That didn't make sense to me. So, I hope he... He's immediately down 20 % if that's where he bought. I hope he's a little joking around with that, but maybe not. I don't know. But long term, like, that entry is probably fine. If you're trapped, quote, unquote, trapped in a spot position, I think you're fine. But you're holding for a while. If you're in a leveraged position, I think you're sweating it a little bit. You're not good. Your entry is 45. Yeah. The thing is... Tell us what the thing is. How many days was this? Let's just say from the breakout. You entered the day after to today. Two weeks. For two weeks, Solana, like, traversed this range. I've had this range for a long time, this 25 to 50, basically, 25 to 47, 50. That was the old range before FTX blow up. And then it spent a long time below that on its way to eight. And so, it got back in the range and then floated right back to the top of it. Why would you buy it at the top of that range? I really hope that wasn't the case, but maybe he's got a different time horizon. A lot of people... I'm not just calling out Arthur. A lot of people were feeling FOMO. I haven't really seen anybody on Twitter talking about anything. I don't know if that's just because Twitter's broken or what, but... I feel like a lot of people have been talking about the move that we've had over the past week or so. I haven't seen anybody saying, like, Sol, the 500. I haven't seen any of that stuff. No, not Sol, the 500. It's more like just, I told you so type stuff. Maybe you don't follow Z. Who's that? He's... I don't know. Maybe all my friends are liquidated. I don't know. I just... Handsome. Handsome. I call him Z. No, I haven't. I don't know who that is. Sorry. You're missing out. He's got a good call. He's going off about Coinbase now. Coinbase is at 200. His handle is BlackNoise06, but with a different spelling. He's a good trader, and he's been early on some of these, like, loud beliefs of something's going to happen. I mean, what? We said... Maybe he's just been talking about Solana so much that I'm like, everybody's talking about Solana. It's really just Ansem retweeting it, like, 35 times. Okay. I mean, we said what? Bitcoin, 28k was the level. I don't know if we said it on here, but 25 was the level for Solana. These are just horizontal levels, right? They're not like anything crazy. Yeah. I talked about this, I guess, on Bankless. Just like... The benefit we have right now is we're neither at all -time lows nor all -time highs, so therefore there's horizontal levels that you can compare it to, and you can just trade level to level based on daily, weekly closes, whatever floats your boat, and play it that way. If you're trying to really risk off and take it one trade at a time or whatever, if you're not looking at things with a longer -term lens, you can do that. What I would say right now is goodbye. Buy the retest at 30k if you get it. That would feel rough for a lot of people, 15 % drawdown, but if that occurs, that would be a good entry, right? I don't know what people are waiting for. I guess you're waiting for a COVID -style drawdown, because what's next in the economy? What's it going to take to bring Bitcoin back down is the question. If you're waiting for an entry still... A little bit of bad news, some kind of regulatory thing. There's plenty of things that can pull you back 15%. We can go to 30. You mean we're going to all -time lows type stuff, or not all -time lows, but multi -year lows? No, I'm just asking, if you haven't allocated or whatever into Bitcoin yet, what are you waiting for? Are you waiting for a yearly low? Are you waiting for 15k? Is that what people are waiting for? I don't know, I can't get in the head of bears. It's hard for me. Because we've got halving in less than six months, ETF in less than six months. Unless you just assume those things are priced in and or are bearish. I don't know. I don't know what you're waiting for at this point. I'm not saying we won't go lower, I'm just saying like, what is it going to take, you know? Yeah. If you're trying to think of... It's hard when these are hypothetical people of who's not deployed or whatever. But what would you be waiting on? Wouldn't you be looking for re -entry opportunities where you appear to have value? I mean, I don't think there's that. You think there's a lot of people in our ecosystem of active participants that expect like new multi -year lows? Or do you think most people are looking to just accumulate a little cheaper, if they're not all the way in right now? I just haven't seen enough to even gauge what sentiment even is, on Twitter at least. There's this macro out the yin -yang on Twitter, but I haven't seen too many people discussing crypto targets. I just haven't. Maybe I'm just following the wrong people, but... Yeah. Well, thankfully, the legacy media is kind of avoiding us right now, at least in terms of price action. They're all focused on Sam getting convicted, which he did. People, I'm sure everyone's seen this, but SPF was found guilty on all seven counts of, I don't know, different types of fraud. Well, that's the thing. You have a legacy media saying, I told you so about Sam, some of them, and the other half of them... Meanwhile, Bitcoin's up 100%. Right. They're saying, I told you so, crypto's dead, it's all a Ponzi. And I'm like, what? Am I living in a parallel universe? Am I looking at the wrong chart? So by the time they wake up to the fact like, oh, Bitcoin's at 50K. What happened? I thought it died. You know? SafeMoon people were arrested. Yeah. Good point. Oh, yeah. Lying on a what? It said SafeMoon guy was arrested yesterday. I saw they brought charges. I didn't realize they arrested anybody, but Josh, I mean, who would have thought? You named something SafeMoon, and it turned out they didn't have the best intent. Well... Apparently, it was even quite egregious. So I've heard, I don't know anything about their charges, but it's more than, we created a coin and we want to sell it. It was sneakier. They have had more egregious levels of crime they wanted to commit, I guess. I don't know. Anytime someone, it's like hex, right? Anytime someone tells you they're going to lock up tokens for X number of years and give you yield and no. SafeMoon. Can we just remember what happened last cycle and not repeat that this cycle? We just all collectively say we're not going to do that shit again, please? Yeah. But it keeps not your coins. If yields are higher, then the risk -free rate in the United States is probably not real. Okay. And what else did we learn? You know what is on the up and up right now? You tell me. Crypto books are coming out left, right and center. Like real books? Yeah. Like people are interested in the crypto story, the crypto boom and bust. We talked about the... Well, I think if you're not in it and you don't have a podcast empire like yourself, it's fascinating. Like I have real friends who they've been reading them like the Michael Lewis book, for example. And I kind of roll my eyes at that one. But buddy of mine that owns a local bookstore was telling me he kind of liked the Number Go Up. I think it's what it's called. Number Go Up, I think is what that one was called. So that was pretty good. More of a skeptical lens. But I saw another book. I think it came out like at the same time as The Conviction. And yeah, the outside world is interested in the story, but they are disinterested in the price action. And I find that fascinating. That's a good sign, I feel like for crypto. Well, people are still telling them it's for criminals and going to blow up. And don't I know what I was going to say about Solana relative to SafeMoon. If Solana pops off, they got to dodge some regulatory heat from the SEC or settle or something. Yeah. And I think that kind of stuff could definitely affect, especially, the altcoin landscape for how aggressive do regulators want to be in terms of who they go after, how they go after them. What's the expectation? Even in light of Ripple winning a huge portion of its case, I don't mean it's a free for all. No. And it doesn't mean Solana gets a free pass either. Or DeFi. DeFi. The UK wants to destroy DeFi. So does the United States. We need to stay with Bitcoin legislation. We don't have that either. There's an Elizabeth Warren video going around about basically just self -custody should be illegal. That was the moral of the story of our video. And the SEC just went after PayPal for their stablecoin. Yeah. What's that about? Well, you got to wonder, didn't they see that coming? I don't know. I don't know if they launched that thinking we need to be a part of the conversation. I don't know. It doesn't make any sense to me, but good for them for fighting the good fight, I guess. Should we talk about the list I made? Yeah. I made this list. It's going to trigger people. Josh prepared a list. I just usurped it and started talking about random crap. Trigger warning. Okay. Okay. It's talking about politics, religion, and war. Let's go. I didn't even know those things were on the list. Let's hear it. I think you have to have some sort of opinion about this stuff because it's related to markets, you know? I think you have to have an opinion. So this week... Where are we starting? We'll start with macro because we had a ton of macro stuff. I don't know if we need to explain each little thing here, but the UJ, the Bank of Japan, they stopped their yield curve control mechanism and let UJ weaken further or strengthen further. And potentially that just means they're going to stop selling United States Treasuries potentially. There was also bullish news on the refunding announcement that they weren't adding a bunch of long -term debt. They're going to veer from their historic plans of like 22 % short -term and go above that. So that made yields really happy. That made TLT get excited. This was before unemployment. You mean it made bonds happy? Yeah. Like yields went down, bonds went up. Right. Yeah. Right. Because the narrative before that was, hey, they're going to issue all this debt. It's going to be long -term because it has to be, because that's what the historical percentages were, blah, blah, blah, whatever. They're deviating from that. Okay. So that's maybe good short -term, but long -term, maybe not so much. I don't know. It depends on your viewpoint there. But then we had the Fed come out and say they're not going to raise rates. Rates probably topped for now. Again, that's like reading tea leaves and Rorschach tests. There are people saying the Fed can't hike anymore, they're done, but that's going to go out of control. You keep reading the list while I show the charts. Sure. Yeah. So 30 -year came way down. 10 -year came way down. I haven't checked the yield curve. I'll pick it up in just a minute. Basically all this is relevant because of its relation to risk -on -risk -off sentiment. It's certainly relevant for TLT, but then today we had unemployment. And you got to remember bad news is good news for risk because risk wants rates to come down. I don't think risk wants a recession, but I think the quicker we get there, the better. If we get there, again, you hear people on both sides of that argument, whether or not this is actually headed for a recession or not. It certainly feels like we are, but unemployment ticked up to 3 .9%. Job numbers were 30 ,000 less than expected. But if you consider the striking numbers, that actually evens out to reaching expected 180K. Anyway, point is bad news was good news. Dollar's way down. Yields are way down. And non -crypto risk markets are up on the news. So kind of a shift in the very near term, it's a shift. Long -term I think we're still in trouble because of the debt spiral, but high long -term yields have come down. Go ahead. Lining this up, if people aren't familiar with what's happening on this chart, the yield curve is inverted when it's red, and then the area filled portion is essentially how wide is the spread between the two and the 10. So we could be facing a scenario where yields are starting to go down, and then you create the, you uninvert as yields go down and start to see the spread widen and yeah, kind of a steepener effect. Historically, we get a recession after the un -inversion, unemployment also goes up after the inversion. I mean, this looks, there's a few recessions on here. This chart doesn't go back before 1988, so it's not that useful. Well, I don't think with the recession stuff, like why are we afraid of that happening? You know? Of a recession happening? Yeah. Like it's part of the business cycle. It's part, it's like life and death. You know? I don't know. It's like, we're afraid of talking about death. It's okay. You have to choose recession versus, you know, like sustained 8 % inflation. Most people would choose recession, or not most people, but like the holistic body would choose recession because they'll say, I'll be fine. It'll be other people, but I don't want inflation to be that high. Well, you're either in the camp that we're too restrictive, inflation's already come way down, enough's enough, bring rates back down, or you're in the camp that, hey, we're not to our 2 % target yet, PCE is still elevated, CPI is still elevated. All these other metrics still elevated and unemployment is still quite low. That's the other side of that coin.
HASHR8
Fresh update on "dodge" discussed on HASHR8
"Gotcha, thanks for that clarification. Let's go lastly to Celsius. So Asher, last time we spoke, it looked like Celsius was going to be working with Fahrenheit. Fahrenheit was a conglomeration of a few different entities, including US Bitcoin Core. How have things changed since then? It's been a few weeks and there's been a few headlines speaking about like the SEC's view on some of like the staking side of this business. And it might not go forward with that aspect, but it does look like the mining side is going forward. But I'm gonna give you some space here to kind of walk that out. Yeah, so we heard back from that scene and a lot of this is public now. There was just a core hearing last week. And so we confirmed the bankruptcy, right? And this was a calling almost two weeks ago or so. And then afterwards the SEC came and gave the guidance and they're like, hey, we understand the mining business. We get this business, we understand it. We're comfortable with this, but Ethereum staking, we're not so comfortable with. The other loan assets we're not so comfortable with. Primarily it also has to do with what assets can be auditable versus not. The mining business was a pretty clear business within the Celsius entity because it was a separate entity that had its own financials, that had its own audits where the other assets were kind of mixed in. And so we're still trying to figure out what assets can move over and kind of, it has a lot to do with kind of the historical traces of these assets, the audits around them and whatnot. But the overall general gist is we're comfortable with a Bitcoin mining company. We're not as comfortable with this holistic crypto company primarily kind of being staking. And so spent a lot of time, Scott was on the mining podcast with me last time when we were on. And so I spent a lot of time with basically the UCC, the Celsius company, and just saying, he said, look, we were here from day one because we believe we can really drive value to these assets. We have a lot of infrastructure. We have the knowledge, we have the know how, and we believe we can really create value for creditors and for ultimate shareholders in this entity. And another thing too is, I mean, this is more of on a personal front is what has happened with Celsius, FTX and so forth is really bad for the ecosystem. And so if there's any way that we can contribute to turning a bad situation into something that's good, like we wanna be a part of that as well, right? We think there's an opportunity here where creditors will be able to get a lot of liquid crypto back in this scenario, they'll be getting even more liquid crypto back and we'll be able to take kind of this illiquid pool of assets and kind of more or less distressed and turn it into a successful business that people can have equity stakes in. And so plus last week, there was a Bitcoin led bid that we put in where we would basically be providing the same services. And so within the Fahrenheit bid, but primarily focused around mining and driving kind of the growth within the mining business. And so kind of similar concepts that we talked about last time when it came to mining, we still have all the mining assets, we're still capitalizing company with a strong amount of capital to grow the business. The biggest difference is we're not gonna have kind of the Ethereum staking and some of the liquid loan books and assets. And in terms of what we disclosed with respect to our post merger portfolio, Celsius, we do have about 8,500 machines that are being hosted right now with US Bitcoin Corp. So that has taken our hosting portfolio from 220 megawatts to about 250 megawatts right now on top of the 680 managed services, on top of the self mining. So it was really nice to see that accretive uptick in a very short period. And just for some clarification here as well, is the deal somewhat finalized with the new Celsius agreement here, Asher, or is it still sort of in process in terms of the latest update? Nothing's done until it's done in bankruptcy, right? And so we're going through the process and we're going through all the steps and everything that kind of we're filing, we're updating in the bankruptcy courts on kind of a scheduled basis on the next hearing is later this month. And so we're working hard, we're working to drive kind of value and we're looking at options to drive value while the company still in bankruptcy, like Sue mentioned, hosting 8,500 machines and being able to drive additional kind of revenue for those assets that would have otherwise been in storage. And so I guess short answer is we're working hard, nothing's done until it's done and we'll be working relentlessly to kind of bring it to the finish line. I'm gonna ask for some math really quickly here off the top of your head. So it might be a little unfair, but maybe you know this as well. What would this sort of look like within the portfolio of the new company in terms of like revenue generation or just in terms of like machines hosted? It's something like a simple metric for anyone who's interested in the brains to know about. I wanna ask you to do that with what is publicly available. Yeah, exactly. So this is all out there, the beauty in the bankruptcy courts is you have hundreds and hundreds of pages of all kind of everything out there. Even the contracts that we're signing are all posted publicly on the bankruptcy courts. And so kind of general gist is there is about a little over a hundred, around 122,000 ASICS, right? That we would be taking management over. The percentage of those are hosted with third parties and a percentage of those are self-owned. Currently, there's kind of a percentage hosted, a percentage self-owned, and then a percentage in boxes. And so there's about 87 megawatts across four facilities that we'd be taking over managing that's currently existing. There was a big announcement we made a month or two ago that we helped Celsius and Core come to a resolution on some of the claims they had against each other. And that resolution was a Cedar Gulf facility. And so there's an interim agreement that's posted in the bankruptcy courts that they're looking at us helping basically build that 200 megawatt plus facility for them in their interim even before things become effective. And so overall scope is you have around 400 megawatts, about 122,000 machines. We're gonna have over 300 megawatts of kind of self-owned infrastructure with Cedarville built out in the existing fleet that they have. And then in terms of the contracts that we have with them, again, pretty publicly bid. It's a four-year agreement that can flex up to five years if we get some milestones and metric bonuses or go down to three and a half years. And it's about, from a cash perspective, a little over 20 million above our costs on a yearly basis, plus basically equity from an RSU and warrant upside. So we have full alignment and we'll be investing into the business as well to have a stake into the business and to align our incentives. This kind of goes back to what I talked about earlier. I think incentive alignment is really important. And so by us investing into this new code, we'll have alignment with the creditors that will become shareholders to ultimately drive shareholder value and not just be a service provider that just makes a fee and kind of does the work, but to really help drive growth as well. I think what's really interesting too, and we have disclosed this in our corporate overview, is if you zoom out and look at just the amount of global hash rate that is under management with one company. We're north of 1.1 gigawatt with deals like Celsius included. And if you look at the total global hash rate gigawatt or gigawattage is about 15 gigawatts or so of the total global Bitcoin network. And the fact that we're effectively managing 1 15th of that I think is incredibly meaningful. And yes, something I'm pretty excited about. That sounds like a tall task and something I would not be up for, but I'm glad there's people taking care of the Bitcoin network themselves and doing it on behalf. Guys, thank you so much for joining us today. Asher, Sue, where can we find out more information as it comes forward with HUT8 post merger? Yeah, so you can certainly go to hut8.com. I am at BigSuey, B-I-G-S-U-E-Y on Twitter. Asher, I don't remember your handle, but Asher on is also- Just my, it's just Asher the Newton. Asher Dodges social media. Yeah, he's not on there with us. It's probably good, that's why it's getting so much done. Yeah, we'll be doing updates all the time.And we actually have our first Twitter spaces today at noon and we'll probably be doing those on the regular as well, so. Awesome, well, thank you guys so much and we'll speak again with you soon. Thanks guys, bye.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from SBF TRIAL Podcast 10/26: Sam Bankman-Fried Will Testify In His Own Criminal Trial Today
"Welcome to the SBF trial, a Coindesk podcast network newsletter bringing you daily insights from inside the courtroom where Sam Bankman -Fried will try to stay out of prison. Follow the Coindesk podcast network to get the audio each morning with content from the Coindesk regulation team and voiced by Wondercraft AI. You've likely already heard the news. Sam Bankman -Fried is going to testify in his own criminal trial, probably later today. But what's he going to say? We really have no idea. He's said so much, or is it so little, already? In the month between FTX's collapse and his arrest in the Bahamas, Sam spun a story for the cameras of the world. In his telling, the crypto exchange's early November meltdown wasn't because it had illegally loaned billions of dollars of customer deposits to his hedge fund Alameda, or maybe it was. But if it was, he sort of didn't know about it. Here's generally what he said. In 2022, the crypto market imploded. Alameda took a hit. It definitely had some FTX customer money, a bunch of which it was allowed to have, and then a whole bunch of money disappeared. Who's to say who knew what? Not him. Not really. I was vaguely aware, Sam Bankman -Fried said during his halting December 1st, 2022 interview with George Stephanopoulos, portions of which have been played during the trial. Few familiar with the crypto industry believed him. I doubt anyone else did either. Nevertheless, two factors were going for Sam at the time. One, he was operating in a low information environment, and two, he wasn't under oath. Both factors are now invalidated and reversed. They work against him as he takes the stand. Let's call his tale to as many normal people as possible. He assumed a unique position of authority as to FTX and its downfall. Sure, there were press reports that hinted at nefarious deals, like Caroline's alleged tell -all to employees of Alameda, but those were all hearsay. Against that, Sam's heady opportunity to be a first -person narrator. Caroline wasn't saying her side directly to the public. He could, so he did. The story he gave to GMA was not convincing. His long pauses bled into hardly artful dodges of difficult questions. Sam admitted he felt absolutely terrible that a lot of people got hurt by the company's implosion, and he wished he took, like, a lot more responsibility for understanding what the details were, what was going on at Alameda, rather than leave it to others like the lawyers. What Sam could not provide in answers, he tried to make up for with solutions. Weeks after resigning from the bankrupt FTX, he told GMA's audience that he was trying to focus on what he could do going forward to be helpful for his failed company. For what it's worth, FTX's new CEO, Enron John Ray III, wanted nothing to do with Sam and ignored his emails and texts. Stephanopoulos pushed and pushed Sam on whether he knew about Alameda robbing FTX's piggy bank, as the press alleged Caroline had said he did. Refusing to take Sam's dodging, the interviewer conjured up a prescient scenario. We'll transcribe it here. Stephanopoulos, if she's in court and you're in court and she's under oath and you're under oath and you're asked, did you know that these funds were being funneled to Alameda? What is your answer? Sam pauses for eight seconds. Sam, I did not know that there was any improper use of customer funds. Over the last three weeks at trial, we've learned that Sam knew about the secret loan arrangement. Not only that he knew, but that he ordered code to be written that allowed it to happen. Not only that he orchestrated it, but that he hid it from his lawyers, that he ignored their pleas to shut off the customer fund valve, that he spent their money on his business, on other businesses, on loan payments, on sponsorships, on apartments and island houses. In the spirit of Stephanopoulos's question, we'll focus on what Caroline said under oath on October 11th. Caroline, he was the one who set up the systems that allowed Alameda to take the money and he was the one who directed us to take customer money to repay our loans. So what's Sam going to say under oath? We really have no idea. The Department of Justice has one last witness, FBI agent Mark Troiano. He'll testify that Bankman Fried was in about 200 different group chats which had auto delete enabled. The DOJ thinks direct examination will take maybe 30 minutes and the defense thinks 10 minutes max. Once that's done, a little past 10 o 'clock a .m. Eastern time, the defense starts its turn and plans to call Crystal Roll, a Bahamas attorney who represented Bankman Fried and was present at a meeting with the country's securities regulator that former FTX executive Gary Wang testified about. There's a little just heard about Roll and the judge has ordered the defense to provide more information. Defense attorney Mark Cohen thinks Rolla will take maybe 30 minutes on direct examination. Joseph Pimbly, the proposed expert witness, will take maybe 20 minutes max on direct examination and possibly around the same again for cross -examination. The defense has a third witness who'd point out there were over a dozen lawyers in the various group chats Bankman Fried was part of, though Cohen said he's hoping for a stipulation with the DOJ to make that testimony unnecessary. The DOJ's Nicholas Rose doesn't think the information is even admissible. For those of you doing the math, all these witnesses may be done by as soon as 1130 a .m. and that brings us to the man of the hour, Sam Bankman Fried himself. As noted above, he has said quite a lot about what he thinks happened with FTX and the defense clearly wants to continue pushing its position that he didn't intend to defraud customers or investors and things just kind of spiraled. For the first time in a while, Bankman Fried will have an opportunity to do just that. Want to follow along? Sign up for CoinDesk's new daily newsletter, The SBF Trial, bringing you insights from the courthouse and around the case. You can get the podcast each day right here by following the CoinDesk Podcast Network. Thanks for listening.
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Fresh update on "dodge" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"Decisions aren't black and white think red 725 the update now Rob Woodfork. Alright let's start with college basketball of a local variety 7 -1 George Mason on the wrong end of an 8 -2 run to close out the first half they now trail number 17 Tennessee 39 -26 at halftime the Patriots shooting just 36 percent from the floor the vols meanwhile knocking down 51 percent of their shots and therein lies a difference in game this two other games midway through their first half of play George Washington on a 16 5 run to open their game against Navy the midshipmen have made just two of their first 13 shots OVA shooting a red -hot 66 percent and 50 percent from three -point range they North lead Carolina Central 25 to 13 in fact Isaac McNeely is outscoring the opposition by himself with 14 points for the Cavaliers at the Jimmy V classic FAU leads Illinois 42 -39 at halftime of a game between ranked teams and later two more ranked teams at Madison Square Garden it's 5th ranked UConn playing number nine North Carolina in the NFL today the Jaguars say Trevor Lawrence has a high ankle sprain with no timetable for his return little bit of a dodged bullet there as Lawrence appeared to be hurt much worse in that Monday night loss to the Bengals last night Rob Woodfork WTOP sports Rob thanks coming up after traffic and weather on WTOP the man who lived at that Arlington that home exploded was known to the FBI it's now 726 dominion jewelers creates custom jewelry that pleases for every occasion because I wanted to get her something unique and original for holidays the this year because the birth of our first child only happens once in a lifetime because celebrating 20 years is something special just
Six Minutes
A highlight from Introducing: Mina & Lucys Guide to Slaying Dracula
"Hey, listeners! If you love the show you're listening to right now, then you have to check out our new series, Mina and Lucy's Guide to Slaying Dracula, based loosely on the classic novel by Bram Stoker. It's funny and exciting and maybe just a little bit creepy -crawly. I'm going to play the first episode for you now, so have a listen and then make sure to search for and follow Mina and Lucy's Guide to Slaying Dracula wherever you listen to this show. If you dare... T 'was the night before Halloween, when all through the haunted house, creatures were stirring, especially a zombie mouse. More blood, Mina? Always, Lucy. Not bad. An excellent 2008 vintage. Yes, a good year. You were right. Adding maple syrup to the fruit punch... I mean, to the blood, definitely makes it thicker. Pairs nicely with the chocolate peanut butter spiders, too. This might be our best graveyard picnic yet, Luce. My favorite pre -Halloween tradition of ours. And tomorrow, we get to show everyone our most gruesome costumes yet. Undead bridezilla. And zombies earlier. Did it just get a lot colder and foggier? Hello, girls. Grandpa, it's you. Hello, Dr. Van Helsing. Did you just get the hearse wash? I did, Lucy. Thank you for noticing. I was being sarcastic. It's covered in mud. Drats. That's what I get for taking the scenic route. How was the graveyard picnic? Great, Grandpa, but we need to get home to finish our costumes. That was the whole point of the sleepover. Hop in. I'll have you home in a jiffy. Ow! Why do you have wooden stakes back here? Oh, you know, for the garden. Now, tell me about these terrifying costumes. Grandpa, what is it? Mina, were you girls alone in the graveyard? I mean, it's 9 36 p .m. Who else would be here other than the dead? Good one, Mina. Right. Right, of course. Are you gonna drive, Dr. Van Helsing? Yes, yes. Off we go into the fog. And once I get you home, it's lights out. Still a school night. I'm way too jazzed to go to bed. Our picnic was 90 % shorter. Yeah, there's no chance I'm gonna fall asleep tonight. Why is the window open? Luce, did you open this? Lucy? Oh no, she's gone. Pick up, pick up. Dang it, she left her phone. Reporter's recorder, entry number 562, Mina's Musings. It's 2 a .m. and... Oh, that means it's Halloween. I'm on the hunt for my best friend, Lucy West. Lucy, Lucy! So far, no trace of her. I tried to put myself in her shoes, but I don't think she's wearing any. Lucy, Lucy! Typically, when she sleepwalks, she doesn't go very far. But I've already biked past school and Lucy's house. No luck. Lucy! I'm heading to the graveyard next, so I can get a good view of the entire town. We'll report back. Reporter's recorder, entry number 562, part 2, Mina's Musings. I made it back to the graveyard, but it's nearly impossible to see anything because a thick fog has taken over Whitby. I've never seen anything like it. But to be fair, I'm never usually awake at this hour. Back to the task at hand. Where is Lucy West? I'm standing on her favorite bench, trying to see if I can spot her. So far, I only see fog. And more fog. Lucy! She's on the beach! And before I sign off, let the record reflect that I was correct. She is not wearing any shoes. She's coming. Lucy? She's coming. The Demeter. Time to wake up. She's coming. Where? What's going on? It's freezing, Luce. Here, take my jacket. Mina, why are we on the beach? It's so foggy. You were sleepwalking again. Ugh, my mom's not gonna be happy. She'll understand. It's the fourth time this month. How did I get all the way to the shore? Usually we find you in the kitchen or in the dog bed. It's getting worse. It'll be okay. How do you know? Did you sleepwalk like this too? You mean after my parents died? Yeah. No, but that was mostly because I couldn't sleep at all. It doesn't get any easier, does it? Losing your dad is still fresh, Luce. It's not that it gets easier, but it changes. How? I mean, I lost my parents on Halloween. And at first, I thought that would ruin it. But in some ways, Halloween is even more special now. Remembering and celebrating them on a holiday that we loved as a family. One that honors and respects death. Mina, it's hard. But I try to remember that they never really are. Mina, do you hear those whispers? I think they're coming from the ocean. I'm trying to be sincere here. We always carry them with us. Mina, it's getting louder. Look out! Tell me that's not an old -timey ship that almost ran us over. It's not an old -timey ship that almost ran us over. Actually, it is. And it's definitely haunted. GCM Shows presents Mina and Luce's Guide to Slaying Dracula. Based loosely on the classic novel by Bram Stoker. Chapter One. The Night Before Halloween. The Demeter? Do you think anyone is on board the ship? Uh, that's not a ship, Mina. That's a shipwreck. We need to check it out. I just woke up on the beach, Mina. I'm not trying to get on a haunted ship. You love haunted stuff. And you're always telling me gnarly injury stories. I also love REM sleep. You'll sleep when you're dead. Hey, there's a ladder next to the plank. Help me reach it. You're taller. Fine. One, two, three. I got it. I made it. Here, I'll drop the ladder down for you. No, thanks. I'm good. What happened to your sense of adventure, Luce? It's back at your house. Warm in bed, waiting for me to return. Oh, come on. Mina, when are you going to give this up? How's never o 'clock. You owe me. Here, grab my hand. Wow, Yes. it's like a pirate ship. Where are the pirates? No captain, no crew. Where did it come from? Reporter's recorder, entry number 562, part three. Mina's musings. Hey, Luce, do you have your night photography camera? She didn't think to bring it with me while I was sleepwalking. Okay, okay. Luce and I just witnessed a ghostly shipwreck of epic proportions on the Whitby shoreline. It's no Titanic, but it's still pretty big. We're walking along the ship's top deck to check for survivors, but there isn't a soul in sight. Hey, maybe these stairs lead below deck. I guarantee there's some creepiness down there. That's the spirit. Literally. Reporters update, the stairs led us to the hull of the ship, which is hardly intact, and is also boring and empty. Let's go. What happened? I tripped over a velvet bag. Huh, that's a full -blown satchel right there. Where is that growl coming from? Um, maybe from the beast with the red glowing eyes? It's a giant wolf. Mina, look out! Go, go, go! Whoa, are you okay? That wolf tried to take off your hand. I'm fine. I think it just wanted this satchel. Go, shut the door! Let's get out of here! Hurry, come on! We gotta go! Let's go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go! I think it's gone. Gone where? I don't know, but I don't hear - What's in my hair? What is that? It's a bat. A bat came through the porthole. Get it out, get it out! Don't panic. There's a bat in my hair. I think I'm allowed to panic a little. Get it out! Okay, okay, it's out. Let's get out of here. Okay, come on, come on. Off the boat, let's go, come on. Did you manage to sleep at all last night, Lucy? Does sleepwalking count? So, are we gonna tell Jonathan about the ship and the, you know, wolf and bat? I'm sure you are. Mina, Lucy, good morning. Your zombie costumes turned out wonderfully. Nice work. We aren't wearing our costumes yet, Mr. Harker. Oh. Uh, Jonathan, time for school. Your perfectly normally dressed friends are here. Thanks, Dad. Bye, Dad. Okay, what's up with you two? You look paler than usual. I, for one, think we look excellent, considering we dodged two wild animals last night on an ancient haunted ship. Okay, one, ghosts aren't real, and two, a ship hasn't docked in Whitby in decades. It's too rocky and dangerous. I wouldn't say it docked, more like a violent crashing on the beach. Sure, and you met Jack Sparrow and Captain Hook on board. They were just dying to visit Whitby, weren't they? I wish I'd gotten some pictures because he's not going to believe it till he sees it. So let's show him. No way, we can't be late for school. It'll take two minutes. Prepare to be amazed and horrified. Uh, am I missing something? Mina, where'd the ship go? I, I don't know. It's not here. Do you think it got swept back out to sea? You saw it. It was way too wrecked for that. Okay, weird prank. Let's go. This is not a prank. We are way more skilled pranksters than this. So I guess this alleged ancient ship grew wings and flew off. Yes, that is my exact hypothesis, Jonathan. Lucy, how does a shipwreck just disappear? Jonathan, I know you make questionable fashion choices, but why is there a big ugly hat over there on your desk? There is a human boy under that hat. Who is it? I don't know, but he's in my seat. Uh, hey, I'm Jonathan. Uh, hello? I think he's asleep. I wish I was asleep. Is he even breathing? Luce, check his pulse. Why me? Your mom's a nurse. Yeah, my mom is. I'm not. Fine, I'll do it. Hello? Hello? Hello? Wow, his skin is freezing. Good morning, class. Why is it so dark in here? Time to let the light in. He's alive. And hissing? Hey, easy dude. Oh, uh, sorry about that. Class, we have a new student with us today. New student? Please give a warm Whitby Middle School welcome to... Oh, didn't anyone tell you Halloween costumes aren't allowed until after school? What costume? Isn't that a farmer costume? The big straw hat? It needs to go, I'm afraid. School policy. You will let me wear my hat at all times and not give me any more grief about it. Uh, because I have a sensitivity to UV light. I will not give you any more grief about wearing your hat even though it is against school policy. Great. Glad we straightened that out. Hi everybody, my name is Vladimir. You can call me... Vlad. Vlad? Vlad? Vlad? If you can't wait to find out what happens next in Mina and Lucy's Guide to Slaying Dracula, then make sure to search for the show wherever you're listening to this and follow it to make sure you get every episode. Or look for the link to our website in the show notes. Thank you. Hi, I'm Suri Morero. And I'm Jenna Ducanet. And we play Mina and Lucy in Mina and Lucy's Guide to Slaying Dracula. For more great shows, visit gzmshows .com. That was a good one. Nice job. Shh, it's starting. GZM shows. Imagination amplified.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "dodge" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"Brought to you by Navy Federal Credit Union, where members are the mission. NavyFederal Visit .org, insured by NCUA. Sports at 25 and 5. Powered by Maximus, moving people and technology forward. Rob is here with some college hoops. Yeah, that's right. The first college basketball game of local interest under way in down Tennessee. George Mason looking for an upset of the 17th ranked volunteers. The Patriots scored first and despite 35 % shooting so far, they stick close to Tennessee. It's 15 -12 midway through the first half. Two other games tip off at the top of the hour. GW hosting nearby Navy as a 10 and a half point favorite. UVA favored by 23 and a half over North Carolina Central. Tomorrow night it's Maryland hosting Penn State Big in Ten play and Kevin Willard says it's a challenge just from a standpoint of getting the new guys understand that the older guys understand the importance of these two games in December. Getting the younger guys and the newer guys to understand that importance is very difficult. The Terps went unbeaten at home in conference play last season. The Jaguars Trevor Lawrence may have dodged an injury as bad as feared. has He been diagnosed with a high ankle sprain that does not require surgery. His return is uncertain as to when he will return. The NHL announced the 2024 draft will be held in Las Vegas and that the league is finalizing plans to have it at the 18 ,000 seat sphere. If successful, the NHL will be the first league to hold a sporting event at that time. Thanks, UTOP Sports. Alright, thanks Rob. Up ahead on WTOP, the latest details on that house explosion in Arlington, 656. America needs a reliable supply of semiconductors. Only one company designs and manufactures leading -edge logic chips in the U .S., and that's Intel. With support from the CHIPS Act, Intel is investing more than $100 billion over five years to make America a semiconductor leader, bringing innovation, opportunity, and jobs to America. By expanding in Arizona, New Mexico, Oregon, and Ohio, we will fill vital supply chain gaps and boost our economic and national security.
Game of Crimes
A highlight from 119: Part 2: Ed Calderon Fights Cartels, Corruption, and Crime in Tijuana, Mexico
"How did that, that's gotta be a weird feeling is that you realize you were in handcuffs, you were kicked off, you were charged and now you're back. I mean, you talk about trust issues. I mean, inherently. They laughing were in the office, you know, the cars that were in the parking lot, you know, like I, you know, I didn't earn, I didn't earn, I didn't earn an absurd amount of money. And I basically drove the same car driving into that job as the one that left with it, left that job just for discretion purposes. But some of the absurdity you would see in those parking lots after, after these changes were made, it was pretty fascinating. You know, the overt nature of the corruption was like, Oh yeah, we're not going to hide anymore. Let's just take my Hummer H2 to work. You know, it, I was sent to work for the governor for a bit and I did, I basically ran security for the governor of Baja for about four years, three years to be exact. So I took care of him and his family, did a great job there. The man was amazing. His family was amazing. They did a lot of good for the, for the state as well. Was he highly targeted? Yeah, he was very targeted. I ran a protection detail that was based off of Mohammed Karzai's detail in Afghanistan. Exactly. Basically that's the same detail profile that we ran for the governor of Baja during that time. So he's dodging bullets too. Oh yeah. He's, we got in a few, we, we got in a few shootouts outside of his house. Hopefully one day I can get him on a, I can get him on a conversation podcast so he can talk about some of that, some of those issues that we went through, but it was rowdy. At the end of that, I was sent back to operations. Again, it's Mexico. I was, I was at the, you know, next to the governor and now I'm back in operations. And when I got back is when I started noticing all the changes. All these people were back. I was placed in a, I was placed in a security position with one of the directors there. And one of the guys that I still trusted, one of the old school guys. And we did a lot of work for about two years until, until he was moved and I had no other place to hide in basically to keep off going down that path. I was called into the office. They were going to be given new orders by the new director. And he basically said, you are either working for us or you're working against us basically in a clear, direct way. I, I got out of the office and said, I needed to work on something and figure something out. I printed out my resignation and signed it and left that same day. People that were at the office couldn't figure it out. They were like, whoa, what's going on? Like they couldn't see me leaving. You know, I've been there for so long and leaving that job in Mexico, it's job security. There's not a lot of it in Mexico. So it's, you either have cancer or somebody wants to kill you when you leave a job like that, you know? Well, so, but had you, so, and, and, you know, obviously you didn't, you didn't make that decision, but what were the dilemmas if you had stayed on, but refused to align with them? What do you think realistically would have happened to you? I'd probably put in a horrible job position somewhere all the way to the bottom and be pressured and pulled, pushed out anyway, in some way, shape or form. This is what happened. Would you have been targeted for a hit? Maybe. Maybe. Specifically, I knew I was going to be targeted if I said yes. So I left, I left, I left that same afternoon. A lot of questions were around my exit, you know, like, did he find a that involved was and he left because they weren't onto him or a bunch of rumors of that nature. What year was that? Yeah, that's 16, I think. No, seven, 16, 17. Yeah. I was, I just, I just lost my mother probably, like a few days before that happened. So I was going through a lot of, I was going through it. My mom had a lot of health issues and some psychiatric issues for, for the last years of her life. And I was basically a new father taking care of her. And also I had the job that I had. So I was spread thin and I didn't have a lot of, I didn't have a lot of options. Well, the seals say that's called stabbing the lifeboat. It's like, you stab the lifeboat, it's like, you got no choice but to make a decision now, right? So you stabbed the lifeboat, you turned in your letter. So what did you do? Well, it's funny enough, you say the seals. I had a, I had a friend that I met through some of the work that I did and basically conversations. Who's the Navy Seal Reservist and beautiful wife, Kelly, who we had developed a friendship over, over the years. And they offered me a place to stay if anything ever happened, basically. And something did happen. You know, you want to talk about who you're like, knowing who your friends are, you know, this is when you know who your friends are. It's fascinating how, how everybody goes away when you're, when you're not who you were, you know. I had already talked to them about this possibility of me having to leave and they offered a place, a place for me and my family to stay. And I'm married to an American. And my daughter's American. So in my mind, I'd never thought about myself going to the U .S. and living in the U .S. and doing all these things. So I didn't have a choice. They didn't even give me my liquidation money. Like it was that quick and fast. It was like, leave now. I crossed the border into San Diego and started my process that same day. Man, what about your home, your belongings, all that other stuff? Abandoned. Everything had abandoned. Everything was left. It was just me and my, my, my two and a half year old at the time in my arms and a duffel bag with, with just the essentials. And I crossed the border and I was, I was quietly sitting in an avocado orchard that same night contemplating my next move as a human being with my friend Dan who was giving me a shot of tequila. Well, you are an avocado orchard. What? You were in an avocado orchard. Yeah. I mean, it was, it was the quietest I'd been for over 12 years. I used to be on call and now, now you're not needed. Now I don't have anything. Now I'm naked, basically. I'm a naked skeleton sitting in an avocado orchard next to another weird naked skeleton too. If tequila's involved, there's a chance you actually were naked, but we won't ask. There was some nudity. There was some nudity problem at some point. Before we get too far down the road on this though, something that came out of your time, which is what we want to talk about now too. You have a site called edsmanifesto .com. A lot of great stuff there, but you started, you're doing some unique stuff now and it's based upon observations you made while you were doing the work. So let's talk about that. You started because obviously he ran into a lot of people that whether they're kidnapped or being restrained or people being taken against their will, you started noticing things. And one of them that I found interesting was there was a man cuffs and one of the other guys wanted to go, you know, whoop up on him. You said, no, no, no, wait a minute. Let me talk with him. Let me figure out how the hell did you do this? Yeah. Well, so I grew up as a street kid in a lot of ways. I skateboarded. I was very independent from like 13 on forward. Basically I've moved out of my house. Did I just hear a rooster in the background? Oh yeah. This is how you know. This is how you know. I kept thinking, wait a minute. I hear a rooster. This is on my end. There's a rooster next door. I grew up as a street kid, skateboarded and did a lot of bad stuff too because again, never dreamed about being a cop. So I had a lot of that in me. My mom was a devout Catholic and we grew up in my family's Guadalupano. So religion was very big. Golden rules and the 10 commandments were drilled into me basically. So never I took anything personal. I wasn't one of those guys. I was on an ego trip when I was wearing a badge or working. I saw humanity in everybody. I think two of the things that changed my life was my mom saying to me, nobody's against you. They're for themselves. You know, learn this and you will be better off. And my dad said, never let anybody own you. I think both of those things kept me alive during that time. Every time I would grab somebody and they would showcase something interesting, I would take a picture of it. I would write down some things or a video and I would share it with my people. You know, hey, look at this weird thing that I just found out. A burglar that we found who was breaking into these high value neighborhood places was utilizing expansion foam to drown out the sonic alarms outside of houses. And that was fascinating that they were doing that. So I wrote that down and took some pictures and shared them on a blog that I used to run, an anonymous blog that I used to run on Tumblr. It was called Ed's Manifesto. That's where it started basically. So not only was I writing some of these downs and having conversations with some of these criminals and some of these people that knew things that I was learning from them, I was also sharing it openly. When I say openly, I mean, I was posting some of these things online and like, hey, have you ever seen anything like this? And it'd be really like, oh, what's that? You know, slowly but surely that anonymous account gained a cult following. Then switched to Facebook and then Instagram. How long did it stay anonymous? It stayed anonymous for as long as I was still active. Basically, as soon as I started being a bit more known publicly when I started working for the governor of Baja, basically, and my face was on the newspaper every now and then because I was standing next to him. I'd show a little bit more of who I was and where I was, you know, when I left the job and went to the US. I mean, it was basically, I figured that I had to be a bit more public with it, I guess, because there was not a lot of other things I was doing. So I started being more in the open, showing my face more and talking a little bit more about my history while I was out. And it turned into a lot of training opportunities. People wanted to learn some of the things that I learned while I was down there. Well, let's talk about that for a second. I mean, let's talk about a couple of things that you discovered. What were a couple of things that when you discovered them, you go either like, oh, shit, that guy could have done that to me. At some point you ask, how the hell did you think of this, right? I mean, what did you do? It's the old trick we used to teach rookies to always make sure you look up. Where did a lot of burglars, you know, you'd get called out in the middle of the night. Where would they hide? They hide in the tree because a lot of times the cops wouldn't look up. They'd just look on the ground, right? That's kind of basic stuff. But what impressed you or how did you go about finding out from these guys? How did you think about this problem? What was the way you looked at the problem different than we were to enable you to figure out how to get out of handcuffs or flexicuffs or like using that sonic phone that you were talking about, that expansion phone? Yeah, I mean, my mindset first, not being allowed to and not being able to are two completely different things. You know, that's a red pill you take. These people have that red pill. They've been experimenting, utilizing monkey do monkey see experimentation, actually doing things live and seeing things and learning through experience. You have a cadet coming out or a police officer coming out who is trained to basically handcuff people in a certain way. And there are people that learn how to get out of these specific situations by learning through seeing somebody go through it and figuring out how to hide things, how to conceal things. We found a guy with a I seeing remember that and actually being the one that searched him, didn't find that. And for folks, we're on the podcast, folks can't see it, but you have held up like you're indexing your middle finger and it's like in the V. Yeah, so he basically cut off the ring off the key and put in superglued it in between his index and middle finger. He was handcuffed. You know, they did a shitty job handcuffing him. He didn't put him palms out and key way up like you should, but still he was handcuffed and he got free, couldn't figure out where that was. And through a conversation with him, he's like, yeah, so, you know, this is like, it's holding like, where did you learn that? It's like, ah, some weird Cuban dude showed me. Oh, cool. Where, where did he show you this? He said, oh, there's a, there's a few Cuban people around showing things like this. It's like, oh, that's cool. You know, what else did they show you? And he proceeded to take this clasp magnet off a face of this necklace that he had on. I think he was probably a Santero or some sort of Afro -Caribbean necklace that he had on for protection. So he takes it, he takes it off and it has a magnet clasp on it. So you can't be strangled with it. So he's smart about that too. He spun the magnet clasp on his finger and he said, put a key in your pocket. So I grabbed the handcuff key and put it in my pocket. And as he was basically sliding that magnet clasp around me, doing simulating, being up, doing a pat down, the key and the magnet reacted together. So he found a key that where it was hiding. So he said, if you want to want to search somebody and you're looking for something small and metallic, just a string of magnet on your finger. And you can basically carry with you a metal detector, you know, on your hand. If you're really worried about somebody hiding something of this nature. And I was like, okay, that's creepy. And I will take that into account. So I wrote that shit down and along with a lot of other things that I basically wrote down and stored and practiced and figured out for myself, a lot of these things were basically learned to then show to the newer guys that were coming on our unit. So I got to tell you, when I was a rookie police officer, Salina, Kansas, one of your rites of passage was they would do what they would it was called railing. They would handcuff you to the rails, you know, one arm on each side, because we had this stairway that went up to municipal court and there were these metal square rails on each side. Well, the way they'd always set it up is, you know, the lieutenant would call you and said, we're doing a weapons check. So, you know, they had the sand pit there, you empty out here. We had revolvers emptied out, hand it to them. And then the guys would attack you. And the goal was you had to resist. And this is back in the day when you could do that stuff. Well, I had been given a little bit of, I'd heard somebody talking about it and I said, well, if I ever got, if somebody ever got the drop on me and handcuffed me, what would I do? Well, we had, remember those old black leather boots you had them, they had the straps on the side, you'd wear them. Well, I took a, I took a spare handcuff key and I hid it inside of the straps of one of those. I cut a little thing and hid it down in there. Big mistake, my friends, because what I realized is when I, when I uncuffed myself and I think I'm feeling pretty smart, I got stripped down even farther next time when they handcuffed me to the rails, there was no hiding the key that I could reach anywhere there. Yeah. If you're going to do any trick like that only works once. There's no, there's no doing it twice. I mean, if it also, the rule is if they find one thing, you're naked. Yeah. If they find one thing, you're naked, you know. I wasn't quite naked, but let's put it this way. There was no way I was going to be able to hide anything. So a lot of the, a lot of the ways that these guys are learning is also through hazing rituals and hazing rituals. I know the US has been slowly kind of getting rid of a lot of them, but they have a place. I think they serve, absolutely. I think they serve a purpose. We got put through a lot and every now and then I hear some horror stories of people going through the military hazing rituals in the US and I'm like, we were actually physically beaten with sticks and punched in the face several times during our training. So the, but what I mean with the hazing ritual aspect of it, these guys are learning through experiences. When I started showing some of this stuff in the US, they would be like, Hey, did you learn this through your military training? Like, was this shown by you by some sort of specialty people? Like, no, these are all criminal. This is all criminal methodology that I'm learning. So why were they sharing that with you? I mean, you'd be surprised. Some people just want to talk. If you're not a piece of shit human being, give them a cigarette and allow them to make a supervised call to their mother to just tell them to not worry because he's not going to make it to home for Christmas. You can sit down with some of these people and learn some of these things. And also, if you don't know what you're looking at, you won't see it. So once you start delving into the site exploitation and seeing open laptops and seeing some of their browsing histories and looking at what they were looking at online, you start realizing how they were kind of looking at problems. We ran into a group that was abducting people at an industrial scale in Baja. And we got to see their laptops. One of them had an open laptop in the houses that, one of the houses that we found. And they were researching a civilian seer training in the United States. So they were researching how to get out of zip ties and basically fortifying their zip ties so that exploitation can be utilized on the zip ties that we're putting on people. Or they were seeing the proliferation of these plastic handcuff keys that were all of a sudden being put out. So they evolved their methodology so that when they would handcuff people, they would handcuff them and tie the handcuffs to their necks so they can lower them to get out. Because a lot of the businessmen and a lot of the people that were working in Baja at that time started getting counter -kidnap training from Americans or from Israelis. And it's an arms race. It's always an arms race. And I think what I brought new to the whole scene as far as training goes is I started getting involved in live conversations with some of these people to try and figure some of these things out. Very smart. It's led to a business for you now. It's more than a business.
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"Lunch. free 38 Diner. From Forestville and the Beltway in Maryland through Upper Marlboro and Waystons 2 southbound traffic jams on Route 4. The first is road work related between Dower House and Hard Road only one lane is getting by but nobody is getting by farther south south of Waystons. Caller says being turned around Talbot Road serious crash under investigation at the end of the Southern Maryland Boulevard near Lower Pindale Road and again nobody is getting by according to that caller southbound on Route 4. Northbound traffic though does get by. On the Beltway through Maryland and Virginia some slowing here and there nothing too dramatic Volume building at the Legion Bridge and Interloop through Silver Spring 270 brief northbound delays so far through Gaithersburg, 95 Baltimore, Washington Parkway not bad and wrapping up the milling at Aspen Hill on Connecticut Avenue northbound toward Georgia Avenue still getting by though getting by single file to the right. In Virginia on 66 westbound heavy early through Centerville that's because a lot of drivers were dodging roadwork on 28 southbound in Centerville they're in the process of reopening lanes at 29 right now. New crash reported on 29 at Clifton Road there was a bad one and overnight we've got a brand new one at that intersection in front of the 711. On 95 and nothing 395 surprising only minor slowing on the outer loop at the Woodrow Wilson Bridge a distraction on the right shoulder as you head there near Van Dorn Street but again that's entirely on the right shoulder. DC 295 northbound traffic slowly getting by the work zone between Burroughs and Eastern Avenue. You lose the left lane both ways there 295 on in Northeast and this holiday season opened the door to hope with a night of shelter meals and care at Central Union Mission. Make your gift now at MissionDC .org. Dave Dildine, WTLP Traffic. 7 First News alert meteorologist Steve Rudin. Clouds will continue to increase moving through the remainder of the afternoon high temperature upper 40s These to lower to middle 50s rain showers develop this evening and into the overnight
Andrew Tate Motivational Speech
A highlight from WORK THROUGH PAIN - Andrew Tate Motivational Speech
"It's actually very interesting, the masculine experience, because I like to believe that most men on the planet have lived a semi -similar timeline. All of us, as men, experience a very similar human paradigm, and that is that most men are born and you're not important, and then you go to school and you fall in love with some girl in school and she fucks someone else, and then you realize that all the 19 -year -olds you want when you're 19 are with older dudes because they have cars or whatever, whatever, and you go through this experience of getting your heart broken and losing your girlfriend, et cetera, et cetera, and many men latch onto some average bitch, or accept they're gonna have their heart broken forever, but some men decide to become so big and important and strong and irreplaceable that they never have to suffer heartbreak again, because every man deals with heartbreak and deals with sadness, but how you use that energy is the differentiation, the differentiator between humans, right? You are feeling the same pain that many men have felt. Every man out there has had his heart broken and understands how difficult it is as a man, but the difference between me and you, and perhaps some of the other men out there, is that certain men take that anguish and take that sadness and understand that energy cannot be destroyed. It can only be converted and used to build themselves into a man of absolute standing and power, as opposed to sitting around jerking off like you just told me you do. You are a waste. You are wasting your energy. Heartbreak is unlimited motivation. If I was heartbroken, it's been a very long time, but if I was heartbroken, I'd be in the gym every morning. I'd be a beast. I'd be running. I'd be working. I couldn't sleep. I'd be an absolute animal, and you're heartbroken, and what are you doing? Jerking off like a fucking dumb ass. If I feel extremely happy and excited, I'm gonna use that as motivation or energy to do amazing things and do good and work hard. If I feel absolutely depressed and distraught, I'm gonna use that as endless energy and motivation to do amazing things and work hard. It doesn't matter what you give me. Energy cannot be destroyed. It can only be converted and transferred. It doesn't matter what fuel you give me. If you give me diesel, petrol, kerosene, vodka, doesn't matter what you put inside of my engine. Heartbreak is gonna come out. Absolutely, that's all I know how to do. That's all I know how to do. It doesn't matter what fuel you put in my engine. My engine only knows how to do one thing, and that is succeed. That is only, that's all I know how to do. So it doesn't matter what you feed me with. I'm gonna be massively successful regardless. Doesn't change. When we talked earlier about speed, most people go, that, you know, it's only two weeks. It's only a week. It's only a week. People that say it's only a week are the people who are broke. That's the reason you're all poor, because you say it's only a week. It's almost tomorrow. Oh, I'll do it later. It's only an hour. It's only a day. It's only a minute. You are competing against people like me. We do not waste a second. The reason my father has talked about and discussed at length is because of the absolutely amazing son I have become. I am keeping him alive forever by working so hard, by becoming so unique and individual and fantastic and humble. The world asks me about my upbringings, and then my father's memory is kept alive. So I made, I know I made the right decision, and I know he's happy with the decision I made. A lot of people would have gotten emotional and decided how I had to go to the funeral and had a breakdown and went to the funeral and been sad, et cetera, et cetera. You did what your dad thought you would have watched. I did what I was taught to do, which is perform. That's what I was taught to do. I was upset, obviously. I was sad, obviously. I was heartbroken, of course, but I took all of that energy, and I worked harder than I've ever worked. I worked 22 -hour days for months, so I couldn't sleep, and I became one of the most successful people on the planet. Is that, would you say that's how you get over a tragic bus like that? I think that any emotion you feel should be converted into positive influence. Yeah, you should do good things with any emotion you feel. I can't, and what else are you gonna do? And this is a genuine question. What else, let's say your wife breaks your heart. If you're not gonna work, you can't sleep anymore. You're upset, she's running around with a new dude. You see her Instagram story, she's got some new guy. You're furious, and you're angry, and you're jealous, and you're bitter. You have all of this inside of you, but you're not gonna go to the gym and work hard and become so fantastically in shape and so rich and so powerful that no girl ever leaves you again. You're not gonna do that. What are you gonna do with it? Text her? Try and explain to her? She doesn't care. You can write the most perfect English. You can write the most beautiful words ever constructed. Forget Shakespeare. You can do, it doesn't matter. She doesn't care. She just doesn't care. She's distracted. She forgot about you. She forgot about you. So what are you gonna do with all of that inside of you if it's not positive? Well, it's gonna consume you and you're gonna end up self -destructive, or you're gonna embarrass yourself, or you can take all of that and to put yourself in a position where it never happens to you again. Those are the choices. So what's the most intelligent choice to make? If you walk through life and feel like you have nothing to prove, then you're a fucking loser. If you wake up each day and go, I don't owe anybody anything. I don't have to prove anything to anybody, then you are a loser because you are absolutely not the incorrect. You must prove yourself to other people. You must prove yourself to your bloodline as we just discussed. You must prove yourself to God. God hates the lazy. He can't stand them. If he gives you all these genetic dispositions and these natural God -given gifts, if you have two arms and two legs and you can think, and you're not trying your absolute best, that's the reason you're not lucky. He doesn't like you. He likes the people which show him the beauty of his own creation. He likes to give somebody building blocks and then to build something amazing. It's the best thing about being a man. You have to build who you are, right? You can decide if you wanna be a funny comedian or a musician or a kickboxing world champion or fight the matrix. You can decide whatever you wanna be. God loves to see that. For some reason, seem to be enormously lucky, right? The person who goes, I don't have to prove anything to God. I don't owe all of my ancestors any effort. You know, for 5 ,000 years, people were dodging saber -sooth -toothed tigers and catching the plague and running from Genghis Khan just for my stupid ass to be born. I don't owe them anything, but I owe them a thing because I wanna play video games. These people are fucking losers.
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A highlight from When Will AI Hit the Enterprise? Ben Horowitz and Ali Ghodsi Discuss
"The AI revolution is here. But adoption is not always evenly distributed. While we see consumers chomp to try the latest AI apps. We haven't seen anybody with any traction in the enterprise. But awareness is not the issue. In fact, the Financial Times reported that nearly 40 % of S &P companies mentioned AI in their earnings last quarter. So... Why is it so hard for enterprises to adopt generative AI? As companies wake up to the value of their proprietary datasets, a whole new set of questions emerge. Are the enterprises right about not wanting to give their data? Like is that a correct fear? Can they build a better model? Do they really need it to be accurate? Plus, with OpenAI recently dropping ChatGPT Enterprise, will all of this change? Today you'll hear directly from A16Z co -founder Ben Horowitz and Databricks co -founder and CEO Ali Ghazi as they answer these questions and more. Including their perspectives on open source, whether benchmarks are BS, and the scramble of universities to take part in the very wave that they kicked off decades ago. Plus, you'll get to hear firsthand how Databricks' recent acquisition of Mosaic ML fits into all of this. This episode continues our coverage from A16Z's exclusive AI Revolution event from just a few weeks ago, where we house some of the most influential builders across the ecosystem, including the founders of OpenAI, Anthropic, Character AI, Roblox, and much more. Be sure to check out the full package, including all the talks, also in full, at a16z .com -slash -ai -revolution. As a reminder, the content here is for informational purposes only, should not be taken as legal, business, tax, or investment advice, or be used to evaluate any investment or security, and is not directed at any investors or potential investors in any A16Z fund. Please note that A16Z and its affiliates may also maintain investments in the companies discussed in this podcast. For more details, including a link to our investments, please see a16z .com -slash -disclosures. All right, so going to generative AI, one of the things that's been interesting for us as a VC is we see all kinds of companies, some with amazing traction, but every company that has traction is in a category like selling to developers, or selling to consumers, or maybe selling to small kinds of law firms, or these kinds of things, but we haven't seen anybody with any traction in the enterprise. Why is it so hard for enterprises to adopt generative AI? Yeah, so look, enterprises move slow, plus one in general, which is the beauty, which means if you crack the code and you get in, it's harder for them to throw you out, so you're going to have an awesome business. If you do crack the code and you're in, it's more robust. You're not going to lose it overnight, so that's one. They just move slower. Second, they're super freaked out about their data, privacy, security of their data, but then in general also, I just realized, everybody's been talking about data for 10, 15, 20 years. I just realized how valuable my data actually is, so maybe I'm actually, I'm sitting on a treasure trove, and I'm going to be super successful, so I'm going to be very careful with this. Now, I finally realize how valuable this data set I have is, so I definitely don't want to give it to you or you or you, and you should be careful about this. Then there's all these reports about it leaking, data leakage, suddenly the LLM is spitting out your code, so they're freaked out about that as well. All of these things are slowing it down, and they're kind of thinking through it. That's just one set of challenges that enterprises have. Second challenge that enterprises have is that, hey, for a lot of the use cases, we need the data to be accurate, we need to be exact, so there's a lot of use cases where - Do they really need it to be accurate? I think it depends on the use case. They're just being cautious, and they're being slow as they are in the big enterprise, and then there's the last aspect, which people don't talk about, which is there's a food fight internally at the large enterprise, which is, I own generative AI, not Ben. You go around and say, hey, I own generative AI, and it's like, no, no, no, my team is building generative, so there's this food fight internally of who owns it, and then they slow each other down, so it's like, hey, don't trust Ben because he's not handling data the right way, but I'm building my generative AI, and it's unclear. Is it IT that owns generative AI? Is it the product line? Is it the business line? So there's huge politics going on inside the large enterprise. They want to do it, but there's all these hurdles in the way, and the prize is huge. Whoever can crack the code on that is going to create an amazing company. Are the enterprises right about not wanting to give their data to OpenAI or Anthropic or Bart or whoever? Is that a correct fear, or are they being silly and they could get so much value? By putting their data in a big model? They can, but I think also a lot of the leaders, you know, by the way, I get to talk these days to the CEOs of these big companies who previously were not interested in what I'm doing. I would be talking to the CIO, but now suddenly they want to talk, like, hey, I want this generative AI. I want to talk strategy of my company. Let's talk. And we have this data set. It's super valuable, like, you know, we've got to do something with it, and this generative AI seems interesting. What do you want to do with it? And one of the things that's really interesting that's happened in the sort of brains of the CEOs and the boards is that they realize maybe I can beat my competition. Maybe this is the kryptonite that will help me kill my enemy. I have the data, with generative AI, I can actually go ahead and do that. So then they're thinking, well, but then I have to build it myself. I have to own that, right? I have to own the IP of that. I can't just give away that IP to Anthropic, OpenAI, anyone, like it has to be completely proprietary. I want to own that. I want to do that myself. By the way, I have a whole bunch of people here that are lined out outside of my office in different departments that are saying they actually will do it and they can do it. Right. So we're trying to figure out which of them I should give it to. So this is what's happening internally right now. Interesting. And from a strategy standpoint, when you think about it, let's say you had a big data set, be it like a healthcare data set or some kind of security data set or Nielsen's data set. Can they build a better model themselves for that with their data? Or if they took their data and put it in one of the large models, would that always beat what they're doing? Yeah. So this is why we did the acquisition of Mosaic. Yes. You can. It's hard. It requires a lot of GPUs and the Mosaic guys just figured out how to do that at scale for others. You want to build your own LLM from scratch? Come to me. I know all the sort of, you know, landmines and so on. It just will work. Trust me. Yeah. And so they can do it. And yeah, they've done it for large customers. They can do it. Still, it's not for the faint of heart. Still requires a lot of GPUs. It costs a lot of money. And it depends on your data sets and your use cases. But they're having a lot of success doing it for, you know, really large enterprises. They'll train it from scratch for them and it just works. And the result that they get with Mosaic. So I'm doing it. So the good news is it's all mine. Nobody can touch it. It's my data. Screw off, competitor. But is the bigger model such a bigger brain anyway that I could get a better answer if I put that same data in the big model? Or a is kind of Mosaic -tuned enterprise -specific data set -specific model going to perform better? Like how do you think about that? For specific use cases, you don't need the big one. First of all, you can build the big one with Mosaic and with Databricks. It's just how much money do you have? We're happy to train you on a 100 billion parameter model if you want. But hey, it's going to cost more to use it. Even if you have all the money to train it, it'll cost you a lot to use it. So when you're using it and you're doing inference, as it's called, it's going to cost you more. And how do you think about the diminishing returns on kind of like a data set against like how many parameters versus how much data do you have? Does like a bigger model just start to be diminishing returns, both in terms of latency, expense, everything? Yeah, I mean, there's a scaling law. You need to scale. If you're scaling the parameters up, you kind of have to scale the data with it. Right. So you just have to do that. So if you don't have that, then just scaling it, you're not going to get the bang for the buck. You still get improvement if you increase the parameters or if you increase the data in any one of these dimensions. But you're going to pay 10x what you get. Yeah, it's no longer a Perto optimal, so to say. But look, what I'm saying is this. For enterprises that have specific use cases, which they all have, when they come to us, they don't say, hey, I would love to have an LLM that could like kind of answer anything under the sun. You know, they're saying, hey, this is what I want to do. Like I want to classify this particular, you know, defect in the manufacturing process from these pictures really well. And there, the accuracy matters. Like every ounce of accuracy that you can give me matters. And there you're better off if you have a good data set to train. You can train a smaller model. The latency will be faster to use it later and it will be cheaper to use it later. And yes, you can have absolutely accuracy that meets the really large model. But that very model that you built can't also entertain you on the weekend and answer physics questions and help your kids do their homework. Why do you think it's important for you Databricks to build the very large model? So the bigger models, if you follow the scaling laws, are more intelligent, assuming if you're okay with paying the price and you're okay with, you know, you have the GPUs and if you can crack the code on how to fine tune the bigger model, which is kind of the holy grail right now that everybody's looking at in the research community and in the field and the companies and all that. And when you say fine tune, kind of get more specific. Yeah. So take an existing really awesome foundation model that exists and just modify it a little bit to be able to become really good at some other task. And there are many different techniques to use to do that. But right now nobody has really cracked the code on how you can do that without modifying the whole model itself, which is pretty costly, especially when you want to serve it, when you want to use it later. Because you have to go through all that. Yeah, if you made a thousand versions of it, that's good at a thousand different things. If you have to load all of each of those thousand into the GPUs and, you know, serve them, it becomes very expensive. The big, I would say, holy grail right now that everybody's looking for is there are other techniques where you can just do small modifications where you can get really good results and you can just stack on a little bit of additional, you know, just that part of the brain. Exactly. Just add this thing. And there are lots of techniques. There's like prefix tuning, there's LoRa, Cube LoRa, so on and so forth. The result, none of them really are slam dunk. It's like, awesome. We found it. But someone will. Once you have that, then it seems in the future, in a few years, the ideal would be really big foundation model that's pretty smart. And then you can like sort of stack on these kind of additional tuned sort of brains that are really good at this specific classification task for manufacturing errors and this other, you know, translation task. And they'll be compute efficient and energy efficient for just dealing with that task at that point. And then you could also, you can load up your GPUs with that one intelligent brain, that one giant model, and then you could specialize it. But to be clear, no one's really done this yet. That's what I think a lot of people are hoping to do. And it might not be easy to do that. In the meanwhile, we're having lots and lots of customers who want to have specialized models that are cheaper, smaller, and that have really high accuracy and performance on that task. Yes. It's like, I can just say it, like at Databricks. So we bought Mosaic. I did not unleash our sales force and go to market of 3 ,000 people to sell the thing that we bought because we just can't satisfy the demand. Like there's not enough GPUs. So you won't even let all your guys sell it. No, I'm not even letting all the customers buy this thing because we don't have the GPUs and we don't have the, if we unleash them, every company wants to do this. Everyone wants to, okay, okay, I have a thousand things I want to build. Can you help me do that? Since a lot of our listeners are builders, I wanted to tell you about one of our popular accelerator programs from A16Z, especially if you're building in Web3, crypto, or the creator economy and other decentralized applications. The next 12 -week program takes place this spring in London, which by the way is where our newest A16Z office is opening soon and connects early stage companies and founders with the guidance, expertise, and funding that they need to bring their bold new ideas to life. So if you're intent on building the next generation of the internet, you can apply to crypto startup school before the October 20th deadline by going to apply .a16zcrypto .com. All right, back to the show. In this context, sort of how much do you think these use cases will fragment? So you talked about, okay, I want it to be good at doing my kids' homework. I want it to be my girlfriend. So how much do you think the use cases, the very specific use cases will fragment and kind of within that, like one of the things that we're finding is getting the model to do what you want is kind of where the data advantage is from the users in that if I want it to draw me a certain kind of picture, that's a lot of conversations to do that. And so whoever is drawing those kinds of pictures will be good at that. But then there may be another model that wants to draw memes, but that thing that's drawing the pretty pictures can't draw the memes because that involves words and all this other stuff that it hasn't, it just hasn't learned to get that out of the humans and map it into its model. So how much do you think we're going to get tons of specialization versus, no, no, no, once the brain gets big enough and we do these fine tunings, that's going to be it. It'll be like AWS, GCP, you know, Azure. I think the answer is closer to the latter. There's going to have lots of specialization, but having said that, it's not a dichotomy in the sense that maybe they're all using like some base models that are underneath common to many of them. You're not starting from scratch every time. But you're tuning it up a certain way. Look, I think in some sense the industry, like right now there's, people are looking at the wrong thing. Right now it's a little bit like 2000 and the internet is about to take over everything and everybody's super excited. And then there's one company called Cisco, they build these routers. Obviously that's like the biggest thing. And the most important thing is whoever can build the best routers is going to dominate all of internet forever. Right? It's like, that's the thing. The of future mankind is going to be determined by who builds the best routers. And right now this company Cisco is the best one by far. It's obvious what I'm saying. Cisco in 2000, I think was worth, you know, half a trillion dollars at its peak. And people were talking about, it's going to be a trillion dollar company who's worth more than Microsoft. So I think it's a little bit like right now, like that. Who has the largest LLM? Obviously, whoever can build the largest one that can train it the most obviously will own all of AI and all the future of humanity. But just like the internet, someone will show up later and think about Uber rides and cab driving and someone else showed up and thought about, Hey, I want to check out my friends on the Facebook and so on. And those end up being huge businesses. So there's these applications, which many of them are obvious, like, you know, Mark talked about it in his, you know, AI will save the world. You know, the lawyer, the teacher, they're like, there's lots of use cases. Everybody knows probably there's going to be a lot of value in those. And no, it's not just going to be one model that OpenAI or Databricks or Anthropic or someone builds and that model will dominate all these use cases. No, it's the, a lot of things will need to go into building the doctor that you trust that will be able to tell you, you know, how to cure you and your loved ones. So I think that those, those are the companies that we will build in the future. And I think there's going to be a lot of value in those obviously. And yeah, there's a place for the Cisco router still for the LLM and so on. And Cisco still is a pretty valuable company. It's not bad, but that's, I think that's, that's this over -focus right now. Yeah. Interesting. So then how do you think about open source? Because a lot of the large model providers are literally going in and saying, stop open source now, you've got to outlot. So how do you think about that? Why are they saying that? Do they have a legitimate gripe? And then, you know, coming from Databricks perspective, how are you all thinking about open source, both with respect to Mosaic and then with the other things like Llama? If the original Llama was never released, what would the state of the world and our view of AI be right now? We would be way further behind, right? And A, it was a big model, you know, by what existed in open source and it was open sourced. And both of those things completely changed everything that's happening in AI right now. Size kind of mattered. And the fact that it was open source also kind of mattered. It doesn't stop there. It's going to continue. It's also really hard to block any of this because like if you just check out the source code for Llama, it's like a couple of pages. Yeah. But you have to have the weights too. Yeah. But, you know, the weights leaked and people will leak the weights and they will get out and people will keep turning them. And there's ways to also, you know, distillation techniques where you can take the weights from a, you can just take output of a model and train smaller ones and train other ones and so on. So people are going to continue pushing the boundary of this. So I think open source will continue to do better and better and better. And I think more and more techniques, because there's scarcity, they don't have GPUs, they'll come up with techniques in which they can do things more efficiently, like the fast transformer and so on. At the same time, I also think that anyone that trains a really gigantic model that's really, really good, typically will not have the incentive to release it. So it's the usual thing we see, that open source kind of lags the proprietary ones and the proprietary thing is way ahead and it's way better. And in some rare cases like Linux and so on, it bypasses, you know, and in that case that would be game changing. And will that happen? It's hard to predict that. Right now it just seems that you need a lot of GPUs to do this. But how about when GPUs become abundant? That's going to happen, I mean, almost currently. GPUs become abundant, or certain tweaks to the transformer that lets you train at a higher learning rate and, you know, have less issues with it, so like, you know. Right, because they're super inefficient now, like they couldn't be more inefficient. Yes, then they will be released, they will be released and the universities are just chomping at the bit, right? Because what has happened right now is that the universities kind of feel a little bit that they're aced out, they're not really even in the game anymore. Well, look, this was my game, I was playing it, I was in it, and now they threw me out. And I can't even participate because I don't have GPUs, I don't have the funding. The universities are having a huge sort of crisis internally with the research. Plus you hired all my guys. Yeah, so I know them, but their guys are leaving and their gals are leaving because they want to work close where they can train the models and do this kind of stuff and where the data is, and at the universities there is none of this. So then what are the universities doing? They're of course looking at, okay, how could we crack the code on this? How could we make it much easier, cheaper, and how can we release it? So there's going to be innovation there. So I think this sort of race will continue between open source and proprietary and eventually open source kind of catches up. So I think it's going to be diminishing returns. I think we're going to hit walls with scaling laws and you just move down those, you go to the right on the x -axis and you move the Pareto curve to the right and eventually you get AGI. And it's just happening, it's guaranteed it's going to happen. And I think we're going to hit diminishing returns on walls that kind of... So you think we'll get stuck before we get to AGI in a fundamental, we'll need an actual breakthrough as opposed to just more size. That, and I also think that almost in all the use cases where you seriously try to use this, like for medicine or for like anything where you really, for lawyers and so on, it quickly becomes clear that you need a human in the loop, you need to augment it with the human in the loop. There's no way you can just let this thing loose right now. It's stupid. It does mistakes and so on. And maybe that can get better and better and better. But it does better on the medical exams than like doctors do. This is a funny thing. I kind of think all the benchmarks are bullshit. And so all these LLM benchmarks, here's how it works. Imagine in all our universities, we said, we're going to give you the exam the night before. Okay. And you can look at the answers and then the next day we're going to bring you in and you answer them and then we'll score, you know, how you did. Suddenly everybody would like be acing their exams too, right? Like for instance, MMLU is what a lot of people benchmark these models on. MMLU is just a multi -choice question that's on the web. Ask a question, is the answer A, B, C, D, and then it says what the right answer is. And it's on the web. You can deliberately train on it and create an LLM that crushes it on that. Or you can inadvertently, by mistake in the pile or whatever you used to train your model, happen to see some of those questions that happened to be elsewhere. So the benchmarks are a little bit, yes. Well they're benchmarks for taking the test, but presumably the test correlates with being able to make a medical diagnosis, a decision. Yeah, but they memorized all these, you know, they memorized, you know, so I'll have. There's no transfer learning from the memorizing the exam to actually diagnosing. No one really knows the answer to this. Everybody's playing the benchmarking game this way right now. Yeah, I would love it if, you know, a whole bunch of researchers. It's like the old fake database benchmarks when it's like, look how fast their database is, but it's only good at the actual benchmark. Yeah, I would love it if there was like a bunch of doctors that get together and come up with a benchmark that's super secretive and they don't show it to you and you give your model to them and they'll run their questions on that and then they'll come back and tell you how you scored. But that's not how it works right now. So then let me go to the question that you dodged, which is, okay, what are the ethics of the large models versus open source, or just in general, what is the responsibility? How big is the threat? Is open source an ethical threat? Yeah, look, I don't have all the answers. There's like different categories. There's like the jobs are going to go away kind of category. We've been doing that for 300 years and the nations that are doing the best, highest GDP, they're the ones that automated the most and the ones that weren't able to. And they have the most jobs and the highest. So that's happening anyway. There are ways to deal with that problem and the ways to deal with it is not to just stop all progress. That's stupid. You know, the nations that win are the ones that are doing well on automation, not just AI, in general, efficiency improvements, right? It's like economics is about efficiency. So anyway, so that's that category. Then there's like, oh, bad things that humans can do deliberately because they're malicious, which is the one I think Mark was the most worried about. But I would just say, look, ever since like the invention of the hammer, we started misusing technology that, you know, in a bad way, you know, like, so that's good. When you have a hammer, your head looks like a nail, right? So that's happening all the time with every technological improvement, especially the internet. So there's a really big question that I think kind of like Mark a little bit maybe dodged in his essay, which is, are we going to get this super AGI that decides to destroy us? And I don't know. The side part is the part where I get a little lost, right? Because like free will is not something we're on the path for. For machines. Like a machine doing many, many, many computations, which, you know, we never had machines do this many computations in the history of humanity. That is amazing, but it's very different than like, no LLM has ever decided to do anything. Like that's not what they do. And so it does seem like, okay, now they've got free will. Maybe they don't have free will, you know, maybe you're just in my way and I need to kill you all. Right. It's like, and that's just what I'm going to do unemotionally without any, I don't even reason why I don't have consciousness or anything. So I'm just doing the paperclip for you. Kind of. So I do think like those hypothetical, if you had something, this is a big if, if you have that thing that has that level of intelligence and can control things and so on, then I do think that's a big risk. I just don't think that's going to happen very soon. Here's why. There's several things that people are kind of not looking at. So I don't agree with like Mark when he says, oh, it's just like a toaster. It's just like your toaster will not decide to kill you, nor, I don't believe that. That's not true. If this, this thing is pretty smart, it has reasoning capability. If you connect it to robots and give it a bunch of like, it can start doing. And let it run free with no safety. Run free and say, go do it, then it can do a lot of damage. The reason I'm not too worried about the scenario is the following. One is it's very costly and very expensive and hard to get your hands on, you know, GPUs and have the money to train a new model. If that comes down and that takes like 10 minutes to train a new model, that's as good as the largest, best models that we have, then we're kind of fucked because then some asshole will say auto GPT, connect it, write a bunch of versions of yourself. Just try it out in parallel, do a million of these in parallel, and then figure out if it gets smarter and smarter and smarter and just do this, and then before you know it, after maybe let's call it 12 months, we find a slightly better version of the transformer that is a little bit more efficient. And now that 10 minutes goes to like two minutes, and then you're like on this race, and then eventually you'll get into this loop where it can create itself. But right now it's extremely expensive and really hard to train a new large giant model, much harder than actually just asking questions from it, unlike the human brain, where I can memorize new things and update my brain quickly, and I can also just read things from my memory and tell you things. Right now it's huge asymmetry. Secondly, we really haven't cracked the code on machines reproducing themselves biologically kind of like humans. You're like, so reproduction is not in the game yet. So once you have reproduction and the building of new ones automatically, once you crack the code on that loop, yes, then I think we're fucked, but we're very far away from that. Nobody's really doing that. Just moving the scaling laws and getting these things to be better and better at reasoning doesn't solve the problems that I mentioned. So that's, I think, what's kind of saving us right now. That's my belief. All right, well, on that happy note, we'll conclude, I'd like to thank Ali for joining us today. If you liked this episode, if you made it this far, help us grow the show, share with a friend. Or if you're feeling really ambitious, you can leave us a review at ratethispodcast .com slash a16c. You know, candidly, producing a podcast can sometimes feel like you're just talking into a void. And so if you did like this episode, if you like any of our episodes, please let us know. We'll see you next time.
Crypto Curious
A highlight from 98 - Gensler's Backlash, The SBF's Trial Kicks Off & Pudgy Penguins Hit Walmart
"This is an Equity Baits Media podcast. Welcome to the Crypto Curious podcast, proudly brought to you by the Bamboo app. Crypto Curious is your go -to source for all things cryptocurrency whether you're a seasoned pro or new to the world of crypto, we've got you covered. Each week we'll break down the top news stories of the past seven days, giving you the information you need to stay on top of the latest trends and developments. Plus we'll share quick bites of news and insights that you won't want to miss. If you're new to the crypto world, we recommend starting with our early episodes where we break down the basics and give you a solid foundation to understand the crypto world. Join us as we explore the ever evolving world of cryptocurrency and educate ourselves along the way. On today's episode, we'll discuss some recent moves by the SEC and some backlash against Gary Gensler. He's receiving it from all sides of the fence. We're also going to take a look at Sam Bankman -Fried and the trial, which starts this week. My name's Tracey and this week it's Blake and I on the mic as Craig is off attending a wedding. So, hey Blake, how are you going? Very well, Tracey. Good to be back and getting stuck into this week's news. There is always lots of news, but before we do get into the news, Blake, let's have a little look at the market. We don't often go through what's happening in the charts, but let's have a little look at what is going on because we've just finished the month of September, which has historically been a red month. Six out of the last seven years, September's been red and it actually finished green. A lot of the traders are very excited. It finished 4 % up and I've already seen a lot of the memes. October is up -tober, as they call it. There we go. Yeah, because apparently October is one of the better months of crypto. I think six out of the last seven has been green. So what do you think? Are we going to have a good month? What are we in for? It's really hard to say. No one has a crystal ball. I knew you were going to say that. What do you think though? How are you feeling? What's happening out there? Well, you know, if we had an up month in September when it's historically down, you know, it could do the opposite in October. Markets like to do what the opposite to what everyone's expecting. So yeah, we'll see how it plays out. But obviously there's a lot happening in the broader economy at the moment. People are very pessimistic about what's happening, you know, with inflation and specifically in the US, but really everywhere, and how that's affecting the broader economy. But hopefully we're seeing less and less correlation with the crypto market in relation to those items. But I still suspect that I can't fully disconnect. All right, well, we'll see what happens with up -tober at the end of the month. Moving on to our first story. It's been a big news item and colour us shocked, but the SEC has moved again to delay the Spot Bitcoin ETF. This one from BlackRock, Valkyrie and Bitwise. Gary Gensler needs additional proceedings to assess whether to approve or deny the proposed Bitcoin ETF. The process includes public comment and rebuttal periods indicating that the final decision may not be reached for several months, but then not even a few days later, and this happened yesterday, he has continued his filing frenzy and delayed the Bitcoin ETFs for Fidelity, Van Eyck and Wisdom Tree. So basically that's all of them because Ark was a few weeks ago. And the pressure is mounting on Gary himself this week, Blake. We saw him in the press. What happened there? Yeah, that's right Trace. Last week there was a US House lawmakers push on the SEC's chair Gary Gensler to approve the Spot ETF. Now they're kicking the can down the road. I don't actually think this is a bad thing, because if it happens early next year around the time of the halving, I think that's going to be maximum effect on the market. Members of the House of Financial Services Committee wrote a letter to him to take urgent action on the ETF. And you know, he's obviously taking his sweet ass time here. Gary actually faced criticism from lawmakers regarding his crypto regulation approach during this House hearing. He was questioned about his classification of Bitcoin, how that compared to other assets like Pokemon cards, and the approval of the Bitcoin ETFs. Lawmakers also expressed concerns over Gensler's transparency with Congress, especially regarding interactions with crypto exchanges like FTX. He was actually taken to task in so many different ways and he came up really short. I saw a few different videos. It was a bit of a train wreck. And what did you think of this Blake? Yeah, it's really interesting actually, you know, watching Gary dodge questions and be as vague as possible. But I think this example about the Pokemon cards really exemplifies the conversation. So one of the senators or one of the members of the House of Financial Services on the committee asked Gary, you know, are Pokemon card securities when they're traded because they are a collector's item. And of course, Pokemon cards are not securities. They're just collectibles. And then the example was proposed to Gary whether or not if those Pokemon cards were then tokenized and put on the blockchain as an NFT, would it be a security? And Gary said he's not sure. So I think the point here is that is the process of tokenization, does that create a security? And I think we can all agree that it doesn't. But the SEC is being quite coy here to keep their options open in order to suit, you know, potential NFT projects. When, you know, for example, you could take a photo of your foot trace to as an NFT, would that be a security? Yeah, look, it was it was a laughable video, that one. We've actually got a link to it as well, folks. So we'll put that in the show notes below. But they were there's four of those senators and they went really hard at him and he certainly did fumble his way through that, much like the videos from his Senate chat a few months earlier. Interesting to see him squirm, ladies and gentlemen, but there'll be more to come on that one. Moving on to our second story. The trial we have been waiting for starts this week with the jury selection today. Will Sam Bankman -Fried, the man who headed up failed crypto exchange FTX, get the comeuppance he so badly deserved? Get ready because your social feeds will definitely be taken up by all the drama that unfolds Blake over the coming weeks. How long will this take? You know, is he actually going to get done here? What are your thoughts? You know, how long is a piece of string really? I think with these scenarios, whoever has the most resourcing wins. We don't know how much cash Sam has tucked away. He could string this out for years. You know, we've seen other court cases. That long you reckon? Well, we've seen other court cases in the sector be strung out for literally like five, six years. So yeah, it could certainly happen. I think the Mount Gox court case for creditors is still going in 2013. You know, so these things can take time and there's many ways for parties to, to push this out. Yeah. In some information that came out today, Tracy, it looks like Sam won't be able to blame his lawyers for everything that happened. Under an advice of counsel defense, SPF wanted to argue that, you know, he was just taking the advice of his lawyers and was working within the legal bounds of the advice that was provided. So, you know, it's pretty interesting that if he was provided incorrect advice, then Sam will have the opportunity to sue his lawyers. But it looks like that you can't use that. You can't do that now. Oh no. Well, he just can't use that as a defense in court, but that doesn't mean that if he did receive poor legal advice at some point in time, he can't go back and sue those lawyers. Right. Interesting. All right. I'm sure there are many things that are going to come out of that as well. You know, this is, you can't write this thing as well, but just yesterday, some of the F that was taken by the hackers, so 2 ,500 F that was stolen as part of that exchange hack last year was moved yesterday. Oh, really? Yeah. So part of that was moved through two different protocols. One of them was the Thorchain router and another one was Railgun, which are private wallets that you can move things through secretly. We still don't know who took that in the hack last year. Yeah. We suspected at the time it could have been an inside job as, you know, the exchange was falling. Someone stole half a thousand Ethereum. Yeah. Yeah. But we still don't know who that was. Another quick one, too, guys, as we wrap this story up, because we are going to be hearing a lot about SPF and FTX. If you do want to catch up, there's a really good two parter out now on BBC Panorama called The Downfall of the Crypto King. And I'll add that in the show notes below. But it just it's a bit of a catch up on exactly what happened with SPF and the FTX exchange. So there's did you know that we are coming up on our 100th episode? I know time flies when you're having fun. And we'd like to invite you to become part of our 100th show and send us an audio question. If you have got something that you'd like to know about a coin, a token or a project you'd like us to cover off in our 100th episode, then send us a voice recording. Record this using a voice memo app on your phone and send it to us via the Facebook community or an email at podcast at get bamboo .io. Time for a break and we'll be back.
Game of Crimes
A highlight from 118: Part 1: Marc Cameron - From Deputy US Marshal to Arliss Cutter to Tom Clancy
"Well, again, here we are. Episode 118. Murph, we have 118. This is like surviving 118 attempts on our life. We have dodged all the bullets. Our listeners are loyal and they protect us. You guys protect us. So welcome back again. Episode 118, Game of Crimes. Thank you, thank you, thank you guys for joining. I am your host with the most hair. Just got it cut, Morgan Wright, here literally with my partner in crime. Murph, who's almost bald and your hair looks like crap. My hair doesn't look like crap. It looks like crap. No, it doesn't. It looks marvelous. I've got so much. She says, the person who cut my hair said, when you come in after six weeks, it's like most people's eight weeks or 10 weeks. So I get a lot of hair. Hey, when I go in and get a haircut, it takes like three minutes. I'm in and out. There you go. You sure that's a haircut? Be nice now. I'm just starting this. Please, please don't pay attention to him, ladies and gentlemen. I'm sorry, okay. We're trying to gain some professional help. Yeah, whatever. All right, how's that working out for you? Okay, let's just do some quick housekeeping before we get started. Hey guys, head on over to that Apple Spotify. Hit those five stars. It helps us out a lot. Remember, the other thing we learned that too, guess what guys? Not only did Stitcher go away, Google Podcasts is going away. So you're gonna have to, if you're on Google, make sure you pick a new service to keep listening to us. Make sure you hit that subscribe button too so that you do not miss. Deliver to your digital inbox every week on a Monday and Tuesday, these episodes like this one's coming out. Also head on over to our website, gameofcrimespodcast .com. In fact, when we talk about our guest today, Mark Cameron, we'll talk about his book. That'll be listed on there. And we've got a lot of great stuff on there. So make sure you head on over there. Gameofcrimespodcast .com. Also follow us on that thing they call social media at Game of Crimes on Twitter, Game of Crimes podcast on Facebook and the Instagram. But Murph, I'm telling you, we're gonna have some fun on Patreon. Patreon .com slash Game of Crimes. I have a 911 call coming up for you. Of all the 911 calls, I guarantee you nobody, nobody has taken a call like this before that I'm aware of ever, anywhere. Looking forward to hearing this one. Holy cow. There's gonna be a couple. This one, I don't know if I can make an entire case out of it, but I've listened to it. And just the sheer confusion on the call taker, they've never been presented with this before. So we'll have to talk about that. But guys, we just did our warden of the throne. It's a unique little thing we're doing now. Rather than just taking one topic, Murph brings two topics. I bring two topics. We're allowed to get into things that are catching our interest for the previous month or some stories. So we just did one talking about Philadelphia and the looting, Iran, and what they call the Iranian experts initiative. People have had their security clearance suspended. You talk about some tragic cases up in New York, the Bronx, baby dying at daycare center, and the recent death of that CEO by a sexual predator who should have still been in prison, but wasn't. Right, in Baltimore. So those are a lot of good things. We've got Q &A coming up, 911, what's your emergency case of the month? So guys, all good stuff. You don't hear this anywhere else, but on patreon .com slash Game of Crimes. But the other place you gotta be though too, Murph, our favorite mafia queen with the iron fist with the velvet glove. You gotta head on over there, watch what Sandy Salvato is doing with our Game of Crimes fans page. Just go to Facebook, type in Game of Crimes fans, answer a couple easy questions, get admitted to the Inner Sanctum in YouTube. You will see what goes on behind the scenes, behind the curtains. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain because that's one of our favorite people happening over on Game of Crimes fans. It's a lot of fun. There's a lot of humor there. A lot of dark humor too. If you saw some of the stuff people have posted, I hope you guys, I hope your healthcare plan supports you with an employee assistance program. I'm telling you. I don't know what you're talking about. Here's what I'm talking about. You know what I'm talking about now because you know what time it is. Guess what? I'm gonna ask you, do you know what time it is? Guess what time it is? Come on, give me a clue. It's time for Small Town Police Blotter. Hey, this because in honor of our guest that's coming up, Mark Cameron, the author, we'll talk about him in a second, but he went from Texas, lives in Alaska. So I thought we should have an Alaska theme. There you go. For our Small Town Police Blotter. So Murph, gotta ask you. Yes. This comes out of the Alaska Dispatch News. You know, a lot of fishery stuff, a lot of crabbing, a lot of lobster stuff, a lot of that goes on in Alaska, doesn't it? Mm -hmm, mm -hmm. So you have an idea. You go, hey, we're gonna take a crabbing boat and we're gonna convert it into a floating bar and strip club. What could go wrong, right? Oh my gosh. So 54 -year -old Darren Byler of Kodiak and his 46 -year -old wife, Kimberly, own the Wild Alaskan, a former crabbing boat that's been converted into a floating bar and strip club. Apparently it's doing pretty well. They've been running the business since June, but now they're in serious legal trouble and Murph, it's not for stripping. Uh -oh, what is it? This gives new meaning to, you know, why this is on a crabbing boat. So if you're out there floating, you have to provide facilities for people to use, right? So if they use the facilities, number one and number two, you should probably find a way to take care of that other than dumping it into the ocean. Oh, come on, come on. So they were just indicted by a federal grand jury for improper disposal of human waste after they were caught dumping feces from their bathroom into the harbor, as they say in Maine, into the harbor. Instead of taking the waste tanks to the proper places on shore, they both could be facing up to one year in jail and $25 ,000 in fine, but that's not the worst part. The worst part is the Coast Guard said they lied about dumping the tanks, and if they're convicted of that, making false statements to the Coast Guard investigators, that could get them five years in prison and $250 ,000 in fines. Cha -ching. I tell you what, you gotta do a lot of stripping to make that kind of money. It's a shitty situation they got themselves in. It's terrible. This whole thing just stinks. It stinks, man, stinks to high heaven. Tell you what, you know, you had a turd in one hand and wishes in the other. Anyway, we could go lots of places with that, so. These people didn't move to Alaska from Florida, did they? I don't believe so. Thank goodness. Hey, but I went back into the archives too, so I pulled some articles out of the Alaska News Archives, the Fairbanks Daily News Minor. This comes to us January 21st, 1955, and I'm telling you, the stories are hilarious. These are quick hits. And not always, but this is what's in Alaska. This is what's important in Alaska, January of 1955. The Tokyo police hire pretty hostesses. Tokyo police, grieved by complaints that their headquarters is unattractive, have assigned four pretty girls to meet people at the building's two entrances. Officials have also ordered the women to take charm courses. That is what's important in the Alaska, you know, the Fairbanks Daily News Minor. The other thing you gotta do here, be prepared. And this comes to us, it's out of Tucson, Arizona, but in the Fairbanks Daily News Minor. This is 1955, a 15 -year -old boy with a loaded .38 caliber pistol in his waistband was removed from high school class here by police. His explanation for carrying a gun, a couple of those teachers were giving me a hard time. Well, geez, okay. Okay, but this one though, this one has gotta be, this is it. This is St. Monaface. I believe this is Alaska, no, Manitoba. This is St. Monaface, Manitoba. All right. Police were certain the worst of the winter is upon them. Pete Nikoluk has started his annual jail term for vagrancy. Nikoluk has spent the past 21 winters in jail on vagrancy charges. Police says he always manages to get arrested just before the coldest part of the winter sets in. Who says this guy's not smart? Three hots and a cot, and I get through the toughest part of winter. Oh my goodness. That's, well, you know, that's prior planning, I guess. Prior planning prevents piss -poor performance, the 6Ps. There you go. Yep. You ask my children, they'll tell you what the 6Ps are. That's right. Murph, now, we'll finish up with this. I went and looked at what are some of the strangest laws in Alaska, and these are definitely Alaskan. It is illegal to whisper in someone's ear why they are moose hunting. Okay. It's legal to shoot bears. However, it is illegal to wake a sleeping bear for the purpose of taking a photograph. Why would you wake a sleeping bear? Isn't that the truth? Here's another thing, and I don't get it. It is considered an offense. It's illegal to feed alcoholic beverages to a moose. What? Why? Huh. Apparently, it's also illegal to sell stun guns to children. That one, I kind of get that makes sense. Well, if you're in Fairbanks, Alaska, if you love a vuvuzula, remember what they did during the World Cup. You know, you blow those things that make a lot of noise. Those annoying things? Yeah, it's illegal to blow a horn in a manner that disrupts the peace. Good. Yep. So, it's illegal to fatten up a sheep, cow, or pig within the city limits of Fairbanks. Are we talking about people or animals? Well, maybe it's meatball, and you'll have to listen to her. You'll have to listen to our warden of the throne. All right, it is also a crime to speak so loud that you offend a sensitive person enough to make him, her, or her leave if you're in Fairbanks. What? Okay, well, hey, be nice. That's just be nice. And you can only carry a concealed slingshot if you have received the appropriate license. The license. Do you have a license for that slingshot? All right. Oh, okay. I didn't know you had to have that. But Murph, this is the craziest one. This reminds me of an episode of you and JP on Narcos where you were accused of doing this, not a moose, but it is an offense to push a live moose out of a moving airplane. Well, you know, I gotta agree with that, but have you seen how big a moose is? How do you push it anywhere? Well, how do you get it into the damn airplane to begin with is what I wanna know. And who wants a moose, a pissed off moose, in their airplane? Uniquely Alaskan. So Mark Cameron, as we get into this, and again, we wanna thank our buddy, Patrick O 'Donnell, Cops and Writers. Go listen to his podcast. Hooked us up with him, but Mark Cameron is an interesting dude, moved from Weatherford, Texas to Alaska. And we're gonna talk about his book that was just released. It's an Arliss Kutter novel, Breakneck, by Mark Cameron. But the interesting thing too, Murph, was he wrote the last seven Tom Clancy novels. And this is a guy that used to be a marshal, which most of the reports were saw bad guy, put him in jail, you know? Not extensive reports in the marshal service. Saw a fugitive, arrested, same.
"That's Why You're Single"
Are Women Smarter Than Men?
"Do you think, Rebellion, that women are smarter than men? Let's hear the response. No, I do not think women are smarter than men. I think women use their heads more. I think we, I believe women use their heads more than we do. They use their heads to do what? You don't want to go that route, TJ. I can tell you a mother woman that can hurt that. Now you're trying to spin me around now. She's going to lie with her head. I ain't going to lie. The way that I answered the question was, I believe women think more than we think. I believe men use our group strength more than we use our brains. So, I guess to answer the question, I might take whatever, you know, maybe I am saying yes. But I just know that men use more group strength than women are women. So they're thinking way more than we are. You mean they overly think. But okay, we're going to let you do that rock out with that. Alright, TJ, what was your answer? My answer, Rebellion's answer was no. I do not believe women are smarter than men. No. Okay, and TJ? I'm kind of on the same page with him a little bit. But I feel that they are, women are way more, like they use their heads better than we do. I'll say that. They also use their hands too, but we ain't going to talk about that. We can talk about whatever. You know, but they, you know, their brain is, I mean, all women are fucking nuts in the first place. This isn't on the table, they're all fucking crazy. Polko nuts. I've never met a normal woman. We were just talking about how women have a very strong active imagination. Women are fucking nuts, they're all fucking crazy. My mother was crazy, my sister, my wife was crazy. Tell him to answer the question. Tell him to answer the question. Stop dodging, man. Tell him to answer it now. All right. Women use, like I agree with Rebellion, women use their brains better than we do. I'm not going to say they're smarter than us, but they use their brains better than we do. Because we'll do shit that makes no sense and get caught. A woman right now could go cheat, and you will never know she's cheating unless you fucking get on some Mission Impossible, James Bond, Jason Bourne, Jack Bauer should catch him cheating, you know what I'm saying? You got to be something to catch him. If a woman want to get caught, she'll get caught. She'll get caught. If she don't want to get caught, she'll be shooting shit for you to find, and she don't care. But if she don't want to get caught, you ain't never going to find that shit. You got to be a million times ahead of them, and they're already a million times thinking about that before, so it's like, it's, you know, like, we walk around, you know, so yeah. I'm not going to say they're smarter, but they use their brains
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A highlight from 1415: Bitcoin Will Soon Hit $500,000 - Winklevoss Twins
"Welcome everybody to Crypto News Alerts, the number one daily Bitcoin pod. In today's show, I'll be breaking down the latest Bitcoin technical analysis as Bitcoin recaptures $27 ,000 and quoting Max Keiser, the high priest of Bitcoin, Bitcoin is the North Star guiding to the only safe haven asset in the world that protects against inflation, confiscation and censorship preach. Also in today's show, Ethereum futures ETFs can start trading as early as next week. According to top Bloomberg analysts, we'll also be discussing the SEC pushing back the deadline for spot Bitcoin ETF apps, definitely not a good look. And speaking of ETF apps, I'm also going to be sharing the five highlights of Gary Gensler's evasive testimony before Congress quoting Senator Warren Davidson. Gary Gensler's tenure at the SEC highlights two key problems. Number one, Gary Gensler's problem and number two, the SEC's structural problem. That's why I introduced the SEC Stabilization Act to fire Gary Gensler and restructure the SEC. Let's freaking go. Also in today's show, crypto analyst Michal van de Poppe predicts a very positive quarter four for 2023. I'll be sharing his targets in which he outlines. We're also going to be discussing the SEC's inaction on the spot Bitcoin ETF is a complete and utter disaster, according to the Winklevoss twins. And speaking of the Winklevoss twins, I'm also going to be sharing with you their $500 ,000 Bitcoin price prediction, which they say is coming soon. We'll also be taking a look at the overall crypto market. All this plus so much more in today's show. Yo what's good crypto fam? This is first and foremost, a video show. So if you want the full premium experience with video, visit my YouTube channel at cryptonewsalerts .net. Again that's cryptonewsalerts .net. Welcome everyone. This is pod episode number 1415. I'm your host JV. Today is September 28, 2023 and Bitcoin is finally back above 27 ,000 as we're pumping right when I hit the live button. We're currently above 27 ,100 up over 300 % today and we continue climbing. Welcome everyone in the live chat. I gracefully appreciate y 'all. Yeah, who knows? Maybe we'll hit 28 ,000 by the time today's live stream is over. Let's see. And make sure to let me know where you're tuning in from in that live chat as I'll be giving everyone a shout out towards the end of the show. And with that being shared, fam, now let's dive into today's market watch. As you can see here, every major crypto back in the green. Bitcoin above 27 G's. We got Ether up three and a half percent trading at $1 ,655 BNB, XRP, Cardano, you name it. And checking out coinmarketcap .com, we're currently sitting above $1 .07 trillion with about $26 billion in volume in the past 24 hours, Bitcoin dominance at 49 .1 % and even the Ether dominance on the rise today at 18 .5 % and checking out the top 100 crypto gainers of the past 24 hours, holy moly, compound up 20 % trading under 49 bucks, followed by Thor chain up 13 % trading at $1 .94, followed by Lido Dow up 8 % trading at $1 .59 and checking out the top 100 crypto gainers of the past week, massive gains, which we love to see, especially after a pretty bearish altcoin season to say the least. We got CompLead in the pack here as well up 20 % and Rune up 13 .4 % and RLB up 13 % and checking out the crypto greed and fear index, we're currently rated a 46 in fear yesterday at 44 last week, a 47 and last month, a 39 in fear. So there you have it, fam. How many of you are currently bullish on Bitcoin and how many of you took advantage of the recent dip? If so, let me know. It's good to see we pump in once again. So hopefully those positions are now in the green. Now let's break down today's Bitcoin technical analysis, check out the charts and why specifically the market is pumping right now. Here we go. Let's get it. Bitcoin hit new weekly highs after the September 28th Wall Street open as markets awaited fresh cues from the US Federal Reserve. And here you can see in the Bitcoin one hour Campbell chart, pretty freaking bullish to say the least. Data from Cointelegraph and TradingView showed Bitcoin price strength staging a comeback, having delivered what some referred to as a classic pump and dump 24 hours prior during the performance. Bitcoin hit a high of 26 .8, which appeared on Bitstamp as a result of 2 % daily gains before Bitcoin retraced all of its progress, then a slower grind higher than took hold with the bulls edging closer to 27 ,000, which we finally just recaptured here a few moments ago. Now GDP for quarter two grew by 1 .7 % year on year below the projected 2%, while the PCE index data for August came in in line with the expectations, quoting analyst Keith Allen, bring on the volatility. Now meanwhile, data from Binance's order book uploaded by Allen showed little by way of resistance standing in the way of the spot price under the 27 ,000 mark. So as you can see, just more bullishness for the king crypto, the macro data constituted just the prelude of the day's main event. Meanwhile, Jerome Powell, the chairman of the Federal Reserve due to the comment later on today, Powell, whose recent words failed to deliver noticeable volatility to the crypto markets was due to speak at the Fed's conversation with the chairman, a teacher town hall meeting event in Washington DC at 4 p .m. Eastern today. Now commenting on the state of play on Bitcoin markets, popular trader Dan crypto trades was a little more optimistic around the strength of the day's move compared to yesterday, September 27th, quoting him here back to yesterday's highs, but with considerably less open interests. No doubt there is longs chase in here, but it is less frothy than it was yesterday. Would still like to see longs chill out and not get to a full retrace later on. So there you have it. Let me know if you agree or disagree with the analysts. Meanwhile, quoting another analyst, right, capital Bitcoin is right back at the bull market support band cluster of moving averages, challenging to break out beyond them. Let's freaking go. Now, elsewhere in the day's analysis, he acknowledged that 29 ,000 could make a reappearance and still form a part of a broader come down for BTC. As he shares here, it's important to remember the Bitcoin could technically rally even as high as 29 ,000 to form a new lower high, which would be phase A and B. He explained alongside this chart. So there you have it. Let me know if you are currently more bullish or bearish on the King crypto and quoting the high priest of Bitcoin, Max Kaiser, Bitcoin is the North star guiding to the only safe haven asset in the world that protects against inflation confiscation and censorship preach. Now welcome to y 'all just joining us in today's podcast. As always, I appreciate everyone's daily support and means the world. And now let's discuss our next story of the day as Bitcoin continues to pump, shall we? We're going to be discussing the Ethereum futures ETFs, which can get approval. They say potentially as early as next week. So let's break this one down, shall we? Ether futures ETFs could start trading for the first time in the United States as early as next week. According to top Bloomberg analysts on September 28th, which is today, Bloomberg intelligence analyst, James Safart said in an ex post, it was looking like the sec is going to let a bunch of Ethereum futures ETFs go next week. Potentially. His comments were in response to fellow ETF analyst, Eric Balchunes, who said he was hearing that the U S SCC wanted to accelerate the launch of Ethereum future ETFs quitting him here. They want it off their plate before the shutdown, he said, adding that he's heard various filers updates on their documents by Friday afternoon so they can start trading as early as Tuesday next week. As outlined here on X. Now the U S S government's expected to shut down at 1201 a .m. Eastern on October 1st. If Congress fails to agree on or provide funding for the new fiscal year, which is expected to impact the country's financial regulators amongst federal agencies. Now neither specified their sources for the latest update on the long list of crypto ETFs in the queue. There are currently 15 ether futures ETFs from nine issuers currently awaiting approval. According to the analysts in a September 27th note, which is yesterday, companies proposing an Ethereum futures or hybrid ETF product include VanEck pro shares, grayscale volatility shares bitwise direction, as well as round Hill. The analysts gave ether future ETFs a 90 % chance of launching in October with Valkyrie's ether exposure on October 3rd, quoting them here. We expect pure Ethereum futures ETFs to start trading the following week, thanks to volatility shares actions. However, we don't expect all of them to launch. So do note that now as previously reported that ether futures ETFs may be approved in October causing the 11 % spike in ether prices and probably why the Ethereum dominance is up as it's been stagnant and down for quite some time. Ether prices are on the gain, currently just under $1 ,700 and we'll see how high we continue to pump, but do note crypto future products aren't as hotly as anticipated as their spot based alternatives. There are already been Bitcoin futures ETFs approved in the United States since 2021, which is a fact, which leads us to the million dollar question. Why have they approved a futures ETFs, but continue to deny and delay all the spot ETFs? We're going to be getting to that a little later as I share with you the highlights from Congress pressing the chairman of the SEC, Gary Gensler. It's going to get very interesting here in a little bit, but now let's dive a little deeper and discuss specifically the spot Bitcoin ETFs and what is happening and why they're being pushed back and the latest updates of where we're currently at. So here we go and welcome y 'all just tuning in. Make sure to smash that like fam. The US SEC has delayed deciding whether to approve or disapprove spot Ether ETFs. And like I said, we're going to be getting in October potentially get some approvals, but in separate notices filed September 27th, the SEC said it would designate a longer period on whether to approve or disapprove these proposed changes. The commission finds it inappropriate to designate a longer period within which to take action on the proposed rule change so that it has sufficient time to consider the proposed rule change and the issues raised there within. The delay came the same day as the NASDAQ market filed the proposed rule change with the SEC for listing its mix ETH basically ETF, a combination of Ether holdings and futures contracts and also proposed rule changes with the New York Stock Exchange, ARCA for the Grayscale Ethereum Futures Trust, hashtag Bitcoin Futures ETF and the CBOE BXE exchange for the Franklin Bitcoin ETF were all filed. September 27th, that's right. If you're not familiar with Franklin Templeton, there are one and a half trillion dollar asset manager. They're also applying for an ETF. Now the SEC announced September 26th, it would designate a longer period to decide on these spot ETF applications. And as James Safart shares here, here's VanEx delay as expected. So another one, I mean, exactly what we were expecting from the SEC. Now in August, ARK investment manager, founder and CEO Kathy Wood speculated that should the SEC move forward with the spot ETF approvals, it would allow multiple listings simultaneously to avoid giving any single company an advantage over another in the market. Her remarks came before Grayscale Investments won a court battle with the SEC over its spot Bitcoin ETF app, which will likely be reviewed in which they're trying to turn their GBTC product into a spot ETF. So hopefully it happens. To date, the SEC has never approved the spot crypto ETF in the United States, but has allowed the listing of crypto linked futures ETFs and a leveraged Bitcoin futures ETF. Manipulation, fam. The next deadlines for the spot crypto ETF apps from firms, which include the largest asset manager in the world, BlackRock, Wisdom Tree, Invesco, Galaxy, Valkyrie, Bitwise and Fidelity are all scheduled for October. So we'll see how this is likely to play out considering October is now only three days away. Are we going to get some ETF approvals by then? Who knows? I think more than likely they're going to push it back again. However, Congress right now is pressing Gary Gensler to approve a spot Bitcoin ETF and ETPs immediately. So now let's break this down. If you missed Gensler, he was pressed by Congress just yesterday. And I know it's on everyone's mind. So let's break down some of the highlights from this recent hearing with Congress and the chairman of the SEC, Gary Gensler. Let's break it down, shall we? Here we go. Blame for kneecapping capital markets in the U .S. and slam for dodging questions around Bitcoin and Pokemon cards. SEC chair Gensler appears to have had one hell of a grilling from Congress this week. September 27th, the U .S. SEC chief again found himself in front of lawmakers in a scheduled hearing to discuss his agency's oversight of the markets. Here are some of the highlights. First and foremost, you are the Tonya Harding of security regulations. We should create a Gary Gensler diss track, right? One of the more colorful analogies came from U .S. Representative Andy Barr, who accused Gensler of kneecapping the U .S. capital markets with regulatory red tape. Barr referred to the old testimony from Gensler where Gensler argued that the U .S. is the largest, most sophisticated and innovative capital market in the world and that shouldn't have been taken for granted as even gold medalists must keep training. With all due respect, Mr. Chairman, if the U .S. capital markets are gold medalists, you are the Tonya Harding of securities regulations. Ouch. You are kneecapping the U .S. capital markets with an avalanche of red tape coming out of your commission. Preach. Barr is presumably referring to a scandal where U .S. ice skater Tonya Harding, I'm sure you all remember the story, I was a kid when this happened, and an assailant to attack her rival Nancy Kerrigan in the lead up to the 94 U .S. Figure Skating Championships and Winter Olympics. Kerrigan ended up not competing in the U .S. Championships and here is John Dickens who shared it here. Mr. Barr to Gensler, it's hilarious, you gotta watch these clips for yourself if you haven't seen them. So the next highlight, I wish the Biden administration would say, you are fired. That's right, shout out to Warren Davidson who also ripped into Gensler saying he hoped that the Biden administration would fire him. Powerful words. Davidson accused Gensler of pushing a woke political and social agenda and abusing his role as the SEC chairman. Preach. Massive shout out to the senators here doing their job. Damn good job. The U .S. Representative added that he hopes that the SEC Stabilization Act he introduced with fellow representative Tom Emmer could make it happen. Quoting him here, you're making the case for this bill, which is the SEC Stabilization Act. Every day you're acting as a chairman, he concluded, and Gensler wasn't even given a chance to respond. Now next highlight, Gensler reiterates Bitcoin isn't a security. That's right. When asked by U .S. House Committee Financial Services Chair Patrick McHenry whether Bitcoin is a security, Gensler eventually relented stating the Bitcoin didn't meet the Howie test. Quoting him here, it does not meet the Howie test, which is the law of the land. Then McHenry suggested Bitcoin must be a commodity, which Gensler avoided answering. Mr. No Clarity Gary, hence how he got the nickname, saying the test for that is outside the scope of U .S. security laws. Mr. Gensler, we're living in a clown world with this guy. Henry also suggested that Gensler try to choke off the digital asset ecosystem facts and refuse to be transparent with Congress about the SEC's connections with the FTX and former CEO SBF facts. Gensler also wasn't given the chance to respond to the claims made by McHenry. Next highlight, are Pokemon trading card securities? Gensler says it depends. Can't make this stuff up. Quoting Representative Richie Torres, I cross -examine SEC Chair Gensler about the term investment contract, which is key to determining his authority over crypto. Gensler struggled to answer basic questions like whether an investment contract requires a contract. His evasions are defeating and damning. Suppose I was to purchase Pokemon card. Would you constitute a security for this transaction? Gensler responded, well, I don't know the context before eventually concluding it isn't a security if you purchased it in a store. And then Torres asked if I were to purchase a tokenized Pokemon card on a digital exchange via the blockchain. Is that then a transaction? And then Mr. No Clarity Gary said, I'd have to know more because I don't know anything. Yeah, you can't make this stuff up. Gensler then explained to it when it's investing the public can anticipate profits based upon the efforts of others. Then the core of the Howie test, which it is, Torres called Gensler's evasions as damning to say the least. And the next highlight, a sign of defiance. Meanwhile, amongst the back and forth cross examinations between Gensler and representatives, the eagle eyed observers noticed a Coinbase stand with crypto logo behind the SEC chairman. Isn't that interesting? The Coinbase led initiative is a 14 month long campaign that launched back in August aiming to push crypto legislation in the United States. Coinbase also ran a stand with crypto day, which took place in Washington, D .C. September 27th to advocate for better cryptocurrency innovation and policy. So again, shout out to Warren Davidson, Tom Emmer, all the senators for holding Gary Gensler accountable. Hopefully they do something about it. What's your thoughts, fam? Do you think Gary is likely to listen to them and follow their instructions and approve a Bitcoin ETF immediately? Or do you think he'll continue kicking the can down the road as long as possible until he leaves his position as the chairman of the SEC? Let me know your honest thoughts in the comments right down below. Now let's break down the latest prediction coming from crypto analyst Michael Vanay Pop for some price actions for Bitcoin for the fourth quarter, which we are currently in for 2023. Then we'll break down the latest from the Winklevoss twins and their five hundred thousand dollar Bitcoin price action as the price action of Bitcoin continues to pump, baby. Let's go. Here we go. Let's break this baby down. Crypto trader Michael Vanay Pop is expressing bullish sentiment on Bitcoin in the coming months. Despite the recent struggles in a new video, he says that Bitcoin is on the cusp of reaching levels that offer accumulation opportunities per inch. According to the analyst, the trader Bitcoin could subsequently start an uptrend. Ultimately, Bitcoin is into an area of consolidation here, which makes it very likely we're going to have to retest here at twenty five, six and twenty five eight. If we are having a recess in that region, then there is this zone where I want to start buying my entries because of the recess, which is the ultimate recess. And if we're not going to get that, the flip to twenty six thousand five hundred, that is going to be the area where I think I want to activate my positions as well. And then we can start targeting twenty eight thousand. And then we can also start targeting the higher numbers, thirty thousand dollars plus or even more in the projection of quarter four. That is going to be very positive overall. Let me know if you agree that we'll have an overall positive quarter as we about to enter October. Let's go. Vanay Pop also says Bitcoin's current price action is similar to what was witnessed in the prior pre halving year, quitting him again. As long as we stay above the 200 week exponential moving average, we most likely are going to continue to the upside. And it starts to be very comparable to the period that we witnessed in 2015 and 2016. In this case, we needed it, but we started to consolidate and start to trend up afterwards. It is very likely to this period to slowly but surely the price starts to crawl up. And then we are going to have a case of the upside in the markets overall. And to watch this video analysis, the analyst did check the show notes below the video in the description. It's entitled Bitcoin price. I am looking to buy. So there you have it. And let me know if you agree or disagree with the analysts and are you currently bullish on the King crypto or do you think we're going to dip and test the lower levels? Let me know your honest thoughts, fam. And now let's break down our next story of the day. And the Winklevoss twins on the spot, Bitcoin ETF continuously being basically denied and kicked back and pushed back for the past decade. And then we're going to dive into their half a million dollar Bitcoin price prediction and why they're so confident that the Bitcoin price is going to hit their big target. So here we go. Let's discuss them with the SEC first. This was a story which was, let's see when their tweet was actually, let's scroll down. This is Cameron Winklevoss. This was actually on July 1st, it got 1 .1 million views. Now let me read the tweet. Today marks 10 years since Tyler and I filed for the first spot Bitcoin ETF. That's right. Over a decade ago, the SEC governor's refusal to approve these products for a decade has been a complete and utter disaster for US investors and demonstrates how the SEC is a failed regulator. Here's why. They protected investors from the best performing asset of the last decade. They pushed investors into toxic products like the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust, GBTC, which trades at a massive discount to NAV and charges astronomical fees. They pushed spot Bitcoin activity offshore to unlicensed and unregulated venues. They pushed investors into the arms of FTX, subjecting them to one of the largest financial frauds in modern history. Preach. Maybe the SEC will reflect on its dismal record and instead of overstepping a statutory power and trying to act like a gatekeeper of economic life, it'll focus on fulfilling its mandate of investor protection, fostering fair and orderly markets and facilitating capital formation. This would have led to much better outcomes for US investors. Preach. In the meantime, best of luck to all those fighting the good fight to bring the US spot Bitcoin ETFs to life onwards. So much respect. I mean, 10 years of denying this ETF. I mean, you can't make this stuff up. I think they shared perfectly some of the reasoning. It's to hurt the investors and keep you poor and keep you wrecked and keep you desolate and dependent upon a broken government that threw us overboard so frickin long ago. So much respect to the Winklevoss twins. If you didn't know, they're the owners of the Gemini exchange and they were the very first ever to submit the spot Bitcoin ETF app to the SEC over a decade ago. And obviously they're sick and tired of Gary Gensler, his no clarity and his shenanigans. Just like the rest of us, it's time to fire Gensler. If you think Gensler should be investigated and potentially fired, let me know in the comments right down below and I'll be reading your comments out loud here in a little bit. Now for our breaking story of the day, let's discuss the Winklevoss twins and their case for a $500 ,000 Bitcoin price, which they believe is coming soon. So let's break this down, shall we? And welcome to y 'all just joining us in the live chat. Much love and much respect. So here we go. Winklevoss twins' prediction, Bitcoin will soon hit $500 ,000 per coin. And why? And again, shout out to Tyler and Cameron. Let's get, we already know their background, early Bitcoin investors, OGs, early investors as well with Facebook. Some claim that they're the real creators of Facebook and Zuckerberg stole it. But nonetheless, in a recent interview with the National News, the twins explained they remain convinced of the future of crypto. The main reason is the revolutionary and technical properties as well as the potential of Bitcoin to act as a store of value similar to gold. And in addition, crypto has many other advantages, mainly through programmability. Hence, the Winklevoss brothers believe that Bitcoin could even replace the precious metal. In the long term, Tyler Winklevoss shared the following. If you look at the properties that make gold valuable, Bitcoin matches each attribute or does better. The gold disruption story of Bitcoin is super powerful. We believe in it. Tyler Winklevoss explained his reasoning for the $500 ,000 Bitcoin price action, quitting him here. If you do the math, 21 million in the supply of Bitcoin, the market cap of gold, let's say it's 10 trillion, maybe it's 11 trillion, somewhere in that ballpark, that puts one Bitcoin if it disrupts gold and gets that market cap at $500 ,000 per coin. The two brothers did not want to give specific investment tips. However, Cameron reveals the strategy that they use, which is generally the simplest, which is simply HODL. Hold on for dear life, quitting him here. Generally speaking, if you subscribe to Bitcoin being a store of value type investment, then that strategy is HODL. The same way you would HODL gold is you buy and HODL long term investments. So according to the Winklevoss twins predicting the Bitcoin price will hit $500 ,000, they say predictions are difficult, but they believe that Bitcoin will hit the milestone within a decade. And when they were more recently interviewed and asked, where do you see Bitcoin in five years time? Here's what Cameron Winklevoss responded. We usually take a decade view on it. When we wrote a piece on the value that predicted it being $500 ,000 Bitcoin, we said within the decade. And I believe they wrote that in 2020. So they're basically saying by the year 2030, they're anticipating a $500 ,000 plus Bitcoin price with Bitcoin overtaking that of gold as far as the market cap. Now is that in three years from now or nine years? The timing part is hard, but I think the Bitcoin created $1 trillion worth of value in under a decade. That is fact. I believe back in November of 2021, Bitcoin's market cap surpassed a trillion dollar milestone and the total crypto market cap surpassed $3 trillion. But as of today, we're closer to a $500 billion Bitcoin market cap with the entire crypto market cap down to a trillion. Now, it also spawned many huge productions such as Ethereum and the entire asset class. He continues. If you look at the value increases in Bitcoin, it is this punctuated equilibrium where it is steady, steady, steady, and then boom, it reaches a new price level. This is the new normal. So it can happen very quickly. So there you have it, fam. Ultimately saying when Bitcoin takes off, it explodes quick and vast. And especially considering that two of the most bullish catalysts in Bitcoin history were on the cusp of. Six months away from a Bitcoin halving, we all know the Bitcoin cycles every four years, it drives the Bitcoin price up as it increases the scarcity as well as increase demand, basic stock to flow, numbers must go up. And we also have the approval of a Bitcoin ETF likely to take place in 2024, especially with Congress on Gensler's. But we also have the ETF experts such as Eric Balchunes given a 95 % chance probability that a spot Bitcoin ETF likely get approved in 2024. Those two catalysts will absolutely make Bitcoin rip to new all time highs entering price discovery mode like we have never seen before. So how high do you think the Bitcoin price will likely climb by the time of this next halving? Roughly six months out, scheduled to take place sometime in April of next year. Let me know your thoughts in the comments right down below. And don't forget to check out cryptonewsalerts .net for the full premium experience with video and to participate in the live Q &A. And I look forward to seeing you on tomorrow's episode. HODL.
Thinking Crypto News & Interviews
A highlight from SEC GARY GENSLER HEARING & SUBPOENA SOON? COINBASE CRYPTO ADVOCACY WITH NANCY PELOSI!
"Welcome back to the Thinking Crypto Podcast, your home for cryptocurrency news and interviews. If you are new here, please hit that subscribe button as well as the thumbs up button and leave a comment below. If you're listening on a podcast platform such as Spotify, Apple or Google, please leave a 5 star rating and review. It supports the podcast and it doesn't cost you anything. Well, folks, as you all may know, Gary Gensler testified before the House Financial Services Committee today. He got grilled. He got a lot of pressure questions and things that he was shaking and unable to answer. It's the same old nonsense. And I'm sure many of you saw the clips, so I'm not going to play a whole bunch of clips for you, but I'm going to give you the big takeaways. What can we expect next? And McHenry, Patrick out of the gate, started grilling Gary Gensler. He asked him, is Bitcoin a security? And Gary was like stumbling, like he couldn't even answer it. And of course, you know, Patrick McHenry was like, what are you doing, man? I'm giving you softball questions. You can't answer me. Is Bitcoin a security? So Gary Gensler continued his clown show. This guy's a scumbag regulator, as I've been saying for a long time, and needs to be fired. But the big takeaway from what Patrick McHenry said, folks, he threatened Gary Gensler and said, don't make me have to send a subpoena. And he highlighted that Gary has not sent documents about FTX. He highlighted Gary's losses in court and much more. So I think the next step, you know, I haven't seen this level of threat about a subpoena from these folks. So I think we're getting there, folks. And I'm actually going to be interviewing Congressman Warren Davidson, who also did a great job grilling Gary tomorrow. And he's going to I'm going to ask him about the subpoena and what are the next steps. And of course, he highlighted his SEC Stabilization Act, which essentially fires Gary Gensler and replaces that chair seat, adds another commissioner and an executive director. So it makes the SEC less political and more balanced. And he has some great questions to Gary. You know, he even alluded to the EITH Ethereum free pass. Some of you may have seen the clip. So he did a great job. And once again, I'm interviewing him tomorrow. So be sure you're subscribed on the podcast as well as the YouTube channel. And Tom Emmer also brought some heat on Gary Gensler saying, I'm convinced you are not an impartial regulator. And he went on and did a press conference about this. And Gary Gensler is a bureaucrat who does not answer to Congress and much more. So, you know, similar types of comments that we've seen historically. But I think the subpoena threat was the big takeaway for me. The other stuff was, you could argue, was said historically and said before and other hearings with Gary Gensler. Now, Democrat Richie Torres did a great job of talking to Gary and getting specific, like he highlighted, is buying a Pokemon card a security? Gary said no. So he said, well, what if that Pokemon card got tokenized on the blockchain? It's a den of security. And that's where Gary was going back and forth and saying he needs more details and yada, yada. But great questions by Representative Richie Torres, very laser targeted in detail where Gary is just like caught off guard and he's trying to dodge the questions. So Gary continues to get exposed. And I like what happened today. I think the clips and all the news that are coming out of it, while they may not be very much actionable, where Gary is getting kicked out tomorrow, right? They do paint Gary Gensler in a very bad light. And remember, I've said many times, a lot of politics is simply optics. And if you have bipartisan support against Gary Gensler, that's not good. He's not going to be in that seat for very long. So it's great to see Democrats coming out against Gary Gensler. Now, quick word from our sponsor folks, and that is Uphold, which makes crypto investing easy. I've been a user of Uphold since twenty eighteen. They have ten plus million users, two hundred and fifty plus crypto currencies, and they're available in one hundred and fifty countries. You can also trade precious metals and equities on Uphold. If you'd like to learn more, please visit the link in the description. Also, a great comment from Representative Andy Barr to Gary Gensler on capital markets. He said, if the U .S. capital markets are a gold medalist, you are the Tonya Harding of securities regulation because you are kneecapping the United States capital markets with the avalanche of red tape coming out of your commission. Wow. That is a pretty strong remark there. Many of you know about the Tonya Harding story. If you don't look it up, Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harden and someone who was sitting behind Gary Gensler started flashing the Coinbase stand with crypto NFT shield. Many of you have seen that. And someone also highlighted the stand with crypto logo on a piece of paper. So this is similar to what happened with the guy who did the buy Bitcoin behind Janet Yellen years ago. So they put this right behind Gary. So it's pretty funny. This is another one that's going to go in the record books. And on that note, the SEC did acknowledge that the 1 .5 trillion dollar asset manager, Franklin Templeton, spot Bitcoin ETF application. Now, that doesn't mean anything because we need an approval. But things are moving ahead for these new applicants. Now, as all this was happening, guess who was in D .C.? Brian Armstrong and the Coinbase folks. Pretty incredible. And they did this whole campaign where they're at the Hill and a Brian Armstrong tweet out here at our nation's capital for a stand with crypto day with 40 founders from across the country. It's time for America to join the rest of the G20 and get some clear rules on the books. So great move here by Coinbase because the juxtaposition of what Gary is saying and what a big publicly traded crypto company is doing with a whole bunch of founders in D .C., educating and providing advocacy is really, really great. So I love this. And you hear you see Brian posted some photos, he said a great meeting with Speaker Pelosi. Now, all feelings about Nancy Pelosi aside, this she's a Democrat, folks, and I think this is a very smart move, Brian. Very, very smart move, because today even Maxine Waters was praising Gary Gensler. Oh, he's the knight in shining armor. And Gary, you know, you've been doing your thing, protecting Americans from these crypto scammers. Right. So remember, just like two years ago, she was hugging up FTX saying she loves Sam Beckman Fried, blowing kisses, taking campaign donations from FTX. So she's can be bought and sold right pretty easily. And I really like this. Coinbase is playing chess here while Gary Gensler is getting grilled. I love it, love it, love it. And they took a whole bunch of photos here at the Capitol Hill. So smart move by Brian. Really, really smart move. Now, finally, Kraken sets sight on stock trading. So Kraken, the crypto exchange, they're looking to expand their services. And, you know, this makes sense. If you're ordering already an exchange where you sell crypto, you can easily move to stocks. And then I know some other folks have been looking to tokenize stocks and sell those. So this is a pretty big move. And we're going to see that these crypto exchanges are going to expand to other markets. And with the advent of tokenization, you know, they're going to tokenize a lot of the traditional financial markets and assets and commodities and much more. And allow people to easily get access to them globally, 24 seven trading and much more. So obviously this would put them up against like Robinhood, essentially right where you have stocks and you've got crypto in the mix. So I think it absolutely makes sense. Well, folks, that's the news. Let me know what you think. What did you think about Gary today in the hearing? And once again, I'll be interviewing Congressman Warren Davidson tomorrow. So be sure to check out that interview once it's published on Friday. And I'll talk to you all later.
Bitcoin & Crypto Trading: Ledger Cast
A highlight from Rate Pause
"Hello and welcome to Ledgercast. My name is Brian Crossguard here, as always, with one and only Josh Olsowich. Hey Josh. Mr. Brian. How you doing? How are you? I'm good. I'm happy to be with you today. You're already cards pulled up, ready to go. I got my best podcast hoodie on, you know. Only the best Ledgercast family. Getting the hoodie season, depending on what part of the country you're in. For sure. My dear Alabama, I mean, this is the weather that you live here for. Like, most of the year is incredibly humid, but September, October, November, that's when it's the good stuff. Well, people didn't come on this podcast to hear about the weather. They came to hear about head and shoulders. We always start with the weather. I know. It's like a podcast faux pas, but we do it anyway. It's the human experience. There's a head and shoulders on like every market on all timeframes. Like, you can't not see it. ETH, Bitcoin, S &P, Qs, any risk market, we'll put it like that, any risk market looks very, very toppy still to me. What are your thoughts on, you know, as we enter our 37th week as macro LARPing traders? Yeah, well, this continues to tell a story, right? Dollar legitimately been up only on a weekly basis for more than two months. Hold on, hold on. Jeff in the chat said. Jeff, were you listening for your show? We were just discussing the accelerated aging of Ryan in the show. I feel like I feel like the bear market is hitting me in every possible way right now. Sorry, continue. Yeah, I'm I'm going to be very gray and old and wrinkly if I make it through another cycle. Anyway, the Dixie is up. Yield. You know what I realized this week? Back to the Dixie for a sec. I realized that the Euro chart, Euro USD is basically the Bitcoin chart. So if you're rooting for Bitcoin, you're basically rooting for the Euro chart. I don't know how that's going to work out. It's not the team I want to be on right now. No, I agree. I don't know how that's going to work out for us because that Euro chart looks bad, quite awful. Yeah, that's bad. So I keep that in mind generally for people, you know, if you see some good news or positive news in Euro land, which I think is rare these days, it should generally signal wellness for Bitcoin. Yeah. Well, it's mostly that dollar strength. It's just not. Yeah, it's all it's all just the same thing. Right. Yeah, exactly. We titled the show Rate Pause because rate hikes were paused. So this is the first time in quite some time that we've gone into FOMC with no change. The result of that was you start to see the 30 year kind of catching up to the two year because they also said that they are planning on staying high for longer. So we're not going to do the thing where we just immediately start going into cuts. And so, yeah, it may not have the desired effect that people might expect by a rate pause. At this point, holding rates at this level is restrictive eventually, right? It gets more and more restrictive as the lower interest rate that like rolls into this new environment, you know? Right. But I think it's honestly, I agree with the Fed. I think keeping it here and doing a wait and see type attitude makes more sense than keep raising and then panic cutting when the time comes. I think you have a potential to break a little less in this regard. I think they should have paused a while back and should have started way before they did. But nevertheless, the idea of pausing but not committing to a cut, I think is reasonable. Well, the markets didn't get angry at pausing. The markets got angry because they hinted at two more hikes still. So if that actually happens, I don't think it will. Look, I'm a chaos agent. I say go all the way, right? Pedal to the metal, no half measures. If you want to kill the economy, go for it. So yeah, let's do two more. Let's do one in November, one in February, whatever. I don't know. I think the consensus, though, is that markets aren't going to last that long. Markets being the economy, I guess. But the economy just isn't going to last and hold up through that. So unemployment is going to tick up considerably. That's the expectation. You're not going to get your soft landing. And Paul basically said as much that that wasn't his base case during the meeting. So you got to keep that in mind when you're looking at risk markets like crypto and alts especially are just still obliterated and continue to look terrible. Two -year looks like it wants more. The three -month yields look like, all the yields look like they want more. Yeah, they're all acting like it. Especially if you take today out of the picture, which I'm not sure I'm going to read too much into what's happening on a Friday. Well, we had, so yesterday we had a negative 1 .6 % day on S &P. And there were already legacy analysts coming out saying, oh man, Paul's going to have to cut this year. It's been one day. You people are so soft, so pathetic. Pillsbury Doughboy over here asking for cuts after a down day. Give me a break. Just absurd. The chart on the S &P does look like it has room for more downside like that. Oh, for sure. Pretty clean breakdown, but it's not in panic mode. It's in the middle. It's in the chop zone. 4200 makes all the sense in the world based on some basic technical analysis. Look at the 200 -day moving average. All this is just meaner version. You have people panicking that the number is going down instead of up and they're pathetic. I mean, that's legacy for you. Even when you look at non -technical analysis, if we were in price discovery for the stock market right now, it would not make sense. It just does not make sense relative to the economy. But ledger, price is in the forward future. It doesn't look at what's happening now. We're not going to get a recession. We're going to get a huge GDP print, man. Forward future looks like we got another year or two of grinding. Like grinding economically, trying to figure out this balance of wage inflation, commodities inflation, cost of goods. There's a balance that has to exist there. Life is more expensive for people. Their homes are more expensive and their business loans are more expensive. are Their wages up, but they're not caught up to that. And so the economy needs to figure itself out. It needs to find its Zen zone. I agree. That could take time. But that's not the S &P. The S &P is eight companies who have billions of dollars, don't need to borrow, don't need debt at this interest level. But now the problem, I think Apple especially, I don't expect their new phone to sell gangbusters because the economy is... It's one of the easiest things to not upgrade. Right. Well, that as well. But USB -C, right? Welcome to the 21st century, everybody. So I'm expecting those numbers to be soft. The Nvidia story seems to be softening, even though it's hard to really know what's going on there. There's still lots of lots of demand for those checking news. Yeah. But I guess the point is, who cares about the rest of the S &P, the 493, right? It's all about the top seven right now. And if those are weak, which they are, just in the charts, the markets are going to turn lower because you're not getting any help from the other 493. All right. I want some of what Andre is drinking in the chat. I'm just going to plop this onto the show. Here we go, Andre. This is your moment. Fed waits another year to lower rates than the BTC happening. The presidential election and lower interest rates are all going to be happening at the same time as we go into the next bull run. Space exclamation point, which is another way of saying triple exclamation point. Where do you put that space in front? Andre, I'm with you. I hope you're right. I think people believe that if they cut, then that will be bullish, but they won't cut until things look terrible. So if they're cutting, then we have a different problem, right? We have a recession if they're cutting, right? It's over if they're cutting. We just have to dodge a recession. You just have to dodge a recession. Around halving, whatever. And then there's this other school of thought, which is kind of what Andre is hinting at. Maybe the halving doesn't matter. Maybe it's just a coincidence that we've been in these four -year business cycles, and it's just lined up perfectly. I've seen that narrative growing recently, which is surprising to me, but it makes sense. Look, if you look at the data and you just don't pay attention to halving, I agree. But I think the halving brings eyeballs. It brings people understanding the asset a little differently because they're like, oh, wait, what do you mean? The supply is going to be cut in half or whatever, the daily emissions. Anyway. And meanwhile, Bitcoin and ETH both basically at their 200 -week moving average. This was okay. So that's the tweet you have up. This was my engagement bait last night. This is if anybody was paying attention. It's comparing the 200 -week and the 200 -day moving averages on Bitcoin. The last time... They're converging. Yeah. So they're converging. And the last time it looked like this was 2015 for a bull cross. It technically didn't cross bearish in 2015. I just want to highlight, though, Josh. We are both getting rejected by that right now, if you look at this weekly. Yeah, but that's okay. It's September. It's key three. I don't care. But yes. They're just winding around in there. They're meandering. It's not good. Also, one other comment. Yeah. Gotta work on this hashtag. 250k or bust. Gotta work on that. Well, that's the target. We need some ideas. That's the 8000 % target from here is 250k. That's where that came from. Yeah, we gotta do better. 250 by 25 is too much of a mouthful. I feel like the phrase millie needs to be in there. Millie? Quarter millie? Quarter millie. Maybe just full millie. Look, I've been on the record. 250k is the target for the next run. Okay. Even before this tweet, the stars are aligning. Yeah. People are saying what's happened to me. I'm using a different camera. I'm in a different place. And I got a haircut today. And everyone says you look old. I look weird and old. I am old. Here, I was I was puffing you up early. You're telling me I look good. And I was telling you how old I felt. And now the whole chat's like, hey, you look old. You look terrible. I think you look fine. But you know, maybe it's the rates, you know, the rates are just killing everybody. It is the rates. I'm gonna go ahead and go out on a limb and say that I'm affected by that. Sure. So yeah, if we look at if we look at Bitcoin, also, We've also got if you don't like the head and shoulders, at the very least, you have to admit there's some sort of double top there. Yeah, double top, lower, lower low by a smidge. Rejected by the fast and long moving averages potentially. There's a there's reason to be concerned here. If we're above 28, at any point Q4, I think we're good for move higher, which doesn't like logically make sense based on what's going on in the world with rates and everything. So if this then that if we get above 28, we're good. Until then, I expect lower lows, ETH especially. What's going on with ETH, man? You're the ETH fanboy, the ETH cheerleader. What's happening? It's even better than BTC in terms of rejection off the 200. That's clean. It's nice and clean. That's a dump it. Let me translate that for everybody. That means it's even more bearish. I think this tells some of the story like there's not many people in the ecosystem that don't consider pair trades, you know, like opportunity cost or a risk profile of being in one thing versus the other. And a lot of people are dancing on like long tail of altcoins. Like they'll play on those playgrounds. But the people that are in big assets are looking at this where ETH BTC is breaking down further. It looks like it might be escalating. It looks like it might be going from breakdown to a steady progression to the downside. And I don't know, maybe that also looks double toppy to me. Yeah, but maybe another 10 -15 % on ETH is on that relative to BTC and people just don't see the upside as worthwhile. I get it. I understand. I like 05. And if 05 doesn't survive around the ETF stuff, assuming the ETF stuff is going to be bullish, I like 03. I think a 200 week tap at a minimum would make sense. So, you know, you're looking at another 10 % relative in that scenario. And that would probably be a bullish bottom. Bullish, she says. A bullish bottom if it maintains that. I'm sure, I don't know harmonics well enough to just like eyeball it, but I'm sure there's some sort of harmonic. Batwing harmonic, yeah. Yeah, there's something there where you could draw like a crab or something. If this one's a 0 .03, that would be concerning. Well, what's the breakout level of the head and shoulders? Like 0 .035, 0 .036? Yeah, I think that's reasonable. I think that would put ETH people, myself included, just in Jordan tier mode. Look, if ETH doesn't get an ETF and Bitcoin does and it actually sees flows. It could happen. It could happen. That's all I'm saying. That's all I'm saying. Hit your targets, Josh. 0 .053 before 0 .035. That's true. I mean, we need to spot ETF first, which... That's just math, just so you know. And dyslexia. It's just kind of interesting that it has not made a higher high since going proof of stake. Kind of weird, right? The Real Dangles asks, can we do a mini series on learning macro fundamentals? I've only ever looked at crypto, so half of what you guys talk about is foreign to me. No, but there's some people that you can learn from. One of the best, in my opinion, and I was... Jeebus was giving me crap about this, but Ray Dalio is, I think, the greatest macro mind that actually takes their information and then shares it. Big Debt Crises is a book. It's a study of cycles, basically. It's a study of deflationary, inflationary cycles, and they're very good. I would read that. That's a great start. Like, that'll be good. That could teach you more than I ever could. There's many, many other things, in addition to what he talked about, that go into what he talks about. But at the end of the day, it's all about cycles. And that's a terrific book. I would listen to a bunch of podcasts on macro stuff. Blockworks does a billion of them. Yeah, but don't worry. If you listen to those, you'll end up a bear. So you gotta know that going in so that you don't end up a bear. I don't care if you're bullish or bearish, but being able to form your own opinion, that's the end goal. But people that do nothing but talk macro are all bears. They're all dirty bears, Josh. I agree with you. They're doomer macro people. But just knowing the language and knowing what people are looking at definitely helps you understand what the hell is going on. If you listen to them, just know that you need to protect your beautiful, bullish beauty. Don't take their advice, air quotes here. Don't take their advice. Your beautiful, bullish innocence needs to be protected when you listen to the doomer bears. You'll learn all about the SPR and why it's the end of the world. What is it about macro that makes people perma bears? I don't know. I think all this cyclical stuff, the raining down of potential for bad makes you think it's imminent. Yeah, they're very pro -commodity, pro -being anti -market. That's their whole personality and identity. Now I'm thinking of Sven specifically, for those of you who know who that is. But the macro people will be wrong for years and years and years. And then we'll finally get a down move. And they'll be like, yes, I told you so. Now I've lost all my money and the market 10xed at that time. But I told you so. We would get a correction. But I like that about them. The macro people also generally don't like Bitcoin. Some of them do, certainly. But most of them don't. So that tells me we still got time. It's still early. There are very few Lynn Alden's of the world where I simultaneously massively respect their macro analysis. And they don't discount crypto. She does discount everything but Bitcoin. But I'll forgive her for that. Because she's already really good at two things. That most people can't combine their goodness of that. Yeah, she's great. That's another easy listen as far as trying to pick up. She just wrote a book about money, too. I'm sure it's got some good macro stuff in there. There you go. So we'll stop that. Rate's up. Murray, I don't know what we're saying is like Michael Murray. But if he's a doomer bear, then yes. Yeah, this is a doomer bear that he was right at the right time on the right cycle as the media fell in love with such characters. So that carries a lot of weight. Like he can now be wrong for the rest of his life, but he was still right in 2008. But I respect people that have these opinions. I just think it's a lot easier to make money if you're a bull over the long period of time. I agree. Tripsy says he thinks the TA makes a better bear case than macro. I agree. I pay attention to the macro because it's kind of interesting. And having the ability to discuss it is powerful. But if all I do is pay attention to the TA, then I'd be fine. If you see the macro and you make this great bear case and then you see the chart and the chart looks like it wants to explode to the upside, don't make the trade. Not financial advice, but don't sell everything in that scenario. I wouldn't. But if the chart looks like doo -doo and the macro looks like doo -doo, then maybe it's just doo -doo. Well, knowing yields and rates helps you understand the DeFi angle a little bit. Knowing risk premium helps you understand like if I'm not getting paid an insane amount in DeFi right now, it's just not worth participating. You know? Yeah. Assuming a risk -free rate in U .S. government bonds, treasuries, whatever, you're not getting paid that differential in DeFi. Typically, you are seeking yield growth balance, right? There's some combination or you're looking for either or, but there's a balance of yield and growth. If your available yield today is high, so let's say you can earn 5 % in a money market or something like that, then two years ago, you could only earn 1%. Then your need for growth is even higher to make up for your annualized compounding year -on -year returns because when you're seeking growth, you're compounding that growth to make up for the lack of yield. So when the yield is higher, you need even more growth so people get less interested in the growth because the growth needs to be so severe to replace easy yield that's available today. So that's why risk assets that focus on growth look less attractive when yield is high. That's a general concept that can be useful. I always like to think about the extremes. So they used to say, Tina, there is nothing else when you're talking about allocating capital. So if there was no yield before, you get all this crazy VC shit and altcoins and NFTs. Because it's growth at all costs. Because that's it. That's the whole game, right? Now that there's a balance, it'd be much harder to create something like FTX in this environment where you can get a yield, you know? Yeah, there is demand for return on those dollars that's not just growth, that's not just bring it back to me more valuable. Did you hear that NFT story? The NFTs are 95 % worthless thing? Yeah. Yeah, there's some really good replies from NFT people that I thought were worthy. I've retweeted one of them. I don't remember who it was. I think it was the punk person that works, that does the streams all the time. Pink haired punk. You know, most of them always have been worthless is what they mentioned. And I think that they're doing a classic throw the baby out with the bathwater thing. Like the speculation on JPEGs was always going to pop. The underlying technology does have inherent value, it's just who's going to win from that. Like, will all the current market participants, collections, companies, whatever, will they all go away and then somebody will rise from the ashes and win the technology emergence where game the underlying technology can be taken advantage of to create real business value? I think that's what will happen, but which of us will be there to survive it? And then some stuff will get Lindy effects of art, digital art. There was product market fit, there is product market fit for that. But like, you can't just mint 10 ,000 pineapples and expect to make millions of dollars now when there's nothing else. If your denominator is infinity, then yeah, 95 % are useless.
ACG - The Best Gaming Podcast
A highlight from The Best Gaming Podcast #411 Phantom liberty review breakdown, Embracer multi dev lay-offs, and more
"And what's up everybody? This is Karrick with ACG and I'm here with Abzi, Johnny Silver and myself doing the best gaming podcast 411 number 411. Thank you everybody for joining you get a chance to check out the YouTube membership. We've got a new special on there for YouTube members. You can join it. You can become a part of the discord also scientifically proven people who become members of the YouTube more sex for sure, especially if you're a virgin when you get the membership and then you have sex 100 % more sex than you've ever had before. So you definitely want to be a YouTube member. We're going to talk about cyberpunk Phantom Liberty. We're going to talk about all of the Embracer cuts. There's been a ton of the Embracer cuts, which is really sad. We're going to talk about payday 3. We're going to talk about some review scores how that's all coming about going to talk about some new games that released that I want to ask these guys if they've played and I haven't told them not because I was trying to keep it secret, but just because I had forgotten to tell them prior talk about the DLC for Resident Evil 4 Ada Wong. What was that called? Do you guys remember starting? Starting over? Starting again? Starting? Isn't it something like that? Nope. Let's let's name it ourselves. Ada Wong bad voice actress does separate ways. Alright, terrible voice actress and then we'll talk about. Yeah, we'll talk about a bunch of other stuff. Welcome to silver who hasn't been here for a while. I'm starting to pay these guys again, not be not. That's not why he came back, but that's because because I didn't tell him that yet, but we finally got everything sort of situated here and I want to say how much I appreciate the support and stuff like that because it helps the channel stay on YouTube, which is a little bit difficult right now, but we're getting it figured out what have we been playing. Let's go with silver first because it's been a while. You said you've been doing some Payday 3? Yeah, a little bit today. Like actually managed to get some functionality from the servers. I've otherwise been down for a lot of people and get a couple of games in. Gameplay wise, it's solid. I think it's a significant improvement on Payday 2 in terms of just the gameplay, particularly the stealth. The stealth feels a lot less janky. It feels a lot more fun to engage with. It's a lot more predictable in terms of how you interact with it, where when it goes wrong, you have a pretty good decent idea of what went wrong and how you got detected. Where with Payday 2, it could be really, really janky. But I found it to be more predictable this time around. Gunplay is also a huge improvement. It feels really, really satisfying, really, really fun to shoot the guns. The animations for reloading and stuff feel pretty good. So that's also a significant bump in terms of the game's quality. So yeah, it's more fun to play. But unfortunately, the game suffers a lot under the decision to take it to online only, which is something that a lot of people feared back when they announced it a couple of months ago. Because it does require server functionality and the server functionality hasn't really been there. It has to be said that Payday 3 has jumped to the top of the Steam charts. So they've seen a lot of success and that does often introduce issues in an online game when there's issues with it in the data and early access leading up to the release. And so they weren't able to address it for launch either. Servers are crashing. And it's really frustrating for players who are going through a heist stealthily, like nearly an hour of prep work and stuff and you're at the getaway. And then the game drops you and you get nothing for That's it. happened a bunch to a lot of people. It also happened to me today. At one point. There's also some really weird decisions in terms of the multiplayer where there's no voice chat functionality inside the game, which is bizarre in a game so heavily reliant on proper coordination between teammates. There's no text, you can't use text chat in you can't even like if you click ready when you're like readying up for the lobby, you can't unclick ready. So you can't read. So you bet you best be ready. You better be ready if you click that button. Yeah. And yeah, it's just weird. And when the missions end, your team gets disbanded. So if you actually end up with a bunch of competent randoms, you lose complete touch with each other and you can't like talk to them over voice chat or anything to like get a sense of contact information or anything. So the social aspect of the game has been severely limited. The matchmaking itself is really poor. There's no like the crime net functionality of pay day two is basically gone. You basically just go to a mission, you select a difficulty and whether you want it to be public or private or or friends only or whatever or invite only. And those are basically the only filter options you get. And then the game tries to find you tries to match you up and fails frequently at the moment. But that those are all the only options you get. And that I find that severely limited and basic. And I would have liked there to be like more filter options like do you want to play stealth? Do you want to play loud? Those were filter options that were eventually integrated into payday two. And like their absence feels particularly odd here, especially, especially when you also coupled it with the absence of all the other stuff, like the absence of voice chat and stuff like that. It sort of compounds the issue. So it's, it's a very mixed bag. But yeah, gameplay, gameplay wise, really fun to play. Yeah, regardless. Big improvement from from payday two, I think. All right, Johnny, what have you been playing? There we go. So interestingly, I've been spending most of my time playing games on lines of P this week, which as you guys know, that's kind of a 180 from where I was at, we talked about the demo, I wasn't really happy with what was in there, right? I wasn't the game is better than maybe they improved it since I played it. But there's something about it that just fits perfectly into what I wanted. You know, it's a more linear, streamlined souls game, where I can kind of just focus on the leveling, creating builds, crafting weapons. Yeah. And just getting good at the game, right? Or like understanding the the attacks and stuff. So it kind of removes a lot of the getting lost and exploring, which is admittedly, a great part of souls games. But it's not something that I wanted right now, after being in BG three and starfield and all. Yeah, yeah, it's it's good to like not have to worry about that kind of stuff. Sometimes. Exactly. I just know, I won't be getting lost. Right. And I can kind of always trudge on at a pretty good pace. And I frankly, like the combat quite a bit, surprisingly, again, because I'm not a fan of perfect parry. And the game does basically rely on that. Yeah, but they've managed to make it really satisfying. It's kind of like a dopamine hit, you know, when you do get the perfect parry, because you can break enemy weapons, you can stagger them by doing that. So just kind of it feels powerful. It's not just like a gimmick, like an Oh, you got outplay. Yeah, right. It's like, actually, whoa, okay, this is powerful. Right. And you can physically see the effect to because the enemy weapon glows when you perfect parry. And this means you're breaking it right. You're in the process of breaking it. Yeah, by by parry. So that's a huge ability to impact their weapons. That's because that's pretty rare. I mean, I don't I don't know if I remember. And to visually see the weapon broken to let you know, it will be a sword and then the tip is broken, right? And they do way less damage. It's just cool, man. Yeah. Yeah. What about you, Abzi? What are you playing? This week, I played more starfield. And then I some played Liza P, I could like four or five bosses. And then I tried the 2 .0 update for cyberpunk. Oh, so you've been jumping or well, probably started the week, I assume with starfield and then starfield. And then when Liza P came out, I checked it out for a bit. I checked it out for a while. I think I put in like seven or eight hours in that game. Should I talk about it? Or are we going to talk about it later? We'll talk which one Liza P starfield or Liza P. You can talk about right now because just continue Johnny's part. What do you like? What are you getting from it or not? I think it's a fine game. I think it's a fun game. I think, however, it's it's it's less of a soul. It's it's it's souls like to the point where it's like a souls born Sekiro clone. You know what I mean? Yeah. So I think I think it tries to pretty much get a bunch of elements from those three main IPs, even Elden Ring with like the ways some bosses and some enemies kind of fucking go like this for like an hour and then like start hitting whatever. So it gets like the parry from Sekiro and like the left mechanical arm thing from Sekiro has like the bloodborne thing of regenerating health and like aggression. But with this one, you have to block so that you're able to do that. And and it has also you can argue that the the setting is more like bloodborne than anything else. And it has like the kind of tries to hit the atmosphere of the souls games. But I feel like they missed the mark a little bit because the characters do talk slow and like this, you know, I mean, like a souls game. But I don't think the VA is quite up to snuff there. Like it always pulled me out. It kind of felt like they're a little bit too tryhardy on that area of talking. But I think it's I think the fun factor is there. I think the fun factor is definitely there. Now, I think it's a it's the sum of its parts. What is it? What's the saying? It's greater than the sum greater than some of its parts, because when you hone in on like one thing, like one mechanic, like let's say like the parrying, I think it's tight parrying. I think it's a it's about as tight as Sekiro. But I feel like the enemies or the enemy animations aren't kind of built around that you can definitely get good at parrying. But I feel like with Sekiro, the reason why it really worked very well is because there was like a nice kind of rhythmic dance to it, especially with the sound effects and stuff like you could like close your eyes and parry a boss. So it had that thing where the whole game was, was kind of designed around that one thing, which was the parrying mechanic, I think it tries to do a lot of things. And it doesn't hit its mark, like really well with one thing, but all of them put together, it's pretty fun, because you have a lot of options. Like for example, for blocking, you can block and suffer some health damage and and kill that, like hit the enemy so that you get gain your health back. But at the same time, you can also perfect parries. So you have like, and then you can dodge as well. I don't think like the dodge itself is like really good and really tight. I don't think the because I think the hitboxes are kind of fucked in this game, to be honest. And I don't think the parry is like the game isn't designed around it, as I said before, so it's not like really right there. But them together offers like a better kind of experience because you still have that risk versus reward factor. I think it's fun overall, I just have like some issues with it, where there's like better alternatives that focus more on those aspects. Yeah. Gotcha. Super, super chat from wannabe dev. Perfect way to start the weekend. Glad to see silverback. Look at that. He's glad to see silverback. Thank you. Like it. Silverback. Glad to see silverbacks.
The Mason Minute
The Dump (MM #4560)
"Commuting to work isn't fun, I don't have to tell you. Of course, it's easier now thanks to all the tech tools we have. The fact that we can carry on a conversation in our car on a smartphone. The fact that that smartphone also has GPS in it so we can figure out the best way to get into work. It's amazing how much things have changed throughout the years as I've been driving. But the one thing that hasn't changed for me is always looking for the shortest route. And of course, my shortest route to work into downtown is by one of the city dumps. And the toughest part about that? That means you've always got garbage trucks in front of you. You've always got construction vehicles in front of you. And you're constantly dodging that and the smell. This dump is probably one of the bigger dumps in Nashville. It's the one that's closest to my house. Now, I don't even notice it, of course, when I'm five, six miles away. They're building some new apartments about a block, block and a half away from the dump. I can't imagine living in those apartments, knowing the city dump is nearby. Knowing the smells you're going to encounter that you can't control, that nothing will change. And you want to tell them to move the city dump further out. But how are you going to do that? Plus, there are railroad yards nearby. Not like we're going to be building there yet. Just a matter of time, though, in Nashville.
The Mason Minute
The Dump (MM #4560)
"Commuting to work isn't fun, I don't have to tell you. Of course, it's easier now thanks to all the tech tools we have. The fact that we can carry on a conversation in our car on a smartphone. The fact that that smartphone also has GPS in it so we can figure out the best way to get into work. It's amazing how much things have changed throughout the years as I've been driving. But the one thing that hasn't changed for me is always looking for the shortest route. And of course, my shortest route to work into downtown is by one of the city dumps. And the toughest part about that? That means you've always got garbage trucks in front of you. You've always got construction vehicles in front of you. And you're constantly dodging that and the smell. This dump is probably one of the bigger dumps in Nashville. It's the one that's closest to my house. Now, I don't even notice it, of course, when I'm five, six miles away. They're building some new apartments about a block, block and a half away from the dump. I can't imagine living in those apartments, knowing the city dump is nearby. Knowing the smells you're going to encounter that you can't control, that nothing will change. And you want to tell them to move the city dump further out. But how are you going to do that? Plus, there are railroad yards nearby. Not like we're going to be building there yet. Just a matter of time, though, in Nashville.
The Mason Minute
The Dump (MM #4560)
"Commuting to work isn't fun, I don't have to tell you. Of course, it's easier now thanks to all the tech tools we have. The fact that we can carry on a conversation in our car on a smartphone. The fact that that smartphone also has GPS in it so we can figure out the best way to get into work. It's amazing how much things have changed throughout the years as I've been driving. But the one thing that hasn't changed for me is always looking for the shortest route. And of course, my shortest route to work into downtown is by one of the city dumps. And the toughest part about that? That means you've always got garbage trucks in front of you. You've always got construction vehicles in front of you. And you're constantly dodging that and the smell. This dump is probably one of the bigger dumps in Nashville. It's the one that's closest to my house. Now, I don't even notice it, of course, when I'm five, six miles away. They're building some new apartments about a block, block and a half away from the dump. I can't imagine living in those apartments, knowing the city dump is nearby. Knowing the smells you're going to encounter that you can't control, that nothing will change. And you want to tell them to move the city dump further out. But how are you going to do that? Plus, there are railroad yards nearby. Not like we're going to be building there yet. Just a matter of time, though, in Nashville.
The Mason Minute
The Dump (MM #4560)
"Commuting to work isn't fun, I don't have to tell you. Of course, it's easier now thanks to all the tech tools we have. The fact that we can carry on a conversation in our car on a smartphone. The fact that that smartphone also has GPS in it so we can figure out the best way to get into work. It's amazing how much things have changed throughout the years as I've been driving. But the one thing that hasn't changed for me is always looking for the shortest route. And of course, my shortest route to work into downtown is by one of the city dumps. And the toughest part about that? That means you've always got garbage trucks in front of you. You've always got construction vehicles in front of you. And you're constantly dodging that and the smell. This dump is probably one of the bigger dumps in Nashville. It's the one that's closest to my house. Now, I don't even notice it, of course, when I'm five, six miles away. They're building some new apartments about a block, block and a half away from the dump. I can't imagine living in those apartments, knowing the city dump is nearby. Knowing the smells you're going to encounter that you can't control, that nothing will change. And you want to tell them to move the city dump further out. But how are you going to do that? Plus, there are railroad yards nearby. Not like we're going to be building there yet. Just a matter of time, though, in Nashville.
TuneInPOC
"dodge" Discussed on TuneInPOC
"Tonight I'm going to break away. I don't need you I don't need Friends. I don't need flowers in the spring here. I don't need you and you surely don't want me. I don't need a love and affection. I don't need peace and come on in. I don't need you and you should be here. But we both want it better enough. If we both want it so we. Don't need you baby. I don't need your loving arms around me. Just to be clear. That's what I keep telling myself and I tell you. I don't need children in my old days. Love I cried at least around the trees. I don't need you baby and I know you don't. But we both wanted me and. We both wanted we. Don't need you baby. Well I know you don't need me. And we don't need each other baby. We all need time to change. Our dude. I'm trying to stop it. Listen, Dodge FM. People smile and tell me I'm the lucky one and we just begun I think I'm gonna have a son. He will be like him and me is free to die conceived in love the sun is gonna shine above. And even though we ain't got money I'm so in love with your honey everything bring a chain of love.
Momus: The Podcast
"dodge" Discussed on Momus: The Podcast
"And I mean, you know, that's huge. To me, that's what it is, right? That's the practice part of the practice. That's part of the vehicle that's a kind of goal. And it did start when I was a kid. And when I was younger and read the autobiography of Alice, we took this by Gertrude Stein. How do we write then for some reason? I'm not sure why, but I read it, and I was like, I just need to pay attention to my amazing Friends. And we'll do that. We'll do this, our way, and we'll do it now. And we're not going to wait, and we'll do it together. And fingers crossed. Anything would happen as far as being able to sustain that. And so when but then you bring up provincialism. And I was in San Francisco that, which is like a mid zone of prevention. It's like a mid zone. And so artists are all different. They all need different things. So to make generalizations wouldn't make any sense at all. But I think for the time of my life that I was there, that's a community that we built. And it was dancers and it was performers, performance artists. Everyone seemed to have space in their garage. We were all curating each other and making flyers, you had to put up flyers on posts. And we were all going. And it was rich and it was full. And it was very, very there was a lot of love, a lot of laughter. And it was very very satisfying. And so I would definitely recommend that if, you know, for young artists for emerging artists for people that that's real, that's not like a fake place. That's a real place. And that's the pleasure place. And if you lose that, you're not going to have anything. You know, you got to get up in the morning and figure out what your questions are. What you want to make and how to challenge yourself with your questions, what you also have to know that. A lot of the joy is also going to come from love and being in community together. I mean, just to extend that one beat further because there is a real kind of like work a day life day in the life of the artist kind of ticker tape that runs on the bottom of the screen of this book, so to speak, you know, you've got studio visits, looming, more often than not. Museum acquisitions in the balance, curators names, of course, artists, book launches, sticky salads with colleagues and Cal art, all these totemic and of course many names. And so your network is really well represented..
Momus: The Podcast
"dodge" Discussed on Momus: The Podcast
"And oh, sorry, that's not a quote in this case. This is you. The work of reaching for those discrete parts and having some perhaps confidence that you can both evoke that pattern cosmic sort of coincidence to much coincidence to be mere coincidence feeling about living in this life in these bodies of ours. And also kind of insisting on a fairly destabilizing floor on which an artist stands hopefully an ideally that roiling mind. That those things could be in concert and held in balance. I admire it. I wonder if there's a question in here except to wonder how conscious you were of keeping those things in scale with one another. So all of these things, I wonder if you can just sort of pick up what's useful to you. Yes. Absolutely. I think, you know, going back to this idea of well, it's like when you're talking, I'm getting pictures. Like sometimes I just think in shapes so that I'm getting a picture of like two things, which are the written paragraphs, you know, and then the space between them, which I've talked about as between people as well, not only is space between us, but a space that's changing us or a space by which we're changing each other. You know, there's a flow, but it's also itself. Not discrete from us. But you know, so the same thing could happen. And that's annoying and that's hard and it's definitely not what we expect weirdly. Sometimes when we're reading pros. Pros promises something else often. I mean, not always, but you know what I'm trying to say. There's a kind of convention in prose that we're going to understand something soon. I'm going to be able to follow you, you know..
Momus: The Podcast
"dodge" Discussed on Momus: The Podcast
"Botanist Robert Brown was flummoxed by the odd swirling movement of these bizarre microscopic flex he had found suspended in fluid, were they alive? He eventually surmised that brownian motion as it has come to be known. Is the result of atoms careening around randomly atoms, smash into particles and move them, atoms, crash into other atoms, whose paths are altered. Everything is moved by the atomic storm. There are many more physical constants than lay people realize. And so it seems that this one, I'm going stochastic blizzard, introduces chance in the absoluteness of unpredictability to a world that would otherwise just have the appearance of being a cacophony of accidents. And this is important because as Gregory bateson has said, without the random, there can be no new thing. March, 2016. I walked in back from Houston, greeted the baby and Maggie, and then we all of us at once noticed the small box on the front porch. I hold it into the house and out to our dinner table, held my breath. They watched. Well, I got a knife. There was only the sound of cardboard tearing. And then I retrieved a bowling ball of a thing, suffocated in bubble wrap, which appeared to be accompanied by that. Neither invoice, nor receipt, no language. Remarkably heavy. And bandaged like this in a relentless sad tape job that looked like it had been performed by a mental patient. Maggie backed away, suddenly nervous pulled IG aside by the back of his shirt. I looked at that and back at the thing unwrapped it while they watched. There it was. An iron glob of gum. It was buzzing. It was glowing. Just smaller than a human head, but much heavier. Unbelievably heavy for its size. Like it had a different type of gravity that applied to it. An alien gravity might have applied. It was dark grave of metallic two and had deep pits lined in black. Gooey tortuous crevices folds which were almost penetrated by black and burnished in zigs and snooze corresponded at its facets or scallops, its outermost convexities, which could have been observed at this point to have been no less vulnerable for being lustrous. It was a turtle from the event horizon. A dog head from Jupiter, all the weight gave two simultaneous and opposite impressions. The impression that it would like to have squirmed away dropped away may be barreled right through the earth and on into the empty blue black of space and it kind of stalwarts noble servitude on stained by fear. I'm here telling you. It was saying hello. Do you think it's radioactive? Are you sure about this rock? Maggie refused to touch it. Pull the Iggy out of the room before relenting just a moment later. Now we all touched it at once. Gingerly, guilelessly. We stared. It was beautiful in the most banal and obvious sense of the word. I mean, plainly and strongly seductive. Erotic. It did occur to me that it might spy on us or we substantiate like a compressed foam Jesus into some sort of elephantine cuttlefish overlord. So I didn't know where to keep it overnight. Maggie was astonished..
Jesus Stories
"dodge" Discussed on Jesus Stories
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Jesus Stories
"dodge" Discussed on Jesus Stories
"So, Jesus is telling the crowds that he is the source of real water which will forever satisfy their thirst to their souls thirst, and if you recall, Jesus encountered with a woman at the well in samaria, he promised the same thing. You can listen to that encounter again. It's an episode 7. The priests were reenacting an event which would never satisfy, like Jesus could. This continues to divide the crowd, some wanted Jesus arrested, but again, no one actually can do that at this time. Those who were sent to arrest Jesus were asked why they didn't do their jobs, they report they had never heard anyone talk like this. The pharisees make fun of their own guards, listen to these words, have you been led astray to? Is there a single one of us pharisees or rulers who believes in him?.
Jesus Stories
"dodge" Discussed on Jesus Stories
"A follower of Jehovah God, one who does what he says, you can see that this is so. Jesus teaching comes directly from Jehovah God, not from some other rabbi, but if someone speaks for himself alone, he says, he seeks adulation. For himself, but one who seeks to honor the one who sent him will only speak the truth. Then he cites an example, Moses, he says, gave you the law. But you're the ones who want to violate that law by killing me. One of the commitments in the law is that you shall not kill. Now this stirs up the crowd, you are demon possessed. Who's trying to kill you? Jesus responds. I did a miracle on the Sabbath. Actually, we've seen several miracles on the Sabbath, remember each time Jesus has done a miracle on the Sabbath, he's been challenged by the pharisees for working. On the day of rest. So Jesus says, I did one miracle on the Sabbath and you were amazed. But you work on the Sabbath two when you obey the law of Moses? What's he talking about? Well, remember the Sabbath day was to be a day of rest for the Jewish people, strict rules have been developed to avoid the appearance of working on the Sabbath. Jesus had violated those rules, but had not violated the Sabbath. By the law of Moses, a Jewish baby boy was to be circumcised 8 days after his birth, if that day fell on the Sabbath, did that circumcision was performed then, even though that might be considered work. Jesus is saying that you work on the Sabbath when a circumcision is done, and if you do that, why can't I work on the Sabbath by healing a man? Why be mad at me for healing some one on the Sabbath? Then he closes with, look beneath the surface. So you can judge correctly. In other words, look at the whole picture, and then make your judgment. This incident creates some confusion among the people. Is it the man they're trying to kill?.
Jesus Stories
"dodge" Discussed on Jesus Stories
"Jesus brothers, his half brothers, came to Jesus with a suggestion, leave here, they said, and go to Judea where your followers can see your miracles. You can't become famous if you hide like this. If you could do such wonderful things, show yourself to the world. Can you hear the taunting here? John, who writes about this incident, tells us that Jesus brothers did not believe in him. Jesus, knowing that the time isn't right to be taken by the opposition, tells his brothers that it isn't time for him to go, but they can go any time. The world can't hate you, but it does hate me. Because I accuse it of doing evil. You go on. I'm not going to this festival because my time is not yet come. So, Jesus stays behind in Galilee. Well, it sounds like this observant Jewish man is not going to the festival, but hold up here. There is some disagreement among translators about what Jesus said. Some translators say that Jesus said he was not going to the festival, yet. Perhaps so and perhaps that is the best meaning, as we will see, Jesus does go to the festival. He just does it on his own timetable. And he goes secretly. Down there at the festival in Jerusalem, everyone was looking for him. He certainly didn't need to do additional miracles to cement his fame. And there was disagreement grumbling the Bible tells us about him, some thought Jesus was a good guy. Others thought he was a deceiver, but all this discussion was done in whispers. No one wanted to get in trouble with the Jewish leaders over their opinion of Jesus. So into this unsettled atmosphere Jesus goes to the festival. But he doesn't make his presence known until about halfway through the festival. He begins to teach in the temple courts, and this is the public area of the temple. People were surprised when they heard him. How does he know so much when he hasn't been trained, they say? They understand that Jesus did not go through the usual rabbinic training. During that day, Jewish boys were expected to memorize their scriptures, and those who did well were mentored by a rabbi from their teen years up. The crowd knew that Jesus hadn't come up through this system. In other words, Jesus teaching was not backed up with the education from the rabbis. This is in spite of the words that we have heard about Jesus teaching before, remember? At the sermon on the mount, after it was over, the people said Jesus taught from a position of authority not like their usual teachers who just quoted other rabbis, you can hear that teaching in the sermon on the mount in episodes 1213 14 and 15 of the Jesus stories podcast. So Jesus answers their questions. He says, my message is not my own. It comes from God who sent me. Anyone who wants to do the will of God will know whether by teaching is from God or as merely my own, those who speak for themselves want glory only for themselves, but a person who seeks to honor the one who sent him speaks truth not lies. Moses gave you the law, but none of you obeys it. In fact, you are trying to kill me. So let's break this down. First, Jesus says, my message comes from Jehovah God..
Jesus Stories
"dodge" Discussed on Jesus Stories
"Us who when we left Jesus and his disciples in the last episode, he was in the midst of teaching. He had corrected his disciples as they argued about who was the greatest among them. He talked about humility, saying, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven, and he talked about the best way to handle conflicts among people. All of this prompts a question from Peter, the impetuous one. Lord, he says, how often should I forgive someone who sends against me? 7 times? Now, Peter bay of thought he was being very forgiving and magnanimous. Other rabbis of the time taught that forgiveness should be offered three times for a repeated offense, 7 was a number that represented perfection, and was obviously more than what was being taught by the rabbis. Jesus has a surprise answer. His response, forgive 77 times. Some translations say 70 times 7. In other words, forgive and keep on forgiving. He follows that with this, if another believer sins rebuke that person, then if there is repentance, forgive, even if that person wrongs you 7 times a day, and each time turns again and asks forgiveness, you must forgive. Then, Jesus follows with a parable, a story. The Kingdom of Heaven, he says, is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with the servants who borrowed money from him. There was one servant who had borrowed a lot of money, the equivalent of millions of dollars. There was no way this servant could pay the debt back. So the king ordered that the man and his family and everything he had. To be sold to pay the debt, the man pleads with the king, be patient with me. I'll repay everything in pity the king forgave the debt and the man owed nothing..
Live By Action
"dodge" Discussed on Live By Action
"Win or lose i'm good. Em saying no. A lot of people thought young. I'm up hand. i'm gonna win. Oh my god bro bro. People will heyman and you heard about dog who dog who da. What nigga doggy corn. Those ye rods. Put three racks. That sounds like something like was that. Jay z line. If you can't pronounce something you want. Then why why should i buy you some. You can't even pronounce. That's what it was. Just what it is and i'm just like whoa what it'd be some outlandish game but to wax on that right now on about about yup way. It was at fifty five yen. Why would you fifty five cents or would you put an now and two racks. I because thirty nine cents an hour which we raise your rack at sir. I said as it's very also aymen's egypt so jimmy today. Do you do your due diligence when it comes to what the does either me were any any. It doesn't around two dose even the more popular Stable coins. Bitcoin zero darnell. I would back forever. That's the thing i'll tell you. Investing in those master wouldn't daughter if nine even ain't even know those are the those opportunity honest then does yes. It will make a lot of people were very stable in financially stable. It will help. A lot of people could also hurt a lot of people if they do not do their due diligence. Do not take your savings and open ended and there do not do not skip on meals to put it in there. Do not do not a graduate borrow money from people or loans do not I don't know took a fucking what mortgage. I don't even rob a bank for me. Like don't do dumb shit to put my nikki thing you've got to get a quick flip and then put it right back because that may not occur saying that's what's happening with a lot of these coins That trying to mimic does the difference in those has somebody. That's really backing up and a lot of community that's backing it up. Because there's a lot of what's go- rug poor for roku long story. Short on is a coin that gets pumped up is worth a lot and in creators cash out with the money to have and disappear and then that goes down to basically zero doesn't and you can't do nothing about it. There's no irs. you call. Nothing could your dog in it. Then you could afford to lose exactly was again going back to what we say. Please do not invest your money that you're not willing to lose. Irene need ninety. Visual money is not coming from advisors coming from somebody who's a humidity and think logically nine motioning when he comes to investing. Okay john tell you jim day was again. Hit us up on the deal. What it is man. asia gordon. this is l. Be a live action. The boy samurai blade. You know what it in yeah..
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"dodge" Discussed on Live By Action
"Castle would do i told you. He invested into all green companies ending. He had two point one but he was scared of the capital gains taxes which is like what fifty sixty percent and he was like. Yo bro lemme weight and then stopped crashed down. So he had a cra- cash out at one point two million because he was nervous. As i bro. You just tax yourself by game paranoid. That's that whole overthinking. So it is what it is a but There's there's going to be a crazy long episodes. We just find it very interesting. So my my question to you about those. What do you think is going to go now because right now as we speak of it. It's not thirty nine cents. A crazy low from seventy five cents. I think you'll hit a dollar crashed back down to like fifty cents. But you'll never see thirty seven does ever again. I'm not no financial adviser. I'm not even an invest in. Does i just know what it is like. You'll hit a dollar. Probably crash. Back down fifty cents but i gotta go below thirty percents Right now it's thirty nine cents I also believe you will hit a dollar. I think actually hit a dollar fifteen cents also not financial adviser But i feel like you were here. At least a dollar fifteen cents is go back down a little bit tomorrow night. Seventy and then as on fluctuate between seventy and eighty gonna stay around those range. But what do you think this is my last question for. You is me for the fact that does is doing this like as a content creator or somebody who's just like trying to build some type of stability outside of the nine to five like what does it mean like. What is it translate to you like is that the only way am i should i just. How much should i be put into retire. Buddy put one hundred. Eighty eight ninety. Nobody does people who don't even have a stack and he save money. He borrowed maxed out his credit cards. That's a big okay. Is he gonna pay back the credit card. Of course. i'm sure i'm sure. He maxed out his credit cards and he's pained him Minimum you for me. 'cause like once again he's making sixty years. I want fifty fifty between kelly. So and the lifestyle balance out right. But what is the number door. do. I need to make money to quit. My nana fire like figures in my to fifty enough to make you quit your job. Like not not my investment. Okay two questions one. How much do. I need to feel like i'm done. I don't have to worry about my nine and five and two is like what's the what's the money you need from profits to buy. I'm done. i actually work on me now. Instead of clocking okay To the first question. I think it's just a matter perspective in a matter of what you said earlier when you're like yeah he's Accepted his lifestyle. So if if to you on. Jk he's like yo. I'm toma trouble. Then that's what it is given me. But i feel like if you're if whoever it is a matter of financial advisor i'm not i'm not a guru on none of those nights a daddy's daddy amami none that but if you make a hundred king you'd thinking of quitting your job than there has to be a plan in action it can't be. I met a hundred. i'm retiring. what are your sick. I'm walking out this podcast here sick. And you're using the there has to be what's the number for me or just for anybody for you and for everybody. You think for me for me. If i get a hunting camp out i can say fifty by one hundred because i know i know exactly normal lifestyle studies. I'm a minimalist of jimmy like the yang nomad expenses. But i don't want to be spending that much for me in gadgetry myself because i look good. Feel good and look at you. Tombo but Was them how much do i need to make that like the investment because you never answered that was mu how much you need because a lot of people making one million. I'm making hunter. But no how much they invested in to get the hunting she. Here's the thing Right people please once again not not not not advise of any sorts from the adviser of any sorts. But talk to your life savings that dude. I did a hundred any kate. Yo balls of steel. Okay yeah that's him. If you if you go store i read. Where does dude legit him and his wife are splitting. because i don't know how factual it is but every but it's not far fetched where you took. Somebody's you took your savings. You and your wife were having a does now. You lost money because those is low and in a you didn't get it at a early start so you're going to lose mad money You've got three cents since okay cool but if for example if you got doors at forty four cents or you in the fucking read those thirty nine cents right now We better have the patience. You better have the patience and wait for that growth so it was like you don't put yo we say. This do not invest mostly. Don't don't don't don't don't put money not willing to lose facts once again visor. But don't put money in to lose common sense to me if you're not willing to lose it don't do it because once you lose your ass out you for me. 'cause i did i did honey. Indicate your what if it ain't go about high went up and he still gotta pay them credit cards back. He understood that he stood out of everybody else who he borrowed money from back. So what's the number. What do you think i. I would need to invest if i was to ask you. If you ask me to invest those right now. I will tell you stores at thirty. So i'm right now. I would tell you yo- what ever you can afford put in whatever you could you could logically takeout show pocket or your bank and put into it and be like. I'm good do that. Whatever number you amen. I want to make sure. I get fifty k. Okay if you if you're able to put enough money in their where it goes up to a certain number you could pull out and half put in that number in. Have your exit plan. Joe hits such and such number oklahoma so this and keep this while my cell. Do you have your plan because what happened is greece said and you'll see like the for example your blood or when his sixty muscle you see sixty one you like. Oh wait hold on. I go a little higher sixty two. Oh my god. I mean drops. You also do this like if it gets close to sixty or whatever so like a portion of it like so fifteen twenty percent and then when it goes up another like sixty cents to eighty cents. You just saw another piece instead all nothing you. That's what i'm saying the same thing like if you got a ban put dollar cost average. Put ten bucks. They're dirty hundred bucks as up throughout the year. Here's the thing about time people. It's never gonna stop so the people who missed out two thousand seventeen time continued in is another opportunity so missile now know they still going to be another opportunity. You just got a hold. I said that the other day. Yeah that's basically. The gym day manages your invest logically invest With with With the attention of y'all even if i lose this. I'm good.
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"dodge" Discussed on Live By Action
"Saint l. a. Live by accident. Boy is black sports. Sam i've lied no command. What d- Dogfish what end does is we talking about yo. Everyone has been getting poed on right now. I support on put on On cryptocurrency right now at the moment is really gravitating to those because those mid a lot of millionaires A lot of people going robin hood in his because it's so accessible to robin hood so accessible on so many other platform but a lot of people how robin hood allowed was purchasing. The eve me so i just find it. Interesting does a lot of people also who against his mostly people who are in the crypto space and also people who are I guess you could say the stock market retail investors. I would just say. Just i the starter level when people who are like investing. We'll go to a robin hood or if the more advance level one people would be like coin. Base drew stuff like that like they just noticed surface level than i really deep into it Agree with that but also Voyager as well voyages and friendlier like in this is not in the same tier as corn. Based i would say. I'm just saying that you're anos easy. Access to most definitely is a mobile. If nobody know avoiders does not a added in pay us they do need to fix the shit Is a mobile platform. Where you could just basically trade. Like robin hood for crypto. Matt easy you could see things. Go up the only issue. I got the finessing on the chargers. But you know that's how they make their money. And when it comes to withdraws you gotta go to twenty four hour process to get approved. What s your own money. That's the only issue i got on my was going to invest into the voyager token but i'm not feeling too much because they got decentralize you know at does voyager if you want to hop on mobile is just convenience right. Nine investment is basically about convenience. I said yeah because if you if the making symbol for people africa's going gonna explode. That's why are these little other Dog dog related Tokens about explore as soon as they're able to get on On platform that is like more accessible to to the masses. And and that thing with that is this right Visit league is if i could get as da like just like with any product. If i get is rocking everybody's hand is going to be more valuable. Or rather you're gonna make more profit think senses a little bit easier now The profit margin is not as easy because when things are difficult to get dennis more valuable later on because if you were saying like the people that got in back in a time when we was in before two thousand seventeen is li- yo if you it was hard to get those coins or do the whole get into investing into new projects. But now it's like kinda easy to do it but it's hard at the same time because everybody trying to get in so it's like trying to get cop jordan's or so that's what i'm speaking more so towards the the dog. That does your dog related. tokens gotcha. It's not just those the sheba Was the on a kida. Akita inu Hawk hawk even so as that's the ones i'm talking about because if we're talking about anything else that has longevity those those are still hard to get real world. Bnb right now. Now you can. But i thank you just said doges hard to get. No no no. No no not those. I'm saying does related coins. Does they're accessible. So they obviously is going to be know. Make more profit emerging. But i what i wanna stay was. Hey but if you're speaking about yo coins our going gonna be more valuable. My of course as a little harder to get them like this or gigs. Bnb our fish. Right us as i m e especially. If you got bro you got to create a home american citizen. If you're making citizen you not gain you better be from somewhere else. And if you've performed somewhere else they do a process of getting a dual Was dual citizen born outside the us or canada and other countries that they don't accept like traders and you are born outside of the country. Dat let you trade. You better do some dual citizenship. Where you apply to the embassy country if you're countries represented in the country that you're living in for example united states. Go to your country's embassy. Apply for dual citizenship. Provide the documents and dan. You'll be value citizenship. And then you just take a picture. Boom boom boom. You're in now. You hear all that. That's a process. That's freaked out just me saying quick an him saying a quick. If you may not give you every detail as even there's no we ain't even mentioned no fees where you gotta go due process is. How long will it take for you to get approved. So there's then in this does. I won't robin hood a give with those boom. I'm done but that comes with his his own consequential because when does is going up and down win young. Musk Did the Snl special bro. People going crazy because does now let your trade robin hood. It will lead to sell or buy for a few minutes but a few minutes could cost you millions example. The does millionaire forget his name. He put on eighty k. And to those where she was sitting on i think two point five mill dam in lhasa million dollars within the hour of those fluctuating. Go up and down up and now duck darn reason why for him. It's was whatever as because he holed regards. That's that's his go he's gonna hold to. He hit ten million dollars. If you know. He is looking on youtube. Those millionaire pop up. Why do they beard if any kudo like he funniest his might be like a lot of people fail to See he accepted his lifestyle. He wasn't trying to get those two by lambeau is in not as lavish it. Just like know what the future is. I know more one point to retire. I'm not in a rush for it. And i have a scheduled lifestyle where i enjoy. It's not like he's doing a nine to five. You know a lot of people hate and high note. I because i know he does the voice over for hip hop dx which is a big youtube channel. So it's like if your life is still good and then you cash out now or cash out a year three years from now and make even ten times the amount so he could cash at twenty million. Wouldn't you if you already getting paid decent and you ll in control lifestyle. You could take more vacations now. Of course of course you. There's a lot of people. Don't don't play that bro. A lot of people were this is going to. Hey man first of all he he is a definition of diamond hands because peop- you know damn well you put one hundred and eighty k. Into anything to investment and you get not only do you multiply your money. But you get more than that bo. I know people that would have cashed out like three hundred k. Also i know somebody who made two point one million nine hundred and our regular stocks. Remember that iwo.
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"dodge" Discussed on Radio Free Cybertron - All of our Transformers podcasts!
"This is ready freeze tron episode seven. Twenty five i am brian. kilby With me this week. We have matt yawning blue. We speculated that in pre show that you've started sleeping during pre show before you show. Which makes you smarter than everybody else. I try to sneak in like an hour or so asleep a little earlier but not directly before the show. I used to sleep before the pre show years ago. And i miss doing that. I mean figure that out. Well have chris chris who out last week caused. It won't be part of the conversation. I say one last week. You want to say you wanna say if you're somebody who watches the show live or on youtube or sorry. Youtube is really for livestreams. We know i'll really use youtube for Anything else other than livestreams if you want to go back and watch something do or do it at our website if radio dot net Because i don't edit podcast heavily but it was a complicated topic and i was heavily medicated. Last week i'm not. I'm not i'm not saying that. Crutch or j it's been it's the truth. I was heavily. Medicated was not a great week to talk about a complicated topic like Nfc's but i think when in the edit everything came across pretty clear we actually sounded pretty. Good i went back a couple times to make sense to make sure that made sense but the lives the livestream version of it. No please please..
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"dodge" Discussed on The Living Room with Joanna Weaver
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"dodge" Discussed on The Living Room with Joanna Weaver
"I used to in a former life travel in speak to women's groups and conferences and retreats and i loved it was especially my favorite part was the chance to meet young women who were passionate about jesus and just wanted to use their gifts for him. You know often. I thought i'd love to have all of them on the podcast. Because i know you'd be so blessed by their stories. But i just felt led by the lord to call my friend rachel dodge and ask her if she would join us today. We're gonna talk about her writing journey and and the kind of twisty the way that god took to get her where he has her today. But we're also talk about trusting god in all the areas of our lives in the importance of cultivating our friendship with him. Rachel dodge.
Talking Mopars
"dodge" Discussed on Talking Mopars
"New upper and lower control arms on it. I know if you use the lower control arms off of seventy s era van. The pocket is actually two inches deeper. So you can get a drop that way but I'm looking into that. And i'm just trying to work the kinks out of the truck. See what i need to fix on it the steering as a little sloppy so i'm going to get a new steering box for it So the spending needs to be looked. At i probably is gonna change all the bushings on it just to be safe and it also needs a gas pedal old dodge trucks there. These two ball studs coming up off the floor. Pan that these gas pedals. Just kind of you know pop onto and this one doesn't have those so i ordered some ball studs and i need to figure out a little mount situation. And then i can get the gas pedal on avenue. Nice gas pedal with the chrome basil So that'll be cool but it's just funny. How many people. Oh by the way back to the sure grip. Yeah it's one wheel so we need to get assure up in this thing. I'm probably going to change the gearing. It's got three twenty. Three's in it right now I dunno sinking three ninety one or something but Definitely needs a sure grip. I love driving this thing because so many people you know it brings. A smile to people's face brings a smile on my face. I can't drive this thing without smiling but Here i am still selling parts that have left over from my other projects that i sold to make some extra money to invest more into the truck. i'd like to get clear coated so that i can preserve the lettering Going to walk around the truck and take detailed pictures of all the lettering case. Knock on wood. Hopefully nothing crazy happens. But i want to be able to replicate the design that murray created and also thinking possibly efi but Definitely a hemi. Eventually i still have the hemi from the low par truck Two five seven..
Talking Mopars
"dodge" Discussed on Talking Mopars
"In bed Another cool little detail was that he had the little grand spaulding style cartoon ram on the front of the fenders. So if you didn't know any better when you saw this truck you would think it was a legitimate truck from grand spaulding dodge so it looked like if mr norm had a shop truck or part struck. This is what he would drive for. This is what the parts runner drive so for me. Being a big fan of mr norm and his work was absolutely blown away by this truck. It was so cool. I was just drooling over it taking pictures and just thinking to myself. Wow what an awesome idea and it was executed so well the patina on the lettering and just the truck as a whole was done very well and it remains one of my favorite trucks to this very day I briefly spoke with the owner and expressed my love for this truck to and told them. What an amazing you know. What an amazing build he accomplished. I actually thought it was a real. Mr norm truck like looking at it. Like you told me that. That's really grand spaulding shop truck. I would have believed you. That's how good this was done. The owner of the truck. His name's murray. He's from british columbia canada. He came up with the concept and built the truck as a tribute to grant spaulding. Dodge and mr norm and let me just say that he absolutely nailed it. This truck was great. I would go as far as to say that. I've never been so affected by any other truck in my life out of all the trucks. I've seen that are really cool. This truck left the biggest impact on me. I i'm not just saying that. For dramatic effect everything. The truck was awesome and without getting into too much detail about it. Because i'm actually friends with murray now and i plan on having him on a direct connections episode of this show so i what i will say is that truck was a beautiful two-tone j. three citerne metallic green with white tastefully lowered with a strong little three sixty v eight had twenty inch wheels and had some really cool other touches like accustomed front lip spoiler. That was tuck nicely under the front bumper. Which actually customize. The front bumper was actually customized to house to round amber marker lights which i thought was a really cool detail because you know details like that. A lot of people would overlook but if you really know these trucks that's pretty cool. I've never seen that done before. So that was pretty cool and i. I was never really a expert on these trucks. So the little things that stood out to somebody who was i was familiar with him. Wasn't an expert but there are certain little things about the truck that were standing out in it. I looking at it. I was like there's something about this truck that's completely different. And the more you look at it. The more little things you would see so he also had a rear bumper. The the non step chrome rear bumper from aram charger and it was nicely tucked into the bed. Which you know is another cool little detail. The details of the trucker just really cool and murray actually even had accustomed dealer sticker. Made that was weathered to match the rest of the patina..