37 Burst results for "Every Single Person"
Dennis Prager Podcasts
Why Americans Are Shunning Marriage and Kids
"A quarter of Americans think, and even fewer than that among Democrats, that marriage and kids are important. You see, I'll tell you why they think that, because they don't think, how will I grow? They think, what will bring me satisfaction? And when they think of children and marriage, they think of obligations, which is true. There are obligations in marriage and children. They don't like the idea. Obligations is a dirty word on the left. Society may have obligations, but not you. So therefore, why would you want to be a parent? It's not as much fun as going to dinner every night, and that is true. It's not as much fun. That's right. So you have to ask yourself, what is more likely to bring ultimate happiness? By the way, there's a risk children can bring misery. That is correct, but there is nothing like marriage and children to have you grow. Beginning with marriage, it's amazing. I have a sort of, not a sort of, yes, a sort of. I have sort of antennae. When I meet someone in their 20s, I could tell most of the time whether they're married. There is a maturity that radiates. Not that every single person is immature or every married person is mature. There's no such thing as every. So understand that generalizations never mean every. But in general, which is a very important concept, in general, that is indeed the
The News Junkie
Fresh "Every Single Person" from The News Junkie
"The people who are most hurt by inflation are the people who are on a fixed income. In order to get Americans home, that was a pretty good deal. Welcome back to the weekend dive. I'm Rory O 'Neill. the Over years, many of us have seen ABC News chief national correspondent Matt Gutmann covering stories like California wildfires or cave rescues in Thailand and other dangerous work, never suspecting that he was on air, often dealing with crippling panic attacks. Now, Matt, you I and have been out on stories together over the years. I had no idea you were dealing with this. And in your book, No Time to Panic, you describe the length that you would go to to hide and then prevent these kind of episodes. First of all, Roy, it's so good to see you after so many years. Roy and I covered space together all sorts of terrible things that happened in Florida. And, you know, you didn't know this at the time, but when we were reporting live, words would magically disappear from the page I was reading on. My throat would catch on air. I dreaded the live shots in radio. I dreaded them even more in TV. There were some times where you felt like everything clicked and it was perfect and it was the best high you ever had. But a lot of times I was suffering panic attacks like many, many hundreds of times and eventually became almost debilitating. And in January of 2020, I had an on -air panic while we reporting were on Kobe Bryant's helicopter crash and I made a catastrophic mistake talking and I was eventually suspended for it for a month. But you know, you also in the book described, you have gone to desperate lengths to try to get through this disorder. Taking psychedelics, pharmaceuticals, deep breathing exercises. It seems like you've tried everything. Almost quite literally. I started with pharmaceuticals because I thought that my psychiatrist's magical prescription pad would have the magic pill. It didn't. For some people, there are pharmaceuticals that really do work with panic and for anxiety. Not for me. I then went to evolutionary psychology because I needed to learn, Rory, why it was that humans suffered panic and this kind of treating anxiety to begin with. And I learned that it's actually natural. It's an evolutionary advantage to be scared earlier. And that actually was really soothing because I thought I that was broken. For all those years, I thought I was some kink in the human genome. And then I learned, no, I'm not. I am a perfect part of the continuous process of human evolution. And it's normal. And then I wanted to find healing. So in this book, I wasn't actually writing the book yet. was This just for me. I tried basically every psychedelic. And what the psychedelics and the intense breathwork and hypnosis the helped me do was essentially grief, was get to this what I called a well of grief inside me, this pit where I kept all of the sadness and tears for all those years. And I finally let it out. And that was massively cathartic each time. And eventually I learned how to cry and emote without having to take psychedelic. And in the book, you just you let everything out, as is described in detail in the book about how physical you did that. You're also very active on social media. What's the feedback been since the book has been getting out there? I'm imagining thousands of people must be reaching with a me too kind of moment. So at first I started trying to respond to every single person who wrote and you're right. I mean, I don't know if it's like me too, but the outpouring has been unbelievable and overwhelming. So I'm not able to get back to everybody at this point, but so many people, especially in our industry, that's what's been most shocking people who I've known and we've known for 20 some years who are in the business business, confiding in me that they too suffer from panic. And I think it is so pervasive. The data says that 28 % of Americans will experience a panic attack in their lifetime. Most of the psychologists in book the say it's probably closer to 50%. It's that common. And most of us share it because it feels shameful. And so what I think the book is starting to do and what I hoped it would do and what it did for me is break apart that thousand pound block of shame that clung to me everywhere I went every time I had a panic attack. And just lugging that around was very painful. So now it's I think making a difference and people are coming out and it's been just wonderful for me and I'm trying to help everybody, can't get everybody, but it's been pretty cool. You wouldn't describe yourself as cured, so I've made a truce with my brain, so I don't have panics on air. Can't say I won't in the future and I think it would be foolish to say that. I am who I am. I am wired and for anxiety I know how to deal with it so much better now. I have these tools, but it also my is secret sauce because I'm exquisitely attuned to other people's facial expressions, their behavior. I care and I don't want to give that up. It's made me a good journalist. It's made me able to connect with people on their worst day. When you and I cover disasters, I'm able to connect people with instantly and that's a gift and so I don't want to give that up. I don't want to have panic attacks on air either, but I've found a happy medium where I'm still who I am, but I'm also someone who is not dying every time he goes on air. ABC News chief national correspondent Matt Gutmann with his new book No Time to Panic, How I Curved My Anxiety and Conquered a Lifetime of Panic Attacks. That's available now. A milestone this week in space when astronaut Frank Rubio set the record for the longest single mission by an American. Thursday marked one full year in orbit and long duration missions like this one will be required if humans are to make the round trip journey to Mars. Asked this
Epicenter
A highlight from Robbie Ferguson: Immutable - The Web3 Gaming one-stop-shop
"Yeah, absolutely. We support everything out of the box. You know, Passport is just the offering that we have. I think the last thing, nice thing with Passport is because it integrates in a vertically integrated manner with our control of say like the ZK technology and the order book and the wallet, we can do things like say, you know, shared sequencing or cross wallet liquidity in really seamless ways. But other platforms can't because they only have one layer of the stack. And so our vision is no matter what asset you're trading on any marketplace, on any game, on any rollout, using any wallet, you can do so atomically and seamlessly with no loss in security or sort of custody with anyone else. And this is this vision of this sort of universal liquidity for digital value. Yeah. Talk a little bit more about, we talked about this before the show, the enforceable royalties. What's that about? Yeah. So this is obviously pretty topical. You have the marketplace wars over the last couple of years. First, as you had the blurs and the X2Y2s of the world basically say, hey, we're not going to respect royalties. And suddenly soak up huge chunk of pro -trading volume. Then you have an oversea card with some solutions and sort of contracts people use to make sure that they can only be traded these collections on royalty respecting marketplaces and smart contracts. I think this is all indicative of the fact that this really has to be sold as a product layer. Just to kind of understand the problem here. The problem is that when you have assets that are tied to royalty, so like I create like some suite of assets, I put those out on say OpenSea. Unless that contract has royalties built into it at the contract level, you're sort of trusting the platform to extract and deliver the royalties. And that's sort of the issue where if you take those assets somewhere else, if you like just send them to someone, those royalties are not being perceived by the creator. Precisely. So basically it's really hard to enforce royalties with traditional NFT smart contracts and NFT marketplaces. There have been various attempts at solving this, but ultimately it appears as though the game theory, particularly on Ethereum layer one, is to converge toward a zero or no royalties world, because that's the world in which you have to be in order to have any meaningful market share as a marketplace. All these pro traders who are doing the vast majority volume today. Our approach has kind of been from day one, make this enforceable at the protocol level, which we can do due to sort of a couple of things we've designed on immutable exits because we have a single sequencer, we can kind of enforce these royalties from day one. With immutable CKDM, it's going to be more of a decentralized solution where we're actually sort of engineering the ways that smart contracts respect royalties and people can opt in. But I think both the principles are, we firmly believe that enforceable royalties have to be available protocol wide in order for marketplaces to be able to fairly compete and gain their market share and game developers to be rewarded. And the thesis is quite simple, which is, you know, if you have Counter Strike Go or Magic the Gathering, Magic the Gathering has an estimated secondary market cap of 10 to $20 billion of cards. But every year they've got to make new, more impressive cards than everything else in existence, making them less value. I guess I sell my old Magic cards. Yeah, like they're tremendously valuable, right? But MTD, the company, has no way of tapping into the value of what they've created. That's why they have to basically dump on everyone else every year by creating this new, more powerful stuff. And so suddenly we can have a business model that doesn't rely on that. That's like, hey, Magic just gets 5 % of every trade. Magic's only incentive would be increased volume, which might mean make new cards that make the game better and grow the player base. It might mean throwing more tournaments, might mean creating an esports league, whatever they can do to increase the value to players of that economy. And so you have complete incentive alignment, even though it can be an incredibly profitable system. So that's why I've been so passionate about it, is it actually enables a much better, more incentive aligned business model that we must protect in order to, you know, essentially have adverse selection or this kind of, you know, tragedy where we do a short -term benefit to players by giving them cheaper trades, and then there's no incentive for game developers to build or to build based on this much better business model. So why is it that this is not enforceable at the smart contract level? I mean, couldn't we just build like a better ERC721 kind of contract or enforce royalties? Is that possible? It is, but it's just very hard to enforce if the collections themselves aren't originally A, sort of written to be, to be opt into those smart contracts. And so a lot of the volumes say in NFTs has been the legacy collections, which weren't incorporated into this. So I think that's partially what has driven this decision with OpenSea. But B, the kind of more simple solution is if it's relying on individual, say marketplaces or individual collections to make this decision, it's just going to be an incredibly fraught debate. The answer just has to be sort of protocol -wide. This is an available standard that can be enforced. Okay. So you guys enforce this by having a sequencer include the sort of the royalty or like extract the royalty when building the block? Precisely. So that's on ImmutableX, on StarkX, an absolutist rollout, but we can do that on ImmutableZKDM. We're going to have a side of an approach. I think we'll be sharing more details soon. Okay, cool. So I want to talk a little bit about the token. So this IMX token, which is actually like, yeah, trading today. And yeah, I checked, there's like $13 million of trading volume somewhere around that. And, you know, actually I found the token price, like, you know, over time has stayed, I guess, like pretty consistent except for, you know, one peak where I guess probably during the bull market, but hasn't lost a lot of its value compared to, I guess like when it was initially launched. So I guess that's a good thing, I guess. How much do you think of that volume as speculators and how much is tied to actual platform activity? I guess maybe a precursor to that question is what's the token use? What's the token's utility is basically Immutable operates very differently to most of the blockchains in terms of our business model. Rather than having say, sort of this L1 chain thesis around value accruing to the token, the chains. And we will obviously, IMX is going to be the core gas currency of ImmutableZKDM. I think we're now, you know, capturing a lot of that narrative, which is really interesting. But our philosophy has always been, we think a much better and much more aligned business model is to make the most liquid value add platform possible for web3 games and take 2 % of every trade. And this way we can build something that has completely aligned incentives for developers when they make money or when users trades when making money. And every single time those assets are traded, 20 % of the fees must be paid for an IMX. And so IMX actually has sort of, you know, clear fundamental utility, which I think is, you know, people can sort of look at that and sort of build their utility models around rather than sort of alternatives in market. So that's our utility. That's been the clear goal since day one is to really have this integral into the protocol and how we add value to every single trade. And then yeah, the volume, you know, how much of the volume you think is, or do you have a sense of, is that something you're tracking somehow? I mean, like how much of that is tied to actual activity on the platform and how much of it is speculative? Well, the vast majority would be people trading based on, you know, what they sort of perceive the utility to be. I wouldn't necessarily call that speculative, but, you know, I can, up to the reader's interpretation, I think the most important thing is this thing has a clear, right, kind of that we've set in stone since day one. And our vision is to construct really just some of the most sensible tokenomics in the world. So the few things that really excite me about the token, obviously Immutable, you know, doesn't generate this. This is run by the Digital Worlds Foundation, but is one, every single person who trades on Immutable can own part of the protocol. And that's because, you know, every single time of trade you're earning IMX tokens. And the vision of this is really cool because you have 3 .1 billion gamers. If this takes off, everyone can own a part of this open ecosystem of what the future of digital property ownership is going to be. And that's probably my favorite thing. And the second thing, you know, you talked about how the price has been quite stable. Obviously, you know, not here to comment on prices, but the circulating supply is much higher than most alternatives. It's sort of used a lot more. And we've been able to maintain that ranking or improve that ranking from 150 to 50 over the last year in circulating supply, even despite everything unlocking. I think that's because of sort of the, you know, the utility and the long -term alignment we have from Haulers today. And then the final thing I'd say is that obviously the vast majority of IMX allocated to ecosystem grants, the vast majority of these grants, all of which are issued by the Foundation, are almost completely underwritten. So, we don't just give them out to games in exchange for grants. The games actually have to deliver volume to the protocol in order to earn those grants. And right now, in order for roughly 180 million of tokens which have been allocated, over $12 billion in protocol volume has to be achieved in order for them to even be given out. So, in terms of ecosystem allocations, we run, you know, the recommendations here are incredibly efficient in terms of how they're structured for grants versus returns. And game developers love it because they know that ultimately, you know, that there's no supply just going out there, no value being brought. Everyone has to contribute to the ecosystem in order to sort of end up owning part of the protocol, which I think is really important. Very cool. Yeah, I mean, maybe to wrap up here, what is the, yeah, what's the roadmap and what should people be looking into when it comes to Immutable? How can people follow the protocol also in the project? And yeah, any final thoughts? Yeah, look, Testnet just went live two weeks ago. We have pretty much every game on the platform signed up to Passport. We've just done our biggest quarter of onboarding games ever in the company's history off the back of this Polygon announcement, basically, you know, increasing our win rate by 75%. We've got over four years of runway way over the long term, whether it takes a year to get to that hit or four, and we're here to change digital ownership for good. And the thing I would say is, look, coming up, we have Mainnet in quarter four, we've got God's Sunshine going mobile end of this year, Build of Guardians, Shardbound, Infinite Victory, all Immutable titles being published this year. And we've got a ton of our biggest games on the platform on the rise. Yeah, Across the Ages, number one in France, strategy game in Australia. You have Alluvium going out of their open beta, Imminently, probably one of the most hyped games in Web3 right now. We're really just excited by the continued raise of the caliber of quality of games right now. And, you know, as I said, you can't wave the magic wand on the timelines, but it's pretty clear that a single hit is going to pull gasoline on everything and catalyze what has already been a very heavily invested in category. So personally, we're actually thrilled with the pace and progress of things. I think it's just continued to build through despair and help people get to these hits faster, more profitably, and more sustainably. Great. Robbie, thanks for coming on and telling us all about Immutable. And also, I mean, I've learned a ton about Web3 Gaming so this has been great. Thank you. Thanks, Deb. Thanks for having me. Pleasure. your inbox as they're released. If you want to interact with us, guests, or other podcast listeners, you can follow us on Twitter. And please leave us a review on iTunes. It helps people find the show and we're always happy to read them. So thanks so much. And we look forward to being back next week.
The Daily Dive
Fresh update on "every single person" discussed on The Daily Dive
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Simply Bitcoin
A highlight from Why Tucker Carlson is a Bitcoiner | EP 825
"Yeah, welcome to Simply Bitcoin Live, we're your number one source for the peaceful Bitcoin and religion of carbon making news called Traumatic Warfare. We will be your guide through the separation of money and state before anyone makes fun of me in the chat. My mother -in -law got me these like blue light blocker glasses and I put them on last night and I felt like immediate relief and there's like different shades for it. So like these are like nighttime when the TV is there and then these are like right before you're gonna go to sleep but apparently these are for daytime. Anyways, they're badass, your eyes literally feel like they're relaxing and Opti of course is already trolling me and as well, I'm sure the chat is as well. So that's why I'm wearing these, maybe I'll continue wearing, they feel good, I'm on my computer all day, you know what, I don't care at this point. Anyways guys, today's gonna be a great, great show, orange tinted glasses, I didn't think about that. Today's gonna be a great show, we're gonna talk about the man, the myth, the legend, Tucker Carlson himself. His show last night that he released on Twitter, which I highly, highly recommend, actually has last time I checked, 320 million views, it beat the interview that he did with Donald Trump by like 100 million views. And once again, you have a politician, right, so Justin Trudeau is basically gaslighting saying like, you know, we have to put price controls on the grocery stores for raising the prices and all that stuff. But you have a politician who is literally identifying the problem, he's literally saying the government is the problem, the money printing is the problem, the government is the sole cause of these things. You have an Austrian economist who has a really good opportunity, really good shot at winning the presidency. And why I believe this video was so popular was the same reason as to why I believe that video Richmond, North of Richmond, went viral the way it did. People are feeling the pain, people are questioning the current system, and people are desperately seeking an alternative, which is why I believe this this hardcore libertarian Austrian economist has a really good shot at winning the presidency in Argentina, and the country is currently dealing with 100 % inflation, like, like, obviously, people are questioning it. And when you have a politician who's actually identifying the real cause of inflation, like people put two and two together, right? Javier Meli wouldn't be popular if he didn't strike a nerve. Richmond North of Richmond wouldn't have gone viral, right? Without any of the marketing and any of the push by the big studios, it was just basically a very small studio, it's a guy in his backyard with his dog, literally singing into a microphone. That would not have gone viral if it did not resonate with people, if people weren't feeling the pain that he was feeling, right? So this is, we are living through, in my opinion, the separation of money and state. All these roads, like even if Oliver Anthony, and even if, you know, Javier Meli, you know, and we know he likes Bitcoin, but you know, he wants to dollarize the country, all roads eventually lead to Bitcoin. Some people take the longer road, some people take the shorter road, but eventually it all leads to the inevitable conclusion that we have to separate money from state, because as long as the state has the privilege of being able to create money for free that everyone else has to work for, they will abuse that privilege to benefit themselves and benefit their friends at the expense of everyone else. And this is exactly what Bitcoin fixes. So this is really, really exciting times. Tucker, I don't think he would be at this point if it wasn't with the conversations that he had with Naeem Bukhale. Tucker would not be at this point if it wasn't, if he didn't have the conversations with Michael Saylor. Tucker would not be at this point if he didn't have the conversations with Max Keiser. And even though he was the most popular broadcaster on the legacy corporate media, his words were so dangerous that they had to fire the guy. And that makes sense. Look at all the other articles that are that's coming out of the legacy corporate media attacking Naeem Bukhale, attacking Javier Milli. Because I think they're exposing the fraud that is fiat money and the fraud that is the current established system anyways, it's going to be a great show before we get to it. I want to bring up my legendary co -hosts. We're both wearing glasses now, Opti. Opti was making, I was telling you hard, it's so much fun of me in the beginning, but I'm going to buy you a pair. You're going to be you're never going to take off anymore because I need the colorblind one. Your eyes are literally going to relax, bro. Like your eyes are literally like look at my eyes are like relaxing right now. They're like they're like, oh, like I don't even know what that means that your eyes feel relief. Like you don't even know what that means, bro. I have no idea. I've never looked as cool as you do right now with those glasses on. So I wouldn't know. I wouldn't know. But anything anyways to the opening monologue, which was great, very, very eloquent. And you had that politician rhetoric going right there. I really liked it. I really enjoyed it. One of the things that's pretty crazy is the fact that Tucker got so many views on this. What what I don't know what it is now, but last time I checked, it was like three twenty two, three hundred twenty two million. Like that's damn near the whole U .S. population. And we all know that Fox wasn't getting to every single person in the U .S. Obviously, it's global. But that reach that Tucker has on Twitter or X is just it's absolutely crazy. And this goes back to what we keep saying all the time of breaking the echo chamber and planting these ideas. And of course, Tucker doesn't have to go full Bitcoin maxi like we do on our show. But the fact he's having these conversations, I think does feel like a shift in the zeitgeist and people are waking up. And we've been kind of covering pinpoints and receipts about this constantly, whether it's the song, whether it's a post that I did yesterday in the culture, whether it's the tick tock videos, like people are feeling the pain and they're asking the questions. And so, you know, the soil is right for people to understand Bitcoin and for everyone to get on the Bitcoin standard. So it's just, wow, three hundred and thirty five million views now. OK, the Overton window is crazy, man, is shifting, man. People are sick and tired. People are sick and tired of the gaslighting. You had Opti's ex -girlfriend literally telling people that the cause of inflation is because workers are asking for more salary. Like it's absurd. Anyways, we do have a very special guest today. We have James from Stamp Seed and we're going to talk about the stamp seed before. Look, I got to show off my stamp seed hammer. Look at this thing. Nice. There you go. We got we got to we got to stamp seed hammers. So I'm very excited for the culture. We're going to talk about the stamp seed, why you should back up your Bitcoin wallet seed words on titanium, one of the strongest metals on planet Earth. Is that is that correct, James? That's correct. One hundred percent. Yeah, man. So we're going to we're going to we're going to. We're going to dive deep into all that. And I know a lot of you guys I know that you did you guys did a lot of the stress testing. I think it was Lop that did some of the stress testing comments. Migo, you remind me of Bono from YouTube. It's true, but I don't think Bono was wearing these. I think Bono was wearing these for stylistic reasons. I'm wearing these so that my eyes could relax from the from the evil blue light that's coming out of my screen anyways. So, yeah, you guys did a lot of stress testing on the stamp seed. That's correct, right? Yeah. We haven't had Lop stress tested yet. I think that's in the works right now. But we tested ourselves in house, various different sources of heat. One of them was a blowtorch, which is similar to Elon Musk, not a flamethrower, which is reaching temperatures triple the average house fire. This is one of the plates that we had stress tested. You can see it's been burnt to a crisp. That's why there's all that discoloration. We marred it up. So where you can see those hammer marks are hit. You can still see your letters. It might not come out too clear in the camera. Bent it, crushed it, you know, being that it's one solid piece and your letters are stamped deep into the metal when you bend it. Things aren't going to. There you go. Look at that. Look at that. Yeah. Things aren't going to fall apart. You know, there's no loose pieces, no loose tiles, you know, Scrabble pieces, I like to call them. Everything's in there. Yeah. Like this is like as if your house caught on fire that elephants stamped on the ruins afterwards. Yeah, right. This is what this looks like. Yeah. Or if you know your house, you know, you have two floors, maybe the first floor collapses during that fire. And, you know, you have some crushing issues on top of it. But chances are things like that hopefully aren't happening to most people. But if they do, you're secure. If they do, your money, your generational wealth is protected. Anyways, guys, let's jump into the numbers. I want to talk about Tucker. I want to talk about with about everything that's been happening. 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All right, guys, I literally made it super easy for you guys. You can scan the QR code on your screen. It'll take you directly to the stamp seed website and you can use promo code simply to get 15 percent off any of the stamp seed products. And I know you guys are doing custom back plates, too. I saw some that were really bad ass. Yeah. So do you have one, by the way, on hand? I do, actually.
The Dan Bongino Show
AOC Drowned Out by Protesters at NYC Migrant Crisis News Conference
"Did not go well correct okay did not Mike Mike didn't go well like you've heard it too so Mike's standing by and says definitely no definitely a big no that did not go well so here's part one of this here's AOC trying to tell New Yorkers we're like 25 ,000 illegal immigrants a day are piling okay a little bit of hyperbole are piling into New York and here's AOC trying to tell people how awesome it is if you deplorable smellies would just shut your mouth check this a solution to this issue the first is that there is there is consensus here across geography and states on increased federal resources to cities and municipalities dealing with this issue the second is to allow for work authorization so that folks in here can get to work and start supporting themselves as soon as possible they are prevented from getting jobs they are prevented from employment and that is part of the strain on our public system the faster that folks can access the that they're asking for legally the better we can solve this problem and the third is extension of temporary protected status for Venezuelans who are the largest population that are arriving here. So with that we thank you all Jim, what's the best part of that? At the end, they're screaming at her. There's not one single person in that entire crowd that actually ideologically what she's saying. They're screaming at her. Thank you. Thank you very much for showing up. You all
Crypto Critics' Corner
A highlight from SBF Deserves Human Rights
"Welcome back everyone. I am Cass P. Ancy. I'm joined as usual by my partner in crime, Mr. Bennett Tomlin. We're both good today. We have already recorded an episode, so we're dumping in... dumping in? That's probably the wrong way to put it. Get him out! What happened to the other? Can't even stop it! The episode's just sliding through its walls! We're pouring trash out of our mouths! We're vomiting and spewing all over you. Hey, works are all in! Not the way I wanted to start this episode, but there you go. Welcome back everyone. We're going to be talking about a subject that I wrote an op -ed about, and Bennett wrote a piece about as well in the newsletter for Protos. Something we both seem to care about that the reaction to was pretty mixed. Honestly, I expected more vitriol for my statement, but yeah, it was pretty mixed. Some people liked it, some people hated it. We're both making the argument that while it is pretty funny, in a sense, to see SPF struggling and in pain, I think everybody gets some real value out of that in terms of they're like, yes! A guy who's hurt so many people, and legitimately, right? This guy has damaged thousands of people, probably ruined dozens if not hundreds of people's lives for a significant, if not forever, amount of time. So seeing him in pain, people are enjoying a lot. But I think that it's a more important point that's being stated by him. And basically, he went to court and said that he's not getting his medications on time. He's on, as far as we know, I don't know how many medications he's on, but we know for sure that he's on NSAAM, and he's on Adderall. Now, Adderall, I'm sure most people are familiar with. It's for treatment of ADHD and some other mental disorders. NSAAM is a pretty serious drug, as far as I can tell, in terms of its effects on you. And it seems like he's taking a lot of it, for both of them. For both the, I guess I don't know, I don't know, I'm not a doctor, I don't know what a lot is. Basically, he's not getting his drugs, and he's not getting the vegan meals he wants. He wants vegan meals, and he's not getting those vegan meals, because I guess the prison system is basically like, why should he? He's not special. But therein lies the problem, which is, don't you think prisoners should be getting the medical treatment they need? And don't you think they should be getting basic food given to them, even if it's something demanded like vegan food or vegetarian food? Yeah, why don't you get us started off on that? No, I think this issue is kind of multifactorial and multifaceted, and I understand why a lot of people are having the feelings they're having. And so first I want to acknowledge that Sam Bankman -Fried's experience with the justice system has been one very much shaped by his privilege, right? Like he was able to find the people to put up his massive bond, and even after like repeated bail violations connecting with the VPN, doing all these other things, he remained free until he started doing what I'm not going to say is legally witness tampering, because I'm not a prosecutor, but that feels a lot like witness intimidation. As soon as he started doing that, now he has to go back to prison. In case anyone is unfamiliar, let me stop you right there. In case anyone is unfamiliar, just so you understand, Sam Bankman -Fried released Caroline Ellison's personal diaries. Now Caroline Ellison was the head of trading over at Alameda Research at the time of the collapse, and he released these very personal kind of sensational diaries to the New York Times, which is just wild, as you said, like he had been reprimanded before for his bail violations and kind of pulled to, he was skating on thin ice already. And I do get why people are like, well, if you didn't want to go back to jail and get treated like crap, maybe you should have thought about that. Understood. But anyway, sorry, I just wanted to give, paint a little color there. Like that's absolutely true. Sam Bankman -Fried was lucky to get the bail conditions he did and should not have been violating them. And repeated violation of bail means he should be in pretrial detention. And like one of the other things that's come up is Lawrence Tribe, a constitutional lawyer, wrote a motion, wrote a letter to the court describing Sam Bankman -Fried's treatment and like insisted that if Sam Bankman -Fried were to be detained, where he was talking about being detained, not having access to a computer would make preparing his defense much more difficult and that represented like a potential constitutional issue. And I think there's a bit of merit there. But, and this gets into like the bigger problem here, that these problems are so much bigger than Sam Bankman -Fried, right? Like not just Sam Bankman -Fried should be able to get their medications and like a diet in accordance with their moral wishes. Everyone being held in pretrial detention is presumed innocent until proven guilty. These are people who deserve to be, like, to have reasonable standards while they're being detained, should have access to things that help them prepare their defenses, should be able to receive medications they need, and the United States justice system fails to provide that for such a vast number of inmates, including, because he is there right now, Sam Bankman -Fried. Yeah, I mean, I think actually part of this for me calls into attention how serious the issues are in the justice and penal systems of the United States of America, right? Because here we have possibly one of the most famous white collar criminals of all time, not just of the past year or two, of all time. He's up there with Elizabeth Holmes and Bernie Madoff. Like this guy is going to go down in history as one of the biggest financial scammers and possibly, allegedly, maybe he'll get off and no crimes were committed in fucking La La Land. But anyway, my point here being that this guy is as big as it gets. And the fact he's still being mistreated in prison or in, sorry, excuse me, in pretrial detention in jail speaks to how broken the system because imagine how the people with no voice are doing right now. Imagine how the people who don't have money to pay for bail even, so end up in prison or in jail for weeks, if not months before they go to trial. Like these are real issues that are happening every day to millions of people, not just SBF. And that's the important part of this. That's why I'm glad there's some attention being brought to it, whether or not people agree with whether SBF should be given these basic human rights. I think he should. Whether other people think so, I guess is just how angry they are with him. Yeah, I especially understand why like other people who have had experiences with the criminal justice system might end up feeling particularly frustrated themselves because they'll be, they may see it as, I had it even worse than that and I didn't even steal $9 billion from my customers, you know? And so I certainly understand there's lots of reasons for lots of people to be lashing out, but like you said, fundamentally the thing is people deserve rights. They deserve to have access to these things that help them form their defenses and they deserve a strenuous defense on their behalf in the justice system. And those things are important, those things, we should strive to provide those to everyone. And everyone happens to include him. Yes, and a lot of these issues are totally fixable as far as I'm concerned. Like vegan meals, there's a lot of people pushing back on my statements about that. I was like, oh, give him his vegan meals, just give it to him. Everyone's like, well, he doesn't necessarily deserve to have, it's not like it's covered by the Constitution. And i .e. there are prisoners who are Jewish or Muslim in prison who are given kosher meals and halal meals, right? To meet their religious needs. The pushback for the veganism that I heard was, well, this isn't a religious thing. I want to push back on that and just say one, vegan meals are incredibly easy to cook. We're talking about rice, bread and vegetables. Like if you're not already, if you don't already have those things available for prisoners, there's a problem. All of those ingredients should be actively there for you to be able to make this thing. I know that they make vegetarian meals for vegetarian, probably because there's Hindu prisoners, and some of them need to follow strict vegetarian meals and guidelines, right? But we are equipped to handle this. We have the money, we have the rules and regulations in place that this should not be an issue. It's crazy to me to push back on the idea that this guy can eat vegan food in prison. The thing I want to highlight there is there often are legal protections for people with sincerely held religious beliefs to get access to certain things, like you're talking about kosher halal and things like that, and often our prison system fails to do what it's legally supposed to in many of those cases as well. Again, this is just an example of the pattern and history of human rights abuses across the U .S. penal system. There's a reason international human rights organizations regularly raise alarms about the U .S. prison system, and it's because there are regular and massive human rights abuses in our prison system. Yep, and that brings up another point that I brought up, which is people I think like to assume like, oh, well, this guy's a big fucking scammer. He deserves to rot in jail and get shivved and get treated like shit. I hope that's what happens. And I go, okay, just for some perspective here, 5 % of the entire U .S. population is going to spend some time behind bars. So if you're not the one who ends up in jail at some point or in prison at some point, someone you know absolutely will, 100 % sure, 100 % sure, right? If you go outside and meet people, someone you know will go to jail or prison. Do you want them to be treated respectfully and with dignity, or do you not give a shit? Do you really think like anyone who's in jail, anyone who's in prison deserves the worst kind of treatment? It's time to reflect on these things, you know? We live in a society. It's true, though. Like we shouldn't be, the fact that it's such punitive measures, right, instead of worrying about recidivism, instead of worrying about rehabilitation, instead of worrying about making sure that these people don't repeat their fucking problems when they go back into society, we're focused on hurting people as much as possible. And the reality is, if Sam Bankman Freed gets 15 years in prison or something, 10, 15, 20, and is treated like horseshit the entire time, like no human rights, do you think he's going to come out a like capable and reasonable human being? At least if you try to rehabilitate him, he's not necessarily going to be as bad. At least you can say you tried. Like just damaging someone repeatedly, we know what that does to people. So I just don't understand this at all. And I think people need to reevaluate their, like vengeance is just so easy. And I think people really need to reevaluate where their morals and ethics lie when it comes to this. I get it. It's easy to hate SPF. He is a total scammer. He lies constantly. The dude cannot open his mouth and speak any honest truth for years on end. He's like, his behavior is disgusting. He's as despicable as it gets without getting into like murder and other horrifying crimes. Right. He's disgusting. Fine. He's also a human being. Like, I don't know, man. It just the reaction was just so it was kind of like, man, I don't understand how so many people think this is acceptable. Yeah. And like that's what you're up with. Ed was about. And there was definitely a lot of people who agree that human beings deserve treatment as human beings, which is good. The other thing I want to talk about besides this, which is also something we talked about a little bit in our Reggie Fowler episode, if people want to go back and listen to that. There's been still conspiracy theories about Sam Bankman Fried and his ongoing criminal prosecution, including the fact that as part of our extradition treaty with the Bahamas, we have certain responsibilities about when charges are introduced and when people are extradited. And those were not necessarily followed with Sam Bankman Fried, which has since required certain charges to be removed from the current trial date. And the allegations either incorporated in to other existing charges or other charges are pending reintroduction for months down the line. Yes. And so those charges are not really going away. And as we've talked about before in the case of Sam Bankman Fried, if prosecutors really wanted, they could go through and add one wire fraud charge for like every single person who sent money to Alameda Research under like the false pretenses that it was going to FTX or something. Right. And so prosecutors can and potentially will still scale up his prosecution in the future if that's what they think is justified and appropriate. So I've just been a little bit frustrated with some of the conspiracy theories around those dropping of charges. And like the other thing I want to emphasize, just to kind of make sure people understand this, just because Sam Bankman Fried is pleading not guilty right now does not mean he will continue to plead not guilty. Often you are required to plead not guilty initially, even if you think you are guilty, just because like the system's not ready for you to plead guilty yet. And like that's an actual thing that exists. And I want to be clear here, too. If you have a capable legal team behind you, which as far as I know he does, you're generally not going to plead guilty right away. Why? Well, you're not going to get anything in return, right? If they don't offer you anything and you go, I plead guilty. Well, they're going to accept your guilty plea and they are going to hang you from the gallows. You've got to get something in return. And to get something in return, you're going to play a little bit of a game. And that, unfortunately, whether we like it or not, is a part of the legal system. Right. So you have to have something for them, for you to plead guilty, give them something and them to be like, OK, well, then we'll cut you a deal. And that's what SPF is hoping will happen. That doesn't mean that's what happens. That doesn't mean he gets only five years or only 10 years or who knows. But that's what SPF wants to happen. And we don't know if it will. Yeah. Sam Bankman Fried's goal, as far as I can tell right now, is basically to muddy the waters, cast doubt on key witnesses and the evidence they're introducing. Try to place the blame like his mens rea, his head state for many of these decisions. Say that that state was induced by legal counsel and other things to make it so that prosecutors don't want to add more charges. That'll be hard to prove. So that, like you're saying, he can eventually come up with some deal where he shares whatever information he does have in exchange for a reduced sentence. Yada, yada, yada. That's the meta probably of what his team is planning to do. The other thing I want to emphasize to people is from where I'm sitting, and again, we're not lawyers, we're definitely not prosecutors, we're not experts. But it seems quite likely to me that Sam Bankman Fried is going to prison for much longer than Sam Bankman Fried would want to go to prison. Any time is more than he wants. Yeah, but there are already guilty pleas from almost all the rest of like the top executives at FTX. They have full cooperation, access to all the communications, like all the text messages, all the records, all the logs. They have such an over what, four million pages or something was the initial like discovery they're sending over to him. There are massive quantities of evidence, powerful cooperating witnesses, like he's in a really bad place. And that's just for evidence. I want people to understand that. This is just, we're just saying like, oh shit, there's a lot of evidence against this guy. So he's in trouble on that front. But I want to point people to a recent guilty white collar criminal, Elizabeth Holmes, okay? She is going to be doing nine years in a federal prison, okay? She just had her second baby. She was pregnant during the trial. If that isn't going to win you some, you know, benefit of the doubt and some, oh my gosh, well at least, you know, she's a mother now. We got to make sure that she's able to spend time with her kids and they don't grow up without a mom and blah, blah, blah. She's doing nine years behind bars for her crimes. She didn't hurt nearly as many people as Sam Bankman Fried. She only hurt mostly just very wealthy people. So like in terms of that, just reflect on that, right? That's nine years for someone who did essentially a smaller fraud that hurt less people and is a more sympathetic character. You think SPF is going to get off? Fucking wake up, dude. There's not a chance in the world. I'll bet anyone. If you think he's not going to, if you think he's genuinely going to do no time, I'll bet anybody. I'll bet anyone. But Cass, Cass, he donated to President Biden and was part of some vague conspiracy involving Zelinski. And he met up with Gary Gersler, right? Whatever. I just don't, it's so, it's so, I'm so past it. And then, and for me, the one thing I also want to emphasize here is how obviously failed the cash bail bond mechanism is in general, right? And I think proof of this is SPF. SPF gets $250 million bail bond. Obviously, the way it works, in case anyone's unfamiliar, is you pay roughly 10 % of that and you can get out. If you don't have the money to pay for it yourself or the collateral to pay for it yourself, you can usually get a bail bondsman to take on that, that collateral obligation for you partially, and then you have to pay back a loan on that obligation. What did this accomplish, right? We have to reflect on this. What did it accomplish? He put up, they put up $250 million to get Sam Bankenfried out of detention. Then he goes out, he starts spreading rumors, getting in touch with journalists he's not supposed to, breaking all the rules of the bail that he was given with this money and this collateral, and now he's back in detention again. So it accomplished nothing. It allowed him to break some rules and, as you said, muddy the waters and make things more complex and weird. Another individual who just got a big, gigantic, I think the largest in history in terms of actually being paid for, Joe Lewis, who is the owner of Tottenham Hotspur and the Albany, which is where SPF was living when he got in trouble. This guy just got in trouble, too, for insider trading and fraud, and he put up a $300 million bail with his yacht and private jet. So what do we think this is going to do? I mean, this guy's a billionaire. He can buy a new jet tomorrow. He can buy a new yacht tomorrow. It doesn't matter. He can go run away if he needs to. Nothing is going to stop him from doing that, right? Unless you put an ankle monitor around him. You ensure that you're tracking him with GPS and satellite tracking, that you ensure that he isn't leaving the country. You take his passport. There are protocols to ensure it, and none of it has to do with money. We need to get rid of this cash bail bond system, like, immediately. It doesn't make any sense at all. I strongly agree. I think the cash bail bond system is, like, one of the clearest examples in our criminal justice system of how we have codified a certain privilege for the most privileged, right? That once you have money, you can avoid these things that others can't. And as you're saying, the only real differentiator between these cases is whether or not you have money when you're accused of a crime. That shouldn't be the goal of our system. The platonic ideal of our legal system is one that treats, like, the most downtrodden and the most, like, wealthy and powerful as equal as you possibly can. And, like, there's limits within reason of how far you can take that, perhaps, but, like, that's the ideal, and cash bail bond is just one example of where we don't even try to do that. Yeah, that's right. It's just an obvious advantage for rich people, and really no advantage for anyone who doesn't have the income to deal with this kind of thing. Yeah, it's just a very gross, gross, broken system that needs fixing. Well, and if you listen to, like, testimony of certain convicts and stuff, like, when you are destitute prosecutors and DAs have been accused of using that as leverage, basically, because they know you're going back into whatever horrible detention facility you're in, they know you're more desperate to strike a deal or to say whatever to do whatever because you don't want to go back. Right. And to be clear, like, it's one of the founding principles of our country is kind of this innocent until proven guilty, right, that you aren't going to be treated like you are guilty, even if everyone, like, watched you do the crime. Like, until we prove it in a court of law, you are innocent, and so, like, reasonable bail without having to pay an arm and a leg just seems like the right thing to do here as a country to follow our guiding principles. Like, maybe I'm shouting into the void here, but like this, it's just something I think is necessary for us to talk about, and something I really do think can be fixed within our lifetime. Like, I don't expect the entire penal system to get overturned. I hate the idea that private prisons do what they do in our country. Yeah, that they exist. Like, that they aren't more heavily regulated. Like, that's why there's so many people in prison in our country. I have no doubt about that. But, like, if we're not going to change that anytime soon, and we're not, then the least we can do is ensure that bail bond is working properly, that prisoners are getting their medicine, that prisoners are getting the food that they need. Like, obviously within reason, right? If somebody says, I'm on an only Wagyu steak diet or something, I understand being like, go fuck yourself. Who's going to be the first indicted Bitcoiner to argue that they have a moral conviction that requires them to have only red meat? I would think they would already be in there, right? There's got to be a few dudes who are already in prison trying to argue that already. That I don't fucking buy. There's a limit to even how far I will go in terms of my sympathy. But yes, I do think we need to reform this stuff. SPF is a good jumping off point for that, so we thought it was worth talking about. I understand some people are just going to be like, SPF isn't going to change this. But we can make this a point of retention of this information for everyone in crypto. To be like, we need to change this. A lot of people do focus on this stuff and they understand the corruptness of it in cryptocurrency, and that's good. But a lot of people also don't care about criminal reform and the justice system. And I think it's probably time to think about it. Because some of you are definitely going to go to prison.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Who's Feeling the Pinch? Everybody!
"Fuel prices are soaring. Who is feeling the pinch? Ask The Wall Street Journal. Well, I know who's feeling the pinch. Everybody, every single person out there is feeling the pinch. Yesterday, the Dow was off 70 points. Now, the NASDAQ and the S &P 500 eked up a win. Amazon, for whatever it look, I own two stocks, Amazon and Palantir. Palantir, because Teal started it and I figure he's a genius and it'll win someday. And Amazon simply because I like to follow one stock. I used to own Apple for many, many years. And I got, I dumped Apple because they're too, they're in bed with the Chinese. So I dumped Apple and I got Amazon and Amazon happens to be benefiting from the artificial intelligence. They're actually pretty good at it. And I see yesterday, they released a new AI product. And so they went up 2 .56%. I mean, this week has been nuts. This year has been nuts for Amazon, but they're the outliers. Unless you own AI stocks, you're just, you've been watching the market drift around a little bit. Ten -year treasury went to 4 .264 and the cost of gold stayed low at $1 ,927 an ounce. Now I've always said, my financial advice is worth nothing, but I suspect your financial advisors will tell you to diversify your portfolio. I wouldn't be surprised if they say you have 5 % in precious metals and or dirt unrelated to your house. Things that cannot go away. Things that can't disappear.
Divine Naples Podcast
A highlight from #439 Matt got a free pass from doctors so he dug in to German cake quickly. Rich thinks he had to pay off all doctors because he knows he is broken beyond the fixing point. Army story will explain what not to do to your wife in the car. Someone closed his wifes hand in the door of the car so he doesnt have to go to the theater. Simply news you can use in 10 years. Iron Curtain did not allow teddy bears. Episode #439 September 9th. 2023
"Another beautiful and divine day in Diva Naples here, September 9th, Saturday, 2023, and this is episode 439 from this Mike Rich and from this Mike Matt, another Saturday, it is a Saturday, I'm so happy, how was your uh checkout, doctor checkout, it was great, you got a smile on your face, I told you yesterday that I was getting a checkup for for the insurance aspect of infinite banking, we'll talk about that some other day, uh but I had an awesome time, she checked all my blood, and what did they say, and then I had an EKG that came out perfect, oh good, hold on just a second, let me, hold on just a second, oh there you go, oh there's that German cake I had to diss yesterday, I felt really bad about it, but now I'm back to destroying my body, so I'll go ahead, destroy it, let's do it, let's eat this sugar, this looks awesome, I've been doing a lot of complaining for years about German cakes, so yeah, and since they say you are, you got a free pass, yeah, let's just destroy it, let's do it, yeah, yeah, what do I care about, exactly, any diabetes or anything else, it might be a result, you just close your eyes and say you never had it, right, it's the only problem I always tell people, like the only problem is gonna be in your head, you know what I'm saying, you're gonna have to figure it out, right, explain it to yourself, you don't have to explain to anybody else, oh my gosh, it's a little frozen, isn't it, it's absolutely delicious, is that blueberry, this is blueberry cream cheese, yeah, crumbled cream cheesecake, it's German, German, but you know yesterday was fresh and you said you don't want it, so I just shove it in the freezer, make an ice cream out of it, you know what's awesome though, because you probably had no idea this, but blueberry is my favorite berry for fruit pies and cakes, you know what, if this would have onion, you would say same thing, you mean if you put a chili dog in front of my face, you didn't have a cake for 24 hours, so everything would be your favorite, oh yeah, that's true, yeah, well speaking of that, do you know what they call train carrying bubble gum, choo -choo gum, yeah, no, choo -choo train, yeah, and in your case, you know, the dog is cheap, yeah, you will find out as soon as you talk to a lawyer, yeah, right, here it is, yeah, so be careful, all right, I will, so shove a couple more forks in your opening, yeah, and then, so you can be quiet, because I have essentials to do, I will do that, why don't you get to the essentials while I shove German cake down my throat, yeah, we will still hear it, it's gonna fall down so deep, because you have nothing there, that's right, I told you not to eat 24 hours, anything, but I've been eating all day since I got done with that EKG, yeah, it's 9 p .m and this is the perfect thing to put up there, you know, ending this Saturday, put it right on top of those burgers and things I ate today, oh did you, oh yeah, you didn't tell me that, onion rings do, oh my god, where's mine, I forgot, oh yeah, I'm gonna bring you this, I'm gonna bring you that, I'm sure, you know, loyal listeners now just laughing their faces and saying, saying yeah, he was right, he always promised him something, never bring him anything, all right, yeah, you are the one on the streets, I can barely get to the garbage can, you'd be all right, yeah, well today I had a, I closed my eye, I had a nap, no, one eye, yeah, close one eye, wow, can you believe it, three minutes, did you go past three minutes, yeah, three and a half, I think, well that's, it's a record, that's a record for you, yeah, I feel so guilty, yeah, you should, yeah, Julian Bruce, Terra Ketera, Apache music, thank you for all the music that you provide us with and the song that we start our podcast with, which is Divine Ables, very signature song for us and we are always tuned into this podcast, I hope everybody else that hears that as well and sponsor of this podcast is Divine Coffee and Wine Bar, our favorite place where we're getting all our Texas tea from and you know that this giving us the jolt and the energy that we can, you know, bring these voices to your ears, beachss .com, that's the place where you wanna go if you're interested, so 250 items available, just let us know what we can bring you, we will do our best to be there between 30 to 45 minutes, there's no charge for delivery if you order more than $15, which today it's, you know, two sandwiches and stuff, it's easy to do, yeah, easy, so, you know, we're still keeping everything very reasonable, salads from $12, organic salads, sandwiches, $13, I mean, we bring it to your beach, it's freshly made in our coffee and wine bar, not speaking of the alcohol, like the beers and, you know, cocktails and wine and everything, we have everything, now, weather, how about that? I got that weather today and we're gonna have a sunny day in the beginning, it's gonna be 99 it was today and we're gonna get down to a low of 78, a little bit of rain at 9 o 'clock, about a 70 % chance, then at 10 o 'clock 50 and at 11 o 'clock 40 % chance, so we're gonna have a pretty nice day, do you think we're gonna have rain? Yeah, we're headed towards, you know, seasonal weather, it's getting lower and lower, I mean, it's still pretty hot, my friend, during the day, but that's gonna start cooling down, well, that's gonna be so nice, just open windows and then we also see that that hurricane is out there, still, but they said it slowed down a little bit and so they're hoping that it's just gonna curve back up into the Atlantic, slow down a little bit yesterday, yeah, now, five miles an hour, yeah, back to the speed, it's picked up another five, uh -oh, but it is supposed to kind of turn it back into the Atlantic, right, until they throw the spaghetti on the wall, we really don't know, yeah, we don't know, I wish they'd throw some meatballs into that spaghetti, but the speed they said is back to 160, yesterday was from 160, that's crazy, so we are back from, you know, two days ago, so, doesn't know what it's doing, I think it's like driving with your wife, you know, it's just like, have you ever drove with your ex -wife when she said something, both of them, did she ever upset you and, and, you know, this is, you never drove like that, I tried to make sure that she never drove, I learned that in the army, right, when we, when you were out of the bunker, yeah, hold on, let me just give you another Iron Curtain story, they're the, they're the, my favorite of the day now, so, uh, we were, hold on, we were probably in the army for two weeks, you know, very fresh, you still don't know what, everything smells different, you still don't know what's going on, you know, they cut your hair, you have no hair, just look like a little, like, you know, freshly born, the little dog baby, yeah, and you just, you stick the head out of the bed, it goes like, what is today, you know, you just have no idea, so every day there was a surprise, so two weeks in, they just like, uh, you know, sound the alarm, everybody full gear, and they loaded us in this, uh, you know, very sophisticated army vehicles, you know, yeah, that has absolutely, absolutely no, uh, springs or any type of, you know, uh, no shock absorbers raining, no, no suspension, so you feel little stones on, on everything, so we're going in the road, and, uh, of course, you know, the, in the cabin, there were three seats only, and, uh, you know, the older soldiers, now we're gonna sit in the, in the, on the back, which we called pig house, you know, we call it pig house, like when you're transferring pigs to slaughterhouse, that's where you put them, that's where you guys were going, so the Russian front, so you're sitting, right, so you're sitting, uh, on a bench, very, like, a very nicely cushioned bench, which was jested from piece of wood, and you have all the gear on you, right, heavy, and now imagine you're sitting, uh, on a side, uh, towards front, so you don't, you don't sit, like, in the bus, like, facing front, right, right, you're sitting on the side, so we get out of the army base, and that soldier, that older soldier, no exactly, because they did same thing to him, when he was there, yeah, but he experienced it, and I learned it, and I later on did it to my ex -wife, she really liked that, you know, you hazed your own ex -wife, I was giving her the army special, you know, just the treatment, all the time, so she did something wrong, I just, so, so what he did, all the soldiers, like, he pressed the pedal, like, to the ground, right, the truck, it takes, like, maybe half a second to pick up, right, the speed, so just, like, move forward, and then he let it go, and press the brake, and just stop, and he did it, like, maybe 15, 20 times, some guys start puking, because they couldn't, like, you're sitting side to side, right, and you're hitting each other with this heavy gear, you got car sickness, yeah, yeah, so, you know, that's what, uh, I did to my ex -wife, oh, you're horrible, so when she was, you know, just, uh, the, you know, I'm, I'm, wouldn't it have been just better to be, do it my way, just don't let her drive, no, I was driving my ex -wife, when she was telling her where to go, and what to do, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm surprised the airbag didn't explode, oh my gosh, you know, she was really close with the face to the dashboard, it's not better than my friend from England, you know, what he did to his ex -wife, no, well, she started, I think, she got upset one day, because he forgot they had the tickets to the theater, and he came, uh, you know, what do you call it, uh, socially tired, he came from this, uh, place called restaurant, you know, after work, he worked for socially gathering, yeah, and he came home socially tired, right, yeah, so, uh, he didn't want to go to the theater, he went to social gathering, he didn't want to go, he was tired, I don't want to go anywhere, well, after a few beers, he got really tired, right, so he came home, yeah, she started yelling at him that they have to go, and they have to take shower and everything, and he's, you know, kind of like, I'm not going, and all this, so, right, he said it was so much fire in the house, that he had to dress himself, and all these things, and then when he was opening the door for her to get, uh, you know, seated in the car, he slammed the door when her hand was still between the doors, did he do it on purpose, oh my god, I guess we're staying home, so he saw her hand still holding when she was getting in the car, still telling him stuff, so he just shut the door, said we end up in the ER, I told her I don't want to go to the theater, oh, I'm surprised he didn't push her back in the car and say drive yourself to the emergency room, but yes, call me when you're, so next time, get all fixed up, when your wife is telling you stuff in the car, you just pretend you're in the army, press the pedal, gas, brake, gas, brake, and if that doesn't work, slam her hand in the door, that's the treatment, uh, but that would be the, that would be definitely, that'd be the extreme, yeah, well we're getting to our segment, which is our favorite segment of, uh, I'm thinking of it, it is my favorite segment, what do you call it, uh, decades, yeah, it is, it's of the century, maybe, we've been doing this for five years, but we just started this segment last week, but I love it for five years, I do too, I love this segment for whole five years, yeah, because it is what it is, and what is this segment, we know everything that the guy who knows everything doesn't know, so there you go, that's right, and if we, if we don't know it, we'll, we'll give the answer later, yeah, we will know it, there will be time, eventually, yeah, yeah, we will get to know it, because we're, we're on the mission on, on the know, it, I love I do too, yeah, so the idea is just to bring the news around the town, the Southwest Florida, what's going on, so you, your life is a little bit more educated, so you know, these days, there are fact checkers, and all kind of different things that are providing us from finding out what really is happening, so that's why Matt and I are dedicated, we eat cake over here, drink coffee, get fed, we have little doors, so I mean, this is, there's a situation we may not gonna get out of the studio one day, but for now, we, we are able to exit, so you know, if you're listening, you may be smarter, because, yeah, because you get all kinds of information, yeah, I mean, can I give you a couple, a little bit of information you got over a couple of decades? 1960, Yeah, oil is gone in 10 years, let me give you another one, 1970s was the ice age in 10 years, so we're gonna, that kind of didn't happen, 1980s, acid rain will destroy all crops in 10 years, what's the deal with 10 years, the 90s, the ozone layer will be gone in 10 years, what year is it right now, Rich? Did it start already? I guess, and then 2000 ice caps will be gone in 10 years, so when that started, that started in 2000, well, I think, I think Al Gore need to come back and explain that to us, so what we want to do is give you news that you can use in 10 years, oh, I love it, yeah, so let me just start with this, interesting fact that happened in Ecolier County and commissioners, they actually, I guess, start thinking, you know, what to do and how to, how to, maybe they use the crystal ball, how to plan the future here, yeah, maybe, and we've been preaching this for a while, we were always saying, yes, we were, Diva and Aprils, you know, we want to bring communities together because whatever, it's gonna be day, and it's not far, but federal government is gonna be thinking, we don't have much money left, what we're gonna do and how we're gonna distribute it, maybe we're just gonna skip some of the states and states gonna say, hey, we didn't get money, so some of the counties, and this is how it's gonna go, and counties to the cities and so on and so forth, so, all the way down to the local government, you have to realize that one day you're gonna have to be your own doctor, your own, you know, lawyer, and your own gardener, and your own everything, so let's just start practicing this, let's be independent, it's like our own community, and we're coming up with solutions, our own solutions as a community and coming together, and that's what we're all about, building community, and budgets obviously are a big part of that, and we live in Collier County, I believe the greatest county in all of Florida, that's my own opinion, but now you're gonna share some information about what's going on, I mean, we have some serious issues that we're gonna have to deal with, and this, let me say this, and we get there, okay, there's two things that could happen, you either gotta cut budgets to balance the budget, or you need to raise taxes to pay for that stuff, and we can do both, you can do both, but the real thing would be is to take an assessment and find out what we really need, what programs, where we can realistically cut the budget, and the federal government is in debt, we're all in debt, and they're gonna have to finally come to grips that you just can't spend yourself into wealth, and they're gonna have to make cuts, and the way they're gonna make cuts is doing exactly what you said, they're gonna cut their funds to the states and say, you guys are now responsible for that, and where are we gonna make up the shortcomings on that, is two things like you said both, either we're gonna cut the budgets, or we're gonna raise taxes, and as citizens, and people in the community, we should be involved in that discussion, because it's gonna affect every single person one way or the other, you may be somebody that relies on some of these programs that the county's gonna start talking about, you know, the budgets, and maybe cutting, and that type of stuff, so that's why we come here and tell you, hey, be educated, we're letting you know, they're coming up with this commission meeting to start talking about the budget, and this one's gonna involve cut, and they discuss that in accounting, what they're gonna be cutting, how they're gonna be cutting, which is smarter way to do it, because they still have time, right, so I think, you know, we're going a good direction, exactly, and here we are, Diwai Naples, we would like to educate you and everybody else, instead of cutting budgets, and you know, raising taxes, why we don't just spend a little bit more money with our local businesses, because we keep them, keep them in business, and today, you know, actually yesterday, Friday, seasonal week, or in our case, two weeks of restaurant dining, for $29, $39, and $49, depends what restaurant you go to, it's available to you, so you will support our local businesses, we'll keep people employed, you know, keep the money here in our community, local taxes going into the coffer, we don't have to raise the taxes, because we just naturally, stimulating the economy, that's what it is, that's exactly right, and you brought, that's the key point right there, so if we learn this right now, we don't have to worry about it later, right, and you know, we're gonna go as far as a school district has enough money to, you know, still have teachers, and have kids in the school safe, and learning the right things, and EMS being available to come to your house quickly, because they have a full tank of gas, proper funding, yeah, proper funding, so keep this in mind, because I think it's very important, and I'm really excited that our leaders in the county are taking initiatives, and they start already, you know, this conversation, because they can, they can see the devil on the wall, yeah, the handwriting's on the wall, baby, because that's coming, no matter what, and it's the day of reckoning, they call it, and we have a lot of programs that we are preparing, one of them is, for example, Divine Naples Club, that will be just for residents of Collier County, and once you prove your residence, there's gonna be a lot of benefits you're gonna be getting, so we wanna, you know, we're gonna participate in it, we're gonna be somehow leaders into this movement as well, so you know, just keep eye on our profile, social media, website, and on EARS on this podcast, we will bring everything to your ears, yes, so that's what I have to say about community budget, you know, budgeting, and being a community, we have 23 websites in 18 languages, so you can find a lot of information that we are passionately putting together, now, that would be the most serious stone, right, and now, since it's Saturday, and you're stuffing your face, I think we should, what else is new, yeah, we should stick to food, yeah, yeah, that's, why not, yeah, that's what everybody does this weekend, right, everybody's out, you know, dining, finding dining, they only ask two crazy people, you know, sitting here, well, we're finding a way to do it here, yeah, that's true, right, we always find a way, we do, so we don't left, where there's a will, there's a way, there's no left behind, even if we call in for takeout, so I just, you know, I have nine food dishes, signature food dishes, they are so symbolic for Florida, you have ideas, oh yeah, let me start with this, I'm gonna name them, and you give me an idea of what you think about it, okay, how about this, all right, key lime pie, oh, that is a signature of Florida, and it is probably my favorite tart dish, the key lime pie is so tart, and I just love the way it's made, and there's such a different variety, different, you can get that just about at any restaurant in southwest Florida, you know, I mean, it's a staple, bro, that's the dessert of the state, right, that, I mean, that's true, and you know what's interesting about this, this was invented in Key West, in the beginning of 19th century, before even a refrigerator was invented, what did they put in it to keep it, I mean, I'm just saying, you know, the key ingredients is pie to sweetened condensed milk, yeah, so, you know, that's just like a pickled, sugar, doesn't have to be refrigerated, yeah, exactly, yeah, just so you know, if you need to, sugar sausages, it's delicious, it's delicious, gator tails, how about that, I do, but actually, I like them better in what are called gator nuggets, or gator balls, and I like them in smaller pieces, and the way I like it, I mean, some make it and saute it and do other ways, but I like it fried, there's nothing like fried gator, and I dip my gator nuggets or balls in barbecue sauce, it's my favorite, and it is a staple, again, in Florida, it's tradition, oh, I think there's been a tradition forever, since Indians, they made them, fried them, they may just ate them differently, no, they did, they've ate it, like, I'm sure that he, he didn't have alligator sushi, did you, did you live with Indians, so, you know, no, I don't know, okay, so, you don't know, I don't know, but I want to know, because we're supposed to know everything, I know, I mean, you, you pretend, like, you know, right, but maybe they do it, like, we do marshmallows, maybe they put it on a stick and roast it over the fire, that's exactly how you would do it, with sausage, yeah, let me just correct you, I mean, you always pretend, like, you know, but I'm here to make you look like you don't know, but I know, right, yeah, and to make me look, you know, like, like, you don't know, I don't know, you're right, yeah, so, Indians were always doing it, but these days, it's kind of hard to access, or get access to this food, because it's only during the open hunting season, and people that hunt for alligators need to have a license, so it's a little bit more sophisticated, but they, from the tail, there's the pieces on the top of the tail that are used for this, you know, this delicatessen, and it's only during the certain, you know, months of the year, so unless you freeze it, then you're probably gonna have it fresh, exactly, in some of the places and restaurants, there's not many of them around, but it tastes like a chicken, yeah, everything tastes like chicken, although I never say that, because gator tastes like gator to me, yeah, well, it tastes like chicken, all right, everything tastes like cabbage, do you know what that is? No, and it's, I just learned today, so we're in the know, why don't you share that with me? It's called Heart of Palm, and it's been eaten for hundreds of years, the leaves of the branches of the palm were used to construction ever, historically known for being part of the many early folks, in fact, one group of early Americans was able to repel British army attacks because of really, yeah, so part of the palm that used for construction, they also eat and they make, you know, oh, that's right, it's, they have it in cans, right? Yeah, yeah, so that's, that's, you know, the palm is all around us, we just don't know which one it is, I know, and that's just, you know, I guess back to Indians, yeah, game, there you go, conch fritters, oh, I love crunk fritters, and those things are fried also, did you know what they call that? Escargot of Florida, that's right, because the actual meat is actually a snail, most people probably wouldn't eat it if they'd known that, but usually it's chopped up and put in a fritter, a batter and fried, it's delicious, you ever had it? I don't think so, because I don't eat seafood, I don't play the balls, and I don't watch TV, would you like me to bring it so you can try it one time, it's more like a hush puppy, let me bring it, you can have it, okay, no, I don't, I don't eat seafood, well I love them, and whenever I have a go to a restaurant that has them, I try to make that my appetizer, the dish originates from Bahamas, but it's, it transfers to the kivas, that's where it starts, you know, spreading north from there, so it just gives you an idea, fried green tomatoes, oh I love it, you ever seen that movie, no, which movie, it's a movie, fried green tomatoes, but anyway, they're delicious, you ever had those, you don't like fried food, no, I don't eat much, you eat fried chicken though, well the chicken tenders, you eat fried chicken too, not much, if I bring fried chicken here to you, you're gonna eat it, I'm gonna get you Popeyes, I don't think I've ever had it, yeah, well I think I'll bring you some Popeyes, you might like it, I'm not a big Kentucky fried chicken fan, well we're gonna talk about it today, remind me, okay, yeah, all right, when we're gonna go into the national days, something important you need to know, okay, public subs, that's really interesting, yeah, you know what, I really like their bread, because bread is a sandwich, and we are, we were able to even make better sandwich with our ciabatta bread, oh yeah, and we're getting, we're getting actually, reviews, I mean a lot of people just love our sandwiches, because the ciabatta bread comes out crispy, so crispy, and we balanced all these flavors, you know, we have, strategically, yeah, we have mustards, we have tomato, greens, pickles, European pickles, meat, cheese on the sandwich, I mean, you know, we just balanced it so nicely, the sandwich from Publix is good, but it's just, I think, too big, and also, you know, there's just a lot of bread in it, right, and our sandwich is not that much bread, but it's more crispier, so it's more like a baguette, crispier type of thing, and I just love our ciabatta, I love the little charred bit a bit on it, it's just, the flavor is great, yeah, well, then we invite people, oysters, yep, and then we have a lot of oyster bars around here, Pelican Larry's is known for it, I'm not a big raw oyster fan, I like them fried, and I like them on bread, yeah, well, a sandwich, a poor boy, somebody just posted something on the social media, how they were trying to eat oysters, and they see these little maggots coming through it, after they put lemon on it, I never had oysters, I don't like them, so if you are going for oysters, be careful, make sure you don't get it because they are raw, so it could be a lot of parasites and a lot of bacteria, so just be careful, you know, it could be a problem. Strawberry shortcake, yes, well, what do you tell me? I love it, you don't like it? I like it, I like the cake, it's usually a shortbread cake, little round circle, some people make them scratch, you can buy them in grocery stores, and you just cut up your strawberries, you can add a little syrup to it if you like, to make it a little sweeter, I like to just have mine fresh with the strawberry juice, and then whipped cream, now I would love to have your special German whipped cream on one of those, and a little touch for me is to sprinkle a little bit of nuts on top of it, that's my own personal way of doing strawberry shortcake, but I love it. Great idea, but you know what, it's really interesting to know that strawberry shortcake came from Florida, and it's from town that is called Plant City, and it's the smallest town in Helzberg County, about 15 minutes from Tampa, and they produce 15 % of the strawberries sold in the United States.
Divine Naples Podcast
A highlight from #439 Matt got a free pass from doctors so he dug in to German cake quickly. Rich thinks he had to pay off all doctors because he knows he is broken beyond the fixing point. Army story will explain what not to do to your wife in the car. Someone closed his wifes hand in the door of the car so he doesnt have to go to the theater. Simply news you can use in 10 years. Iron Curtain did not allow teddy bears. Episode #439 September 9th. 2023
"Another beautiful and divine day in Diva Naples here, September 9th, Saturday, 2023, and this is episode 439 from this Mike Rich and from this Mike Matt, another Saturday, it is a Saturday, I'm so happy, how was your uh checkout, doctor checkout, it was great, you got a smile on your face, I told you yesterday that I was getting a checkup for for the insurance aspect of infinite banking, we'll talk about that some other day, uh but I had an awesome time, she checked all my blood, and what did they say, and then I had an EKG that came out perfect, oh good, hold on just a second, let me, hold on just a second, oh there you go, oh there's that German cake I had to diss yesterday, I felt really bad about it, but now I'm back to destroying my body, so I'll go ahead, destroy it, let's do it, let's eat this sugar, this looks awesome, I've been doing a lot of complaining for years about German cakes, so yeah, and since they say you are, you got a free pass, yeah, let's just destroy it, let's do it, yeah, yeah, what do I care about, exactly, any diabetes or anything else, it might be a result, you just close your eyes and say you never had it, right, it's the only problem I always tell people, like the only problem is gonna be in your head, you know what I'm saying, you're gonna have to figure it out, right, explain it to yourself, you don't have to explain to anybody else, oh my gosh, it's a little frozen, isn't it, it's absolutely delicious, is that blueberry, this is blueberry cream cheese, yeah, crumbled cream cheesecake, it's German, German, but you know yesterday was fresh and you said you don't want it, so I just shove it in the freezer, make an ice cream out of it, you know what's awesome though, because you probably had no idea this, but blueberry is my favorite berry for fruit pies and cakes, you know what, if this would have onion, you would say same thing, you mean if you put a chili dog in front of my face, you didn't have a cake for 24 hours, so everything would be your favorite, oh yeah, that's true, yeah, well speaking of that, do you know what they call train carrying bubble gum, choo -choo gum, yeah, no, choo -choo train, yeah, and in your case, you know, the dog is cheap, yeah, you will find out as soon as you talk to a lawyer, yeah, right, here it is, yeah, so be careful, all right, I will, so shove a couple more forks in your opening, yeah, and then, so you can be quiet, because I have essentials to do, I will do that, why don't you get to the essentials while I shove German cake down my throat, yeah, we will still hear it, it's gonna fall down so deep, because you have nothing there, that's right, I told you not to eat 24 hours, anything, but I've been eating all day since I got done with that EKG, yeah, it's 9 p .m and this is the perfect thing to put up there, you know, ending this Saturday, put it right on top of those burgers and things I ate today, oh did you, oh yeah, you didn't tell me that, onion rings do, oh my god, where's mine, I forgot, oh yeah, I'm gonna bring you this, I'm gonna bring you that, I'm sure, you know, loyal listeners now just laughing their faces and saying, saying yeah, he was right, he always promised him something, never bring him anything, all right, yeah, you are the one on the streets, I can barely get to the garbage can, you'd be all right, yeah, well today I had a, I closed my eye, I had a nap, no, one eye, yeah, close one eye, wow, can you believe it, three minutes, did you go past three minutes, yeah, three and a half, I think, well that's, it's a record, that's a record for you, yeah, I feel so guilty, yeah, you should, yeah, Julian Bruce, Terra Ketera, Apache music, thank you for all the music that you provide us with and the song that we start our podcast with, which is Divine Ables, very signature song for us and we are always tuned into this podcast, I hope everybody else that hears that as well and sponsor of this podcast is Divine Coffee and Wine Bar, our favorite place where we're getting all our Texas tea from and you know that this giving us the jolt and the energy that we can, you know, bring these voices to your ears, beachss .com, that's the place where you wanna go if you're interested, so 250 items available, just let us know what we can bring you, we will do our best to be there between 30 to 45 minutes, there's no charge for delivery if you order more than $15, which today it's, you know, two sandwiches and stuff, it's easy to do, yeah, easy, so, you know, we're still keeping everything very reasonable, salads from $12, organic salads, sandwiches, $13, I mean, we bring it to your beach, it's freshly made in our coffee and wine bar, not speaking of the alcohol, like the beers and, you know, cocktails and wine and everything, we have everything, now, weather, how about that? I got that weather today and we're gonna have a sunny day in the beginning, it's gonna be 99 it was today and we're gonna get down to a low of 78, a little bit of rain at 9 o 'clock, about a 70 % chance, then at 10 o 'clock 50 and at 11 o 'clock 40 % chance, so we're gonna have a pretty nice day, do you think we're gonna have rain? Yeah, we're headed towards, you know, seasonal weather, it's getting lower and lower, I mean, it's still pretty hot, my friend, during the day, but that's gonna start cooling down, well, that's gonna be so nice, just open windows and then we also see that that hurricane is out there, still, but they said it slowed down a little bit and so they're hoping that it's just gonna curve back up into the Atlantic, slow down a little bit yesterday, yeah, now, five miles an hour, yeah, back to the speed, it's picked up another five, uh -oh, but it is supposed to kind of turn it back into the Atlantic, right, until they throw the spaghetti on the wall, we really don't know, yeah, we don't know, I wish they'd throw some meatballs into that spaghetti, but the speed they said is back to 160, yesterday was from 160, that's crazy, so we are back from, you know, two days ago, so, doesn't know what it's doing, I think it's like driving with your wife, you know, it's just like, have you ever drove with your ex -wife when she said something, both of them, did she ever upset you and, and, you know, this is, you never drove like that, I tried to make sure that she never drove, I learned that in the army, right, when we, when you were out of the bunker, yeah, hold on, let me just give you another Iron Curtain story, they're the, they're the, my favorite of the day now, so, uh, we were, hold on, we were probably in the army for two weeks, you know, very fresh, you still don't know what, everything smells different, you still don't know what's going on, you know, they cut your hair, you have no hair, just look like a little, like, you know, freshly born, the little dog baby, yeah, and you just, you stick the head out of the bed, it goes like, what is today, you know, you just have no idea, so every day there was a surprise, so two weeks in, they just like, uh, you know, sound the alarm, everybody full gear, and they loaded us in this, uh, you know, very sophisticated army vehicles, you know, yeah, that has absolutely, absolutely no, uh, springs or any type of, you know, uh, no shock absorbers raining, no, no suspension, so you feel little stones on, on everything, so we're going in the road, and, uh, of course, you know, the, in the cabin, there were three seats only, and, uh, you know, the older soldiers, now we're gonna sit in the, in the, on the back, which we called pig house, you know, we call it pig house, like when you're transferring pigs to slaughterhouse, that's where you put them, that's where you guys were going, so the Russian front, so you're sitting, right, so you're sitting, uh, on a bench, very, like, a very nicely cushioned bench, which was jested from piece of wood, and you have all the gear on you, right, heavy, and now imagine you're sitting, uh, on a side, uh, towards front, so you don't, you don't sit, like, in the bus, like, facing front, right, right, you're sitting on the side, so we get out of the army base, and that soldier, that older soldier, no exactly, because they did same thing to him, when he was there, yeah, but he experienced it, and I learned it, and I later on did it to my ex -wife, she really liked that, you know, you hazed your own ex -wife, I was giving her the army special, you know, just the treatment, all the time, so she did something wrong, I just, so, so what he did, all the soldiers, like, he pressed the pedal, like, to the ground, right, the truck, it takes, like, maybe half a second to pick up, right, the speed, so just, like, move forward, and then he let it go, and press the brake, and just stop, and he did it, like, maybe 15, 20 times, some guys start puking, because they couldn't, like, you're sitting side to side, right, and you're hitting each other with this heavy gear, you got car sickness, yeah, yeah, so, you know, that's what, uh, I did to my ex -wife, oh, you're horrible, so when she was, you know, just, uh, the, you know, I'm, I'm, wouldn't it have been just better to be, do it my way, just don't let her drive, no, I was driving my ex -wife, when she was telling her where to go, and what to do, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm surprised the airbag didn't explode, oh my gosh, you know, she was really close with the face to the dashboard, it's not better than my friend from England, you know, what he did to his ex -wife, no, well, she started, I think, she got upset one day, because he forgot they had the tickets to the theater, and he came, uh, you know, what do you call it, uh, socially tired, he came from this, uh, place called restaurant, you know, after work, he worked for socially gathering, yeah, and he came home socially tired, right, yeah, so, uh, he didn't want to go to the theater, he went to social gathering, he didn't want to go, he was tired, I don't want to go anywhere, well, after a few beers, he got really tired, right, so he came home, yeah, she started yelling at him that they have to go, and they have to take shower and everything, and he's, you know, kind of like, I'm not going, and all this, so, right, he said it was so much fire in the house, that he had to dress himself, and all these things, and then when he was opening the door for her to get, uh, you know, seated in the car, he slammed the door when her hand was still between the doors, did he do it on purpose, oh my god, I guess we're staying home, so he saw her hand still holding when she was getting in the car, still telling him stuff, so he just shut the door, said we end up in the ER, I told her I don't want to go to the theater, oh, I'm surprised he didn't push her back in the car and say drive yourself to the emergency room, but yes, call me when you're, so next time, get all fixed up, when your wife is telling you stuff in the car, you just pretend you're in the army, press the pedal, gas, brake, gas, brake, and if that doesn't work, slam her hand in the door, that's the treatment, uh, but that would be the, that would be definitely, that'd be the extreme, yeah, well we're getting to our segment, which is our favorite segment of, uh, I'm thinking of it, it is my favorite segment, what do you call it, uh, decades, yeah, it is, it's of the century, maybe, we've been doing this for five years, but we just started this segment last week, but I love it for five years, I do too, I love this segment for whole five years, yeah, because it is what it is, and what is this segment, we know everything that the guy who knows everything doesn't know, so there you go, that's right, and if we, if we don't know it, we'll, we'll give the answer later, yeah, we will know it, there will be time, eventually, yeah, yeah, we will get to know it, because we're, we're on the mission on, on the know, it, I love I do too, yeah, so the idea is just to bring the news around the town, the Southwest Florida, what's going on, so you, your life is a little bit more educated, so you know, these days, there are fact checkers, and all kind of different things that are providing us from finding out what really is happening, so that's why Matt and I are dedicated, we eat cake over here, drink coffee, get fed, we have little doors, so I mean, this is, there's a situation we may not gonna get out of the studio one day, but for now, we, we are able to exit, so you know, if you're listening, you may be smarter, because, yeah, because you get all kinds of information, yeah, I mean, can I give you a couple, a little bit of information you got over a couple of decades? 1960, Yeah, oil is gone in 10 years, let me give you another one, 1970s was the ice age in 10 years, so we're gonna, that kind of didn't happen, 1980s, acid rain will destroy all crops in 10 years, what's the deal with 10 years, the 90s, the ozone layer will be gone in 10 years, what year is it right now, Rich? Did it start already? I guess, and then 2000 ice caps will be gone in 10 years, so when that started, that started in 2000, well, I think, I think Al Gore need to come back and explain that to us, so what we want to do is give you news that you can use in 10 years, oh, I love it, yeah, so let me just start with this, interesting fact that happened in Ecolier County and commissioners, they actually, I guess, start thinking, you know, what to do and how to, how to, maybe they use the crystal ball, how to plan the future here, yeah, maybe, and we've been preaching this for a while, we were always saying, yes, we were, Diva and Aprils, you know, we want to bring communities together because whatever, it's gonna be day, and it's not far, but federal government is gonna be thinking, we don't have much money left, what we're gonna do and how we're gonna distribute it, maybe we're just gonna skip some of the states and states gonna say, hey, we didn't get money, so some of the counties, and this is how it's gonna go, and counties to the cities and so on and so forth, so, all the way down to the local government, you have to realize that one day you're gonna have to be your own doctor, your own, you know, lawyer, and your own gardener, and your own everything, so let's just start practicing this, let's be independent, it's like our own community, and we're coming up with solutions, our own solutions as a community and coming together, and that's what we're all about, building community, and budgets obviously are a big part of that, and we live in Collier County, I believe the greatest county in all of Florida, that's my own opinion, but now you're gonna share some information about what's going on, I mean, we have some serious issues that we're gonna have to deal with, and this, let me say this, and we get there, okay, there's two things that could happen, you either gotta cut budgets to balance the budget, or you need to raise taxes to pay for that stuff, and we can do both, you can do both, but the real thing would be is to take an assessment and find out what we really need, what programs, where we can realistically cut the budget, and the federal government is in debt, we're all in debt, and they're gonna have to finally come to grips that you just can't spend yourself into wealth, and they're gonna have to make cuts, and the way they're gonna make cuts is doing exactly what you said, they're gonna cut their funds to the states and say, you guys are now responsible for that, and where are we gonna make up the shortcomings on that, is two things like you said both, either we're gonna cut the budgets, or we're gonna raise taxes, and as citizens, and people in the community, we should be involved in that discussion, because it's gonna affect every single person one way or the other, you may be somebody that relies on some of these programs that the county's gonna start talking about, you know, the budgets, and maybe cutting, and that type of stuff, so that's why we come here and tell you, hey, be educated, we're letting you know, they're coming up with this commission meeting to start talking about the budget, and this one's gonna involve cut, and they discuss that in accounting, what they're gonna be cutting, how they're gonna be cutting, which is smarter way to do it, because they still have time, right, so I think, you know, we're going a good direction, exactly, and here we are, Diwai Naples, we would like to educate you and everybody else, instead of cutting budgets, and you know, raising taxes, why we don't just spend a little bit more money with our local businesses, because we keep them, keep them in business, and today, you know, actually yesterday, Friday, seasonal week, or in our case, two weeks of restaurant dining, for $29, $39, and $49, depends what restaurant you go to, it's available to you, so you will support our local businesses, we'll keep people employed, you know, keep the money here in our community, local taxes going into the coffer, we don't have to raise the taxes, because we just naturally, stimulating the economy, that's what it is, that's exactly right, and you brought, that's the key point right there, so if we learn this right now, we don't have to worry about it later, right, and you know, we're gonna go as far as a school district has enough money to, you know, still have teachers, and have kids in the school safe, and learning the right things, and EMS being available to come to your house quickly, because they have a full tank of gas, proper funding, yeah, proper funding, so keep this in mind, because I think it's very important, and I'm really excited that our leaders in the county are taking initiatives, and they start already, you know, this conversation, because they can, they can see the devil on the wall, yeah, the handwriting's on the wall, baby, because that's coming, no matter what, and it's the day of reckoning, they call it, and we have a lot of programs that we are preparing, one of them is, for example, Divine Naples Club, that will be just for residents of Collier County, and once you prove your residence, there's gonna be a lot of benefits you're gonna be getting, so we wanna, you know, we're gonna participate in it, we're gonna be somehow leaders into this movement as well, so you know, just keep eye on our profile, social media, website, and on EARS on this podcast, we will bring everything to your ears, yes, so that's what I have to say about community budget, you know, budgeting, and being a community, we have 23 websites in 18 languages, so you can find a lot of information that we are passionately putting together, now, that would be the most serious stone, right, and now, since it's Saturday, and you're stuffing your face, I think we should, what else is new, yeah, we should stick to food, yeah, yeah, that's, why not, yeah, that's what everybody does this weekend, right, everybody's out, you know, dining, finding dining, they only ask two crazy people, you know, sitting here, well, we're finding a way to do it here, yeah, that's true, right, we always find a way, we do, so we don't left, where there's a will, there's a way, there's no left behind, even if we call in for takeout, so I just, you know, I have nine food dishes, signature food dishes, they are so symbolic for Florida, you have ideas, oh yeah, let me start with this, I'm gonna name them, and you give me an idea of what you think about it, okay, how about this, all right, key lime pie, oh, that is a signature of Florida, and it is probably my favorite tart dish, the key lime pie is so tart, and I just love the way it's made, and there's such a different variety, different, you can get that just about at any restaurant in southwest Florida, you know, I mean, it's a staple, bro, that's the dessert of the state, right, that, I mean, that's true, and you know what's interesting about this, this was invented in Key West, in the beginning of 19th century, before even a refrigerator was invented, what did they put in it to keep it, I mean, I'm just saying, you know, the key ingredients is pie to sweetened condensed milk, yeah, so, you know, that's just like a pickled, sugar, doesn't have to be refrigerated, yeah, exactly, yeah, just so you know, if you need to, sugar sausages, it's delicious, it's delicious, gator tails, how about that, I do, but actually, I like them better in what are called gator nuggets, or gator balls, and I like them in smaller pieces, and the way I like it, I mean, some make it and saute it and do other ways, but I like it fried, there's nothing like fried gator, and I dip my gator nuggets or balls in barbecue sauce, it's my favorite, and it is a staple, again, in Florida, it's tradition, oh, I think there's been a tradition forever, since Indians, they made them, fried them, they may just ate them differently, no, they did, they've ate it, like, I'm sure that he, he didn't have alligator sushi, did you, did you live with Indians, so, you know, no, I don't know, okay, so, you don't know, I don't know, but I want to know, because we're supposed to know everything, I know, I mean, you, you pretend, like, you know, right, but maybe they do it, like, we do marshmallows, maybe they put it on a stick and roast it over the fire, that's exactly how you would do it, with sausage, yeah, let me just correct you, I mean, you always pretend, like, you know, but I'm here to make you look like you don't know, but I know, right, yeah, and to make me look, you know, like, like, you don't know, I don't know, you're right, yeah, so, Indians were always doing it, but these days, it's kind of hard to access, or get access to this food, because it's only during the open hunting season, and people that hunt for alligators need to have a license, so it's a little bit more sophisticated, but they, from the tail, there's the pieces on the top of the tail that are used for this, you know, this delicatessen, and it's only during the certain, you know, months of the year, so unless you freeze it, then you're probably gonna have it fresh, exactly, in some of the places and restaurants, there's not many of them around, but it tastes like a chicken, yeah, everything tastes like chicken, although I never say that, because gator tastes like gator to me, yeah, well, it tastes like chicken, all right, everything tastes like cabbage, do you know what that is? No, and it's, I just learned today, so we're in the know, why don't you share that with me? It's called Heart of Palm, and it's been eaten for hundreds of years, the leaves of the branches of the palm were used to construction ever, historically known for being part of the many early folks, in fact, one group of early Americans was able to repel British army attacks because of really, yeah, so part of the palm that used for construction, they also eat and they make, you know, oh, that's right, it's, they have it in cans, right? Yeah, yeah, so that's, that's, you know, the palm is all around us, we just don't know which one it is, I know, and that's just, you know, I guess back to Indians, yeah, game, there you go, conch fritters, oh, I love crunk fritters, and those things are fried also, did you know what they call that? Escargot of Florida, that's right, because the actual meat is actually a snail, most people probably wouldn't eat it if they'd known that, but usually it's chopped up and put in a fritter, a batter and fried, it's delicious, you ever had it? I don't think so, because I don't eat seafood, I don't play the balls, and I don't watch TV, would you like me to bring it so you can try it one time, it's more like a hush puppy, let me bring it, you can have it, okay, no, I don't, I don't eat seafood, well I love them, and whenever I have a go to a restaurant that has them, I try to make that my appetizer, the dish originates from Bahamas, but it's, it transfers to the kivas, that's where it starts, you know, spreading north from there, so it just gives you an idea, fried green tomatoes, oh I love it, you ever seen that movie, no, which movie, it's a movie, fried green tomatoes, but anyway, they're delicious, you ever had those, you don't like fried food, no, I don't eat much, you eat fried chicken though, well the chicken tenders, you eat fried chicken too, not much, if I bring fried chicken here to you, you're gonna eat it, I'm gonna get you Popeyes, I don't think I've ever had it, yeah, well I think I'll bring you some Popeyes, you might like it, I'm not a big Kentucky fried chicken fan, well we're gonna talk about it today, remind me, okay, yeah, all right, when we're gonna go into the national days, something important you need to know, okay, public subs, that's really interesting, yeah, you know what, I really like their bread, because bread is a sandwich, and we are, we were able to even make better sandwich with our ciabatta bread, oh yeah, and we're getting, we're getting actually, reviews, I mean a lot of people just love our sandwiches, because the ciabatta bread comes out crispy, so crispy, and we balanced all these flavors, you know, we have, strategically, yeah, we have mustards, we have tomato, greens, pickles, European pickles, meat, cheese on the sandwich, I mean, you know, we just balanced it so nicely, the sandwich from Publix is good, but it's just, I think, too big, and also, you know, there's just a lot of bread in it, right, and our sandwich is not that much bread, but it's more crispier, so it's more like a baguette, crispier type of thing, and I just love our ciabatta, I love the little charred bit a bit on it, it's just, the flavor is great, yeah, well, then we invite people, oysters, yep, and then we have a lot of oyster bars around here, Pelican Larry's is known for it, I'm not a big raw oyster fan, I like them fried, and I like them on bread, yeah, well, a sandwich, a poor boy, somebody just posted something on the social media, how they were trying to eat oysters, and they see these little maggots coming through it, after they put lemon on it, I never had oysters, I don't like them, so if you are going for oysters, be careful, make sure you don't get it because they are raw, so it could be a lot of parasites and a lot of bacteria, so just be careful, you know, it could be a problem. Strawberry shortcake, yes, well, what do you tell me? I love it, you don't like it? I like it, I like the cake, it's usually a shortbread cake, little round circle, some people make them scratch, you can buy them in grocery stores, and you just cut up your strawberries, you can add a little syrup to it if you like, to make it a little sweeter, I like to just have mine fresh with the strawberry juice, and then whipped cream, now I would love to have your special German whipped cream on one of those, and a little touch for me is to sprinkle a little bit of nuts on top of it, that's my own personal way of doing strawberry shortcake, but I love it. Great idea, but you know what, it's really interesting to know that strawberry shortcake came from Florida, and it's from town that is called Plant City, and it's the smallest town in Helzberg County, about 15 minutes from Tampa, and they produce 15 % of the strawberries sold in the United States.
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A highlight from What About Results In Evangelism?
"Here we go Let me commend Back on that table. I probably bought brought There's several hundred of this gospel track right here if you've ever heard of Paul washer heart crime Minister nary society They put out this really great track. It's just the gospel of Jesus Christ and It goes through starts with the character of God, right? That's how we started today the holiness of God the justice of God the depravity and condemnation of man the great dilemma God's action Man's response and under all these headings. It's just scripture so like you can't you know, sometimes I give people that one and I Just say well if you want to argue with that one start arguing with God You're not arguing with me So yeah, please. Yes, bail yourself to those resources. Please take anything you want. I've already told Pastor John Whatever doesn't get taken off the table. I'm just leaving here for the church So if you want one of everything in a pack of tracks, please take it. I mean it I Was telling someone earlier. We have a whole bookshelf at our house. It's called the giveaway show specifically there for when we have people over and stuff like that to Just to build up build up the church and be a blessing to God's church. So please Please take advantage of that Yeah again, thanks everyone who's with us It's been been an encouragement to be here with you. So so far we've discussed Several things. What is evangelism? Why do we evangelize? How and when we evangelize Adam just took us through in our final session today, and I'm maybe a little shorter here depending on How long I have to wait for y 'all's interaction when I ask questions What about results? Trusting God and evangelism So let's pray that God would bless the remainder of our time Heavenly Father we do praise your holy name. We thank you Lord that when your goodness and Kindness appeared Lord you saved us not by works Done in righteousness, but by the washing of regeneration the power of your Holy Spirit you cleanses and gave us new hearts Many of us here Lord, we pray for the children Lord here that they would be your servants that you would graciously call them into your kingdom those you've not yet done. So Lord I thank you for Pastor John being willing to host this this day. Thank you for Adam Just just hearing the prayers of my brother's Encouraging and edifying and even convicting to me Lord. I pray that we would all learn to Love you more and love the loss more Lord I would be remiss when it comes to the results of evangelism and trusting you and evangelism I Often feel like the man that came to Jesus and said Lord I believe help my unbelief So Lord, I'm sure that many my brothers and sisters have felt that way Sometimes when it comes to evangelizing someone that person that we just think may never be saved or even just that hard -hearted stranger that we pass a track to or Whoever it was Lord. We believe Lord. We believe that you're a God who saves and we believe that you're sovereign over this entire universe So Lord help us to trust you help us to walk by faith and not by sight Lord and help us to be your witnesses Where we are in our immediate, you know, Jerusalem and and outside of that area in our Judea and Samaria and to the end of the earth help us to be your witnesses and To trust you with the results or God. We love you and we pray that you bless this time in Jesus name. Amen All right, so we're living in a modern church culture that's obsessed with terms like Success Right and in terms like fruit What fruit do you see from this thing or what fruit do you see from that thing? So the first thing I want to do is share with you a quote I've talked to my former pastor. He's a guy named Steve Doyle. He's the greatest preacher I've ever heard in my entire life I used to tell people he could preach the paint off the wall. I mean, he's just an amazing preacher No one's ever heard of them sometimes we go to these outreaches and You know guys like, you know, Adam John I hanging around and say like if you're on a desert island You can only have three guys Sermons rest your life and you know, of course We're all you know people saying things like Paul Washer RC sprawl or John McCart or this person and I'd always have Steve Doyle in There people say who I say yeah, that's my pastor. He he was a very formative person in my life. I was With him for two and a half years in his church and left the area and then came back and was with him for another year and a half But the first two and a half years I was very young and very immature in my faith and his preaching shaped me Quite a lot and there's something he said in a sermon one day that I think he probably didn't imagine I'd still be telling people this quote, you know a decade later what you know, whatever it is now, but he said this quote Success in ministry can and should only ever be measured by faithfulness to the Word of God So that's something for you evangelist pastor To hold on to man. I cling to that quote There's times like when when I'm not seeing The Lord move I was telling out of the abortion clinics We kind of use some couple different terminology out there like someone's if gone into the abortion clinic, but they came out and it wasn't enough time that they could have had an abortion and they just come out and they don't have like Medicine in their hand. Usually they'll have a bag or something and they just leave and they don't speak to us Well, we call that something like a turn away Right, like, you know, at least that we know they didn't get an abortion that day. We don't know what happened Now if somebody comes out and they say I changed my mind, I'm not gonna do it then we would say God God say that was a safe, right? So I once went and I ministered one plan parenthood One to two times a week for seven years. I once went two years without seeing a save at that clinic Two years so a number of turnaways It was a kind of a difficult layout as a strip mall the big parking lot We weren't near here the parking lot entrances, so we couldn't catch people coming in or going out But there was a number of times we saw people might sit there You knew they were hearing the word preacher windows down. They just left so we'd say turn away But one time I went two years without telling somebody tell me I'm not gonna do it. I mean that was like That's a dark time for an evangelist But I just knew I I would go back to that quote and say am I being faithful to the to your word? Lord help me just to be faithful to your word and to trust you So if you've engaged in any kind of evangelistic ministry for any amount of time you've probably heard questions like What kind of fruit do you see from that or what result do you see from that? Well, first of all, let's just say this in Romans chapter 7 verse 4 and 5 It says that every single person in this world is either bearing fruit for God or fruit for death right, so I mean I think We just trust what the word says about itself that it that it That it discerns the thoughts and intentions of the heart if we look at even something like the name of Jesus Christ When he was presented in the temple on the eighth day for circumcision you guys know you guys know the story Luke chapter I think it's for and Simeon the Prophet says this child is given as a sign for the rising and the fall of many in Israel and through through the This child hearts of many will be revealed and I'm telling you I know I know there's a Contextual application there, but I'm just telling you you go out and start lifting up the name of Jesus and the hearts of many will be revealed very quickly and out of the abundance of many of those hearts their mouth will speak to his praise or To his derision.
Dateable Podcast
A highlight from S17E2: The Other Woman
"Hi, I'm Yui Xu, and I'm Julie Krafcik. We're active daters turned dating sociologists here to dive into everything modern dating and relationships. Welcome to the dateable podcast. Hello, friends. And we mean it. You are our friends. BFFs. It's nice to have you back. I don't know about BFFs. We won't go that far, Julie. True. I guess we haven't met in person. For sure. You are our virtual friends. But actually, some of you we've met in person and became IRL fans, which is kind of crazy to think about. We had a gathering in San Francisco. What was that, two years ago? Yeah, it was during the pandemic. And you know, this actually came back, you know, how on Facebook, you get those reminders and posts. There was a photo that was posted that one of our community members took because this whole group met in San Francisco, people flew from all over the country to meet up in person, people that had they had met in the love in the time of Corona Facebook group that we had. And commented I on it saying like, who would have thought when you and I are just talking to ourselves that this entire community would form and people would be flying across the country to meet up with each other? Who would have thought? And it was a week's worth of activities. People went hiking, they went to restaurants and bars, explore San Francisco, explore the NorCal. It was like a whole production that people did. And it was also wild for us because we have seen everyone on Zoom. So you don't know how tall someone is. You have no idea what they're like, what their vibe is going to be like in person. And it was just so wild seeing everyone just right there in front of you in the flesh. You know, I don't want to wish back the pandemic in any way, but that time was kind of fun that we were so invested and engrossed in this community that was virtual. It felt like people were friends. You are still friends. It was such a beautiful time. I don't want to speak in past tense. Yes. That's why we call you friends, truly our friends. And I feel like because you all know so much about us now. Hope it feels like we're friends to you, too, because you know a lot about us. More than some of our friends do. Yeah, yeah. Actually, we have friends who will say I get updates about you two through the podcast. OK, your friends say that. My friends don't say that. OK, all right. My friends say that. My friends, my friends will say, oh, I just found this out about you through the podcast. Like, yep, it is true. It is true. Well, that is a good segue to this episode, actually, because when you put up this post that we were talking to the girl that your ex cheated with, I would say I got a ton of DMS from a lot of our friends. Yeah, not surprising, not surprising. If you, you know, looking back at the photo of all of us meeting up in San Francisco from two years ago, if I had known then that fast forward two years, I would be out of the relationship and talking to the girl that had a fling with my ex. I'd be like, shut the front door. Like, no way in hell that would happen. But here we are. Dreams do come true. I will say I've had a few friends, a mutual friends of ours that, you know, like don't want to like they've they've obviously discussed with you, but they want to know more what happened, but want to be respectful. And I'm like, it's all on air. Just listen to this episode. I know. I don't need to repeat it for you here. Just listen to this. It's here for you. Just listen. I know I've said I've sent the episode to a few friends just like, listen, there's so many details. I don't need to go through it. You're probably so sick of telling this story by now, too, that you're just like, I don't want to. Maybe not. Actually, I really enjoy telling the story. This is why I don't fuck anybody over, but don't fuck someone with a dating podcast, you know, because it is fucking great content. Let's not forget that. I will say this episode, though, is freaking killer. Like just as an external person in this, the mutual party. I mean, first of all, it's amazing that that someone, you know, Kelly is our guest today, was willing to come on this podcast. She is such a lovely person. I love that we're approaching this because, you know, we'd never talk about the other woman and what's going on for them. I hate that term, the other woman. But, you know, obviously we'll use it. But it just feels so like diminishing to them as a person, because as we learned from this episode, this also impacted her in a way that you never would have thought, because we're so focused on the, you know, I guess, main characters of this drama, you and your ex, not the supplemental roadkill, as you like to call it, the people that are impacted by, you know, poor dating decisions by others. Sometimes you get involved in these situations that you don't even know what role you're playing, because in your mind, you're the main character, right? You're like, you don't understand what, how this is impacting other people. So the reason why we are doing this episode is to tell a different perspective that's never been told before from the perspective of the other woman and how this came about is just a little rewind in case you missed the update. You know, I was in an almost five year relationship, discovered that he had been cheating on me through message exchanges. That was the first time I discovered it and they were between him and Kelly. So about a month ago, I was just, I couldn't go to bed. I was just like wide awake. And I thought, who is this other woman? I really want to know. In my head, I had an image. I already gave her a voice. I gave her outfits. You know, I had this, this idea of who this other woman is already, but I didn't know. So I went back to the messages cause hell yeah, I took screen grabs. Her phone number was on. I remember, oh, of course there was a phone number. So I looked up her phone number and her name came up right away. And then the second thing that came up was her Instagram. So I'm like, holy shit. And now I'm putting a face with a name. So you Googled her phone number. I Googled her phone number. And when I did that, I remember doing this the first time I found out just being like, who is she? Who is she? Nothing came up. So it's kind of strange that a few months later, this information, again, the universe is like, okay, now you're not in the anger, anger. I want to kill people stage. You can put a face with a name. Her Instagram came up and I followed her and she followed me right back. So I was like, holy shit, does she know who I am? And then she started posting some stories that really resonated with me. So I was like responding back to them and engaging with her. And finally I confessed, Hey, Kelly, I just want to confess. Like, I know you because of this person's name. And immediately she was like, Oh my God, girl, we need to talk. So she knew right away that that's, you know, I was the other woman in this story. So we had a lovely conversation over the phone. The first time we talked for over an hour and then we did meet up for coffee a few weeks later as well. I remember when you were like, she is, wants to be on this podcast and we want to tell the other store, just like, holy shit, what is happening right now? But it's very interesting what you said about, I was trying to identify this person. I was picturing who she was. And I feel like we do this so often, even outside of a cheating scenario. Like, let's say the person you were with, you know, ended up DTR -ing with someone else. Like we try to like build it up, but it's funny cause she was also doing the same for you. It had her own insecurities going into day -to -day. And we always like think that like, this person has it all figured out. Like the other person, it's like grass is greener syndrome for the other. But, you know, it pits women against each other. And I hate that. I, I really fucking hate that. And I also hate the fact that, that my mind went there first. I went into the comparison game. Who is this other woman? How much better is she than me? Right. And then I realized, no, I'm like, we're talking about a human being and her life, her emotions, her, her health, her safety, all of it was involved and affected in the story. And it's just another human being living out their life. So I'm glad that we can bring this perspective on because now we're putting a lot more depth into the story. And you'll all see how much more complex this thing gets and how much more angering it gets for me as well. The information I found was definitely not favorable to my ex. Not surprising, but also the, the extent of his lies are just so infuriating to me, but also makes me so empathetic towards Kelly because she was really, I mean, heavily affected by this whole thing. Yeah. I'm, I'm curious for you. And I know this is hard because you obviously went here because I could see it going both ways that this could be extremely helpful for your healing. Then also on the other side, maybe harmful because you're just learning things that you don't necessarily need to know at this point. You're holding onto it still. Right. It's still occupying a lot of mental bandwidth in space. How do you think like connecting with Kelly has helped you move forward and then like, how are you going to kind of move out of this to let go ultimately? I think what really helped me was to understand the level of deception that she went through. Cause I think for so long after, when I discovered the messages, I felt like the fool. I kept thinking, how, how did I not see this? How was I swindled? How did I get myself into this situation? I thought I was a grown ass woman who is smart and also studies dating. Like how could I have missed this? And hearing Kelly's story, it just shows you, and you'll all hear this, the level of deception does go into our emotional needs. He was very good at giving you what you emotionally want from someone. And especially a stranger that you just meet serendipitously, you do think about, wow, maybe this person was brought into my life for a reason. So I think that it really helped me just to understand that I wasn't the only one deceived. And then I think what also helps me with the healing is telling her my side of the story, telling her, you know, the text messages he was sending me while he was with her. So that we can just get a more holistic picture of the story because background is, you know, in our almost five year relationship, it wasn't just he and I in the relationship. His ex wife was always in the relationship with us. Not physically, but I always put her as a third party. And I never talked to his ex wife about any of the issues that we were having that I thought she had caused for us. Right. So now I am bringing bringing Kelly. I can take her out of the equation and say, OK, well, there is no like a fantasy or an ideal of someone anymore. This is like a real person. That's really interesting because I think, yeah, like my mind went to it would just like prolong it. But I do agree, like getting out of that fantasy and snapping that is really helpful because you're now living in reality. I've seen Kelly as a human, not just as this other woman, a real person, like the ex wife. Like maybe if you had known their struggles and seen more of that or known who she was more, not just had this vision that you were creating from limited info that could have actually alleviated some of that conflict that arose because of this perception. Yes, but it does leave and I agree with you, Julie, I think some of this is probably more hurtful than if I didn't know some of this information and especially some of this information involving my family, which you all hear. But it does beg the question and this is something I've been struggling with recently is, is someone a cheater because they've been presented with the right opportunities or are they just not a good person? It's like this question of opportunity versus will. Yeah. And I often think about this because, you know, we're humans and even if you're an exclusive long term relationship with someone, you're bound to have a connection with someone else in your lifetime. And what do you do with that information? I'm not trying to make excuses for cheating. Cheating is absolutely bad. But if you're presented with these opportunities, how do you react? It's like the ultimate question and probably the ultimate test of your character. Yeah. And I mean, we will have another episode that we dive into this even more. We have an expert coming on. We promise these are like the two cheating episodes. We're not going to like devote the entire season to this, although it is a very surprise riveting topic. But we also recognize that not everyone wants to hear cheating content all the time. But that being said, I think hearing from this expert of why people cheat was super eye opening for me. And I don't know the answer of that 100 percent. I don't want to give anything away either. In that upcoming one, I would like to think I was in that situation. Then my character would say no because of that, have that willpower. That being said, like I haven't been in that situation. So it's hard to say 100 percent. I would say like 99 .9 percent. I would have that willpower. But again, like I don't know, it's it's an interesting one. But I do think there is a level of character of what opportunities you take, because it's not just cheating. Like you can always screw someone over and there has to be a time that you come in and be like, what is more worth it to me? Is it whatever benefit, immediate benefit? Usually it's an immediate benefit to am I getting versus, you know, my character, my word, who I am, how I'm going to feel like about myself and what I put out into the world for years to come. I do think that is a maturity. I think it's a level of self -evolvement. So it goes even deeper than just willpower. I think it just shows you human connections are very nuanced and complicated. There was an article that came out. I think it was in The New York Times that said 99 percent of couples will micro cheat on each other at some point in their relationship. And micro cheating is defined as liking someone's thirst trap photos, like an Instagram model's photos or DMing someone or, you know, having a flirty conversation with someone in line for coffee. We're all going to be going through these micro cheating behaviors, but it's really like, how do you define the boundaries in your relationship? That's going to be really interesting to look at as as we become more digital in this world. Yeah, I mean, there's just more opportunity wherever you go. I think a lot of it, though, comes down to your personality. It kind of goes back to like, you know, the people that need to date and sample every single person out there versus someone that just commits to one of the first people they meet. Like there's a different personality behind that, too. So there's a lot of those levers also that play in because, you know, not everyone needs to sample everything and take every interaction they get or even put themselves in a position to get that interaction. I know, I know. And it could be something that's benign in someone. I think it was really benign in my ex because most of our relationship was during covid. The world wasn't open. Who are you going to DM? Who are you going to meet up with? And as soon as the world opened, I think whatever was benign in him was activated. And I think it was always in him. Yeah, it just was the right opportunity. And it activated something in him that was innate and off he went. So, yeah, it's like this is why relationships are so nuanced. Because the longer you are with someone, there are just more things that arise that arise because of the complexities of someone's personality. You know, we go into this in the episode, but ultimately you need to just be in the best place with yourself so you can pick yourself up if these things happen. I'm not saying that you shouldn't look for any red flags or see signs and get curious, but sometimes you just can't. Like that's just the reality is different situations present themselves in different ways. And the only thing you can do is when you have information, react at that point and be in a place that you feel secure to bounce back. So, yeah, I don't want this to discourage people from dating, thinking that everyone is out there trying to cheat on them. And, you know, it did kind of like break my heart even to hear the effect that this had on Kelly, too, of like, you know, we can't let these one bad eggs, though, ruin our dating experience and what we want. I truly do believe that more people are good out there than bad. And yes, you can't fully protect yourself. That is kind of a risk you take. That is the risk you take with love. But all you can do is have that armor on when you need it. Yeah, you create your own support system because you can only depend on yourself for the rest of your life. So you've got to make that support system as strong as possible. And even though I haven't met most of you, thank you for your virtual support. I feel the energy. I feel the vibes. I'm getting the messages. It's a continuing saga, but it's a triumphant story and we're all rising together. So I appreciate everyone joining this battle with me because it's been it's been a very triumphant story for me. So I appreciate that. Yeah. And, you know, I'm glad this offered healing for you and Kelly, which I think it did. And that's ultimately, you know, what the goal of this was is to hear different perspectives, but help you both move forward. So, yeah, before we get into it at Dateable Podcast, that's our Instagram. Leave us a rating and review, especially after this one. Share your thoughts. Give words of support to you and Kelly.
Crypto Banter
A highlight from He's Fired!! (We Had No Choice)
"So, Ryan said that if we were one second late for the morning call, then you're kicked out of the research group and you basically can't ever come back. There's no redemption. Wait, am I allowed to swear? Yeah, I'm allowed to swear. This place is full of shit, bro. You ask and if you ask, there's no way back into the call. There's just no way back. It's finished. So if you get kicked out on the morning call, you're not coming back. So I don't care who you are. I don't care whether you're the host or not a host, we're now making this call live at quarter past. We expect everybody on at quarter past. If you're not on by 20 past, you're out and if you're out, you ain't coming back in. We need to show up on time. We need to show up prepared and the one thing I'm not going to tolerate is people arriving at the morning call as passengers. People arriving at the morning call with no alpha and no value add, just thinking that they'll sit there and comment. I don't accept that shit. If you're not here at quarter past nine, you have five minutes to get on and get the legs. If not, you're out and if you're out, you ain't coming back. We are all there at a certain time every single day and we expect that everyone arrive on time and prepared. So, I mean, I made a rule now because people kept coming late, certain people, I'm not going to mention names. So the morning call is the whole team jumping on in the morning and preparing what's the top news, what's the top coins and I think a lot of people work here just to be on that morning call and this is because of me. I couldn't find the link, I was seven minutes late and now I am in shit. That's it. If you're not there five minutes after the call starts, you're out and once you're out, there's no way back into the call. Don't tell him, but I was 14 minutes late today. I don't think he noticed, so we'll see. Thank you if you are. Thank you if you're Kyle, Sheldon, Rand, Miles, I don't give a shit if you are. Anyway, let's carry on. In the military, there are people getting on. You see a few NBA players, you see a few pretty big gamers. It's too hard to use. I mean, if I lost like $20 worth of ease trying to do it, believe me, people have lost a lot more. Yeah, there's problems. We have major technical issues, as usual. I don't know what to do. I'm serious. Do I just go live like this? I'm luminescent. What else am I supposed to do? This is fun. It's important. We've got to do it. I don't know what to do. This thing is like we already meant to have started two minutes ago. And now Alistair's frothing here with excitement that there's problems. Look at him, salivating like a bloody Kardashian cameraman. Hi, Rand. We're having trouble with the green screen, getting it set. We're doing that thing where it's either the host or the green screen. Can I be adjusted your colour, your green for the preview? Yes. Preview. Wait, there we're back. We clicked preview. It worked. Now, on the black magic card, press the find button. On this thing? Yeah. That one? Yes, press that button. Okay, I'm there. It worked. Well done. You're a genius. This is why you own this company. He's not impressed. He's having his breakfast and matcha and we're late. What can we do? Guys, let's just quickly close off over here. Remember, we do have the morning call as well, which is right now. That is on the Banta Bubbles chart, the newsroom. You can go there. Sign in right now. The call has just begun. It's capped to, I think it's 500. So make sure that you jump in. I see someone says that Karl's going to be late. Yes, I'm going to be late. I'm still on the show. I'm paranoid if I'm late. I'm out. That's where you can hear Rand shouting at people. So if you find that a good time, then make sure you join. There is also a lot of alpha in the group. I've got a problem with it. The problem is that you're not accountable in any element. The language is done. I don't get my translations. The influencer campaign is two weeks old. I can't get involved in it. I just need results. Just need results. I can't get involved in the process. Can't get involved in managing the resources. That's what you need to be doing. So I've given you four things. Now you need to focus on those four things. One, the tech must work. No bullshit, no downtime. Make sure the tech works. You've had millions to know on this tech. No bullshit, no downtime. The ability to patch guests in seamlessly during the show is important. Can't carry on in the middle of the show, interrupting the show, not being able to share screens, audio is not coming through. That needs to be fixed like now. Your responsibilities are very simple. The tech in this office must always work. Must be seamless. I called me in, gave me more work and less time and layered through the deliverables and just basically said that none of the tech should ever give a problem ever again. And it's quite hard to agree to something like that because that's not how tech works. I don't need to know the process. I don't need to know the issues. Everyone else here gets their job done. They manage the resources to get the job done. I'm expecting the same from you. Okay? If I risk doing it and I mess it up, it's a big thing. So I need to get someone who's got the knowledge and has the experience to do it. It's a nice statement, but it's not possible. In some situations it's not. All I do is kid -shadow them and how hard I push on both sides. Is that just the reality of life? It's the reality of life. I don't hear it from anybody else. I don't hear it from you. I don't take it personally. I find as a teacher it's fascinating to learn, but if you're looking for compliments and you feel uplifted in your life, go somewhere else. 100%. And when we're doing this, is our life a reality show? Yes. Seriously, I'm going to be on a weekly reality show. Give them cocktails. You're going to do good stuff. You're going to get compliments, bro. No. Once a year. Give them cocktails. Life will get bad on you. James has had a very tough day. Nothing that a good cappuccino and what we call in South Africa, I've been here for a long time. I've been driving shows. I've been doing pretty much whatever. My job has evolved into pretty much everything here. I'm bored of driving shows. I've finally been off shows. I'm doing projects now. Projects for Cryptobancer. So influencer marketing, translating the languages, moving our broadcasting system over, then not only that, I've been keeping up with all of my stuff, following up on everything every day, but I've also been getting knocked out every day. Also getting a little bit of shit every day. But I also know from being here a long time, sitting here and arguing and making excuses doesn't help either of us. Long -term portfolio. Long -term portfolio. Yeah, it's more higher time frame for your stuff. Yeah, fair, fair. So long -term stuff, bro. So I'm going to help them build the ultimate portfolio. You know how I do that soldier sort of mechanism of understanding the different levels that your altcoins should be inserted into your long -term portfolio. So it's higher time frame portfolio plus strategies and you're preparing them mentally for the bull market and how they're going to act on it and what they're going to do when it comes, et cetera. Okay. Thank you. How long are you going to be? Not more than an hour. No more than an hour. It never stops, no? Working on the run is like, it is really, really, really hard. Some people can... If you don't do something right, you don't stay in your lane, you're going to get hit on hard. A lot of people can't take that. A lot of people will leave. I've seen many people come in and out of these doors that can't hold the pressure. He is a top businessman. He is a man that's savage in his industry and you've got to give him respect. There's a very small percentage of the planet that's got a nice vibe he has. JAMES' TROUBLE James, are you in trouble again? When am I not in trouble? James is always in trouble. Always. James is trouble. We had the disco moment, remember? Last week when Ranz Lightz went on and off five times. It happened again this morning for Kyle's show. But yeah. He didn't shit again. James is going to get fired. Look, I know it's tough here. This is a high performance environment. But if we're going to achieve our objectives, we can only have a high performance environment. But it's my responsibility to make sure that we are executing according to our vision. And our vision is to build a billion dollar business in less than three years. And to me, as I say, culture is the most important thing in a business. It's what separates good businesses from bad businesses. And I won't let the culture of this place decline. It's just not something that I'll do. I won't compromise on culture ever. It took me 17 years to build a $150 million business. I've done it before. This time it's actually about changing people's lives. And if you look at every single person that I work with here, they'll tell you their lives have changed. I don't think anybody's going to complain in three years when they're sitting on their yachts sipping on margaritas. They won't complain anymore. It's a single swim. That's all. So, Rand always striving for success. I think that's very, very good. That's the perfect leader that we need. Yeah, he's an incredible human, incredible business person. And his work ethic is unparalleled. So, I look up to that. I see him as a mentor. Because, I mean, I thought I worked hard. He has four kids and he still works harder than me, which is just mind -blowing. It's insane. So, yeah. What are you talking about? Yeah, so, obviously, Do's been under me and, like, within the business. He's been running the live training sessions. He was very, very afraid of being behind camera in the beginning. But I just had this feeling that he had to get his ass behind cameras. And I think he's more than just doing my charts on Discord. I think he should have a show. I think he will annihilate in the pool. Like, he's really good. But I feel a lot of our hosts are going to struggle in the pool. I think they do well in this market. I don't think they're going to do well. And I think we've got a channel that we're wasting. The fact that we don't have daily shows there. I think we're going to rebrand the channel, the other channel. I think I'm actually leaning towards Banter Plus. Because I think Banter Plus just says everything it needs to say. It's like, it's the better channel, it's plus, it's additional. Plus, it's the better channel. Yeah. If it says Banter Plus, if you're making a step -style channel, people aren't going to watch it. People don't watch the second league. People don't watch Formula 2. People don't watch. People want to watch the best. I promise you, bro. I'm going to move my show. I'm going to move my show to another channel. Soon. Rebrand and move. It's too much of a move. I'll do it when there's movement in the market and there's a full cycle. I'm going to jump. So you want two main channels? Sure. Why? What do I gain if I don't do it? I've got a channel. I've got two amazing channels instead of one. We'll rebrand a channel. Then you can try another show there. But you know, if you get onto the show, you sign a contract, because we don't want to build stars here that don't compete with us. Wait, you know. You know where my loyalty is. I know where your loyalty is. You know what they say. When you marry your wife, you're marrying your best friend. When you're getting divorced, you're getting divorced from the wicked witch of Eastbeck, bro. You can't even talk to her when you're getting divorced. That's what you've got to plan for. You know what I mean? We do have one. We do have one quick problem, and I need the banter fans' help with it, okay? Especially this sniper army. Run is considering his maybe, because we have a second channel coming up. Maybe Dylan should have his own show. So what I want you to do, I want you to go to Run's show today, and I want you to spam the shit out of the comments and say, Dylan must get a show. Dylan must get a show. Dylan must get a show. I love these altcoins. I just love these labels. I love these foods. I mean, I'm doing this stuff every day, and I'm so happy to share it with you every day. We're going to basically park there to pay, so you're going to have two powerhouses driving to one run. Yeah, that's the difference here, because a lot of people aren't there. What you do in the background is your deal. You guys are going so much at the end of it. You're not going to come... I just want to make sure that he has a show and that you... For as long as your show is growing and you have a lot of community... You think I'm good enough to have a show. I don't want to come here and sell one. more So, exactly, this is my point. I was always a reluctant presenter. So Ryan pulled me into the office. We were talking about the show and everything and the possibility of me getting one. It's not something I was always pushing and chasing myself, so it was quite strange to me when he told me I'm potentially not good enough. So, I mean, there is a difference between show business, obviously, and the content work that I do. I know my content is 10 out of 10. I'm not the most exciting or charismatic presenter, but I think I can get better. And I think I can prove him wrong. Yeah, so people want to know if I'm good enough or not. You just need to come look at my charts, really. I mean, look at this tweet. When everyone is getting all depressed, I said to them, Pump town coming for render even though there's a death cost, okay? Look at this. Bang. Perfect. Absolute perfection. Into the trend. TP time. We're out of this trade. Look at this one. Oil. Everyone was so bullish on oil. We got the short lie. We traded this oil completely live on the channel. Look at Rune. Called a short on the live into a banging resistance zone. I mean, there it is right there. Look at this camp. Looking so sad. Rune's coming down right to this zone here. At least 1 .4. Maybe even down there. So, it's all happening in here all the time. Just come look at my charts. They're here in the Discord as well. Look at this. Look at this DYDX. We said it's breaking through resistance. It was a big resistance zone. Looking for support to develop. Look at that. Bang. Now we're going to short this thing. So, you decide. Is my work good enough? I don't know. We'll find out. I like Dylan. Dylan I've known for a long time. In fact, Dylan's wife and my wife are actually very good friends. That's how we met. And when we moved into Banta, I brought him along for the ride. Because I just knew we'd find a spot for him. Now, the ball is in his court. We're giving him the screen. We're giving him the platform. And now he has to perform. And it's kind of cute to see how stressed he gets. Because Dylan's skin -haired beard. And now he's shitting himself in front of the camera. So, it's actually quite fun to watch it happen. We'll obviously support him. I want him to succeed. When you get to 50 shots, that's a lot better if you didn't have to have a phone. You want to embarrass him? Let me show you how embarrassing my first shoot was, bro. This is the first time I ever did fucking live. Live fucking TV, bro. I do really love you. Good luck. Good luck to 50 years. Welcome to Crypto Trader at the World's Best. How bad is this? How bad is this? This is basically true. I am Crypto Man Ryan. And I'll be your host. How bad is this? I'll be your host. You're a mess. I want you. I want you. I want you. I don't want you. I'm so bad. Just for everyone, I know how tough it is making content at this time when shit's happening. And when it's getting more and more and more boring. I'm starting to get my momentum back, which is why I think I'm going to cancel my career trip because I just can't afford a disruption in momentum. I think we need to use this time to build because you're like two green candles on Bitcoin and you know what happens, everyone's going to rush back. When that happens, a lot of changes are going to happen in this business. So the first bit of content we're going to do is Dylan's going to have a show. We're going to finalize all the agreements here, but Dylan will have his show.
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A highlight from Being Motivated Feels Awesome...(And That Is The Problem!)
"There's nothing quite like that feeling of starting something new with a completely fresh slate. Whether you're starting a new fitness program and you have brand new gym clothes, or you're starting a new health program and you have a brand new blender, or you're working on a new project at work and everything is so excited because the world is in front of you. But that feeling comes from something called motivation. Because at that moment you're motivated to take things forward. And being motivated feels awesome. And that is exactly the problem with motivation. So the giant question is this, how do we as parents, teachers, school administrators, policymakers, coaches, how do we prepare our kids for a future that doesn't yet exist? All while making them healthier, more creative, more innovative, better problem solvers, and overall successful contributors to society? That is the question and this podcast has the answers. My name is Coach Mike and welcome to the My Trick Method podcast. So if you're anything like me, you have days when you are completely motivated to get something done and you have other days when you are not motivated to do anything. And it's not only us as adults, I see it for kids too. I see days when they are motivated to get out, do the things they have to do, they're excited, they want to go out, they want to go someplace, all of those things. And then I see plenty of other days where they seem much more content sitting in a chair or on a couch on some piece of social media or technology and really just don't do anything and they kind of feel like a slug. And both situations have to do with either a feeling of motivation or a lack of feeling of motivation. But I don't think that the word motivation in that sentence is actually the important part. It's the part about the feeling and the feeling that motivation gives you. Because that feeling of motivation comes from, yes you guessed it, that neurotransmitter dopamine. And the problem with dopamine is that there are a lot of different things that you can do in a day that actually will release dopamine. So if you're not able to do a specific thing that you wanted to do, guess what? You can get that same feeling of being motivated to do something else or just a feeling of feeling good from something else. And that's why you can never ever rely on motivation. I mean look, experiencing a surge in motivation, it feels great. But it honestly comes with an expiration date. It just doesn't last very long. And rather than letting this unreliable driving force kind of dictate your actions, it really comes down to being disciplined, being ambitious, and more than anything being habitual is what is going to get you to those long -term results. Habitual obviously meaning having a good foundation of strong habits that are leading you in the right direction. So there's a four -step process that's kind of looked at when it comes to the backbone of how you build a good habit. But before you get to that part, there's an important thing that people need to do. Last episode I talked about finding your sense of self. But it's not just finding your sense of self. It's also what do you identify as? Now I'm not going into the whole gender conversation, but what do you identify as? Meaning who are you and what are the activities that you like to do? So let me give you an example. I talk to a lot of people, especially since I published my first book, I've talked to a lot of people that constantly say to me, oh my gosh, I absolutely need to write a book. And that is great, but there's a difference between being someone who wants to write a book and being an author. And what is the difference? An author does not have to be someone who's published. An author is someone who is physically writing. Do you have a person who wants to write a book or you have an author? The person that is the author who has already taken action and began that process is going to get further than the person who one day wants all the stars to align so they can sit down and write their first book. You have to identify with what that is. If you identify as someone who makes healthy choices or if you identify as someone who is a gym person and a fitness nut and loves the, you know, fitness and loves working out, you are going to make decisions and base your habits based upon who you identify yourself as. But if you have decided, you know, made that decision for who you are, there is that four -step process to kind of building a good habit. And it goes like this. The first is Q, the second is craving, the third is your response to the craving, and the fourth is a reward. So there's your four steps. The Q is essentially related to like the initial stimulatory sensation that initiates a habit. So let's use what our normal sensations are. So smelling, hearing, tasting, feeling, or reading, right? And seeing. Craving is that you have a desire to carry through with responding to this Q and instigating the associated habit. And as you crave the end result, it will deliver. If you crave whatever it is that's in front of you, it will not deliver the same way as craving what you are looking for it to be, looking for that end result is going to be. The response to your craving is the actual act of performing that habit itself. And, you know, after the fact that you've decided that the effort required fulfill to that habit is worthwhile to achieve the end result. That is a big thing. The last one is the reward. And, you know, as the consequence of your habitual action, you achieve the reward and you feel satisfied because you're happy about what you did. So let's kind of put this into an example. Let's say you are at a work function or you're at a party or whatever, and there's a gorgeous spread of fruit and pastries on a table and you are, you know, you're hungry. You want to eat something. So the Q is that you're hungry and the fruit catches your eye, right? So then all of a sudden you get a craving because you have a desire now to pick up an apple or some melon or banana, something instead of that almond croissant that's in the platter right next to the fruit because you identify yourself as someone who makes nutritious choices and you don't want to exceed essentially what your caloric requirements are for the day. So you're going to choose that vitamin -rich piece of fruit instead of the, you know, chocolate croissant, almond croissant, cheese croissant, whatever it may be. So once you've made that decision, then the question comes, do you actually stick with it and what is the actual action that you take after that? So if your response is that you eat the apple instead of the almond croissant, your reward at that point is you feel satisfied, nourished, and accomplished because you made a decision that aligns to that sacrifice croissant in the now for what you believe the results will be later on. So, I mean, obviously this is a hypothetical circumstance, but it's one that we may be faced with on a regular basis. You know, in order to have those positive behavioral changes, you just have to stay consistent, but you quite honestly, the community or the people that you are around will or can influence what some of those responses to that stimuli are. So if you are in a room of people where every single person that is there is going to pick up a croissant or, you know, something not on the fruit side, it also puts your brain in a little bit of a quandary because you want to be part of that community, but you also want to stick to your habits. So surrounding yourself with people who have like -minded ideas about you is absolutely one of the ways that you get a lot further into your goals. I mean, think about this, we see this with kids all the time, right? So if the children that our children hang out with do X or Y, whatever it is, whether it's they play video games all the time, if one every time of our kids goes to a child's house where all they do is play video games all day long, what do you think they are probably going to be doing when they go there? They're going to play video games. If all the kids at school are bringing Twinkies to lunch, this was one thing that used to bother me so much when I had MindFit, you know, I would often run summer camps and I actually remember kids coming because they would brown bag lunch, kids coming to our summer camps at MindFit and when it became lunchtime and everyone would grab their bag and they start pulling things out, I couldn't tell you the number of times that what I saw coming out of the bags was literally like, you know, a Twinkie and a bag of potato chips and you had these other children that had these elaborate, you know, fruit, vegetables, some type of a protein lunch and you had other kids that literally had a Twinkie and a bag of potato chips. And before we go down the route of saying, oh well that could have been a, you know, social demographic, this was an expensive summer camp. I could easily see the cars that everyone drove in on and dropped their kids off in and for the most part it was nothing but Mercedes and BMWs so this was not a situation of, well maybe they didn't have the finances to be able to do a better lunch. No, most times and actually oftentimes I would have parents actually come up and kind of, you know, say hey I'm so sorry about the lunch that's all they'll eat and that's just insane to me. I don't understand that at all. You know, kids will eat what you put in front of them and if they want something else, trust me, when they get hungry enough they will eat whatever you put in front of them because they're starving at that point whether they like it or not. Obviously everyone has food likes and dislikes. You know, growing up as a kid I probably could have been starving and never would have eaten beets. They were totally disgusting to me but at the same time, you know, the rest of the meal that I had outside of the beets I would absolutely eat. So we do need to be aware though that, you know, what's around kids on a regular basis is how they are going to start to assimilate into their habits and into the decisions that they make. And oftentimes when we do fall out of our good habits, the first thing we do is we start looking for that motivation again that to get us back on track. But motivation is what failed us the first time, right? Motivation is like that super friend who's fun to, you know, a lot of fun to be around when they actually show up. But for the most part they usually let you down. They'll say they say they'll be there at a certain time but then they're not. That's kind of motivation where discipline is that dependable friend who often, you know, kind of has some harsh truths for you but can always be relied upon. And, you know, they're the ones that will see you through your bad times and eventually and truly want you to meet your goals. But they're not flamboyant. They're not, if you guys remember, friends. They're not fun Bobby, right? Fun Bobby was like this guy. It was just so much fun but he was certainly not someone that you could depend on. So essentially if I'm telling you you cannot focus on motivation or you cannot rely on motivation because it is going to let you down, what then can you do? What are the things that you should focus on instead and not worried about being motivated? And the first one is honestly don't expect to be motivated. A big mistake that we make when we set our goals is we get caught up in the fantasy of kind of like achieving the goal and we don't think about the effort that's going to be necessary to achieve it. So just expect that it is going to be a lot of effort that goes into it. Expecting ahead of time that we sometimes won't be motivated kind of helps us prepare. Like we're not relying on that sugar high to get us moving. We're just relying on activity, action, and taking steps forward instead of what's going to get us to do that. The other one, as I said before, you got to focus on building habits. Habits, the cool thing about habits is they actually remove your need to make decisions, right? Because if it's truly a habit, they literally take the decision -making process, the decision -making out of the process. Once it's a habit, there's no need for motivation. It's just something you do every day. Brushing your teeth is a habit. You do it every day. There's not really any wonderful thing about brushing your teeth except that your breath doesn't feel bad, smell anymore. But habits make actions persistent. Even if the habit is small, it adds up. It compounds. It's like compounding interest in a savings account. It compounds. And with habits, you're not waiting to be motivated. You're just doing it because it's what you need to do. Another thing that you need to look at is you kind of have to shoot for clarity. Because sometimes what looks like a lack of motivation is sometimes actually confusion because you just don't know what to do, where to start. Make sure that your tasks and your goals are very specific and actionable. I've talked about triple habit stacking before. And the reason I like it is because I do know that life gets in the way. And when life gets in the way, if you have one thing that you know you want to do every day, right? And let's say you are motivated to do it and it is a habit, right? Then you have a great situation, but life gets in the way, something happens, and you can't achieve that one thing. Now you feel like you not only didn't take a step forward, but that you took a step backwards. And I don't want you to think that way. So the reason I like triple habit stacking is that you're doing at least two of the three things. If one of them falls off, it's okay. You still took steps forward. You didn't take as many steps forward as you would have if you had accomplished all three, but you're still taking steps forward. And most importantly, you didn't take a step backwards because that's a big thing. When you're tackling a big goal or a project, you have to look at what is the next thing that I can do to leverage that's going to get me to my goal. Once you have a clear understanding of that, you can move forward. And I'll use writing a book as an example because I'm in the process of writing not just one right now, but two of them right now. That's for another conversation for another day. But when I first wrote The Mind Fit Method, I had the idea for the book, honestly, for a long time. But it's like, oh, how do I start? I don't know what to do. Do I just sit down at a computer? How do I break it up? And then you start thinking about really stupid things that don't even matter. Well, but how am I going to get it published? How do I find an editor? I didn't even have a book written, and I was worried about steps 21 and 22 when I hadn't even taken step one. The thing is that worry about step 21 and 22 when you're on step 20, and then you have to figure out how to cross over that barrier. We get so, and again, this goes back to everything being perfect, right? We want to sit down. I wanted to sit down when I wrote the first book and write the book in 90 minutes. And then, boom, turn on the computer, and an editor was already, you know, tracking me down so I didn't have to find one. And then, boom, a these things, but I hadn't even taken step one. Make sure you're ready for the step that you actually have to take. And sometimes we start focusing on a step that's six or seven processes down the road we're not focusing on, number one. And I'll use a different example. Let's say you want to start working out in the morning, but you can't work out in the morning because your boss expects you to be to work by 7 a .m. And you know you're not going to get up at 3 a .m. to work out. Plus, you feel like you would lose sleep, and it would actually affect you in a negative way, not in the positive way, like you want to work out to be able to affect you. So, when you have a situation like that, you have to change something. And maybe that conversation is, you're gonna go talk to your boss and say, look, boss, I will be much more productive during the day if I actually can come in an hour later, and here's why. And if you'd like, we can even track my productivity so that I can show you it's a reality, and I actually am more productive. If you've ever read Tim Ferriss' book, The 4 -Hour Workweek, he actually talks about that in having those conversations and doing that. It's a great thing to do. But make sure you take step one. If step one is you want to start working out, but you can't do it because you have to be in by 7 a .m. or by 6 a .m. to work, then actually starting to work out is not step one, right? You have to understand what step one is. And I talked just a little bit ago about, you know, your identity. When you think of yourself as a certain type of person, you will act that way. That way, you don't have to worry about motivation. If you're the type of person that takes action, you will take action. If you're the type of person who gets things done, you will get things done. Your brain doesn't really like what's called cognitive dissonance, which can kind of be created by a gap between your beliefs and your actions. You may believe X, but then you don't actually act upon those things. Start being the person that you want to become. Even if you're not there yet, show up as them now. That's really important. Simplify. Okay, this is a big one. So, let's say you want to start eating healthy, right? You've been talking about this for a long time, and you're gonna start this diet, you're gonna start that diet, you're thinking about getting this food prep service like, you know, Eat Clean Bro or Simple Meals Mate, whatever they are, something like that delivered, and you think about all these things that you're going to do, and yet you never take action on any of them because they all require their own individual steps. Break it down to, again, what is step one? Because if you can get through step one, then you can figure out step two. You're not gonna figure out step one through a hundred in one, you know, over one cup of coffee. It's just not gonna happen because you have to That's fine, but once you get started, you also, you know, it's like starting a bike when you're going uphill, right? You put it all the way down in first gear so that it's the easiest way to pedal, but you still have to stand up on that bike, stand up on those pedals, and start pedaling. Once you get that pedal moving a little bit, once those wheels start turning, it gets a little bit easier to then be able to go forward and get the rest of the way up the hill because the And kind of, you know, this is important too, but a thing that is in motion stays in motion, right? Until there is another force that causes that motion to stop, and when that happens, rely back on your habits. Don't rely on motivation to get you unstuck. And probably one of the most important things is you have to do it even when you don't feel like it, okay? Again, don't rely so much on our feelings. Again, feeling and motivation. You feel good, you're motivated, right? But if we're, I already said don't rely on motivation, which also means don't rely on your feelings. Rely on consistency. And I watch this with my boys right now. It is amazing to me, you know, they've gotten to a point where they're starting to take pictures of their physical growth since they're, you know, they're lifting very consistently. And a lot of times I think they get a little obsessed with it. It is amazing to see the difference because, again, when you're around yourself all the time, you don't necessarily see the differences that you made. But when I see my 14 year old, when I see a picture of him six months ago versus today, it's unbelievable how much progress and how much growth and honestly how much muscle he's put on. Not because he necessarily loves it, not because he necessarily, you know, wants to be absolutely working out every day, although he kind of does, but he's so consistent with it. Every day he's down there, he's doing his abs, he's doing his, and he's making huge progress. You've got to be able to do it when you don't feel like it. You kind of have to remind yourself that you don't have to feel like doing something in order to do it, right? You just don't. Don't let your feelings dictate your actions. Let your actions dictate your progress. And be patient, right? This is a big one. We have to be patient in what we want. It's very easy to fall into the trap that when we don't see results right away, we get discouraged, which, what does that do? It lowers our motivation. But we already know we're not gonna rely on motivation. So, but impatience can be a common problem, especially among procrastinators, right? They put off taking action, but then you then expect immediate results. Expect the progress to be gradual and slow, and you have to enjoy the process. I know it's the most cliche thing out there. It's not the destination, it's the journey. But guys, that is the truth, right? Our destination is the same for every single person in the world. Our destination is a grave, right? It's kind of harsh to say, but that is the truth. So, instead of worrying about where we're gonna be six months from now, worry about what are we doing today to get us to where we want to be. That is so, I can't stress it enough, what are we doing today? What can you get done today in regards to taking action? Not thinking it through. Taking action. Do not become an overthinker. Become a person that takes so much that action you can't take any more action in a day. Because even if you're taking incorrect or imperfect action, it's still going to take you further and get you to where you need to get in order to hit your goals. And now you're probably wondering, okay, so where does this tie into the MindFit method and where does it tie in to my kids? Although I talked about the kids a couple times today, where it ties in is set the precedence. When your kids see you doing these things, when they see you not relying on motivation, when they see you being consistent and persistent, that is going to rub off on them, whether they like it or not. You may have to put parameters in place so that they can't sit on devices all day long or things like that, but the question is, if you're not going to have them be on technology all day long, then what are you going to replace that time with? Because otherwise they're just sitting there and then they come out with the horrible, there's nothing to do, I'm bored, it's just, which doesn't make any sense. There's so many things to be able to do today. Kids should not be bored, but you set that precedence for them. Let them see you not only being consistent, causing the habits, and at first they may be like, okay, whatever, mom, dad, whoever it is, they're just on one of their kicks. When they see you stay consistent and month after month goes by and you're making the changes that you want to make in yourself, they then realize that they can make those changes, too. Hey everyone, I hope you guys liked this episode. If you have not gotten your free copy of the book, The MindFit Method, go to themindfitmethod .com. I have already purchased a copy for you, the book is there. All you have to do is cover the cost of the shipping and handling, and I will send the book right out to you. You'll even have an opportunity to get the audio book for a small fee, which is really cool as well. And stay tuned, because there are two new books coming out for me in 2023. Hope you guys are ready. Until next time.
Divine Naples Podcast
A highlight from Rich end up in the Golisano hospital they sent him home because he is not a kid does not mean he is not a kid. Matt had Hilary in his Town Rich had Hilary in the bathroom. Matt insults everyone and he is capable of even insulting a moron. Rich played in a casino for 4 hrs and lost only 25 cents! Matt will BLOWUP on the end Episode #419 August 21th. 2023
"And Divan it is, Divan Monday, August 21st episode 419 from This Mike Rich and from This This is our European A's Monday we start Monday not Sunday We already explained it in previous episodes enough Usually people, even though we say we start the week with Sunday, they wake up on Sunday morning going Hey the week started, it's the weekend for them So really psychologically we start the week on Monday just like you guys Why are you tripping? You start the weekend Monday. I don't I don't stop the weekend or week are going through Oh, it's just a matter of semantics. Who cares? I'm sure everybody in Europe is working on Monday, too. Are we working on Monday, too? People in you how do we just say that that's the day that the week starts everybody starts to work week on Monday? People in Europe getting lazy. They work only 40 hours a week and they have weekend off Saturday and Sunday Mostly we mostly have that year to accept that we accept me. Well, that's your last 20 years. 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Remember we did a day There was a day that we did that and yeah, and it was actually chick -fil -a that came came up with that anyway, go ahead Why don't you start with the essentials? Let's just let's just start with the essentials which is better than the weather Yeah, we gotta do that then. So first of all, we need to we need to say thank you to Julian Bruce To give them credit for all the music and tools then they are provided us with the intro song divine Naples It's from them. There are key to our patchouli. We have a bunch of CDs. I think 12 different CDs They they made and they are available in our divine and divine Naples coffee in Weinberg, right? If you interested you can come and purchase we have new sponsor this week and it's divine spa sponsoring ourselves It's a wellness month. 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I know you're gonna fit it is but Do we need to take care of this or do we want to do this the business part? Is it a need or a lot is it both? Okay there. All right, you need but I want right and I wanted to clarify that because we don't need to we let we want to take the Bruce and Julie. Yes, we don't need to we need to yeah, we are happy to do I know but we want to yeah But I'm our heart. Yeah, so so do you ask me for a q -tips? I'm sure next week you ask me for all change right if you do that on a parking lot. Why not on the beach? Yeah, when you land on the beach, right? Who knows you'll come up with something. I'm sure probably would like to do that What's the weather? I don't know. Did you finish the assumption? I'm done so rudely interrupted Why just cannot keep it white? How many are you gonna put me on another put another hat on me? Yeah, now I'm the weather guy. Yeah, you were the guy so all these hats. I gotta change one time. He had me as a Captain, I guess I was sailing the seven Z's and I was all You crushed the ship then you took that hat away because you probably crushed the shit Anyway, you were looking on the girls on the beach and he crushed the ship Yeah, see and here's the deal today's weather is gonna be this We're gonna have a high of about 97 and a low of 78. It's gonna be cloudy and not cloudy Oh, yeah, it said it's cloudy and not cloudy. So there'll be clear skies. Sounds like cloudier Yeah cloudy. I know Claudia. I know cloudy. I know a couple cloudy is here and I was gonna tell you to That go ahead and prepare because there's a great possibility or almost just like the Sun rises every day It's probably gonna rain today. No, yeah, but anyway, there's your weather in Naples Yeah, I'm glad it will start doing all of Southwest, Florida. I'm glad we are not in California. Yeah Oh, yeah, my son went through that Because California right now is hit by Hillary. Yeah, but he was yeah But he was talking about how it is nothing but they did have flooding that that's the problem down there But you know what? Are they gonna find something else to complain about? I mean they went through 12 years of drought. He'd probably go like hey, give us a couple of hurricanes You know and fill up all the reservoirs and anything But anyway, you know, I'm so glad people getting pretty good idea what Hillary would be like if she would be a president. Yeah They all they all smell She lost. Oh, yeah, and and I remember somebody gave me toilet paper to heal a picture Oh, yeah with her picture, I put it. Oh, that's so bad. I put it in the coffee I would have saved it for a souvenir. I put it in the coffee shop. Oh nice And oh, it was like it was like a bit exhibit First first friend of mine Chris he went there Just Even out thinking over there I will have it with nightmares. Yeah, just this he was afraid that's okay Anyway, yeah. Well, that's enough Well, I mean it's fun to make fun of it I mean both sides are clown show But anyway, and that just here's how political we want to get we need to come together as a community There are things that we could do that we couldn't you know, it's not like talking about compromise or whatever but people should be able to come to a consensus of what is good for a community and One of the things that we think is really good for the community is to build local businesses because everybody benefits economically There's jobs people go up the social ladder. So there's not that much Argumentation there and then why can't we get together and talk about you know from a local perspective? who we have in offices and commissions and all that to To get people to put in the right policies that make business run smoother more efficient more environmentally sound and these types of things but doesn't you know throw a Wrench a monkey wrench into the engine, you know Simplify things and and get things expedited so that people could work and buy things and get along with their life That's what a kind of politics I want to be involved in. Yeah, does that sound good to you? Okay, I'll take it and I will add to it. What is good for a community is a humor, right? Yeah, yes to make fun of everything you can because that apparently Extend a life span it does and we're talking itself month. So, you know, hopefully we're making you smile I just oh, yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna just hit play on these two morons Did you just call me that I called us that well don't know I just did I just insult morons Speaking the health I have to share something with everybody here. Yeah That is something that I experience in whole day So since six o 'clock in the morning, I actually woke up five. I went to sleep 230 so I got a couple hours with sleeping as a new dolphin with one eye open and So I don't know where sleep and then I was scheduled to go to one facility in four Myers and I have to share the experience with everybody and and kind of lift people with You know that that may end up there for different reasons, right? And just wanted to prepare them that that that facility is above and beyond so If you have a little person or a little human child Good child child home and need the assistance with the doctors and you have to be Seeking the medical, you know professionals in the hospital There is a hospital. It's called Golisano Children's Hospital, Southwest, Florida It's a in ninety nine eighty one south health park in four Myers And that's why I end up today drove there one hour to meet. Dr. Michael car, which is Absolutely top Why the arch what he does and I have to tell you we were so lucky to have Him to provide us the expert services which was probably procedure of 30 minutes, but all around took almost all day and Michael car doctor that been practicing over 35 years is retiring So if you planning to have some kind of problem In in the field of pediatric urology you very hurry up because he's gonna be gone and one of the top doctors from Philadelphia will disappear in retirement. You may see him on a beach or somewhere else But if you have the chance to get in his hands for any type of care It's unbelievable you come to the hospital This is this is how I expect if I have to go to hospital or anybody has to go to hospital This is how I expected my experience in some of the hospital here in locally in Naples Never been good. Okay, I have to say that and for many reasons, but this Hospital is top -notch you arrive people smiling on you. You know, the check -in is very smooth They never make you feel nervous or you should be nervous or somehow make you feel like, you know, something is going on especially when This goes about kids So, you know, there's so much that you think of and the kids, you know in an unknown space is it's a hospital So maybe some of them never been there and then you go through all this process checking out before surgeries and everything else absolutely top -notch Every single person from the greeters on the door to the people that will direct you and and the you know Tell you what's gonna happen you receiving throughout a surgery you receiving text messages. It's almost like a post game You know, that's great minute six to his in it. It's not a Artificial intelligence. No, no, they're actually writing the text message to you so if you as a parent sitting somewhere in the waiting room and your kid is Going through procedures you have an idea what's going on and it's almost like a hockey game, you know, he's just like, you know What's wrong? Play those so I don't know much about it. You don't play much with balls anyway Yeah, no hockey is a puck and you've already explained to people that you don't like sports with balls That's correct, so we we got it narrowed down right so go ahead with your hockey illustration So you get a text message, you know what's going on and then every single person on a Third floor every single person, you know in the end everything went well, everything was smooth Everything that we've been told actually happened No complications anything and and you asked somebody to get you somewhere in the secular area They're smiling. They had to get I mean, I just I just told the gentleman that it was opening door for me I said you people here so friendly. I want to thank you home all I want to thank you all of you home with me Yeah, I've noticed it's had a profound impact on you. Yeah, people treat each other. Yeah I'm just hoping that that stuff flows like that that same mojo that vibe that flowed from them on to you Will now go from you and to me. No, I just I'm suspicious. I'm suspicious I remember when I first time arrived in Las Vegas, right and you know, you just like I Put the 25 cents in the machine. I was playing for two hours. I couldn't get rid of And then then I finally like four hours later I got $50 out right and I was like, okay, let me let me step up the game So I went to the table with the roulette and I goes like, oh that was smart. Yeah Yeah, I go like, okay break it down and I asked him for give me ten You know, whatever you call it. Yep chips for five dollars and the guy look at me like what am I doing? I mean, he didn't count on me playing there. He thought I'm just not changing, you know, right so he gave me ten chips and I like very happily put them on the numbers and black and white and stuff and He just look at me roll the ice both three o 'clock in the morning. I was tired Yeah, and he spent in that one quarter four hours One quarter. Yeah, because I was winning and losing really and with one quarter. Yes and Then he spin the wheel, you know The the numbers and the number went to somewhere and I lost and he look at me and I was so sad I was like $20, you know first round. Yeah, and he took the pen and he knocked on this on the sciences minimum bet $50 I Got nervous. He's still laughing Just finish it. I will take it all anyway So the second thing what but then later on, you know Didn't bother me and then later on said, you know what they doing they putting oxygen or something in in the in the air conditioning So people are up, you know, oh, yeah lifted and so happy and and giving you cocktails And playing for hours for 25 cents So I what I want to say if they do anything like that in that hospital because I'm suspicious the oldest people are so happy They must have put something in there conditioning You're gonna just soften me up for the real bill that's coming to your house in the mail in a couple while It's gonna be insurance, but I just met Yeah, but one thing is if they pushing something in the air conditioning I would like to ask them for recipe and push it all over here Yeah, cuz I'd like I mean if it's had a tremendous impact on you today I mean, I'm just hoping I'm receiving the good vibe from you. Yeah, so why don't you keep going back to that hospital before we? Every day you go to the hospital just hang out with them then come and do it Yeah, I don't really need to go to hospital. I even said publicly few times if something happened to me. Don't bother I'm not worth it. They picking up the garbage Monday Wednesday Friday throw me dumpster I think I just What I'm just saying is go there and let that mojo get on you every day come here the same way you are Yeah, but you are very happy I just want to say that it was very important today And I'm glad that I'm aware of everything that was happening and we don't need to talk about it but I'm glad that you found a service that took care of your family member and Everything worked out well and you left there in good spirit and and and everybody's healthy and gonna heal healthy I will only say if you have a situation which is stressful because some Little human that do you care about so deeply have some kind of medical problem believe me the Golisano hospital will taking care of it professionally and on all levels so don't worry There is a place that will do exactly what you expecting as a care a medical care and absolutely top So I just wanted to share that with you because it's important for us to understand that we have These facilities here that you know wonderful people and and people that can afford great money Yeah, and and you know build a hospital for kids, which is the future which is the most important thing that we have on this planet Yeah, and and it's also one of the services that they have actually are only provided by this particular hospital and that's Between Tampa and Miami So this is a very important hospital and and just support it and and if you have anybody or know anybody that needs Anybody in your family or you know anybody that needs to have some kind of procedures done or whatever You know go ahead and get a hold of this hospital and see if they can is worth every penny Yeah, that's all I'm gonna say, you know what happened April 26 to 1928 No, you don't know well, I think maybe it has to do with a trail yes Right because we got a big trail here.
The Breakdown
A highlight from What Progressives Should Understand About Crypto
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Sunday, August 20th, and that means it's time for Long Read Sunday. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. Hello, friends. Welcome back to another dose of Long Reads Sunday. Now, today's essay is a topic that I feel very strongly about. It's one that comes up quite frequently on the show, and it's about progressivism and Bitcoin. Now, Bitcoin has, of course, had a historic reputation as a bastion for libertarians, and there are lots of reasons why that is. Holding aside the early adopter group, which often intersected with that political cohort, the fact of the matter is Bitcoin and all of the cryptocurrencies that follow it did take something that has for hundreds of years been the province of governments, i .e. money creation, and put it in the hands instead not only of private citizens, but really of this totally new type of force, which is a math -based protocol. Inherently then, there is a power limiting aspect to it relative to government, and so it's perhaps not a surprise that it's more historically been associated with the right, which again typically favors smaller government, than the left, which has more confidence in the government to help be involved in producing a better world and environment for citizens. That said, Bitcoin and crypto had until very recently done a pretty remarkable job of staying a non -partisan concern, at least when it came to policy. Then, of course, FTX and SPF happened. Democrats in particular, who had looked to SPF as something of a hope for the future, not just in crypto, but as a wealthy primarily democratic donor, were extra keen to be seen as tough on the industry coming off of that betrayal. Now, in some ways, I think what that's really meant is the anti -crypto forces that were always there in the Biden administration having a window to kind of run roughshod over their peers who might not feel as strongly as them, because in the wake of FTX, there just wasn't anyone who was going to risk their political capital to defend an industry that seemed really messed up. However, that has started to change once again. We've seen Democrats break from their leadership in order to pass sensible legislation like the stablecoin legislation along, and in general, we seem to be getting to a point once again where the biggest line dividing how people think about Bitcoin and crypto isn't so much party, but age. So that is the backdrop for today's essay, which is called what progressives get wrong when it comes to crypto. It's by Sheila Warren, the CEO of the Crypto Council for Innovation, and Justin Slaughter, the policy director at Paradigm. It was published in Fortune. Sheila and Justin write, From women's suffrage to civil rights, from the growth of unions to the fight to protect the environment, social movements typically grow from the bottom up. Leaders emerge, but in victorious movements, those individuals reflect the views of the people. That's why we, dyed -in -the -wool progressives, are confused and distressed over a choice by many of our allies to devalue decentralization in the technology space and even to portray it as worse than big tech alternatives. In recent months, a number of progressive commentators have attacked the very idea of decentralization, arguing that it's a distraction from other political goals. This has also led to progressives making crypto a favorite target and, bizarrely, taking the positions of big banks, which are notoriously monopolistic. To us, the more pressing concern is legacy tech platforms and their ongoing capture of user data. Decentralizing technology will prove crucial in ensuring that the world isn't run by a handful of unelected technologists. As progressives, we join the crypto space not despite our personal history, but because of it. Crypto is an exception to so much technology because it runs on blockchain and no single person or corporation can control it. We value a world where power is dispersed to the people, where no one is so powerful that they can dictate terms to the rest of us when it comes to civil rights and civil liberties. That is a decentralized world. Needless to say, we are far from that utopian vision today. Around the world, inequality has spiked over the last few decades, a trend especially bad here at home. There are many causes, but one is certainly that the power of technological change has accrued to a handful of giant firms. When it emerged 30 years ago, the internet was a wild expanse of opportunity. Now, it is just a small collection of corporate walled gardens, which are difficult if not impossible to escape from. We all know people who have sworn to leave a social media network only to return because everyone else is there or because their content remains the property of one of those digital feudal lords. Anti -crypto folks would say this doesn't matter, that the problems posed by large technology companies and large banks can be solved through political action. And while we support such efforts, there is no reason to think of political action and decentralized technology as oppositional. Instead, they are two arms of the same fighter. You need government to knock giant firms down to size and nascent decentralized technology to create competition for those giants in a way that doesn't just produce more giants. So we're perplexed. Why the progressive distaste for decentralization in tech and the apparent support for behemoths with well -known drawbacks? Maybe it's because they don't understand the technology, and if so, that could be on us. We in the crypto industry have may not done enough to explain it. Decentralization at its core includes a public permission ledger, one that no single person inherently owns. Blockchain is tracked through a ledger that uses computers globally to ensure that only validated information is added. Think about the websites we use, banks, YouTube, even Reddit, and how a single centralized entity owns all of them and can decide on a whim to change the site's features, remove users, or use those users' data in novel ways. Just look at what's happened to Twitter. Comparatively, a blockchain allows everyone to own their own data, to control their own information, and to port that information and data to another system at their discretion. It also allows for people to exchange both data and money in a peer -to -peer manner, without permission from expensive bureaucratic and, in many cases, unnecessary intermediaries. Why does this matter? A great example is the rapid response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. While the international community faced months of bureaucratic hurdles before it could provide critical support, crypto bridged that gap immediately by identifying wallets that could not be seized or frozen by Russian authorities and delivering, since the invasion began, some $421 million directly to Ukraine for defense, medical aid, and rebuilding. On the data side, war crimes being committed by Russian militants against Ukrainian civilians are being documented on the blockchain, so tamper -proof evidence will be available at later hearings. Even in peacetime, progressives who engage in potentially dangerous organizing similarly need secure ways to communicate that can't be compromised by governments or corporations. As risk -averse banks have cut off operations within entire countries, millions have been riskier actors. Blockchain -backed crypto offers a transparent way to create fund flows without incurring the hugely expensive intermediary fees that arise when banks deem an area a greater risk. Migrants also use crypto to send money to their home countries, and this activity alone will become increasingly important as political and climate migration continues to accelerate. We understand that some support for centralization stems from a good -hearted hope that centralized actors can be more easily steered towards the common good. It's tempting to think that a strong central government could bring about radical change by fiat or that a more concentrated economy enables better central planning, but history tells a different story. As the saying goes, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and efforts to drive wayward governments towards the common good without a strong decentralized movement have resulted in tyranny. The best path forward requires leaning into decentralization to create a world where no one person or clique is indispensable, where an economy of diverse actors can work together to preserve stability and fairness for all. The way to avoid new tech monopolies is to create an infrastructure that doesn't allow for them. Instead of focusing on how the few can bring change to the many, we should be supporting systems that empower the many to affect change. That's the ideal for which Web3 is striving, and one that we hope other progressives will also look to as a path forward, not a movement to be suppressed by any means necessary. All right, guys, back to NLW. The first thing that I will say is that I think our discourse around this issue, progressives in Bitcoin and crypto, is getting a lot more sophisticated. The arguments are getting more cogent. They're being aired by people who actually understand what progressives are thinking in Washington, and I think that's a hugely positive thing. Now, one of the things that Sheila and Justin posit as a possibility is that a reason that progressives don't support crypto or decentralization efforts is that we haven't done a good job teaching about them. Frankly, this strikes me a little bit, at least, as letting the political class off the hook, given that there have been now years and years of exactly those types of efforts from numerous organizations trying to do exactly that. What's more, I think that it's quite clear that those efforts have borne fruit. As I mentioned, if you look at some of the latest legislation to be working its way through Congress and the Senate, strict party lines haven't applied to how that has advanced. At the risk of sounding ages, because I don't mean to be and I don't think that there's anything inherent that makes it so, younger Democrats and, frankly, younger Republicans are simply more likely to have given this technology the time of day and see things in the way that Sheila and Justin are describing. One of the problems, I think, that may explain why there appears to be an age gap outside of just a different technological literacy in general is that the longer that someone has been in Washington or on any field of battle, the harder it is to not bring one's priors and pattern recognition to things that are fundamentally new. When I first saw Elizabeth Warren, for example, going off on crypto, the interesting thing about it, because it was a money thing, it must mean that it was corrupt as every other money thing that she had fought against. It was almost as if the idea that anyone would spend time on a money thing made them as a person and by extension as an industry null and void as a person or an industry that she wanted to engage with or thought had any redemptive qualities whatsoever. That's not crypto. That's the priors of old battles, many very legitimate that she fought being mapped on inappropriately, frankly, to a new field in which, as Sheila and Justin explain, many of the people there are trying to fundamentally change the problems of the traditional financial sector. You can see the same thing happening with the big tech patternicity happening now as well. While Sheila and Justin point out that decentralized technology is the inherent enemy of big tech consolidation, there are many on both sides of the aisle who simply saw crypto as another tech thing. And because they didn't like Zuckerberg, they clearly didn't like this. Now, it perhaps didn't help that for many of them, the first time they actively engaged with the issue was around Facebook's Libra project, i .e. crypto in the Zuckerberg universe. But it's still bringing priors back from a different fight into a new one. It's also hard not to feel, especially if you listen to someone like Brad Sherman, that part of that bringing priors, part of bringing that antagonism and old battles from both finance and big tech into crypto is that these politicians just flat out don't like us. Ultimately, anything that's a part of human nature is unfortunately a part of politics as well. So there's not necessarily much to be done for that, but it is a really bad way to make policy. And that's why I'm so glad to see a shift happening once again, where this issue of decentralization and the crypto industry that embodies it is not just owned by one party or another. I think that our fights around technology are going to do nothing but get more serious as new technologies come online. And I think a lot of what we will look at now, these early skirmishes, will be viewed as just prologue for what's coming next. So let's do our best to get as smart as we can and have the best conversations, because Lord knows we're going to need it. Hope you guys are having a great weekend. Appreciate you listening, as always. Until next time, peace.
The Dan Bongino Show
Kyle Seraphin: Hesitant to Say FBI Could Be Reformed Post-Election
"Kyle, I got to heart out in about 40 seconds, but just quickly, if we were to change leadership at the FBI with a new incoming Republican president that's serious about it, can the agency be reformed? I still don't think so, but if they were going to do it, you've got it all the way down to the first line managers and every single person there should be reinterviewing for their job. Is your agency loyal? Are you loyal to the agency of the FBI or to the Constitution? And a lot of people said yes when they should have said no. And so we already know that there's a track record of failure. So I don't know, do you reeducate everybody or you start fresh? I'd just scrap it. That's what I would do. Yeah. You know what? I tell you your opinion more than just about anyone in the law enforcement space. And I wasn't there. I mean, I know the culture of the Secret Service haven't been there. I don't know the FBI culture. And it really, as it bothers you, it bothers me
Simply Bitcoin
A highlight from Long Term Bitcoin Holders Hits All-Time High | EP 798
"We're your number one source for the peaceful Bitcoin revolution with heartbreaking news called Traumatic Warfare. We will be your guide through the separation of money and state. Crazy, crazy news. I mean, it's not surprising at all, but the long -term Bitcoin hodlers hold an all -time high of Bitcoin. That means that the amount of Bitcoin on exchanges continues to go down. The amount of Bitcoin hodlers continues to go up. I think this is Bitcoin's incentives. I think they're winning. And I think people are realizing that if you sell your Bitcoin, what are you selling it to? You're selling it for monopoly money, basically. So this is overall bullish news. We're going to break down also the numbers. We're going to dive deep into that today. Also seems like the Tether lawsuit was dismissed. We were going to talk about that yesterday, but we ran out of time. So we're going to cover that article. And on top of that, we have a very special guest. We have Mags. And Mags, thank you so much for joining us today. How are you doing? Hey, I'm awesome. How are you? Well, it was good. It was good seeing you at Mining Disrupt in Miami not too long ago. Mags is a is it's I know that Bitcoiners hate the word expert, but I would consider you a mining expert. Thanks. But no, I see that's the problem once you go down the rabbit hole and you're like, I know nothing. She's highly knowledgeable about mining. All right. I'll say it like that. And of course, my legendary co -host, he's drinking coffee. That means he's feeling optimistic today. The one, the only the legend, legendary optimist fields. How are you doing, bro? I am doing wonderful and I am so geeked up on coffee this morning. I probably have the jitters, but hey, you know, this is part of the fun. What's up, everyone? Good to be back. It's Tuesday. Still got a long week ahead of us, but the news don't stop. The grind don't stop. I'm excited for this one. I'm ready to hear Mags talk about Bitcoin mining in the culture. I think you guys are going to like this one. But anyways, are we going to get a classic Nikko Jones rant today or is this going to be a mellow? I don't know, man. It's just bullish news is not it's not like, oh, OK, so hope you have Nikko Jones to help you. Don't sell your Bitcoin to BlackRock. Yeah, that's the best news. That's the best news of the next of this having the next four years. If you sell your Bitcoin, statistically speaking, you're probably selling it to Larry Fink. Don't be that poor sailor or sailor or sailor, either one of them, either either them. OK. All right, everybody. No more delay. Let's jump straight to the news. Or the U .S. government. Oh, my God. All right. That took a dark turn. All right, everybody. Let's go. Let's start the numbers. Let's do it. The Bitcoin numbers. Is your Bitcoin in cold storage really secure? Is your seed phrase really secure? 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Alright guys, don't put yourself in this situation where you have to explain to your grandchildren why you lost your generational wealth because you decided to store your Bitcoin wallet. Back up seed words on paper, store it on titanium, scan the QR code on your screen right now and use the promo code simply and you get a nice discount. Anyways, at the time of recording the Bitcoin price is $29 ,565. Sat per dollar, $3 ,882. Block height, $801 ,952. Blocks to halving, $38 ,048. Halving estimate April 20th, 2024. Total lightning network capacity, $4 ,692 Bitcoin capacity value, $138 million US dollars. Realized monetary inflation rate, 1 .76%. Continuing to embarrass fiat currencies, the market capitalization is $574 billion with a B. Bitcoin versus gold market cap, 4 .41%. In the grand scheme of things, Bitcoin is still a tiny baby. Anyways, here is Cathie Wood and she's talking about the infamous Bitcoin spot ETF and she has an interesting take. She says if the SEC approves a spot Bitcoin ETF, it will approve more than one at once. Anyways, she is also known for coming up with the infamous 2030 prediction where she says the bear case is $258K, the base case is $648K, and then the bull case is like some crazy number. It's like $1 .48 million per Bitcoin. And she's also, obviously, she's accumulated a lot of Bitcoin, so she's a huge advocate for it. But anyways, let's hear what she has to say. And of course, this is on Legacy Media Bloomberg. So let's check it out and then we'll talk about it. So you are in this race. Let's talk about the race a little bit. The first important deadline coming up is August 13th where the ARK filing, the SEC is either going to delay it, which we think they'll probably delay it, and then BlackRock is later. You filed before BlackRock, but BlackRock came in with the surveillance sharing agreement with Coinbase. That was novel, right? Now we're looking in the future, there's talk of a common clock where the SEC could approve a bunch of ETFs at once, putting you on a level playing field with BlackRock and others. What's your take on how this will play out given you filed earlier? I think you're probably right that August 13th will come and go, and I think the SEC, if it's going to approve a Bitcoin ETF, will approve more than one at once. So then, again, because most of these essentially will be the same, and it will come down to marketing, communicating the message. We've been putting out our Bitcoin Monthly for the last year. We are now starting a Bitcoin brainstorming session, our first one we launched last Thursday. So we're trying to get the word out there that our research is deep, and we've been We were the first public asset manager to gain exposure to Bitcoin at all in 2015. That's exactly where I want to go. The Grayscale Bitcoin Trust, known by its ticker, GBTC. If you look at ARKW, for example, your ARK Next Generation Internet ETF, right now I see GBTC as the third largest holding. If we are in a situation where the SEC does give its blessing for a spot Bitcoin ETF, would you plan to sell out of GBTC and buy one of these physically backed funds? I cannot talk about what we would and would not do. And in fact, our compliance team is giving us marching orders not to talk very much about this filing and its aftermath at all. So just the fact that we filed with our partner 21 shares is as far as I can go. All right. So interesting how this is playing out. And again, like what I find very interesting is that even though she filed before, it's like it's almost as if BlackRock gets very special treatment than the rest. So I think that's interesting. Not surprised at all. But Mags, I want to get your take, because I haven't heard it before. It's what's your take on the BlackRock spot ETF? What do you think it's going to do for Bitcoin? I've had I've heard two different takes on this. Caitlin Long is coming from they're going to rehypothecate the F out of it. That's what Lawrence apart thinks as well. And then FOSS and lavish come from this is really good for the price action. It's going to price the pump and they're not really going to be able to rehypothecate it because of you know, it's a spot ETF and the regulations and all that stuff. So what's your take on this? What angle are you coming from? What angle are you coming from at it? I'm coming more from the FOSS lavish side where so we don't yet have a full regulatory structure in the U .S. around custody, right? So I think that like that's the caveat, depending on how they set it up. It's still possible that maybe there is some rehypothecation possible. But I think generally, as best practices, companies that just have been holding what will be more interesting to me is whether BlackRock decides to then set up some sort of yield product, not like the bad kind of yield with $10 ,000, sorry, 10 ,000 percent. I mean something like setting up lightning nodes so you can earn a yield, right? So that to me would be interesting if they set something up like that, where it's technically not rehypothecating because you're still holding the keys, but you're still making it work for you. I'm sure they're hiring talent everywhere. I do think it will have a massive impact on price action because this is the girl in the room on Wall Street. BlackRock is the largest asset manager in the world. So once they have the Bitcoin fund, I do think there will be some allocation from their massive portfolio. It might not be everybody's, but it may be their wealthiest clients or even just one percent allocation will do numbers. So I think for that people, you know, it is exciting. But again, the challenge there is because BlackRock will probably attract the most capital, like I think it would be the largest Bitcoin ETF there is. You are again consolidating it in one spot. So we're seeing that. And I know Bitcoiners, you know, we've seen this happen. You have hodlers like Michael Saylor. It's just it's just a shame sometimes to see it happen. And lastly, you know, I've been I've been through something similar in Canada. So I helped launch the first Bitcoin fund in Canada. We took the Ontario Securities Commission to court. It was a three year legal battle and we ended up with a 26 page ruling from the judge that said, yes, it is in the public interest for the public to hold Bitcoin, which then paved the way for all the ETFs in Canada. So I'm really excited to see the legal case with respect to GBCC that's going through the court, because I think either we will get BlackRock first or GBCC if for some reason giving stuff in Bitcoin down. But that said, BlackRock is powerful. They donate a lot of money. Things have changed. Like look at mainstream media now. Like, oh, Bitcoin is a BSG. We're in a different part of the cycle, I think. It's so crazy watching the anchors protect Bitcoin using like a lot of the terminology that Bitcoiners are using. It's like, wait, did I just hear that? It's like, no, Bitcoin is actually a good thing. And then, you know, it's perplexing. You didn't get that at all? Right. BlackRock is a part of this. Bitcoin is actually a good thing. Bitcoin is actually helping the oceans. Anyways, Opti, what's your take on this? Well, yeah, you know, as the in -house Bitcoin pleb, you know, the average Bitcoiner here, I don't like ETFs personally, I advise not to buy paper Bitcoin. But as far as I'm concerned, it's paper Bitcoin. But we all know that this will be good for price action. I do understand and I think anyone that is not naive understands how much capital inflows will come from these ETFs from traditional financial people. And, you know, in that regard, we're super bullish because, hey, as we've been talking about, you know, BlackRock's got trillions of dollars of even a small portion of that money gets into Bitcoin and we start to orange pill those people and they start to understand what they're holding. It's going to be extremely bullish moving forward, obviously. And on the Cathie Woods news, you know, we love competition. So, hey, you know, it's going to be great to see multiple spot ETFs approved at one time because then people can actually have options and choices and they're not being forced to get centralized into one ETF. Obviously, as Mag says, most people are probably going to just trust the BlackRock name because they are the biggest asset manager in the world. So we know that most money will probably go into BlackRock. But as something we've been talking about, BlackRock has become like the canary in the coal mine now, and it's signaled to every asset manager in the world that Bitcoin is safe. You know, they've endorsed Bitcoin. So Bitcoin is ESG friendly now and every corporate press site out there is starting to embrace Bitcoin and talk good about Bitcoin. So you love to see it. And it really makes you start to understand that this is opening up all asset managers around the world to not have the damage to their reputation by embracing Bitcoin. And obviously that's good for every single person out there that is holding Bitcoin and is yet to hold Bitcoin because now everyone knows what we know. Bitcoin is safe. You want to hold Bitcoin. You need some Bitcoin in your portfolio. And Bitcoin is for enemies. Bitcoin is for anyone. So as much as us Bitcoiners may not like the ETF products, like who are we to stop people from using Bitcoin, how they see fit. And it really reminds me, we've been talking about this for a while. It really reminds me of one of the early Hal Finney posts on Bitcoin talk forum where he's saying, you know, there will be Bitcoin banks that are fractional reserve and there will be full reserve Bitcoin banks. So I think we are in the beginning of that process and we're going to start to see who's going to take the risk of rehypothecating their Bitcoin. And I forget who was saying it, but it was in one of the IRLs, Nico. I'm blanking on who it was exactly. But we were kind of a TLDR -ing them in the chat. It's like, what if the BlackRock Bitcoin ETF is the very thing that brings down BlackRock by them rehypothecating Bitcoin? Like this would be bullish AF. It was Peter Dunworth. It was Peter Dunworth. It was Peter Dunworth. Like that would be an amazing turn of events. It's like, of course, they are incentivized to try to continue to do traditional financial techniques, maneuvering and watch them like just get bit by the greed bug, even though like Bitcoin goes up, what, like 100 percent every year on average. And they rehypothecate their Bitcoin and then they just get margin called and the whole company comes out like, how glorious would that be? I want to get Mag's perspective on this. Yeah, I'm just wondering, why would you risk it if you're that big, you're earning a lot of fees, just just take your fees, just like FTX, just take your fees and live off them, you know? Yeah, but but but that hasn't stopped Wall Street in the past, has it? No. OK, all right, we might see, you know, what's interesting also is that every cycle, the exchange, the exchange, there's always an exchange blow up and the exchange blow up is bigger than the last. So I'm a Quadriga bankruptcy inspector. We just distributed, by the way, last month we beat Mt. Gox. So could you talk about what happened? Like, is he is he really dead? You know, OK, so before I joined and and just went the bankruptcy process first happened, I thought it was just so weird the way he died. Right. So he died. He took him in the hospital. They took his body back to the hotel, then brought it back to the hospital. The hospital was like, no, the same standard procedure. So they had to take it to university that had some shady pass. And I'm like, this just seems weird. But looking so the Ontario Securities Commission did a really big report on where the money went and he lost a lot of it trading, like made bad trades. He was doing what FTX was doing. And just he lost about one hundred and forty million, which was like off the top, maybe sixty five percent. And then like a bunch of it was hard assets that had cash and houses that he bought with our funds. And so I was like, well, there's not that much money left. So if there was like this huge chunk out there, I'd be much more likely to think that he's alive. But like I went from eighty five percent to like ninety eight percent sure that he's dead. Gotcha. So wait, Niko, what what Magda is saying is there's hope that Bitcoin brings down BlackRock. There's hope.
Blue Collar Bitcoin Podcast
A highlight from BCB121_JOE CARLASARE: Macro Insights & Legal Hurdles
"Prognostications what about Bitcoin is going to do, you know, just and again, I don't want to get into a models debate, all this stuff. I understand that all models are wrong and models have utility and all this jazz. But when your average normie at the firehouse, which is what you guys talk to, right, when you tell them Bitcoin is going to be 10 million dollars in today's purchasing power in four years. Like, I mean, these types of things, like I think they're ridiculous. I mean, you lose credibility. And by the way, you ultimately set yourself up or at least set those people up to be disappointed. This is the Blue Collar Bitcoin Podcast, a show where Average Joe firefighters explore the most important monetary technology of the 21st century. We talk Bitcoin, we talk finance and we talk shit. Hello, and thank you for stopping by Strap In for an epic rip with Joe Carlessare. Joe likes to ruffle feathers. He is a lawyer by trade and completely at home with an argument that makes you uncomfortable. Honestly, that's what we love about him. He is not married to an idea. He is completely at ease, allowing the data to guide him. In this rip, we covered Joe's macro insights at length. The consensus view is that the recession is inbound. Joe makes a great case that this mystical recession could be further off than most people think. We cover some of the ongoing litigation with Coinbase and why it may not be nearly as in the bag as most plebs believe it is. Overall, you may not agree with Joe's takes, but you would be a fool not to listen to him intently. Throughout this discussion, we are reminded of just how many scammers proliferate in the crypto space. The only way that you can be sure that your Bitcoin is safely held by you and you alone is by cold storing with a cold card Mark 4. CoinKite has gone to great lengths to simplify a very complex idea and allow anyone who is worried about custodial risk to take matters into their own hands and actually own their Bitcoin. We highly recommend you get elbows deep in self custody. And when you set up a Mark 4, you will sleep like a baby knowing that you actually own your Bitcoin. Dan, I think the two of us have been more confused by no one else than Joe. Carlos, sorry, you confused the shit out of me, dude. I love you to tears. You're one of our favorite guests. We look forward to you. And I'm not just buttering your muffin unnecessarily here. We look forward to talking to you as much as anyone. Although Dan has a proclivity to butter muffins more than most. I'm a muffin butter. Yeah, I'm a talented muffin butter. But part of the reason we like talking to you is because you do confuse us. You're a bit of a contrarian. I confuse myself, by the way, for the record. Well, then, you know what? We're we're on the same page then. The other thing that's confusing about you, Joe, is your motor, dude, what spectating you. You're you're on Twitter spaces every goddamn time I log in. You're a lawyer by day. You are up to speed. It feels like on everything with markets. You're writing a novel. I mean, Josh, it has to be cocaine. I don't know what else cocaine. It's either cocaine or Joe is just way more adept at chat GPT than the most of us. Because is it actually lawyering for you at this point, Joe? It's the biggest my biggest advantage and also what I call a disadvantage is I sleep very little. I actually made it a goal to try to get more sleep. It's like one of the one New Year's resolution I'm doing terribly on. I'm doing great on everything else. But the sleep is awful. And my wife hates it because I'm like grinding away at something till two or three in the morning and waking her up when I go to bed. But other than that, like I've got a lot of things under control. Isn't that when the best idea happened, though? When you wake up at two o 'clock in the morning, you're like, wait a second, I should write this down. And then I fail to do it. And I wake up the next morning and I'm like, what was that great idea? It's like the great ideas you have when you're stillness and silence those down. And they're like, oh, that was stupid, guys. Honestly, the stillness and silence of late night hours are incredible. They're just incredible. I mean, I feel like today we're so accustomed to the bells and the dings and the guy calling you and you never get away from anything. And, you know, something's breaking. The suit is breaking. You can't have really deep thoughts even with yourself. So like I treasure those late night hours, even though they're terrible for me because I rarely get recommended hours of sleep. I mean, literally, I do my best thinking every night between midnight and one. I think it's an important point, though. Everybody, you need to carve out time to think and ponder beyond just finance, life in general. For me, I think my deepest thoughts, three spaces during workouts, which is also an inconvenient time. I'm in the middle of a freaking five mile run and I have a great thought and I'm like, fuck, my phone's back at home or it's in my, you know, that's number one. Number two, on walks in nature. And then three, my go to is fire pit out back at night, which is the same thing because I'm up till 11 or midnight. I shouldn't be, but looking up at the stars, the stillness of the evening is one of those areas where I really get profile, get cosmic. Ooh, Dan, I was a hundred percent sure you were going for taking a dump on number three. But wow, that's where Twitter happens. Yeah, that's where Twitter happens. Yeah. Do you run a lot? Is running an area? Are you like me, Joe, where you're in the middle of a run and you, something clicks? No, because running is when I really dig into audiobooks. So I have to, I have to double, double time that. So I'm, I'm almost always either listening to an audio book or a podcast when I'm running, which what are your, what are your audio books of choice? Do you do, is it fiction? Do you listen to, what do you listen to generally? I mean, I, I try to, I really think fiction's important. Um, not only because I have so much analytical, uh, material that I digest, right? Like I have to have a release in something about like, you know, the Stephen King book that just came out, fairytale, those sorts of things. I have to do that. How many books is that guy on? Oh, it's incredible. He's on like 55 books. I think the guy's like the most prolific author of all time. If you count all of his novellas, I think he's over 200. And by the way, he has another one coming out next month that I've already pre -ordered. It's called Holly. How the, it's gotta be amphetamines too, Josh. There's no other explanation. Cocaine. No, it's incredible how much you can achieve if you're always doing something right. And like, I, I constantly get, I'm actually trained myself, like at this point where I get very upset and nervous, like when I'm not doing something productive. Um, my wife says I can't relax. Like, she's like, you're always talking to somebody, you're always writing something, you're always reading something you need to relax. And she's right. Right. So that's like why I gravitate to those early morning hours, you know, uh, midnight to 2 AM. But, but honestly, like, I feel if you do it enough and you're constantly busy and like in my line of work, guys, I have to account for every 10th of a minute. Right. I bill. Right. So to me, I got so good at like getting my billable hours done so that I have additional time to devote to my other resources. It all spiraled into all these other areas where I'm like, now I just always am reading something, writing something, doing something, talking. It's, I'm not saying it's good, it's good way to live, but, uh, it definitely makes you productive. Talk to us about this novel you're writing. Oh yeah. I can't go too far into that, uh, you know, cause I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm going to save it, but it's a, so it's, uh, it's loosely inspired by some elements of Bitcoin in cases that I've had legal cases. It's a legal thriller. I am not the protagonist. I'm not cool enough to be the protagonist, but there's more of a, there's more of a traditional, uh, you know, a legal protagonist that is, uh, mixed and matched into some real sticky situation. And at the core of it is Bitcoin. Um, so I think people are going to read it. And my goal is this, like, my goal is that people, uh, enjoy a good story. Like a solid story with good character development. I mean, obviously there's a great character arc for the people that put in there, but beyond that, what I want people to take away from it is I want them to sort of understand some things about Bitcoin. You don't get through the popular culture, right? All you hear about is price, price, price, right? You don't hear about how Bitcoin is stored. You don't hear about how it's sent. You don't hire about private public key management, all these really intricate, intricate things that we geek out about in Bitcoin spaces and on Twitter about like, I want them to actually play a role in a narrative. Have you written another book or no, is this your first book? Uh, this will be, I mean, I'm saying even just for fun, not published. Have you tried other ideas? Yeah, I have tried other ideas. I mean, like I was writing short stories and stuff going back to grade school, but nothing that I'm proud of or this one, I will, I will get published. Right. I mean, that's the kind of intensity I'm approaching it with. Awesome. I'm excited about it. And I'm excited because I don't think there's any real, I was talking with American huddle about this. There's like no real good. I mean, even if you throw in crypto, there's no real good crypto movies, stories, fiction out there, right? There's nothing like there's that really. Hopefully somebody makes an SPF movie. Oh, I'm sure there will be. I mean, there's certainly something on that. I have a buddy actually, who's a, who's a screenwriter. He just wrote and directed a film. It's going to be out. It's called Pools. His name is Sam Hayes. He has been, he's one of my best friends, roomed with him in college. He, him and I have been talking for a couple of years about the idea of him writing a Bitcoin screenplay. And he is, he texted me about a month ago and then I saw him on a trip and he's seriously considering embarking on that project. So shout out to Sam. Hopefully that gets off the ground and we'll update if that's the case. Cause yeah, there's a real void of content in a space that could really use it. You have an immediate captive audience if you do it right and you do it thoroughly. And Bitcoin's money, right? So like how many interesting thriller ideas could you have where money is the goal, right? Heist movies, all these different things. Like with Bitcoin, I mean, I think it's just, it's a, it's kind of weird that it hasn't been more. Yeah, yeah, it really is. The guy who lost the laptop with like a hundred thousand Bitcoins on it. I mean, that's gotta be, I don't think his story has ended yet. He's probably still digging through that, that dumps, that dump site himself, but when he does end up, you know, offing himself afterwards, they'll be a good movie about it. Josh, I'm almost afraid to box in a wild animal like Carl Asare with a question off the top. Should we just, let's just throw it to you, Joe, what, what, what's on your mind today? How do you want to start this conversation? And then we'll, we'll go from there. So I think you have to start the conversation with what's going on in the economy. So I mean, as much as I'm passionate about Bitcoin, right? I love Bitcoin, but I always have to step back and say, okay, here's where Bitcoin fits into the broader macro picture. Right. And that's important because my belief in Bitcoin is continually confirmed by the mess that's going on in the macro picture. I have very different views, as you know, about than many of the macro Bitcoin people, which is fine. We have great spirited debates, but like the notion now that we're sitting here in 2023 and you're sitting with rates, you know, bearing down on 6 % or within an earshot of 6 % in the Fed funds rate. And you just saw a massive jump in tax receipts today. I mean, then you saw some economic data for the last couple of weeks that is continuing to be strong and robust. I think it would completely confound people. Like if we were on this podcast last year when we were talking with Greg or whatever, and I were to tell you, nope, the economy will be cruising along. We'll still have secular lows and unemployment. We'll still have a real estate market that is frozen. But obviously, prices are crazy. You'll have stock market with the stock market will be within 5 % of the all time high. And by the way, you'll have Jerome Powell saying that he's not going to cut rates for two years. I mean, just it would be awesome to go back in time. Right. Because, like, I remember being in these spaces and really smart people like, you know, I remember vividly talking with Lynn Alden and she was asked a question. Do you think the Fed can raise rates? And her response was, no, not for any significant period of time. Well, they're over a year now. Right. And if they hold them there, as they say, for another two years, does that qualify as a significant period of time? And you have to wonder why. And we can, you know, as detectives, right, like when you're analyzing this data, you shouldn't get tied into these narratives or tropes about here's how this works or here's how this. And every time the Fed raises, things blow up. You have to really approach it like a detective. You can have a hypothesis. You could have a theory or prime suspect, but you got to finally dig under the hood and figure out what's going on. And I think that I'm continually trying to get closer and closer to what's really going on. That's what I want to talk with you guys about on this program. So do I have the ability here to like share charts? Is that like something that? Yeah, you can, but we we've had issues with that in the past. But I mean, I say send it and we'll try to sort it out. Do you see the share button down there? Yeah. OK, yeah. Go for it. Just for this one, if it doesn't work, it doesn't work. Right. OK, let's see. While pulling you're that up, I mean, I continue to go back to just the age old adage, more money is lost preparing for bear markets than actually in them. Oh, yeah, I mean. And there's a ton of truth to that over the last couple of years. It's like, but no, just wait. And the timeline keeps moving out. So, oh, it's going to be next quarter. No, it's going to be next quarter. No, it's going to be next quarter, assuredly. Well, it's still not coming. I've sat through major bear market drawdowns, right? I've sat through huge, terrible gut wrenching movements downward in Bitcoin. And at the same time, I focus a lot on the macro data. And people ask me all the time, well, why are you spending all this time on the macro data if you're not going to sell Bitcoin, if you're not going to try to trade the market, if you're not going to time it? And the reason is it's not because I'm trying to look for a trading edge, right? I do do some limited trading here on certain macro assets, but that's more of like for fun. You know, that's like 5 % of my portfolio. The vast majority of my stuff, both stocks and Bitcoin is long term hold positions. The reason I focus all on the macro information is because I want to know how close we are on the progression towards a movement, towards Bitcoin. It isn't because I'm trying to time and double my stack or things like that. It's because I want to figure out like, OK, is this really significant? You know, remember we were talking about the banking crisis back in March, right? I was looking at it objectively. And, you know, while it appeared scary at the time, right, I think like there was plenty of evidence to suggest it was a tempest in a teapot. It wasn't necessarily going to spill over and move to the Bellagio route of, you know, collapsing the entire banking system. There's just you didn't see those issues systemic throughout the entire banking system. But anyway. Hey, Joe, before this chart, I want to just ask you a simple question. Warren Buffett has said over and over again, he doesn't worry about macro. He worries about, you know, the specific companies, the moat that they're creating. And that's why he his basic thesis is that macro is just so difficult and so hard to wrap your arms around. It's so complex and nobody ever really gets it right. And the more I kind of watch the from my perspective, I tend to think as much as the sacrilege to agree with Buffett in Bitcoin, he seems to be right largely about macro. It's just so difficult to general. It's almost like weather predicting a year out. There's so many variables in that. How do you, what's your approach to that? When when Warren Buffett says he's not focused on macro, he's not buying companies and trading companies based on macro. OK, that's a big difference. And people get really confused. And this is one thing I rail against. Like when you got the people that are on these spaces talking about the end of the world and the collapse of Western civilization. Because people hear that and implicitly they think, I need to sell stocks. I need to sell my portfolio. I need to sell my house. I need to be in gold, in a bunker with a gun and whiskey. And that's my only chance. Like to me, don't forget cigarettes. Right. And cigarettes. So to me, like that kind of narrative, I think is is very it hurts a lot of people. It really does because it dissuades them from buying Bitcoin at much cheaper levels. It dissuaded them from buying last fall because people were talking about the end of the world. It people, encourages I think, to think in a short sighted manner when at the end of the day, even if things get bad from here, there's going to be something on the other end. And you should be positioned for that. And you shouldn't try to time it. But for well, it's also like it's also a fatalistic, nihilistic approach. More broadly, like you should not be rooting against the major societal organization strategies. We don't want global poverty. We don't want rampant suffering. I mean, this is said in Bitcoin all the time, but it should be reiterated. I mean, you don't want to wish for the implosion of global financial markets. And anyone that does, I don't think understands how big of a deal that would be and how painful and sad that would be for humanity. Correct. I mean, in the thing that kind of makes me sets me off, if there's one thing is that I have members of my family, I've talked about this before, like, you know, they were convinced by the gold bugs. And now they're living in, you know, a much more impoverished retirement because they put all their money in gold and were afraid of the stock market. They've been hearing about like how sound money is going to take over everything and fiat will collapse for 30, 40 years. So to me, like, you know, those kind of messages, we really have to temper as Bitcoiners. But the one thing I'll just say is that macro is really important. You shouldn't discount it for understanding the world we're living in. Things like demographic trends, things like where, you know, how populations are moving, the over indebtedness and pressure that's going to put in certain markets moving forward. But macro cannot be utilized for trading in the short run. And it's very simple reason why, because markets are dynamic systems. They're not linear. It's not as simple as Fed raises interest rates, markets crash. It's not that simple. If that were true, then every single person could just follow a very simple rubric and make a lot of money in markets. But as you can see in certain dynamics, when people think the boat's all going to go one way, it actually flips the other way because how people get position moves. It's a dynamic system. It's not one that's perfectly linear and responsive to variables on the macro front. One more thing, Joe, we'll get to your chart, I promise. What you just said, I could imagine somebody sitting here. Let's say this is the first podcast they're listening to that has to do with Bitcoin. Maybe they were interested in gold and they see these two things as very similar assets. So they hear you saying or denigrating gold as like that was a bad idea 10 years ago. But Bitcoin is somehow a better idea, even though these two assets are viewed very similarly. So how would you explain that to that person thinking like, why is Bitcoin the better idea at this point than gold was 10 years ago? And how can you be so sure of that? Very sure of it and very confident of it because Bitcoin is far more than the asset itself. Bitcoin is a network. It's a monetary network that will eventually supplant to the entire global financial system. And gold is not. Gold is a rock. Gold is an element on the periodic table. Gold is something that fails in the network that we need for 21st century commerce over the Internet. And for people to reduce and denigrate Bitcoin to digital gold, to me, Josh, that's offensive. Like I think like, OK, when I hear digital gold, that's what Bitcoin, I'm like, I want to sell my Bitcoin because there's people that do not understand what Bitcoin is. It is not a shiny yellow rock. That's not what it is. I it's think a very useful tool to help people, to introduce people to it, to help them understand what, at least at a very limited level, this is. I think that's a good introduction for people. And all I'm saying is I'm certainly not making that argument. I'm simply bringing that up to say if somebody is listening to this and they had that idea that gold was great and they maybe don't think so 12 years later and now they're hearing about Bitcoin, it sounds like a parallel idea in a lot of ways to a lot of people. That's the only reason I brought that up, because I think that can cause some confusion. I mean, I don't understand how a generation that grew up seeing the promise and innovation of the Internet would not just use the Internet. I mean, literally Andreas and Antonopoulos did the work for Bitcoiners, the Internet of money, like, what, is it seven years ago, six years ago? Got it behind me. That's like, that's literally what did it for me. So you're telling me, Josh, that talking to a regular person, talking to a regular person, you're going to say, hey, I know you don't own any of the shiny yellow rock, but you should buy it because it's now going to work in a digital era instead of saying this is the Internet for things of value. This is how we're going to communicate value among people. You don't think that that's more persuasive to the regular people, that this is how we will communicate and share our experience and share our time, show what is valuable in society. And by the way, I firmly believe it's not going to be solely about money. I think Bitcoin's network, Bitcoin's global network will serve other purposes that we haven't yet scratched the surface of. So to me, it's a minimalistic, overly simplistic parallel. I totally agree. But I'm just saying I think that to a lot of the uninitiated who don't understand network effects, who don't understand a whole lot of the terms you may be using there, there's a lot of people that still don't get that stuff. So I think that as an introduction. You've got to find a hook somewhere. You've got to find a hook somewhere and. What was the hook for the Internet? Go on chat rooms. I mean, nobody figured that out for 20 years. It took like it was like five years ago when people were really thinking that out. At least the general public. It's going to take 20 years for Bitcoin. It's going to take 30 years. I mean, it's even more complex. What he's saying is that calling Bitcoin digital gold is objectifying Bitcoin. There's so much more to it. It's like me saying your wife is hot and nothing else, Josh. And you're sitting there going, no, she's got so much to offer on the inside. She's such a great mother. And I go, no, she's just hot. That's what we do when we call Bitcoin digital gold. There's so much more depth there. I just like objectifying Bitcoin. What if I walked up to you and I said, oh, this is like the Internet's like a message board. That's what it is. It's a message board. I'm like, is that going to, what do I need that? And what's the point of that? I call people on the telephone. That's how I communicate with them. I give them a ring. I mean, I mean, it's such a reductionist way of talking about something that's profound. And I don't want to make it overly simplistic. I'm going to explain how this thing is going to change the world. And for you to understand how it's changing the world, you have to put in a little effort. I can't just say it's a yellow rock. And much the same. Okay. So back to your fair point about the Internet. What was the hook for the Internet? We really had nothing to latch onto. There was really no handle. The thing was just so useful and so effective. Is it the Today Show, the one where he's like, what's that at sign? What is an Internet? You know, explain to me. I think it was. Is it Katie Keurig and Kirk? I mean, that's kind of the same discussions we have about Bitcoin. And I'm sure you guys have had firehouse discussions about this. Like, explain to me what this is. Why don't we, well, you got to put in a little work. It's a little complicated, guys. I mean, I can tell you certain elements of it. But, you know, today I learned something new about Bitcoin I've never learned before, right? Like, and I mean, I've been involved in Bitcoin for years now. And that's just how it is. I mean, it's just the, you got to start from that premise. Okay, sorry, we got way off and I apologize. So, we started with the idea, so just to reset, we started, guys, with the idea of like, why isn't the economy responding? Why do you have these markets floating towards all time highs? And I don't know if you can see this, but I think this is a great illustration. So, what you can see here in the red line, and it's really stunning here. This is US non -financial corporate net interest costs, okay? Net interest costs. So, let's break down what that means. So, you're taking out financials, you're using corporate net interest costs, meaning the amount they have to pay to finance their debts, right? The amount they've taken out. So, let's just figure this out. What has happened in the past when the Fed, by the way, this black line, you see, this for the folks that are listening, I guess not, can't see the graphic. There's a black line on the bottom that says the Fed funds rate, and then there's the corporate net interest cost. And what you've seen during prior hiking cycles, I don't know if you can see my cursor here, but in, for example, you're looking at prior hiking cycles leading up to 2006, for example, is that when the Fed started to hike, you saw the corporate net interest cost, meaning the cost of holding that debt start to skyrocket. So, what does that do? What does that do? From a practical standpoint, guys, what this means is that corporations that took out money are responding very quickly, when they took out loans, responding really quickly to raises in interest rates. And you see this through several past cycles going back to, you know, the 90s, actually, you know, even into the 80s. And what you're seeing, why this time is actually different, is you see this rapid rise in the Fed funds rate here at the end, but you see net interest costs start to go down. So, why is that? The answer is because companies, which everybody is well, you know, they're constantly parroting, there's so much corporate debt, there's so much consumer debt, there's so much debt all over the place. Well, yes, that is true. However, many of those debts were taken out at very low interest rates. Companies were filled to the gills with cheap money in 2020, 2021, when the rates were near zero, and they were like, you know, an all -you -can -eat buffet, effectively. They took out as much as they can. And that's consumers too, right? You're talking about almost 70 % of all mortgages in existence right now are under 4%. So, the Fed can hike to 20%. But in the short run, when companies, until companies have to roll this paper and have to actually extend out the maturities, they're not affected. Their bottom lines aren't affected. Again, this is net interest costs. So, this directly eats into their bottom line. This is what's going to trigger unemployment to rise, all these issues that we talk about. But the problem that many macro analysts, and I don't pretend to be a macro analyst, but I'll just tell you from my perspective, I think many folks missed this, myself included, last year. How much cheap debt had been taken out at very low interest rates when the Fed was beginning this hiking cycle. And they equated it to prior hiking cycles, where even, you see even this little run -up right here, where you see very instantly corporates respond very quickly whenever there's a hike. So, this is the story right here. And by the way, this is not just a story in the corporate. I mean, I'll stop sharing this just so we can talk more. But this is not just about corporate. I'm going to pull up just the fiscal side here while you keep talking. This is not just corporates, right? This is also individuals. Unlike, you know, you guys remember the, I'm sure you've seen the big short, right? Everybody's seen the big short. Do you remember how many people took out adjustable rate mortgages, right? A lot of those consumers and investors and folks that were speculating in real estate, they learned their lesson. They actually put out a lot more, a lot fewer arms into the space right now. They got fixed low rates, 2%, right? And by the way, now that those rates are 2%, not only are they more profitable, but because inflation is the big boogeyman, they have a very easy justification to go to all their tenants on their speculative real estate properties and say, we're going to raise your rent. And then all those employees have a very easy basis to go to their employer and say, hey, I need more money because inflation is running at 8 % or 9%. And you don't have something systemically breaking among the American consumer. Now, where do you have pressure? You have pressure in the banking system, right? Because the banks who have to hold this paper, they're the ones who ultimately have to somehow deal with the fact that their paper that was worth 50 % more is now declined rapidly in value on a market to market basis because of the rapid hike in interest rates. However, what the Fed has said is like, look, we're going to keep a general policy with respect to interest rates. We're going to say we're going to pedal to the metal. No cuts for two years, what Powell just said. At the same time, the weakest players in the system who are holding money good treasuries, we are going to support them where necessary through surgical approaches like the BTFP. And by the way, just to conclude here, this is exactly what the Fed governors were saying last fall. If people were going to listen to it, there's a famous quote that I've posted about a billion times on Twitter where, you know, I think it's Christopher Waller says, look, there's this notion now that financial stability concerns will cause us to not want to hike further. And we disagree. We think there are specific targeted programs that can deal with any issues of financial stability and we can still keep pedal to the metal with respect to interest rates.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
Record High: Over 30% of Americans Now Live Alone
"Admit there is a piece of data that just literally in the last few minutes. I became aware of Which suggests that as I've always thought at any event not everybody has a good weekend This piece of data and if this doesn't suggest that it's true for everybody in this category either that they don't have a good weekend however It's an issue record number of Americans living alone In a record high for the United States nearly 30 % of American households Have only a single person living in them one out of three Americans lives alone Does it give this is a Give the data. Yeah, look at this For those of you who mock as I have been mocked by the left For speaking about Making America great again. They say America was never great Well, I don't know what that means great in comparison to what was it great in comparison to other countries I think it was was it great in comparison to perfection? No, it wasn't But you you compare people to people not to images and likewise for countries Clearly there was a terrible racial problem Like Jim Crow for example in the 1940s So that obviously has to be thrown into the mix However, there were dominant values That were good You know what the percentage of Americans who lived alone in 1940? Eight
Bloomberg Radio New York
"every single person" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"The problem is if every single person who has an application files also a mandamus application, then you're just recreating the same line again. So there's no doubt about that. But the idea is that by filing the mandamus litigation, what you're essentially doing is you are saying, hey, remember B, I exist. And when that happens, then the immigration authorities get around to deciding your case because otherwise they didn't remember to fairly that you existed. So the delay is truly long, it is not a bad strategy to file a mandate. But if everybody filed a mandate of gain, then you do have the same problem. Sort of a tragedy of the common situation where everybody recreates the same backlog and now you have even worse backlog because the agencies not only dealing with the backlog, but all of the lawsuits. But we're not seeing it at that level, obviously, because we're seeing something along the order of 6 or 7000 men. They gave us, as opposed to millions of applications that are in the backlog. So it's not really a problem that would actually exist that everybody in the backlog would be filing a mandate. Do you get a more favorable outcome if you file a mandamus case? Well, this is an interesting question, a lot of people when you discuss this are very afraid to sue the government because they think that the government will retaliate against them and say, well, if you sued me, I'm going to just deny your case because I'm upset. But that actually doesn't happen in practice. In practice, what will happen is if you truly have a case that's delayed and you file a mandamus case, the government will usually try to work with you to each of you a decision. And that decision, I would say 99 out of a hundred times is the exact decision that would have been issued anyway. I've not personally known of a case of retaliation that happened because of a man with a and so I wouldn't be your filing because of a fear of retaliation. So has the agency taken some actions to resolve these backlogs? Well, they have done as many things as they can figure out to do at the moment. And so what they've done is for work permit, renewal, they've tried to make those longer so that people have to do less renewals in the future. And that's a good thing, but that sort of needs to cycle through the system. So they have to grant all of these applications with longer renewals before they can reap the benefit of having done that. So that's the first problem. Pull that thought coming up will find out what the other solutions have been. This is Bloomberg. The balance of power. It's always
990 The Answer
"every single person" Discussed on 990 The Answer
"I think that they are going to be much more hesitant to send their kids to a place where they have very little control over what's being taught and learned, and I think this will be a boon to those who support School choice. Parents should not be depending upon your your ability to pay and your geographical location. Parents should not be at the mercy of ideologues. Um you know you you can. It's fine. If you have those those liberal ideas but don't impose them on an unwilling and a very, very malleable and suggestible child. As I said, I used to teach in middle school and I know what those kids are like their sponges. They want to be they they love their teachers. They want to be accepted by their teachers. So if you have a teacher, telling them something, and telling them to think a certain way, you know that kid is going to be oriented towards doing what's going to make the teacher happy. And this is a you know, It's a very dangerous phenomenon that we see happening here. Um and not just in Lower Mary, and I'm so glad That you highlighted this and I would recommend to every single person listening to this. Please read Michael's piece. Michael Torrez's piece. It's at City Journal. Um, it's called mainline Madness. And it is It only speaks to lower burying, but it has relevance for so many of the other school districts that we see the area, Michael, It was so great talking to you, Um, I love The work that you do. I love your voice. I really appreciate you getting this message out there and you know I'm only on this week, but I'm sure Chris is going to have you back on when he's back behind the microphone and keep doing the work that you're doing. Thanks so much because there's really great speaking with you Take care. That was Michael Torres of the Commonwealth.
The Non-Prophets
"every single person" Discussed on The Non-Prophets
"Medicine still continue to have a conversation thereafter And it's frustrating book too because with the question of of cherry. Picking is a difficult one because the bible does function like this giant worship test where everybody interprets it differently. I don't. I don't know if it's been sitting here thinking about it. I don't know if it's possible to not cherry pick the bible. You know every single person who reads it comes way with some different response different reputation that is completely dependent on what they brought to the table before they open the book and started reading so i think even even the most you know theologians who would refer to themselves as being objective. Still i think are in some sense. Picking well without actually referencing an interstitial that we're not using right now which is step in the right direction when we actually have these Questions posed by said congressperson and We're getting like some particular answers back. That probably you know not probably but does is allow the hypocrisy that we have experienced in the previous administration and with her specifically. And you know over all with the religion we come with your Of your abraham acc- Belief system because she got these particular responses. Do you think that this is In a a glimmer of hope that you know people are looking at the you know the context of biblical verses in a different way. When i say maybe i say maybe because yes you still have some level of critical thinking when it comes to really assessing. What's most of these versus. Say especially the super super horrible ones but there is that still you know happy dozen of more than that. I'm just going to go with that. Measure that you know. Even though they recognize the contradictions they recognize the fallacies and the just complete on historical material gathered within this old text. There they still hold onto a belief. It's all about being with them. And so that part is a bit deeper than just you know then actually reading it and like there select you probably have really read it..
The Living Room with Joanna Weaver
"every single person" Discussed on The Living Room with Joanna Weaver
"Those things and And to have to just say this is important. You cannot right when the kids were around. You can cut an onion when they are joe. You need to go right now. You've got to go And so that's been really helpful to just like compartmentalize the work time to really value it And to realize that. I'm going to yes sacrifice and things like you were saying on the other side and that's okay that's actually a really good thing like we all have to kind of make those we have to make those choices So that's one piece of it another seeing that's been sort of recent But has been like really transformative. And i realize this isn't an option for every single person but I hired help And i have an assistant who started out with me like five hours a week like it was just really really small. She was going to do my my my email. I just needed somebody in my inbox. My business inbox. And so it was like okay. Can i make this investment. Like i'm not really making money right now and and with that also did was made me think about like. How can i serve my community in a way. That actually does support this work. You know. it's it's good if you're listening and you do work in any capacity that is your own where you're creating something they are offering to the world. You are allowed to get paid for it right you. You can get paid for it. And so i just want to give you permission so I was like what can i do. Actually like sustain this personnel. That i've hired and she started working more and more in the ended up quitting fulltime job. And she like works for me now totally and so that's been really really helpful. Because she takes sort of the she takes all the things that i'm not good at like i- lazy. I'm a genius genius. Because i cannot be a genius about all those things..
Long Story Short with Megan and Wendy: The Podcast
"every single person" Discussed on Long Story Short with Megan and Wendy: The Podcast
"The enjoyment on my summer. Drink my brain thinks it will right now All of the sweat stopping stuff. Right like mega. Babe has like targeted me in the algorithm. This leumi brand. Have you ever seen this. yeah i've purchased. That was not a huge fan. Oh good to know see. That's what i need to hear. I just want it all every time. I see something that is targeted towards summer acute pair of sandals. My brain. Immediately like oh. I need that. That's going to make me enjoy this summer more. Well i think the good ice cube trays need to mention this. Are you talking about you. Know what the good ice is. Small pebble or nugget is sure. Yeah and you can buy and nugget ice maker for the bargain price of five hundred dollars which seems outrageous and also i have definitely considered it and the number two things stopping me after the price considering we already have an ice maker in our home is. There's no good place to put it. I don't want a giant ice maker on a countertop anywhere in my kitchen but you used to have a giant soda maker on your on your Week yeah really relate to that video in the show notes. That's the curated. Cold that was pulled from the market and kira refunded every single person who had purchased one neath all rights of their purchase. Such a mistake on their part you can now by any ice cube trays. There ever rather on amazon by betham yawn souls them and then it's the mini ice. We like though well. I don't think it has like the texture to it right. I think that's hard to get. But it's still teeny tiny ice cubes. Which would scratch that edge and i have watched many a- tiktok video where makes coffee with the teeny tiny ice cubes. I gotta have the teeny tiny ice cube drop.
NEWS 88.7
"every single person" Discussed on NEWS 88.7
"So Yeah, there was. There was resistance. It's kind of like the Embarcadero Freeway story. Actually, it's you know, kind of this thing that Is pretty much universally critically acclaimed. Now it wasn't so at the time. There was definitely kind of some questioning of whether this was the appropriate way to honor the people who have lost their lives in the war. One of the things I really like about that memorial, and I think it's also very illustrative of You know, it's not just subtract right? It's add and subtract. I'm not saying the adding is bad. It's just that we don't think of subtracting and sometimes subtracting allows us to do things that we can't do in other cases and Lin's design. It's Yeah, it's cut into the earth, and it's a grand night slab. It's understated, but it has the names of every single person who lost their lives in that conflict on it, And that's not the case with any of the other. Memorials s. Oh, she did add two and I think part of the reason that memorial is so moving is because you can see those names and she also thought about Instead of catching the names alphabetically. She acts them chronologically by doing that she kind of presented information about the wars scope and which there was also resistance to people didn't want to etch them from logically, right? Yeah. Yeah, So how are you going to find the people? So, Yeah, it's a It's a great design. I think it's a beautiful example of kind of like, persisting too noticeable less, and it's also a beautiful example of this notion of Add and subtract these air, complementary approaches, toe making change. Okay, let's pause here for just a second on our website. We're gonna have more about Meilin and the contest that she want to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the.
Cineflek
"every single person" Discussed on Cineflek
"Just kind of swept up in it and you either pick up on everything happening or you missed it. The first time in you catch it on a rewatch it. I love that miyazaki doesn't really dawdle on like the concern of. Oh is this going to be understandable to every single person watching. He's kinda just like no. We're just gonna watch. Yeah yeah this movie would be five hours of nolan directed. It is god lane. The can't explain the mechanics of how how spiderman pumped the pump to the notices name not spiderman boiler man how like pumped the water up to the right things when he got the tokens and yeah need to know if christopher nolan made this movie win chiro gives up her name and gets a new name. She would just be called prostitute..
The Win-Win Effect
"every single person" Discussed on The Win-Win Effect
"Of the coaches mr rich. What's up man. Rhys rosman look bearded brother s right. That's right. I'm starting to get a little grey and a little wisdom more now. That's okay or beginning. Let's call russ wheel trust. That's good. I love it the way it is kick it off another. We of course have a lot in common in a lot of things that we can kind of go into detail. About first and foremost. I am extremely honored to be able to have a chance to interview you and if anybody is ever listen to this show of me i treat every single person would same amount of gratitude for holding space and investing some time with me so i appreciate you rich thanks. Hey man i know them coming into your home in the home of others. That are listening to you. That trust in place. I don't take that light so thank you. Now you're welcome. You're welcome so intros all that stuff we do later. So that's all admin stuff but let's kind of go into detail there's a. There's a long list of things that we can discuss. But there's also a very short list of things that people maybe haven't scratched the surface on rich and those are things i would like to spend more time on all right so there's just like you know a lot of areas of opportunity where people that are like minded and getting to certain levels of success. Whatever that might be for people the people that you do meet. It's a it's the imprint that you leave onto them and i truly truly believe this that that is the best currency you can ever have in. Life is how someone speaks about you. When no one's in you know no one you don't hear you or anything and especially there's a room full of people that are some major players and they bring up your name when a lot of opportunity there. That's the impact you leave. And i'm i'm searching for and see in a lot of different messages from a lot of the work done so well done..
Exponential Podcast
"every single person" Discussed on Exponential Podcast
"The tribe exists not for itself but for mission right. What often happens is which we'd sean kate. The gospel because we individualize it in such a way where it's about us instead of the work. So when you think about these incubators we have. They don't yet they exist. Because we wanna unleash person and a whole mess our way of unleashing hope we want to mobilize every single person every single missionary we call our missionaries hope numbers. We want our whole deal. This the be inspired by reinsure one of the be inspired by engaging the community to be inspired by entrepreneurship. Halfway that we have for people helping them shift the way that they think we to be inspired by ministering to the local schools the next generation of his warmed. I'll be inspired by that. What what we also want him to. Innovate to innovate by discovering. Who god has called them to be. And where god has called them to go. What field this guy called him you to occupied in yet. And so historically howell. How we've how i've done this is is. I've a la allowed for inspiration and then coaching. I've just done one to one coaching. I've just coached typically had been church plants. That i've actually coaching we had residency and things like that but the more i live the more i leave the more. I realized that our church has to be a flat platform where anybody and everybody can be mobilized into the things of god right and so so that's how we can stoically done it. In in meeting the keishi underground the underground in general on one of the things that has been helpful for me is they are highly hike. They have a lotta systems in structure for us. Like i'm not opposing system in structure but how we've typically done it is. We've just coached people to greatness one the one of the town of taking the jesus model like are you gonna walk with me for a while. I that's not scalable right. But what is scalable is what we call a whole village. Pathway when whole pathway has been adopted from the case in underground and it is a micro and a macro pathway so at so for example. Here's how this works out. In our extended family called mission. Church people are disabled. people are mobilized into these missino incubators but as they are inspired now. they haven't structure to work that. I've always asked right. I'm always had a structure of hey starts with prayer..
Pause
"every single person" Discussed on Pause
"Looking at a safe sleep servants. And then you know. I think it's. It's grown to be more than that but i think at at its core. That's what it was so here in winnipeg you know there was this move to to adopt box as a solution it was an idea that was there were folks who were producing them like it was a fairly easy thing to jump to like. It was easily available as a folks really wanted to jump to that quick solution and use baby baby box so we hit bonus went. Well hold on. Let's go to our community. Let's find out what our community says about this and and see what they say baby box in about. Infant mortality and so what serviced was a lot of preferences in terms of. Here's some aspects of baby box and we prefer a different approach and so number one. I feel like the baby. Box is a standardized model in so the box is fairly standard. You know it's about getting as many out there to as many people as possible and and everybody gets the same thing. And i do believe you know. Some of those baby box do have items contained in them now and again. Those are all the same items for every single person. Art community said we want customization. You know in terms of what is it gonna take to make babies better. We would want customization in terms of this tool. And so i should back up and say that our community started with the baby box is very much about keeping babies alive. And that is important arch community said. We're going to raise the bar just a little bit higher. We want to talk about our babies thriving so the difference between keep baby alive and qui n to have babies thrive. That's a different conversation. And so it puts you at a different starting place and then you're sort of different problem definition and it's so it starts the solution finding a very different place and i do feel like a lot of our different services. Resources programs.
The Bible Says What!?
"every single person" Discussed on The Bible Says What!?
"Guess my thing is. I don't know that it really matters that much. I mean unless unless the filter that you are using Is a curious with some sort of special harm for those who disagree with you. You know when you're gonna use your tribalism to a. We have to kill everybody who doesn't agree with me again. People have done. Christians and others have done other religions psycological though right right but But this is again. Why i i. I don't feel the need to like. I'm comfortable like with someone who's an atheist ramaz lower buddhist or you know none of the above. I told me they have told me share with me. There's bursts virtual experience awesome. I think that's great i. I don't feel any need to correct them or or show them at the wrong but again or did that is because I've moved away from the indoctrination hat as a young christian. This idea of Having studied realize that. I think that's bullshit so teach that at all. I think that's something that kind of crept in and got a very useful tool fear and intimidation or very wonderful tools. That church decided they could use that and did and still do but see now. They don't believe that that's true. Now that i believe that actually got really is love. God's desire really is To redeem all of his children because he loves every single person made in his image which his everyone then. So i know when. I'm hanging out with the muslim or buddhist or atheist or whoever I don't feel the need to convert them. I don't feel like they're the sort of you know ternal torment danger of hellfire thing I look at them across the table. I see someone that god loves that i love and someone who's you know. Make an image of god. Just we i am and.
Real Wealth Real Health
"every single person" Discussed on Real Wealth Real Health
"Gone Well well i'm going to question that because every single person makes mistakes and granted some more expensive mistakes another less expensive but every single person makes mistakes on one or two bitching span and tell me and that mistake could be instead of the promised. Eight ten percent anti-rot investors after the sale on mideast three percent. Yes that's that's a mistake in there are lessons learned to was the sponsor The yes. I've made that mistake and ever since that happened. I have granted that mistake. When was such as much snaps. But i want them to to share it in not me has to find out from someone else whether it's some of their investors.
Talk with Oliver
"every single person" Discussed on Talk with Oliver
"Or we can close your eyes and tap into the consciousness right because again consciousness is inside. It's all around that level of energy and figure it out ourselves instead of constantly looking outside of ourselves for answers it's like all of the answers are better found within than they are without. We have the answers. We can access the answers like my life matters. Your life matters. Every single person here has a purpose indeed and know that right. There is heaven on earth. It's like forget about the afterlife. What about right here right now. Because we're projecting future were stuck in the past. Not here in the present and ken week rebate heaven on earth. And that's what the heart is all about right heart. H. e. a. heaven e. r. t. earth so the heart moles heaven and earth. Spending i i've i've never heard that. Let me to see it. Heaven i heart so the earth is the hey ch- e. a. r. t. h. e. n. For example who heaven even happens with v. I get the sounds. Not the actual letters have have ta jeram. Never heard that. What did you see that or obviously. That's how languages forms some sounds. But i've never heard that ever did you. Hit at amal is really flipping cool right when we look. At the root of words we break words down like sample Government right meant in mind and government needs to control right so government advertisement so when we look at the root of.
Relationships & Revenue
"every single person" Discussed on Relationships & Revenue
"I am your host. John human thrilled to have you with us today and we have a very very special guest with us today. Doctor alka patel. How are you alka. I am sailing. Great delighted to be here with you. Joan grudge. well. I'm thrilled to have you here. And i know that the listeners are going to be so excited to hear what you have to share because everything that you do applies to every single person who could possibly listen to this so. I'm super excited about that. Now in order for you listeners. To get a better idea of who doctor alka is. Let me here. And my notes as i always have you know that. Let me tell you a little bit more about her and she is a doctor. That is md. That's right she's an md. she's also a coach speaker author. And as you heard in the introduction she is a podcast she does all that to amplify health as a skill and an asset so that inspired individuals and bold businesses can create compassionate lifestyle changes for happy healthy living and connected workplace wellness. Wow that's amazing. That is fantastic. I love the oh by the way she also happens to be a wife a mom so those are those are probably here to most important. Titles i would venture to say slung. Yeah pick something which order of difficulty. They call but yeah absolutely. I think you touched on To says that it really is very much about commission about what is health in when we speak about health. Yes let me take take g patients code as nobody thinks of as a skill as a actually has an skill. It's the reason. I like this skill because i truly believe that it's something that we can learn rum and we can develop any of the skills that we're learning. You know you really can enhance it. endlessly but we don't do that. We think it helps something that we just have. Or don't have an actually..
The 29 Minute Mom
"every single person" Discussed on The 29 Minute Mom
"Looks like she has altogether. But let me tell you. My friend laid out. They just started with a dream then worked really really really hard if they were smart they prayed in surrendered a lot. I can promise you. There are still moments when they. Who am i to be doing this. Especially if they are really out doing. God's work the dabble hates like that is something that you really do uncover whether you realize it or not. You're being got your purpose every single day. I believe every single person on the planet was here with a specific purpose from god whether we know what that purposes yet or not. And that's why i'm super passionate about helping people to figure out what their purposes and i think decluttering your life really does help start that process so when you know your purposes you plan ahead you start each day with that in mind purpose shapes how we think how we spend our time. How do life your life purpose. Here's the thing so make sure you're listening. Your life purpose is not your job or your role role such as a mother a daughter a sister a friend. That's not your purpose. Positions enrolls are vehicles through which you deliver your purpose. Your purpose comes from within. It was planted inside of you. As part of god's plan for his kingdom before you're even board it is your big y friends..
Pantheon
"every single person" Discussed on Pantheon
"Normal. It's progressive right. It's seven it's odd but anyway. Can i switch the camera and to do that again. Okay so it's I have a foot camera but you can see my feet right. Your feet okay. So doc. Palm duck duck duck duck. Doesn't i can even improvise with that. While piece of my brain is managing the rest of it. Because i put eight hundred million hours into it. My brain is cramped. I've look. I'm not that good at this. I just put a lot of time in became proficient. That's all no but it's interesting to hear how it is that it sounds in your head. Which is what. i'm trying to get to. Every single person tackles whatever they're proficient at in a way in a language that only they understand in their own head that you're making these connections in the data to an it's sounds in your head like i can't climb in your brain and like look around. This is as close as i can get. I gotta explain. Not only because i'm not a brain surgeon because i'm the death of what i would find in the cavity. You have no you know the other thing. I'm thinking i'm thinking right right side. Meaning when.
The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast
"every single person" Discussed on The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast
"One out of four women and one out of seven men in this country. The united states of america have been sexually abused. We have talked about it a lot on this show. It is in the news a lot every week. We get hundreds of letters from women who have lived with this secret for years because the nightmare of sexual abuse continues long after the molesting stops. If you've been abused yourself you may be surprised how it has affected you or you may be one of those women like myself who never even looked at your life to realize how what happened to you as a child has affected you. See if you recognize yourself any of these characteristics of women who have been abused sexually as children. do you have an aversion to sex. Were you sexually promiscuous as a child. Were you more sexually inquisitive as a child and your friends. are you leaning toward homosexuality or bisexuality. Drugs alcohol had. They played a role major role in your life. Are you a perfectionist. You have an inability to function. And you can't seem to get organized. You sometimes have flashbacks of the incident. And can't get it out of your mind and relive it over and over. Did you relive it as a child many times do you have an inability to have relationships. Have you been married many times. Multiple marriages spider woman type. You snare opposite sex only for sex. Are you over protecting your children. All of my audience members today have been sexually abused and some of the stories that you are here of are of a very sensitive nature so you might want to find something else for the children to do or you may if you are an open minded enlightened parents prefer for your children to see the show. I want to read you a letter that we received here on the oprah winfrey show. It is from one of the guests here today. Jamie she says. I've held the secret of incest and it's force within myself for over thirty years and i'm now ready to tell my story. It's a story of incest of sexual abuse. Physical abuse verbal abuse emotional trauma alcoholism. The sad truth is that just because the physical behavior stopped the damage remains. I've carried around my secrets for so long. Now that the secrets have become as big a problem as the actual abuse itself. and so. that's what this show is about. It is about what happens after the abuse jamie. Tell me what happened in your life. I was getting molested. I started getting abused by my brothers. When i was three and it stopped when i was around seven and they let their friends also abused me. I was sort of the like the doll in their life. And then i was getting molested by the man up the street. That was acted as grandfather until i was eleven. I was raped. When i was fifteen and i was pregnant at sixteen and i have two daughters now as a result. None of the rapes. I was married for about eight years. And i'm a recovering alcoholic. Can one of my daughters also recovered now. When you were being abused by the by your brothers did you know it was wrong. Or bad no they. They're my brothers. Were the only people in my family. That were nice to me. They weren't hitting me on one of nine children who's being beaten by both my mother and my father and my brothers they were always just nice to meet and they always were friendly with me and they never. I never thought they were me because they weren't hitting me kind of effect. Do you think it's had on your life those years from three to seven when you were being used by your brothers and to <hes>. Trying to form relationships. I don't have a real good track record with men at all. I've been married twice. And i seem to have a real difficult time in relationships with men in the last couple of years i've begun to form relationships with women because i didn't trust women either by relationships. You mean. Sexual relations friendships ships. I've been isolated. Most of my life and i've overprotected my children. I've i've kind of was the rebel though too. I've been loud and aggressive but so that no one would know what was really going. How do you see that the sexual abuse had any effect on all of these other things that have happened in your life or impact trying to just maintain and go about day to day life. It's for a long time before. I started talking about it. I would wake up in the morning and wonder why had woken up again. Why didn't just die during the night. Because i finally. When i went to therapy. I decided to have myself committed because every time i woke up. I didn't know what would happen during the day. I i held big joe. I had my kids. People thought i was superwoman. People thought i was friendly. One woman even said to me she thought. I never had had a sad day in my entire life. But that's because i was busy keeping the secret and the in. I couldn't let anyone know.