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The Bill Simmons Podcast
A highlight from A Dame Trade Deep Dive With Ben Thompson, Plus Seth Meyers and Million-Dollar Picks
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We did the big chill. It was very, very exciting. I have Kyle Brandt coming on Monday's podcast. I'm just gonna tell you the movie now because it is gonna be the best moment of your weekend if you spent two hours watching this classic. We're doing Toy Soldiers. It really brings everything possible to the table. So if you wanna watch it ahead of time, there it is. That podcast is going up Monday night. If you wanna hear stuff about the debate, we have Tara Paul and Mary's podcast, Somebody's Gotta Win. That reacted to it as well as the press box with Brian Curtis and David Shoemaker. So there you go. Our debate coverage has been on point. Also, higher learning. Van and Rachel had Larry Elder on this weekend. It made a lot of noise, man. That podcast is great. I hope you check that out as well. Hope you're checking out theringer .com. And on this podcast, gonna talk about the dame trade at the top. We're gonna bring in Ben Thompson from the Techery newsletter, which he's been on this podcast I think four weeks ago. And he's a huge Bucks fan. He's gonna give the Bucks fan side of things. We're gonna do million dollar picks. And then old friend Seth Meyers talking about a whole bunch of stuff. So really good podcast. It's all next. First, our friends from Pro Jam. What's up? All right, I'm taping this on Thursday afternoon. Normally when there's a big MBA trade, I always do the emergency trade reaction right after the podcast. But we just put up a podcast on Tuesday. So I decided to play it a little differently this time. I wanted a little distance, I wanted to listen to stuff, read stuff, and try to form some big picture opinions coming out of this. So I have four smaller ones, then one big one. First one, I thought Portland did an incredible job with this trade. I really liked this trade, especially everyone was trying to bully them in June and July about, oh, you got to take Miami's offer. You just got to. It's where he wants to go. It's the only offer you're going to get. And guess what? They waited. They played it perfectly. They stared Miami down, and they got a much better deal. First of all, they get the Drew Holiday piece that they can flip into a bunch out of their stuff, which we'll talk about in one second. I love the DeAndre Ayton gamble. As you know, on this podcast, I am a big DeAndre Ayton guy. Not in the sense of I'm the biggest fan of his in the world, but I'm a fan of the asset. I just think I love the valued assets, no matter what it is. Whatever market we're talking about, DeAndre Ayton, 18 and 10 for his career, 60 % field goals percentage, 25 years old. He's played in 45 playoff games. He played four rounds in the 2021 finals. Last year, he got his ass kicked by Jokic. Oh, sorry. Like, that never happens. And Phoenix just sold on him, which I can't wait to talk about. But just from a Portland standpoint, they not only get Ayton in whatever they get for holiday, they get the 29 first, they get the two swaps, and they dump Nurkic. Nurkic hasn't had a healthy start to finish all the way through the playoffs here since 2018, which I'm positive was a long time ago. He's basically 12 and 8. He's, you know, a 50 % shooter. I made a list of the top 30 centers. I encourage you to do this at home, because what's more fun than making lists of NBA centers? I can't imagine anything. I made a list of who I thought were the best assets of the center position for talent, contract, everything. He was 29th on my list. The only person I had ahead of him who's technically a starter, unless you start talking about the Detroit or Charlotte guys, was Zubats on the Clippers. I thought he was the 29th best center asset in the league. And Phoenix, you know, just quickly to go to them, they're trying to win this year. They got worse. They turned Ayton's money into Nurkic and Grayson Allen and Nasir Little. Grayson Allen, we already know with him, he can't play in playoff series. We saw him 22. We saw it last year. I heard and read in some places like that, I got two rotation players. Did they? Is Nurkic a playoff rotation player? Is Grayson Allen a playoff rotation player? Because I'm positive he's not. So for the same money that they were spending on Ayton, they got three guys that I don't think are going to help them. In 25, the money comes down a little bit to 23 million just for Nurkic and Little, which is 7 million less than Ayton. And then in 26, that money goes up to 25 .5. But I don't understand what Phoenix was doing. Why not wait to see if Ayton clicks with Vogel? Vogel has such a good history with centers. He rejuvenated Dwight Howard on the 2020 Lakers. He basically created Roy Hibbert's career in 2013 with the defense verticality thing. I thought he was going to do a good job with Ayton. I'm stunned that they gave up on him. I'm almost waiting for one of those, now they tell us stories when, you know, that's where Brian Curtis calls them, where like a week after something happens, there's this kind of notebook dump where it's like, here's seven terrible DeAndre Ayton stories. So maybe that'll happen. But for Phoenix just to be like, cool, we locked this down, man. We got Nurkic. You're trying to win the title. You have KD and Booker and Beal. And like, what are you guys doing? Anyway, from Portland's standpoint, I love the Ayton thing. I love that they didn't get bullied. And I know they're going to turn Drew Holliday into something. So this to me was at least an A minus for them, for where they were two months ago, where Dave's like, I want to go to Miami. That's it. And if you don't trade me there, that's kind of fucked up. And they made this work as it got reported that, uh, I think in the athletic, that he expanded his list to Brooklyn and to Milwaukee in the last two weeks. And that's what Portland was waiting on. You know, they were banking on the fact that he's a competitive dude. He's one of the best 75 pairs ever. He wanted a situation settled. So, you know, you wait, you wait, you wait, they expand the list and then you go. Uh, there's a Drew Holliday piece to this. That's awesome. He becomes a contender prize. I wouldn't call this a Drew Holliday sweepstakes. I reserved sweepstakes for the superstars, but it's a mini sweepstakes. This is somebody that could have a huge impact on the playoff race. You know, not only the usual suspects, everybody's talking about Boston, ironically, Miami is a really good fit for him. And in some ways, um, I'm a little more scared of them with Miami than Dame in some ways, especially at a much cheaper contract with giving up less and keeping some of their assets. Philly, if they could pull it off, they have to be in there in Golden State, Minnesota. I think I have to mention Sacramento, I think is a team that if they could figure out how to get Drew without giving up their core, which is basically Keegan Murray and Sabonis and Fox, like that's, you know, could Davion Mitchell be in that trade with some, with a salary and some picks, who knows. The team that I love for Drew Holliday is OKC. I have OKC, you know, I started doing my MBA research for the over -under spot and I haven't landed on a number for them yet, but to me, they feel like a high forties team with Chet and with the growth of their young guys. And if you just like, let's say they traded Lou Dort and a bunch of their picks, maybe two firsts and two of their lesser picks or three firsts and a second, whatever it is. And they just say, fuck it. And they get Drew and you put him with Giddy and SGA and Jalen fucking awesome Williams and Chet Holmgren and all these other dudes they have, that might be a top three team in the West. I mean, that, that's starting to give me some early 2010s OKC vibes. So where he goes is going to be important. I just feel like there was so much Drew Holliday slander the last couple of days. You know, he's one of my favorite players. Even Haralabob, who was the chairman of the board of the Drew Holliday fan club for years and would have the benefit dinners there and, you know, just did a lot of yeoman's work on that front. And even he was like, yeah, yeah, Dame's better than Drew. That trade makes sense for Milwaukee. I was hurt, Haralabob. I was 100 % hurt by that. But you know, Drew got his ass kicked by Jimmy Butler in the playoffs last year. I get it. It happens. Jimmy was unbelievable. I feel like he would have kicked anybody's ass. By the way, why is Drew Holliday guarding Jimmy Butler? That speaks more to some of the issues with Milwaukee. He was never supposed to be a point guard and a creator. I think he was always better as an off -the -ball guy. We saw that with Rondo and New Orleans and just in general. I want to see him with a point guard. I want to see him just being unleashed, not having the ball a lot, just worrying about hitting threes, being an occasional, you know, make -shit -happen guy and being like the third or fourth best guy on a team without having the offensive responsibility to have. All their half court issues got blamed on him for the last couple of years. And I get it. They weren't like an awesome half -court team, even the other one in the finals, but I really value that dude. I had him, even I did the trade value list in August and I had him 37th and I had Dame 23rd. I think he's one of the best 30 players in the league still. He's 33 years old, which, you know, I'm going to talk in a second about when guards hit their mid -30s, but just in general, I think he's a real asset. If he goes to a team like the Celtics and they can keep Derek White and Tatum and Brown in the center, it's like, look out, man. So little mini sweepstakes, rarely do we get the trade, but then we still get another asset to talk about. Thank you for everyone involved in the trade. And then the fourth small point is just that, you know, not rocket science, Milwaukee bought some Giannis time here. They have one of the best 20 players of all time. They were staring down the barrel of a situation that was not good. I was talking about it on this podcast in late June and early July. I thought he was going to put them on the clock. I thought Mark Lasry selling his stake was a really bad sign for all of this because that dude is smart. As I laid out in June, that guy is really smart. And if he's feeling like, you know what, it's time for me to sell my buck stock, that makes me nervous. And then all the stuff that Giannis said and did, which I thought he did really fairly and really smartly. And I think that dude's about titles and that's it. And I know we say that about players, but I think in his case, I don't think he cares about, you know, what's my legacy, how do I compare against Dirk DeWhisky, any of that stuff. I just think he wants more rings. I mean, think about the guys who have won two rings out of the best 35 guys on my list of my pyramid. Those are all guys in my top 35 that won multiple wings. You go to the one -ring side, Jerry West, Oscar, Moses, Dirk, Jokic, Giannis, Pettit, Garnett, Kawhi, Rick Barry. That's the list he's on now. I certainly don't think he's looking at that list going, I got to get away from these guys, but it's a slightly different list. I think when you win multiple rings in multiple situations, it elevates you in a certain way. I think he fundamentally understands that at least a little bit. I want to be the best player since LeBron James. I think that's a thing that he wants. How am I going to do that? I need more rings. I need more finals trips. He knew from last year and maybe even the Boston series that they just weren't good enough. Whether this trade is going to be the thing that propels them, we'll find out, but he's been in the league 10 years, two MVPs, five first teams, two second teams, and now we have this little two -year window. Kawhi and the Raptors was a one -year window. This is a two -year window, I feel like. With Giannis, he's got two years left in his deals. So does Lopez. Middleton has two in a player option. Dame's got two, and then this crazy $120 million player option extension thingy that he has that just keeps going and going. It's probably two years. There's a world where this could go terribly this season, at least for what the expectations are, and then maybe it becomes Kawhi, Raptors. Maybe Giannis is like, you know what? That didn't work. Trade me. And the Bucks, who have no picks left and no future, they look at it next summer, and they go, all right. We tried it. Giannis, what can we get for you? Dame, what can we get? And they just do a reboot, rehaul. Remember, they won in 2021, which just takes so much pressure out of this. It's so much different than the Clippers situation, where they went all in on Kawhi and Paul George. They give up all those picks and SGA, and they've gotten nothing out of it. They haven't even made the finals. So it's got to happen. I think they at least probably have to make the finals. If they get bounced in round two, do I think Giannis is going to stay because they made this Dame -Mower trade? Probably not. So that leads to the big question, is how good of a trade was this? So there's a big picture angle on Dame, and it's going to sound negative, but I really don't want it to sound negative because I think Dame, I voted for him for NBA Top 75. I think he's been one of the best guards in the last 15 years. I think there's a ton of great things you can say, and there's a chance that he goes to Milwaukee, and this thing is fucking awesome. I know any Celtic fan I've talked to, including Isaiah, who's helping produce this podcast today, the Giannis -Dame pick and roll is just terrifying. Other than Jokic and Murray, it's going to be the single most unstoppable offensive play in the league. It is. We are conceding that point. The spot Dame is in right now, big picture -wise, it's weird. He's a superstar, but he's not, and we've seen guys like this before. I judge superstars by, do you have the resume statistically, and is your team succeeding consistently at a certain level? You can't totally say that about Dame. He's never been on a 55 -win team. He's missed the playoffs completely four times in 11 years. He said three first -round exits. He made the Final Four once in 2019, which was really lucky because Golden State and Houston were the two best teams, and then they got smoked. He's never been on a true contender ever. Instinctively, you go, well, that's not his fault. Who's he played with? Well, he played with LaMarcus Aldridge and CJ McCollum and a couple other guys, but not really anybody. The reason I'm putting this up is there's a success element that he has not had yet that for somebody with his resume is actually kind of unusual. I went and I looked up how many guards in the history of the league averaged 22 points a game for their career and played at least 700 games. I thought the list would be like 20. I didn't know. I didn't know what I was walking into. Only I think 75 guys have averaged 22 a game. So I went and I looked up the list, and it was 10 guys, 700 games, 22 a game for their career. There were some guys who came close like David Thompson, who I think is one of the best guards I've seen in the last 45 years, but had a short career and had some drug issues. He didn't make it. He didn't play enough games. Pete Maravich, 24 .2 points a game, but he didn't play enough games. Kyrie hasn't played enough games yet. Bradley Beale is five games away. I'm actually kind of glad the cutoff's at 700 so we don't have to talk about him. And then Mitchell and Trey Young aren't there yet. There's only 10 guys that made it, and the 10 guys are all fucking awesome. And again, I mentioned this in the context of Dame, who we think he is versus the success he's had. So the 10 guys, Michael Jordan, 30 .1, Jerry West, 27 .1, Allen Averson, 26 .7, George Gervin, 26 .2, Oscar Robertson, 25 .7, Kobe, 25 .0, Harden, 24 .7, Curry, 24 .6, Wade, 22, barely made it, and Russ, 22 .4, and then Dame is at 25 again. All right, what does he not have that those other guys have? Well, MJ, don't need to talk about him. Don't need to talk about Jerry West, who's the freaking logo. Allen Averson, pretty good comparison, right? Big stats, really memorable player, but not a ton of success. Here's the difference. Averson made the finals once. He won an MVP. Dame has done neither of those things. George Gervin was the best scoring guard of the 70s. He made two final fours. He had some bad luck. He really, in 79, really should have came close. And some of it's on him, right? He could have come through. Bobby Dandridge is the one that ended up coming through for the Bullets. They lose. But two final fours, he had four top five MVP finishes, five first teams, four second teams. He was just unassailably the best guard in the league until MJ. Oscar Robertson, don't need to go through him, but he won a ring and an MVP. Kobe, five rings and an MVP. Eleven first teams for Kobe, by the way. James Harden, three final fours, an MVP, six top five MVP finishes, six first team MBAs. And even though Harden has never made the finals as the best guy, he made it with OKC as the sixth man, you could build a contender around Harden. We saw it. We haven't really seen it with Dame. I think that's a fair thing to bring up. Curry, four rings, two MVPs, you know, the Curry thing. Dwayne Wade, three rings, two top five MVPs, two first teams, three second teams. He's more in the Dame waters a little bit, but he had the 2006 finals and he was the second best guy with LeBron on those heat teams. And then Westbrook, who you would say, well, Dame had a better career than Westbrook. Did he? Westbrook made the finals in 2012. He was second best guy on that team. Almost made the finals in 2016. He won an MVP. He had two first teams and five second teams. It's at least like a real argument. And I think when you look at Dame, he only had that one 2019 round three, got bounced. He's only had one top five MVP finish. He's only had one first team MBA and four second team MBAs. Really, really good top 75 career. But the piece that's missing is, have you been on a really good team? Have you made a real run at it? Which is why, you know, I think this Milwaukee trade is so much fun. This is his real chance. I get nervous about a couple things with this trade. One is that, you know, if you look at the 33 and older guards who average 22 points a game in a season. Jordan did it twice. Curry did it twice. Still going. Kobe did it three times. Jerry West twice. Sam Jones once. Hal Greer once. That's the entire list. Now the NBA is different. We have more three -pointers now. It's easier to score. Scoring is the easiest it's ever been. Guys can play at a longer age. So I'm not ruling out Dane being good for the next three years. But just pointing out, history is saying, be a little nervous. In general with guards, like Chris Paul, we saw from age 35 to 36 to 37, like it just dropped. But that's two years older than Dane. Maybe it's fine. I just worry about guards. We have not a lot of instances with guards in their mid -30s of them either peaking as players or being able to sustain whatever success they had during their prime. It always starts to go down with really no exceptions, except for Steph Curry. He's the only non -exception. So if your case is Dane's as good as Steph Curry, or Dane can be as potent as Steph Curry on a winning team, like, you know, Steph Curry is better than Dane, but I'm not going to argue that he couldn't do a lot of the stuff that Curry did in Golden State. The bigger issue for me, the age I'm definitely worried about. Dane has not been healthy the last couple of years, and we have not seen him play nine straight months at playoff basketball with a big bullseye on his back. Everybody coming after you, you're the best team. We haven't seen him do that ever, much less than the last couple of seasons. So can he stay up? Can he stay healthy? That's one thing. The defense with Dane just got kind of swept under the rug the last couple days, and I don't really understand it because there's five categories of defensive player I feel like. There's excellent, there's good, there's average, there's not so good, and then there's bad. And I think Dane's a bad defender. I think the stats back it up. Like, his defensive rating last year was 245 out of the guards. He's the 245th guard for defensive rating. You know, 117 .4 individual defensive rating is 483 overall. Portland's team's always defensively, it was the Achilles heel for them. Partly because of Dane, because he couldn't guard anybody. He's too small. And, you know, think about what we saw from the playoffs the last couple years. I think about the 2020 bubble Celtics playoffs, not infrequently, because I think that team had a chance to potentially win a title. What happened? Everyone hunted Kemba Walker. It was hunting season. It's like, where is he? Got to get a switch. Got to get Kemba Walker guarding somebody who's bigger, or got to beat him off the dribble, and it just became a hunt session with him. And basically, he got played out of the league. He's not in the league anymore. You know, we had this with Isaiah Thomas, too, in the mid -2010s. I think it's been an issue with Kyrie Irving. The Celtics certainly went at him in the playoff series with Brooklyn a couple years ago. Curry, you saw, who I think is a better defender than people give him credit for, but the And he's a much better defender than Dame is. Jordan Poole is somebody that got hunted in playoff series recently. Chris Paul, obviously, is a big one. Jalen Brunson, remember what the Heat did to him? Mitchell, when he was on Utah, this was a huge issue. And then Trae Young, obviously. My fear with Dame is he's a DH, and I think in Portland, part of the reasons he was able to put up the stats he did was because he wasn't playing defense, right? It was just, how many points can I score? My team isn't very good, and I'm just going to do my thing. He's an incredible offensive player. But how much of a trade -off is the defense, right? Well, you think, all right, well, Milwaukee, they're really good defensively. They'll be able to protect him. Here's the team. Giannis, Dame, Lopez, Portis, Middleton, Conaton, Beauchamp, Crowder. Who's guarding Trae Young on this team? Who's guarding Jason Tatum? Here's a partial list of guys that I don't think this team will be able to guard this season. Devin Booker, Tatum, Butler, Trae Young, Kyrie, Curry. Who's going to be chasing Curry around the screens? Dame lowered? Good luck. SGA, Luca, Mitchell, Murray, Edwards, Brunson, Ja, Garland, Fox, Halburn. Are they going to be able to cover Derek White? I don't know. The way this team is constructed, they are not going to have the ability to guard other guards at all, which means they're just going to have to be in a shooting match with them, right? It's going to be not much different than what's going to happen with Phoenix, where they're just literally going to have to outscore the other team. I've just watched too much playoff basketball over the last couple years, where it's like, if you have that weak link on defense, and you're playing a team that's smart enough, they're going to go after that weak link. Like, think about them against the Lakers, right? The Lakers figure their crunch time. Let's say they make the finals. It's Milwaukee and the Lakers, and Lakers crunch time. They're going to have LeBron and Davis and Austin Reeves and, I don't know, a shooter and a point guard, whatever. All they're going to be doing is trying to find where Dame is on the court and going after him. What about when they play Boston? Boston puts out White and Brogdon and Tatum and Brown and a center, and all they're going to be doing is trying to make sure Dame is covering somebody who has the ball who's now torturing him. I think it's a real problem for them. And what's funny is they gave up Drew's defense and, you know, they, what they gave up on defense, which is significant, and they gained an offense, it might end up just being a wash and they might just be a different version of the same team where they still have a huge flaw. It's just on the other end of the court. I'm just shocked that nobody brought up the defense. I agree he's an amazing offensive player and what's cool about this trade and what I'm excited about as a basketball fan is, can he go up a level? Right? A lot of these stats he put up, especially the last couple years. They didn't mean anything. They were, he was on bad teams. Like, who cares? Ultimately, Bradley Beal scored 30 points a game on the Wizards. Who cares? I think most really good offensive players, if they're on a bad team, can get between 25 and 30 a night. Can you do it nine months in a row? Can you do it when you're getting hunted on defense all over the place? How much can Milwaukee protect him? And what does he have in the tank at age 33 with 900 plus games on the O 'Dominor already? I'm still afraid of the Bucks, but people have, like, FanDuel had them as best odds in basketball and I think most people feel like they're the favorite now. I don't feel like there's a favorite. I think you can go through every team. Boston, I could, I'm scared of Porzingis. What's going to happen with Jalen Brown out there? He has contracts. Can Peyton Pritchard, all these different things. Philly, God only knows. Miami, they're unquestionably worse. Yeah, Milwaukee is going to be really good, but depending where Holiday lands and how this all plays out, I just think it's still wide open. And the other piece, so if you're just talking Boston, Miami, Tatum kills Milwaukee. I have no idea why. Boston is kind of built to at least stay with Dame and, you know, Derek White is about as good of a person you're going to have to try to keep Dame in check, at least. And Boston's done a really good job of guarding Giannis over the years. They don't have Grant Williams this year, but I just don't think, I think there's as many ways this goes wrong as it goes right, I guess would be my final thought on this because for what they gave up, especially with that 29 unprotected and the two swaps and, you know, they are all in on this team. And you know my theory, when you go all in on a team, you better think you can win. Not positive, but it's an awesome trade. It really is. It makes the league so much more fun. Dame and Giannis together. I'm going to enjoy watching Portland. I still have my eating stock. Watching Phoenix fans slowly realize that Derkiszna isn't the answer is going to be fun and then we'll see where Drew Holliday goes. So really fun trade. We're going to talk about it a little bit more with Die Hard Bucks fan, Ben Thompson in one second. Let's take a break.
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A highlight from The First Edition of Would You Let Joe Biden"
"Good morning America. Good Monday. Some of you are getting up and getting out the door. I'm glad I am with you. I'm Hugh Hewitt in Studio North going down to the Beltway this week. Oh, back to the Beltway. Gotta go do my work. Gotta go do my job. I want you to begin this segment with me by reflecting on how bad can the polls actually get for one person. Because John Ellis, now you've heard me mention John. John has been on the show before. Ellis on items the site formerly known as Twitter, now known as X, he produces two sub stacks. News items, which I read every morning before I go on the air. That's where I learned about Amazon investing in AI this morning. And political items, which is a second sub stack. And that just collects all the political data. And for years and years and years, John Ellis was the man behind the curtain at News Corp. And he ran the decision desk when it actually ran well. And he ran many, many other things at News Corp. And he's a very, very smart guy. So Ellis puts out these two news sub stacks that I read. And one of them, political items, carries with it the additional benefit of sparing me from having to figure out which polls to read. Because every couple of weeks or three weeks, he puts out the polls in one place. So John Ellis knows polling. He knows which ones are trash. He does not send you the trash one. So I ignore all polls until I see a poll show up in the news items or political items. So polls in one place rolled in on Saturday morning. And I don't want to get sued for copyright. You should subscribe to polls in one place and political items. But John summarized three of these. Number one, NBC News. Three quarters of voters say they're concerned about President Joe Biden's age and mental fitness. Three quarters. Three quarters. Number two, Washington Post ABC News. A Washington Post ABC News poll finds President Biden struggling to gain approval from a skeptical public. With dissatisfaction growing over his handling of the economy and immigration, a rising share saying the United States is doing too much to aid Ukraine in its war with Russia, and broad concerns about his age as he seeks a second term. More than three in five Democrats say they would prefer a nominee other than Biden. And the Post ABC poll shows Joe Biden trailing Donald Trump by 10 points. Then number three, the New York Times. President Biden is underperforming among nonwhite voters in the New York Times Santa College national polls over the last year. And this result marked a — represent a, quote, marked deterioration in Mr. Biden's support among non -Anglo voters. Those are the three big polls of the weekend, and they're all related to Joe Biden's age. So I've asked Generalissimo to assist me in diagnosing the problem here. And so just a yes or no, are you with me, Generalissimo? No. All right, good. Would you let Joe Biden prepare dinner for eight people? No. Would you let Joe Biden do the shopping for a dinner for eight people? No. Would you let Joe Biden make your family's reservations for a week's vacation at Disney World? Oh, hell no. Would you let Joe Biden book the flights for that vacation? No. Would you let Joe Biden drive the youth group van to the beach for Sunday at the beach? Absolutely not. Would you let Joe Biden chaperone the sixth grade astronomy camp overnight trip? Not even with your kids. Would you let Joe Biden invest your 401k? Would you let Joe Biden pick the paint colors for your church or your school remodel? No. Would you let Joe Biden select the menu for your daughter's wedding? No. Would you let Joe Biden lead a group of second graders through the Smithsonian Natural History? Stop, stop. I gotta... No. Just stay in the lane, please. I just want to know. These are just questions. Would you let Joe Biden lead a second grade group through the Smithsonian? Would you let him lead a high school group through the Smithsonian? Would you drop him off in front of an NFL stadium, give him a ticket, and tell him you'll see him in the seats? I don't think so. Would you let him be the president of a state university? Oh, no. Would you let him be the president of a private liberal arts college? No. Would you let him run a large public high school? No. How about a small private high school? How about a junior high school? Nowhere near kids, no. How about an elementary school? Absolutely not. A preschool? Absolutely not. Would you let Joe Biden run a 7 -Eleven? No, he doesn't have the right accent. Would you let Joe Biden run a sporting goods store? No. A multiplex? No. Would you let Joe run the candy and soda counter at the multiplex? It's too confusing, no. Would you let him run a Macy's? A McDonald's? No. A Houston's restaurant? No. Would you let him run an airport? Negative. Would you let him run the parking at the high school football game? No. Would you let him run a high school speech tournament? Too many kids, no. How about a swim meet? No. Would you let Joe Biden run any business with 10 employees? No. Would you let him run a business with 100 employees? No. Would you let him do HR for a business with 10 employees? No. Would you let him run the gift wrap sales fundraiser for your kids school? No. Would you let him run the thrift shop inventory day? No. Would you let him run a car dealership? Negative. Would you let him run a church fundraiser? No. A church service? No. A service station? No. Would you let him run a piano recital for 20 students under the age of 10? How about 10 students under the age of 10? No kids, no. Would you let him announce graduation at MIT? Would you let him announce graduation for any college? Have you heard him? No. Would you let him run an eighth grade graduation? No. Would you let him run the change of command at any duty station for any branch of the armed services anywhere in the Americas or in the worldwide distribution of our defense facilities? Not unless you wanted to create an incident, no. Would you let him drive a truck? Well, he's already claimed it, no. Would you let him drive a car that you're riding in the passenger seat? Not unless I was heavily insured. Would you let him fire a pistol at a range? Oh, hell no. Would you let him fire a rifle at a range? No. A machine gun? No. Bazooka? No. Would you let him get into a tank and fire a tank? I'm seeing a pattern here, no. Would you let him direct the drone strike? No. Would you let him drive a little tiny boat whaler, you know, a 12 -foot whaler? I would let him pilot your dinghy, no. Would you let him drive a criss -craft with an outboard motor? No. Of a yacht, a big yacht? No. Would you let him command the deck of a freighter? A freighter? No. How about a destroyer? Uh, I'm thinking not. Submarine? No. Aircraft carrier? No. All right. Could you imagine Stav with him on deck? What would you let Joe Biden do? Retire. No, but I mean, really, seriously, is there anything you'd let him do to put him in charge of, because this is my first edition of would you let Joe Biden dot, dot, dot? Nothing complicated because he gets confused easy. Nothing with kids because we kind of know about that. No, there's nothing the guy can do. He has shown no knowledge of market economics, free market economics. He has no idea how supply and demand works. No, but I'm just talking about give me something that he can do because we've got to get a retirement hobby for him. A retirement hobby? Checkers. Do you think he could win at checkers ever? It's yeah, he could he could run he could run an ice cream stand. I we I covered that. You were gonna let him run a 7 -Eleven. I don't know. I covered the gift wrap. 7 -Eleven is more complicated than an ice cream stand because gas is involved. But but I asked you about the the gift wrap fundraising. I want every mom in America ice cream. Well, no, every parent driving to school in America right now knows fall is the season for fundraisers. So we got the call from the granddaughter over the weekend. Hey, Nana, which is the fetching Mrs. Hewitt, right? Would you buy gift wrap? And of course, we're probably gonna have enough gift wrap for the rest of the five seasons. Yeah, yeah. Five seasons of gift wrap. Yes. And and now the flash is probably going to come up with candy bar. You know, it's just fundraising season, right? And so it's better than raffle tickets. I hate raffle tickets. Yeah. Gift wrap you can at least put in the closet and it'll be there when when she has to clean out the house. You are what we call in in in the school trade. You are what we call an easy mark. A mark. Yeah. Yes. And and you wouldn't even let Joe button out. For those of you who are new to the audience, we've added affiliates recently. Dwayne is an ex band parent who keeps getting dragged back in. And when he was a band parent, he ran parking at the at the battle of the band. Do you know what I'm doing now? Do you know what I'm doing this this year? What I'm doing? What? I had to stand up along with my wife, stand up a snack bar outside of girls volleyball. All right. Would you let Joe Biden run that? Not in your wildest dreams, because because one money's involved and two girls are nearby. But I mean, OK, then Paul back a year or two. No, you let him direct parking at the Battle of the Bands. Oh, not unless you wanted a wreck.
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¿Dice Así? Podcast
A highlight from Pablo se glora en la cruz de Cristo | Glatas 6 con Chepo Guzmn
"We will see, if you want to see this podcast. I'm talking about your food, your coffee, what you eat. And for other people, it's not like that. Because it's your work. It's like if you're living, you know what you're eating. And I think that's a more common problem, as the government is the best part of the problem, is that it's not like that. Someone is just being taken out of their time, of their records, for a great amount of time, for courtesy. Because this is also, I have a huge problem with it. You are to listen to the podcast. Did you see? Let's start. More or less, a lot of manipulations. More or less. I don't know. Wait, wait, wait. I don't know. And why do I have to do this? And why do I have to do this? And why do I have to do this? And that would be a problem for the living. Look, I want... Wow, we're talking about the housekeeper. What housekeeper? Look, look, look. Silence, silence. Silence. I want to... Wait, wait. I want to know if the moon is going to be able to be the housekeeper. So... No, John, first of all, I don't think that the moon is going to be, and when the moon is, it's a privilege. No, not really. If the moon is going to be able to be the housekeeper. I mean that, so that you are aware of your father, and you say, if the moon is going to be the housekeeper, it's a factor that you don't have to work, you have to be secular, and the only thing you have to do is to dedicate your life to. So it's a manipulation, you have to, you have to, you have to live a life that you can't do, if you have to work, you have to work in the secular, that's another factor. Now, there are cases, there are cases. But, but, but, but... If you have to do anything, well, I'll tell you the same thing, I'm not the same person. You don't have to do anything, it's a pastoral thing. I don't... I don't have a wife. No, but you don't have to do anything, how do you do it? Let me tell you, let me tell you, my time at the house, my life, is during the times of separation. And these times I don't get the services. This time apart. I can see that, that's the moment. This time for me here, that's functional, in this time of labor, I have to be part of my work. I think there is a point of crisis, you have to have a sabbatical, you have to do things and now literally my participation is exclusively in the areas of Reunion and two hours a week in my house. The difference of the organization is... There are no words to describe the difference of the organization. It's not formal. It's just... Abysmal in the game. And how does it come from a small group that works hard? It's a very small group. Many times I say this, it's not that it's a normal group. But of course, it's simply my sermon. I just wrote my sermon. It's very different from the sermon that I have today. I have time to write a liberal book. The sermon that went on for a year. I can write one or two books per week. It's very different. And I remember saying to myself, it's clear, it's just part of the work. No, no, no. It's very different from the sermon. You have to write your book, because you have to... You have to write a book, because you have to... You have to write a book, because you have to write it here. And you have to write it there. Okay, what does that mean? It means that you have to write more than a lot. How do you process the information that you have written? I didn't write the work. For me, it's a level in the work. A small group. And many people have their own group. a sauna young y sierta siglesias donde hice pastor cellepon when the moment is a little while the man is we get it so you have to be clear to the channel they enter a pyramid Michael so this is important it's a new casio me me me Pelea john semer is a car persona que hace algo semer ese entiende para mi problema siempre cido cuando de una organización que tiene digamo dos sientas tres sientas quinientas personas solamente reciben su elto una seis cinco cuatro personas en ese iglesia que tiene una función abísmal cuando una máqui una iglesia es una máqui nagigantesca que ocupa muchísiman manos y a todo de más eleven como voluntarios y se leven como me cervejo y se le hace algo y si llaman hanano y para mi todos me resen ahora si hau a un ció no no sorry sorry pero sorry pero spera se que yo termine si un ció porque son lo tuye importa guesando quiero la rágil más no lo esas de más que los empleados que hacen correr el negoción, ya y un problemas y gantesco. Y esa sido mi queja con mucha de las iglesias y con mucha de las megas iglesias. Pero ha más, yo voy a hacer que un pastor que tiene una iglesia y a todienta personas que trabajan tres semán y todo eso que no me rese algo del igle por su pueso que me rese entiendo mi problemas cuando llegamos a niveles donde a esa persona en pieza y la casi que la unica que recibe y recibe cantidades abísmales y en pieza a busar de su poder es ese sido mi problema siempre. Ahora mi queja no es con los pasores especificamente. Mi quejas con la institution y con pastor es que ellos mílmos se poner en esa posición donde hacen que gente es en capacidad de poder llegar aído la tracarlos porque ellos mílmos buscan, ellos mílmos manipula, ellos mílmos, ya, hay una razón por la que muchas personas quieren ser polícias y se tiene que hacer examenes cicologicos para filtrar porque mucha gente con mucho de cedo poder que quieren meterce y tristamente hay cierta tendencias cicologica en personas que estamos cando poder que sona emes críticas que yo siempre le ahoguada víde. Hay ciertas personas con ciertas tendencias quieren hacer en siestas posición es para busar de otras. O siempre esenciamente para sentirse por en cima de lo emas y si les va bien proder a va sentir.
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"-year 4 .57 % with a two -year 5 .04 % spot gold down dollars a ounce to 1848 down nine tenths of one percent and West Texas intermediate crude oil down 92 cents a barrel 9079 for WTI a drop today of one percent carnival Corp shares dropped today by almost five percent carnival posting a profit for the first time since 2020 but it issued a fourth quarter earnings outlook that missed Wall Street expectations as higher fuel and currency costs weighed on its operations other cruise lines are move lower today as well Norwegian cruise line holdings down two point seven percent Royal Caribbean was down two point one percent recapping tenure at four point five seven percent S &P down eleven drop there of three tenths of percent one I'm Charlie pellet that is a Bloomberg Business Flash thanks so much Charlie well it's already minutes 23 past 5 p .m. here in New York not that we're counting not that we're counting we are but it is already well past 5 p .m. somewhere 5 p .m. here and
Telecom Reseller
A highlight from Cybersecurity attack on MGM may have begun with a ten-minute phone call: How it happened, Special Mutare Podcast
"This is Doug Greenan, I'm the publisher of Telecom Resiller, and I'm very pleased to have with us once again Chuck French of Mutari. Chuck, thank you for joining me today. Doug, a pleasure. Thank you. Well, we're, you know, we have talked in the past about cyber security, and of course on this podcast series, we've been doing a lot of work on that all year long, but this time I think it's a little bit less abstract. We're doing this literally while, even as we're recording this, MGM hospitality company is being basically hacked. You can't make a reservation on their line. There's still many operational problems that they're having. So we have the spectacle of one of the world's richest and most well -prepared companies, you know, having basically an episode about which we've talked about many times in this program. So Chuck, we're going to be sort of diving into that to find out, you know, what that's all about. And if anything can be done by, you know, the rest of us who are maybe in companies that have fewer resources, less visibility and so on. But what is Mutari? Well, Mutari is a 30 -year -old, not just more than 30 years old, but we're an independent software vendor, been focused in business communication software for all those years. We're based in Chicago, 400 enterprise customers. We enjoy a pretty good reputation for building great software and supporting it in the way that our customers enjoy, very little turnover of our employees, our customers, our partners. And as an organization, we're buying the company right now through an employee stock ownership. And I tell people this every time I meet them, because I think it's important. We're aligned and we're the most aligned company you've ever spoken to, Doug. And we're aligned around buying the company, but with a specific purpose. We need to do it around solving a problem. And then for the last couple of years, we are focused on being the leader in voice threat defense, which is why this conversation is so timely. You know, before we get off the topic of your company's core identity, I understand Mutari is actually a Latin word. Yes, it means to change in Latin. So think mutant, mutate. I always have to remind myself of that to make sure I'm saying Mutari. Pretend you're an Italian person saying Mutari, right? It's Latin for to change. And at first, I didn't know what to make of the name because everybody has a hard time with it. But I really do think it's more apt today than ever because this world, by the day, changes faster and faster and faster. And we know how to respond to that. We're agile a company that still acts like a perpetual startup. Well, let's talk about today because as we were just discussing before we started our podcast, and I'm sure a lot of our watchers, listeners are paying close attention to this. I am really just dazzled as much as we've talked and talked with you and many other people about the cybersecurity threat. I think very few of us imagined that what you guys have been telling us in terms of, gee, guys, you know, this could be really bigger than anyone could imagine. Well, here we are. It's seven days. It's still unfolding. I welcome anybody to go to our website and look in the resources column for all the content we put out there around this specific topic. Long -form articles about all of this, statistics, everything you'll ever want to know about the voice. And I'll bring it back to voice, Doug, because you didn't mention it yet. But, you know, the MGM ransomware attack, the cybersecurity attack that's happened has really brought MGM to its knees. You mentioned people can't make reservations. People can't get into the rooms right now, right? You can't, machines are not working. You know, from some estimates, MGM right now, because their systems are all offline, is losing somewhere between $3 million and $7 million a day and $1 million in pure cash. So those would be revenue and a million in cash every day because of this. And why this is so interesting to our firm is because the catalyst for all of this was a voice call. It was a telephone call from someone into the IT area, the customer service area of the IT department at MGM that allowed the bad actors to get the credentials necessary to put their software in, to allow them to take control of all of MGM, a voice call. So how about that? Well, you know what, it's very interesting because for those of you who are movie fans and like the Ocean's Eleven series, not the original with Frank Sinatra, but the more recent one from 20 years ago, there was, for those of you who are telecom fans, there was a PBX hack in that. That was part of what they did. And that was still in the era when the PBX was mostly a non -integrated system, a separate system running alongside the rest of IT. And of course, in the last 20 years, that's been departed. And now, you know, that call presumably occurred on the same set of servers, I think, that a lot of this is happening. Yeah. So, you know, so let's dive into this. So this is exactly what happened. This apparently started with a phone call. And then you were telling me that once they got in, they were able to do sort of some sort of horizontal thing. Tell me more about that, what that means. Yeah. And so I'll provide a little context around that. These are not people who, you know, stumbled upon this and, oh, I was able to get the credentials and so forth. These are large, large, sophisticated organizations, virtual organizations that are all over the world. And when I say sophisticated, and I know I've mentioned this in the past, these are, they have HR departments. They have areas where they can adjudicate conflicts. They have health plans in these organizations and they have specialization. So oftentimes what happens, and if you were to go on the dark web, you know, you can actually purchase some of these things. You can purchase the software to be able to enact these things. But there's just like in a hospital, right? You might have people whose job is the anesthesiologist, then you have the physicians and you have the nurse. They have that regarding ransomware attacks. So are there things called initial access brokers, people whose sole job is to be able to get access to a system. And that might be where their job ends. They sell that, they sell that and they put that in the marketplace. Another group picks it up, say, we're going to be the group now harvests us. That means they take the credentials and they go laterally and they infiltrate systems throughout an organization. They don't do anything. They lay late for a little while. I want to make sure that if you're backing up the copies, they're in the backups, all of their software is there. They lay in there. And then ultimately there comes a day when they say we're going to attack. And that's when someone, and I'm sure you've seen these before the screen pops up, you know, someone, some administrator that, you know, we have your data. You know, here's the information. Send some, you know, so much Bitcoin to so and so. Well, the encrypt your files and destroy them and still proof of life, if you will, to that end, and then you can continue on your way. So, yes, to answer your question, they received through three socially and through social engineering, a customer service person. It's this organization and they this group they call swirly spiders. I forget. I forget the name of these. Yeah. Yeah. They they. Yeah, that's right. That's right. They went ahead and then got access and told MGM that they had their systems in and ultimately MGM ignored them. And guess what happened to MGM when they didn't take this group seriously, everything that we're talking about today.
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The Defiant - DeFi Podcast
A highlight from Mainstream Brands Are Joining Web3 In The Bear Market
"Sean Lee is a CEO and co -founder of Magic Labs, which is a wallet that enables passwordless login and Web3 onboarding without seed phrases. Despite not being as well -known as other Web3 wallets, Magic Labs recently raised $52 million from PayPal Ventures, onboarding mainstream brands like Mattel and 7 -Eleven, and has over 25 million wallets installed. In our conversation, we will dive into how they've built enterprise -friendly wallet solutions, their major collaborations, and on the onboarding process of Web2 brands. He also offers his take on how DeFi can be more palatable for the mainstream and more. But first, Sean will get us started with Magic and describe how it's different from other wallets. I'd say a lot of people aren't really familiar with Magic, especially in the Web3 native community, because a lot of our focus has been on the mainstream brands and helping the mainstream onboard into Web3. So that has been our focus. And I say we work with very different kinds of clients, right? So many of our customers, especially enterprises, they actually don't really like to work with multiple third -party vendors, a lot of redlining, and it's pretty cumbersome. And so what Magic is and what helps us differentiate is we are a comprehensive solution that offers a full stack of features and functionalities to suit the enterprise's Web3 use cases across different kinds of verticals. Obviously, our bread and butter is the wallet, but we also collaborate with partners such as Sardine and PayPal to provide fee and on -ramp and NFT checkout. We also have kind of our minting service infrastructure. So basically, we're providing this full stack solution to help our customers get started. And also, I'd say on top of that, our sort of white label wallet is very popular. So in a way, it makes Web3 completely invisible actually to the sort of beginners entering the space. And what's also really cool is you can actually use Magic's white label product to build your own single sign -on or federated wallets on top of our infrastructure. For example, like what Immutable Passport have done on the gaming side. So our solution is quite flexible, and that's where our bread and butter is. And it's also really easy for developers to start, takes about nine minutes to get started. And at the same time, we also check all of the boxes that enterprises are looking for. For example, enterprise compliance, like SOFT2 type 2, some of the privacy ones like GDPR and CCPA, as well as the kind of scalability side of things. And last but not least, we have a sort of patented key management system that is the, I say the most practical solution in the market to address our enterprise customers' performance and scalability need. But at the same time, being really friendly with the crypto beginners and staying with the Web3 ethos, for example, a lot of our principles is to allow the optionality for users to graduate into other types of wallet eventually as well. Or kind of using our keys, plug into other newer wallet standards like account abstraction. And yeah, essentially it's a zero trust system where Magic never sees the private keys and any part of the flow, kind of like a cloud ledger or a treasure actually. And it's about 25 times faster than MPC based solutions, which is really important for some of our customers who are doing high volume drops. Super helpful. OK, so you're offering a full stack crypto solution for mainstream Web2 companies that don't want to be dealing with multiple third parties and just one counterpart that can give them all sorts of solutions out of the box. And you're also white labeling a lot of your solutions so that companies can integrate your products and use their own branding and their own kind of user facing experience, which is probably why many of us hadn't heard much of Magic. Probably maybe we had interacted with some of your solutions. But because it's white label and more of like an enterprise grade system, it's not a brand you see as like an individual consumer. Yeah, that's right. We actually started more on the consumer side with Fortmatic. That's when we met in East Waterloo and we were actually one of the first kind of wallet that was integrated in, for example, OpenSea at the time. So that was kind of recognized as kind of an OG wallet back then. But since then, we've kind of really taken the direction of letting others own the brand, letting the apps and wallets own the direct relationship with their end users instead of being kind of the third person in the process as a separate wallet. So under the hood, you mentioned this innovative key management system. Can you tell me more about what's happening technically on Magic? What sort of network are you using? Is it fully non -custodial? Are people in control of their own keys? How does it actually work? Yeah, I might butcher it a bit because it's quite technical, but I'd say the one key part in the design is to not see the user's private key in any part of our infrastructure. Not when the key is generated or when it's signing a transaction. So essentially the keys are generated in a secure iframe on the user's client. And the key is sent directly to Amazon's hardware security modules for encryption and decryption without routing that through our system. So it's kind of like users have their own kind of ledger or treasure in the cloud hosted by Amazon, and then the keys are being sent directly to there without going to our system. So we're pretty much just keeping the service running from our infrastructure perspective. And what's important for us is that not only you can do this for keys, you can do it for other kinds of data as well. And because we're providing this kind of infrastructure and not directly transferring money from our hosted wallet, and at the same time, because it is on the client side, the users can export their wallets at any time. And we're kind of working towards a path to potentially integrate really well with other wallets or services to make it really easy if they want to graduate, because our focus is really on the very, very beginners in the motion. So if a user wanted to take their funds to another wallet, how would they be able to do it? Like, would they be able to download their keys from this AWS repository and then be able to transfer their assets? And is it like a central exchange where your assets are kept kind of together with others? Or does each user have their own separate account? I guess it's two separate questions. So each user have their own separate accounts. We currently have two flavors of the product, one is a universal wallet, which means one user have access to multiple dApps, like one wallet to multiple dApps, and the dedicated version of the wallet is scoped to each dApp. So you could have different wallets across different dApps, kind of like different MetaMask accounts for different use cases. So I'd say we also tried to make it easier. So essentially, there's a portal that customers can post in order to allow the export of keys. Oh, I see. Yeah. Okay. So it's not like the user has to interact directly with AWS. In what network are you operating? Yeah. So we support actually over 20 blockchains. We started on Ethereum. And then the EVM compatible chains, we do support, but also some other layer ones like Solana and Slow and I think Aptos is coming. So pretty much all the top chains that were pretty agnostic to the chain at this point, but our origin was Ethereum. And are you focusing on layer ones or are you going to layer twos as well? I'd say it's both. A lot of the enterprises do want layer two solutions for cheaper transaction, more scalability. So yeah, definitely both. We are seeing maybe slightly more adoption on the layer two side. Which layer two has been the best option, in your opinion, in terms of, you know, the easiest to use the easiest to integrate, like, what's, yeah, what's been most popular? Oh, that's a that's a tough question. I'd say it's hard for me to have a favorite right now, but I can kind of say what makes a chain kind of stands out to others. I think number one is that there's a lot of resource to help integrate with the chain or tooling around the blockchain that really helps in terms of adoption. So generally blockchain project was great, like documentation or a lot of community content, like those generally are a bit more popular.
Stephanie Miller
Fresh update on "eleven" discussed on Stephanie Miller
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Mark Levin
Rep. Mike Waltz Outsmarts Kaitlan Collins Over Corrupt Biden Family
"What does that mean? You mean there's a body or something? I she don't means. know what That's direct evidence. That's an email. From Hunter Biden. And of course you don't need direct evidence, as I've said over and over and over again, that's direct evidence. Go. I mean, but Caitlin, the point of the inquiry is to give us greater to standing get the full evidence. If we get full cooperation, if they say we have nothing hide to and give it to us and we don't see anything, then that's where the facts lead us. So please don't get more evidence. The problem is, America, that Caitlin Collins has never read the Constitution. She's never actually read the impeachment clause. She certainly hasn't gone beyond that. And look at any of the scholarship or information, texts, What the framers said about impeachment. I guess it. Andrew Johnson was impeached. Eleven articles. Direct evidence they claimed that he violated a statute about the appointment and removal of presidential appointees. They clearly violated the Constitution, that is the statute. But nonetheless, that's mostly what he was impeached for. So what do they mean direct evidence? What kind of direct evidence do you need? I'll give you one Caitlin. This is why I keep telling these guys you got it. to You got go broader. Don't reject. Don't abandon what you've uncovered. That's crucial. Keep pursuing the 16th time. But there's more out there. I'll give you some direct evidence. The border. How many
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Session 22 Evangelism
"This, that I'm giving you here now, is geared to this, and so you can use the ideas. If you don't use the book, you use another discipleship program, there might be ideas in here. I may develop this further. This is what we teach disciples for six weeks. I may develop it eight or ten weeks. I've not done that, but this is the way we'll do it. By the way, we printed this up on eight and a half by eleven sheets, but when we print it at home, we put them in notebook form. They're a six by nine notebook, and they fit in that. They come out five and a half by eight and a half, and they fit in a six by nine notebook, and we punch them for our disciplers. We tell you it's fine for you to copy these if you want to use them, and you can do them for a small notebook. You do whatever you want on that. It begins the purpose of this discipleship notebook. These lessons are written to teach disciplers how to use the book Growing in Grace. I go back into the fact why I believe in one -on -one discipleship. Undoubtedly, the material in these lessons will not cover everything the discipler will face. This material should help the discipler plan the discipleship time so it is most effective. These lessons will present the objectives to be reached and the methods suggested to accomplish that. Growing in Grace involves 13 lessons. The number of meetings the discipler has with the disciple will be 14, unless they want more. At the first meeting, the discipler introduces the material. Then they meet once each week for 13 more weeks. These instruction times will involve six weeks, but will give the discipler an understanding of how to handle all of the lessons. You might want to write more and develop it even farther, and I think I probably will. I have not. I think it maybe needs to go a couple more weeks, but it's kind of repetition after a while. Discipleship appointment the first week. So this is the appointment of the discipler with the disciple. This is the appointment, and this will be the objectives of the appointment. They come together, and the very first week now, you don't give any assignment in advance of this. To discuss the new believer's decision to hear his testimony, to determine the reality of his conversion. To teach carefully and thoroughly the scriptural matter of assurance. That's teaching lesson one even before they get to it. To show the new believer what assurance means to him and to others. To begin developing a communicating relationship with the one being discipled. To get this new believer started in a daily personal devotions time. To answer questions in the mind of the new believer, and to make the next assignment. Outline just what you expect. Be sure to have the disciple realize that he will be accountable to you for his progress. You should make the assignment at the end of lesson one in Growing in Grace. Explain exactly what you expect the disciple to do. So you take the book Growing in Grace, give it to him. By the way, I have found it's best to have the discipler give the disciple the book. A person comes forward and gets saved, and you have them in your study. And you say, well let me give you a book and we'll get a discipler to you. And you give them the book, and they look at it and they think it's too hard. And then the discipler has a hard time getting to them. Now I do not give the book myself. The discipler carries the book, this first lesson, to the disciple. And makes the assignment that day before the disciple has opportune... Now we've got a woman and her son being discipled right now. But I gave her the book the day she got saved. And then I assigned the lady the discipler and she just would never work out of time. She'd call her, she'd knock on her door, never could find her. And the lady did have problems, she was going through a divorce. But she just, I think she took the book home and looked through it and said, Wow, not on your life. And so now I have the discipler carry the book to the disciple. And give them the first meeting and understand we're going to meet. And we'll ask people, Are you willing to meet with one person once a week to really work with you? Would that be alright if we set that up? And generally they say, Yeah, that'll be alright. And then we appoint that person. We may find when they go there that that person didn't realize what was involved and they may start to back out. And there's no need to force them to do it. If they're not in it with their hearts, you're not going to go anywhere. And so you don't disciple everybody. You try, but some of them don't go on. Alright, now let's go back to this. You should make the assignment at the end of lesson one in Growing in Grace. Explain exactly what you expect the disciple to do. Encourage him to do the assignment on a daily basis, a little each day. This is better than for him to try to do it all in one day. Memory verses must be done daily. Now you've got to emphasize, you're going to have to memorize. This will be your hardest point. Forget them to memorize. Otherwise there will be no success whatever in this area. And so you must work with that. Teach him to review these verses daily. Show him that he will be reviewing the verses each day for seven weeks. And then I go through every one of those objectives listed here in this assignment to the disciples. And I go through every one of these objectives quite thoroughly on the matter of salvation and assurance. So there are more pages in this lesson one than there are any other of the lessons. You'll find I've gone through it quite thoroughly. What are there? Looks like there are six pages there. I've written that thoroughly so the disciples can go back and refer to it over and over again if he needs to.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Session 16 Evangelism
"It has a blank there for the lecture number, and you can write in 11, I think it's written in, and the importance of the local church. Now you're getting the whole lecture, the balance of these today, we don't have questions, except for one, we do have the slides to show you. The importance of the local church. Now I don't think I need to spend much time on that. The local church is the important organism in the world today, not organization, but an organism, and it is the important ministry today. I personally believe the local church is the very basis for everything we do. We ought to do it in and through the local church, and we ought to honor the local church. Now a lot of people say, well, don't you believe in the church, the body of Christ? Yes. I believe there's a sense, the general assembly of the first born, the church in prospect, I believe there's a sense in which we can read about the body of Christ in the New Testament. Not too many references, the ones I mentioned in Hebrews, some in Ephesians. Of the 114 times, now the figure varies, but I'll stick with this, 114 times we find the New Testament, of the 114 times translated into the word church, at least 90, and I think we could say probably 95 times of those times, it refers specifically to a local church. The overwhelming burden about the church in the New Testament, to the church at Corinth, to the churches of Galatia, to the church at Philippi, to the seven churches in Revelation, the overwhelming number of references translating ekklesia refer to a local church. Now the word ekklesia you know means a called out assembly, and the church of the first born, the body of Christ, has never assembled. Well, Schofield I think probably mistakenly called it the invisible church, certainly it's never assembled, it's a called out group, but it's never had the privilege of an assembly. Well not until we get into the presence of the Lord, and so the assembled church is that with which God deals in the New Testament, and that's our local churches, and there's work in the world than the ministry of a local church, and we ought to thank God for the privilege of it, and we ought not despair because maybe our church seems a bit small, in God's sight He honors the local church regardless of the numerical size, it's the honored work of God. And so we need to recognize that, and I've got down here capital letter B, the local church important in the economy of God, and we come back to the Great Commission. The Great Commission was given to the eleven disciples, and those disciples or apostles became the very foundation of the local church, of the church the Bible says the church is built, Ephesians 2 .20, on the foundation of the apostles and prophets. By the way, there are no apostles today, no apostles on the scene at all, they were the foundation of the local church, or of the church in Ephesians, according to Ephesians chapter 2. And so the commission was given to the eleven disciples, that means as those apostles it was given to the church, and in each case you'll note in Matthew 28 verse 16 says eleven disciples, Mark 16 verse 14 he appeared unto the eleven, Luke 24 verse 33 talks about it was the eleven that he appeared in verse 36, and John 20 and 21 it was to the disciples Jesus appeared and stood in their midst, and Acts chapter 1 verse 2 he came unto the apostles, and it was they with whom he was assembled in verse 4, therefore it was to those that he gave the commission in verse 8. So the commission was given to those eleven and therefore automatically transferred to the local church, to the church, and we are the recipients of that. Yes sir? I personally believe it was at Pentecost.
Crypto Banter
A highlight from Solana To $8? (Mass Liquidation Event Coming) *What I'm Doing*
"Solana is breaking down past a critical horizontal support level at the moment as you can see on the screen in front of you But things could get much much worse with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Solana set to be liquidated By FTX to repay its creditors. So in today's video I want to discuss what the hell is going on with Solana How far down could the token go and is Solana a buy? What is my plan in terms of accumulating Solana? What's my plan in terms of trading Solana? Are there short setups that we can start looking at? I want to get through all of that and more in today's video without further ado. Let's get into it So the first I guess elephant in the room is this FTX liquidation theory that a bunch of Solana is about to be dumped onto The market now, this isn't just exclusive to Solana I think the market in general does have a fair amount of supply overhang at the moment We know bitcoin has the US government silk road bitcoin set to be liquidated We know the mount gox bitcoin are set to be distributed But I want to focus on point number three that you can see in front of you here And this is the altcoin position that FTX has that they are going to need to liquidate in order to repay creditors As you can see in front of you at the time of this filing. Um, they had 685 million dollars worth of Solana 500 million of ftt 268 million worth of bitcoin these numbers obviously slightly down because the filing happened earlier in the year But we do know they hold a significant amount of Solana and that is because Alameda who were heavily intertwined with FTX were one of the major market makers and VC backers behind Solana So that is exactly why during the FTX saga Solana performed so badly as you can see Dipping all the way down to eight dollars. Could we see that eight dollar level again? Well, let's get into some of the data that we're seeing at the moment. Why is this potential liquidation problematic in this market? Well, I think the main reason is because we are seeing a reduction in total trading volume We could see a compression in the amount of trading that's taking place across all centralized exchanges and DEX's Inclusive which generally means that there is less volume in the market So any sort of sell pressure that comes onto the market during a period of low Volatility and low volume tends to impact price more than it would during a period of high trading volume And that the same could be said from the long scenario like if there is a Major catalyst that comes into the market at the moment that can see prices skyrocket a lot quicker Than it would during a period like the bull run where you know You're getting a lot of trading happening all the time. You're getting shorts and also longs piling up against each other This market is relatively liquid. It's relatively low volume and I guess undoubtedly there is a supply overhang for the entire market Um, but Sol specifically which we're going to talk about in today's video. So what does that overhang look like for Solana? Well, we can see the FTX wallets in front of us We can see that they have a significant amount of Solana that's on the move Um, they have 200 million in in Solana in one of these wallets And we know that those wallets have been transferring funds around they haven't sold any yet But the speculation over the past couple days was okay. These wallets are starting to wake up They're starting to transfer Sol. Should we be bracing for a potential liquidation event with FTX being forced To sell their Solana now this whole forced selling notion comes from the fact that Galaxy Is essentially the company that's been tasked with the role of liquidating FTX funds to pay back creditors so someone basically Needs to handle the entire liquidation process to make sure tokens are sold off in a fair and safe manner And also takes into account the best interest of the stakeholders now the obvious stakeholders in this scenario Are the creditors the the traders of the platform the investors of the platform That have been hard done by that need to be paid back some sort of amount we can see that FTX has uh Decided that it wants to start selling because they have engaged Mike Novogratz's Galaxy as an advisor to help with these sales According to court filings made on Wednesday FTX which collapsed in November last year wants to return funds to creditors in fiat currency This is very interesting because if they were to return in tokens They could essentially take like let's say the number of Solana tokens and divide it Um and distribute it out to the amount of creditors owed Solana, but instead they're choosing to liquidate all of their positions So this involves dumping altcoins and bitcoin and ethereum onto the market to get uh, fiat Recruitment so they can distribute the fiat currency to creditors. That is an interesting distinction to note here I think that's why the market's panicked now that the amount that they can sell is actually capped at a weekly amount We can see that the weekly limit shall be 50 million for the week through Friday in which the order is entered This is the official court filing 100 million for each subsequent calendar week Provided that the debtors may temporarily increase the weekly limit to 200 million for a period of one calendar week So it can go up to 200 million. It starts at 50 and then goes to 100 million This is to stop the suppressatory or potentially dangerous effects that it could have on price Especially when it comes to more illiquid markets like the altcoin market and as I discussed before Solana Is a major contributor here. In fact, I was covering the graph before but you can see 685 million worth of Solana it's actually worth closer to 600 now now in response to the news and also the the news that The ftx decided to unstake some of its sole position to put onto the market Anatoli the founder and ceo of Solana came out and tagged actually adam cochran Of all people in a tweet saying if you have any influence with the ftx estate My wish would be to distribute the soul to the ftx customers directly probably the least worst outcome for everyone This is going against the notion that I discussed before of ftx liquidating into fiat currency to then distribute Fiat the creditors This is kind of a weird sign and it I guess was a bit of a warning sign a bit of a red flag To see the founder of Solana come out and kind of urge them Um to distribute Solana because clearly this means to some extent he's slightly worried about the potential effects on the market I think this was a little weird and that's the reason why the market did not react too. Well to the news So look, what is the tldr from all this liquidation stuff? We know that Solana is coming onto the market and I think in a typical environment. It would be okay I would just kind of dismiss it as a nothing burger. But given the fact that the market is pretty boring There's not much volatility I think the effect that this Solana coming onto the market could have Is marginally greater than it typically would be and for that reason I must urge investors to have caution here Solana did not react to this news too Well, like typically what we see in these scenarios is the market sometimes react with strength because once news starts to hit the market You know We see this buy the rumor sell the news effect where price starts to react in the opposite direction of what the market Anticipates in the case of sol we didn't actually see that we have seen the price continue to bleed from the 22 region Wasn't a huge show of strength for Solana, but you can't really blame it So when I look at the technicals of Solana What are the major levels that we have to keep in mind here and what are some of the Interesting like levels that I would be interested in jumping in as an investor or a buyer So I really just wanted to find the range structure that Solana's in right now You have the first range low, which is the range low that was set during the ftx collapse back in november 2022 And this sits at 11 You have deviation below this level and I would consider this deviation because we didn't have a weekly close below this level And that is at eight dollars, so that is your ultimate low, but the range low Truthfully considering we had more touches of this level and it was a more critical pivot point still stands at around 10 to 11 You also have range high so establishing a range. We need to have range low range high the range high right now Once again disregarding deviation where we didn't get a substantive close above that level is currently sitting at 26 .79 You have this range between 11 and 27 Now within the range there are some critical levels that we must pay attention to The first mid -range level is currently the level that we're hovering around and recently kind of have been reacting off This is the 20 level to be specific. It's 1980 a key psychological level for investors We were under this just before while I was recording we pumped above but we are kind of just chopping around this level right now This is a very key level you start to close on the daily below this level And then 16 becomes a real possibility which is your next mid -range level So i'm looking at this in like quartiles or um kind of different structures, I guess from range low to range high Technically technically this is thirds. You've got your first third. You've got your second third You've got your third third and essentially right now We are hovering between the third section and the second section of the range structure at the moment now Where would I step in as a buyer? Well, look if you believe in salana long term and i'm going to get into some of the fundamental research Into my thoughts on salana after I talk about price Um, it doesn't really matter where you buy I guess if you have a really long -term like mindset on this you might just opt for just dcing slowly over time me However, I try to be a little more selective I know we're going into what could be a difficult period for crypto and for that reason There are some levels that stand out to me The major level of is of course range low at eleven dollars if we do somehow get there And then you have this other key level which interests me probably even more than the level at the moment Considering it looks shaky whether or not salana will hold and that's the 16 level 15 to 16 Does interest me and then 11 also interests me but now I want to talk about the reasons why it interests me because There is a reason why I will step in it As a buyer at a certain point and there's a reason why I do want to hold salana for next cycle and it's a thesis that i've been developing over the last, you know few months and I mean as an extension of that really years that I want to discuss with you right now and talk about some of the fundamental drivers behind why I actually believe in salana and Why I think that any huge liquidation event for me would be an opportunity to add more to my portfolio now Remember there are short opportunities here if salana starts to react badly and you know starts to close Um below this mid -range level here. You may have an opportunity to go short to 16 I'm, not a huge like altcoin scalper or trader I don't really take trade setups in the middle of the range are more of a trader that prefers to trade the extremities So it would be up towards 26 and down towards 11 If you want to trade mid -range and you're comfortable taking kind of a swing trade at the 19 level Let's say you wanted to short You can actually take that trade, but it really depends on your time horizon here And if you don't want to trade, of course, you can use a decentralized exchange like gains network Which is an amazing place to trade if you want to trade on a decentralized exchange where you have custody over your own assets Of course, there's many benefits like execution efficiency, etc. But yeah gains is awesome They've got a bunch of trading pairs You might notice it looks a little different and that's because they did a revamp of their ui So they switched some things around to make it easier and more intuitive for the user And yeah, as you can see in front of you if you were trading salana This is what it would look like. You would set your order on the left choose your leverage You can go short you can go long you can set limit orders Um all that sort of stuff as well And you can choose your stop loss and take profit which is so important in crypto to always implement risk management So there's a link in the description To gains network if you want to trade salana, but now I want to go into more of a long -term fundamental approach to Why I actually want to accumulate if salana gets much lower here and look if salana starts to rebound nicely Which I don't think it will by the way just due to the headwinds that we previously discussed But if it somehow does decide to rebound nicely i'd also look in jumping in a bit higher But getting in during a choppy period while it's in the mid -range while you have these liquidation fears about tokens being dumped It's often a risky proposition. So yeah, let's get into my salana thesis The first thing I want to say about salana is that it's an interesting proposition for my portfolio personally Because I think like a lot of people my portfolio is quite like eth heavy It's eth dominant and with layer twos gaining so much steam as this kind of eth thesis proliferates Throughout the market. I think it's nice actually to have a slight hedge that's non -evm So salana for me represents a nice non -evm bet to hedge against my ethereum positions And ethereum dominance like imagine a scenario where there's some huge like roadblock with the evm Let's say an upgrade messes up ethereum or or eip 4844 something goes wrong Like we don't think these things will happen But sometimes they do in crypto if something goes wrong that fudsy ethereum ecosystem That could be a direct catalyst for some of the hedges some of the non -eth specific ecosystems now Even if nothing goes wrong on the eth side and i'm not anticipating anything goes wrong It does represent a unique bet on an extremely high throughput chain which can handle trading volume and Transaction volume of magnitude higher than eth and even the l2 counterparts can because even l2s Although they sound like amazing scaling solutions at the end of the day They're limited they're hard capped to geth and they're hard capped to the consensus of the ethereum ecosystem Even phantom as its own network due to the fact it was built on evm Is having to switch out evm for its own proprietary consensus Which is fvm so they can get rid of that geth cap that eth is currently capping them on And a lot of l2s do have this issue and for that reason if you're looking to build like a highly scalable fast game or or you want to Implement a payments rail or something where you need speed and you want to adopt a lot of users There's not that many l1s in the market that you don't have that many options You've got maybe like near protocol apt or sui but salana does stick out because it's got an amazing developer ecosystem We know how passionate the community are It's just like a pretty nice bonafide bet on a monolithic non -evml one And for that reason it adds a bit of nice diversification into my portfolio.
Ultraflex Football
A highlight from 41: 2023 Predictions!
"Welcome to the Ultra Flex Football Podcast where we have fun with our friends while we talk about football and any anything else we wanna talk about. We're here for season two. I don't know if we're officially calling it season two but this is our second season of talking about NFL football. So, we're back. With me as always is Rob Green. What's up? And Ryan Wheeler. Howdy, howdy. Season two episode one is what it's officially gonna be titled and Tony, I told you not to talk so close to the mic, man. You like, blew out my eardrums there at the beginning but I just get excited. I know. You're so excited. You get excited so easily. We were talking about that before we like, actually started recording but anywho, uh so, we do that thing where we have an album and we split up the songs in the album and we try to get the song titles into the show as discreetly as possible. Sometimes not as discreet as we'd like to think we are but we're gonna give you our titles that way you know what to listen for. See how many you can catch. Just a little game within our show. My song titles, the album first of all is called Down to Earth by Jimmy Buffet. Rest in peace, Jimmy Buffet. It's his first album. Down to Earth. The songs that I have to get in are The Christian, LSD, The Missionary, and A Mile High in Denver. Rob, what do you got? Alright, I have the captain and the kid, Captain America, Ain't He a Genius, and Turnabout. Alright, and Sir Anthony. I've got There's Nothing Soft about Hard Times, I Can't Be Your Hero Today, and Truck Stop Salvation. So, we'll see if we can get all of those in. Uh most of the episode today is gonna be football. It's uh we we were doing some things during the off season to help pass time. Uh you know, Ultra Flex After Dark and having some fun with games and things like that but football season is here. Uh we're gonna be doing football talk here in a second where we're gonna pick our division of winners. We're gonna pick our Super Bowl, MVP, and then we're gonna pick week one games and then we'll have one game at the end. So, uh football, football, football. So, let's get it started with football talk. Just that really amps you up, doesn't it? Golly, that was good. It puts me in the football mood. It just, it feels like we're kind of, you know, whimsical, a little bit of uh goofy when we talk. So, I thought that was a good one for football, our football talk. Let's, let's start with, in my opinion, the less competitive conference which would be the NFC. Uh maybe you guys think differently. Um but let's go with NFC West. We'll skim over this if we all agree pretty quickly. Uh I'll go first. This one and then we'll just kinda alternate uh as we jump divisions but uh for me, the NFC West is the 49ers winning this division. Um I think they're the best team in the NFC. Any chance we can like we go NFC West that includes the that way for people that don't necessarily have the NFC West on the top of their head you're just gonna see that includes like the 49ers, Seahawks, Cardinals, uh Rams. Yeah, you just you just did it. Yeah, we can do it. Okay. Nailed it. Yeah. So, 49ers, Seahawks, uh Cardinals, Rams. For me, Cardinals, Rams are both gonna be pretty not so great. Comes out of the Seahawks and 49ers and I just think the 49ers are a better roster. Brian? Oh, it's next. Um I'm gonna go with the 49ers. I just think top to bottom, the roster is the best. Rob? Yeah, I agree but I wanna be different. So, give me the Seahawks. We hated on him last year. We picked him to be like what? One and sixteen I think cuz we thought they were terrible. Gino Smith's gonna continue his uh career turnaround, turn about. I don't know if I can use that here. And uh. And he's gonna lead them to a division title. Alright. They have the offensive weapons to do it though. They definitely have the offensive weapons. Maybe Brock Purdy isn't as good as he looked at the end of last year. We'll see. He doesn't have to be. They have Sam Darnold as the backup. I don't think that's why he doesn't have to be good but anyway. Yeah. I think he has enough weapons and Kyle Shanahan around him that will make him. Exactly it. Make him look good. Uh Ryan, I'll let you go first this time. We're talking about the NFC North. So, we got the Lions, the Packers, the Bears, and the Vikings. Who do you have winning that? The NFC North, I have the Packers taking that division. It kinda just feels like a crapshoot division honestly. I mean, I don't really feel good about my pick. I don't feel about picking any, good about picking any of those teams. So, I just want Jordan Love to be good because he's got an awesome name and quite honestly, that's that's how I came up with my answer. So, I was like, got the guy that has love in his name. I'm pretty sure from looking at this division, the odds are the closest bunch of four out of all the the division. Makes sense. So, it kind of is the most wide open division, I think. Who do you have? Yeah, who do you have picking, Rob? You know, our team last year was the Lions. So, I'm gonna I'm gonna bring that over to this year. Let's go with the Lions too. I don't even know the last time they won the division. Nineties probably. Early 90s, mid 90s. If they did then. I just don't know either. I think we'll find out pretty early AKA we're filming this on a Monday before the season starts. So, we'll find out in 3 days whether or not they'll be a pretty good team again which they have enough talent on the offense to put up points. It'll just. Yeah, what are we thinking like 60 points in that first game here with the Lions and Chiefs? It's gonna be a high score game. Probably, yeah. Yeah, no Chris Jones for the Chiefs and then the Lions don't really have much of anybody on defense. Um that means that yeah, they did what they took that linebacker. I can't think of his name right now. Um. The guy that everybody won the bills. Jack Campbell. Jack Campbell. Yeah. Yeah. Um but I agree. I have power on offense to be the best team in that division but I wouldn't would I be shocked if the Vikings or the Packers or even the Bears for that matter were to win it. Probably not. So, I'll go with the Lions. Uh the NFC East another compelling division. Got three and a half maybe. I don't know about Washington. Good teams. Um which the Cowboys, the Eagles, uh the commanders, and the Giants. Rob, who do you have winning the NFC East? Yeah, I like the Eagles. I think they're the best team in the NFC and I think they showed that last year. I think they'll do that again this year. Jalen Hurts continues his uh breakout. I won't say an MVP season but he could have another MVP caliber season like he did last year. Yeah, mine's gonna be the Eagles as well. I think their roster. While the Cowboys and Giants are gonna probably both win nine, ten games. I think the Eagles are just good enough to win eleven or twelve games and and win that division. So, Ryan, what about you? Yeah, I'm gonna be different and go uh Cowboys um not because I wanna be different but because I actually think the Cowboys are I think they have a better defense and I think their offense maybe not as good but I think they have a good offense and uh quite honestly, both these teams have pretty cake schedules. Um the Rob and I were talking about it earlier. Um sorry, we left you out of this conversation, Tony but the uh the Cowboys or I'm sorry, the the Eagles first was like seven games are the Patriots, Vikings, Buccaneers, Commanders, Rams, Jets, Dolphins, and then commanders again. It's like it's not that difficult. It could be six and one, seven and all. Yeah. And then the Cowboys was very similar. Like last year. So, it kinda feels like whoever wins this division is probably gonna win it with twelve. Twelve wins. Somewhere around there. Eleven, twelve. So, I just, I'm just gonna go Cowboys on that. That's gonna be a lot of my points in the AFC uh which we'll talk about in a second uh which is how hard all of their schedules are but uh last division um the NFC side is the NFC South. Could be the worst division in football. Uh we got the Saints, the Bucks, the Falcons, and the Panthers.
Mark Levin
Moskowitz Praises DeSantis for His Disaster Response
"Came into office he really understood that emergency management in Florida what needed to be the top agency in the country in fact on the very first day that I took over in 2019 the very first place we went to was Mexico Beach and quite frankly the government in Florida including the governor has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into building the greatest emergency management agency of state any in the state of Florida and they're battle tested right they just did in a year ago and so you know the state of Florida is on top of emergency management we have to be when you have storms like Michael and Dahlia now all in a four -year period but look you know the state's the state's doing a good job you we've know had a couple loss of life but that's been kept down to a minimal I think a lot of lessons learned for me and a lot of people listened and he did those evacuation warnings but look we're not out of the woods yet you know the the immediate response still is ongoing before they eventually transition to recovery I mean it's it's incredible how the state manages these disasters it's also incredible how the state has completely changed its voting system under DeSantis where the votes actually coming come in by eleven eleven thirty now you know who's won and who's lost and there's no fraud you it's amazing how he's broken the backs of the teachers union everybody talks about it because they were resisting everything you wanted to do in the classroom which is actually teach kids and not poison their and he's even taken on Disney not because he wanted to because Disney decided which is headquartered really by executives in Los
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A highlight from The Great Commission: Our Calling & Promise
"I just want to say welcome to all of our visitors. We're so glad that the Lord has led you this way. We hope something will be said to encourage you, and we're so glad to have you with us. As we gather today, let's remember we're not just a group of people meeting in a building. We are the church, the bride of Christ, the called -out ones, given a glorious mission by our risen Savior. That said, I want to draw your attention to a familiar passage that, while often cited, it never loses its gravity or significance. So in your copy of God's Word, please turn with me to Matthew chapter 28, and we're going to pick up at verse 16. Today we are pulling away from John. As you know, we've been kind of working through John, and we are going to pick that up on next time. But considering we have several baptisms today, the elders thought that it would be helpful if we look at baptism and the Lord's Supper. And so we've chosen a portion of Scripture here to kind of allow us to think through. Maybe you are comfortable with knowing what it means to be baptized. Maybe you don't understand. Maybe it's not quite that clear. And today we hope to bring some clarity. And in this passage we find the risen Lord standing at the top of a mountain in Galilee, proclaiming His authority over heaven and earth. And with that unmatched authority, He gives the church her enduring mission. It's a mission that reaches the very heart of our identity as Reformed Baptists and our love for evangelism. It's fitting then that we examine this passage today not merely as a call to evangelize but to understand the profound connection between the Great Commission and the two sacred ordinances the Lord entrusted to His church, baptism and the Lord's Supper. These are not mere rituals or empty traditions, but they hold the weight and symbolism of our covenant relationship with God and our shared journey as believers. In we baptism witness an outward confession of an inward change. Today we're going to hear, we're going to witness that. And those who are among us who are not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ, we're going to hear them today testify about how God has saved them. And so, baptism is an outward confession of an inward change. It is an affirmation of faith, a burial of the old life, and a resurrection of the new. It is the beginning of the journey, a first step in obedience to the command of the risen Savior. Today we will see this take place in our presence. Then, as we regularly gather at the Lord's table, we are reminded of the immense importance of His sacrifice and the hope of His return. The bread and the cup are a tangible reminder of the gospel message and our union with Christ. We are the only ones who are able to identify with Christ through the bread and the wine. It makes us who we are because the Lord Himself passed it down, instituted it to His church. And so we have the great privilege of being reminded of that unity we have with Christ. So, let us now look at the Word of God. Follow along with me as I read. Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. And when they saw Him, they worshiped Him, but some doubted. And Jesus came and said to them, all authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you behold, and I am with you always to the end of the age. This is the Word of God. Let us pray. Our Lord and our God, we thank You for Your Word. We pray that You would help us to be able to understand what Your Word says, what it means. Speak to us where we are. Help us to know Your truth. Lead us and guide us and direct us as we understand Your Word, as we come and we're reminded of what Your Word says, as Your Spirit teaches us. We pray that we would be helped in such a way that we would leave here a changed people. Lord God, we pray also for the one who do not know You, that today might be the day of salvation. We pray, Lord, that You would cause Your Word to come alive in us, that we might go away and say, did not our hearts burn within as You visited with us? Lord, we ask all these prayers in Jesus' name, amen. Today's sermon is entitled, The Great Commission, Our Calling and Promise. I have four points. The first point, setting the stage. The second point is the authority of Christ. The third point is the command to discipleship. And our final point is the promise of His presence. So let's begin. Point number one, setting the stage. The text says, now the eleven disciples went to Galilee to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. And when they saw Him, they worshiped Him, but some doubted. At this point in the narrative, there are only eleven disciples because Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Jesus, is no longer among them. After Jesus' resurrection, they found, they followed His instructions to go to Galilee. The choice of Galilee is significant because it was here that Jesus conducted much of His earthly ministry. And it's away from the religious and political pressures of Jerusalem also. The specific mountain is not named, but the fact that Jesus gives them a specific location shows intentionality on His part. Mountains are often, we said before, have spiritual significance in biblical narratives. They are places of revelation, teaching, prayer, and encounter with God. For example, Moses on Mount Sinai, the transfiguration of Jesus on a mountain. Seeing the resurrected Jesus prompts an act of worship from the disciples. Worship indicates their reverence, their awe, and recognition of Jesus and His divinity. This is especially significant considering the Jewish context of the disciples. Worship was reserved for God alone. Their act of worshiping Jesus underscores their understanding of Him as the Son of God, despite witnessing the resurrected Jesus, seeing Him in the flesh. Some of the disciples harbored down. This is a fascinating and a very human moment in the narrative. It reveals that even those who walked closely with Jesus and witnessed His miracles still experience uncertainty or hesitation. Excuse me. Now, this could be due to the sheer astonishment of the resurrection event, or perhaps they were grappling with trying to reconcile the crucified Jesus with the now resurrected Jesus. And so this leads us to our next point. We're going to consider point number two, the authority of Christ. You see this in verse 18. In Matthew 28, 18, it states, And Jesus came and said to them, All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. The Lord Jesus declares that all authority both in heaven and on earth has been granted to Him. This is a profound statement that shows and underscores His divine nature and the completion of His earthly ministry. He's making sure that they know that He has supreme authority throughout the universe. In other words, what applied before don't exist now. It's as if the Lord is saying, My deity does not have restraints anymore. He says, I am sovereign, I am supreme ruler. In other words, He's saying, I have no limits, listen to me. He's speaking with His divine authority. If Jesus possesses all authority both in heaven and on earth, then His teachings, His commands and guidelines are of utmost importance. It's as if the captain walks on the deck, the general enters the building, we stand at attention when the King of Kings speak. And so the authority gives Him weight to His words and His directions. This requires a response in obedience. For believers, this means living in accordance with Jesus' teachings and as recorded in the Gospels and throughout the New Testament. So obedience becomes not just a duty, but a joyful response to the one who has the ultimate authority and has the best intentions for all humanity. Trust often arises from knowing that someone has the power and authority to bring about their promises. With Jesus having all authority, His promises become immensely trustworthy. In other words, it helps our faith amidst our uncertainties. Trusting in Jesus means believing even when circumstances seem contrary. But since He has authority over all things, believers can trust that He is in control. Even in chaotic or unpredictable situations. In other words, we aren't to be moved because we understand what our God has said and with the authority He meant it. Knowing Jesus has all authority provides comfort in times of difficulty. If He has authority over everything, then even the toughest situations fall under His sovereign control. But we must believe that. We must live it out. We must rely upon it. We must seek it out because we know that God is the one who's purposely holding all things together and He is working all things out. Can rest in that reality. He has it in control. He has the future in control. It doesn't matter what's in the bank accounts, how much we have saved up. It doesn't matter how loose our finances are. What matters is we understand that despite our shortcomings, Christ is still on the throne, still in control. And so He's speaking with that authority. Remember He's the sovereign one, the one who has just recently defeated death. And now He says, everything is under My control. And He's our God. He's our hope. He's our confidence. And so knowing Jesus has all authority provides the comfort we need in times of difficulty. He's in control. Challenges when viewed from the perspective of Christ's authority can be seen as opportunities for growth. We can consider it as growing pains, right? We can look forward to growing because we know that God doesn't waste anything. So anything that's happening in our life, we can look forward to it because He's in control. And if we see it that way, then we can see it as opportunities. Then we can wonder with anticipation, I wonder what He's going to do now, what He's going to do next because nothing can move the Master. He's my rock. So this is an opportunity to draw closer to God so our experiences aren't random or purposeless, but they are used by God for a greater purpose in our lives. And that's why we're here today. We're here to hear from God. In other words, there's hope in despair. Even in the face of overwhelming odds or despairing situations, there's hope with Christ. Christ's authority rules and ensures that no situation is beyond His reach. No person is beyond Him where He cannot pull you up out of the maury and clay out of our sins and reach you and touch you where you are with redemption. He can do it. He is the Redeemer. He is the greatest when it comes to comebacks. Who loves a good comeback? When it feels like you've lost in life, God can sustain you, lift you up, and lead you out to victory. What a great privilege we have in knowing Him. In other words, we can continue to be reminded that God is sovereign overall. The perspective can continue in providing us peace and resilience over and over again. And He's telling us that His authority extends beyond this life to eternity. He has it all in His hand. The little children used to say, they used to sing, that God has the whole world in His hand, in His hand. He has mother and father in His hand, in His hands. It's a song that keeps reminding us of the sovereignty of God. And even the little children can sing together with the adults and sing, God, our God, has the whole world in His hand so that when they grow up, when they're faced with challenges and trials, they can remember what mama used to sing, what daddy used to say. They can remember seeing their parents go down on their knees and praying to their God. And for you know it, they would bend their own knees just as well, and they would know that there is someone who understands. There is someone who listens. Believers can approach life's challenges with an eternal perspective, knowing that our current struggles are temporary in comparison to the eternal joy and the glory that is coming with Christ. It's coming with Christ. This takes us to our third point. Number three, we will consider the command to discipleship. You can see this in verses 19 and 20. Jesus states, go therefore and make disciples of all nations. I'm going to stop there and just say a little bit about disciples. As disciples of Christ ourselves, we understand the command to make disciples as a call to spread the gospel to the world from San Diego County beyond. We have the opportunity to be disciples in the sense we ourselves are continuous learners. We've come into the knowledge of Christ, and we continue to learn. We also have the obligation of spreading the gospel to the world, spreading the gospel in San Diego County, spreading the gospel beyond us to India. We're connecting with our brothers and sisters there through our missionaries. On the missionary playing fields, we have the opportunity to share the burdens and the load of the gospel going forward by coming alongside of our missionaries. We're able to come alongside our brothers and sisters in Barbados, brothers and sisters in Spain, over on the Indian reservation. What a privilege we have in sharing this opportunity that the gospel may go forward. We hold to the belief that salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, which means the emphasis is on preaching the gospel, the good news of Jesus Christ's life, death, burial, and resurrection for the forgiveness of sins to all people. This is the active nature of our faith. In other words, when we become disciples, it doesn't mean that we stand on the sidelines. But to be a disciple is taking action. It's taking the responsibility to learn and to grow and to then apply what we have learned. It is active. It is the active nature of our faith. Discipleship is more than a mere conversion. It's a journey. It's a growing journey of faith. So to be reminded of that, as we consider this thought, this idea, going therefore, making disciples of all nations. So there's much more that could be said about discipleship, but I won't be spending any more time here because I want to say much more about the lion's share of our time on baptism and the Lord's Supper. Jesus moves on from discipleship to speak about baptism. In Matthew 28 and 19 He says, go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them. So bringing them the gospel, teaching them the word of God, then after they become believers, He says baptizing them, baptize them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. But what is baptism? Baptism according to the Bible and as understood as Reformed Baptists is an outward sign of an inward grace. It is a symbolic act where a believer is immersed in water, representing the death, burial and resurrection of Christ, raised up, pointing to the resurrection of Christ. It states it in Romans 6 .4, we were therefore buried with Him through baptism into debt in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
Mark Levin
WSJ: The High Cost of Price Controls on Eliquis and Other Drugs
"Estimates early on my father quizzed me about the clinical trials for our compound later eloquence after the FDA approved the medicine in 2012 now it takes years typically to get FDA approval it's not like one of these vaccines they push out the door it can take 10 years so after the FDA approved the medicine in 2012 he asked when it would be available in italy where because of strict price controls it wasn't reimbursed as quickly in the United States as in the United States became for reimbursement in Italy for a trial fibrillation in late 2013 over eleven the past years eloquence has benefited an estimate forty million patients worldwide while eloquence is now in the news again it is among the first ten medicines subject to quote negotiations of the inflation reduction act to determine what medicare will pay for you see what they stuff that law with climate change price controls listen to me contrary to how it's been framed the inflation reduction acts drug pricing program doesn't involve negotiated negotiation the ordinary sense of the word the drug developer disagrees with the dictate price early options are to pay impossibly high penalties i would draw our sends for medicare medicaid altogether that's not a choice do that to our patients so that essentially lets the government said any price it chooses in making matters worse the inflation reduction act will force drug makers to agree
Mark Levin
Mark Levin: The Realization That Donald Trump Was Being Spied On
"Reports from NBC and ABC Music And I spread them out on my And it must have been about 5 p .m. An hour before the show And I took my pen and I started to number them in chronological order And I had time to put together eleven of I stacked them up, starting with number one on the top, number eleven at the bottom . And I wrote a note on They're spying It was the first Thursday in March, I was able to figure that out because as a long time, Department of Justice official under President Reagan during the Meese Justice Administration, I knew what I was looking at, leaks from the FBI mostly, including leaks about FISA. I said, these bastards are spying on Donald Trump. It was March 2017. And I went on the air started
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from THE HASH: Pepecoin Team Puts Blame on 'Bad Actors'; PayPal's Stablecoin Adoption Outlook
"This is the hash podcast. Stay informed with the latest on Bitcoin, ETH, the metaverse, web3 and more. All on the hash for your ears. You're listening to the Coindesk podcast network. Hey there and welcome to the hash here on Coindesk TV. I'm Zach Seward. That's Jen Sanasi. Wendy Oh. Will Foxley. We're the hash today. We're getting you up to speed on what's going on in the world of crypto and more. And we're going to start off with some PayPal news from Jen. Jen, take it away. All right. PayPal's new stablecoin is off to a slow start. That's according to data from Nansen. The data firm says that few people are using or holding PYUSD token in self -custody wallets. They also said that smart money holders seem to be avoiding the stablecoin so far, saying that Paxis is custody in more than 90 % of supply and exchanges like Kraken and Crypto .com hold just over 7 % of supply. Will, I'm going to pass this one down to you. Are you surprised? There was a big excitement in the industry when this news was announced, but are you surprised to see that maybe not a lot of people are holding onto these stablecoins just yet? I'm not super surprised. I mean, it just launched. So I think we just need to be patient a little bit here. We're also like in the depths of crypto winter. This isn't like a bear market anymore. This is just a total lack of interest apathy all over. So for people not to be picking things up right now, that's not surprising. I hope PayPal looks at these numbers, whoever the product manager for this product looks at it as like, okay, the time will come for this at some point. And they probably baked out into the strategy as well, right? They have a lot of resources to be able to look at the market and look at the past launches these coins. And sometimes they take forever to get adoption. I would suppose that they actually are working with larger companies and doing a B2B model as opposed to a retail model first. And that'll also help them out on the regulatory side, right? Where they're not just like issuing this token out to anyone who has Venmo, who has PayPal and desktop, they're probably going to go work with institutions and larger companies work first to see if this actually works for them. So that's not super surprising to me. Just how the market is right now, Wendy? I am not surprised at all by this. Guys, we're in a bear market. So this makes sense that there's not going to be a whole lot of usage with crypto, especially when we're talking about like Web2 brands. PayPal is a massive Web2 brand that facilitates money to people all over the world. I used to use it for eBay all the time. So I don't understand why people would just jump on the stable coin bandwagon from PayPal when it's just a lot easier to use cash and to use electronic currency in that fashion. So to me, it's no big deal. And yeah. PiUSD I think is very much retail play, right? And we've seen over crypto history that retail excitement happens and then retail excitement goes away, right? The DeFi degens aren't going to be aping into PiUSD to do cool things on chain, right? So I think what we'll see is a slow, steady uptick, possibly, until sort of that next euphoria kicks in. And then I'd be interested to see what happens then, right, when stable coins become a bigger part of the picture at the retail level, at the PayPal customer level, as opposed to those who are familiar and conversant already with things like Tether or things like USDC. So yeah, holding judgment on this one, because I don't think it's necessarily going to be super duper on chain bonanza with PiUSD for the foreseeable future, just given those broader market conditions. But it could be a really interesting sort of retail indicator, or I guess retail index for stable coin usage going forward into that next wave of excitement. And that I think will be the revealing data is still to come, our adventure about what PiUSD means for the market, as it relates to onboarding folks from, again, these highly custodial options into more crazy on chain stuff. That I think could be a really interesting set of data that we'll certainly look at in the future. But Jen, saw your hand. Yeah, no, I agree with all of you. I think it is just a low time in the crypto markets. There's a report on CoinDesk this morning saying that Ethereum has hit its eight month low when it comes to daily transaction fees. So I think this isn't just a stable coin conversation. I think PayPal is going after a very different audience and some of the other stable coins that are out there are going after and it's slow and steady wins the race here. I don't think that they were expecting to see massive, massive mainstream adoption right away, just given what's happening, not only in the markets, but on the regulation side of things, too. And so I can imagine that they're treating this as like a pilot or testing phase. And I expect, and again, this is backed on no insider information, haven't spoken to anyone from PayPal. But I probably expect them to come out with some kind of educational strategy to get that mainstream audience once there is more interest, once we hit the next bull cycle and there's some collaborations and partnerships in the works. So yes, I am also not surprised by this report and I hope that it doesn't shake PayPal, because there's probably a longer strategy here. You guys ready to move to Prime Trust? Let's do it. This is like worse news, but it's still stable coin land news. So Thursday, we got new core filings from CEO Jor La, who spoke about the poor investment in the Terra Luna stable coin. Prime Trust lost $6 million of client funds and $2 million from its own treasury. This, of course, comes after they lost about $80 million total in both fiat and crypto of client money when they had their wallet set up incorrectly. Right now, Prime Trust is going through a receivership process with the state of Nevada. Prime Trust was one of the largest backends for a lot of crypto marketplaces. People use them to build wallet services for exchanges, for receivership and ownership of crypto assets. Now it's starting to fall apart a little bit. This also comes after BitGo tried to purchase Prime Trust, but that fell through again because of a lack of financial security within the firm. Jen, I'm going to throw this story over to you. More bad news at Prime Trust, like there's the legal filings for this one are put up with the best of the best in terms of like bad judgment decision making from companies. What a mess. Now, I have to say, when I read, you know, poor planning, like companies in the bull market had poor planning, they couldn't see what was going to happen in the bear. I am a little bit sympathetic because, you know, there's a lot of demand in the bull market. There's a lot of like mainstream collaborations and partnerships and you need resources to keep up with that. That said, I don't think that happened here. I think that this is just a total mess when I read through this. There's some stuff I want to point to. They said that they were outspending and gave some numbers. So October, the company spent ten point five million dollars but only made three point one million dollars. So they lost seven million dollars in October. And then it's like no one learned anything. They went on to November and spent eleven point one million dollars and lost eight some odd million dollars. And so that is crazy. I feel like that is poor planning. That is not looking at what's happening at your company and readjusting and being flexible. And those are some of the allegations that are made against the executive team here that they were not able to adjust and be flexible. The other crazy thing here is this wallet situation. They lost access to their wallet because I'm just going to tell our audience what happened here super quickly. And I'm going to pass it to Zach because he is nodding along with a big smirk on his face. So Prime Trust moved its wallets over to a system operated by Fireblocks. Then they did not realize that the migration from the legacy wallets to the new system was incomplete and that customers were still sending funds to that wallet. And then it learned the mistakes later when an unidentified customer requested a large amount of ETH and withdrawal and they could not fulfill that. And then it seems like they were converting fiat into ETH to fulfill these requests, which just sounds crazy. But I'm honestly not shocked or surprised, given all the news we've been covering over the last six months to a year. Ah, the case of 98F, that wallet episode. It just reads like, Prime Trust, no good, very bad, horrible day. That whole saga. We knew a little bit, I think, back in June about this mishap that occurred when they were transitioning their system over to Fireblocks, which is another custody provider. And that one just reads like a saga of pain. So yeah, check out the court filing for a full telling of the 98F episode and then think to yourself that, yes, custody and digital assets can be hard even for those professionally entrusted to do so. So I think the custody conversation is very relevant here. I will point out that the Terra Luna collapse continues to be the gift that keeps on giving. So much of the pain in the market really stems from people getting overextended into that ecosystem on the strength or the apparent strength of the promises by Dilkwan and others. And that ended up being sort of a landmine that many a project, including now Prime Trust, stepped on in terms of losing funds and losing the ability to stay solvent. So yeah, Terra definitely part of this story. But I think probably the bigger picture is that custody story, right? We keep going back to this idea of like custody is a set of trade -offs, self -custody has its own trade -offs, having a custodial arrangement with an outside party has another set of trade -offs entirely. But this one to me just represents, again, the difficulty that many people, especially entering the space, face when thinking about this challenges of self -custody because these guys got burned really bad by not being able to access something that was a big part of their business. And they only realized later on that, oops, we don't have the steel engraved things that we need to access this and it just becomes a big, big problem. So the custody angle maybe is the most illustrative here for people themselves, but certainly, yeah, pretty painful telling of that whole episode. But yeah, businesses, man, they remain fascinating to cover because you get these sort of after the fact tellings of all the things that went wrong. Wendy, what do you think? What happens if we ever have a Bitcoin -backed ETF that's from TradFi and they actually have to hold the Bitcoin and somebody loses the keys and that happens? Oh man, that'll be a day. Oh boy. Let's hope that doesn't happen. That's my take. That is a hot take, Will. What happens if... But no, I'm being serious. What happens if the SEC would have stepped in initially and said, hey, if you're going to be custody in these products, if you're going to be acting as a broker or whatever it is, you actually have to have the reserve set to a certain area. Like we have to be able to check to make sure that those reserves are set more transparent. If the SEC would have actually done their job, I feel like we wouldn't have had as many of these problems. Like Japan is a perfect example with the whole Gox situation that any type of crypto exchange or whatever type of services operating there, they have to actually show those proof of reserves. So again, I feel like our public servants have yet let us down again. And it's very sad that they're kind of like the parents that just kind of let you run off into the wild and then get hurt. And then they come down and they just punish you like a million times harder.
MiraStar Podcasts
A highlight from #49: The Gameshow - Part 3
"Bye bye. Mirko, I hope you win. You hope I win, why? Because that was so good. I agree. Did you guys like it? Yes. I loved it. So Kyle, you rated it at eleven. Yeah, I think it's eleven. I think it's David Bowie, that's the honour of them. Do I have to do it out of ten though? Did you say ten? Yeah, but you know, I chose eleven because you can eat moustache, and you can file with it on top, so yeah. What, is it bread on top? Innit, bread's on top. But, right now I'm rating Lily Anne and Mirko. So, Lily Anne has to get... She has to get nineteen to beat Mirko. And if she gets eighteen, then it's a tie. It's a tiebreaker. Yeah? But what did you win? We rated you a twenty because Kyle gave you an eleven, and I gave you a nine just to even it out. Alright, so Lily has to get eighteen. Kyle, what did you rate Lily's? Oh, you're going first mate, you're going first. No, no, no, no Pinky, I'm not in the runners. You were going first. Kyle, please, I'm doing it just because you can rate it. Just saying. I rate it a nine. Oh, a ten and Lily has won. A nine, a tie. And anything less than nine, Mirko has won. So, and I rate it a nine out of ten. It's a tie. Of course, it has to be a tie. Are you only doing this with a tie? Yeah. You're making a tie. Who do you want to win? Like new, Mirko. Oh, you know what, we'll do a vote. A vote? How can we vote? I'll ask Kyle, I'll vote myself, and then I'll ask Oliver. Well, Oliver's going to be salty because he got eliminated basically because of me. Yeah. That's advice. So, what if Oliver's doing like another talent? Oliver's goal would go to likely. My goal goes to Mirko. So, it's up to Marvin. Marvin, you choose. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. What if we do like give each other 30 seconds to explain why we should win? Yeah, we should do that. We should do that. Thank you. Oliver, you should vote. This is my idea. Lily goes first. Who's going first? Mirko. Lily goes first because it's my idea. You think it will be? Tag? Yeah. Okay. Wait, we're going to have to come back. So, Kyle, what did you think about our performances? You know, I loved all of you. I'm going to sit back. What do you say? I love all of you. I'm going to sit back. Real quick. Absolutely. Love you. Mirko, why did you say you should win? What do you say? I think you should win Mirko. No, I've got no more. Mirko has to say why. That's why I choose fast. Let Lily go first because it's my idea. Alright. So, basically, yeah, I don't personally think I should win. I just thought it was very fun to be on this. And I hope whoever wins, wins. Yeah. It's just very fun to be on this show. You're welcome. You're welcome. My ideas always work. But still. Yeah. I'm pretty ready to win. I feel like I should win because my speech was actually impactful. I didn't explain about serious topics like discrimination. And I realistically think if you don't vote for me to win, you don't really care much about discrimination, hate towards the different races. It's a bit weird. I also mentioned, you know, your favourite stuff, for example. I mentioned David Bowie. I also mentioned Marvin. Marvin reference. But Mirko has one problem. What's the problem? I vote for you if you say bread is better than food. And if you don't edit that out, then I won't be. Well, realistically, I did say that in the rap. Yeah, but you'd still need to say it if you won that vote. And realistically, you also have to make other people say it, too, because it is biased. Yeah, but bread is still better than food. If you say it, then I'll vote for you. But this does smell like bias to my head. Yeah, I don't really care. It sniffs like... What? ...bias. I'll vote for you, Mirko. Mirko, if you say that, bread is better than food. Alright, bread is better than food. Say it, Mirko. I did. Say it. Kyle, did you hear me say it? Yeah, say it on me. I can't hear anything. Bread is better than food. Alright, alright. Thank you, Mirko. Alright then. Kyle, who's your vote, too? Because you voted Mirko, I say let's vote likely. What? No, it's a tie again. No, no. I thought I just voted because I literally thought it was a tie. That's alright then. I need to leave it to Oliver, then. Oliver's last vote is a tie. Oliver's last. Oliver's last. Anyway, folks, my biggest recommendation to you all is that you watch and watch Oliver pick the job. I'm the winner. I'm the winner. I'm the... What? I think we're gonna have to get... Right then. Right, Oliver's voted. And since it's a tie, it has to actually work out. Yeah? People, first of all... Marvin, you're a cheat. Second of all... Oliver, Oliver. Second of all, myself. Okay, no, I'm just joking. I'm joking. I was just going to announce it. Okay, I'm joking, I'm joking. I say sorry. I apologise for your inconvenience. You apologise to me for cheating. Alright, I'm sorry for cheating. Yeah. And you do so. And you do so. Okay, shut up. Shut up. Wait, Oliver. Yeah. You know when Marvin was trying to kick you out? You know when I was defending you and you knew he was against you, right? No. I was helping you. Why? Why? I was helping you stay in the game. Why? It's not a lie. You can literally watch back. I was helping Oliver stay in the game. You're a liar. You guys were against me. I was helping Oliver stay in the game. I was telling Marvin when you guys left. Oh, Marvin is leaving. It's not even that deep. Remember when I said it's not that deep? Remember, you can find the messages. It's not that deep. I said that. I did say that. Yeah, but then if it hit one left to me. No, I didn't message it to you as well. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I was defending him. You know what, Mirko? Since you went to the whole hour, should we do it again? Do what again? Should we let Oliver come back? I don't mind. Oliver, do you want to come back? Yeah. See, Oliver. See, see, see, see. Wait, look. If I never said this, Oliver would have never came back. See, see, see, see, see. Alright then. You were playing Kingston before. You were saying Oliver. It's not that deep. No, no. Yeah. We have a three -way vote.
Oregon Rooted: The Dirt Show
A highlight from 103 Organarchist Part 2
"Welcome to Oregon Rooted, I'm Higher Peaks, and this is Lady Sativa. You're listening to The Dirt Show, where we bring you Oregon's cannabis culture. Salt farming, basically. Nitrogen is a gas. How the fuck do you put nitrogen in a plant in a bag of powder? You've got a bag of powder, how the fuck is there a gas in that bag of powder? I'll explain it. You can bond a nitrate molecule to a salt molecule. Now, salt is just something that dissolves in water. So what happens is as soon as you put that compound that you've created into water, one salt molecule breaks off and then you have the nitrate. So you get that it's water soluble now. If you ever notice a bag of dry amendments, it's dry. But when you put it in water, it all goes away. So that's the salt molecule breaking off, making that gas basically available for plants to take up. That's how all salts work. It's how all synthetic nutrients work. Then you can use different things to bond different things to different things. But any time you do that, you're breaking off one piece of it that goes into the plant and then you're leaving something else that's just a byproduct and it's not desirable. And you can't avoid it. It only happens. It's not my opinion. It's how the fucking nutrients work. So over time, you develop a bunch of waste products. You don't buy the salt to throw in your soil. You buy the salt bound to the nitrogen to get the nitrogen. But half of that bag is shit you don't want in your soil, but you still do it anyway. That gets away from all of the needs for biology because you have a water soluble gas or you have water soluble rocks. And that's the only way to get rocks and gases that will go up into the roots. But there's a whole other way, the proper way. But you have to make everything water soluble or else they can't get into the plant. Microbes make rocks water soluble. So there are fungi and bacteria and protozoas and micro arthropods and insects that take organic matter and break it down smaller and smaller and smaller into the smallest part, which is the goo of life of these organisms. So imagine you have a gut full of rocks that you can digest. So you ate a bunch of rocks, they get digested and then they're in your stomach as a liquid. It's water soluble. And then somebody comes in, slices your abdomen open and that shit pours out. Those rocks are now water soluble and available. So that's what happens with microbes. It was hard for me to really believe it enough to bet my whole farm on it. But I knew it was true. But I didn't feed salts. I didn't do any of that shit. But I was like, man, it can't be gut juice and saliva. But it is. So that's the main issue with growers of any kind. In order to grow any plant, you have to know how they eat rocks, basically. And once you fully understand that, then you can start feeding plants properly. So like I was driving through, where was I driving through? I was coming back from the coast and there was this hill of clay, red clay. So I pull over, I get myself a jar of this clay and I'm going to top dress this clay into my soil. And it's like, OK, most counterintuitive shit. Most people are like, oh, my soil is all clay. I need to add organic matter. But then I've got pots that are only organic matter. So I'm going to add clay. And what happens with clay and the biology is clay is basically... No, it's this. There's a silica plate, a silica plate. And then between those two are all calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, all the things you could ever want in a plant. So what you have to do is break that bond open with biology. And now they're available. That's the cation exchange reaction. So they're mobile elements and biology does that. So it's like, once you understand that, people are like, oh, my whole field is clay. I don't know what to do. It's like, I never need to buy cow mag. Don't buy cow mag. Buy organic matter. So it's like it's mind blowing fucking shit. And so I understand why people will be like, don't trust that it really is micro guts and spit that does all this. I get it. But it is really it's really true. And I see it in practice. Like I had to break open some pots. I had one fifties in my back porch and I had to get down to four plants. You know, the whole thing I complain about. I can get four plants. So I had to refill my pots. I took like a bunch of the 150s, broke them down, filled these two hundreds. That soil did not perform anywhere near like my undisturbed pots. Right up in your face and can't argue about it. So basically, I broke the whole system, you know, like everything was perfect. They were like, I don't know, I'll go under like I'd say the like five or six year pots at the least. So I'm not like over exaggerating. They were cycling perfect. In three years, 150, 200 gallon pot, three years, that thing's going to be cycled. Like you have no problem with digesting whatever you throw at that pot. You're not going to have imbalances, everything. It's it's an ecosystem. But I broke that ecosystem and I noticed the repercussions for breaking that ecosystem. And it just pushed me right back into this like truth that, you know, that I can't stop talking about. And that's why I warned you all. Yeah. Well, so so with all that said, when you go from outdoor into indoor, you do the same shit. You have to. Can you do living soil in small pots? No. So so you have to have like what, two forty fives in your four by four. Yeah, pretty much. I mean, I get it. There's people that have four by four beds in there. Yeah, that's what I do. So four by four bed. Yeah. This is what you want to do. Make this simple as possible. Every pot has a death zone around the ring of the pot. So let's just say even in my 200 gals, four inches in from the smart pot fabric, no matter what, I can't maintain that death ring. Like there's an exchange of air and that's all good. That's fine. It's supposed to be there. So picture this, a 200 gallon smart pot, four inches on one side of death ring, four inches on the other. So eight inches of death ring. Let's say you have a five gallon pot. How wide is that pot? Ten, eleven inches. It's like all death ring. So you can't do living soil in that. You can't do living soil in anything under a forty five. Yeah. And like I can't lift a pot comfortably bigger than a forty five. So that's and I can't go smaller with living soil. So I dedicated these pots like forty five gallon smart pots, living soils, fuck, infinite cycles. I can't even count how many. I still have the pots and they crush. I bring them outside and grow outdoor. Then I bring them inside in the fall, in the winter and grow indoor. Yeah. And never disturb it. No. Yeah. No. And here's the thing. Here's the thing. It's a balance. It's the pots are balanced. So there's a balance of root feeding nematodes and there's a balance of predatory nematodes. So that's fine. The predatory nematodes are going to take care of any bullshit in the soil. I'm pretty sure they eat some violence and everything else. Nematodes are gnarly, beneficial nematodes. Check the mouth parts. That's how you know. So once you have that and then like any root aphid issues that are probably being there's a predator for every one of those things. We haven't really categorized every predator for every prey at the highest level. We're somewhat of a good idea. But the best thing you can do is trust nature. So when I put a forty five gallon smart pot outside with a cover crop. Bring it inside. I'm not like, what do you bring in Russets? Whatever I'm bringing in is it's it's bringing in the predator for that. Yeah. So you have to go by like triple threat and shit. Actually. Shout out to ladybug or organics. Phoenix. Yeah. They're fucking dope. Yeah. That triple threat son. Yeah. Those people are great. Triple threat. You have spider mites and flower throw the triple threat fucking banging or just do living soil and trust it. And you won't have any problems. Yeah. Like there's a predator for every pathogen and problem. Have you noticed anything this year? You know, for me, the last few years, you know, aphids have been considerable an issue. Thrips are always around. It's like they fucking just hang out and you're, you know, hey, we're here forever. But you have noticed anything this year? Like on your plants or hanging around? No. You then. Well, earwigs have been horrible. Oh, fuck. So that but like as far as like I don't really have. Like I'm not even knocking on wood. I don't really have a lot of pressure like in those regards. Like, well, you're not also I'm you know me, I'm stuck in fucking town. So I'm subject to like five neighbors and they're bullshit. Right. So that's the thing. So here's here's the deal is like I live like in a place. This is all organic pasture. Right. This is soil food web central. It's all cycling properly for 60 years. They don't till anything that it's all like the ultimate and no more hemp fields. Right. No, no hemp fields. I fucking I did great with them anyway. That was fine. But, you know, aphids ain't shit. You know, aphids ain't shit. No, they're fucking no problem, man. Like any soft body shit ain't shit. Like with outdoor, it's like that all the predators are there for all those problems. Thrips, man, they are fucking annoying ass motherfucker. They are. It's not like they do much damage. It's like, fuck, man. Like they're always just there. Yeah. Because here's what says you have your homie over. And you're like, hey, check out my plants. He's like, all right, I got the thrips. Fuck, you know, it's a first. That's the first thing I'd say, man. Looks like there is some thrips. You know, grow through it. It's no problem. Yeah. You know, but if you have thrips indoor, you're fucked. Yeah. But if you have thrips outdoor and shit. Right. And I'm always trimming off that shit anyway. Yeah. But shit will eat them. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It should be a balanced ecosystem of like, what about cats, though? What about caterpillars? You know, come on. You got to get 17 chickens. That's right. I have 17 chickens. Good fucking luck. Yeah. And those those are monsters. Yeah. Yeah. Very good. Oh, those things are savage. Yeah. They're iridescent. If I didn't know how healthy a land you had around here, I'd say you're fucking shooting those bitches up with steroids. They look like they're all jacked up. Yeah. The transgender one is the gnarliest. That one is fucking savage. Yeah. I have a transgender chicken. So how do you how did you figure that out? Well, it goes. In the morning and then it tries to get it on with ladies. Oh, yeah. I see. That's transgender. Cool. Totally. It identifies. Well, if he's comfy with who we see. Yeah, it is. That's the hard thing about chickens. I don't know. I don't know. Pronoun for chicken. True. So I just call it transgender. And it does it nice to you. It's got a lot of testosterone, man. The thing contries me. You know, it's like really was born like it's really born confused. That can be jacked up hormones, man. My rooster won't really fuck with it. My rooster won't fuck it. Rooster won't fuck it. Nah, I'm good. It's like, I'm good. Do butch for me. I watch this shit all the time. Oh, my God. Nature don't lie, dude. But yeah, to the flock of chickens, man, they fucking take shit out. Earwigs are a problem because the chickens go to bed and that earwigs come out. So it's like. But that's when you have a little frogs and shit or whatever. Yeah. But earwigs have been a pain in the ass. But that's the main thing about the earwigs, in my opinion, is if we irrigate enough. They fucking drowned out because they're fucking dumb as shit when it comes to water. They'll just go in the water and drown. Yeah. They're like suicidal. Like if I leave any water out, they just like a whole bucket of earwigs, you know, so it's not hard to get them. So if we you know, the drought brought a lot of that. It's a problem. You know, the hemp brought in all the aphids. Exactly. And so and then they'd like probably spray weird shit. Yeah. If it's a dip, you know, like going from like Safeway to the co -op. Yeah. Coming over here because I'm spraying. Yeah. Spray with fucking Karanja. Yeah. I saw a post about that. What what's the deal? Do people forget about that stuff or what? Yeah. It's like, what? I forgot about it. I'm like, dude, I've been using that for a minute. My G. Yeah, man. I'm like. I felt obligated to remind some motherfuckers because I was like making Karanja memes for work. Yeah, you were. I saw that. I know, dude. You don't ever get in trouble. Every week. Every week, dude, I almost get fired. I'm not even kidding. You're my hero, man. Dude, I almost get fired every week. It's. Oh, I had. Well done. Oh, yeah. But Karanja is the jam. But yeah. Oh, yeah. But yeah, I heard hella people's feelings like a bunch of times. And like like the owners of like the largest like farming distribution companies. I can't like even say the names of them. Like the biggest ones you all know. They like personally messaged. We're like, man, you need to take that shit down. And like I almost got fired. Wow. Every Friday for like a month. They're like, please. Yeah. Yeah. And then I was like, oh, where? Watch this. Yo, and then I almost got fired for that. Yeah, I was like, oh, man, fucking kid safe mother approved memes. You know, I had like really healthy African -American gentleman like holding the 10 millimeter socket being like, oh, isn't it challenging that we always lose these? And I was like, yeah, I can't get fired for that. And dude, I almost did. Yeah. Yeah. Don't become a meme admin. That shit is not fun. Yeah, it sucks. Oh, dude. Been slapped on the wrist a few times. But it's cool because like really I'm just like I'm making some jokes and shit, but you can slide in really cool information into it. Like I clown salts as a motherfucker. You know which one I love the most? Tell me. Is your... Oh, God. The one the meme that you made that was the living fucking... Living Rockwell? Rockwell. Dude, I fucking, I died on that for 10 minutes. You know what? I reposted that to my story. I actually had someone message me saying, how did you get living fucking Rockwell? Oh, yeah. Yeah. I photoshopped that shit. I'm done. I'm done. Yeah. Dude, somebody hit me up. I can't answer. Somebody hit me up there like it's technically it's no -till. You're like, yeah, it is. But yeah, it's like I'm having fun with it because like I say, man, I have an agenda. There's an agenda behind everything I fucking do. Organarchist is a real thing. Right. This is like some like but it's more like the Illuminati behind the scenes. Like you got some Illuminati memes and shit. You know that deep, deep fucking meaning. Oh, totally. Yeah, it's like it's jokes. But like that shit's all real. Are you getting the point? Oh, dude, like some of them, I can't even talk about how real they are, dude. Like all I do is hang out with a bunch of people that are like, like I can't even believe it. Like all the industry people. Like I'm like rubbing elbows with them and they like talk to me and I'm like, holy fucking crap, dude. And so I make memes out of them, dude. And like almost get fucking fired. I imagine you spend a lot of time trying to turn the botsoil into living soil for people. Is that a good assumption? Oh, yeah. Well, here's the thing. Look, buy this now and build it later or build it now. You've got to start somewhere. Sure. So you've got to have peat. You've got to have cocoa. You've got to have some compost. You've got to have some perlite or pumice. I mean, the fucking, what are you going to do? Like you need like large biomass to start soil. Or like if you're doing like amending native soil straight out the gate, like no beds, no till. Then, you know, you're like buying tarps or something like whatever. But like I feel good about like being able to provide people with like the bases for things. Man, why not have a dope ass season right out the gate as you're waiting the three years to have a full cycle. Sure, sure. Absolutely. Like you said, you've got to start. You've got to start. So if you want to go into it, be like, you know what? I'm a masochistic motherfucker and I just love to fail for the sake of my integrity. Dude, don't ever call a soil company. Don't ever plug into it. Just go do your thing. I fully support you, man. But like if you're going to farm, like you want results. So it's like you're going to put a lot of effort into something and then it's nice to have some results. So you buy something that's like has everything that you've ever wanted it anyway. Like not to like shameless plug, but I'm going to fucking plug the real shit. If you ever want to start a living soil pot, bed, anything with like, you know, purchased soil. Rogue farmer relaunched. It's got every single fucking thing. It's going to sound like a commercial. I don't do fucking go to the website and look and you're going to be like, holy crap, dude. The kitchen sink is in there. There's shit that you wouldn't even think to throw in there. There's shit that is in there that in 10 years you'll be like, man, I'm glad I learned to throw this shit in there. Yeah, absolutely. Like for real. What kind of base is it? Is it cocoa or beet? Both. Oh, yeah. And compost and cow shit that's been sterilized. Like this is all laboratory made. So, I mean, of course, as soon as you open the bag, it's, you know, susceptible to everything. But at least you get to start with something, especially for indoor people. Like if you want to do indoor living soil. Yeah. Then you want to have science. A clean start. And then intentionally introduce things. Because you don't want to start off an ecosystem by like rolling some fucking dice. Like you can. Yeah. But again, if you want instant results. Then you can you can mitigate that problem and still go in the direction. Like I said, I started my whole greenhouse, amended living soil with rocket fuel. Yeah. Because I wanted to throw in a bunch of ice cream. And that's a little hot, right? The rocket fuel runs a little hot. No, it's just has. You can put seedlings in there. Oh, fuck yeah, dude. OK. Yeah. Just curious. Oh, yeah, totally. Oh, I mean, I'm not that. It's crazy. But so I just I started with that because I wanted results right away. And I got them. And then I got to pay for the whole greenhouse. And now it's all living soil, mulched, amended and like cycling properly. You know. Sure. So you got to start somewhere or don't plant a cover crop. And as the little baby shoots start to come up, tarp it. Let it all die back. Throw another cover crop, plant daikon radishes and pull the radishes and then put compost in there. I mean, I can tell you in one DM how to like do it in like probably two years. Like, you know, like real out as like native land, like regenerating. But you're not going to get any results. Yeah. Right. I knew a guy that was like all no till. Everyone knows this guy. And if he hears this, he's going to be like, I'm that guy. And it's cool because he's like, man, fucking no till sun. I'm going to go out there. I'm just going to mulch and amend some native Applegate soil. Throw them right in the holes with like one gal of like, you know, their transplant soil and run it. I'm not even doing shit. And I was like, yeah. Yeah. Failed at the highest level. Yeah. Yep. And then he was like, man, I probably should have told it. And I'm like, yeah, no, not that either.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 08/25/23
"Turbulent times call for clear -headed insight that's hard to come by these days, especially on TV. That's where we come in. Salem News Channel has the greatest collection of conservative minds all in one place. People you know and trust, like Dennis Prager, Eric Metaxas, Charlie Kirk, and more. Unfiltered, unapologetic truth. Find what you're searching for at snc .tv and on Local Now Channel 525. I need to know from my Broadway Maven friend Mike Gallagher how many productions of West Side Story have you seen? I think I've seen three and I'm just a pretender in terms of consumers of the compliment. That sounds like an absolute slur. No, no, no. Is that a slur? No, a maven is somebody who is immersed in something, an expert in something, somebody who is well versed in something. Broadway aficionado or as they say in Maryland affectionado. Great, great. Well, last night was a big night. Sit tight, sit tight, sit tight. I do everything for a reason. First answer the question. It's Leonard Bernstein's 120th birthday. I don't know. Close, close. How many times have you seen West Side Story? A few, a lot. It's probably either that or Man of La Mancha or I don't know what is my favorite but it is indeed Leonard Bernstein's birthday born this date 1918. There's a movie about him coming up in November with Bradley Cooper as Leonard Bernstein. A lot of drama about that controversy. Tell us why. Do you know why? Yeah, well he has a prosthetic nose apparently to try to recreate what Leonard Bernstein looked like. He had a big schnoz. He had a honker on him and Bradley Cooper doesn't so they did that but now all of a sudden it's Jew face which is just uncomfortable to say. It's like blackface where somebody white plays somebody black. It's like Broadway maven. No, it's not like that at all. So that's a stupid controversy. Bernstein's own family said we love Bradley Cooper. We love the movie. It'll come out. Now let's talk about the real life drama. The floor is yours, political maven Mike Gallagher. Let's talk drama. You know I love talking about swapping stories. So let me tell you a story. Let me first stipulate. I've got such a splendid team. I've got a team. I was thinking last night, Derek, Eric, Tracy, Adam, these are can -do people. They spring into action. You've got them there in Dallas. You've got Rhonda and of course all your great people around you, Gordon and Matt and everybody. We love to be surrounded by positive can -do people. So last night I get off the plane from Tampa. I'm in Atlanta. It's about 190 degrees here and I say to Derek, Derek, I gotta really hustle. I gotta drop my bags off. Give me the address of where the action is. Tell me where to go because I'm not sure, you know, the Fulton County system where he goes, got it, got it. And Derek goes fast. Sometimes when you go fast, you miss some key details. So he gives me the street address. Now I show up at the courthouse. It's a row of TV trucks. I'm thinking good. I'm in the right place. Look at all these TV trucks. But there are no people. So I'm now walking. Now bear in mind, I'm not kidding you. It is 100 degrees. I'm not exaggerating. It's literally 100 here and the humidity is about 200%. I'm schlepping around, schlepping around the courthouse and I can't find anybody. Finally I see a TV reporter and cameraman. I say, can you tell me where the protesters are? Oh yeah. Yeah. They're two blocks over. Cause I want to interview some people. I want to enter. I'm there to get the action, right? Of course. Of course. And I see a hundred TV trucks. It's gotta be, so I go to us two blocks over. So I go over and there's like a handful of like young people and they're like black and white kids. And I go into the crowd and I said, do you mind, Hey, I'm Mike from Salem radio network. You mind doing some interviews? Oh sure. Sure. I'm glad you're here. We'll talk. And they say, Hey, how are, why are you? They start talking about the police state and the, the, the, the, the authoritarians of the police department. I'm thinking, Oh gosh, I got a bunch of young pro Trumpers talking about the weapons, the weaponization of law enforcement. So then I bring it back to Trump and they look at me and they cock their heads and they say, Trump, I'm like, I said, finally the third kid I interview. And I started to notice there's a, I started to see, well, there's a rainbow flag over in the and background there's a black lives matter flag. This is a strange, this is a pro strange pro Trump group. I said, you're here for Trump. He said, Trump, we're here for Johnny. I said, who the heck is Johnny? Johnny is apparently somebody who was killed by the police. It's one of those police shooting protests. I get on the phone to Derek. I said, Derek, where are the peers? He goes, Oh, are you at the jail? I said, no, I'm at the courthouse. He said, Oh, you're in the wrong place. So now I said, please tell me the jail is a block away from here. It's just cause you're schvitzing like nobody's business. Try 25 minutes away. Try 20. Now, meanwhile, Trattup is, Tom Trattup is texting me saying, you better get there. He's landing. He's at the airport. Trump's on his way. I'm like, now I'm, now I'm running now. By now they've closed the highways because you see for a motorcade, that's one of the dog on his motorcades I've ever seen him. Well, but I want to talk about that with you in just a moment. Because he's just an ordinary prisoner, right? Exactly. Yeah. Just another prisoner. But now I can't get there because the roads are all closed for the motorcade. Cause I've been, you know, hanging out with black lives matter protesters, you know, giving them business cards and show materials. Let's go Donald Trump. And they're looking at me like I'm out of my mind. And then they're nice kids. I mean, they're just upset about a police shooting. Listen, let's put it this way. Let's stipulate Edward R. Murrow in the trenches covering the battle of the bulge. I ain't, I mean me walking around in a hundred degree weather trying to, so finally I get to within about two miles of the jail, the Uber driver Mustafa, who's already annoyed about the traffic. He drops me off two miles from the jail. And as CJ, the great engineer here in Atlanta put it, the jail is in the hood. The jail is in, I'm now walking, well, I'm in the hood walking the whitest guy in America and people are offering me drugs. I've got it. I had a discount on some crack. They're friendly people in Georgia. They're trying to do business with this, you know, white guy walking through the hood, clearly trying to find protesters. So it was unbelievable. And I'm not kidding you. It was, I will put it this way. Let me put this in a very dangerous neighborhood. Okay. And I am walking and I'm walking and I'm cursing and I'm saying I'm going to do things to Derek that third world countries do. I could not believe the position I was in. Anyway, long story short, I finally get there. As it turns out, when I got there, what comes pulling out of the Fulton County jail? The Trump motorcade. So I got video of the motorcade. I saw, you know, the whole procedure. I interviewed a bunch of people, white, black, pro -Trump, anti -Trump, and it all turned out, you know, fine. But it was interesting to talk to all the angry Atlantans who came out to witness this spectacle and they can't believe that their city is front and center in this disgraceful act of the prosecution of Donald Trump. You know, Biden yesterday celebrating the arrest as a great day to donate to his campaign. Did you see that vicious Nicole Wallace at MSNBC? Did you see what she did? Stifling a laugh. She's laughing about the fact that Trump was booked in a jail where two people had died. She thought that was funny. I mean, you know, the great Jesse Waters dressing down Jessica Tarloff calling her out for being giddy about the arrest. It's Christmas in August. It's Christmas in August for them. And as Jesse put it to the liberal on that, this is no time to celebrate. This is beneath you to celebrate, but they do celebrate this because it isn't serious. It isn't legitimate. I mean, this is brutal, just brutal. And, you know, I'm just trying to make sense of it all, Mark, with you and me, and we're trying to understand the enormity of it all. We're trying to survive this. And I will tell you that for people who live in Atlanta, who came in the brave, the heat to stand out there and wave a Trump flag or wave an American flag. I met a guy from South Dakota, incidentally, who came here in a truck convoy from South Dakota and a great. And incidentally, the guy was like, I can't believe I'm talking to you about two years ago. I was yelling at you on the radio when you was out driving and he was the nicest guy. We had such a great visit and we just commiserated about how low we've sunk. Historians are going to look back at this day and say, what were they doing? What did they do? Do you think they will? Well, I won't give you my speech on historians again. Historian is like a constitutional scholar. It's a law. I'm pretty serious, too. It is a lost profession. Historians are political hacks. If Trump does prevail in this, and especially if he is elected and wins, the historians who seem to be working today and dominating today will say that America missed an opportunity to heap accountability onto an evil leader who is elected by the enthralled cult worshiping masses. That's what today's brand of historian will say. I pray to God historians pull their heads out and realize what is happening. Well, I saw Jonathan Turley when I got back to the hotel and I put the cold compresses on my forehead and I got the smelling salts and I sat in the cold tub for two hours to try to recover. Again, a war correspondent I ain't. Jonathan Turley said something last night to Sean Hannity. It's a quick paragraph. I want to read this to you. He says, this is a law professor. And oh, and by the way, speaking of social media, Trump's back on Twitter. Back on Twitter. Eighty six million followers. How many likes? I wonder how many? How many views? I'll look while you share the quote. Go ahead. The quote is this is Jonathan Turley's exact words. This is criminalizing the challenge of elections. You have a Democrat prosecutor saying, how dare you challenge a Democrat victory? That's it. And it's been done before by Democrats, including this one. Red State found all these instances of Fannie Willis questioning the outcome of elections. She's done it before. You have a Democrat prosecutor saying, how dare you challenge a Democrat victory? The case is based on the theory that Trump was it was challenging this election illegally was pointed out. This is the eleven thousand. I need to find eleven thousand votes. The way the way she portrayed that phone call. These are Jonathan Turley's words, Mark. The way she portrayed that phone call is evidence of the bias and unfairness of aspects of this indictment. And to the left and to the Trump haters, this is the whole indictment. I need how many? Eleven thousand. Eleven thousand. Jonathan Turley said it makes perfect sense when you're challenging an election to say, I only need eleven thousand photos or votes. That's not a lot in Georgia. That's not criminal. That's making a case for a recount. Especially when the number is especially when everybody woke up and found that things had changed crazily overnight in a number of states. And there were votes that were being counted that maybe shouldn't have something were being not counted that maybe should have. So, OK, in that fog of uncertainty, find me eleven thousand legal actual real votes. And let's see what we can do here. There's nothing illegal about that. There's nothing criminal about that. And that's their whole case.
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"Eleven oh eight get a precision a c first michael and son now traffic and weather on the it's brita kessler in the wto p traffic center if you're on the beltway watch for the delays in both directions headed toward georgetown pike this is the work set up taking the right lane both ways so your outer loop delay is near the american legion bridge your inter loop delay is out of tyson's and off the dullest hole road but seeing a report of a possible wreck on the outer loop within this delay uh... before georgetown pike may be toward the george washington way if you're in maryland northbound three oh one year mckendree in cedarville the left lane is blocked with a wreck we have the work again on route three in buoy near 450 annapolis road uh... taking the left side in both while southbound 95 was slow approaching and passing 32 with a report of a work crew northbound avenue branch near birchville and urnshaw had been the scene of an earlier wreck watch out for any cleanup going on on southbound 29 before johns hopkins road which was the scene of some sort of rocket debris spill getting across the bay bridge the westbound span of the bridge right lane of three blocked with the work eastbound both lanes are open so no delay getting there in either direction in the district southbound dc 295 is actually slow off the bw parkway headed past eastern watch for avenue anything there that could be a work crew along the right side then your delays southbound before bending road headed past east capital street outbound new york avenue after kendall street the left lane gets by the work while georgia avenue near emerson street in northwest that is a report of a wreck in virginia westbound 66 near 29 in rosalind the work taking the left lane with delays coming off of the roosevelt bridge software software offers innovative safety and protective solutions with national cooperative contract pricing all for markets discover better pricing today at safewearinc .com i'm rena kessler wtop traffic the seven news first alert forecast from eileen wayland cloudy skies expected this thursday with unseasonably cool temperatures in the upper 70s to around 80 degrees so cooler than
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"Eleven. It's a drink so full of bold fruity flavor that the amazing easy price is just the cherry on top. Stop in a 7 -Eleven to get any small Slurpee drink for one dollar. Slurpee, anything close. expires twelve thirty one twenty twenty three plus tax. Visit store for details. Six thirty eight. Traffic and weather on the 8th. Jack Taylor starts us off from the traffic center. Okay, the rain's never a good friend to the roads, at least the lawns love it. But at this point, we're still dealing with what's left over that storm that rolled through here. A lot of it headed up toward Baltimore, but we've still got some coming through Manassas. Headed toward the Beltway again. you're going to find 66 east some slowing east in Manassas 28 going up northbound we've had a little bit of a slowdown riding toward 95 Chantilly northbound was jammed in Fredericksburg heavy traffic again making the trip from Dale City riding toward Lorton and Newington 95 south after 234 Dumfries that wreck along the left side Prince William Parkway southbound after Balls Ford Road earlier wreck there had lanes temporarily paused hoping that you're moving once again you're gonna find we've got a delay on 395 leaving the Beltway north headed up toward King King Street the crash that is up near exit 5 sits safely on the right shoulder you'll also find the toll road eastbound near the Bueller Road overpass we'd had word of a wreck slowing in Maryland Beltway outside outer loop from 95 to George Avenue inner loop south of town approaches 210 slowly headed down toward the Wilson Wilson Bridge you're going to find the outer loop after Pennsylvania Avenue at least two vehicles separately spun out along the left side of the roadway sounds like one facing the wrong direction on the inner loop of the Beltway before Allentown Road that was taken the left lane downtown southbound 3rd Street tunnel as you head toward the freeway sounds like we've got at a a reported crash slowing DC 295 south from Eastern Avenue headed toward East Capitol the reminder 301 between Frank Tippett Road and Village Drive dark dark signals unfortunately throughout that strip with the power outage Fridays are free on VRE ride any train no ticket needed Fridays through September 1st visit VRE .org Jack Taylor WTOP traffic and out first of 7News alert meteorologist Mark Pena some of us got some rain this morning and some of us didn't but don't worry if you did not we do another have round of some showers and storms possible later on today we'll
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"Everybody's evacuated a star for strikeforce report when ready should girl sees keough out in the field everybody's supposedly evacuated and she's just like oh so nonchalantly just like walking. She's not running. she's not frightened. She is just like having a little in in the field. Yeah yeah so. He goes out to meet her and she says he's like what the hell are you doing here. And she says. I had to see you. Thank you and they go inside so i guess i guess they are a couple definitely if she just had to. Yeah you're not feeling it. I just like the whole her like walking around the field disbelief piss me off and like what are you doing like this in real life situation right here. You dumb broad like what. Are you just walking around flowers in the you not hear the alarms going off in the tanks and the guns and the fire. She's just like a. Oh hey i had to see you like oh my so it will. I wrote down this question. I'm afraid asks so honeybee when the shit hits the fan Are you gonna come find me when when this happens. Yeah ship course. You know as calm as humanly possible. I'm just gonna walk around and wait for you to spot me in an in the field and to run in and say what are you doing here. It's so dangerous. And i'll say i just had to see you and you'll say thank you thank you. Now let's get inside dahmer. That's into no so the first strikeforce reports that they're ready opened fire. Shoot up the mountain lot of lot of shooting up the mountain. The volcano guy tells us eruption is imminent. We must evacuate. Let's pull back to the ridge at koussa's sedentary and bang bang shoot jeeps and cars pull bat bang bang. Some more spent a lot of time shooting up the landscape and then the second strike force and they opened fire and they shoot up the depression zoned from which rodin emerges there is an eruption. There's lot of lava romance to romance fly around and then It's not clear to me exactly what happened to them. But somehow this is all has an adverse effect and one of them lands and sort of flops around near the lava. Yeah go ahead. Kiosk say keough gets upset as she's watching. This is pretty brutal. Yeah and then. The second rodin hovers over i and is dead. Yes it's burning the second one catches fire and rises up a little bit before it falls and that was really harsh and then and the music even music that they're playing in during this moment is like super sad and like we i was like why are we so likes said that. I don't know i was like this is a very movies monster struggle that. We've the movies telling us that this is tragic. Yes then the army's told to stand down return to your home meets the burning rodin flops around a bit more or and then rodin die. Everybody cry the eggplant. Guess i guess maybe all the shelling sort of injured them while they were underground unclear. Because it looks like they burst out and it looks like they're gonna save and then just being the lava really say and then flop. They just flopped around. Maybe the fumes from the overcame them. I don't know yeah. It was very unclear. It's kinda weird. I also wrote down <hes> if you've ever seen mulan you know there's this line where he says were. Mu shu says chicken boy say that to my face you limp noodle and the and so i wrote that down as rodin rodion voice chicken boy see that to my face you limp noodle was weird. It was weird and just like or them them just flopping around in the fire. I was like okay. That's what the end but you still liked it. I did like it. Yeah i mean. I especially coming out of the last two movies. Which was the the hollow mountain and on a tarantula tarantulas.
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"We see a lot of map work in these movies. It's always somebody pointing to a map elder. But he thinks he's gonna remember somewhere between the mines and the mount aso crater so watch this line between and Between the crater in the depression zone i dunno. Were depression zone is maybe that's some side effect of mining. Maybe a few mine out an area collapses and causes a depression zone. I'm just guessing. I don't know i don't either. We cut to gps rolling along the road and then they just happened to stop right. Near where rodin is emerging all almost all of our main characters except for keough. Are there the professor professor marian. The professor the police chief shigero. Who is a mining engineer. And the reporter ezaki. they're all in his jeep then they Said alert h. q. And one of the gps spa speeds off to do that and rodin flies after it and just just by flying over it turns it over and clings side of the road and and just wrecks at the will but the guys that are standing outside of their vehicles they all hit the dirt any passes over and they managed to not get killed and a call comes in. Hq planes are deployed. They chase rodin. Shoot shoot there's no effect. Rodin seems the disabled planes just by flying past them. I like the how they did..
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"But there's no egg they dig out a little bit though and find a piece of eggshell which is yep and it's really thick. It's like. I don't know four or five inches thick yes it does seem to be sterile and then it starts to be another cave in and they all got to get out. We cut to the studying. The shell the results are almost the results are that it's almost all calcium ninety percent calcium and he says that under the electron microscope. It looks exactly like chicken egg. That is not an electron microscope. Looking in that is a basic standard cheap as school laboratory microscope incensed. What go give me that shit. You couldn't have built a prop. I know you don't wanna buy a real electron microscope. Could make a prop one. But they're gonna try to use the curvature to determine the size of the egg and we cut to the miami physics research institute not to be confused with the volcanic research center or the earthquake research institute and they are passing around some kind of paper. Read out the professor..
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"It's huge and slide thirty eight thirty eight minutes. Fourteen seconds we get an actual so at thirty seven twenty two. We just saw the plane. Doing the loops was yelling. Couldn't couldn't was at thirty eight fourteen. We get a proper glimpse of rodin and the plane just cracks. Is he flies past it. Yeah and it's pretty a brutal like you see like the blood. splatter little little gruesome. Yeah then they cut to some guys standing around the guys. Bloody helmet yeah. I'll sing whether it's a flying and they're discussing others flying saucer or secret weapon. Who and a phone rings for the reporter. Ib a plane is gone missing flying saucer over east china sea. Beijing radio reporting a ufo. We start seeing a bunch of reporters own. Yeah an team. This what's going on. The philippines are under martial law. They are calling a creature. Yeah flying creature. The philippine filipino. Reporter seems to know that it's a creature and s- approaching the city In the okinawa telegraph office is either getting or sending a message about the the. Ufo is heading south at supersonic speed thirty miles west of naja and then tokyo news asks if earth is under attack the guy says the destruction caused by the flying saucer has been truly mind boggling and i wrote what destruction they just they skip the bunch and they just had a bunch of reporters telling us his progress but didn't show any of it. Yeah which is kind of smart as far as like goes so far smart cheap. Yeah but they don't even slammed from he just seems to be going from place to place and they don't really talk about what he's doing until the guy just says he's called a bunch of destruction right. Yeah and marino. Somebody is saying. I think is still a anchorperson is saying it can't be one object because it attacked beijing at eleven. Am and manila at eleven twenty. Am i did not get on..
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"And they see that there's someone down there and it says shigeru kawamura. Mara they all run down there and for some reason reporter introduces himself. Don't he is wounded. And he's crawling around on the ground and they go to help them in the reporter introduces himself. Well fancy meeting you here so they all arrive at the hospital and cross down wrote mine office at. They took him to the mine office. I like here washer. Face us tub. They discover his total ever nesia. Why is he not in the hospital. And i made note that the japanese sure are tough compared to the guy and beast from twenty thousand fathoms because that guy has a little bit of a trauma and then just hangs out in the hospital for weeks and weeks and leaves whenever he wants. Yeah this guy as Total amnesia and severe head injury just up and about at the office and like well. Maybe we'll take you to the hospital. Think about it in his lady friend. Keough comes in and he looks scared. Yeah he looks frightened by her. I don't know what that's about. I think he's this frightened by the fact that like yeah like she knows him and he doesn't know her to the just the experience of she's clearly acting like she knows me and i don't know who she is destroyed. Okay yeah that could be distressing as that so they say they have to do everything they can to help him recover. When the doctor says only one in ten thousand is total amnesia and may never he may never recover so he has he is the one in ten thousand that has total amnesia and he may never recover so let's get him to the clinic. Finally good idea get that poor man of the clinic later at the clinic. He's hooked up to a machine with squiggle paper on it. You know the kind got a little pen. The squirrels back and forth. It's measuring something either detector test or maybe he's having a what is it called on her having a baby contraction they're modern something His heartbeat or something. There's pulse on the squiggle paper and telling him to open his eyes and closes is take key breaths and they have them. Look at some monster mugshots. And at one point he kinda looks like he's remembering and then he lays down clutches its head and then a police get a call from the wall. The mount aso volcano research center not to be confused with the earthquake research institute to warn them that there are signs of an impending eruption. And they they should forbid access to the crater until further notice. Moore's airplanes at the airbase and a plane headed for kuwait. Ohka oh they report so at the airplanes have picked up something. They've seen something on the plane heading for food. Fukuoka nationality is unknown. It's at twenty thousand. Feet moving at supersonic speed and they tell his pilot to stay in pursuit kit. Hara i think is a pilot and he repeats back pilot pilot reports back other planes. There's some other planes at thirty seven minutes twenty two seconds. We finally get a glimpse of rodin. Who is the other plane and in his doing he's doing loop de loops and he also has a condensation trail. Yeah i don't get it. Is there so we can clearly see where he's the sky from a distance any reason other than that no thinking we have to do with like how fast he's going. Maybe like through the. I have no idea. Well it's caused by the temperature difference between the clock. The jet and the air outside the causes the air to condensates quickly in a trail behind the plane. And i d- rodin is not flying through jet power. Well maybe just gotta ask. I guess so spicy..
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"Owned my god. That was the saddest dark against. You're supposed to try to drag out for as long as you can buy an attorney until you get to the punchline. That's just a ridiculous month based glass how i was. I wish you could see ole. Because i just had my hand over my mouth like what would have never told a joke before. I was just Improvising but that was as long as i could go. Brilliant normal norm macdonald tells that joke on coach bryan and drags it out quite a bit. And so this mega neuron apparently just showed up because their light was on and he just barges in unannounced a run for help and the police guards or whatever. These guys are come rather quickly and and shoot The monster gets one of them. Yeah and before he does. They're like shooting. He puts his little pinschers like his little arms like his little hands. Like don't shoot heads up. But he gets one of them. And they run away and start. Evacuating everybody evacuating everyone to nishi. Macci the air raid sirens. Start going off and people started evacuating and then they say that it's headed for the slag heap. Let's go and sugar leads soldiers or whatever these guys are. I think we find out later that they are meant to be police because we because we meet the police chief nishimura. But maybe it's because i'm not japanese. Don't recognize what a japanese police uniform looks like. But there's a lot of times in here when i'm not clear. Are these armed. Men military police or mind security. I just i don't. I don't know by whoever they are. They chase after the monster is climbing the flag heap. The men try to follow it up that like the trying to sneak up on it..
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"At the end to like sir like asa gerson and i think that was what was going into a few places but it seemed like a lot of the proper names for not being pronounced the way they were spelled. Yeah but go to doesn't believe it and he tries to be reassuring to kiel. Yeah they appear to sort of have a romance happening but nothing too. Nothing too steamy. Yeah it seems like it. Made me think they're just really close in a like kind of an intimate way but not like a degree. I guess it's just weird. The thing is maybe they're already fall so that we don't have to see all they don't have to be really over the top it. I mean there's a tendency in japanese culture not to show affection public. Yeah so that could be part of it. But we don't there's no part where he's like actively wooing her or anything but later when he's heard it does seem to fall to her to take care of him. Yeah which is what makes me think. They're some kind of a couple. Then we see a roll call outside. They're checking to see if everybody's here everybody's here except for the guards and goro so he's still missing and there. We see three guards in a tunnel above the flooding discussing that gorham still be down there and they go to look and the weird. We hear weird. Sound the l. Weird sound right after someone says that goes being a real pain in the ass. Yea reminded me of a little the ants in them. Yup i wrote it down. I wrote down. Sound kind of reminds me of them exclamation point they proceed. And there's more sound and something under the water grabs the guy in front second guy shoots also goes under the third guy gets away and the second guys weren't some kind of a military cap when he probably should be wearing a heart a hard hat like the other guys. I thought that was..
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"About our special. October project l. So last year. I did a thirty one days of horror where i watched at least one horror movie every day. Insert wilhelm scream now for For the halloween season and At that time all i did was post each movie on instagram or twitter. But now that we have this podcast. I thought i'd make some content out of that. Because i'm going to do it again. So the plan is to do a bunch of you. Just little mini episodes. Just five or ten minute things. Where i give a quick review rather than a whole in-depth breakdown like we do normally..
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"And it was a bit more exaggeration of a scramble, but you seem like redirecting receivers and stuff too that goes to what I talked about before the confidence, all of that. But yeah, that was one of those throws where, you know, there's a lot of talk about how mobile really is dead drunk. Let it really is Mac jumps. He's not going to give you a Cam Newton, gives you in the running game, but he's not a statue either. He, he can make the little movements that extension please. And that that matters that makes a difference just great at the details. Right pocket, manipulation. Even just watching him out at practice and I know everybody's going to be like having stop it. But watching him through it, screens out of practice, to the running backs, right? The Fakes, the, the footwork, on the screens, the the way that he throws the ball, kind of just the whole thing just looks small, dog. When he does it right, whether it's a screen pass or a downfield, throw mechanics in the pocket, you love to see these types of things especially from a Young quarterback and I am really excited found. This has nothing to do with with benching cam or anything like that but I'm really excited to see. Even if the plan remains to start cam at least to start the season. If the Patriots, especially next week, when we get into the joint practices, in Philadelphia give Mac more and more opportunities against the starters. Because if he goes out there and he performs like he does against the Scout Pack and he's even close to that good against the starters, then you really start to get excited, right? So I I think that you have to evaluate him against the starter is a little bit more moving forward. That doesn't mean you have to take the job from Cam Newton, but it's just important, especially this time of year because once you commit to cam as the starter during the regular season, practice is going to be heavily Cam Newton's practice, right? You're not going to suck. Get me restarting that quarterback on Sunday, you're not going to work out Mac Jones, the same way that they're working them out and Training Camps. So, Now's the Time to give Mac those reps against the starters, I mentioning through seven passes against the song is today. Let's see..
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"Against the scout-team and he's doing exactly what you would want to see your first-round quarterback doing the scout team which is light up the scout team, right? You want to see your first-round QB, go four-for-four and lead the offense, right down the field and score a touchdown against the scout-team defense, and that's exactly what Matt Joseph doing. So, how do you hold that against him? He's doing either putting him out there against the scout-team defense and he's making plays that. That's exactly what you want to see, right? I mean if he wasn't doing it, that's reason for concern. You can't hold it against him. The thing is in You know, you have to know what you're talking about to be able to do this but they're not. Not, you know, I don't mean that to be derogatory. It's just if you really know what you're looking for. There's things you can evaluate regardless of the defense and frankly, regardless of the wide receivers, right? Things like ball placement, the defensive backs going to be in a spot. Okay, Marvin all didn't beat Justin Bieber, that bad, that he was all alone things like footwork doesn't matter. Who's on the field, your foot Works your footwork, right? Because I ended the line of scrimmage Scouts. He might be the scout team, but they know where they're going. They're all right spots. It's up to him to recognize it. Who the players are, doesn't matter. It's how they're aligned. There's things you can like just because he's facing the scout team doesn't mean you throw those reps out. You know, if right off, he's facing the scout team. And There are certain things he does in there that are valuable, I'm not like okay. So he beats so-and-so with a back-shoulder, throw. All right. That defensive back. Probably know how to get in position, but ball placement footwork. Commanded the line of scrimmage doesn't matter who the defense is. Those are important elements of the quarterbacks game and you can evaluate Mac Jones or Cam Newton in the same thing. Setting up against the scout-team defense. Those aren't just total trash reps. Yeah, people act like going against the scout-team is going against Terror. It's not. You're going up against NFL football players and I don't care. If you're the 90,000 on the roster, the 90th, man, on the Patriots roster is a hell of a lot more talented than the random guys on the street. People think they are? Yeah. Those reps mean something. Yeah. So the other thing I wanted to mention was that throw that he had on the goal-line to Christian Wilkerson where he felt pressure off the right side and he was able to sort a step up in a lewd. The Rush. A little bit, any kind of almost jump past it and sort of threw it Wilkerson on a little under router kind of like a an in-cut five, you know, short at 3 for yard, in cut back on the goal line. And you just see the every once awhile and this I actually, I wouldn't see even say it's every once in a while I'd say once or twice a practice, we see this innate ability by name is Jones to move around the pocket, right? He's not a Scrambler, he's not fast, he's not Cam, Newton in the open field by any means, but he makes these subtle movements and when I wrote in my notebook was wrong. When we have the other quarterback down in Tampa up here, the do down in Tampa as I call them, and he was up here. Those types of little movements in the pocket and just that little side step or that little kind of climb in the pocket and move to your right, we used to log them for those, right, Tom Brady, right? That that's the Brady Pocket magic, right?.
Patriots Beat
"eleven" Discussed on Patriots Beat
"With you on this Monday night and Alex wage. I've been thrown off a little bit by the schedule here, this week for the Patriots, practicing later in the afternoon, a 3:30 start, time to practice yesterday. And today, we also be in the stage on Tuesday for a 3:30 practice as well. But I wanted to start with the quarterbacks as we normally do because I thought today in terms of a reps against black ones, versus ones, right starters versus starters and be that situational 2-minute at the end, of practice was probably the first time where we've seen a live 2 minute drill team in practice so far in full pads. So, turn up, I would say of this quarterback competition in general of situational football which we know third Downs, Two-minute RedZone a lot of what's going to come down, that's what this quarterback competition. I think is really going to come down to when it's all said and done. Both QB's can look good between the 12 volt is throwing balls against the scout-team defense, right? But what happens when we line up the ones versus the ones and go into it in a situation where Bill Belichick shouts out, okay. Fence. You're down by six points, you have to drive the field to score a touchdown and kick the p80 to win the game. You know, minute and 55 seconds. One timeout, no, timeouts, whatever it has to be off. Let's roll the ball out and see what happens and that's sort of what we got at the end of practice here. Tonight. We did and it was a good mix to, you know, this is it kind of related but also separate take away from practice for the last three sessions outside of that Friday. Walk through, which is kind of its own thing, right? Mac Jones, heavily heavily almost two-to-one. Dead. Out wrapped Cam Newton. Yeah, Cam Newton had the edge today in volume 17 14 Mac, jumps at the higher completion percentage. But Okay. So it back was getting all the snaps right? We were talking about okay? Here's some people thought. Maybe that was him running away from the job but for the most part it was okay. They want to get him the Reps. Now they want to give them the Okay. I'm the guy and there's not going to be reps, right? Yeah, well today it really felt like hey let's give both these guys, the same situation CEOs. Sure dinner. Today didn't and I know it says that the teaching. And he calls the beginning of Camp the teaching. I know he says the teaching. Is done once the pads come.
Lace Out AFL Podcast
"eleven" Discussed on Lace Out AFL Podcast
"Much guessing. I think if there's some runs on the board you can see what they plying apply some good local forty good is itself a strike football league forty. That's struck down covert. It's local foote's buying trap block my goodness just. When season beginning back the thereby all stopped again ebi. Another one on number two so we saw smashed on the weekend. What they need is a midfielder has pace and they're talking about a guy who is Well they've got the gua- who's needing they've gotten it raised down there They may take someone else in other toll person potentially as well and they're looking at mid moyle a two hundred and five centimeter hips. One of your favorites again. My friend he is an ex bowl. Fire it you must be reloaded the in a wreck in that audio nine patricia. With him as well. Yeah we can work. He's refined box dea dea say is also join you can as well that could take a picture with holes on pick number three calling yet The pause have kit. Young defends running back but required midfielders. N que folds funniest because they had some young midfielders. That could do that job. Like four from did i sort of went. Wish ever brandi. So heath is also one of those ones. Be deal for the maggie's And that could also be seriously looking at the talk around here is looking at giving toss dangle another crack at. Afl you know what he can do if he's been burning up in the local leagues. Well not not or. I jog my friend in the mood for me to spin. The magnets okay. Let's in them or so. It's spinning spin time. So what should we go with. I can we go with your three rights. Let's stop these off. no actually. Let's start this off mostly so let's start off with a bit of robots three. It's already on i. You can go your first and foremost. I have two baby boys. T but what melvin. Did the dog fraud. I was since national loved. It didn't expect it hell. No i even pick the doggies coming out and kicked their highest score in the first quarter for the entire why restricting the doggies to the lower score the entire email certainly individual. That do these podcasts. Meets how far through the second quarter. It's all done. It's all live and my didn't expect it didn't have applied was exceptional italian. Now if you haven't thrown a couple of dollars on good old clayton a love for the brownies. Probably picked up his third based on grand in the last three weeks. He's is on a sunday..
Lace Out AFL Podcast
"eleven" Discussed on Lace Out AFL Podcast
"Locked in. Then you've got sydney west coast richmond essendon. Gw s fremantle and. I have to put some children just because they're on points but they've got way too much percentage to make up this law at this point of the year halfway through the season crystal bowl on who stabilizing and who drops at everyone size. Okay so you're going to miss. Here's what i'm saying. I think say west coast of the danger if they turn up like they did on the weekend and deliver what they served up against essendon. They're going to drop my because they've got issues at the moment. And i think the way that i lost on the weekend in house i lost in that last third of the gang inexcusable convey. The danger of being sydney is going to be saif. Especially if there's a lot more hub games meaning that i wanted to travel anywhere. They'll stein play more games in sydney richmond. We know what they can expect. And i still think once again still think i'm looking at essendon. Isn't there a full full capacity. Pliers was at the moment. Outside of probably dylan. She'll gw s a lot of injuries. If they can get those players back once again the game. Stay in yourself. Vials of there. The altitude teams are have a bit of a chance of sneaking in l. a. r. wrecking your audit. We'll stay but if it is it's going to be only isn't an orgy and invest in the market. That's gonna be messy because if we said at the start of the the i only on. Espn support themselves to believe that Pity jama are quite a bit of a. I'm on the weekend. And i play the letter. Predicting i'm all tell me about it on the leopard to gain from just looking at the games that we know coming up this saying that i minimum to make the this year is going to be a eleven winds and we could have tames on the winds. Well that's that is really team on tain but that is like saying that the top teams going to be adding seven hundred nine anes. That's pretty amazing. That's pretty big as a team's winning a lot of kinds minimum minimum is like thirteen tag night premierships and not wanting june doesn't matter hannity you. In through the season image along lost one game for the season came into that three thousand night grandfather lost on but this is interesting because it just as we talk about the competition getting more even and even baiting anyone in a day. I let a result like that also shows that there is a huge disparity between tops and bottoms. I think at the top of the top part of the ladder up until about ten or eleven. That's quite even probably even maybe twelve alsaud of that. It's just too much of a gap and once again. Is this flow on effect from the drafts that were compromised with gw wfan gulf coast. Are we still feeling an affect. Who's tonight but that he's that he's messy. What's next on your letter. Peps just.
Lace Out AFL Podcast
"eleven" Discussed on Lace Out AFL Podcast
"You'll be out of control. Last guy is going to be a bit of an interesting one. I didn't think this was becky. Puskas elliott. y'all fondly is back which is ten goes ten goes west freshdirect drink once four years. Harry woods jake. Waterman admitted brennan. Many suburbs out. Harrison jones has managed. Jigsville the triple headed dragon down. The law lawn absolutely. Destroy anything that these week and they've gone early two. Yeah so let's let's see what happens in this guy on sunday. Let's see what happens down for a bag of seeks dali de-emphasis. I k. i am going to go west coast because they are incapable of winning wife from high but that hard. That's true at home. They they look like the ducks nuts on. I look like tarzan imply giant anywhere else in the country. Yeah exactly right right. Let's maybe the sun guys. I one very close to johansen. I'm gonna let you roll with this. One is going to be poor to light versus. The fremantle dog volunteered push back pain. Puskas gun what does it mean. Pushback done i just. Because i they plying the home of adelaide football five twenty seven excellent so ins four now obviously extended teams being a sunday. Mash board woodcock jar. Lana martin frederick and orazio fantasia is back omitted visit because for a while now but Has admitted sorry Who knows what his career goes is last year on his career. So it's just see good service for. The cloth has knee walsh sir. Because he's been played pretty good coin. Basil name come depositions and then on the other side for free. I we've got arab show. Joel watson lloyd. Make an thailand. Duman come in ad has been many tabuena which is a huge out. was injured and the new player on the list for free night. His diaper is joel. Weston good locks fix so pips thumb on. I have to go a ledge. Get quick question. What's up by team now. Dixon's to keep fav. I conquer that all django. That hawk dixon will kick five. It's a it's a bottom bottom half of the drawl dixit will dominate. We know tell looks and the nine that we love to drop arrived is back as well too. So he's got up that full-on with seven. Our puts a lot of pressure on laba to do something up there as well through. So i just think atalaya put at the anaheim adelaide oval five twenty love flying before the news. The five already have a look at these fun day targets who have been under a bit of pressure out This is the allied cross who will be pumping after the against the days. Solution to ten pm at giants. Stadium over to you. Love it or is this week once again. Extended this cowan coleman giants. They impressed the keti babbo. Charcoal shaibah an thomas dow and trent touching. Pretty handy means pitts. Say lighten frank our amongst that group as well who is a cab throw in. There is an admitted this way jack. Ross molem picket under his suspension. We've got petty nash. And also tommy. John lynch is injured as well as nice as well..
The Face Radio
"eleven" Discussed on The Face Radio
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