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The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from Canada Applauds a Literal Nazi with Ezra Levant and Scott Presler
"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. Hey everybody, time to get to work. We get a grassroots update from Scott Pressler. We're doing a lot with him at Turning Point Action, tpaction .com. That is tpaction .com. And one of the most humiliating stories, sad stories, but boy, we focus on it. Canada. Oh Canada. Honoring Nazis. Oh Canada. Honoring SS members. Email us freedom at charliekirk .com. Subscribe to our podcast. Open up your podcast app. Become a member. members .charliekirk .com. That is members .charliekirk .com. Get involved with Turning Point USA at tpusa .com. That is tpusa .com. Buckle up everybody. Here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here. Brought to you by the loan experts I trust, Andrew and Todd at Sierra Pacific Mortgage at andrewandtodd .com.
Bloomberg Businessweek
Fresh update on "eric k" discussed on Bloomberg Businessweek
"World. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau with our Eric Schatzker Bloomberg Talks. Subscribe today on Apple, Spotify and anywhere you get your podcasts. Bloomberg. Context changes everything. Global market news changes in an instant. Don't Listen miss a minute. Listen to Bloomberg radio anytime, anywhere around the world on the iHeartRadio app. Tune in. The Bloomberg Business app and Bloomberg .com. Now your company news headlines. And from Bloomberg World headquarters in New York. I'm Denise Pellegrini. We have a new warning out about Nike ahead of quarterly results later this week. Analysts over at Jeffries say Nike faces a risk from slower spending by U .S. students Just four about tenths, three tenths of a percent on the day change at the top at Alcoa. We get more on that from Bloomberg's Lisa Mateo. Alcoa has named William Oplinger as its new CEO, replacing Roy Harvey, who led has the largest U .S. aluminum producer since its split from Arconic. Chief Operations Officer Oplinger is a natural successor. He was chief financial officer when Harvey took over as CEO, and the two have worked closely together for years. Harvey will stay on as strategic advisor to the new CEO until
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from John Amanchukwu (Encore)
"Welcome to the Eric Metaxas Show. We'll get you from point A to point B. But if you're looking for point C, well, buddy, you're on your own. But if you wait right here, in just about two minutes, the bus to point C will be coming right by. And now, here's your Ralph Kramden of the Airways, Eric Metaxas. Hey there, folks. Welcome to the show. We have a guest on who, man, I don't even know how to start. First of all, I'll try to pronounce his name correctly. John Amanchukwu. I got John correct. I think I got Amanchukwu correct. John Amanchukwu is someone I've come to admire tremendously. He's in North Carolina. He is he's been a pastor for years. He is a brave voice in the midst of the madness, one of the bravest voices. And it's my privilege to have him as my guest for this hour. John, welcome. Hey, thank you so much, Dr. Eric, for having me on your show. You can't call me Dr. Eric because I'm not a doctor, but you can call me whatever you want. Could you call me the Commodore or Admiral? I'd prefer I really prefer that. But no, seriously, you you have been such a brave voice and people have seen you, you know, probably on Instagram reels or whatever. Tell my audience, because this is it's always better when my guest tells the story. But you've been a brave voice speaking out against the. What would be a nice term for it, satanic lunacy of. Profoundly sexual material being given to children in our schools, very tough for most of us to believe that this is happening, but it has been happening. You've been exposing it and you've been bravely speaking against it. So let's just start, John, with how did you get involved in this? At what point did you say I'm going to step up and start confronting these crazy abusers? Because that's what they are, abusers of our children. How did that start for you? Well, I've been involved in this kind of work for the past 20 years. I joined a church in college called Upper Room Church for God in Christ. I joined at the age of 19. And the senior pastor is Bishop Patrick Langwood and senior. And he says that our church is a cause driven church. You know, we believe that there is a cause in Christ. There's a cause in the marketplace for us to bring our biblical world view to it, to engage the culture and to fight against evil and wickedness. Isaiah 520 says, woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness. And so we've just been on the front lines on the abortion clinic issue, fighting against fatherlessness and the black community. And now even with this indoctrination in the public school system, now, some people call it indoctrination and some people call it grooming. But I like to call it mental rape. That's the best way for me to define what has taken place in the public school system. I call it mental rape because it assaults the soul. It stains the brain and it robs children of their innocence. When you put pornographic material in a library and make it accessible for kids, K through 12, a child is going to pick that book up. And I went out to Asheville and spoke about a book entitled It's Perfectly Normal. That book is for kids 10 and up. It's hardcore porn. It's not soft porn. It's hardcore porn. That book gives Hugh Hefner a run for his money. When you open the book, it depicts images of heterosexual sex and homosexual sex. Why do 10 year olds need to see and learn how you should have lesbian sex at the age of 10? That's disgusting. That's evil. It's mental rape. There's an assault taking place upon children, and there's a critical point that's being left out of the equation. And that's the church. The church is not engaging. We need some modern day Karl Barth. We need some modern day Martin Niemol. We need some people who are willing to engage the culture and tell the church, listen, we are not supposed to be co -opted by the state. The state is not supposed to run the church. And when we go into a public school, we have this thing called parental choice. Some call it rights, but I call it parental choice. I call it parental choice because our rights come from God as parents. But choice parents have had the choice and the knowledge of being able to assess and know what's going on in the public school system and to have the freedom and the liberty to push back when there is an assault upon their children. Well, listen, everything you say, I mean, I agree with it violently. I am in churches effectively preaching what you just said in a little different way. But what basically this is called, what you are advocating for is called the technical term is Christianity. This is called Christian faith. If you do not do what what you're describing, if you're not pushing back, if you're not being salt and light in the culture, if you're not being a warrior for truth and speaking against evil, then you are not living out your Christian faith. But there are many, many churches and you and I know about that that do not do this. They don't get involved in this. They say we don't want to be divisive. These are the same people that would say, you know, we don't care if there's slavery happening, as long as it's not happening in my church. That's right. It's complete hypocrisy. And as Christians, we are called to step up. And I keep saying that the Lord has allowed it to get this bad to wake up those who are still sleeping, because what you just described is very tough for me and most people, even to hear that children would be exposed to this absolutely evil stuff. What do you call it if you don't call it evil? This is evil for children to be exposed to these kinds of things. And it's shameful that they're just a handful of brave souls like you speaking against it.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Fresh update on "eric k" discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
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The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Jay Brock (Encore)
"Ladies and gentlemen, looking for something new and original, something unique and without equal, look no further. Here comes the one and only Eric Mataxas. Folks, welcome. I've spoken previously on this program to our friend Rabbi Jason Sobol, who has certain many books. The new one is called Signs and Secrets of the Messiah. And last time, Rabbi, you were telling us some of these amazing correlations between the Old and the New Testament and the Jewishness of the New Testament, which people should know, but sometimes they forget how profoundly the New Testament is a commentary on the Old Testament and points us back and how the Old Testament points us forward over and over. And last time you talked about the paralytic or the man who was unable to walk for 38 years. And you said that that relates to the Israelites wandering in the desert for 38 years, and you explained about how they had been prepared by God for two years, but then they wandered for 38 years. I just find that kind of stuff so fascinating. So I know the new book is called Signs and Secrets of the Messiah. What other things like that do you mention in Signs and Secrets of the Messiah? I mean, we get into so many miracles and, you know, God is in the details, right? So if there's a detail in the Bible, it's there for a reason. So, you know, again, the first miracle we talked about last time I was with you is the first miracle we talked about in Signs and Secrets, which is the water into wine. Well, there's a detail there. It says that he said fill six stone pots to the brim. Well, the question is, if it says six stone pots, what's the significance that there's six stone pots? Why not seven? Why not eight? Well, some of the significance there is that we have to understand there's a lot. Man was created on the sixth day. In Jewish thought, we fell on the sixth day. When Jesus comes and he gives his life for us on the cross, OK, he dies on Friday, which is the sixth day of the week. He dies on a cross. Why? Because the first man and woman stole from the tree. So God puts Jesus, who Paul calls the second Adam, back on the tree for you and me with the crown of thorns on his head. Why? What's the sign of the curse of creation? The ground produced thorns and thistle. He takes the curse on his head to break it and restore the blessing. And so when Jesus dies on the same day man was created and fell and he does his first miracle with six stone pots, he's saying, I am restoring the fruitfulness that was lost at creation. And I don't want you to any more live out of the lack, but to live out of the overflow. And by the way, the number six in Hebrew is written with the letter Bob. It's the conjunction and it's a letter that connects heaven and earth. When we sin, we broke the connection. Jesus comes back to restore it, that we might experience his blessing. That is some heavy stuff that is absolutely amazing. Say that again about the letter when you write the number six in Hebrew, talk about that again, because I want to make sure I catch that. Yeah, absolutely. So Hebrew is alphanumeric. So there's no Roman numerals in the Bible. Both Hebrew and Greek have an alphanumeric component, meaning that if I say open up the chapter one in your Bible, I'll say open up to chapter Aleph, because it's the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet has a numerical value of one. The sixth letter of the Hebrew alphabet is the Hebrew letter of love. It's the most used letter in the five books of Moses, and it's the conjunction. And the first place the letter of love occurs in the Bible is in the first verse of the Bible, Genesis one, one. And in Hebrew, there are seven words in Genesis one, one corresponding to the seven days of creation. The sixth word of Genesis one begins with the sixth letter. God created the heavens. That's the fifth. And that's the sixth. And Earth is seven. When we sin, we broke the vow, the letter, the number six, the letter Bob that connects heaven and earth. When Jesus dies on Friday and does the miracle with the six stones pots, he's restoring the connection and the blessing that was lost in the beginning.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Fresh update on "eric k" discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"That's REVWUTruth, REVWUTruth, REVWUTruth. I just want people to find you because you're such an important voice out there. And and you've done this a few times where you've gone to school boards and you've read out of these books. Am I right? That's right. That's right. And so they don't want you to read their content. The materials, the books. So I went to a school board meeting in Asheville, I drove Eric eight hours to speak for three minutes, and that video went viral and it reached over 65 million people on all platforms. OK, I read from that book. It's perfectly normal. And while reading from the book, the board chair says, pastor, pastor, pastor, pastor, pastor for like 15 seconds. He's telling me to stop reading. And then I get to a point where I want to stop. And I said, was it something I said? Was it something I said, if you don't want me to read it, then why should children have access to it in the public schools? It is so vulgar. And this is the point is that most people cannot imagine how sick this stuff is, how vulgar, how sexual, how graphic, how utterly inappropriate for children, utterly inappropriate. That's putting it very nicely. And you say that this is mental rape. That's what it is. There are things that if you speak these things to children, it is it is it is a violation of their souls. It is something absolutely, deeply satanic and sick. And this is what the radical left is doing. And if you're not doing something about it, folks, you're part of the problem. This is our country. We'll be right back talking to John Amanchukwu.
Crypto News Alerts | Daily Bitcoin (BTC) & Cryptocurrency News
A highlight from 1410: Bitcoin Will Hit $10,000,000 Per Coin - Binance CEO CZ
"In today's show, I'll be breaking down the latest technical analysis. And also I'm going to be sharing with you a 48 ,700 Bitcoin price target, pre halving according to a top analyst. Also did you know it was exactly six years ago today, China tried and failed to ban Bitcoin for the second time and ever since the Bitcoin price action is up 600 % and the mining hash rate is back at all time highs. Also quitting Max Kaiser, Bukele has restored the human rights to 7 million Salvadorians that have been taken away by murderous runts, the British and American state, a 93 % approval rating tells the story of the most popular leader in the world. And now Bukele -nomics is being copied around the world as a blueprint for freedom and justice preach. Also in today's show, Mt. Gox repayments delayed yet again. Creditors are waiting on Bitcoin, Bitcoin cash and Yen payments until next year in 2024. We'll also be discussing, according to this latest report, Coinbase currently holds 5 % of the entire Bitcoin supply in existence. That's right. While Coinbase holds 25 billion in BTC, the exchange only owns around 200 million in Bitcoin and its wallets. We'll also be discussing the catalyst, which will catapult the Bitcoin price action. According to skybridge capitals, Anthony Scaramucci will also be discussing the latest with the Binance CEO CZ setting the record straight on $250 million loan claims. That's right. The US court had recently denied an inspection plea by the SEC. I'll be breaking down this latest FUD and speaking of CZ, the Binance CEO predicts the Bitcoin price will reach $10 million per coin. In fact, a couple of years back in an interview, he said, if all of the major institutions allocate 1 % Bitcoin, we're going to see 1000 X or more growth of the Bitcoin price. And if you run the math, 1000 times today's price action is 26 to $27 million per BTC. We'll also be taking a look at the overall crypto market, all this plus so much more in today's show. Yo what's good crypto fam. This is first and foremost, a video show. So if you want the full premium experience with video, visit my YouTube channel at crypto news alerts .net. Again, that's crypto news alerts .net and welcome everyone just joining us. This is podcast episode number 1410. I'm your host JV and today is September 23rd, 2023. So welcome to another sat stacking Saturday. Let's kick it off with our market watch as we do here each and every day, seven days a week. We can see Bitcoin back in the green trading above 26 .6 and we also have ether back in the green trading at roughly $1 ,600. The market cap is sitting at 1 .06 trillion with roughly 17 billion in volume. In the past 24 hours, we've got Bitcoin dominance at 49 .1 % and the ether dominance at 18 .2 % as Bitcoin continues outpacing Ethereum and checking out the top 100 crypto gainers of the past 24 hours, we've got theta lead in the pack up 7 % trading just under 64 cents followed by rocket pool up 4 % trading at $21 .63, followed by chain link up 4 % trading at $7 .18 and checking out the top 100 crypto gainers of the past week, we have WeMix leading this pack up 15%. We have PLS up 8 .2 % and XRD up 11, I mean 7 .4 % and checking out the crypto greed and fear index, we're currently rated a 47, which is neutral. Yesterday was a 43 in fear, last week also a 43 and last month a 41 in fear. So there you have it. How many of you have been stacking M -Sats and taking advantage of the recent dip in dollar cost averaging? Let me know. And how many of you are anticipating Bitcoin price action to maybe dip a little further south before packing some new positions? Let me know how you feel with the current status. And also just quick reminder, we're almost at the end of September historically, September is the worst month out of the entire year for the Bitcoin price action, but it's always followed by up tober, which is historically one of the most bullish months for Bitcoin. So we only have another week until we get out of September. So we'll see how this is likely to play out. Let's break down today's Bitcoin technical analysis. Bitcoin failed to reclaim 27 ,000, though we came close. It stalled at 26 ,500 as of right now. Meanwhile, the altcoins are in no better shape with minor losses coming from most of the larger cap ones. With Chainlink, the only one with a notable price increase. So last week was expectedly less volatile, aside from the brief spike on Saturday that pushed Bitcoin then to the multi -day peak of 26 ,400. But after failing to continue upwards, Bitcoin retraced at 26 ,000 and spent the rest of the weekend there. Then Monday didn't start all that positively either, but finished the way. Bitcoin went on the offensive and soared above 27 ,000 for the first time in weeks, but then shortly dumped after. But the bulls kept the pressure on and pushed Bitcoin to a new 20 -day peak at 27 ,500 on Tuesday. The next few days were rather calm with Bitcoin maintaining 27 G's, even after the US Fed's decision to stop raising the interest rates. Yet Bitcoin's momentum disappeared by Friday as it fell to 26 ,400. It even tried to bounce off the end of the day, but failed and currently stands at 26 ,500. Its market cap is south of 520 billion, while its dominance over the alts still just inches shy of 49%. So there you have it. And as we mentioned a little earlier, the altcoins, a lot of them are also in the red with the exception of Chainlink, which seems to be outpacing the rest of the major alts. Now for a prediction from Titan of Crypto, here's what he shared on X. Bitcoin 48 ,700 before the halving rocket ship to the moon. You might want to bookmark this one. Fam, never in history the halving occurred without Bitcoin reaching the 78 .6 % Fibonacci retracement level. So first off, first cycle price reached this four months before the halving, and the second cycle it was two months before, and then on the third cycle it was 12 months before. The next halving is now roughly six months away. Bitcoin might reach the 78 .6 % Fibonacci level within this period as it currently lies at 48 ,700, but the million dollar question remains, will this time be different? So as we enter this fourth halving, let me know where you feel the Bitcoin price action is likely to hit before we have liftoff. I mean, obviously that would be a bullish scenario setting us up for a perfect price discovery in 2024 post halving. So I cannot wait. I hope the analyst is right. And if you didn't know, it was exactly six years ago. China tried and failed to ban Bitcoin for the second time because guess what? You can't ban Bitcoin. You can try. Good luck with that. And ever since the price action on the King Crypto is up 600 % and the mining hash rate continues to hit all time highs. And as you know, hash rate is a good indicator for the strength of the network, meaning the market cap is just north of only $500 billion. And as Max points out here, referring to Bukele, he has restored the human rights of 7 million Salvadorans that have been taken away by murderous runts. The British and American state, a 93 % approval rating tells the story, the most popular leader in the world. And now Bukele Nomics is being copied around the world as a blueprint for freedom and justice. Massive shout out to Najib Bukele and the people of El Salvador. Which country do you feel is likely to adopt Bitcoin as a legal tender next? Let me know your honest thoughts in the comments below. I feel it's going to be another Latin American country. I'd say a great candidate for that is Argentina, which has hundreds of millions of people. We have Javier Malay, the pro presidential candidate. There is a 70 % chance plus that he is elected as the president. And we already know the likelihood he could make Bitcoin a legal tender, especially being orange -pilled by Max Keiser, who is the senior Bitcoin advisor for President Bukele. As Max has already announced, he can't wait to touch down in Buenos Aires to orange pill Javier Malay. Then we also have Mexico. We have people like Ricardo Salinas, the third richest man in Mexico, very pro Bitcoin, claiming Bitcoin has been his best investment ever because, again, Max orange -pilled him back in 2014. Then we have Brazil and so many other countries that make Bitcoin a potential to become legal tender. And we all know that's going to be a game changer. And that's just another catalyst on top of the Bitcoin halving scheduled in six months in 2024, plus the approval of a spot Bitcoin ETF in the United States. So can you say fireworks lays ahead? Let's go. Now let's discuss the latest more bullish news, meaning Mt. Gox is going to be delaying these payments, which means no crypto is going to be dumped onto the open market anytime soon, which again is good for the hodlers. Check it out. Now we got Nobuaki, the Mt. Gox trustee in charge of the funds owed to the exchange creditors, updated the public on September 21st, two days ago, according to the trustee, because of the lengthy discussions with specific payment providers, he could not make the October 31st deadline. That was the initial deadline, fam. And because of this reason, the repayments will start next year. And so they say, quitting him here. Therefore, with the permission of the Tokyo district court, the rehabilitation trustee changed the deadline of the base repayment, the early lump sum repayment and the intermediate repayment from October 31st, 2023 Japan time to October 31st, 2024 Japan time, respectively. By the letter of the Kobashi details, the Mt. Gox creditors waited nine years for payments. Good Lord. Currently, they're owed one hundred and forty one thousand six hundred and eighty six BTC plus one hundred and forty two thousand eight hundred and forty six Bitcoin cash and sixty nine is that billion yen. Good Lord. I'd love to know what that equates to in dollars anyways, though the delay has been extended. The creditors who have completed their claims might receive the payment by year's end, quoting them again. Rehabilitation creditors who have provided the necessary info to the rehabilitation trustee will see the payments made in a sequence as early as the end of this year, according to the letter. However, this schedule could change. Kobashi also said that due to the high volume of inquiries regarding the process, the rehabilitation team might not respond promptly. Well, that doesn't sound so promising, but I guess it's a good sign that most of this cash is not going to be dumped off any time soon, as there's a lot of FUD that's always circulating. The Mt. Gox, you know, sell off is going to crash the entire market. I think that is very unlikely and is nothing more than FUD. And again, we're gearing up for the most bullish sentiment in the four year cyclical cycle amongst us in twenty twenty four. So versus being in fear, I would be very optimistic about what's to come for the king crypto and the crypto market as a whole. But what are your thoughts, fam? Let me know in the comments right down below. Now let's discuss the largest crypto exchange in the United States. Clearly, it is Coinbase. The CEO is Brian Armstrong. But did you know, according to this latest report, they currently control and own over five percent of the Bitcoin in circulation. That's pretty hefty. And let's break this one down. And how many of you have used the Coinbase crypto exchange before? Let me know in the comments below. Here we go. Blockchain intelligence platform ARKAM recently identified the crypto exchange Coinbase holds almost one million Bitcoin in its wallets like, whoa, the coins are worth more than twenty five billion dollars at the current prices. Now, according to ARKAM, the exchanges holdings amount to almost five percent of all the existing Bitcoin. ARKAM said Coinbase holds a total of nine hundred forty seven thousand seven hundred and fifty five BTC. And at the moment, Bitcoin circulating supply is around nineteen million four hundred ninety three thousand five hundred thirty seven, according to coin info on CoinGecko. And as ARKAM shared here on X, ARKAM now identified twenty five billion of Bitcoin's Coinbase reserves with one million, approximately Bitcoin on chain. This makes Coinbase the largest Bitcoin entity in the world on ARKAM, with almost five percent of all the Bitcoin in existence, almost as much as Satoshi Nakamoto. Crazy, right? Furthermore, ARKAM noted that it has tagged and identified thirty six million Bitcoin deposits and holding addresses used by the exchange. And according to ARKAM, Coinbase's largest cold wallet holds around ten thousand BTC. And based on the exchanges financial reports, the intelligence company believes that Coinbase has more Bitcoin than are yet labeled and could not be identified. And while Coinbase holds over twenty five billion worth of Bitcoin in its wallets, the exchange only owns around ten thousand of all the Bitcoin in which it holds, which is roughly two hundred million dollars, according to the recent data. Meanwhile, community members express varying reactions to the news about the amount of Bitcoin on the centralized exchange in which they hold. Some believe it's a sign to withdraw their Bitcoin from the exchanges, warning hodlers not to wait until the exchanges start to halt withdrawals. Others say that since there are legitimate concerns over cold wallets, there is no good way to store your assets. I'd like to chime in real quick. Obviously, if it's not your keys, it's not your coins. So while a custodian such as Coinbase can hold your crypto, you've got to also note that it's not yours. So if something were to happen, hypothetically, like we've seen with FTX and the collapse last year, then not your keys, not your coins, they don't belong to you at the end of the day. So you've got to start to weigh the risk reward with having a custodian such as Coinbase or a centralized exchange hold your coins versus taking the responsibility for yourself and learning how to self custody your own crypto and call storage such as with a Bitcoin cold wallet, such as a treasure. So I just wanted to point that out. There's no right or wrong way to hold your crypto. You've got to do what's in your best interest, of course. So, you know, I mean, just want to keep it real at the end of the day. So check it when it comes to Bitcoin ownership by companies, business intelligence for MicroStrategy still owns most Bitcoin. I believe it's over one hundred and fifty two thousand eight hundred BTC, to be exact, worth over four billion dollars at the time of this recording, making them the largest publicly traded company to have Bitcoin on their balance sheet. Now, another major company that controls over six hundred thousand BTC is Grayscale in their GBTC product, the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust, which they just recently had a lawsuit against the SEC with the plan to convert their trust into a spot Bitcoin ETF. So considering they already control the underlying asset in the sum of over six hundred thousand BTC makes them a pretty strong contender. Wouldn't you agree? Let me know your thoughts, fam. And now let's break down our next story of the day and discuss the Bitcoin price likely to catapult along with the altcoin to coin to SkyBridge Capital, Anthony Scaramucci. Let's break this down. Shout out to the Mooch, SkyBridge Capital founder Scaramucci is detailing how one catalyst could have a bullish impact on Bitcoin, as well as the alt. In an interview with the Wolf of Wall Street, Scott Melker Scaramucci says that a spot Bitcoin ETF could be approved in the first quarter of twenty twenty four, which seems to be a ninety five percent likelihood, according to top ETF analyst at Bloomberg, Eric Balchunes. So according to SkyBridge Capital founder, the approval of the spot Bitcoin ETF and the Bitcoin halving, which is expected to occur in April of twenty twenty four, could combine to ignite a crypto bull market. No, it's not. It could combine. It will combine. Just saying. Quitting him here as Wall Street or products on Wall Street are sold, they are not bought. And so there is going to be tens of thousands, if not one hundred thousand plus people at these Wall Street firms selling these products to their traditional investors. So people that are in Bitcoin understand the finite supply of Bitcoin, right? We all know there's a finite limited supply, 21 million, and they understand the nature and the quality the Bitcoin has. This will push Bitcoin up. Of course, it will have a dramatically positive effect on the altcoin market because it will lead to more capital into digital properties so people can think whatever they want. They can think short term about the near term volatility of Bitcoin. But these macro positive factors are overwhelming. And according to Scaramucci, the potential approval of a spot Bitcoin ETF filed by giant asset managers such as BlackRock, who controls over 10 trillion in assets under management and Fidelity, that controls over four and a half trillion in assets under management, can see Bitcoin increasing its market cap by roughly 24 times from the current level. We'll send it. Let's go quoting the Mooch here. It is important that now the largest asset manager in the world who started out with some level of skepticism related to digital assets and Bitcoin is now willing to adopt Bitcoin. I mean, I guess they mean BlackRock is willing to adopt Bitcoin, but even more important than that, they're willing to explain to their clients. I think BlackRock now has 13 trillion dollars in assets under management. So for them, seven trillion for Fidelity. While these numbers are higher than I even imagine, while their clients need exposure to digital property like Bitcoin. And so we have a five hundred billion dollar plus market for Bitcoin. So you and I know gold is at 12 trillion ish, depending on where it's trading. But yes, 12 trillion. There is no reason why Bitcoin couldn't get gold. So there you have it. And to watch this video interview he did with Scott Melker entitled 37000 Bitcoin. Can it skyrocket 35 percent? Check the show notes below the video in the description. And I think we all could agree it's only a matter of time before Bitcoin returns to price discovery mode, virtually meaning entering new all time highs. My personal prediction is sometime in 2024, considering the two biggest catalysts, which we just covered, the Bitcoin halving and Bitcoin ETF approval, which we know is going to be a given, especially considering the SEC is not going to be able to push it back and push back that deadline any longer because, you know, they just they have been pushing it back now for 10 years while they continue to approve futures ETFs, which can allow them to spoof and manipulate the market, which is all by design. At the end of the day, there's not new under the sun and three things cannot be long hidden. The sun, the moon and the truth. But just saying. Anyways, fam, now let's discuss the ongoing fight against CZ, the finance CEO with this 250 million dollar loan. And then I'll be breaking down his 10 million dollar price prediction and in fact sharing a transcription of him claiming that Bitcoin can thousand X from the current price, which would ultimately mean not 10 million, but we're talking twenty six to twenty seven million dollars per coin. Let's break this down. So here we go. First, with the FUD, the Binance CEO, CZ Shangping Zhao had refuted a recent report alleging that he received the 250 million dollar loan from BAM Management, the company that serves as the holding entity for Binance US. Now, how many of you have used Binance US or Binance before as the exchange? Let me know, fam. The development comes amidst Binance's struggles with plunging trading volume as the world's largest crypto exchange faces mounting lawsuits and increased scrutiny, regulatory which seems to all be by design by the SEC and the regulators. Right. The report published by Decrypt September 19th drew its conclusions from court documents associated with the ongoing lawsuit involving Binance and the United States. SEC, according to the news agency's interpretation, the Binance US legal representatives asserted in the documents that BAM Management US Holdings had issued a quarter billion dollar convertible note to CZ back in December. CZ, however, challenged the accuracy of the report when he tweeted the following. The amount of wrong information is just they got the direction wrong. I loaned 250 million dollars to BAM a while back, not the other way around, and have not taken it back. The Binance CEO clarified that the loan arrangement was, in fact, the opposite of what was reported in the post. The exec explained that he had extended a 250 million dollar loan to BAM Management and asserted that he had not yet received the payment. So there's nothing new under the sun. Just more FUD, it seems like, fam. The legal battle has taken a toll on Binance US, which saw a flurry of employee departures. The US SEC alleged that Binance was not cooperating in the ongoing probe and even claimed that BAM refused to make essential witnesses available for deposition. Concerns were also raised on CEFFU, which happens to be a custody service offered by Binance's international arm, Binance Holdings Ltd. The SEC's filing claimed that the platform appeared to be in violation of a previous agreement designed to prevent the transfer of the assets abroad. And despite the scathing attacks by the financial regulator, Binance scored a small win this week. The SEC's motion to approve an inspection into Binance US was denied by the USDC District Judge, Zia Farokhia. So there you have it. I mean, the ongoing FUD will more than likely continue, as obviously Binance is the largest crypto exchange in the world and regulators seem to have a problem with them and want to go after them for whatever apparent reason. So, like I said, hopefully in the end, you know, truth is revealed and the real story versus all the FUD and, you know, the manipulation of the price action and all the shenanigans we continue to witness in the market. And with that being shared, now let's dive into the Binance CEO, CZ and his 10 million dollar price prediction, as well as him predicting that Bitcoin price action could even a thousand X from here, sending the Bitcoin price parabolic to 26 or even 27 million dollars per coin. Let's break this baby down, shall we? Here we go. JV, have you ever heard of him? A crypto YouTube influencer from Crypto News Alerts remembered CZ's prediction. You're damn right I did. The Bitcoin would reach 10 million per coin. JV referred to the statement in a recent video uploaded on YouTube where he analyzes various aspects of the Bitcoin market development. Now, JV looked back at CZ's Bitcoin prediction while analyzing the Bitcoin CEO's recent Twitter comments. And in a Q &A session on July 5th, CZ addressed several issues, including Binance's reaction to the ongoing regulatory scrutiny. He also spoke about the rising interest of institutional investors in crypto currencies, as well as the proposed BlackRock spot Bitcoin ETF. CZ made the 10 million dollar price prediction back in 2021. In fact, I have the article already pulled up and I'm going to be reading word for word what he shared. Following MicroStrategy's announcement, allocating Bitcoin for the corporate strategy, CZ based his analysis on the possibility of several corporate companies, major institutions across the world, allocating just one percent of their corporate treasury into Bitcoin. And according to CZ, that would lead to a thousand X growth in the value of BTC. JV highlighted CZ's welcoming approach to institutional investors in the Bitcoin ecosystem, and CZ noted that advantages in traditional finance firms they bring to the crypto industry, despite concerns about their intentions clashing with Bitcoin's decentralized nature. And according to JV, CZ identified two key factors driving Binance's strategy for the next 18 months. They include the upcoming Bitcoin halving event now less than six months out, as well as, you know, we could be seeing a Bitcoin ETF here in the near future. The Bitcoin community expects the next halving to occur in April of 2024. Now quoting CZ word for word from the initial interview he made on Bloomberg Radio predicting a potential 1000 X increase in the Bitcoin price action. So here's what he had to say. Right now, I think only 11 companies again, this is right around the time that MicroStrategy announced putting Bitcoin on its balance sheet. They announced having allocating some talking about Bitcoin, like usually less than one percent of their corporate treasury to Bitcoin. And we think that it is most likely what caused the initial price rise. I think MicroStrategy's Michael Saylor started it first, but there are six hundred and fifty thousand companies in the world, like relatively established companies in the world, and their treasury is huge. Preach. So if all of them talking about these major institutions only allocated just one percent to Bitcoin, we are going to see, I don't know, 1000 X more growth in the Bitcoin price. And if they allocate more than one percent, then it's going to be even bigger. So I think people don't quite get the magnitude of the wave that is about to hit us. Now, let's run that math one more time. Fam, today's price is roughly twenty six thousand five hundred times that by one thousand. He's talking about a twenty six and a half million dollar Bitcoin price action. The potential if they only put one percent of their strategic reserves into Bitcoin, you do the math. If it's five X and five percent, what are we talking? One hundred and twenty million dollar Bitcoin price. Just saying this is coming from CZ, the world's richest man in crypto. So very powerful words indeed. Let's get back to this prediction of what he shared. So the finance CEO estimates that the flagship crypto can go up anywhere from nineteen hundred percent to twenty thousand percent from the current price levels from the time he made the prediction. And he goes on to share with price predictions. It is really, really difficult. I think it can go to, I don't know, one million dollars, ten million dollars. It is very hard to tell. And again, if we literally did a thousand X from today's price, we're talking twenty six and a half million per BTZ. So CZ also reveals that the exchange is onboarding new users as an at an unprecedented sustained rate during the bull run, outpacing its user growth during the twenty seventeen bull run. So again, this was during the twenty twenty one bull run. Here's what he had to share. Just to give people the idea, in twenty seventeen, when Bitcoin hit the peak of about 20 G's, we were seeing three hundred thousand new registered users per day. And that only happened for a couple of days. And that kind of trailed off and became slower. Now we're seeing sustained new user registrations above the peak and sustained like for over two to three months. So could you imagine running the world's largest crypto exchange and having over three hundred thousand new registered users every single day for like 90 days straight? That is insanity. And that's the previous market. I think twenty twenty four is likely going to outpace the previous market as Bitcoin becomes a common household name and as Bitcoin game theory continues in full effect. You have presidential candidates making Bitcoin a big determining factor. We have people like Ron DeSantis, Kennedy Jr., Javier Malay over in Argentina. So naturally, it's just going to create more commotion and positive catalysts for Bitcoin as we move forward into twenty twenty four. So, I mean, fireworks are ahead. Let me know how you feel. We're likely to finish out this year by December of twenty twenty three. Where do you feel the Bitcoin price action is likely to be? And don't forget to check out CryptoNewsAlerts .net for the full premium experience with video and to participate in the live Q &A. And I look forward to seeing you on tomorrow's episode. HODL.
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The Eric Metaxas Show
"Mother Theresa and Me" With Actress Jacqueline Fritschi-Cornaz
"Back. It's my privilege to be speaking with the actress and producer Jacqueline Vricci Cornaz. I keep trying. You were just telling us the story of so so this film Mother Teresa and me. There are two storylines. One is the story of Mother Teresa whom you play in the film, but the second storyline involves this girl you were just telling about telling us about named Kavita and so that's happening in a contemporary time. In other words, this is she when she goes to Calcutta and she meets the Sisters of Mercy. She does not meet Mother Teresa because this is years after the passing of Mother Teresa. Exactly. Okay. Exactly. There is one moment actually where Mother Teresa holds her in her arms when she you know took her out of a burning hut. So as a baby Kavita she's in the arms of Mother Teresa, but I don't want to tell more about Kavita because it's it's so interesting. I think for the audiences to discover themselves the whole Calcutta story because and Mother Teresa really changes the life of this young woman. Well, it's interesting you talk about. I don't know how you phrased it, but Mother Teresa was you know putting her faith into action and this is a big thing. The the the great Christian Dietrich Bonhoeffer about whom I've written this was his central idea. If you can boil things down was that unless you're living out your faith, you really don't have faith. You have to live it out. You have to put it into action and in a way when you put your faith into action, it deepens your faith and so it's kind of a conundrum because it's it's the two go together and I think a lot of times the tragedy of many Protestants or evangelicals because I wrote a biography also about Martin Luther is to say it's just faith as though it's this intellectual thing and they forget that I must put it into action. Otherwise, perhaps I have no real faith and so it's an important idea and I'm so I'm excited that in this film you give people an opportunity to see that because that's something that people often think of Christianity as just a series of doctrines or beliefs and that's not right. Well, on one hand, of course, we see Mother Teresa as a Christian as a Catholic nun, but we also feel this universal energy of love because this nanny of Kavita, she says, you know, Hindus, Christians, Muslims, we all need the same love and I think that's the main message of the film because our world needs a lot of love to you know to develop and to overcome all the film doesn't take a position, but it wants to inspire people to live with more love in action.
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Actress Jacqueline Fritschi-Cornaz Is in Studio!
"I have the privilege of sitting here in the studio with Jacqueline Fritchey Cornas or something like that II tried not to mess it up too bad. You're just Jacqueline. I Uh because don't. Uh you your native language. Of course you live in Switzerland is German. It's Swiss German. Swiss. What's the difference between Swiss German and German? Swiss German is like a dialect. I think that you know Germans couldn't understand us if we talk in in our dialect, but we learn it as a first language kindergarten and school. Yeah and then it's French Italian English today. Of course we start with English. Yeah and you know any other language, but it's a great privilege to live in a country where you have all these languages around because it's it's so enriching. Yeah and you're able to travel and to talk to the people and to just be in a contact. Did you know as a girl growing up in Switzerland that you would be an actress that you would want to be an actress. You know I was. On stage with 5 years, the first time in my ballet class, yeah, I was a little rat and we just you know we're dancing on stage. I hope this was the nutcracker. No it was oh good and of course I was you know I was so thrilled to feel the emotion and this first time I felt that I'm like an instrument. I played with my body with my soul and I could transmit something and I could feel that the the audiences would respond. So that was actually the moment, which was so inspiring to me, which always told me even if I'm nervous, you know before a premiere or something just go back to that little girl to that rat and and I could I happy yeah and how did you find your way into method acting. That was a wonderful coincidence. I applied for a workshop of Susan Batson, a very famous coach. You know she works with Nicole Kidman with Juliette Binoche and she once came to Europe before the pandemic and I was in Berlin. I was privileged to be a part of it and then she invited me to come to New York to continue the work to really go deeper into the character of Mother Teresa, which helped me in an enormous enormous way and I'm so thrilled that she will be here tonight in our premiere. Oh she she will be there. I'll get to meet
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A highlight from Jacqueline Fritschi-Cornaz
"Support for this podcast and the following message come from Coriant Coriant provides wealth management services centered around you. They focus on exceeding expectations, simplifying lives and establishing legacies that last for generations leverage their exclusive network of experts to help achieve your personal and professional financial goals as one of the largest integrated fee only registered investment advisors in the US Coriant has experienced teams who can craft custom solutions designed to help you reach your financial goals. No matter how complex real wealth requires real solutions. Connect to a wealth advisor today at Coriant calm, folks, welcome to the Eric Metaxas show sponsored by legacy precious metals. There's never been a better time to invest in precious metals visit legacy pm investments .com that's legacy pm investments .com Welcome to the Eric Metaxas show. It's a nutritious smoothie of creamy fresh yogurt, vanilla protein powder and a mushy banana for your mind. Drink it all down. It's not me I want vanilla. Here comes Eric Metaxas. Welcome to the program. We have the privilege of a friend Rabbi Jason Sobol, who is the author of many books. The new one is called signs and secrets of the Messiah. What is a rabbi doing writing about the Messiah? Rabbi Jason? Well, hey, Jesus was a nice Jewish boy. So you know, obviously all Jesus was a rabbi, the disciples are Jewish. And so we want people to see the Bible in high definition in the context in which was written because we believe it makes it come to life. Well, I agree very heartily with that. I was just with my friend, Pastor Greg Denham, who's in San Marcos, California recently, and he's always talking about the context, the Jewishness of the New Testament, the Jewishness of the Jesus movement, and how, what a crime it is more than a crime, what a horror it is, that we have really torn the good news of Jesus away from its Jewish roots that is fundamentally wrong fundamentally on biblical scandalous. And so anytime I have an opportunity to talk about that I want to so tell us about your new book, which is a sequel to the previous book that we discussed on this program. Yeah, absolutely. We wrote signs and secrets of the Messiah, a fresh look at the miracles of Jesus, because we want people to see the life and the ministry of Jesus in a way that makes these things come to life, like never before. I also think there's something for everyone significant in the book in the sense that each one of these miracles has a promise attached to it. And we live in a world where people have lost hope and they wonder if anything can ever actually change. It seems like it's when impossible you look at everything that's going on. And I think by looking at the miracles, we see that God is the same yesterday, today and forever. In fact, the word for the miracles or the signs are testimony. And the word for testimony in Hebrew shares the same Hebrew root as the word again, he's the God of the again, what he did in these miracles he wants to do again today in our lives. There are many people who are pretty serious about their Christian faith, but they don't seem to be open to the miraculous. And I always think that's sad, because God is alive. He wants to do miraculous things. Today of every kind. I wrote a whole book called miracles, where I talked about the variety of ways God speaks to us and moves in our lives. But there are many people who they have a very kind of pinched view of what it means to be a Christian to follow Jesus. And they somehow don't they act like miracles happen in the past, but they can happen now. That is unbiblical. It's wrong. But a lot of people seem to fall into that it's it's it's almost like a secular version of the Christian faith, which is contradiction in terms.
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A highlight from Socrates in the City: Eugenia Constantinou (encore)
"Welcome to the Eric Metaxas Show. I shouldn't tell you this, but Eric hired someone who sounds just like him to host today's show. But since I'm the announcer, they told me, so I'm telling you, don't be fooled. The real Eric's in jail. Hey there, folks. Welcome to a special edition, Holy Thursday special edition of the Eric Metaxas Show, where we're going to be airing, starting right now, my conversation from Socrates in the City. We did it on February 28th with the extraordinary Eugenia Constantino. The woman is obviously Greek, but she is, if you've read her book, The Crucifixion of the King of Glory, an utter genius. Not just in her scholarship, but in communicating with super clarity the events of Holy Week, what happens on Good Friday. We thought it was appropriate to air it today because it's just that wonderful. I can't recommend her book, The Crucifixion of the King of Glory, highly enough to anybody interested in what happened that week. It's the latest scholarship. It is brilliant. It is powerful. And it's a devotional thing. So that's why I wanted to air that today. So coming up in a couple seconds, my conversations. Don't miss it. Share it. Here it is. Eugenia Constantino, welcome to the stage of Socrates in the City.
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"Cycling isn't just cycling. It can be cycling or cycling or even cycling. Peloton isn't just one thing. We have classes that will ease you in and classes that will make you sweat and a range of instructors so you can find your match. Whatever you're in the mood for, we can get you in the zone. See for yourself with a worry free 30 day home trial. Visit one Peloton dot com slash home dash trial terms apply. Welcome to the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast. It's just about everything that's happened this week. I'm Eric Hanson, and we begin with President Trump, who made some controversial statements about abortion this week and called Ron DeSantis's six week abortion ban a terrible mistake. We might as well get this out of the way. We got President Trump with an answer to Kristen Welker on NBC's Meet the Press and her debut as the new host, which gave a lot of ammunition to Trump haters who want to hurt him and try to wreck his chances of becoming the nominee in 2024. This is an interesting dilemma that Republicans have. Here's the dilemma. Pro -life fighting for the sanctity of those unborn babies, the sanctity of their lives, the sacredness of the innocent. That's a centerpiece that's foundational for the Republican Party. And whether we like it or not, this particular debate that we're having in America over abortion is crushing us at the ballot box. And Donald Trump, I believe, was trying to address that with Kristen Welker on Meet the Press. Let's get it out of the way. I've been dreading this all weekend. Well, it wasn't all weekend. I mean, this first broke, I think, Saturday. They gave a little preview of his answer. I don't love his answer, but I also don't love the way Trump critics are pouncing on him, claiming he's not pro -life. I got into a big knockdown drag out, as I expected I would with my friend Mark Davis in Dallas, because Mark is now hell bent on proclaiming that Donald Trump is not pro -life. And he's saying that because of this exchange with Kristen Welker yesterday on Meet the Press. If a federal ban landed on your desk, if you were re -elected, would you sign it at 15 weeks? Are you talking about a complete ban? A ban at 15 weeks? Well, people are starting to think of 15 weeks. That seems to be a number that people are talking about right now. Would you sign that? I would I would sit down with both sides and I negotiate something and we'll end up with peace on that issue for the first time in 52 years. I'm not going to say I would or I wouldn't. I mean, the sanctus would really design a five week and six week ban. Would you support that? I think what he did is a terrible thing and a terrible mistake. But we'll come up with a number. But at the same time, Democrats won't be able to go out in six months, seven months, eight months and allow an abortion. Now, there are people who took that answer and proclaimed that Donald Trump is not pro -life, like it's important to proclaim or make some kind of declaration that he is not pro -life. I believe it's ridiculous to claim that a guy who's the only president to ever attend the March for Life, the guy who promised to get Roe v. Wade overturned because that was terrible federal. That was a terrible federal ruling and appointed Supreme Court justices who did just that to claim that Donald Trump is not pro -life is preposterous. It's absurd. It's virtue signaling. And perhaps it's just. The opportunistic way you chalk up some points for Ron DeSantis, because clearly Team DeSantis is pouncing on Donald Trump over this remark. I believe two things can be true at the same time. You can be pro -life and you can acknowledge that this issue is killing us at the ballot box. And we're losing elections. So President Trump has some campaign trouble to manage. Meanwhile, our current president can barely navigate a simple speech. If you miss Joe Biden at the U .N. this week, well, buckle up. Remember when Trump went to the United Nations and gave a really good speech and the media freaked out and said how goofy and wild and unpresidential and unprecedented it was, they had a complete meltdown and he gave a really decent speech. Compare that to the appearance of Joe Biden yesterday at the U .N. Now, even as we have all our institutions and drive creative new partnerships. Let me be clear. Certain principles of our international system are sacrosanct. Both Biden and Kamala Harris do the same thing when they say, let me be clear, run for the hills, because when they say, let me be clear, you're going to see nothing but mud and gibberish. I mean, babbling incoherently in front of the United Nations. And if that wasn't wild enough, you've got the Ukrainian President Zelensky. He marches in with his entourage. You know, I used to say I was torn about Ukraine. People that I respect insist that we have got to continue to fund the Ukrainian battle with Russia, that the American people have to help Ukraine with its border. We dare not have a wall for our own border, but we better, by God, help Ukraine with theirs. We better fund them. We better give them the missiles they want. We got to give them the ammunition they need. We need to. We got to stop Vladimir Putin. And if you push back against that, you're a stooge for Vladimir Putin. You're a Putin puppet. Just ask Tucker Carlson. When Tucker dared to express the belief that the American people have bigger fish to fry than funding Ukraine, he was thoroughly denounced and renounced as a stooge of Vladimir Putin. So there goes Zelensky marching into the UN yesterday with his bodyguards and his entourage, and he gets up to that podium. And what he said was pretty stunning. I expected he would stand at that giant podium in front of that ugly green background at the UN and talk about the need to fund his military. Talk about Russia's aggression against the Ukrainian people. Talk about Ukraine's place in the whole worldview of things instead. We got this. Even though humanity is failing on its climate policy objectives, this means that extreme weather will still impact the normal global life and some evil state will also weaponize its outcomes. And then people in the streets of New York and other cities of the world went out on climate protest. We all have seen them and when people in Morocco and Libya and other countries die as a result of natural disasters and when islands and countries disappear underwater and when tornadoes and deserts are spreading into into new territories and when all of this is happening, one unnatural disaster in Moscow decided to launch a big war and killed the tens of thousands of people. No wonder loony leftists have the Ukrainian flag in their front yard. You would think the Ukrainian president had bigger problems than climate change. Meanwhile, the United Auto Workers hit the picket lines this week. They made a few modest demands like a 40 % pay raise in a four day work week. Speaking of the UAW strike, I watched Sean Fain, the president of the United Auto Workers Union on the Sunday morning news shows. And you know, I admit I'm not a real big fan of unions. In fact, quite the opposite. I kind of think that unions have helped destroy many aspects of our economic system. In fact, it's a commonly held view that pension plans that used to be in place contributed to the decline of the U S automakers. Well, now the UAW is demanding pensions come back. They want the old fashioned defined benefit plan. And as Bloomberg points out, pensions are not worth striking over. You know what I find interesting about the UAW dispute? I heard all the talking points about how the corporate executives at the big three automakers make too much money. That's a Bernie Sanders mantra. That's an Elizabeth Warren trope. The executives make too much. You know, a company can be producing billions of dollars of revenue, but the Bernie Sanders of the world want to cap what an executive at one of those companies earns, which I always find so fascinating. It's as if they want to equate the guy or gal on the assembly line with the big automakers. Well, they're not the same. I mean it'd be nice if everybody made the same amount of money in life hate to break it to your life doesn't work that way. Some people make more than others and admittedly a lot of it is luck. I don't deserve the living that I make, but I'm very blessed to make a good living. There are people make a lot more than I do and I don't begrudge them anything, but simply because somebody that might have a show on television might make 10 times what I make. I don't think I should make what they make simply because we do the same essentially same thing. I mean, and Democrats always have such hypocrisy on this issue. Like somebody just texted me, how many homes does Bernie Sanders have again? It's more than one. But here's something that I noticed when I heard Sean Fain, the president of the UAW talk about executives compensation and how we're not making enough and we're taking steps backwards. I mean, the fact of the matter is the union gave up the defined benefit pension plan in a previous negotiation. Now they want it back. When you give up a benefit like that, you're not going to get it back. That's not realistic. And here's what I'm interested in. You know what was missing from all the coverage of the UAW strike? They never talk about what auto make auto workers make. Now I kept hearing how somebody on the assembly line can't feed their family. Really? What do they make? I kept hearing that Sean Fain kept saying the auto workers have taken three steps backwards. Really? How much do they earn? I know what they want to make. They want a 40 % pay increase and they want to only work four days a week. Now that's a pretty good deal.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Jennifer Morse
"Welcome to The Eric Mataxas Show. Did you ever see the movie The Blob starring Steve McQueen? The blood curdling threat of The Blob. Well, way back when, Eric had a small part in that film, but they had to cut his scene because The Blob was supposed to eat him, but he kept spitting him out. Oh, the whole thing was just a disaster. Anyway, here's the guy who's not always that easy to digest. Eric Mataxas. Hey there, folks. Welcome to the show. A number of years ago, somebody alerted me to the existence of one Jennifer Morris, who is the founder and president of the Ruth Institute. I had her as my guest Socrates at in the City. We've had her on the program a number of times, but it's been a while, and I'm excited to have her back to talk about some important things. So, Jennifer Morris, welcome back. Thanks for having me, Eric. It was great. That was back in the day when I talked to you at Socrates in the City. That was back when gay marriage was still considered a debatable topic, and now that's completely off the table and we're on to the next thing that we're all supposed to That's accept. the point. So, you talk a little bit about the Ruth Institute. You're the founder and president of that, and then I want to talk about your book, The Sexual State. It's all, unfortunately, very important, but I'm just glad to have you because people try to process this stuff, and you're one of the voices that's been processing it for a long time. Yes, yes. Well, thank you. Thank you for that. Yeah, so the Ruth Institute is an international interfaith coalition to defend the family and build a civilization of love, and we really are international. We really are interfaith, Eric. I have people working on my staff, actually, you know, who are Orthodox, Mormon, Jewish, evangelical, you know, but we're trying to defend the ancient Christian teaching that is the heritage or the common heritage of the whole Christian tradition, which is one man, one woman for life. Get married, stay married, only have sex with the person you're married to. You have to admit that would solve a lot of problems, you know, if we only had sex with the person we were married to, or even with our own bodies, which is what the whole transgender movement is about. So, the Ruth Institute tries to present a unified front explaining what's wrong with the sexual revolution, not just the thing that's happening right now, not just the thing that's happening in the last five minutes, but, you know, the 10, 20, 30, 40 years that led up to it there, so that people can have a comprehensive look at what's really going on here. And there's so much going on here, and I think that what I always say, at least the last year, I say it's about reality. God created this thing we call reality. In the founding documents, they say nature's God, the God who created nature, all that exists in nature.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Neil Mammen
"Folks, welcome to the Eric Metaxas show sponsored by Legacy Precious Metals. There's never been a better time to invest in precious metals. Visit Legacy PM investments dot com. That's Legacy PM investments dot com. Ladies and gentlemen, looking for something new and original, something unique and without equal. Look no further. Here comes the one and only Eric Metaxas. Folks, welcome to the program. I am so excited right now I could burst almost literally, but not literally. I have on a friend, Neil Mammon, who is involved in something that I've been talking about for some time. It's really exciting. So I before tell you all about it, why don't I just say welcome, Neil Mammon. Thank you. Good to be here again. OK, we're going to be talking about something. I can't believe it exists. I feel like I dreamt it up, but nobody would ever execute such a thing. But you and Roger Elswick. Have made this a reality, this is a big deal, this is an answer to a real problem we have, I say everywhere I go that folks, if you're going to a church that is not dealing with the issues in our culture, that is unwilling to face this and that is whistling in the wind, that is fiddling while Rome burns, you need to find another church. I say this over and over and I beg people, God will judge you for sitting in a church that is shrinking from its duty before God to speak to these issues. And then the question is, people say, well, where would I go to a church? So, Neil, tell us. Well, the problem is really, really obvious. And I get that all the time. I go around speaking. People go, oh, do you know a good church in this or that area? Well, it turns out that more than that, it turns out one point seven million people look for a new church every month. One point seven people look for a new church billion million. And now if you assume that's a family unit here or there, that's about five million people looking for a new church every month. Most of them turns out it's Sunday morning. So I wanted to do some research on it. So I went on, you know, that the source of all information is Google's barred artificial intelligence. And I said, tell me what sort of churches these people are looking for. And Bard comes back with, oh, they're looking for progressive, more loving, more accepting churches. That's what Google said. And I said, really, is that true? I don't believe that. So I said, give me the information. Give me the evidence of that. By the way, before I start, I should mention this. I have a statistics. I want a statistic. I want your readers. I don't want you to guess because you'll know the answer. Here's a quote. Only 17 percent of Americans go to church. The interest in religion is minimal. And in New York, single women are more likely to be sexually active than attend the church. Worse, 33 percent of all pregnancies in New York are out of wedlock.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Larry Taunton
"Folks, welcome to the Eric Metaxas show, sponsored by Legacy Precious Metals. There's never been a better time to invest in precious metals. Visit legacy PM investments dot com. That's legacy PM investments dot com. Hey, you have you checked your bucket list lately? Are you ready to take care of item number seven? Listening to the Eric Metaxas show? Well, welcome. Tune in and then move on to item number eight. Skydiving with Chuck Schumer and AOC. Here now is Mr. Completed my bucket list at age 12. Eric Metaxas. Hey there, folks, welcome to the program. Today is Tuesday, September 19th. Exciting stuff. First of all, in a moment, we're going to talk about John Fetterman's clothing choices and how the world is going to hell at the speed of light. That's number one. Number two, we're going to talk to our friend Larry Taunton about everything else in the world and how things are going to hell at the speed of light. Larry Taunton, of course, dear friend. So he's my guest in our one in our two. We talked to another friend, Rosaria Butterfield. She has a book out. I have a copy here. Five lies of our anti -Christian age. She is amazing. We're going to have an hour with her today. That's our two. And then I'm going to get another hour with her, which will play another time because she's just extraordinary. So lots more to say on many other subjects. Tonight, we have a special Socrates in the city patrons dinner here in New York City. I want to talk about that another time. We're launching some very exciting Socrates initiatives, brand new, exciting. But so that's that's the setup. But we have our fashion expert, O .W. Root. He's a fashion blogger, culture critic. O .W. Root, welcome back. Thanks for having me. OK, what do we make of the unbelievably slovenly John Fetterman, who is somehow a United States senator dressing the way he does and not just that, but the headline is somehow maybe you know more about this than I do. The Senate, in a nod to the devil in hell, has said we're going to relax our clothing standards and we're going to let you wear a hoodie in the Senate. It's like we're making this up. What do you think of the situation? There's two things that come to mind when I think about this. First is the unbelievable hubris that exists in Fetterman. I mean, think of the hubris that it takes to serve as a senator in the United States of America, the most powerful empire on Earth, and essentially refuse to meet the basic standards of decorum and then force essentially a tyranny of the unreasonable, force them to relax their standards just for you. Think of the level of selfish hubris that exists there. And next, when we see this, it is a physical representation of the degeneration that we see everywhere. Our clothes reflect civilization and they reflect the health of our civilization. What the does clothing of John Fetterman again? Not some random guy on the street. He's a senator, United States of America, most powerful empire on Earth. And this is what he wears. And this is what they have changed the rules to allow. It is a sign of degeneration. Do we know why they changed the rules? I mean, the whole thing, I guess I haven't looked into it. So I'm not I'm not really clear on why they did that. Well, I know this. I believe that there is a rule that you can't vote unless you are wearing a suit. And he would vote from the corridor or something. Yeah, believe it or not. So he would sort of stick his head in and vote. So this is something like a high schooler. This was something a high schooler would do. You know, someone is like, I'm here, I'm here for class. Right now. And maybe they changed it for that reason. Maybe this reflects a bigger trend, honestly, toward the generation and collapse, because you've seen the adoption of tennis shoes. You've seen some of these senators that are pushing for sneakers to be allowed. Have you I don't know if you've seen these news articles, but there are more senators and politicians who are they've had these articles written about how great sneakers are and how we need to bring them into. The government. Yeah, yeah. I'm sure George Washington, if he could have would have worn would have worn sneakers, it's obvious that he would have worn red, you know, high tops, canvas high tops. No. Now, what's interesting to me about this? And by the way, people want to find you. They can go to necktie salvage dot com o w route at necktie salvage dot com. But we're talking about bigger issues, obviously. It's not about what one wears as much as what does it mean? What is what does it mean when a building is ugly? You know, is that just a architecture thing or does it touch the soul one way or the other? You could talk about brutalist architecture and how it seems to make us feel small and insignificant. There's other architecture. You look at it. It ennobles you. It inspires you. It's beautiful. Clothing is the is the same thing. And we talked about this last time you were on that, you know, since the 60s, there's been this it's almost like this kind of false egalitarianism, this idea that, oh, we don't want to make people feel bad who can't afford to dress well. So we're all going to dress like bums in solidarity with them. Now, the irony is that if you look at pictures from the past, every poor person, you see pictures in Harlem. Everybody is wearing a coat and tie, has tremendous dignity and took pride somehow in looking dignified and adult. And that's really what is happening to me. It's always it's a biblical issue in the sense that, you know, the head becomes the tail, the tail becomes the head. You no longer have this this order. In a sense, you have to say like, oh, we want adults to dress like kids because Federman, he's just like a sloppy kid. I mean, kids wouldn't dress like that years ago. But the point is that now it's like, I don't know, he has so much money and has so much white guilt that he wants to dress like what in his mind somebody would wear, you know, in the inner city. I don't know what's going on there, but it's something to do with that. We want to show solidarity with those who don't, you know, have the ability to. In other words, it's it's not logical, but that seems to be what's behind it. Absolutely. And this it reminds you of. Let's bring it back to those pictures you mentioned. You go back to the 30s, 20s, 40s. You could be destitute and you are you see guys wearing a coat tie. And there is a sense of ascendant dignity there. It's lifting up the impoverished, lifting up the common man because clothes represent him in a higher image. So what does it mean now in our decadence and in John Fetterman's decadence in our? We have so much money, he has so much money, and so he chooses to go down, he chooses to bring it down. Like you said, this false egalitarianism and go down and down. And it's not a shock that when you see those old photos, when things were really tough, times were tough, times were hard. But there was this need to reaffirm one's dignity through the difficulties. But for John Fetterman, there are no difficulties. In fact, he has made he's essentially forced the Senate to compromise to him. And so he has no difficulties. And so he doesn't need to reaffirm any dignity because he can dress like child. a And again, my son doesn't even dress like that. My son doesn't wear hoodies. My son doesn't wear a graphic T -shirts he wears. If I had a son who dressed like that, I'd put a beating on him. No, it's kind of it's kind of interesting. It's very interesting. It's a larger conversation. We don't have time right now, but we have to have it. But because I know that there are probably many men listening to this program right now who say, well, you know, Eric O .W., I don't know, I don't know. I don't like to I don't like to get dressed up. I don't like to I get that. Now, there's there's a there's another conversation there about the whole thing, because I really think what's happened is this used to be so normal that you didn't really have to think about it. Everybody had a certain kind of clothing. You just put it on like a uniform. You didn't have to think of it. I kind of have that. You know, I kind of a couple of jackets. It's not like I got to go, oh, what am I going to do? What? And I think that's part of what's happened is that we have we we no longer know how to dress. We don't know what is the formula. What is the it used to be a basic thing. Kids, young boys would wear shorts, not long pants. At a certain age, you dress like a man. You'd wear long pants and a coat and tie. Kind of a basic thing. Policemen wear a uniform. A nurse would wear uniform, doctor or uniform, white, whatever. All of that stuff was part of the culture. It's gone out of the culture. And now we're sort of confused. And so a lot of people in their confusion, they throw up their hands, they put on a hoodie and they vote in the Senate. We're at a time. Oh, W. Root, thanks for coming on necktie salvage dot com. Coming up, Larry Taunton. And after that, Rosaria Butterfield, folks, don't go away.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Rosaria Butterfield
"Welcome to The Eric Metaxas Show. I shouldn't tell you this, but Eric hired someone who sounds just like him to host today's show. But since I'm the announcer, they told me, so I'm telling you, don't be phoned. The real Eric's in jail. Hey there folks, welcome to the program. I am really particularly excited to speak to my guest right now. Her name is Rosaria Butterfield. If you don't know of her, hold onto your hat because her story is amazing. She's been on the program in the past, but it's been a while. So before I get into the details, let me simply say, Rosaria, welcome to the program. Thank you, Eric. It's such a joy to be here with you. It's a joy for me. Now, your story is an amazing story, and I want to start there for people who don't know who you are because very few people have stories as dramatic as yours is. You have a new book out. We're going to be talking about that. It's called Five Lies of our Anti -Christian Age. This is red hot stuff. But your story is that you were a professor of English and women's studies at Syracuse University. You were in a same -sex relationship for years, and then something insane happened, and you became a Jesus freak and got married. You're a homeschool mother. You speak around the country. But your story is an extraordinary story, and I just want to touch on that before we get into this book for people who aren't familiar with it. I've given the highlight. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, it's the power of the gospel to change lives. I was a professor of English at Syracuse University. I was a coordinator of what was then called the Gay and Lesbian Studies Program. In many ways, I was hired and mentored and then tenured to make homosexuality look wholesome, which to my shame, pulled off. I wasn't just any old lesbian. I was the one you were not wanting to have to deal with. I wasn't just any old lesbian. No, not a guard variety one. No, I co -authored the university's Domestic Partnership Policy, steamrolled gay marriage. Listen, Eric, when I look at this world, my fingerprints are all over it, and I think about that every day. But I was working on a book on the religious right, basically just wanted to know why people like you hated people like me. Straightforward question. I didn't need any more friends. I didn't care if I had any more enemies. I just had a question. In the process, the Lord allowed me the amazing opportunity to get to know Ken Smith, who was the pastor of the Syracuse Reformed Presbyterian Church. He was also my neighbor. And after about 500 meals at his house, probably a conservative number there, and reading through the Bible seven times with Ken, we weren't sitting around chatting about whatever. He didn't ask me how I felt. He didn't ask me if needed a gay bowling league in the church. He genuinely wanted me to know that he accepted me as a lesbian, but he didn't approve because God didn't approve. And so I just put that out there because I think people don't understand. I came to faith under the doctrine of the Christian faith, not this garbage that you see out there right now. The idea was that I would change, that God would capture my heart, and I would desire Him, and that I would change and no longer be gay. And so really, when I committed my life to Jesus, it wasn't because I stopped feeling like a lesbian or I was just kind of zapped. It was that the resurrection of Jesus Christ was true, and it was a truth that I had no interpretive authority over. And that's when the there's so much to talk about. Now, you wrote a memoir called The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert, and I recommend it. And one of the joys of talking to you and to Beckett Cook and to so many others that I've spoken to over the years is to hear the stories of people who were in that world, who are not anymore in that world, because we live in a world that has a narrative, and that narrative doesn't like to hear stories like yours or Beckett Cook's. They say, no, no, no, that can't happen. That doesn't happen. Those people are nuts. Well, it does happen. I have friends to whom it has happened. And it's an amazing thing when you hear the stories of transformation and suddenly you're confronted with the idea that this is possible. I lived in a world where I was told this is not possible, this cannot happen, and yet here's a story, here's a story. And, you know, you go into details in your story. But one of the reasons, as I said, it's a joy to have you on is just because there's so few places where you can hear stories like yours that give people hope that maybe my life can be different or my friend who's going through this or my friend who's going through this. So just imagine that that was one of your motivations for telling your story.
The Café Bitcoin Podcast
A highlight from "Cryptosovereignty" with Erik Cason - September 20th, 2023
"Hello, and welcome to the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast brought to you by Swan Bitcoin, the best way to buy and learn about Bitcoin. I'm your host, Alex Danson, and we're excited to announce that we're bringing the Cafe Bitcoin Conversations Twitter Spaces to you on this show, the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast, Monday through Friday every week. Join us as we speak to guests like Michael Saylor, Len Alden, Corey Clifston, Greg Foss, Tomer Strohle, and many others in the Bitcoin space. Also, be sure to hit that subscribe button. Make sure you get notifications when we launch a new episode. You can join us live on Twitter Spaces Monday through Friday, starting at 7 a .m. Pacific and 10 a .m. Eastern every morning to become part of the conversation yourself. Thanks again. We look forward to bringing you the best Bitcoin content daily here on the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast. All right. All right. Good morning to all of you Cafe Bitcoiners. Good morning, Peter. Good morning, Ant, Dombey, Jacob, Wade, everybody else in the audience, all the loyal listeners. If you're new, we play that song at the beginning of every show. I highly encourage you to go look up the words and read the words to that song. It's mind blowing. Welcome back, Ant. Thank you. Thank you. I see you guys held it down. Yeah, we were all sad. We missed you. Oh, I'm really sure. I had to explain you to my sisters yesterday, Ant. Oh, I'm sure that went well. You were the technical guy, that's the other technical guy who does other technical things and has other technical knowledge. All the technicals. We did have like the Wicked show yesterday, was it yesterday? I don't know. We had a moment where the scale was up, came up and she was like, I have a wicked question. And then that was KSD. It great. was All right. You're listening to Cafe Bitcoin. This is episode four hundred and thirty eight. Shout outs to our sponsors on Fountain Nosterness. Our mission for this show is to provide the signal in a sea of noise, teach the other seven billion people on this planet why there is hope because of this bright orange future that we call Bitcoin. Today, again, we're going to try and discuss near perfect energy arbitrage. I've been meaning to do that for three different episodes now. We never actually get to it because the content is so dang good. The questions are good. The discussions are good. Hopefully we get that today. There's also a bunch of nonsense that the lizards are up to that I think needs to be highlighted. We shine lights on lizards and lizards doing lizard things. And it's I hope it helps you guys. Peter. Speaking of lizards, my banking saga continued. So, you know, yesterday I was talking about having trouble transferring money in my account being frozen, et cetera, et cetera. I thought, well, I'll just go into the bank, get out cash, and then I'll go make the deposit into my friend's account. Right. So I put my tweet up in the nest. I'm just going to it's real quick. I'm just going to read it. I said friend needed financial support, went to their bank with cash to deposit. Teller, we don't take cash. Me, what? Teller, sorry. Me, manager? Manager, we don't take cash. Random patron looks at me and mouths, what the fuck? Me, thank God. I literally said this. I said, thank God for Bitcoin. I walked out of the place. My friend, thanks for the BTC. You said that in a bank, Peter. What? You said that in a bank, Peter? Yeah. You're on the list. Hell yeah. You're on the list. That's like saying bomb on a plane. I looked at this lady, this manager, I looked at her. I was like, what the fuck is cash for? She goes, well, you can go buy stuff. I said, you're a bank. You don't take cash? No, thank God for Bitcoin. I fucking walked out. I couldn't believe it. You're all on a list. Every single one of you. It's OK, Peter. I got on the list a long time ago. I was on a phone call with my bank a long time ago and it was just like a lowly customer support person. And I was like new in Bitcoin, like brand new and like, you know, feeling it. And I was like, this is why y 'all are going down. You see, this is why Bitcoin is going to take you all out. So I'm sure I'm on the list as well. OK, later today, second half of the show, we've got Eric Kaysen joining us. Looking forward to that. That dude, he's one of my favorites. He's an extremely passionate Bitcoiner and deep thinker, in my opinion. He says some stuff that is I mean, there's a lot of edgy people in Bitcoin that are willing to say and call out lizard nonsense. Eric pulls no punches, man. This dude, when he's laying it down, I'm like looking around the room thinking, are any of these guys that are in here fed? Because he's definitely on the list. And so is everybody in this room. Oh, I'm sure we've had feds in this room for a long time now. Yeah, probably. I mean, these are all recorded, right? So, yeah, I guess they let it back. Yep, yep, pretty much. Good morning. They won't get the emojis, though. Yeah, screw them. I wish these guys would do something illegal. Mike Hobart, good morning. Mickey Koss, good morning. Terrence Yang, good morning. Oh, by the way, congratulations, Terrence. Terrence was on Bloomberg again. Dang. Thank you. Thank you. He's a regular now. Whenever they want to know something about Bitcoin, they call Terrence Yang. Your star's rising, Terrence. And Terrence is like, oh my God. And Terrence is like, hang on one second. I got to hang on one second. I got to park this dim sum cart so I can go get into a nice background place and do my interview with you guys. Exactly. Exactly, due to my crappy or just something's not great with faces for my audio, so it doesn't do noise suppression. So but it's motivating me to take a walk. So instead of you guys listening to the piano music from the hotel again. As long as you don't walk into that ballet center again, Terrence. I think that was Beetlejuice. I did not record. Terrence, if you don't mind me asking, since I didn't see the Bloomberg appearance, what did they ask you about? Did they ask you about any of your opinions on the Binance situation or is it just strictly Bitcoin and price? A little bit Binance. It was price, not as much price this time. I think I'm not sure why, but it was more about ETF kind of timing. And we got into spot versus futures of the SEC loss badly against Grayscale. So actual signal then, that's good. Allegedly, yeah. No, they ask good questions. That's good questions. And then talked about some tax stuff, stuff like that. Terrence, you were telling them how it's going to go down this year. That's interesting. How did they react to that? I did point out that 75 % of quote unquote experts surveyed said that Bitcoin ETF will be approved by year end, which I don't agree with. Yeah. Who are these experts? Are they the writers that coined it? These crypto people, right, because sometimes our stars do align a little bit with the crypto people short term. So their PR machine is formidable. So I think they just go around and random crypto experts opine on Bitcoin ETF timing based on their chat TBT law degrees or whatever. Here's a big wrench, Terrence, and you have a law degree, so you can tell me if this is possible. This may throw a wrench into the some of the bets on the side chains. What is it possible for the SEC to approve Grayscale, but with a go live date that's next year or far out or some kind of ambiguous, like, yeah, it's approved conditionally with this. And then people, well, it wasn't approved. It was approved. That I don't know, but typically they just kind of approve, delay or deny. And then when they approve, you just have to do all the paperwork. It's like they're always approved with conditions. Everything the government does or lawyers do. And now you're talking about government lawyers. So every approval is like if you meet the, you know, registration requirements, blah, blah, blah, you can do it. Go ahead and file the paperwork and, you know, give us comfort that you're compliant. Yeah, but they can attach conditions like, OK, so you're saying you're doing the surveillance sharing agreement. We are only doing this if that actually gets signed is, you know, not clear that that signed it, blah, blah, blah. They might add some details. I think that's possible. I don't actually know that much about ETF approvals, but that should be how it goes. It's kind of based on all the other stuff that government regulators tend to do. Yeah, because that's that's my new thing is, is this is backed by no for the listeners, no legal knowledge whatsoever, zero. But if they can find a way to approve Grayskills, put a timing on it that somehow screws them and lets BlackRock, whoever's first in line for the ETF, go live first. That's what I see them do. Yeah, that's possible. I feel like they're not that explicit. Like, OK, so a couple of things. One, if you're a Gensler, political animal, Bitcoiner, allegedly, you would probably want to do what? Delay approval just because, you know, hurts to lose three to zero in the D .C. In or batches dispersed would be one of the big four. It doesn't have to be BlackRock, right? Because the public perception, at least in some corners of the universe, they tend to think that BlackRock is super evil because they're so big, totally misunderstanding how asset managers work. But anyway, you might pick one of the big four, the new one being Franklin Templeton, 1 trillion .4 AUM, I think Invesco is like 1 .6, Fidelity and BlackRock are orders of magnitude. So one of those big four. Maybe do it in batches, politically you might do, I hate to say it, Cassie Wedge from ARK because she's a woman and she's very vocal.
The Breakdown
A highlight from Courts Hand SEC Half an L in Binance US Case
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Tuesday, September 19th, and today we are talking about Binance and their SEC court decision yesterday. Is it significant? And is it just kicking the can down the road? We will go through all of that. Before we do, however, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. Well, friends, it is a day that ends in Y, so there is, of course, another Binance story. Binance had a fairly big day in court on Monday in their legal battle with the SEC. Leading into the hearing, the allegations and speculation had started to reach a fever pitch. The SEC had begun to hone in on the theory that Binance U .S. did not and never had exclusive control over customer assets. That if true would be a big deal as Binance had always maintained that U .S. customer assets were strictly segregated from the international exchange. Indeed, they used this argument to defend an SEC injunction shortly after the legal proceedings commenced in June. If granted, the injunction would have frozen assets at Binance U .S., which would have functionally been a death sentence for the domestic exchange. In deciding that injunction, the court ordered the parties to come back with an agreement that they could both live with rather than making a decision on their own. As part of those consent orders, Binance agreed that they would ensure that only local U .S. staff would have access to customer assets. However, as the SEC dug further into their investigation, they claimed that Binance U .S. which they viewed as intimately linked to Binance International. Cefu was launched under the name Binance Custody in December 2021. It was renamed in February of this year, around the same time that rumors of an in -depth government investigation into Binance first emerged. On Friday, Cefu asserted in a press release that they were entirely separate from Binance International and that they don't even service BAM Trading, which is the company that operates Binance U .S. They wrote, We strongly reject this claim. As a custody technology services provider under Cefu Holdings, we are committed to servicing institutional clients with digital asset custody solutions in select jurisdictions, excluding the United States, among others. Furthermore, Cefu's operations and services are distinctly separate from BAM and Binance Holdings Limited." A Cefu spokesperson added that, Unfortunately, earlier in the week, Binance U .S. had contradicted parts of that claim in a legal filing. Rather than denying the use of Cefu in their operations, Binance U .S. acknowledged that the service was developed by Binance International and licensed to the U .S. entity. And while the specific origin of the Binance U .S. custody system might seem like a minor detail, this is the main focus of the lawsuit at the moment. The SEC is claiming that Binance International had de facto control over customer funds at the U .S. exchange. If that's the case, then Binance could be viewed as deliberately misleading the court surrounding this issue. It would also advance the SEC's argument that Binance U .S. was nothing more than a front to allow U .S. customers to access the international exchange and provide a veneer of domestic regulatory compliance. So that's a bit of the background. Now on Monday morning, the SEC filed additional material to support their order, which asked the court to compel Binance to cooperate with the discovery process. They said, quote, Indeed, in earlier filings, the regulator had raised issues surrounding the lack of disclosure. They noted that Binance had only produced 220 documents, many of them characterized as quote, unintelligible screenshots and documents without dates or signatures. Further, according to the SEC, Binance U .S. were resisting the deposition of a number of key executives. In a court filing in August, Binance claimed that the deposition of CEO Brian Schroeder would be, quote, You'll remember that Schroeder was confirmed to have left the company in early September, although his lack of social media presence has led some to speculate that his departure was closer to the beginning of the year. The SEC appears to have been informed of Schroeder's departure only recently and clearly haven't recruited him yet as a cooperating witness. They said that this strange turn of events and Binance's continued resistance to producing Schroeder, quote, Now, the SEC was primarily concerned that Binance U .S. was continuing to use SEFU for its custody, which could be used to shift customer assets offshore. They said that Binance U .S. had failed to convince the regulator that they had control over customer assets, adding that these claims were, quote, Binance U .S. had provided, quote, They said that, quote, BAM insists that this court, like the SEC, should accept packaged counsel narratives, carefully drafted declarations, and small curated sets of documents regarding control of BAM's customer assets, and that any lingering concerns are much ado about nothing. To top it all off, the SEC warned that Binance CEO CZ is, quote, The SEC claimed that they have demonstrated that, quote, Binance has a long history of controlling BAM to serve Binance's own unlawful purpose. Ultimately, the regulator asked the court for an order, quote, Now, in their opposing court filing placed on the record on Monday morning, Binance U .S. reiterated their claim that SEC demands were unreasonable. They called the documents requested overbroad and too much of an inconvenience. Binance U .S. further alleged that many of the documents requested are either not in the exchange's possession or fall outside the scope of the lawsuit. At 3 p .m., the parties entered the courtroom for what would be a tense hearing. Binance U .S. called the demand for documents so broad they would be impossible to produce. A lawyer representing the exchange said that, quote, The judge indicated that Binance U .S. really would need to provide a bit more documentation of their custody arrangements. They said, adding that they weren't, quote, The SEC lawyer, meanwhile, explained that the problem at the moment was that, quote, They argued that the SEC needed much more information about the wallet set up at Binance U .S. than they currently have. At one stage, the attorney for Binance exclaimed, They said that the exchange had responded to every targeted request from the regulator. The lawyer added that, quote, So what came out of all of this? Well, ultimately, the judge declined to make any orders to compel discovery from Binance, but it was made clear that the exchange would need to increase its cooperation, let's say. The judge said that they were not, adding that, quote, I'm not going to order from the bench right now that they produce or not produce things. Let's continue to try to work this out. I just want to keep things moving. The judge also noted that, quote, As investor Adam Cochran summed it up, the judge did deny the inspection but also said they needed Binance U .S. to comply and produce more documentation as the judge was not convinced of the asset backing. This is saying the inspection is overkill for now and giving Binance the chance to comply. Now, ultimately, these issues around Sifu are largely still about litigating whether the assets of Binance U .S. should be frozen to prevent customer funds from being sent offshore. However, given that volumes on the exchange have collapsed by more than 99 percent over the past six months, it seems likely that users have largely taken that issue off the table already. The matter is scheduled to return to court on October 12th for a follow -up hearing. Now, outside of the hearing, the court docket continues to bloat with additional evidence gleaned by the SEC. Much of this evidence was originally filed under seal or in a heavily redacted form, but the regulator is currently in the process of unsealing documents. Earlier this month, the SEC obtained the cooperation of the former auditor for Binance U .S., which produced in excess of 6 ,500 pages on the accounting at the exchange. The document was unredacted on Monday, revealing the auditor's conclusion that it was, quote, very difficult to ensure the company was fully collateralized at specific points in time. One of the SEC's requests for further information filed in June related to a 250 million dollar intercompany loan given to Binance U .S. by the international exchange in December of last year. The convertible note was funded using BUSD, 183 million of which was sent to Paxos to convert into dollars. The SEC wanted some additional details about the reason for this transaction. The topic was initially flagged as confidential by Binance, but that designation was apparently successfully rebutted by the SEC. Now, there was a lot of chatter on this on Twitter. With many people taking it as evidence of some smoking gun, Binance had been less than honest about their dealings with Binance U .S. Perhaps the most intriguing tidbit, however, filed recently was a declaration given by J. Emmett Murphy of the SEC's trial division. The document, again filed on Monday, introduced into evidence three additional depositions. All three were filed under seal, but were used to support the need for further examination of the SEFU system. The declaration identified one witness as Eric Kellogg, BAM's chief information security officer, but the other two identities were redacted. All three depositions occurred over the last month, with the latest taking place last Wednesday. So here's the way that Adam Cochrane summed this all up, which I think is a pretty good TLDR. He tweets, SEC seeks court order for inspection of Binance U .S., now expressly calling out that SEFU is indeed a Binance -related entity and that Binance U .S. has been misleading the court. The SEC calls out that this violates the consent decree that required new wallets expressly away from Binance International Control and Access, but interestingly specifically notes this is important as Binance has controlled BAM for its quote, own unlawful purposes. That's a claim we've not seen the SEC lobby here before, at least not outside of anything sealed or redacted. We also learned for the first time that the SEC sought the testimony of Brian Schroeder, U .S. CEO, and Jasmine Lee, U .S. CFO, but have been denied and fought on that and only just got told that Schroeder is no longer CEO, despite Schroeder being missing for eight plus months. They had argued that Schroeder's testimony would be too disruptive to business and now got told he isn't on the job, which is wild, as I think we all assumed he pulled a Catherine Coley Brian Brooks and gave testimony. Seems he's just disappeared and gone silent? Either way, the SEC here is suggesting, one, there is evidence of crimes, two, there is indeed evidence that SEFU is Binance International, three, SEFU is not simply a wallet provider, and four, BAM executives themselves lack insight on Binance U .S. assets and tooling. Now, for completeness, Adam Cochran also tweeted about the deposition from the auditor that said that it was impossible to tell whether Binance U .S. had been fully collateralized at specific points in time. He said, if your own external auditor can't say you are fully collateralized when you are supposed to be a 100 % reserves exchange and have your own proof of reserves that claim you're over collateralized, that is a problem. Binance uses the SEFU wallet custody system, previously Binance Custody, for both Binance International and Binance U .S., as noted in their filings. If this system is not capable of managing the small Binance U .S. numbers, how could it keep track of International? And if Binance U .S., its more compliant exchange, never commingled or misused client funds and was isolated from International as they claim, then it would be literally impossible to have a gap. The only way this is possible is the misuse of customer funds resulting in losses. I believe at some point in their scaling, they had material losses when misusing customer funds and exposing themselves to leverage via BNB. They've continued to misuse customer funds to try and cover this hole, but a declining market has made that an ongoing shell game. Whether you think that is a fair assessment or not, there should at this point be absolutely no doubt that the correct risk model is to move your assets off of Binance. Now, for the sake of a counterpoint, Bruce Fenton tweeted this morning, Binance is perhaps the most scrutinized and attacked company in modern history. The United States has investigated them and thrown everything they can at them. Yet, despite all this, we don't have a single accusation, let alone evidence, that Binance has lost customer funds. Now, trying to wrap this all up, a lot of the commentary around this is trying to figure out if the SEC won or lost this court trip. Will Clemente from Reflexivity Research tweeted, courts have been handing the SEC L after L lately, but others aren't so sure. CZ certainly didn't think so, retweeting someone who wrote, seems like they can't find anything but they want to continue making headlines. Maybe the most middle of the road interpretation came from the headline from Bloomberg, which read, SEC fails to win immediate inspection of Binance US software, and I think that that fails to win is probably a better representation at this point than actually getting the loss. But my friends, as you can tell, we are well in the minutia of this, but the details matter. There certainly is a feeling of crescendo to this story. And either way, it's hard for me to imagine that the industry isn't better on the other side of it. Better because Binance has vindicated, or better, unfortunately, because the last giant has fallen, and we can finally move on, largely rid of what came before. In either case, I will be sure to keep you updated. So until next time, be safe and take care of each other. Peace.
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"Now for this week's interview. I'm talking with Eric Thompson. Eric is an entrepreneur, a maker, and a futurist. He's currently the assistant director of the Spelman Innovation Lab and the co-director of the Blackstone Launch Pad at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. Let's start the show. Alright, so tell us who you are and what you do. Hi, yes, I'm Eric Thompson. I'm the assistant director of the Spelman College Innovation Lab, and I'm the co-director of the Blackstone Launch Pad at Spelman College. I'm also a strategic advisor for my partner's business, Eat Unrestricted, where we make vegan cheddar cheese sauce, and I'm also an entrepreneur and innovator in my own right. That's a lot. That's a mouthful. Yeah, a couple things there for sure. How did last semester go at Spelman? It went really good. It was a whirlwind. We ran a ton of programming in the Innovation Lab last semester, including one of our signature programs from last semester was our HBCU Game Jam, spearheaded by J.C. Holmes. Basically, we had a hackathon where I think we had like 23 HBCU schools sent teams to the AUC and built a game, built games over a 24-hour period. They used everything from RPG Maker to Unity to put together concepts, games, functional games over that time period. And we had a competition at the end, and it was really empowering just seeing what these students could create in such a short amount of time. Everything from story and game theory into 3D and 2D assets and putting the mechanics together into game engines. It was really impressive. So game development is one of the verticals that we've developed an Innovation Lab that came out of the pandemic because we needed something that students could innovate and create with that wasn't an in-person maker space. So that was one of the things we did. And then, you know, entrepreneurship has grown quite a bit at Spelman over the past few years as well. You know, I'm the advisor for the Entrepreneurs Club in our Blackstone Launchpad. We took some students to Battle of the Brains in Austin during South by Southwest. We had our Spellpen newer competition. We have been kicking off with the Center for Black Entrepreneurship, which is a collaboration between Morehouse and Spelman to kind of bolster all the entrepreneurship programming and ecosystem and get our students beyond just the four walls of the schools and into the community, into the broader entrepreneurship ecosystem. Just our standard kind of situation at the Innovation Lab where we have students making everything from future fashion to eco-friendly packaging for cosmetic products and students who are graphic designers and animators and everything under the sun. We're kind of like a one-stop shop. That's one-stop shop is like the worst thing you can say as a designer. But we're the one-stop shop for creative and innovative entrepreneurial endeavors on campus, you know, and we try to make sure that everybody feels at home in the space. So workshops relating to everything from laser-cut business cards to building your own interactive robots to working with emerging AI tools to further your artistic filmmaking animation journeys. So we do a lot. Wow. That is a lot. It's an exhausting semester. I mean, I feel like I have like a dozen questions that I want to ask just from that, but I'm curious really about the game jam. I mean, 23 HBCUs sent teams to Spelman. Was that the first time Spelman had done a game jam? Yeah, this was the first time the program was run. So this was kind of like the brainchild of J.C. It was an event to kind of build the profile of what HBCUs are doing in these spaces. I think so often when people talk about gaming and HBCUs, it defaults to esports. And don't get me wrong, especially in a place like Georgia where the entertainment industry is such a big part of the local economy, esports is a huge opportunity space for students, right? But we also want to make sure that our students are on the creative side of the funnel here. Actually developing the games, developing the assets, writing the stories. And that's something that we've been focused on in the Innovation Lab is kind of building students up as creators. You know, upskilling them, writing code, learning how to do 3D modeling, learning. We even have a game theory class. We have a professor who's a lifelong D &D DM and teaching game theory to students so that they understand what really are the core components of a good game, of a good interactive story. This is what the game jam was kind of raising the profile for. And we have several classes also associated with this vertical. So we have a game design class. We have a class called interactive storytelling. We have creative coding. You know, students use P5JS to create interactive games and stories and experiences of all sorts. And then, like I said, the game theory class. We have a mixed reality club, which kind of works with anything from, you know, Unity to RPG Maker throughout the semester. And we have researcher students who work on projects that involve virtual reality training, mixed reality, even projects, you know, some of these students work on collaborative projects with other departments like literature and the creative writing department and, you know, or even experiences to tell the history of Spellman and so on, right? So we have projects with Georgia Tech. It ranges, but you know, all things in this space, Unity being a very central software to a lot of what we do in these programs. So, yeah, so that's a big, a big push right now in the innovation lab. And it fits in because, like I said, Georgia is very big into these creatives industries, whether it be video games, but even film. And I mean, on the film side, the skills are very transferable from what we're already doing. So that's something that personally I am, over this summer, I'm kind of putting together a framework for what that might look like of getting some of these same students who are doing this work in Unity, who are learning how to create these stories, who are developing these assets, how to get them more involved in the film industry locally as well. So that's something we're working on as well. I have to say this as a, as a Morehouse alum, it does not surprise me that Spellman is like light years ahead. I don't know if I can even say light years ahead of Morehouse because I don't, I don't really know what they're doing at Morehouse, but I just know, I remember when I was a student in yikes, 1999, Spellman was it, Spellman was like, had the Sun Microsystems computers. I think we had some also as well, but like we took all our programming classes at Spellman. I was, I came in the summer as part of the project space program, which I don't even know if Morehouse still has that, but like, I think Spellman had it too. It might've been called something different, but it's when you basically, if you're a STEM major, you can intern at two NASA facilities for two summers. And then afterwards, I think the goal is like, oh, you could go and work for NASA. Unfortunately for us, this happened right before 9-11. So that did not happen for me, but we took all our programming classes at Spellman and Spellman had like the decked out computer lab. And I was just like, why don't we have this at Morehouse? It was like going to Spellman and it was the future. And then we would come back to Morehouse and it's like the projects at good times, like what is going on? I can't speak to it exactly. I do. A lot of students do come into the innovation lab and like, especially Morehouse students, the way I have the innovation lab structure, it's supposed to be like chairs, you know, like the bar, like everybody knows, you know, it's the third place. That's how I organize it. Right. Okay. I want it to be a place where students feel welcome and like they want to be rather than they're just there for a class. Right. But Morehouse students always come in, they're like, yo, Spellman's always got the stuff. How do y'all have this space? And we don't. But I have some really great colleagues over at Morehouse, obviously Tiffany Busse over at MIEC, the Morehouse Innovation Entrepreneurship Center, but also Brian, who is running the Morehouse Makerspace. They have put in a tremendous amount of effort to rebuilding their Makerspace on campus. And so I think that that should be ramping up this coming semester. I think they just opened at the end of last semester. And they've come and talked with us, folks from their Makerspace who, you know, even some of their students are our regulars, right? And they're taking a lot of notes and applying some of those same things to how they're building out their space. Because traditionally their Makerspace was really focused on STEM engineering students and competitions. Whereas, you know, as I just mentioned, the Spellman Innovation Lab functions like a third space, where students of all disciplines can come in and feel like they can just hang out and have discussions at our big table where we host our informal Innovation Lab podcast that's never recorded but always involves good conversations. So they're building out the capabilities over there. And I think that's important because we want to kind of decentralize out some of the things that we do, you know, out of the space and let some of the best practices that have worked for us go other places, even if they have to be adapted to different populations. See, I didn't even know Morehouse had a Makerspace. So you put me onto something there. Yes. The Morehouse Maker Exploration Lab. I want to say that's what it's called, but yeah, it's coming on. It's coming along. They've had it, but they're really trying to revamp it and rejuvenate it now. So I think that's good. I think it's important. OK. So you mentioned the Innovation Lab being this third place, and I absolutely love that concept, especially now as we're sort of emerging out of this pandemic. And I think we've seen a general erosion of third spaces. Why did Spellman decide to create this kind of lab? The initial motivation, and to be frank, I wasn't there at the very beginning when it first came online, but it's taken many iterations because it's moved, like, this is the fourth location it's going to be moving again soon to our new building. But the initial motivation was that interdisciplinary work is important. It was even eight years ago, it was kind of apparent that the world where a student kind of gets one career and stays in that career their whole life and retires, that is not the reality for everybody anymore. Students, especially at a liberal arts college, are already encouraged to have a broad exposure to a variety of different areas. Dr. Volsey and his colleagues in the art department and some of the STEM departments, I guess they felt like it was necessary to create the space where makers could come together and work on interdisciplinary projects no matter what their background is. I feel like it should be a natural occurrence at a liberal arts school, right, where broad collaboration is already encouraged. Well, why not apply that to making and technology and innovation? So I think that was a lot of the initial motivation. You know, obviously, personalities involved are a big part of the initial kind of mandate. So Jerry, he's obviously a creator, a maker. He's a Georgia Tech PhD and worked at Bell Labs. And so this was his natural playground, being able to take some of the stuff that starts and stops in the classroom, but take it out of the classroom and make it a place that students can do it in a co-curricular fashion. I think that was a lot of the initial motivation. And then, you know, when President Mary Schmidt Campbell became president of the college, that just kind of got like boosted, like turbocharged because she's coming from running the NYU Tisch School of the Arts and, you know, working with the ITP program over at NYU. So she's seeing that, okay, we have kind of this nascent innovation collective starting. Let's just put more effort into growing that because, you know, in her mind, you know, that's also the future, our technology steam, that it just makes sense. It's where things are going. So that was also a big help. And so she just retired last year. So she was a great advocate for our space as we tried to grow it over the years. I mean, I think it's really great to see this type of expansion on curriculum and even like this expansion on just like interdisciplinary space for students at HBCUs. And I mean, I'm pulling from my own personal experience here. I mean, when I came in in 99, I was a dual degree major. I was computer science, computer engineering. And the only reason was two reasons. The first reason was because I wanted to be like Dwayne Wayne from a different world. That was the first reason. But the second reason was because I had already started learning or teaching myself, I should say, teaching myself HTML in high school. So by the time I got to college, I already knew how to make a Web page in like 1999. I remember making the first project space website for the scholarship program. And in my mind, because I didn't know, I mean, I was 18. I'm like, oh, yeah, you do Web design on a computer. So why not study computer science? Thinking that it was just like a direct kind of a direct path to take. And I remember my adviser at the time, Dr. Jones, who's who's passed on now. But I remember him saying like, you know, if this is what you want to do, you should probably change your major. Because like the Internet is a fad. This isn't going to be around. If this is what you want to do, you should probably like not look at computer science, because that's not what we do here. Like at the time, I mean, but at the time it was all it was like programming and assembly. It was doing a lot of like, I guess you could call it hardcore computer science work, but it was doing work on like SGI boxes and Java and all that sort of thing. Like this is like right after dot com crash, right? Yeah, this is like the fall of ninety nine. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, the fall is in the autumn, not the fall. You know what I mean? But like it's in nineteen ninety nine. And I did I changed my major that next semester in 2000 to math because I was like, I do really like web design, but if I'm not going to be able to pursue it in any sort of fashion, then like, why am I sitting in this class trying to learn C++? Like this is not going to get me any closer to where I want to go. Not that math did either, but I like math better and I had more credits. And I was like, I did the math. I literally did the math and was like, oh, I could graduate like a semester early if I just switch over to math. So I did and I did. But I wish that that kind of stuff was around. And although that was really just, I think, a consequence of the fact that the Internet and technology was still in such a nascent space that you couldn't have this type of environment to learn unless you went to a more specialized school. And that may be also a big part of it. Right. Just kind of a realization that especially right now, I mean, it's very apparent, but like where students are going is changing so much. And maybe those were lessons learned. Seeing that, you know, maybe maybe that was something that the folks at Morehouse like say, like, yo, this was a missed opportunity. We could have been ahead of the game on this. We had the infrastructure to be ahead of the game on this. You know, like I went to like there's like a secret VR research lab that like was heavy in existence in the 90s at Clark. Like they were doing work in VR, basically equivalent of VR training and metaverse in the late 90s, mid and late 90s. And their lab spaces are still there. But it's just like hasn't been touched. But I'm just saying the schools might have looked at this and been like, hey, these are missed opportunities. And it might be helpful to have an engine on campus that is not just a space for innovation for the students, but also kind of a driver of thinking differently about where our students are going for faculty and staff on campus. So, for instance, like the Innovation Lab, it's not purely a student facing space. It is open to staff and faculty. And we actively encourage staff and faculty to come and participate. And one of the advantages is that we have staff and faculty that are experts in their own fields, but maybe not experts in everybody else's field. And there's an idea exchange among them. And then we also, you know, the people who are staffing the Innovation Lab can suggest trends and things that are informative to staff and faculty on campus. And so what ends up happening is the third place effect doubles not just for students, but for faculty and the students sometimes, you know, jog ideas to the faculty. Yeah. Right. And the faculty jog ideas to the students outside of the typical classroom context where it's a respectful but still more peer kind of peer facing relationship where ideas are exchanged at the big table. And overall, the hope is that this brings people up to what's going on in the world. And this has been more very apparent now with the AI stuff or or even the mixed reality stuff, because we have, for instance, that same physics professor that teaches our game theory class is using Unity to teach putting together modules in Unity that will demonstrate and teach physics to students. He had never worked in Unity before. Not only is now he exposed to this game creation engine, but he'll probably expose his students to it as they're learning physics. So it becomes an engine of staying up to date with the latest actions on campus. So I think that's also kind of it's kind of an indirect but very important effect of what like why these kind of spaces are necessary. Yeah. On campuses, because, you know, obviously campuses are always centers of innovation, but internally, even a campus can become stagnant in its approach to education and academia. And yeah, I think more than ever, we need to be considerate of how technology and how cultural shifts are changing the way we teach or how or the way we have to teach. I mean, I went to Morehouse in the late 90s and early 2000s, so I know about a stagnant I know about what it is to be on a on kind of a stagnant college campus with perspective, that sort of stuff. So I think it's fascinating that this place is also somewhere that staff and faculty can be a part of. So now it's almost like this this forum where there's this exchange of ideas and it's facilitated by the technology and stuff that's in there. That's fascinating. Yep. That's how I like it.
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"Augustali is the the the center of the I'm sorry, it's the capital, and they created this amazing bridge in the 1830s, you know. So anyway, we're just about out of time. But I think I've covered almost everything. Then we went to Athens and we saw a lot at the archaeological museum. It's just I just have to say, I want to recommend people. You want to visit Cefalonia. Trust me, folks. Trust me on this one. You just want to go. We'll be back. Hey, folks, today is August 1st, and I want to say that today is actually day number two of our annual summer campaign to help the international nonprofit relief agency Food for the Poor. Today is day number two. I need your help today for our friends at Food for the Poor. Why? Well, because hurricane season is arriving. This means disruption of food supplies. This happens every year. This is very important. Disruption of food supplies. Clean water will become very scarce. Houses will be destroyed in the wake of powerful storms. The 17 countries that are served by Food for the Poor in the Caribbean and Latin America are all threatened by danger from hurricanes. So they really need our help. We do this every year at the end of the summer. So I'm urging you right now. Please go to Metaxas Talk dot com. Make a donation to Food for the Poor. They're a great organization. We partner with great organizations. They are a great organization. We all know we have to give back. We all know we've been blessed. But the question is, where do I give back? To whom do I give my hard earned money? Where could I trust it that it's going to be used for God's purposes? Food for the Poor is what we have determined is one of the very, very best places that you can give your hard earned money to help other people who are really struggling, who actually need our help. So Food for the Poor steps up, but we have to step up. So I want to say again, go to Metaxas Talk dot com and make a donation as a community recovers.
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"Lord Byron, the famous poet, visited Cefalonia and spent a number of months there. And that's that's a whole other story. But once years ago, I was in Cefalonia driving around on a moped and I came upon a pizzeria, Byron. And I thought, I don't know, I don't know if you should name a pizzeria after Lord Byron, but they did. Did you get us? Did you grab a slice? I declined. I declined that the Greek pizza is not it's not great. But but but it just has this tremendous history. And we actually I mentioned yesterday when I was at the East India Club, when when when we were staying at the East India Club in London, we went up to this room. They have these beautiful rooms in these British clubs. I mean, just beautiful. And there was a huge painting of Napier, who was I think was James Napier. He was the the governor of Cefalonia from 1822 to 1830. And whenever you're in Cefalonia, they have this amazing road system. It's all thanks to Napier. And so here we were in the East India Club in London. And I'm looking up and there's this gigantic portrait of I always just kind of, you know, felt like he was a good influence. He was like, you know, when you think of Colin, when you think of colonialism, you think it's not a good thing, really. But of course, there was an upside to it. And I and when the British were there in Cefalonia, they created an astonishing road system. It's it's it's amazing. There would not be roads to this day, I don't think, because it was a huge, huge effort. And they built this bridge which goes over.
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"Hey, get a rhythm when you get the blues. Come on, get a rhythm when you get the blues. Get a rock and roll. OK, folks, I think we've got John's miracle coming up in hour two, but I just want to finish the story about the wild horses in Cefalonia. So my whole life I've heard about the wild horses that wander around on. On this huge mountain and you think wild horses, really? I almost felt like they don't really exist. It's like I'm never going to see one of these wild horses. I get to Cefalonia. My cousin says to me, I have a problem. We are villages, Mavrata. My cousin says the wild horses for the first time that anyone can ever remember came down from the mountain. And they are now in the Mavrata Theramina area. I don't know why they came to our village of all the places they could have gone. But so when you're driving around, you see, you know, I think at some point I saw it had to be about 15 of them. So I don't know if that's all of them. They're probably more. But 15 wild horses just kind of wandering around the village. I mean, you see, you know, we're used to seeing things like deer, you know, wandering around, maybe wild horses, beautiful creatures having come down from Mount Enos. So it's really it was just it was it was it was surreal. How wild are they? Can you approach them or they recommend just leaving them along with that? That's what I don't that's what I don't know. I didn't we were always like in a hurry to go someplace. So we never kind of like my actually my cousin said that he was watering a plant and one of these horses came over and it was very, very like it wasn't spooked. It was he says that he could have. I don't know if he did pet it or or or not, but he basically said they were not like they were very calm, you know. So but it was I mean, anyway, the whole island is like magical. Everywhere you go, there's just kind of something else. The food. I mean, the restaurants there. I don't know. You know, it really is hard to be back in New York. Can I tell it? Can I say how hard it is to be back here? Because it was such a blessing to be there. And I think I mentioned we were, you know, we're seeing friends that we haven't seen in a number of years and relatives, obviously there. So it was so it was it was absolutely delightful. And I think, oh, and there was an electricity problem. One night, the electricity in the whole island went out and we were locked in our villa. Our villa had this gate. And I thought, why do they have a gate? Like, why is there an electronic gate? The electronic gate would not work. And so we couldn't go. The guy that I was referring to earlier, Marcus Metaxas, they had invited us for like a barbecue or whatever the Greek version of a barbecue is for the evening, and we couldn't leave the villa. Our car couldn't get out of the villa because the gate was locked. So you should have used the horses, Eric. You should have jumped on the wild horses. And so this there's a connection. There's a connection. So I'm thinking, why is there a gate here? Like, it doesn't really make sense is electronic. Turns out that there are obvious. Well, that there are goats that roam all over the island. And that night we saw the goats and later on, somebody said to me, oh, yeah, of course, that if they don't have that gate there, those goats would wander up and like eat all of the foliage around the villa and would destroy the place, basically. So the reason there was a gate, but it was bizarre because there was an electricity outage. So we literally couldn't get out. We were trapped. And so we had to do make all these phone calls and do this kind of override. And we eventually got out. But it was it was we had a lot of adventures with the Greek tragedy. That sounds like a Greek tragedy. Well, we it would have been if we couldn't eat this food that night. But we did it. We did eventually get there. And the electricity went came back on. And we we traveled all over the island. It's so beautiful. We drove to Fiskardo. Fiskardo is all the way on the northern part of Cefalonia. Now, I didn't mention this. The reason I exist is because in 1953, there was a major, major, massive, horrifying earthquake that struck Cefalonia and pretty much flattened every house on the island, except for the northern part, because the epicenter of the earthquake was just off of the western the southern shore. So because of that, there was an immigration quota. My father was able to come to United States, meet my mother and bring me into the world. But I say this because we drove every time we go to Cefalonia, one of the things we do besides visit Melusani Cave and these beaches and all this sort of stuff, we drive to Fiskardo, which is the northernmost part of this very large island. And it is it has not been destroyed by the earthquake. So there are a lot of buildings there from before 1953, all of which are built in the old style. So these are 19th century buildings and stuff. So it's really that's it's actually very sad that that, you know, most of of Cefalonia was destroyed. All like 800 people were killed. It's a major, major thing that happened. And if you talk to anybody about Cefalonia, that's one of the first things they'll bring up. But as I said, it's got this tremendous history in in the the Greek Revolution of 1821.
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"But. My whole life, my dad would tell me and my cousin would tell me that there are wild horses on Mount Enos, wild horses on Mount Enos. Right. But I've never seen them, but I kept hearing about that. When we come back, I will tell you. Kind of a strange story about the wild horses. Stick around. Tell me why relief factor is so successful at lowering or eliminating pain. I'm often asked that question just the other night I was asked that question. Well, the owners of relief factor tell me they believe our bodies were designed to heal. That's right. Designed to heal. And I agree with them and the doctors who formulated relief factor for them selected the four best ingredients. Yes, 100 percent drug free ingredients. And each one of them helps your body deal with inflammation. Each of the four ingredients deals with inflammation from a different metabolic pathway. That's the point. So approaching from four different angles may be why so many people find such wonderful relief. If you've got back pain, shoulder, neck, hip, knee or foot pain from exercise or just getting older, you should order the three week quick start discounted to only nineteen ninety five to see if it'll work for you. It has worked for about 70 percent of the half a million people who've tried it and have ordered more on one of them. Go to relief factor dot com or call 800 for relief to find out about this offer. Feel the difference on my pillows 20 year anniversary with over 80 million. My pillow sold Mike Lindell with my pillow wants to thank you by giving you the lowest price in history on their my pillows. You'll receive a queen size my pillow for 1998. Regular price is sixty nine ninety eight and just ten dollars more for a king size with a special anniversary offer. You'll also receive deep discounts on all my pillow products, such as their bedsheets, mattress, toppers, pet beds, mattresses, my slippers and so much more. This is the time to try out some of their other amazing products. You've had your eye on for some time now. Go to my pillow dot com and click on the radio podcast square and use promo code Eric to receive this amazing offer on the queen size. My pillow for 1998 or call 800-978-3057 now 800-978-3057. This offer comes with a 10 year warranty and a 60 day money back guarantee. It's time to start getting the quality sleep you deserve. Go to my pillow dot com and use promo code Eric or call 800-978-3057 today.
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"We toward the end of the trip, we get to this. Tiny island off of Cefalonia. And it's. It's a really tiny island, and at the top of a staircase, the staircase is like out of The Exorcist. It is like 100 something stairs straight up, like kind of dangerous, actually. But we stopped the boat. We dove in the water. We swam to the to the staircase, climbed the staircase. When you get to the top of this, I mean, trust me, it's way up. You get to the top, there is a chapel in the 19th century, some Greek monks built a chapel on this tiny, tiny island. There's nothing there except this chapel at the top of this staircase. And it is just so beautiful. It was locked. We couldn't get in. But there were bells outside these two gigantic. I would think, how do they get these bells up the staircase? Like these bells were cast in 1886. Beautiful bells. I put it on my Instagram and I put it on my I sent out my newsletter. But it was just absolutely it was just one of those magical days. I praise God that we got to do some stuff like this, but it was really beautiful. And the guy on the boat, the captain of the boat, this young guy, he says in a few minutes, we have a snack of spanakopita. So they kind of planned at some point. They're going to drop you off for a late lunch. But before that, they're going to give you a snack at some point of spanakopita. It was literally. Literally the best spanakopita I have ever had. I'm going to get the recipe. It was it was unbelievable. What was different about it? Did they do anything different? Because I have a box of that stuff from Trader Joe's in my freezer. I hate to admit it. That's what you I just have to say. My mother makes great spanakopita, even though she's German. She's an amazing cook. But I have never tasted anything like this. And I my daughter got the details. But the crust was unlike any. But usually it's too much crust, too much filo dough. This was like it was. But it was next level. It was like I've never tasted anything quite like it, but it was so good. We're going to we're going to get the recipe and we're going to have like a Cefalonian dinner party here in New York, because it was just it was unbelievable. Oh, wait, I forgot to say another thing. I was talking about the mountain my whole life. My father has it's called Mount Enos, AENOS, Mount Enos. It rises a mile out of the out of the out of the water. So it is. A completely different world at the top of Mount Enos. It's so high that it's cool up there. And as I said, it's covered with fir trees that were used through the centuries, even through the millennia as I mean, when when Venice was the you know, the maritime empire of Venice, when they were over Cefalonia, they used the wood from Mount Enos to build all of Venice. So most of Venice that was built between 1500 and 1800 uses wood from Cefalonia. So it's this amazing thing. But we didn't this time. We didn't get to do everything, so we didn't go to Mount Enos.
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"Welcome back, folks. I'm talking about my trip to Greece. I hope this is not an unbearable saga for those who are listening. But I am just I love Cefalonia so much. Part of it is just because my family's there. My family's been there since the 15th century, at least. And I have so many friends and relatives that are there. So when I go there, it's just it's very, very meaningful for me. And we usually try to bring a friend or a relative who hasn't been there before. And this time, Suzanne, Suzanne's sister came along with her husband, my brother in law, Drew, and their daughter, Elizabeth. And it's it's kind of exciting to show them the island one day. Actually, they treated us to this boat trip along the southern shore of the island. And some of you know, there's been a heat wave in most of Europe. It finally broke, but it was brutal. It was absolutely I know there was a heat wave here while we were gone, but it was a brutal heat wave. So we went on this boat journey. And I recommend this to if you if you go to Cefalonia, there's so much I want to recommend. If you go to Cefalonia, there's a company that takes you on a boat, like a private boat for the day or not for the whole day, but part of the day, half the day. And I think they're called Sea, Sea Stories. I think if you go to Cefalonia and you look up at sea, maybe it's not Sea Stories. It's something like Sea Stories. I'll remember it. But they take you on this boat journey. And so you're on this boat wearing a bathing suit and it's so hot and they take you along the coast and they stop at these beaches that you can't get to, you know, by foot. And we just jumped in the water. It was it was heavenly. It was it was absolutely wonderful. And I think, you know, Eric, I was tracking a little bit. I know when you were gone. I know there was a there seemed to be one Greek island during your time there that was literally on fire. Was that near you? No, that was Rhodes. Rhodes is is an even larger Rhodes is one of the largest. I think it's the second largest island next to Crete. Rhodes was on fire and people kept emailing me like, what's going on in Greece for the with the fires? And I have I have less idea than anybody. I have no idea. They're often forest fires. I mean, do they call them forest fires? If it's just grass or it's forests, it's you know, they're they're fires. And there have been fires in Cefalonia over the years. But this year there weren't any. And Rhodes was it was bad. It was bad. I suspect, frankly, arson. I think that there are people who, you know, and then, of course, the climate change people say, oh, it's it's climate change. No, it's arson. Usually it's arson. So in any event, the but speaking about other islands on this boat trip.
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"Hey, folks, welcome back. Speaking of welcome backs, I'm back from Greece. Welcome back to me. Welcome back, Chris. Chris, I'm back from Greece, and that's why I have this tan. You can't get a tan like this in New York. Some would say you had embarked on a real odyssey. I don't know what you mean by that. Like a Greek trip. It's kind of. Yeah. Well, no, I was just talking about the Odyssey wise guy, so I know what you mean by that. But listen, I was just telling the story of Heinrich Schliemann, the famous German archaeologist who discovered the whole Mycenaean world, which is the I saw that I saw that movie. It was like the Golden Idol and the darks and the face melts off of the Nazi at the end. I know that you're thinking of Indiana Jones clothes. Oh, but so Heinrich Schliemann discovers all of these centers of Mycenaean civilization written about in Homer. But he finds nothing in Ithaca. And I remember in 1992. Going to Cephalonia and asking my cousin, Yungos, who was with us on this trip, of course, because he lives there, I said to him, Yungos, I don't get it. When I read Homer, it always says Odysseus and his Cephalenians. It doesn't say Odysseus and his Ithacans. It says he's from Ithaca, but it says Odysseus and his Cephalenians. And I said, if you if you know the area, Ithaca is like a rock compared like like like like a rock in the ocean compared to this treasure of natural resources that is Cephalonia. Cephalonia is five times bigger and it is just bursting with natural resources, with this mountain covered with fir trees. That would be, you know, it would make you rich if you if you were the king over this area because of the trees, because for lumber, for everything. So I said, I don't get it. Isn't it possible that Odysseus was actually from Cephalonia and, you know, they called it Ithaca or maybe they conflated the two? And my cousin says to me, this is 1992. Says to me, yeah, there have been many books written about this, and he starts giving me the background on this puzzle, how. Schliemann discovers all these other places, but can't find Ithaca and how people began to try to interpret the Homeric text and say, maybe we're reading it wrong. Maybe like let's look at what does Homer say about Ithaca? How does he describe it? So Schliemann's protege Dorpfeld, when Schliemann dies, he starts to interpret the text of Homer. And he says it's it's saying some other things. I think it must be. I think Ithaca of Homer's text must be referring to Lefkava, which is to the north of Ithaca and Cephalonia. So he excavates there. He finds nothing. All these other people had other theories, other theories. So in 1992, when I asked my cousin about this, he's give me all this background. And he says, and this is the punch line. He says, a friend of mine, Marcus Metaxas, exactly the same last name as we have not related. He says a friend of mine named Marcus Metaxas metaxas and his Dutch wife have. Gotten involved in this puzzle to try to figure out what is Homer saying does. Can we find where Homer's Ithaca really is? And they have my cousin says to me in 1992, they have cracked the code. They have figured it out. They know they figured it out. It's not like they got a theory. They know they figured it out. And so Marcus, who in the last 30 years has become a close friend, he knows he's figured it out. He's so sure he's figured it out that he says there have to be Mycenaean ruins around here someplace, because I know that this part of Cephalonia is what Homer's referring to. And the way you get there, I'm going to write a book about this. I mentioned it in my email. I'm not working on that book right now. I'm working on another book, which is a sequel to Letter to the American Church. But next year, probably I will write this book. But the puzzle, he puzzles it out and he figures out exactly what Homer's saying. It's kind of like a Rubik's Cube, like when it clicks, you're like, boom, I got it. So he knows in 1990, he figures this out. So I go there in 92. I ask about it. My cousin says my friend has figured this out and. When he figured it out in 1991, he says, I know I got this, so they have to be Mycenaean ruins around here in this area, around this harbor. So he looks and looks and looks and looks. And discovers Mycenaean stones, calls the archaeologists from the mainland in Athens, they come and they go, boom. This is a major find. It is the largest Mycenaean era tomb in all of Western Greece. Obviously, when Homer is writing about this King Odysseus, whether he was fictionalized in the in the in the poems or not, he's clearly writing about the king of this area. And Marcus discovers the tomb and it is the details are what make it. So you're just having to take my word for it because maybe I'm blowing smoke here. But it is unbelievable that the text of Homer leads him to this area. And sure enough, he finds the largest Mycenaean tomb in Western Greece. So when I go there in 92, my cousin tells me this and I'm thinking, you got to be joking like you mean I just bring this up out of the blue, like maybe Odysseus is from Cephalonia. And you're telling me, yes, he is. And your friend who lives 20 minutes down the road just discovered this tomb like a year and a half ago. You're joking. No, my cousin was not joking. He says, would you like to meet him? So in 1992, I meet this guy. I ask him all these questions and I'm just like freaking out because, you know, I've written about archaeology in my book is atheism dead, but I've always been interested in archaeology. So. Marcus Metaxas, I meet with him and he says, they're going to be excavating the tombs again, this is 1992. This summer, he says to me and I said this summer. And he goes, Yeah, why don't you come back in August or September? You can see it. So I go back in August. Of 1992, and I'm one of the first non archaeologists to walk into the largest Mycenaean tomb in Western Greece. It's about 21 feet in diameter. It's a foolish tomb. They call it like a beehive tomb. So it's just insane. And so now well, so when I went back in 2012, I said, we need to make a documentary about this. I need to write a book about it. So all these years we've been working on that and we've created a documentary with Morgan Freeman's production company Revelation. And it's going to be on PBS this coming year. We'll be talking about it with the director Seth Ward in the in the months ahead, whenever it comes out to promote it. But it is very, very exciting. So now when I go to Cephalonia, I visit this tomb and there's a whole Mycenaean center. I mean, it's it's just insane. You know, Eric, I talked to Seth about it. And the thing he explained to me, which I didn't realize, but of course, it makes total sense. There is competition among the different islands of Greece for the, you know, staking the claim that this is where this is from. So the other families, they're very upset. This is this is why word hasn't gotten out, because the people in Ithaca are furious because their whole like tourist trade where Ithaca is like, again, it's it's it's a it's a beautiful island, but it's very small. It's nothing compared to Cephalonia. And this is kind of their thing. And so imagine, you know, you tell them, oh, by the way, it's like going to Stratford on Avon and saying, oh, by the way, Shakespeare's not from here. We just figured out that he's from, you know, from from 80 miles down the road. Sorry. Like they would just want to kill you. Sure. So the Ithacans in Ithaca are furious about this theory. And it's like, hey, sorry, but it's true. And where it gets weird is it's kind of like the district, the governmental district. So if you're in the Greek parliament, whoever is. In the Greek parliament is running in Cephalonia and Ithaca, so you would never in the government want to give credence to this theory because you lose every single Ithacan vote. So the government has squashed this. They don't want to talk about it. There's infighting among the arca. It's been an insane that itself is its own crazy story. But part of the reason I bring this up, because when I go to Cephalonia now, it's not just about my family and friends, because we've got so many friends and family there. But it's about this amazing history and this documentary. And so one of the things, for example, when you're reading the Odyssey, if you're trying to figure out like so if there's this real place called Ithaca, what does Homer say about it? One of the things he says about it is when when Odysseus is finally returned after 20 years away, Athena appears to him on the shore of Ithaca. And she says, here is Mount Neraton. And she describes the mountain. Now, Ithaca has like a nothing mountain. Cephalonia has this unbelievable mountain. It's literally a mile high for most of well, until fairly recently was utterly covered with these amazing fir trees. It's still mostly covered, but not as much as it used to be. But this was a wealth. I mean, if you were the king over this area, you know, the mountain and these fir trees were a big deal. So when Odysseus returns, if you read the Odyssey, Athena right away points to the mountain and says, you know, this is your mountain with the with the forests, you know. And then she talks about the cave of the nymphs. And that was the two things that would mark Cephalonia or would mark Ithaca that say this is your home. Odysseus were the mountain covered with trees, fir trees and this cave. Now, I posted it on my Instagram and I posted it on my email, Eric and Texas, dot com. My my my newsletter. But the famous Melasani Cave, it is an it is a an underground cave lake that the ceiling fell in like a hundred thousand years ago. And it is one of the most mind blowingly beautiful, wild, awesome places you've ever seen. Anybody who goes to Cephalonia makes a visit to Melasani Cave. And when you read the text in Homer, you realize it's describing this cave. Every every detail. I mean, look, it just goes on and on. When we come back, I'll tell you more about my trip to Cephalonia and much more stick around. But you only want the ones you can't get. Every day we hear about another familiar brand selling out their customers and going woke. Americans are sick and tired of having leftist propaganda jammed into every product they consume. Woke mobile companies are no different. 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"Heinrich Schliemann in the 19th century goes to Troy, excavates and uncovers the civilization from that era, proves that when Homer was writing about Troy, he was not writing about a fictional place. It's not Lord of the Rings. He didn't make it up. It's real. Schliemann then goes to Mycenae, which is where Agamemnon, the great, you know, hero, the great Agamemnon, the king Agamemnon, who was written about in the Iliad, and he he uncovers a civilization there in Mycenae. And that's why that whole era, 1600 till about 1100 B.C. is called Mycenaean era in Greece. So long story short. Heinrich Schliemann uncovers a number of these places mentioned in the Iliad and the Odyssey proves that that world was real. But then he goes to Ithaca, should be the easiest one, should be the layup to go to prove that this is where Odysseus is from. This is Odysseus's kingdom in the Mycenaean civilization. He goes to Ithaca, he digs, he digs, he digs, he finds nothing, nothing. Now, if you've listened to this program for several years, you've heard me tell this story before. But the bottom line is it was it made no sense. He goes to these other places that should be centers of that Mycenaean world. And he discovers a Mycenaean city and a fortress and a tomb. And he finds all the stuff. He goes to Ithaca. He finds absolutely nothing. So. Why, you know, you've got to ask the question, I mean, Odysseus is one of the main figures in the Iliad. He he he invented the Trojan horse. You know, next to Achilles, he's the main figure in the Iliad. And then, of course, there's the whole Odyssey, which is all about Odysseus and about Ithaca, why would Schliemann find absolutely nothing? The answer is bizarre. And it involves me in a weird way, because Schliemann finds nothing. And people then think, why did he find nothing? And they start like he has a protege named Dorpfeld who thinks, well, maybe he's misinterpreting the Homeric text. Maybe Homer is not writing about what's Ithaca today. Maybe it's another place. And so they try to puzzle it out. And when we come back, I will tell you the punch line. It's insane. This is insane. We've made a documentary. It's going to be on PBS this year with Morgan Freeman's production company about the very thing I'm talking about. We'll be right back. We're doing a campaign for Food for the Poor. People who listen to this program know that we partner with Food for the Poor. They are total heroes. Food for the Poor steps up because there is always there are always hurricanes flooding other natural disasters at this time of year. So because of poverty or collapse infrastructure in a lot of these countries. By the way, in case you didn't know, America is an amazing country. These other countries do not have a lot of infrastructure. So we need to step up. Those of us who have the ability to step up, I want to encourage you to go to MetaxasTalk.com and give what you can. Let's get a good start. Go to MetaxasTalk.com. Do what you can or just text Eric to nine one nine nine nine. Please do this. Text Eric to nine one nine nine nine or phone eight four four eight six three. Hope eight four four eight six three. Hope eight four four eight six three. Hope. I'd like to tell you about a stunning new movie called The Hiding Place. The Hiding Place takes you on a journey back to World War Two as the boots of the Third Reich echoed through Europe. One family chose to resist in this incredible true story loved by millions. Corrie ten Boom and her family risk everything to hide hundreds of Jewish refugees from Nazi invaders, and they ultimately face the consequences when they are discovered. The Hiding Place is an inspiring story of faith, hope, love and forgiveness in the face of unthinkable evil written for the stage film for the big screen. Broadway World calls The Hiding Place stunning, powerful and deeply moving. Don't miss the story of a brave woman who impacted generations. This global cinema event opens in theaters only August 3rd. Showtime's are selling out fast. Get your tickets now online at the hiding place film dot com. That's the hiding place film dot com. Get your tickets now online at the hiding place film dot com. That's the hiding place film dot com. Check it out.
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"Suddenly, I look to my right and there's a guy who looks familiar and he goes, Are you Eric Metaxas? And I said, Yeah. And it turns out to be this pastor from Prestonwood Baptist Church in Dallas, where I've preached a number of times. Well, I am blown away. That's bizarre to him. Is Jack Graham, the lead pastor of Prestonwood, who is a friend of mine? I thought this is insane. I'm looking at this black, the obelisk of Shalman Azar. And two friends pull up and we start talking. So it was absolutely so delightful to connect with Pastor Jack Graham of Prestonwood in Dallas. You know, as I say, he's a friend. We went to Israel together a few years ago, but it was totally bizarre. It was absolutely bizarre and joyful. And in Jeremiah, Johnston is he's an apologetics genius. We actually we need to get him on this program. So I'm making a note to get Jeremiah Johnson on this program. But it was so incredible seeing friends in in London and you know, going to the Victoria and Albert Museum and, you know, Hyde Park and just just experiencing everything. But but jumping into Pastor Jack Graham at the British Museum. I mean, there's so much there. I can't even tell you the Rosetta Stone is there to look at the Rosetta Stone. And then, of course, what are called the Elgin Marbles are there. Now, this is kind of a touchy subject for me because we went to Athens. Obviously, I'll talk about that tomorrow. But Lord Elgin took these sculptures from the Parthenon in, I guess, was the 1820s while it was still under the Turks, while Greece was under the Turks and basically saw them off and hauled them back to London. So they're in the British Museum. They actually ought not to be there. They actually ought to be returned. The Elgin Marbles ought to be returned to Greece, to Athens. Athens has created this glorious Acropolis Museum. It's not like it was in the past where you'd say, well, why should we give it back to them? What are they going to do with it? They so so this is something I'll probably have people on this program talking about that in the future. But to look at the Elgin Marbles in the British Museum is just kind of weird thinking these things were carved for the Acropolis, like they were carved specifically for the Acropolis and they were kind of, you know, hauled away. So it's kind of a bummer. Now, Eric, you had mentioned at the hotel in England, there were some stuffed hippos. Is it possible that those hippos had anything to do with stealing the marbles as hungry? You know, it's kind of weird you bring that up because the answer is a firm no. We'll be right back. OK, we're back tomorrow. I'm going to tell the story of our trip in Greece. Unbelievable stuff. Wild horses are involved in the story. I'm not making this up. Wild horses, two submarines. I'm not making this up. Crazy, crazy stuff. Great, crazy stuff. But I'll save that for tomorrow. We're going to go to John's Mirack an hour or two today. Talking to John's Mirack. Can't wait to talk. Can't wait to talk to John's Mirack. But Chris, I don't know if you realize in the month of August, which starts tomorrow. Yes, sir. I'm told we're doing a campaign for food for the poor. Actually, I take that back. It begins today, Monday, July 31st. People who listen to this program know that we partner with food for the poor. They are total heroes. And most people know we've been through like insane heat this summer, right? Well. Heat is pretty bad in Greece. It was insane. But imagine going through a hurricane. Imagine being a third world country and living through a hurricane. This is why we partner with food for the poor, OK, because food for the poor, they serve, I guess, 17 countries in the Caribbean, Latin American. They're going into a very bad season. So that's why we're doing this in August starts today. 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"So. That it gets to England, to London, they put it in the middle of the. The British Museum, and it becomes this cause celeb, everybody in Victorian society in early 1850s has to go see this thing because it's a magnificent trophy, right? Well. That's the first part of the story in 1851 or 52. Some clergymen, Irish clergymen, goes to the British Museum to see this thing. And he happens to be someone who can read. I guess it is the. The Acadian cuneiform writing that's on this obelisk. And he goes there and he's standing amidst the crowds reading. Like looking over it, and he sees something that blows him away. So there are crowds looking at it, but he knows what it says. And he recognizes what it says that they had misinterpreted, because I guess when it when it came through Baghdad and on its long journey, somebody was an expert in this ancient language had interpreted it, but he missed this middle part and refers to Jehu, this king in Israel. And so this clergyman suddenly realizes, I am looking at the first thing in the history of the world to have been discovered outside of the Bible that is referring to something inside the Bible that is corroborating the Bible as history. So once that got known, once he, you know, made his his discovery known, people completely freaked out and more and more people came. And it started this this flood of, you know, treasure hunters going to the Middle East to find out what else can we find? And I write about that, obviously, in my book, is atheism dead? But I wanted to see this thing. So I went with Suzanne and our daughter and we go there and I'm looking at this thing and I'm looking with my own eyes. I'm really close to this. Just finally looking at this thing. And I'm so excited and.
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"And we're back. So, Chris, I'm telling the audience about my Suzanne's and my journey on the Queen Mary, too. It's just incredible. One day they have these outdoor decks that you can like sunbathe on. But the weather was not such that you wanted to sunbathe. It was kind of cloudy, foggy, a little cool, unfortunately. But the last two days, we did a little of that. And it was beautiful. At one point, we're on this upper deck. And I look up and I recognize the captain. He was kind of like making these rounds or whatever. And we have mutton chops. That's when I'm a man. Someone was insubordinate to him and he pulled out his sword. And with the side of the sword beat the man. Well, it was really brutal. British seamanship is something that just makes me uncomfortable. But no, I may be kidding about that. But I'll tell you the truth. We did see the captain. And you realize, like he's the celebrity of the ship. Like everybody's like, that's the captain. That's the captain. He's he's like driving this monster thing. And it's cranking along. I mean, it's like, you know, it weighs like a billion pounds, literally. And it's cranking along at over 20 miles an hour. Like, how do you move this thing through the water at, you know, 22 miles? It was incredible. But anyway, I'm trying to think there's anything else that I need to cover. But it just was absolutely delightful. I'll think of other stuff and I'll throw it in later. But we end up in Southampton, England. And I think I shared it on the program. There's a British actor named James Fox. His brother is Edward Fox. They're both in their 80s. If you've ever watched British films from the 1960s to the present, they are in those films, many of them. James Fox is a delightful Christian, and he wrote me an email a couple of years ago that he enjoyed some of my books. He read my books and. We were emailing back and forth, and I said, I'm coming to London now. His son, I think I share this on the program. His son is Lawrence Fox, who starred as Hunter in My Son Hunter, which was a film that we've talked about on this program, Hunter. I'm sorry, Hunter. Lawrence James's son was also a big deal actor. But he said some stuff that the woke people totally canceled him like like three and a half years ago, completely canceled his career and everything. And he is such a hero. Lawrence Fox that he decides, like, I'm not going to apologize. I'm not I'm doubling down. So he's become more and more outspoken. And we had dinner with them in London. And Lawrence Fox is a stinking hero. The man is an absolute hero. He ran for parliament recently. He didn't win. But it was he he ran for for for the mayor of London about two years ago, whatever. So he's gotten very involved politically. But the thing is, in our dinner, he was just sharing about how the conservatives. This is kind of like in America, right? Like you've got the MAGA folks that are really fighting. And then you've got these like people that you once thought were conservatives who are now, you know, Mitch McConnell and, you know, Kevin McCarthy and whoever else that you don't really feel like they're willing to fight. And I think that that's the case in spades in England. So there are two members in all of parliament. Parliament's like 600 members, right? There are only two people or I'm sorry, probably one person. I can't think of his name who is utterly heroic. Everybody else is kind of like, you know, what do we need to do to get reelected? So it was utterly fascinating meeting Lawrence Fox. I follow him on Twitter and I retweet his stuff on Twitter. But total, total hero. And his father, of course, I don't think I mentioned this, said that he would pick us up from Southampton. This is like two and a half hours from London. He insisted. And I had one of the most delightful conversations of my life being driven to London with Suzanne by Lawrence Fox's father, James Fox, this amazing actor. Anybody who's seen a passage to India, have you ever seen that film? Chris, oh, I haven't seen that film. No, it's a shame on you who is in that. Maybe I saw it a long time ago. Was that it was it was it's about 1983, but it's it stars James Fox. You know, this is 40 years ago. He's been in a million films. He was in a big film in 1970 with Mick Jagger. It was some big film, but he's been in film since the 60s. The loneliness of the long distance runner was like 1962. But he's been in films all these years. So he insisted on picking us up. I thought, you can't do that. You're like this big deal actor. One of the most gracious, delightful Christian gentlemen I have ever met in my life. But anyway, so we had dinner with him our time in London, by the way. I got to say it's been a while since I've been in London. I forgot how much I loved England. Suzanne has relatives there. We actually did our honeymoon in London. No kidding. Twenty seven years ago. Yeah. And Suzanne has relatives, you know, English relatives. And we had the most delightful time. And I we stayed at the East India Club. And Douglas Murray, who when I had dinner with Jordan Peterson, Douglas Murray said, Where are you staying in London? Because he's from there. And we said the East India Club. And he said, Oh, I think it's a bit ropey now. And I thought a bit ropey. What do you mean by that? And I think he meant, you know, kind of like down at the heels or whatever. And it is a little bit. But it's so it was so delightful to stay in this old English club. They had a stuffed hippopotamus right outside our bedroom. That's amazing. Oh, just the head, just the head. But it's like it's an old club. You know, you've got to get dressed for breakfast. There's tippers at I mean, it was it was absolutely fantastic in London. I have to say I had forgotten. It's kind of an amazing city. I just thought New York has nothing on this place. Like, I don't know, maybe it was just where we were because we're hanging out near the Mayfair district. But it was so I don't know, just just it was delightful. And it made me realize that I need to get back to England. We'll probably do Socrates in the city there or do some Socrates events there. But it was absolutely delightful. I ran in in Hyde Park. I did my running thing there. But and then something crazy happened at the British Museum. I'm not making this up when I come back. I will tell you what happened at the British Museum unexpectedly.
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"And probably a tie. Everybody happens if you don't. I mean, what I mean, I guess you get the memo for you. They keel haul you. Do you know what it is to be keel hauled? I don't know. Yeah, many people don't even survive that. They will kill all you. The captain will kill all you. If you do it twice or if your uniforms looking sloppy, you'll walk the plank. It's pretty tough. It's pretty tough. And also they decrease your rum rations for the remainder of the journey. That would get me right there. It's very tough. No, but I'm not kidding. Every night you get dressed up. Dinner is elegant. It really is so old school and so wonderful. So everybody's dressed up. Two nights of the seven are black tie gala nights. So I had to bring a stinking tuxedo with all the accoutrement on the journey. Suzanne brought all these dresses and so we got all dressed up one night. They had 20s night. So, Suzanne, I if people get my email, they saw the picture of Suzanne and me. I'm wearing my tuxedo and stuff, but it was just wonderful. Every night we go down to this bar. There's like a champagne bar and there's this other bar called the Chart Room. And we'd have a drink before dinner. It was really elegant. They had live music and I have never loved live music before. But this was like I'm hooked on live music. It was absolutely amazing. Every night they had a different little I mean, they had a lot of live music, but in this little bar that we would go to, it was usually elegant and delightful. And we would toast Georgie. Some people know just before a trip, we had to put down our sweet Georgie, our little dog who wasn't quite 12 years old and the last year at health problems. And that was really I did share that on the air. That was really tough for me. Very tough. So every night we would toast Georgie and I'd get all choked up. And it really was. But it was a really sweet thing that Suzanne and I did every night before dinner. And then after dinner, you go down to the Queen's Room, which is basically ballroom dancing, this big room. And I thought this is going to be fun, right? Everybody's dressed up. You go down there. But here's what really happened. You get down there and everybody's sitting around the edge of the dance floor. And the only people who get on the dance floor are people who are clearly experts in ballroom dancing. So if you don't actually know how to dance, like if you're not good at it, you don't do it. You just don't dare get up there because everybody has their eyes trained on you. So we just didn't have the guts to get up there. You can't just get up there and do a slow dance to, you know, Stairway to Heaven. This is like big band music and stuff. And all the people that were there were there. They're obviously going on these, you know, cruises or whatever, because they're into the ballroom dancing. So that was kind of intimidating. And then every day they have tea in the Queen's Room. And we only did that once. But it starts right at three thirty. And it's very the whole thing. I got to say it's very British because it is the canard line. This ship is actually what's the term they use, but it's it's officially registered in in Bermuda. But it has a very, very British flavor. And most of the people on the ship are British. Not all, but most of them are British as opposed to American. I mean, there were a number of Americans that we met. But every day they have tea. And right at three thirty, they had this kind of parade of all the waiters come out carrying the teapots and they sort of parade out and people clap. It's really like out of another world. It was it was just delightful. But I'm we want to do it again. And I do recommend it. They're not paying me. They're not advertisers on the show. But I really recommend it that the Queen Mary, too. It's just old school. It's beautiful. And it's as I say, it is affordable. There's like every price point. 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"Before that, we were in England for four days. And before that, we were on the Queen Mary, too. Maybe I should start there. And I kind of I feel like I've shared this on the program, but I think maybe I haven't shared this on the program. Who who would know? Some people in the audience are like, Yeah, Eric, you already shared this. Well, in case I think it's new, it's new. In case he didn't in case he didn't hear it. Suzanne and I for our 25th wedding anniversary, which was almost two years ago, we decided we needed to do something special. And we we decided that we wanted to sail all across the Atlantic on the Queen Mary, too. Now, the Queen Mary, too, is the only transatlantic ocean liner in the world. I think I've said that on this program. You can get on cruise ships and whatever. This is not a cruise ship. It's a transatlantic ocean liner. It was built in 2004. It's the only transatlantic ocean liner in the world today. So it is able to sail the high seas under heavy with really, really, you know, heavy weather and stuff. Of course, we were sailing in July so that the weather was beautiful. But I don't know how to put it. It's a bizarre thing. I mean, you know, we jumped in an Uber. And went to the Brooklyn Pier 12 in Brooklyn, and there is it's basically the largest ship in the world. Actually, it's the second largest ship in the world. There's some I think that there's a cruise ship that's technically larger, but it is monstrous. It is like 1100 feet long. It's it's absolutely gigantic. And to see this thing there and then to get on it, you know, it's like out of one of these movies that we've seen, because of course, I'm a fan of old films and my parents came here on ships in the 50s. And so to get on a transatlantic ocean liner and realize we're going to be on this thing for seven days going across the ocean, it was it was unbelievable. So I want to tell the story of everything that happened there. I want to talk about what happened in London. Some cool stuff happened in London. And then I'm going to get to the Greece stuff. And I guess in hour two, I'll interview John's Mirack. So John's Mirack, of course, you know, in terms of reentry, he's he's my first choice, like John's Mirack. Yeah, he's basically like a human ocean liner. He is himself like an ocean liner of humanity. So we're going to talk to John's Mirack when we come back. But a lot of a lot of really crazy stuff to share. And so I'll just share an hour one today. But my guess is that I'm not going to get to the end of it and then we'll play more of it tomorrow and then the next day. So stick around. I'm back. We're doing a campaign for Food for the Poor. Actually, I take that back. It begins today, Monday, July 31st. People who listen to this program know that we partner with Food for the Poor. They are total heroes. Food for the Poor steps up because there is always there are always hurricanes flooding other natural disasters at this time of year. So because of poverty or collapse infrastructure in a lot of these countries, by the way, in case you didn't know, America is an amazing country. These other countries do not have a lot of infrastructure. So we need to step up. Those of us who have the ability to step up, I want to encourage you to go to MetaxasTalk.com and give what you can. Let's get a good start. Go to MetaxasTalk.com. Do what you can or just text Eric to nine one nine nine nine. Please do this. Text Eric to nine one nine nine nine or phone eight four four eight six three hope eight four four eight six three hope eight four four eight six three hope. I'd like to tell you about a stunning new movie called The Hiding Place. The Hiding Place takes you on a journey back to World War II as the boots of the Third Reich echoed through Europe. One family chose to resist in this incredible true story loved by millions. Corey 10 Boom and her family risk everything to hide hundreds of Jewish refugees from Nazi invaders, and they ultimately face the consequences when they are discovered. The Hiding Place is an inspiring story of faith, hope, love and forgiveness in the face of unthinkable evil written for the stage filmed for the big screen Broadway world called The Hiding Place. Stunning, powerful and deeply moving. Don't miss the story of a brave woman who impacted generations. This global cinema event opens in theaters only August 3rd. Showtimes are selling out fast. Get your tickets now online at the hiding place film dot com. That's the hiding place film dot com. Get your tickets now online at the hiding place film dot com. That's the hiding place film dot com. Check it out.
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"Folks, welcome to The Eric Metaxas Show, sponsored by Legacy Precious Metals. There's never been a better time to invest in precious metals. Visit LegacyPMInvestments.com. That's LegacyPMInvestments.com. Welcome to The Eric Metaxas Show. Would you consider yourself smart, insightful, precocious, astute, clever? Wise beyond your years and good at checking a thesaurus for synonyms. Well, then you've come to the right place. Here now is the handsome, attractive, striking, gorgeous, and quite frankly, breathtaking Eric Metaxas. Hey, Chris. Hello. I'm back. Welcome back. How was your trip? You went around the world in 80 days, I believe. Not exactly. But I am tan, and I wanted that to be the most important thing that I covered. I've been away for about three weeks. And the main thing that I did was work on my tan. And obviously I went to a clinic in Mexico and got hair plugs. And I wanted that to be all healed by now, but it got infected. And so that's why I'm wearing this wig. Yeah, the wig looks great. Whoever. Well, it's the same old wig that I've always worn on this program. But I wanted the I wanted the hair plugs to be ready now, but it just got it was not a good clinic. It was a hair plugs in Mexican. I don't know. I don't know. OK, so I hope I'm joking. I really am tan because I was in Greece. And today today is going to be a tough day. Today is like reentry, you know, like into the Earth's atmosphere because I've been away for quite a while. I needed this vacation. Now, if anybody who gets my email, if you subscribe to my email from Eric Metaxas dot com, I have shared a lot and a lot of photos, a lot of crazy stuff that's happened in the last three weeks, which I want to share on this program. But if you've gotten the emails, you've seen the photos. And that's you know, I think the cliche that a picture is worth a thousand words is kind of true. Like there's there's some fun pictures, but most people who listen to this program don't follow me on Instagram and probably don't get the email. Now, of course, you can get that. It's free. It's no commercials. Just go to Eric Metaxas dot com and we'll send you these emails once or twice a week with these most of the interviews and stuff. But I, I shared a lot of this stuff, but I wanted to share on this program today kind of where I've been for people who don't get my emails or who haven't been following me on Instagram, which, again, I think most people who listen to this as a radio program or podcast follow me in those ways. So the first thing I would add, I would add that this is kind of like, you know, you have a friend, the neighbors who go away on a trip and the cliche is they come back with it used to be on the slides and you would come over and they would show you their vacation photos and you'd be polite, but you really didn't want to sit through so many. But your trip was really actually very interesting. And I think your listeners actually do want to hear what you did. So this is the audio version of that. Oh, you're you're you're exactly. Well, listen, anybody who's read my book, Fish Out of Water. I don't think I say it in the book, but we had neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Right. They passed away many years ago. But I remember they came back from a vacation and they invited the neighborhood kids over. This was like 1973, I think, maybe even 72. But they wanted a vacation. They invited us over to see the slide. So that's what this is going to be like. Now, let me start. Instead of starting at the beginning, I'll start at the end. We flew in from Athens yesterday. And I don't know about you, but like overseas travel, when you get back, it's an 11 hour flight from Athens. We got back, we were totally fried. We were so fried last night that normally you'd want to stay up to a certain hour, but we couldn't do it. So we went to sleep way too early. Like I think I was in REM sleep by six thirty last night. Which means what? Which means I woke up at about two fifteen a.m. today. That's right in time for an early morning breakfast. What do you do at two fifteen a.m.? Well, you try to pretend it's not two fifteen and you try to sleep a little longer, but your body won't go to sleep because you've had your sleep. So what I did is I turned on the TV and Turner Classic Movies is featuring in the middle of the night Czech cinema from the 1960s. So I saw a 1963 film called Something Different, and it actually was amazing. I never thought I'd be talking about Czech cinema. New Wave Cinema from 1963 on this program. But it was actually bizarrely good. And what's the tone of these films? Are they comedies? Are they romances? Action? What is it? This was a film by a woman director. And now, ladies and gentlemen, I am going to talk about my vacation in Greece and London and on the Queen Mary to with Suzanne. I'm going to talk about that in a minute. But I'm just telling you, so last night we went to bed so early that I woke up so early that I know to do with myself, turn on the TV. And I'm watching Czech cinema, 1963. And it was it was really like, you know, when you recognize a film, when you basically say like, I know this is good. Like there were things about the direction of it that I thought this is next level. It was in some ways so bizarre. It was two stories. They kept cutting back and forth between them. And they were not linked. But one was about a gymnast. Am I really talking about this on the program? It was it was I'm all in. I'm intrigued. One was about a real gymnast. I can't think of her name right now, but she was a big deal gymnast. She competed in the Olympics in 56 and 60. And her father was a gymnast. Again, Czechoslovakian. And I got to tell you, they they made an actual film with her. It was a film, wasn't a documentary. So she's playing the role of a gymnast in the film. But it's like very intense and stuff. And then they had this other story of a woman and her husband and their young kid. It was just just bizarrely compelling. And it wasn't meant to be funny, but it was just good. I think my problem is that when you come from Europe to America, you just my body's not here yet. So I think this was the name of the film is called Something Different, which this segment is. And the gymnast was Ava Bosakova. That's correct. He was a gold medalist. Go to the head of the class. So, yeah, but but it's that's half of the story. But it was filmed very interestingly. I mean, filming her routines and stuff, as though it's part of like an actual movie versus a documentary film. Anyway, that's what I did in the middle of the night, because you wake up in the middle of the night. What do you do? I turn on turn to classic movies. And so I've been up for hours. I ran four miles in Central Park. Like basically, I'm ready to go to bed now. And and the show is just starting. So, OK, I want to tell the story of my vacation. We were we spent the last day, 10 or 11 days in Greece.