40 Burst results for "Factory"
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
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"Interactive Brokers pays up to 4 .83 % on instantly available USD cash balances in your brokerage account. How much interest can your broker pay? Interactive Brokers' conservative and prudent risk management uniquely positions them to pay up to 4 .83 % on uninvested, instantly available USD cash balances in your brokerage account. The best informed investors choose Interactive Brokers. Rates subject to change. Visit ibkr .com slash interest rates to learn more. Lasting 24 hours a day at Bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg Radio. This is a Bloomberg Money Minute. Honda is trying to crack the U .S. electric vehicle market with a new model and an old strategy. If you can't beat them, join them. Honda is preparing to debut the electric prologue SUV early next year, but Bloomberg reporter Chester Dawson says its Honda identity is mostly skin deep. It'll be made in a GM factory and share many core parts, including the battery, with GM vehicles. Dawson says Honda's main goal in offering the prologue and its upscale cousin, the Acura ZDX, is to keep brand loyalists in the fold. While they are hoping to attract some people from other brands, their main interest is to staunch the outflow and also to give Honda loyalists an opportunity to buy a fully electric vehicle that's made by the company. While these vehicles remain on track, a changing business environment has derailed a more ambitious plan for Honda and GM to jointly develop a line of affordable EVs. That program was canceled late last month. Larry Kofsky, Bloomberg Radio. What is dedication? The thing that drives me every day as a dad is Dariana. We call him Dade for short. Every day he's hungry for something, whether it's attention, affection, knowledge.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "factory" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"Openings continue to fall all the labor department says there were eight point seven million unfilled jobs in october that's six hundred thousand fewer than in september the drop is bigger than expected cell phone pioneer is among stocks losing ground this morning falling to a three -year low after losing a fourteen billion dollar partnership with atn t to rival erickson atn t and erickson partner will on a new five g equipment factory project in texas the dc area is losing its last romano's macaroni grill restaurant but it's getting a replacement the houston business journal says rocky mountain themed lazy dog restaurant is proposing to tear down the kingstown center romanos and build a new restaurant with a big outside patio lazy dog per its name is dog friendly but that was down 156 56 points a half percent loss the smp 500 is down just 40 jeff clabel wtop news this report is sponsored by lows save big every day during lows 25 days of deals shop daily deals for the whole home lows 25 days of deals coming up on wtop a supercharged soft soft drink is being blamed for a man's death and now there's to and verizon you'll save get in the holiday spirit dc verizon has an extra gift for you this season get a 200 get a 200 dollar verizon gift card when you join with one line and get a phone on with us select traded and unlimited ultimate great deals from verizon great deals from verizon there's never been a better time to switch but this offer won't last forever so hurry in switch to the network america relies on get a 200 gift card and a phone on us with select trading and unlimited ultimate visit your local verizon store today 999 99 .99 device payment or full retail purchase with new smartphone line on unlimited ultimate plan required per phone $200 verizon e -gift card with port in per line less one thousand dollar trade in slash promo credit applied over 36 months promo credit ends if requirements eligibility are no longer met zero percent apr so what are you getting for trish i don't know why i really want to make her christmas so do it hi beverly hi guys i heard everything listen to make her christmas have it custom made at dominion jewelers custom oh yes you through they learn who she is what she loves and create
On The Rekord
A highlight from Episode 129 - Oct. 29th, 2023 - Special Guest Lady Lilly The Wise Guys Corner Episode
"I got some popcorn for you. I live the life. I live the life. I'm sorry Listen if you're going to be spontaneous on those days, you usually got me during the week and early mornings. There's nobody there See one of those awkward foreign films You know, it's wild though Usually during those days it's almost like nobody there except for maybe one or two old couples. Yep So it's just a wild thing to be doing Yeah, me and this girl want to see the third anniversary of do the right thing It's like me her and some hasidic person in the crowd A jewish guy I messed up that's two curses Uh, they're in the theater only three of us and we were having fun when the guy was like look at the movie Oh my god, these are racist like shut up And we girl having fun and watching the movie and we're talking mad Having a good time. It was dope. We actually had fun another one for the guy Wait, I didn't curse Did I curse no, no. Yes, you did It's like a sign. Yeah, he did. So we had bad fun. We're talking we're talking ish and we're having fun nice If you're going to be frisky and do hanky panky just make sure it's not a harvey wants to Say wow, let's just say All right, put a tarantino film. We got options out here. Don't be doing a Terrible Not me harvey's terrible terrible. Okay, so that was number six So movies for the first day Because also think when the movies you can't you're not talking So you want to communicate with the person you're with During the day so so so you're not going to be into that level of attraction of her focus Versus her asking a bunch of questions and you miss it on the movie Either way the first day for movies is a bad idea No, no, it is it is it is about myself. Honestly. Yeah, you want to get to know the person exactly I want to get to know you so that was that was six, right? Well, that was seven. That was baby. You know your house. No the movie. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry. It's number five olive garden I Endless pasta is bad Now wallow you what you're hitting I look at it for mom Three tor Italy for 28 dollars best three She don't fancy the garlic bread with the olive oil I watched some girls on tik tok bring the little tub of what exactly For the endless pasta That's hella great for days. Exactly. That's a big bag. It's a great show, sir Like I said before Didn't get to run up the tab What you mean? Yeah, so you can do it right get up right you walk away and say I gotta get the bathroom The classic dine dash there's nothing wrong with olive garden on the first date No, I like the olive garden. I ain't gonna lie. I don't I don't I don't condone dining dashing But if a girl's being difficult, sometimes she worth it. Oh, oh We're at video we saw in atlanta that girl who polished four dozen oysters And then she said then she said I have my money you damn right you have your own money, you know spend it Because you're a poor you're gonna go out like who's a first date You're living in a dream world mom. Stop it. No, that's lasagna. It ain't more seasoning, but she's living in the loo Especially when they have like the uh, the tortellini joint. Oh my god, or the endless pasta joint with the different flavors I don't know. I mixed the match. I love me some tortellini You did good stuff I had to mix it before and then because I knew the person kind of hit the new person over there And besides you get endless salad exactly Now my breadsticks again like and you can take a free set of breadsticks home, too But but it goes back to like, you know, are you are you here for the meal or are you here for the date? I'm here for both, you know and stuff like that. That's why I brought you to the olive garden We're gonna have a good time sit down and have it and show it to ourselves Dude, you know Even if you have a gluten sensitivity You can get gluten -free pasta from them too, sir. Yeah, sir It's too cost -effective. I done told you this. Well, that was it. Guess what? You can stay on star gates I'm, thanks. Ramadan. Ramadan season, you know what i'm saying? Okay, so that was number five number four was chipotle Overrated Hey, don't rate though, but why overrated? Kedobah's better Because chipotle is like restaurant prices. Yeah, but you're paid for take on me in the fake off me Listen the matter times when I was watching bad tv, um, i .e love and hip -hop anytime. Mr Chipotle around since antenna she got happy as hell People like chipotle she's oh we're going to chipotle. I got a friend of mine Who is number three? I think in the region, but chipotle That's how much chipotle this guy buys. Oh my god I'm, like bro. Did they give you like a plaque or something? No, it's number three They should they should give him a plug But no, I as a first date But I do like to put like I feel like you get chipotle after I don't know a walk in the park or when you do extraneous activity or after your gym date, you know You don't just go to chipotle and then leave listen You set the tone on the date where you where you decide to fly her out to monaco And have champagne and things that you can't pronounce and stuff like that Genuinely don't know where you're finding these women and and then and then and then and then by the third day you try to go Say they're like say to go like in and out burger It ain't happening see what you said about finding these women i'm a dj So i've seen all aspects of women that i've come across i've seen the low of low and the highs of highs So that's why I can I can relate with this country because i've seen girls like i'm not going to chipotle in my first day I'm, not going over here. Hell no, he got taken over here. Um Uh, uh Some some like chain restaurant. No not chain Fancy steakhouse new york city. If you want to take me out, you gotta go here Excuse me. Excuse me Listen, does it come with a bj and a little little tug at the end of the night? you know because Okay, what you got to tell them is listen if at any point you wore timbs in your life and they said you got a Rainbows don't tell me where you're not going Don't tell me where you're not going Okay, i'm sorry You ain't got to go nowhere. You can just fast Dude, yeah, that's my accident. So tell me where you're not going. So so that right there. Nah, shoot And I and I don't even excuse this it'd be one thing if you were a silver spoon kid and all you know is Freaking caviar and stuff like that and you and you're just born in a lifestyle where you where you're accustomed to high fine dining It's a whole nother thing Where where you're like a block away from death and you stepped and got a rainbow something where you're not going And you're and you only when you go to your spot your matches on the floor who you talking to mom who are you? Who are you? Remember calling calling for you by drake. She hit on the oxtail. She ate it on the dough to drink chicken She liked it. She got flown out. She's in a nice spot. She complained about good food and she won but meanwhile aubrey's a villain So that so that right there for number four number three is chilies Listen, I had chilies for the first time again in florida And i'm not gonna lie had a good spread of food got some ribs some chicken tenders some elote For those who don't for those who don't know mexican corn with that cojito cheese And you know, it was decently priced food I have no time for these goof troops who got something against the southwest mac and cheese with the jalapeno when it was available I have no time for it Two for 25. That's all you say Three for ten chilies for the first day If you if if you don't have the funds for like to go out something's really nice and you want to really break the ice Let's go to chili and they got good drinks. You don't gotta go. I'll just go on my own have a good time I can't understand why because It gives like a college vibe. It is a college vibe. But here's the thing Most these women are here talking are young like these are young So what are you talking about? My if you don't if you can't afford it Would you get them at me full of a body for you? You know why because they they got flew out one time and they went to a nice place and all of a sudden That's got to roll with the car bowls. Oh my god. Oh my god. I'm at car mines. Yeah Yeah, right here. Yeah, we know it's all over your IG story. We didn't ask for it. Yeah, they just brought it back So that was chilies number number two was applebees. I know this I just I agree. You know, why those dollar dollaritas? Yeah, that's a that's dangerous for a woman. Yeah Them dollaritas are applebees now. Yeah And this I thought you were coming at me personally. I don't know what happened. No, no, no, I burped. I thought that's all it was I burped that's all I said. Excuse me applebees. It's the first date It's like going to chilies. I don't mind it. I have a very special place in my heart for applebees because Not the dollaritas the dollaritas were mid but they have good drinks nonetheless And they have not better than fridays, but we're actually I don't know anymore I haven't that's fridays back in the day Coming up. What's this ish? You remember back in the day how fridays was oh, it was lit. It was litty man I actually haven't been to friday I'm happy friendlies. It doesn't exist in the capacity. It was because the gloves is gonna the gloves is gonna come off It's a fast food chain. Remember, you know, that's what it is. I see I see one before last week What I see the friendlies last week Well, the one that suffered is now panera, but yeah, no, I mean actual friendly. No, no, we was in New jersey Listen I still enjoy my strawberry shake. I still enjoy that strawberry You know, I I love friendly. Listen. Listen, you could be a bad whatever you want. You know, you don't have to go I know I know i'll be there, you know, to be honest with you. No, no, you'll be friendly yourself You know, i'll enjoy the waffle fries. I'll I'll enjoy the chicken So that so that was that was number two Now the last one on the list, which is number one was cheesecake. Hey, you got to play child play You got to talk about this game. You want to stand down? Why why you gotta argue with me and cheesecake bro? Yeah Where they bring families? I dude was chatting. He's speaking. He's speaking to the field. Let me tell you something ladies and gentlemen out there Okay Oh, there's nothing wrong with cheesecake absolutely not there's a variety list of menus The menus is about the size of an nfl place There's so many selections you can go with listen man somebody scaliwags, you know some avocado toast to the face that's the problem you can't get No, no, no, no they need it to the face But there's a lot even if you don't want cheesecake the next step up from crete from cheesecake is grand luxe exactly They also have prosecco there. I know So they also have good drinks. Yes Yeah, so what are we what are we getting at here? Don't worry. You can get moscato over there, too You know, is it because it's a chain? That's where you feel like that. Oh my god And the cheesecakes are huge. So what what are we doing here? Listen speaking for myself and myself only I was denied Cheesecake factory cheesecake as a child for the longest. Oh So now as an adult I you indulge I oh my god, if if if a man were to ever tell me he's taking me to cheesecake factory, that's a wrap He's getting it plain and simple. Listen, hey there Billy will the person I I I ain't got time for I got some I ain't got time for negative man Somebody turn it red I ain't got time for negative man sees Breathe Debbie downers with me you turn it red. I've never seen you turn it. Yeah, this brother's thirsty Yeah, there's something going on here I don't know about but you know a lot of inside jokes going on right now Get you some cheesecake my guy There's so many different options man, they got some really good cheesecake NFL there playbook are so many selections to pick from what are you talking about? Do you like cheesecake? Even if you do not like cheesecake they have other options for desserts Sure, like there's just there's just happiness happiness happiness. I mean, you know, I mean, it's it's like it's like some women Who are not happy when a guy comes back because he had a good time. That's all it is That's all it is, man So cheesecake to me that that one that you're delusional ma Of course delusional. Yeah, exactly. Ain't no reason why people want to talk about cheesecake about of them Not wanting to go to cheesecake because no why it's not exclusive They can't put it on the ig stories. Oh, we're the cheesecake girl and flex on the other people These type of women that made this list are girls that want to flex on the gram They're the same women that agree with with surely I was whining about trying to go cheesecake. They're like, yeah They're the same type of girls. I'll go to cheesecake. Don't listen to him. Yeah, you know, he got he got No, no, I'm walking. She was she was she was late It messed up the reservation. No, it's taking zero accountability and it's not so dude said f and we're going home Like oh, well, no, no, no, no, no, you're good. You're good. You're trying to shame on camera. You're good You're going home. We're gonna see what the update was next week because I want to hear about the same people, right? They were they were traveling right? But soon to get back home. They have zero dollars in their bank account They're the same exact people. They're like, oh, man, I would travel this there and there and guess what? Damn, bro 25 cents Listen, then the red zone not gonna lead quarterback sometimes But they gotta think out loud and just So cheesecake now, I don't know what you're talking about man. I like cheesecake leave my cheesecake Why we gotta fight for cheesecake great said it Thanks good old -fashioned oreo cheesecake. Let's talk like, you know, dude A question now, let me ask you a question. Yeah Which cheesecake is better juniors or cheetah factory, you know That's a great question because I don't know about juniors anymore, man, because I feel like it's losing its edge Wait, what what were the two juniors juniors or cheesecake factory cheesecake? Okay. I recently had juniors This year you never had juniors because I can't talk on it a friend of mine invited to eat at juniors And so I had their cheesecake because i've never been there as a new yorker Never been there, but that was my first time having it. It's very good. I have not had cheesecake cheesecake in a very long time so Based on my recent knowledge I would have to say Juniors because of the softer filling because I feel like sometimes Cheesecake cheesecake tends to be a little firmer Not necessarily hard but firmer But I do like both I will eat both i've given to me I prefer the cheesecakes cheesecake I mean they have like 10 ,000 different flavors. That's what i'm saying. They have 10 ,000 different flavors You can't go wrong with juniors You know, it's like if we're talking classic cheesecake, that's my answer But since cheesecake has like I love their oreo cheesecake their oreo cheesecake All right, yeah about that time Said he said give him your hand on my boy city 55 my private page city POV my public page and tik tok hasheem eight four five Is my name? There you goes guys. You can now send him to at least one now Give me the tik tok in the social media. I'm gonna slap you with my okay Emperor key man. Give me your hand, bro. Uh emperor key Yeah emperor key you say he wasn't gonna do it, right? I'm good out here I'm good. I'm good out here I am won't man. Give me your handle, bro. Oh, man. Um, I am underscore W -a -l -4t is at the end. Uh -huh. Oh what else my rmb is dead page And my alt is the motion page Okay I am at oh, sorry, uh lady lily Uh, you don't have to you don't want to I don't i'll come back when I want to. Okay, there you go Follow me at dj intense. That's dj I -n -t -e -n -c -e Follow the podcast pager on the record pod. Follow my business page on the record Uh, this is another lovely episode quite long. But hey, man, that's what it is, man. It's good times here good energy Have fun you think you want to split this in two episodes or no? Okay, no i'm saying like two separate ones we have the stories of one half and then we have this the second year So keep it Keep it here. I'll make a special one that has just this one. All right, y 'all see you guys next week And happy halloween be safe out there. Please. No drinking and driving um, it's not fun being inside the uh, the jail The holding room for two days remember waiting for the judge to come back on monday take printed candy. You had a knife in it It would be delicious Yeah, and avoid the stranger's house. That's that's willingly running outside giving you candy Because you know kids don't trick or treat this year. There's gonna be that one guy like come on Take my candy, man. I bought 55 pounds of this stuff I'll trick or treat and i'm grown Here you get the white stuff. Here's a white powder. Trust me. It's good for your nose. Okay. See you guys next week. Bye You all crazy Don't don't listen to emperor key it's nonsense What good night y 'all yeah, we're gonna split in two episodes. See you later.
Stephanie Miller
Fresh "Factory" from Stephanie Miller
"Hundred dollars or so. And you had to change the name on the marquee too at Yuck Yucks. No, no, no. That was Left Factory. I graduated from a much more prestigious job answering the phone at Left Factory. So when someone also changing So when someone died, you had to put up their name and say, make God laugh. Yes. OK. We couldn't afford a marquee in Buffalo. There was no marquee on Yuck Yucks. That was just OK to be out there in the freezing cold in Buffalo. Just, you know, the marquee would be covered by snow anyway. Fliers are. Yeah, exactly. That would be the point. Anyway, my point is, there are several very suspicious payments to my mom. Should I not pay the bank back for my mortgage? We fund her for the money she loaned me for the Chevy Sprint. Thank you very much. OK. And that concludes my story, my story about for the payments stuff, a car loan. OK. Did I leave anything out of that? I don't think so. Oh, you know why I was able to do it, Chris? I forgot that because, as you recall, I lived above the pizza parlor. And You did. my rent was $125 a month. And the only reason it was warm was because the pizza oven kept
DerrickTalk
A highlight from "RIP To The Original Shaft,Richard Roundtree ....What's Wrong With Cheesecake Factory?
"Welcome to Convo Over Cigars. I'm your host, Derrick Andre Flemming. Took us a small break there, guys, but we are back in full effect. It is Saturday, and let's talk about the death of a guy by the name of Richard Roundtree. Now, rest in peace to Richard Roundtree, who is best known for his signature role in the Shaft movie franchise. Roundtree died on October the 24th at the age of 81 after a brief battle with pancreatic cancer. Now, sources report that his family was at his bedside when he passed away. We're talking about a man whose career spanned five decades and was touted as being the first black action hero, Richard Roundtree. Now, Samuel L. Jackson and others paid tribute to the late actor. Samuel said, his death leaves a deep hole not only in my heart, but I'm sure in a lot of y 'all's hearts too. Roundtree also played a slave by the name of Sam Bennett in the acclaimed 1977 miniseries, Roots.
Stephanie Miller
Fresh update on "factory" discussed on Stephanie Miller
"Don't think anyone hardly ever. I mean, I had to sell like credit card add ons like vacation clubs. Oh, OK. Yeah, yeah. OK, so anyway, my mom was sweet enough to buy me Sprint, whatever. So I worked and I was so proud I was working at the box office at Yuck Yucks. Hello, Yuck Yucks. Can I help you? I don't know, four, four bucks an hour, which is big for me. It was more than I made, you know, selling pens. Yeah. Anyway, but I paid my mom back in like a few months working at at the box office at Yuck Yucks. And I was so proud of that. So there are several payments. I'm going to say thirteen hundred dollars or so. And you had to change the name on the marquee too at Yuck Yucks. No, no, no. That was Left Factory. I graduated from a much more prestigious job answering the phone at Left
What a Weird Week
A highlight from What a Weird Week Halloween Special 2023: Weird-o-ween! Fri Oct 27, 2023
"It's the What A Weird Week Show Halloween Special, 2023. Hi, everybody. It's Weird. This is Life Trend News, here on Weirdly. Weird. Damn. Well, we got a great show for you next week, so welcome to The Weird Stuff. Hi, friends. I'm Scott. Welcome to our What A Weird Week Halloween Special. Usually, we have a top 10 countdown of weird news. This episode is all weird Halloween. For show notes, go to shownotes .page. shownotes .page. And now, it's time to get hollow weird. Season four, episode 57, first published on Friday, October 27th, 2023. Kicking things off at number 10, a quick check in on our last year headline about Halloween costumes that would be popular in the year 2022 from WSYR Television. Last year, the number one costume, according to WSYR, was Max from Stranger Things. Also in there was Elvis and House of the Dragon. I don't know how that worked out where you were at, but at my work, nobody dressed like any of those. It was all Yellowstone and dollar store horns people. I'm an ambiguous creature with dollar store horns. A lot of that. For 2023, according to Google Frightgeist, the top three costumes, Barbie, Princess, Spider -Man. Some classics. Nine. Number nine is some stats that I dug up for Paranormal Day. Oh, dug up. I didn't even mean that one. Anyway, these stats, still spooky at Halloween. Paranormal Day by the numbers, 83 % of people surveyed said they had some kind of paranormal activity in their home. 83%, that seems rather high. Hearing sounds or voices is the number one most common paranormal activity. And lights turning on and off is up there as well. One in 10 people say they sold their home after a paranormal experience. Here's some good news. Split level homeowners. Your home is far less likely to be haunted. Based on reports of hauntings, according to this article, split level homes, not as frequently haunted. Something to consider if you're in the market. This is what a weird week. Okay, before we go any further, we want to welcome a new sponsor to the program. Now this message. Yes, who is it? Special delivery. Special delivery? Why, that's one of the best kinds of delivery. I wonder what it could be. Oh, it's a lovely pumpkin. Oh, there's a message carved into it. Why, it's a Halloween pumpkin. Let's see, what's it say? Dear Larry, we are over. Last night was a horrible mistake. Oh, there's more. I hope we never see each other again. But if we do, I will be carrying a sock full of butter, which I will swing at your kneecaps. Signed, Sharon. Oh, it's from Sharon. Scotty and Tony brand dumpkins. A fun Halloween pumpkin that also tells that certain someone it's over. They are dumped. That this pumpkin is the only one who will be around to listen to your nose whistle from now on, Larry. Hasta luego from Scotty and Tony brand dumpkins. Available in orange, white, and new for this season, smelly. Welcome back. This is the what a weird week show Halloween special. For number eight, we're going to take a quick, careful, cautious look at Ouija boards. I feel those things terrify me and I feel like you should steer clear of those things. The legend of how it got its name. According to the legend, one of the investors said to the Ouija board, what's your name? And it's spelled out Ouija. Legend. Another legend, when they went to get it registered at the patent office, they had to show the patent office guy how it worked and they used it to spell out his name. Again, legend. Although portions of that are confirmed. We have a link in the show notes. They did have to do a demonstration for the patent office. The things sold like crazy. They had to open more factories to produce Ouija boards. In 1927, one of the guys running the company fell to his death tragically from the roof of a new factory. One that he claimed a Ouija board told him to build. Sometimes the actual stories behind the legends just as freaky. Number seven, some tips on candy hangovers. If you end up with a candy hangover the day after Halloween, consider eating pineapple. When you link to an article, here's a quote. The tropical fruit contains enzymes that aid digestion and break down proteins that usually cause bloat. Also contains 180 milligrams of bloat -busting potassium per cup. Researchers have also found that pineapple can reduce colonic inflammation that may be leading to that distended stomach. It sort of ended a little bit, to me, a little gross with the distended stomach. But we put the link and it does seem to be a good tip. If you're going to have a candy hangover. Thanks for checking out the What A Weird Week show. This is our Halloween special. For more, see show notes dot page six. Number six. First, a look back to 2022. The most popular pet Halloween costumes for last year, according to Canine Journal. Ghost, spider, lion, witch, bumblebee, bat, hot dog and pumpkin. Number one, last year, Canine Journal has updated the article. Let's run down the list here. Oh, and from the National Retail Federation, pet costume sales projected to be 700 million dollars this year. Now, spoiler alert, but pumpkin and hot dog continue to rule the list of favorite dog costumes. Here's there's not a lot of change for 2023 pet costumes. Witch, ghost, lion, cat, devil, spider, bumblebee, bat, hot dog, pumpkin. So really, you got witch, you got cat. They moved up the list a little, but there's not much change other than that. I do like the irony of dressing your dog as a cat if the dog's OK with it. It's hilarious, but not a lot of variety for our family pets. Number five is an update to a story we had in June when we talked about the Ohio lady who made the news for refusing to remove a nine foot tall werewolf statue. Mary Simmons says Phil the werewolf has sort of become a mascot in her yard. Went up as a Halloween decoration, but after October was over, she started to really enjoy having Phil up as a year round decoration. Mary began to dress Phil for different seasons. Somebody complained and the city sent Mary a warning, but then the city said they're not going to follow up or enforce the werewolf removal. So at that time, back in June, on this very show, sounded like Mary won the neighborhood werewolf fight. Ready for the update? Just last week, Mary dressed up Phil as Phantom of the Opera. Phantom Phil of the werewolf opera. Sounds a little bit like a Tim Burton movie. Stop motion animation Tim Burton project. If you happen to have his home number. Welcome back to weirdo ween the what a weird week show Halloween special for show notes. Go to show notes. Page four. Number four is an update to a story that we just had a little bit ago, but a fantastic Halloween ish story. When that Chucky doll was placed in handcuffs, arrested, and booked for crimes in Mexico. At the time, I wholeheartedly supported this move because I mean, you watch those Chucky movies. One thing you learn is you cannot trust evil Chucky. In case you missed it, here's the story. The episode is still online if you want to listen to it, but essentially there was a series of attempted robberies in Mexico and authorities traced the crime back to a couple of suspects. One was a Chucky doll and the other was the owner of the Chucky doll. Witness reports seem to indicate the human suspect got arrested after making Chucky hold a large knife to scare people into handing over their money. Suspect was believed to have been high at the time. Here's the update. It's not a lot of a follow up to it. Still some unanswered questions. Human suspect released whereabouts of the doll unknown. What? That's how it all starts you guys. Every Chucky movie. I mean, they had him in custody. They had Chucky locked up. And now they don't know Chucky's whereabouts? This is bad. Number three is another update. A little while ago, we sent out congratulations to Steve from Missouri who broke the Guinness World Record for longest journey by pumpkin boat. So, fitting to have this in our Halloween episode, isn't it? Pumpkins, Halloween, you should try it. They go good together. It took almost 11 hours to paddle his 1 ,200 pound pumpkin 38 miles on the shark infested Missouri River. At the time, I wrote citation needed in the show notes. We weren't sure if the river was shark infested. Well, the update to this story, it turns out the Missouri River is not shark infested. Home to thousands of piranha though.
CRYPTO 101
Fresh update on "factory" discussed on CRYPTO 101
"Before we let you go, I'm just curious, out of some of the other folks that are building in this space, you run into a lot of them. I'm just curious who, maybe outside of anybody who works at Axlars, who's impressive to you? What are some top-notch builders that you look up to? Maybe they started a project or a company or hell, maybe they're not even in crypto, but maybe there's somebody who inspired you to do what you do. That is the toughest question you've asked me all day, Bryce. There are so many talented builders in the crypto space. I mean, honestly, one of my favorite parts about my job is it's just such a privilege to be able to work closely with so many talented and ambitious builders. So it's really hard for me to say, but if I were to think, I'm trying to think by categories. I'd say when it comes to different blockchains, we think the ZKSync team is doing some really amazing things on the Cosmos side. We actually really love the Barretain guys and we really love what Celestia is building. Within DeFi, I already mentioned earlier, we're really excited about some of those perps players. One of the categories I think people aren't talking about is a lot of our cross-chain builders who are building these true natively cross-chain projects, such as SquidRouter and Prime Protocol. It's so hard to say. There's so many amazing people in the space. That's a good list. And yeah, I'm really excited to see what all those folks are building. And then lastly, just address a new crypto trader or address a new somebody who's just a new entrant into the space, maybe just learning. What would you say to them? You're a crypto veteran. Somebody who might be listening is maybe just starting to dabble. They might feel overwhelmed. They might feel lost. They might feel like, wow, where do I start? What would you tell them? I would say ignore the noise. Stick to the fundamentals. Don't look at all the marketing and all the hype that the project or people are doing. Try the product yourself. See how you like the product. Is it easy to use? Does it solve a problem? Does it make sense? And who else is actually using the product? And I think at the end of the day, these are the things that really matter. And maybe it doesn't show in the long run. But fundamentals always catch up to price action in order to reality. I think a lot of times people in crypto are just looking... They're placing too much forgotten. And it's actually like the stuff underneath the building, the efforts that dictate price in the future. People, if you're just staring at price, if you're just stuck looking at price, you're actually going to... It might be behind the eight ball. 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Bitcoin Audible
A highlight from Read_773 - A Solution to Scaling Lightning
"John Law's Timeout Trees is a very concrete and specific proposal for a channel factory design that actually attempts to address the real issues of use and implementation instead of a half -defined and vague concept. That is a massive progress in terms of addressing Lightning's long -term scaling limitations. The best in Bitcoin made audible. I am Guy Swan, and this is Bitcoin Audible. What is up guys, welcome back to Bitcoin Audible. I am Guy Swan, the guy who has read more about Bitcoin than anybody else you know. We have got a fascinating read today. We are actually right back in with Shinobi on Bitcoin Magazine because there is a fascinating new proposal, which is actually a pretty simple proposal that uses covenants, that uses CTVs to essentially create another scaling potential, to create another order of magnitude scaling for the Lightning Network. So how do you scale Lightning Network LSPs so that you knock a zero off the on -chain footprint, even for LSPs and all of the subsequent users for LSPs? It is a really fascinating and really simple design created by John Law. Shinobi breaks it down in this article and then we will talk about it. I will try to give my analogies and try to make sense of it afterward if there is any confusion. And I really want to talk about the kind of dynamic, like how this changes the social power hierarchy, so to speak, when it comes to providing services and scaling ownership of the Bitcoin system. Now I also will have an episode, this intro is being done well after the episode and Guy's Take were recorded. So I don't have, the recent Lightning bug has not actually occurred yet, so I am going to be doing a deep dive on that probably next episode. But very soon, regardless, I'm going through a lot of different material and the proposed solutions and all of these things. And what's funny is it's not, I mean, it is a bug. It's more of an exploit. It's not like a off by one, like somebody screwed up the code bug. It's more of a, how is the system designed such that you enforce the rightful owner in HTLC. And that's why it seemed pretty scary at first and kind of is pretty scary because it's kind of fundamental to the way we secure ownership or we enforce who the rightful owner is in a payment that is routed through the Lightning network. But it's actually a really fascinating thing and it informs a lot about how the mempool works and why mempool policy is actually really important. So we will dig into it. Like I said, I have a lot of links and stuff that I've collected on it, and we will be covering it in the next couple of episodes. However, we won't be covering it today because all of this stuff was recorded before that happened. But this episode is a really, really cool article about a Lightning scaling solution. And also I will mention this again at the end, but I, anybody who knows me knows that or listen to the show for a minute and a half knows that I am an avid reader. And so I'm going to start recommending, in fact, I did this for a while and I just kind of forgot about it. I guess there wasn't really an incentive to do so if I wasn't particularly on the topic of recommending books and the things that I read and the stuff that I find like super, super valuable. And I hope to get my Bitcoiners required reading list back online. But there's a really cool service, which I'll talk about again at the very end of the episode called Prodcast. It's prodcast .io.
Bloomberg Businessweek
Fresh update on "factory" discussed on Bloomberg Businessweek
"Of all things super uber cool is actually advanced and he writes all about it in the company and the person some money. I'm David Palmer Luckey, the co -founder of Andoril, who you may remember from a little thing called Oculus a few years ago that sold to Facebook. is book this story. It's online at Bloomberg dot com slash business week and on the Bloomberg terminal with us. We got Mark million Bloomberg News technology editor and also the editor of Bloomberg Business Week, Joel Webber, both here in our Bloomberg Interactive Brokers Studio. This is really cool. A behind the scenes look at Andoril, a closely held venture capital backed company that's competing with the likes of Raytheon, Joel. Yeah, and the company had been you're right into Oculus and developed Oculus, which now meta Facebook acquired. And ever since then, it has been more interested in doing military applications. and this roadrunner, which it announced on on Friday and actually had an exclusive look at it Attempts to solve a big problem for the U .S. military. Mark, what is that problem? The problem is drones. And so in particular, in Iraq and Syria, The militants there have been able to import these consumer drones, like the kinds that you buy for the holidays for your kids, they take them apart, they attach bombs to them, and are they able to assemble so many so cheaply that it's become a huge threat to American forces. I mean, these are the drones that are essentially being used by Ukrainian forces to bomb Russian forces at really a low cost. And right back at Ukraine, too, from Russia. Yeah, they're taping bombs to them. Yeah, So that's an example of an ally using it as a cheap way to kind of protect themselves in war, but it's also a huge threat to American troops. And so they've been working on ways to not just be able to take out individual drones, but when forces create, you what they call these swarm assaults, where there's like a bunch of them all coming at once. You need new technology to take it out. So this is one answer to that. It's, as you said, like almost a miniaturized fighter jet looking thing that just goes in and throws a missile at these like swarms of drones, tries to take them all out, and then it can go back and it can land and they can load their missile onto it and send it back up. So how much do we think this technology is actually going to cost? Because obviously cost the is the thing here. You weaponize a drone, which I can do some holiday shopping and acquire many drones. I'm not going to touch the bomb part, but I can get the drones and I get what we're for going for here because ultimately it's like how can the US military bring the cost down with something that could be feasible. So what kind of budget do I need to acquire many of these roadrunners? So traditionally the US military was using Patriot missiles, just like kind of the default option. can Those run like four million dollars a missile. Anduril says that they can make these things, these roadrunners for in the low six figures. So, you know, 100 ,000, 200 ,000 per unit. So if they can pull it off, and to be clear, it's an unproven company, startups, it's not Raytheon. So there's doubts about whether they can pull it off. But if they can, the US could save a lot of money. And it's all right. So so far, so good in terms of how effective it is in terms of trials and testing. Yeah, it's very early. It's a brand new product, but they say the US has ordered a bunch of them, and they expect them to be in the field next year. So who else is attempting to come up with solutions in this space? Because this is a huge problem. Like, I mean, US forces around the world just basically, you know, you with not that much technology, it becomes a serious problem. And like, you know, Anduril can't be the only one looking for looking at this space provide to potential solutions. And I have to say reading the story, this is what to me I said, okay, this is modern going warfare. forward. This is So war you really need to have something to counter it. Yeah, so the major defense contractors offer options that the US uses. Again, I mentioned the Patriot missile is kind of the default. It's tested and, and they know it works. But Anduril is taking this bet they that can kind of break into this market with a very different option. Ashley makes this point a couple times in the story that even though this thing, the Roadrunner, has been unveiled, it hasn't yet been manufactured at scale. And if there's one thing that we've learned from Tesla's troubles over the last six years or so, manufacturing one or ten of something isn't as difficult as manufacturing a number doing this stuff at scale. What did the experts Ashley spoke to about scaling this in terms of challenges here? Yeah, you're right. It's hard. And it's also not a traditional consumer electronic where you can use factories in China to build it. Yeah, Joel, you can't buy one of these for the holidays for your family. I'll try still and see how far I get. There's always the dark web. That's true. philosophy The inside this company has been to try to do everything themselves. And so they're building their own factory capabilities, their own factory lines to try to be able to build the whole thing and do it in America, which is kind of what the US government would like to see. What's really kind of cool too is they're not, this is one thing and hopefully if they get running, it up and this is one thing, but they plan to take this technology and spread it across other products, right? Yeah. Yeah. So Andoril already has a bunch of different products that they sell to US allies. and They do century towers, sort of like a virtual border wall that the US, their border control has purchased. But yeah, they've said that they've spent these years developing all this new technology and they think that it will, haven't they gone into specifics, but they think some of it will be useful to some of the other products that they're working on. Okay. So something about this name strikes me as being a little cheeky road editor. What is that a reference to? Yeah. So Raytheon has a product called Coyote. it's So Looney Tunes reference. Raytheon being a competitor of... Exactly. So they're trying to stick it to their much bigger rival. What is the, other than, you know, just trying to get the Roadrunner again and again and again and again, and never quite being able to, in the real world, what is the Coyote made by Raytheon do? It's sort another of like autonomous defense system, that the main innovation that Anderal is talking up with this new product is that it's reusable. It can land. like, various companies, including Andoril, have built counter drone products that can go and blow up a single drone that's flying around. So the main targets The main here are swarms of drones and being able to reuse them so that it's, you're not having buy to a new one every single time you take out. My understanding too is it's just one person that's needed to kind of actually run it, right, or operate it rather than multiples. That's part of the pitch. Yeah. Yeah, it remains to be seen. But yeah, they part, you know, Andoril builds this kind of like software system that they call lattice where you can hook in all sorts of different defense products. And they're saying, you know, this will work with that, that you can have them all kind of communicate wirelessly so you can see where all of your different road runners are. It kind of sounds like the Ring camera system from Amazon, but for, you know, you just add, you know, you add the border wall to it. I'll take a couple of these. Drag and drop into your car. Yeah, I'll take a couple, you know, road runners, throw them in. Well, the thing, bigger an opportunity here is obviously the defense budget gigantic and being able to crack it even with something that, you know, may only cost into six figures, but around the world at scale, can if you manufacture it there, that's huge. But, you know, the bigger challenge here does seem like the military US being geared for different wars than we've ever seen and I think, you know, what we witnessed in Iraq earlier in the war was that the US military was basically ill -equipped to fight a certain type of war and, you know, when obviously Ashley has spent a lot of time in this space, but like there seems to be a new kind of war that the US may not be ready for we're and getting glimpses of it. What else is Andorol maybe developing that could help down the line? Do we have any sense of what this could look like?
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from When Will Bitcoin EXPLODE Next Year?
"There are a lot of things that are going to come to the head that I think is going to accelerate Bitcoin to all -time highs, past all -time highs. I think we'll go for the... As transparent as Bitcoin looked, it made me skeptical, right? I think I got in about $87, $89 of Bitcoin. This is why we still say it so early. The cat is out the bag. It's going to be one of these coins. There were signs to tell you Mt. Gox was going down. Where do you see the market going between now and July next year? What's up everybody? Good morning, good afternoon, good night. Wherever you're tuned in from, welcome to BitLab Academy. We're going to be diving into a conversation with a friend of mine in the space. I've been watching him for a long time. Mr. Crypto Blood himself. How are you doing? How are you feeling? How the hell did you get here to Atlanta? What are you doing here? I just kind of stumbled upon this great city that you guys have. Great traffic. Primo. Love it, love it. But it's been fun, man. The tour, you guys got like 32 ,000 square feet of space. It's insane. I didn't think it was going to be like this. Content factory. We were happy to have people like you here, different creators. For those of you that don't know Crypto Blood, he's one of the people among the first few content creators that I started following and watching in the space years ago. You've been doing this since 2017. You're among the first. I guess. I don't know. There's only a handful of people. I guess they're only. So you're right. When I got in, I was looking at Andreas Autonopoulos for a lot of info. I got into, started the channel because I wanted to just express my happiness that I finally got my dad into crypto. I've been begging him for about three years. Almost as long as I have been in it at that point. So like in 2014, after playing with it, getting an understanding of what's going on. I'm like, dad, I was telling everyone, actually, my peers and my guys, I smoked cigars with and that's back when everybody still thought we were crazy. We're talking about it. It wasn't until post 16, 17, 17 for, for about six months. And then the market crashed. And then it was, you're crazy again. And it took, it took all the way until around March after March, 2020. You're right. Until it started being okay to talk about without looking at you cross -eyed. Look on CNBC every day. Cause I always watch CNBC in the morning, trashing it Bitcoin back in 2013, 14, 15, 16. It was a kind of toggle. Yeah, it was good. Then they'll switch, you know, the Jim Cramer, you know, go back and forth, flip -flop and then as a, you know, you get into 17 now the narrative is changing. But in the early days, man, it was just, I would just shake my head. Cause I knew this technology was game changing. And so, yeah, I started the channel just as a first upload, just excited telling everyone I was going to tell my dad or show him, I should say how to set up this crypto. That's an exciting story. I think for each one of us, as we go through our own journey, we all in different aspects of our life have that aha moment ourselves. Yep. We feel a little bit crazy, but we stick with it long enough. If we do stick with it long enough, we achieve either some sort of success or some sort of comfort in the knowledge that we do have really seeing it broadcast out into the future and forecasting what can happen and then being able to share with somebody else. So before we go any further, I just want to let everybody out there. Know one, we appreciate you being here and I'm happy that you're here with us. Make sure you hit that like button, hit the subscribe button, drive the crypto engagement out because it doesn't just help this channel. It helps crypto blood channel helps. It helps crypto in general. So I wanted to ask you, because you've been in, you've been in a little bit longer than I have. And for anybody out there, whether they've been in a week, a month, a year. Just curious, we're going to be going through a little bit like what your origin story was getting into crypto and then a couple of the key lessons you learned along the way. So how about we just start that? What brought you to crypto and why did you stay, especially early on when it was such a questionable thing? What gave you that? For people to understand, like my background, I come from a technical background. I went to school for software engineering. A lot of people may not know that. Like I know how to program and things. And also I've always been into trading finance. I told you earlier, Forex is something I've been into very deeply for many years. So when I saw the concept on zero hedge, I immediately, literally, Kelly, I went that night. It was one o 'clock in the morning, got out the bed, went up to CVS.
The Podcast On Podcasting
A highlight from Ep395: End Your Content Creation Struggles With These 4 AI Tools - Dino Cattaneo
"These tools are a lot more powerful, and as a matter of fact, a lot of the podcasting tools actually connect into the chat GPT engine to spit out the results. Most hosts never achieve the results they hoped for. They're falling short on listenership and monetization, meaning their message isn't being heard and their show ends up costing them money. This podcast was created to help you grow your listenership and make money while you're at it. Get ready to take notes. Here's your host, Adam Adams. What's up, podcaster? It's your host, Adam Adams. And about 70 -ish episodes ago, you guys had a really cool guy come on the podcast and you probably learned a lot from him. It's Dino Cattaneo, who was episode 331, basically talking about that your show needs to have goals and why does your show need to have goals? How do you track those? How do you track progress? We talked a little bit about that in episode 331. The link will be in the show notes. And guess what? There are some other links that are going to be in the show notes as well because today we're talking about AI, artificial intelligence. And Dino and I have been friends and connected for a while. He was a client for a short time as well, like a year and a half. I met him a couple of years ago at a conference and now we're hanging out again at this most recent conference. And while there, he was inspired by AI. And so there was a few different companies that were there. And I think he's also looked into other companies as well. And so what he's trying to figure out is how do we make our podcast easier? How do we make it more efficient? How do we make it just happen? And so he looked at Cap Show, podium, chat GBT and Memento. So all four of those links will be in the show notes as well. We're going to be talking about them now. Go back to episode 331 to learn more about Dino and which goals you need to have for your podcast, how to track it and why. And today we're talking about AI. Dino, how are you, my friend? I'm good, Adam. It's so good to see you. Very excited. We got to spend a lot of time together in Denver at the conference and it was very cool to be able to reconnect after two years and after all the work that we've done together. And yeah, so AI has been at the forefront for me in the past few months as it is for many podcasters and creative people. I think the world overall got a huge wake up of the course of the past year. It came into our life in a way that is maybe a little different. My wife is a songwriter and a songwriting professor. She taught for 20 years at Berklee College of Music. She left Berklee to fully dedicate her career to just the songwriting part, if you will, but is also teaching DevAster to stay to teach one of the online classes. And this class is a broader class on creative writing and they have assignments every week and they're writing assignments. And keep in mind, these are students who spend not a little amount of money to take a creative class to become better writers. And at some point, one of the students emailed my wife and told her that they felt that somebody else in the class was using chat GPT for the assignments. And it felt like a big betrayal in some ways. It felt like silly, if you will, on the part of somebody who's making that huge investment to become a better writer and then they're not really doing the work, which is how you become a writer. But it also sparked a big conversation for me, her and some of her songwriters and friends around what is an ethical use of AI, you know, as a creator. And on the other side, aside from being a podcaster and an executive coach, I'm a partner in a marketing agency and that's a conversation that we're having internally. What role is AI going to play for us? What is fair and what is not fair? What is the baseline that AI needs to set up for you if you're in the creativity business? And it turns out that this year, the conference had a really big series of tracks around AI. And I want to give another shout out, I think, to Culture & Code who was present at the conference and did a fabulous session the day before the conference started around the use of AI. Culture & Code also has a newsletter that talks about the use of AI and creativity. They're very sophisticated and they're one of the places where I go to learn myself. So if you're interested, it's cultureandcode, spelled U -R -E -A -N -D -C -O -D -E .io. And they have a thesis that John, who is the main person, used this parallel that really resonated with me. And he said that when people invented the camera and movies, they didn't invent them to just go do the theater and film a play, right? The fact that they had this new medium generated a whole series of additional creative uses where there was like the different angle cuts using special effects, et cetera. And his underlying theory, which I subscribe to to a certain extent, is that AI will do the same for creativity. We will get to a point where AI will be a tool that we use and will generate new level of creativity. There's other, I think, bigger issues because the reality is that AI eliminates a lot of the manual labor that goes into creative work. And there's certainly uses, if I think about my other world, which is the marketing world, if you think about when you're writing really tactical copy for acquisition creative, get an offer of 5%, get an offer of 10%. And you're testing it. And that, by the way, there was in that world, the using of data and simulated AI, even though it's not real AI, the use of data driven automation to optimize, to swap taxes already in place. But that's definitely a consideration. And someone else recently wrote about this is Rand Fishkin, founder of SparkToro, maybe known to your listeners more as one of the top four or five authority on SEO from the mid -2000s to now when he was working with Moz. And he said that basically what AI will do is replace the work of sort of the content factories that are just spitting out trite copy based on mechanical SEO rules. But what will never be replaced by AI is like the genuine great writing. So I came to the conference and I'm coming to you and your listeners, not as an expert, but as somebody who is smack in the middle of that journey, is trying to figure it out for himself, for a number of people that he works with. And I'm very happy to talk about the things that I discovered along the way. So let's do that. You looked into CapShow, Podium, Chad GPT and Memento. Well, my experimentation with AI started out probably a few months ago with Chad GPT. And Chad GPT has a free version, which is an older model. And then it has the paid version, which is the latest model. And they just announced an enterprise version. And then I also experimented just for fun for myself with MidJourney, which is an image generator. And so one thing I may butcher this, but one thing that made really clear what AI is to me and so that people can understand the term artificial intelligence in terms of what the technologies right now may be a little misleading, like AI is basically the of processing enormous amount of data, the finding relationships between these data, calculating probabilities. And so basically, if you think about you ask a question to AI, you give it a task. AI goes through all this data and sees what are the closest possible relationships and then spits out an answer. So I had that experience. I came to the conference. I tested CapShow because of Harry Duran from Fullcast, who told me he was using that. And actually, the second tool that I tried, which is Spodum, and I'll have some examples from them here. They were next to your booth. Oh, OK. Yeah, right next to me. Right next to you. And they were making the book. And so I tried that. There's another tool and I will have the name or I will send you the link before the episode if I don't manage to get the tool during the episode. That is a video tool. The reality overall is that this year AI is exploding and we're in a really, really early phase. And so you can go on Google and say text AI tools or best AI tools and you'll find a lot of tools. And one of the advantages of being in the phase right now is that everybody will have free trials. And so you can try the different tools and look at AI for podcasters, try the different tools and see what works for you. And in some ways, if you remember about 10 years ago when the social media management tools started coming out, right, Hootsuite, whatever the other tools were, you could get a subscription for $9 .99 because they were all in the land grab mode. They wanted to get customers. Now it's very hard to get a very good social media management tool for less than $49 .99. They've matured. The best tool have survived. A lot of tools have gone by the wayside. And AI is in that new frontier phase with the tools. Yeah. Another tool that I tried and I really like the CEO, David, is a tool called Memento and it's, I think, studio .memento .fm or memento .fm. And they found me actually in November of last year pitching me on LinkedIn because I had podcaster and so I was part of their beta Memento. The tool has evolved now. It's more sophisticated video editing tool. But at the time they took my episode, they basically just from the RSS feed and then they generated a transcription. They found like the five or six moments that they felt were most interesting in the episode. And then they gave me like five options of a video that has those moments already, different formatting, a tagline. So that's a lot of what the tools are doing now. Let me interrupt. I'm sensing what is the listener thinking right now? And I think they're like, well, what do each of these tools do? And if Dino's looked into them, how does he like them for that thing? So what does Capchio say that they do and how do you like them? What does Podium say that they do and how do you like them? Same thing with chat, GPT and Memento. What use do they have and for our listener who's a podcaster and like, is it good for that? What would you say if we went down that list? So the tools that you mentioned, Capchio, Podium, Memento, those are tools that are specifically targeted at podcasters. Chad GPT is one of the two or three dominant A .I. models like the BARD by Google. There's the one by Bing. And so what do you mean they're barred by Google? What is that? Google, they're basically an A .I. engine is one of the systems that have all the data and does the calculations and does the creative. So there's Chad GPT, which is from open A .I. is the one of the best known one. But Google has its own, which is called BARD, which you can join, which does similar things to Chad GPT. And then Bing has a tool. These tools are a lot more powerful. And as a matter of fact, a lot of the podcasting tools actually connect into the Chad GPT engine to spit out their results. But if you will, they put a layer on top of it. So I'm going to just stick to the podcasting tools and I'm going to talk about the use, which is the easiest, which is you have just recorded your episode. You need to do show notes. You want to create maybe social media posts from it. You want a transcription. You want to find the part that are more interesting. So all of these tools allow you to upload an episode. And then after a little bit of time, they give it to you. So I have tried that with Memento, as I mentioned in the past, when it was in the beta phase with CAPTCHA and with podium CAPTCHA. I found the interface very complicated in some ways. It doesn't give you the result immediately. It makes a transcription and then wants you to do edits. I tried the free version for two weeks and then it charged me when I went back this week to do the test with the episode that you and I were a part of. It had basically charged me, but it had erased my old files and I wasn't able to upload the file from our episode. So I can't speak to it. I don't want to be overly negative on the tool because I know that Harry Duran has been using it for a while and finds it very helpful. I probably didn't get enough time to figure out how it worked. But the reality is that when I tried podium, the output for me was a lot easier and faster to come through. So podium, you upload the episode and then it shoots two or three text files that you can download that have various things. So there's a highlights file, there's a show notes file, and then there's a transcription. And maybe something that may be helpful is I can go into the show notes from the episode that you and I did together episode 331 and just tell our listeners a little bit of the things that it said. Because to put that in context, imagine you're just dropping this into browser a and then about 10, 20 minutes later, you get all this out. So it starts with like episode keywords, podcasting, authentic leadership, listenership, content creation, refining questions, etc. Then it gives me title suggestions, exploring authentic leadership, meaningful content creation and client acquisition in podcasting. That's an example. This is the episode where you and I were talking about having goals, navigating the odyssey of podcasting, art of authentic leadership and content creation for podcasts, chasing success in podcasting through authenticity and creativity. The journey for authentic leadership to client acquisition in podcasts, mastering the art of podcasting, leadership content and client acquisition, exploring the power of authenticity and creativity in successful podcasting. So I will say real quick, I like a couple of those spit out maybe seven ideas, but I like a couple of them better than what my team ended up titling it. And that is the point. I think that this makes the heavy lifting faster because right now, if I have to come up with the title right now, instead of starting from scratch, I have the seven that I can look at. And none of them really works. But I can mix these two and create this one. And this is how I've been using it. I've done two episodes from my podcast, taking a look at the output from podium, and that's what I've been using it. What's really helpful is if I go, it gives me three different potential episode summaries with different flavors. Right. One says, prepare yourself for a journey into the heart of podcasting as we explore the heart of authentic leadership and help you navigate the path to success. This episode promises you the knowledge, the insights and the inspiration to grow your listenership, make money and stay true to your authenticity. Join me as I share my personal podcast journey ignited by the spark of Judy Fox and Rachel Cook evolving into an odyssey of regular content creation. Now, some of this is not really my voice, but re editing this or your voice for that matter, since it was your podcast. But re editing that podcast, right, we in the summary, creating maybe an intro. And then there's an alternative that says as you navigate the podcast world, hoping to make are you navigating the podcast world, hoping to make a mark? We've got insights from my own journey in this episode, right from the spark of inspiration from Judy Fox and Rachel Cook to regular content releases. So this is like a slightly different, more like I'm engaging the listener here. And another then alternative listening as we navigate the path of authentic leadership in podcasting, where most podcasters fall short of their goals. This episode takes you behind the scenes of my podcast journey, started from inspiration, blah, blah, blah. And they have I've read you the first paragraph from each example. Each one of the summaries is three paragraphs that I could take and probably get my notes done once again in a lot faster than it is. Right. And if you notice earlier, it talked about what were the main keywords, the keywords are put in the summaries in a way that would make sense for SEO. It does it. I love that. And I'm sorry that I'm cutting you off real quick. I'm very curious if it gives bullet points as well as the three paragraphs. So this is the summary episode chapters. So it comes up with four episode chapters, authentic leadership in podcasting, tips for creating meaningful podcasts and time, by the way. So it says twenty seven thirty finding the right clients being authentic. And then episode chapters with short key points. I just pick one in the middle. Thirty three fifty four. The importance of podcast editing, understand goals, determine resources, outsource podcast editing, invest in a professional editor for best listener experience, and then it has full summaries where you get a full paragraph. So if we go to the same point, important about editing, we explore the importance of understanding your goals for your podcast. And now this can help determine the amount of time and resources you're willing to commit to it. We learn why Dino Cattaneo chooses to outsource podcast editing and the cost of doing so. We also discover the value of investing in a professional editor in order to provide the best experience for your listeners. This is a very legit one paragraph summary of that part of the episode. Yeah, I like it. And as I said, and I love also that it leaves some of it up to the imagination. Like it's very good at not just giving the answer, but telling you what to listen for. Exactly. I think what you need to remember is that what we talked about, AI is really a statistical analysis of relationships and probabilities, right? So they transcribe the episode. They went through it and figure out like the most probable combination of how someone would use it is this. It doesn't have a voice right now, meaning a creative voice. So it's a little mechanical, but it allows you to just put in the time that you need to make it in your voice to make it more authentic to you. And it has all the information and the facts already collected for you. Yeah, it's really cool. So you mentioned earlier there was Cap Show. You said it was the interface was a little bit challenging for you. Yeah. It just wasn't more complicated than, for example, podium. The difference is that Cap Show, you need to walk through all the steps to create all the different things and give it direction. So in some ways, it's probably once you learn it, it's more powerful. Well, 100 percent on the fact that I did not invest the time into learning it. On the other side, the fact that my two episodes are gone and that yesterday I could not upload the episode, that's a technical fail. And then if you are all these tools, as I said, collect your episode and run it through an AI model. A lot of them use Chad GPT, but Chad GPT in itself is a very powerful tool for bigger content creation. So because AI is a statistical tool, the key thing is the prompt, right? You give the prompt, you tell AI, OK, create this for me. So write this for me for this audience in the voice of. So in Chad GPT, for instance, you can upload a bunch of pages of your writing and then say, this is the style of my writing. And so you can say, write a summary of this article in my voice. And then that's where you start getting into the more dark corners of the ethics, if you will, because technically I could go on GPT and say on Chad GPT and say, write a novel in the voice of Henry James, a novel that talks about this plot in the voice of Henry James. Yeah, I want to understand between Cap Show, Podium and Memento, which of those would you suggest or recommend to a listener who wanted to maybe offload some of the show notes, support social media and transcriptions? So I would say this. As I said, Henry has been very successful using Cap Show, so I don't want to discount them. I'm really enjoying what Podium is doing for me. And I also have a little bit of a bias, because at the conference I did spend time with the two founders of Podium, and I really like them. And I tend to form relationship. Memento, I will say that if I had the time to invest in really learning the new updates that they've done in the video editing, Memento is incredibly powerful. Just to give you an example, when I was in the beta phase and I don't have a TikTok account, but I just want to see what happened. So I open a TikTok account and then I literally just posted five text and graphic videos that Memento made for me just from the audio of my episode. So I went in and chose a template like literally seven minutes of work. And the first one that I posted got seven hundred and fifty views on a TikTok account that had zero followers and zero. And the quality is really good. So I would say this. These are only two of the tools. I've been happy with Podium, but we are really in a phase where I would advise people to explore. And I want to also mention something that is somebody that is not in the podcast world, but who I've known for about 15 years from the music world, from my world, managing my wife as a singer songwriter. Her name is Ariel Hyatt. She has something that's called cyber PR, and she was way ahead of the curve on digital marketing for artists. And she was explaining how artists should do social media way back in 2010. And now she's been very much ahead of the curve on the AI thing. And I'm going to look for the link. She has a four hour online class on how to use AI as a musician. And what I really like about that class is that she really knows her audience and she knows that musicians do not want to learn AI to do marketing. They just want to get the basics that they need to make their life easier. So this class is very simple. It teaches you everything that you need to do. And she has a number of platforms on it that she recommends. And so I think it's maybe I don't remember how much it is to enroll, but it's not very expensive. And it's definitely a great, great. I'm going to actually give you put the link in there. It's a great way to quickly understand what's going on, start playing around with things, because another really big part of AI is in doing the graphics, social media graphics, images, et cetera. And I can really help with that, too. So here is the link to cyber music PR. That's the home page on the front page. There is a webinar that talks about AI. And then somewhere in there, there will be the class they have, you know, and she has like 100 percent. They have a freebie where you can get 100 plus chat GPT prompts, which is a good way to start understanding what prompts are, how they work, because an exercise that we did in the culture code class was to come up with podcast a title and a podcast video promo using chat GPT and a video editing software. And so I have somewhere here I can share sort of like the example of the problems that you would give with judge GPT that kind of gives you an idea of how that works. And here I want to give credit once again to culture and code and the seminar they did. The three ingredients of a good prompt in chat GPT or in any AI tool is the goal. So what do you want to do the format? How do you want the output? And then has specific requests, you know, word count, include, exclude keywords, et cetera. So being example, this is how we did a podcast title. And this would be a persona. So act like a fiction podcast screenwriter. Write a five to seven words title for detective. So give me five, three word title options for a detective noir podcast that takes place in a small town in Louisiana. The audience are young adult females who like the Twilight book series. So as you can see, like when you're talking about creating things in AI, the details are really important. So I could go to chat GPT, which is just a general and say, you know, write me 10 tweets based on the transcript from my podcast that talks about leadership and practical steps to be a better leader and write them for Twitter, for an audience of senior executives. And so chat GPT would generate the tweets. Yeah, cool. And then you can take them and edit them. Yeah. And if you think about it, that's what what we were talking about. Rand was saying that it will take away the content factories. Right. Right now, when you hire one of these low cost services that are creating content for you, somebody is going and writing those 20 tweets. And it's instead you're using a tool. Yeah, I like it. Well, let's wrap it up real fast here. I've got a couple of links that are in the show notes. First and foremost, the link to episode 331 with Dino is in the show notes. Additionally, his coaching program, he is a business coach and the link to working with him is in the show notes as well. Any social media that Dino wanted you to have is down there. And then on top of that, links to Cap Show, Podium, Chat GPT and Memento are down there. And two other links that we will put in there. And it is cyber music dot com and PR music, cyber PR music dot com. And then the culture and code dot IO, that link will also be in the show notes. That way, anything that we talked about, you can easily find. So just scroll down. You can check that out and then just be able to find Dino wherever he is, wherever he is shared. Those links are down in the show notes already. And Dino will probably bring you back on. But this was fun. Like it was we'll call it more insightful because it's like I've been afraid of AI, not to the effect that I think it's going to take jobs and destroy the world. Although that might be true. I've been afraid of AI to the effect of like I don't know if I want to take that, be that pioneer, take the first step and learn it from scratch. So it's been really helpful to have your experience as you've been working with it prior to that conference and since that conference to be working with different ones and be able to share what they do. And there's a piece of feedback that I think is important for the listener. And that is at the end of this episode, the thing that you ought to be doing with AI is exploring different AI tools, not necessarily just going and picking the ones that we've shared here today, but exploring and seeing what they do, how they work, how the interface works for you and for your goals and the way that you work, which ones are complicated for you and easy for you. But with that said, CapShow is one that's really well known in the podcast space. I'm friends with the owner. And additionally, a lot of people say that they like it. Podium easier sounds to use and faster, and you don't have to figure out as much. And Memento is especially good for things like video podcasts and creating TikToks as well. Just with Instagram, real TikToks. Yes. Yeah, it's pretty fun. So all those links are down in the show notes. And you can also follow Dino there as well. This was a little bit longer episode, but the next episode is quite short. It is a solo episode that I queued up just for you who's listening with some information that I know that you need. And that's the next episode. So I would just jump over there. I'll see you on that episode. By the way, one way to ensure that you don't miss out on great content that we're producing on a regular basis is to make sure you're subscribed to the show. You need to be subscribed or following the Apple podcast or wherever you listen to it in order not to miss all of that. And before I let you go, I need to mention, because a lot of people are asking, do you help? Can you help me with this? And the answer is yes. My company actually does it. It's called Grow Your Show. And you can find that at growyourshow .com. Our clients, they call us the easy button for podcaster because they simply have to record their episode and they know that every single thing else is done for them. We sweat the hard stuff so you can be the star of your show. And if you would like help to make sure that we're editing and publishing and promoting and doing your social media, it's all in one place. And I think it's pretty affordable. You'll have to take a look for yourself. Just go to growyourshow .com and check us out. And by the way, I'll see you on the next episode.
Mark Levin
An Excerpt From 'The Democrat Party Hates America' on FDR's Inaction
"Was the administration that kept the immigration quotas ninety percent under filled meaning could have saved a hundred ninety thousand jews under the existing quotes without changing one yota the immigration laws his was the administration that sent claims to bomb german oil factories less than five miles from the gas chambers of alschwitz but refused to instruct them to drop bombs on the gas chambers or the railway lines even after receiving maps and detailed information about what was happening in the camp his was the administration that refused to pressure the british to opened the gates of palestine so jews could find refuge there they also had jewish associates however notably the white house and particularly the state department were populated with several infamous anti -semites Democrat party today at the department of state where the decisions about immigration refugee and issues were made at the time Roosevelt nearly always back the bigots who blocked the migration of jewish refugees into the united states from Germany and the rest of europe height of the holocaust in fact the US immigration quota from germany was filled for the first time in 1939 almost filled in 1940 in all other years of nazi rule 1933 to 45 that's twelve years so that would be ten years the quota was not filled the person directly in charge of the visa process at state with samuel breckinridge long whom roosevelt met and became good friends with when both served in the woodrow wilson administration department of the navy long became a major to donor roosevelt's presidential campaign in 1932 and was previously long's dispatches to washington from
Milk Crates and Turntables. A Music Discussion Podcast
A highlight from Time Travel to 1994: A Journey into the Music and Movies of that year.
"Well, here we are, episode 119. And on this episode, myself in the wrecking tube, Mark Smith and Lou Colicchio from the Music Relish Show. We'll be talking about the year 1994, in music and movies I think, it's always interesting. So sit back, relax, break out your flannel shirt, your grungy jeans, and enjoy 1994 music. It was an interesting year, so I think you'll enjoy it. More interesting than what Todd Zauchman thinks it is. He thinks it's nothing, so we'll see. The KLFB studio presents Milk Crate and Turntables, a music discussion podcast hosted by Scott McLean. Now, let's talk music, enjoy the show. Thank you, Amanda, for that wonderful introduction, as usual. Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends, and welcome to the podcast. You know the name, I'm not gonna say it. We're streaming live right now over Facebook, YouTube, Dlive, Twitch, and X, formerly known as Twitter, and I don't know how many other live platforms. Well, it's gonna be a good show tonight. It's gonna be an interesting show tonight. Yeah, 1994. As I said in the intro, my friend Todd Zauchman just absolutely sent me a text destroying the year 1994. Oh, I just looked up 1994, I don't know what you're gonna talk about, there's a few things and I don't know how you're gonna make a whole show out of it, and good luck with that, because that's how he talks. That's exactly how he talks. I'm just gonna do this, and you know, it's not gonna be a good, blah, blah, blah, blah. That's how he talks. Now, he'll deny that, and you'll never know if that's the way he talks or not. He'll just have to take my word for it. I'm Todd Zauchman, and I don't know about 1994. Well, enough about him. He'll probably be piping in pretty soon, but yeah, 1994, it's a good year. It was a good year for Mark Smith from the Music Rellers Show and Luke Colicchio from the Music Rellers Show. That's for damn sure. It was. What's up, gentlemen? It was a really good year. How you doing? I was just guessing. I figured for 94, listen, we were all younger, so it was better. It was a big year. Hey. So I have to stop right here. Dave Phillips, who's been watching the podcast from pretty much day one, Patty Yossi. Hi, Patty. Good evening. I love you. Dave Phillips, for the last couple of weeks, he's piped in at the end, and he's like, I missed it. Like something's changed. Ah, Tiffany Van Hill. That's my buddy. That's my buddy, Tiffany. She's one of the people that teaches me how to work with horses. Oh. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So. And she knows what she's talking about. She's modest, but she's very good at what she does. As are all of my friends and teachers, trainers, mentors from The Herd Foundation in Delray Beach, Florida. It's a nonprofit if you're in the mood to donate today. Look them up. Herd Foundation. Give us some money. Nah, I'm not going like that. No. No, we do. We help veterans. We help veterans, and so it's a good cause. But back to Tiffany. Yep. That's my buddy. Good evening. The Herd Foundation teaches us so much. That's right. That's right. Maybe I'll do a Herd Foundation podcast. You should. Since I'm pretty good at it. You're going to have horses on? What's the horse named after the cookie? Huh? Isn't there a horse named after a cookie? What are some of the horses' names? Oh, Fig Newton. Fig Newton. Yeah. Fig Newton. That's my boy. That's my boy. Good looking horse. Yes. Yes, he is. And we have Stitch. Fig Newton is a retired dressage horse, dancing horse, right? Echoes of Echo and the Bunny Men bring on the dancing horses. We have Stitch. He's a retired racehorse. We have Miss America. She's a retired jumper. Then we have two mini horses. We have Cinnamon. She was a cot horse. You know, pulls the kids around. As would be Sammy. Sammy's the one that looks like Kaja Gugu for you people from the 80s. Looks like Lamal. It looks like Lamal from Kaja Gugu. Gotta do. And he was saved from a kill pen. Yeah. But he's a mini, but he thinks he's a Clydesdale. What do they do with horses after that? Is that the proverbial glue factory? All right. You know what? Right away. Penalty box. Oh. He's raining on my parade. I'm in a good mood. Now I'm all bummed out. Thanks. You feel sad for the drummer now. This is going to be a horrible show now. Leave it to the drummer. Right, Mark? Leave it to the drummer. Get out. It's always the drummer's fault. That's right. See, Tiffany says, that does not exist past our gates, Lou. Because nobody wants to talk. Back to the penalty box. Great start to the show. Lou is just in a mood tonight. I think he's been hitting the whistle. What's going to happen? You're going to come back and it's going to be an empty chair. He's very ornery tonight. Right away. He's very ornery. All right. He's filling his oats, as they would say. Yeah. All right. Lou's back. I'm all right. I'm all right. Okay. Enough about horses, although I could now, at this point, talk about horses for two hours. I love it. I love it. But instead, gentlemen, first of all, how's things on the music relish show? You. Take it away, Lou. Sure. It's fine. It was such an awful show. I thought I said the wrong show for a second there. It's been nothing short of amazing. Don't jump over each other to answer that question. It's always fun. Last week was fun. We got knocked down a bit by Warner Brothers because we played a clip of an America song featuring Dan Peake. Yeah. You're going to watch that. Yeah. We talked through the whole thing, but Spotify is much cooler than YouTube. YouTube sucks like that. YouTube, they have a very strong algorithm. They can kiss my rosy red ass over that. That's right. You tell them, Lou. Fuckers. That's right. Get me kicked off YouTube. That's right. Let me see. John Morris, he was our shift commander. When I met him, I was, I think, a two striper, and he was what they called a butterbot. He was a second lieutenant, I believe. He said, tell them stories from the Nipah Hut in the Philippines. That's a big no. That's a whole other podcast, but they would never make it on the air. Just leave it at that. It's like a chain of Nipah Huts? No. It was a bar slash club called the Nipah Hut. Tell one story. No. They had a giant spaceship that would come down from the top. It's kind of like George Clinton in parliament. At the end of the show, this big spaceship came down from the top. Smoke. Like you said, parliament fucking pelican. Then the thing went open, and everyone would walk up and get up on stage, all those drunk GIs. Like, yeah, I'm going in the spaceship, and you go down these stairs, and you're in a fucking basement. I don't think it was a basement. It's like something from a fucking horror movie. How do you get out? And then somebody goes, this way, this way, go, go, go, go. That's the cleanest story I can tell you. It's the cleanest story I can tell you. Sounds like fun. It was a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun. I got a story for you off the air one of these days. So okay, music relish show's going good. Excellent. I just wanted to say, Lou brought up, he made the show. His segment on bad love songs. That will go down in history as some of the best podcasting ever. Bad love songs? Really bad love songs. The worst love songs of all time, like in rock. It's a deep vein. Is that something, is that like content I could probably like borrow with Perry Mind? Because I'd love to hear that list someday. We voted him off the board. We're no longer a false triumvirate democracy. Wait a minute. We toppled the AI monarchy. There's three of us on this one. Are you two going to overthrow me too? Are you like rebels? None of those stories you're told, no. They're wrecking too. Instead I'll start calling you the Sandinistas. The hostile takeovers. You go on podcasts just to take them over? Like Amiens took over the White House. Really, yeah. Yeah, we could do that. I would love to. Maybe next week we'll do, we'll take a break from the years and we'll do like a, kind of a jambalaya, you know, of stuff. Like throw some music news in there. We'll do some trivia. Maybe I'll come up with some questions for you guys. You could give us that deep vein of worst love songs ever. And it's funny, we noticed that several of them made everyone's list of worst love songs. So it's got to be universally bad. Okay. If everyone said that, that fucking song. Then there were a couple where I said I liked the song, but Lou and Perry were like, what? I'm always, you know, on the one side. Yeah, the one. When it falls into like that kind of metal, metal category, you have a soft spot. Air metal. Metal ballads. Oh my God. How I grew up. Yeah, yeah. As young as Ron Mark, you didn't have to deal with those 70s ones. Yeah, that's true. I did. This fucking guy. Blah. See what I mean? He's setting the bar high. Remember, this is how he talks. I don't think there's anything good about 1994. Blah. So he talks like Arnold Schwarzenegger. Yeah, well, an American Arnold Schwarzenegger. He talks like Arnold Schwarzenegger without the accent. We're going to pass the bar on this one. I am here. Let me see if you can entertain me. 1994. Blah. All right. So let's actually get right into 1994. Yeah. So we'll start on January 19th, 1994. Bryan Adams becomes the first major Western music star to perform in Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War. Oh, shit. Bryan Adams. Bryan Adams, yeah. Wow. On January 21st to February, as it's spelled, the Big Day Out Festival takes place, again, expanding from those previous years. Blah, blah, blah. Auckland, New Zealand. The festival is headlined by Soundgarden, Ramones, and Bjork. Nice. That's an interesting... Probably each night there were headlines. I would love to see Bjork. Me too. I would never want to see the Ramones. They'll never get back together again. Unless they perform in the Pet Sematary. Yeah. Hey, Lou, can you put him in the green room? No, I'd like that one. That's a good one. Come on, there's a little crossover. Put him in the green room. Put him in the green room. Okay, yeah, yeah. Oh, it's going to be a long show. It's going to be a long one tonight. I feel better about myself now. Got a little redemption? The redemption song? Yes. I got a Buffett story for you. Oh, yeah? His one song was The Pirate Looks at 40. He would segue into Bob Marley's redemption song. Oh, jeez. And it didn't quite... Wait a minute. Buddy, that is the quickest way to get to the penalty box. I'm not playing it, though. I know you're not. You're poking the rhino right now. I'm a guitarist. You're poking the rhino right now. You're not a rhino, you're a nice guy. Come on, we went through that last week. And so, as I've been saying each week, I'm just going to say right now, where's Jack? Okay, and we'll move on from that. Hey, Jack. Hey, Jack, please come back. He didn't listen before, so I don't think he's listening now. Let's see. January 25th, Alice in Chains released their Jar of Flies album, which makes its U .S. chart debut at number one on the Billboard 200, becoming the first ever EP to do that. Right? But they still are always talked about as like number three or number four out of the big four. Big four being? Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden. And Alice in Chains. Alice in Chains is never getting that kind of... Whereas... That first album, the record company made them sound like another band. Yeah. And that's not their fault. They were produced that way. Dirt was a great album. Yes, yes. And Layne Staley was one of the greatest frontmen ever. Just as cool as the other side of the pillow, as they say. Yeah. voice Very unique also. Today we were talking about what we were going to talk about in the show. And he goes, when I saw the videos, he goes, I didn't match his face with the way he looked. Right? He said he was expecting like a grungy, more... No, he was slick. He was slick. In the Man in the Box video, he's got the kind of long... But then he changed it up. He slicked the hair back, he wore the shades, you know. Just turned into a... Suzanne McPhail. Another one of my horse people. She's the one that introduced me to that whole thing. And she said, who's Jack? That's right, I guess. At this point. On January 29th, The Supremes' Mary Wilson is injured when her Jeep hits a freeway median and flips over just outside of LA. Wilson's 14 -year -old son is killed in the accident. What a good day. Ah, this fucking... I saw this and I was like... Dead horses was a bummer. I know, I know. I saw this and I'm like, there's no way around this. February 1st, Green Day releases their breakthrough album, Dookie. Ushering in the mid -1990s punk revival. Dookie eventually achieves diamond certification. Now, I did like them back then. I actually did. I was stationed in Southern California in Riverside. And I decided to get like a side job. You know, I was in the Air Force. But I was like, I want to make a little more money. I want to do something. So I got a job at a record store. Cool. Was it Spencer's or something? Forget the name of it. Oh, Spencer's. They sold all the trinkets, too. No, no, it wasn't Spencer's then. It was something like that. It was a chain. Hot topic. They sold DVDs, too. FYE. No, it wasn't that. I'll remember it. I was working there when Dookie came out and the fucking whole wall was covered with Dookie CDs and they were flying off the shelves. It had a pretty fresh sound. It was fresh then. And coming off the 80s were kind of slick in a lot of ways, except for some of the real heavy alternative. But to hear a song like that on the radio, that was like hearing Smells Like Teen Spirit on mainstream rock radio. Good drummer, too. As a band, whether you like him or not, I think he's really good. Billy Joe Armstrong. Oh, Trey Cool. Trey Cool, yeah. February 7th, Blind Melons lead singer is Shannon Poon forced to leave the American Music Awards ceremony because he is loud and disruptive behavior. Poon is later charged with battery assault, resisting arrest, and destroying a police station telephone. Now, this is the dude that sang, you know, And I don't really care if I sleep all day And he's in the daisy field, so you think he's like this really, like, chill dude. And like, you know, me and the B -girl, man, you know. The B -girl, yes. And the tap -dancing B -girl, and like, I'm just this dude's a fucking lunatic. He was taking substances that made him. Oh, yeah. That was a short career. Was it him that did a duet with Guns N' Roses? What was the video, a song from Guns N' Roses with a video where they're up on like a water tower and they jump into the water or something. I forget what it was called. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe they did it with him.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The No Interruptions Podcast - Remote Vs. In Office Work
"Introducing Carvana Value Tracker, where you can track your car's value over time and learn what's driving it. It might make you excited. Whoa, didn't know my car was valued this high. It might make you nervous. Uh oh, market's flooded. My car's value just dipped 2 .3%. It might make you optimistic. Our low mileage is paying off. Our value's up. And it might make you realistic. Mmm, car prices haven't gone up in a couple weeks. Maybe it's time to sell. But it will definitely make you an expert on your car's value. Carvana Value Tracker. Visit Carvana .com to start tracking your car's value today. This week's No Interruptions podcast on The Mike Gallagher Show has to do with working from home or working in the office. You know, COVID upended everything. COVID has sort of changed the rules. And there are a lot of businesses, it is expected, that will never see people back in the office again. So I wanted to bring two smart people into this conversation. Brett Garrett is an entrepreneur, small business strategist. He started his first business at the age of 24. He founded Serious Plumbing and Air Conditioning. Has had tremendous success. And he has certainly experienced every aspect of the small business cycle. And I think small businesses are the lifeblood of our economy. And he believes that working in person is most beneficial for small businesses as far as productivity, being on a team, not being in solitude. A lot of good arguments on that end of the spectrum. On the other side is Matt Lamb, Matt's associate editor of The College Fix, which is a nonprofit organization run by veteran journalists to help journalists who are just starting out. And boy, do we need a lot of help in that regard. And so you need smart people like Mark. He started out working at Students for Life of America, Students for Life Action, and Turning Point USA. He believes it's actually more beneficial to work remotely with a few caveats. So let me start, guys, with, first of all, generationally. It seems to me that those of us who've been around the block a few times, who are older, maybe more work experienced, probably like the idea of the way things used to be, and that is working from home. Based on your biographies, if I can get personal with you, Matt, how old a guy are you? I'm 29 years old. You're 29. Brent, are you a little older than 29? Just a touch, Mike. I'm 58. There you go. And I wonder, let's start there. Brent, I want to start with you. Is it possible that those of us who are of a certain age, we're kind of used to the way things used to be. Young bucks like Matt come along and they say, hey, there's a better way. Could this just be a generational difference in terms of the belief that working from home is a good idea? It's a great place to start, Mike, and I agree. The baby boomers, I'm actually right on the edge. I'm a den exer. But we grew up with manufacturing mentality. Our parents worked at the factory. They were manufacturers. They built things. They made things. So there are certainly certain lines of work that the origin is that we all work together to produce something and make something better together. So the answer is that one plus one really does equal three on an assembly line when we can all work together. So it is certainly safe to say that those of the past or people who are a little further down the road, we'll put it that way, in their working careers probably do it from that perspective. No doubt.
Simply Bitcoin
A highlight from Europe's Anti-Bitcoin Bill Reveals Plan to Stop Adoption | EP 829
"It's all going to zero against bitcoin it's going up for ever more you're against bitcoin you're against freedom yo welcome to simp with bitcoin live we're the number one source for the peaceful bitcoin revolution we will be your guide through the separation of money and state speaking of the separation of money and state interesting news coming out of Europe kind of not as bad as the proposed bill by Elizabeth Warren that we covered on one of simply bitcoins simply bitcoin lives episode this week but it's something very similar right this idea that every single transaction needs to be KY seed right and then I think that will inevitably lead to the any host unhosted wallet needs to be KY seed all right the the wording specifically in the Elizabeth Warren bill included any minor any validator any software wallet so you know it's just of course the powers that be that tremendously benefit from having a monopoly on the creation of money having controls on money of course to benefit themselves of course they're not going to be okay with this and this was the theory that was originally you know put out back in the 90s in the book the sovereign individual I'm going to read you guys a passage from that book because I think it correctly predicted exactly the reactions from governments I don't think governments have been able to they're not used to this environment where they have competition and most importantly not only do they have competition but they can't shut down the competition right because we remember we saw Facebook try to launch their own you know digital currency and they got shut down real quick the thing with Bitcoin right and Bitcoin only right because aetherium is inherently centralized meaning it will inevitably be co -opted so they have no choice but to ally with the state and they were in order to survive but with Bitcoin can't be stopped and because it can't be stopped it creates a forcing function in the long term as more and more individuals choose to opt out of inflationary money into deflationary money so yes of course times are changing but it's not only on the money front right we're not only living through the disintermediation of money but we're also living through the disintermediation of information and yesterday was a historic day I've never seen this in my life the UK Parliament sent Russell Brand an extremely popular independent content creator a letter to rumble we love rumble by the way we're on there subscribe to us on there and shout out to our rumble audience as well it's been growing by the day so we appreciate you all they sent a letter to rumble asking rumble to demonetize Russell Brand like YouTube did so we have governments that are directly asking platforms to demonetize content creators of which they don't did they don't agree with that is absolutely absurd and these are the same governments that want you to trust them with central bank digital currencies if they had central bank digital currencies in place they wouldn't even have to ask the platforms they could just flick the switch themselves so when we say Bitcoin or slavery or how beauty on said it and I'm starting to lean this way to Bitcoin or death we are not exaggerating and you have to choose what world do you want to live in in the future and most importantly what world do you want the future generations your children your children's children to live in so it's gonna be a great episode I'm really looking forward to it you have to stay on top of what's going on anyways we also we also have a very special treat for you guys we have the head of customer experience from foundation devices the maker of the passport hardware wallet and he's gonna do a live demo for us during the culture cement segment so I'm really really pumped about that let me bring up let me bring him up on stage Bitcoin Q &A you're quite well known on Bitcoin Twitter as well how you doing buddy yeah doing very well thank you very much for having me I'm psyched to shoot the shit with you guys this evening well even in my time but yeah certainly some interesting goings on especially around the Russell brand thing so I'm sure we'll be able to share some insights on that one but not a good look yeah I completely agree man it's it's some some interesting times we are living through people some people call it the fourth turning I don't know man but the phrase that sticks with me the most is weak men create hard times hard times create strong men strong strong men create good times we're definitely going through this era and then I think it was actually Vladimir Lenin that said the very very famous quote right where there are decades that nothing happened and then there are weeks that decades happen I think we're definitely living through this moment of time anyways no more delay let's bring up my legendary co -host not optimistic today no smile oh there's this smile sorry I was caught reading the channels optimistic fields how you doing bro well I am doing wonderful and I'm actually really excited for this culture segment today guys I got a sneak peek of the demo that we're going to see and I think there's gonna be awesome this might be a simply Bitcoin first for the live show but to the news stories and stuff it really just goes to show that if you speak the truth you are the enemy of the state and I think more and more and more people are waking up to this because they either continue to de -platform you from your banks or de -platform you from social media for saying what they don't want to be said you know for saying the quiet part out loud and you know this is why we do our show in a very particular way so that we can survive on YouTube but man it really just goes to show that the powers that be are completely terrified of people talking about the truth hence why you guys need to talk about it more and continue to spread that signal but it just goes to show that this is the the last I don't know the last gasp of the great Leviathan you know what's them saying like darker before the dawn like this is their last grasping at straws to control the truth and and I mean I've been saying for a while I think the monopoly on truth is slowly and dwindling they're going to try to make examples of this so you know just be prepared we know what's coming so protect yourselves protect your family and continue to spread the Bitcoin truth the Bitcoin signal actually just truth with a capital T I suppose anyways Niko let's let's get into this one let's get into this one let's get into the show man I'm really really excited alright guys let's get to the numbers we have a lot to talk about today and I'm super is your Bitcoin in cold storage really secure is your seed phrase really secure stamp seeds do -it -yourself kit has everything you need to hammer your seed words into commercial grade titanium plates instead of just writing them on paper don't store your generational wealth on paper papers prone to water 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website at the time of recording the Bitcoin price is twenty six thousand five hundred and seventy sats per dollar three thousand seven hundred sixty four block height eight hundred eight thousand seven hundred twenty nine blocks to having thirty one thousand two hundred seventy one having estimate April 21st 2024 total lightning network capacity four thousand eight hundred fifty five Bitcoin capacity value one hundred twenty nine million US dollars realized monetary inflation one point seven five percent the market capitalization of Bitcoin currently sitting at five hundred and seventeen billion dollars Bitcoin versus gold market cap four point zero one percent in the grand scheme of things Bitcoin is still a baby if Bitcoin reaches not if when Bitcoin reaches the gold market cap that is five hundred thousand dollars per coin and I think that's just getting started anyways we played you guys a video yesterday of a member of the United Nations talking about how we are in an information war we played you guys the video and she was basically recommending that that that they no longer have people to call on on Twitter to censor information she was also saying how there's an army of people that are propagating United Nations approved information well you know she's she's talking about as if the information that's coming out of the United Nations is a matter of fact right she's talking about the problem of disinformation disinformation well my question to you guys is who gets to decide what is disinformation and what is information right well we advocate for on simply Bitcoin is individuals not central planners not governments using their own critical thinking abilities right to dictate okay this is a good idea this is a bad idea right this is how the American this how the American Constitution it's literally written like that that there's a reason that the First Amendment is the way it is right the government or Congress should make no law you know basically censoring or stopping the freedom of the speech of people right and they made it that way for a reason because if there is a central authority if there's a government that gets to dictate what information is true what information is not true history has shown that they'll use that power to protect their own political mode right so thank God for the internet thank God for technologies like Bitcoin thank God for technologies like Noster for example they can't do this anymore and because they're not able to do that they're freaking out number one and number two and number two it becomes a forcing function over a long period of time but that doesn't stop them from trying here is the former New Zealand Prime Minister at the United Nations saying that that words are weapons of war right weapons of war if so if you say something against the government that all of a sudden becomes a weapon of war and again this has escalated it is escalated to the point where the UK Parliament has asked rumble to demonetize Russell Brand who's a very popular content creator who goes against the legacy corporate media's narratives right and it kind of embarrasses them so what are they doing they're attacking his money they're saying rumble okay they can't they've tried to deplatform people before they've gotten a lot of pushback so what they do instead is that they attack his pocketbook obviously YouTube complied they demonetize Russell Brand's content but rumble said no we're not doing that so love that of rumble we're on rumble we support rumble that's awesome but another thing that I want to say is that the allegations against rubble Russell Brand are just that they are allegations they have not been proven so something that has not been proven is a justification to shut off someone's living that is insane anyways let's check out this letter and this is a letter by part by the UK Parliament the specifically the cultural culture media and sport committee to the CEO of rumble Chris Palavoski who says dear Chris I'm writing concerning the serious allegations regarding Russell Brand in the context of of his being a content provider on rumble for more than 1 .4 million followers the cultural the culture media and sports committee is raising questions with the broadcasters and production companies who previously employed mr. brand to examine both the culture of the industry in the past and whether that culture still prevails today however we are also looking at his use of social media including on rumble where he issued his preemptive response to the accusations made against him by the Sunday Times and Channel 4 his dispatches while we recognize that rumble is not the creator of the content published published by mr. brand we are concerned that he may be able to profit from his content on the platform did you hear what they said the government is concerned that Russell Brand might be able to profit from his content because there was some allegations made against him conveniently a lot of Russell Brand's content is criticisms of the government so I mean big coincidence I guess you would you could say we would be grateful if you could confirm whether mr. brand is able to monetize his content including his videos relating to the serious accusations against him is so we would like to know whether rumble intends to join ryu tube in suspending mr. brand's ability to earn money on the platform we would also like to know what rumble is doing to ensure that creators are not able to use the platform to undermine to undermine the welfare of victims of inappropriate and potential potentially illegal behavior so they asked rumble to demonetize a content creator an independent content creator that's the key word when we had Parker Lewis on the show and I was talking about the legacy corporate media he didn't say no Nico it's not the legacy corporate media it's the legacy government media so anyways why is this happening I think Jeff Booth said this perfectly we read this to you guys the other day and this all boils down to the money this is why we say as Bitcoiners fix the money fix the world here's Jeff Booth he says because broken money Elon Musk said how did most of the legacy media go from superheroes of free speech to supervillains of speech suppression and Jeff Booth says because broken money ensures the centralization of power by stealing the productivity through inflation that should flow to society in the form of lower prices then those enriched by that theft and subsequent power must control the messaging to keep it but it all it wasn't only Jeff Booth that said this here's an article from our friends over at Bitcoin magazine of nine Bukele the president of the country shining on the hill the Savior El Salvador the first country that made Bitcoin legal tender the beachhead for the Bitcoin movement around the world he goes on to say the most vocal detractors the ones who are afraid and pressuring us to reverse our decision are the world's most powerful elites and the people who work or benefit from them they used to own everything and in a way they still do the media the banks the NGOs international organizations and almost all the governments and corporations in the world and with that of course they own the armies the loans the money supply the credit ratings the narrative the propaganda the factories of food supply they control international trade and international law but their most powerful weapon is their control of the truth and they're willing to fight lie smear destroy confiscate print and do whatever it takes to maintain and increase their control over the truth and everything and everyone I think come from Nico or simply Bitcoin that came from the president of El Salvador name Bukele so what is happening here two things are happening here thing number one the internet has empowered individuals and those individuals can now use the internet to uh to grow these massive platforms themselves and because they're individuals they're a lot harder to co -opt and at the same time we are witnessing the distance remediation of money that internet has allowed Bitcoin and Bitcoin has empowered individuals to choose their own money too so government states NGOs international institutions right that have had this privilege of having not only having the monopoly in the control over money but also the monopoly in the control over information it's quickly diminishing in front of their eyes and of course that system is fighting back they can't take that they've been used to operating in a system where they've been able to control the narrative they've been able to control the truth and that is slipping through their fingers and they don't know what to do and that's why they're short -circuiting the way they are that's why we've gotten to a point where the UK Parliament is literally asking a platform to D monetize an independent content creator not to mention all the stuff that was revealed during the Twitter files where it was exposed that the US government even though that is explicitly against the US Constitution the government should not be censoring speech was asking Twitter to D platform D boost and censor certain speech and these are the same governments that also want you to trust them with central bank digital currencies and they expect you to believe that they're not going to use central bank digital currencies as a weapon as a forcing function in order to control your actions as a individual and this was all predicted I might add in the book the sovereign individual which we'll get to during the new segment but this is some crazy times now what can you do to protect yourself in this particular situation do your own research pick what information sources you choose you you want to choose I love Twitter because it's like a news aggregator and the the news that you know pops up pops up Noster is a great platform rumbles a great platform YouTube is is good to do your own research don't rely on a single information source and then most importantly the most empowering thing you could do is to opt out of state money opt into Bitcoin I think that's the most powerful thing you could do look the most important the most important vote you can make that voting for a Democrat or Republican it's not to say that it's not important to vote but the most powerful vote that you can do that will actually change things is voting with your wallet opt out and the way that you do that is you buy Bitcoin earn Bitcoin mine Bitcoin and take that said Bitcoin into self custody the moment you do that you're part of the peaceful Bitcoin revolution whether you are aware of it or not and that is how we win if enough people take self custody we win and there's nothing they could do about it speaking of self custody we have the head of customer experience with us today Bitcoin QA and you guys make it super fucking easy to take self custody with the hardware wallet that you guys make and not to mention the awesome application that you guys make so Bitcoin QA what's your take on this whole Russell brand stuff I can't believe we've reached this point if I would have been told this five five six years ago I would have said that's impossible there's no way that's that that's so ridiculous what's your take on all this yeah before I enter you I've just got to say that was one hell of a fucking monologue I take my half to you that was fantastic yeah kudos and yeah the whole Russell brand thing man just completely shocking another example yet another example of government overreach Russell brands been a thorn in the side of the UK government if you can't tell by the action by the way to anybody's listening that I'm from the UK and he's been a thorn in their side for years and he's a very well educated man he's very well spoken and he has drawn a lot of following by speaking out against money printing against government policy he was rabid about the whole covert thing pharmaceuticals getting rich because of you know yeah you know all of the corruption that went on over those couple of years and I see this recent letter as that them seeing the opportunity as they're into trying you know get one back on him you've touched on earlier that the fact that all of these are just allegations at the moment and the fact that they're going around trying to take money off him from you know he's not been convicted of anything at all that's not see won't be but right now they're just allegations and they're trying to take his money off him it's just completely shocking and they're just trying to lash out because he's been a pain in their ass royally for years so yeah I mean they're just they're just overreaching and leveraging their powers wherever they can just to kind of deep platform and then hurt his wallet as well unfortunately yeah 100 % they attack his money they attack and again like they attack his money and they're also like hey guys these CBDCs like we'll respect your privacy you could trust us what are you talking about anyways Opti what's your take well I actually I kind of want to ask Q &A question because there is some talk about this in the chat what's your thoughts on Russell Brand being like controlled demolition Q &A whoo how do you mean like basically that this is like an orchestrated attack you know once everyone's talking about this maybe Russell Brand isn't necessarily as much of a truth speaker as people are making him out to be like does he actually believe what he's saying or is this just kind of one of those things where you know you create a figure and then you kind of tear him down to discredit the whole movement in general the whole truth movement yeah possibly I think I think most of what he says is genuine he before he started doing all of the YouTube stuff like he was he was a you know some form of a celebrity he had a big following and could have monetized himself as a product in many many other ways by coming out and being as outspoken as he has against the the prickly topics of like money printing and you know COVID etc he must have known you know he's smart enough to know that would have been incredibly divisive to people that followed him so I lean towards the fact that he's genuine and the fact that they're probably gonna try and use him as a scapegoat to warn ward off other people that kind of speak out against any government policy etc etc yeah I'd agree I mean like especially considering what his status was it's hard to follow the incentives and be like yeah he's got a lot to gain from this when in reality he's on the verge of losing everything so I'd agree with you and then just kind of going back to the beginning of this rant and and people are saying epic daily Nico Jones rant today so good job Nico I like when Nico gets get animated remember growing up guys when I grew up I had a saying and I'm sure your mother told it to you as well and we all probably said it in kindergarten you know sticks and stones but words may never hurt me and now we grow up in a world where words are violence like what is going on guys and that's a convenient it's a convenient way I know Nico I was getting there I'm asking rhetorical questions on the show now okay I'm learning some Nico Jones tactics but as we know guys as we know guys you know if you can stop words from being said then you can stop thought and if you can stop thought then you can ultimately stop behavior and this is where they're going they want to ensure that you guys sell censors so that you guys don't lose everything and this is where we are guys that they are absolutely afraid of people speaking the truth they're absolutely afraid of the average person waking up and exposing all of their lives because that's all they have they have lies and favors and they have the monopoly on truth as we think now is more important than ever to speak your minds to make sure you're having these conversations to as the saying goes you know speak truth to power and all that good stuff because there's been a constant theme throughout 2023 or actually rather since 2020 basically is that if your voice is too big and you talk against the establishment then the powers that be will do anything they can to put you back in line and whether that means you know breaking your reputation taking all your money dragging you through the court of public opinion we know what their tactics are and if you're following along closely then you know what the playbook is and it's almost like they're doing the same thing over and over and over again but I think the silver lining of this is that it seems like their playbook isn't working as well as it used to which in some sense should be absolutely terrifying because then they're going to go to even more extremes and you know I'm not gonna say what everyone's thinking but it's gonna get crazy guys and so I think it's just becoming very very clear that as an individual just even a normal person that doesn't have a platform like you want to do whatever you can in your power to protect yourself and hence why we always say that it always boils down to the money guys so protect your money protect your livelihood by taking your Bitcoin into self -custody by saving in Bitcoin and because remember guys this is always about theft they want to take your wealth and put you back in your place and then distribute it and make everyone feel good and we're seeing this happen in real time and it isn't lost on me that this is done via a letter you know it's just like hey how nefarious can a letter be but if you're reading in between the lines then you know how nefarious this letter actually is and that this is a coordinated attack on someone that's talking against the establishment and if people like Russell Brand you know say what you want about him but if people like him can't speak about the truth and they also get run through the grinder like imagine what would happen to an average individual like there's no hope for us if people of that stature can't talk about what's actually going on in the world and hence why it's so important to continue to double down on independent content creation spreading the truth talking about all this stuff because this is all we have we have the truth on our side and as the saying goes you know the truth will set us free so just just don't be afraid you know be brave but also be smart out there and the best thing you can do is just protect yourself and protect your money protect your family and I think as more people do this then the world will slowly but surely start to fix itself anyways you know amen we'll see what happens amen preach brother all right everybody let's get to the news we got a lot to talk about today let's check it out no no no no no no before we do that before we do that I have to give a shout out to our awesome sponsor Bitcoin 2024 it's gonna be the largest Bitcoin conference on planet earth 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Crypto News Alerts | Daily Bitcoin (BTC) & Cryptocurrency News
A highlight from 1406: Bitcoin Will Hit $4 Million, Rising 100x - Peter Thiel
"In today's show, we'll be discussing Bitcoin Bollinger Bands hitting a key zone as Bitcoin price fights for $27 ,000. In breaking news just in, Bitcoin hash rate hits a new all -time high. Let's go. And quoting Stacey Herbert, Bitcoin is pumping on the news of President Bukele's speech to the UN tonight. Can't wait. We'll also be discussing Bitcoin Adoption Fund launched by Japan's $500 billion Nomura Bank. That's right. The Bitcoin Adoption Fund will have long -only exposure to Bitcoin and be available to institutional investors. We'll also be sharing Sam Bankman, Fried's father, dragged his mother into an FTX US salary dispute. You can't make this stuff up, folks. Also in today's show, Bitcoin gearing up for a post -having parabola, according to crypto analysts. I'll be sharing his very bullish all -time high target. We'll also be discussing crypto asset market cap should explode 5 to 10x during the next bull cycle, according to investor Raoul Pal. I'll also be sharing Peter Thiel's $4 million Bitcoin price prediction, and we'll also be taking a look at the overall crypto market. All this plus so much more in today's show. Yo, what's good crypto fam? This is first and foremost, a video show. So if you want the full premium experience with video, visit my YouTube channel at cryptonewsalerts .net. Again, that's cryptonewsalerts .net. Welcome everyone just joining us. This is pod episode number 1406. I'm your host JV. And today is September 19th, 2023. We have lots to cover as usual. Massive shout out to everyone today in the live chat. Please let me know where you're tuning in from. And at the end of the show, I'm going to be reading everyone's comments out loud. Let's kick off today's show with our market watch as we do each and every day, the entire crypto market back in the green with Bitcoin back above $27 ,100 and checking out coinmarketcap .com, the current crypto market cap on the climb at $1 .08 trillion with roughly $27 billion in volume for the past 24 hours, Bitcoin dominance at 49 .2 % and the Ether dominance at 18 .4%. And checking out the top 100 crypto gainers of the past 24 hours, we have TonCoin leading the pack up 5%, trading at $2 .57, followed by GMX up about 5%, trading just under 36 bucks, followed by Conflux up 4%, trading at $0 .12. And checking out the top 100 crypto gainers of the past week, virtually 95 out of the top 100 cryptos are in the green. Some of the top gainers include GMX, GRT, as well as CRV and NEO. And checking out the crypto greed and fear index, we're currently rated at 46 in fear, same as 37 in fear. So there you have it. How many of you are pretty stoked for this most recent pump? And how many of you agree with Stacey Herbert that this pump is due to Bukele's speech scheduled for this evening? Let me know, fam. And now let's dive into today's Bitcoin technical analysis. Check out the charts and what's popping with the king crypto. Bitcoin could see fresh upside volatility as the price action and the strength revisits a key level according to a classic metric. In a new post, John Bollinger, creator of the Bollinger Bands volatility indicator, says Bitcoin was positioned for a breakout decision. That's right. After hitting new September highs the day prior, Bitcoin has been challenging resistance levels out of reach since mid -August, according to data from Cointelegraph and TradingView. Now for Bollinger, the signs for Bitcoin are encouraging. Bollinger Bands use a standard deviation around the simple moving average to determine both the likely price ranges and volatility. And as Michael Saylor once said, volatility equals life force. Now, currently Bitcoin is putting in daily candles that touch the upper band. And when this happens, it can signal an imminent reversal back to the center band, or conversely, an inbound fit of upside volatility. Now narrow Bollinger Bands seen on Bitcoin recently lend weight to hopes that the latter scenario will now play out, quitting him here. And then there is the first tag of the upper Bollinger Band. After the new set of controlling bars were established at the lower band, he commented alongside this chart, the question is now, can we walk up to the upper band or is it too early to answer? What are your thoughts, chat? Let me know in the comments below. Now Bollinger characterizes the current mood among seasoned Bitcoin traders and analysts on the short -term timeframes. Despite the strength seen this week, caution abounds as various trend lines previously acting as support remain above the spot price. Now discussing the situation, we had on -chain monitoring resource, material indicators share the following. We have heavy technical resistance overhead at the key moving averages and support at the lower low. It is quite possible that we round trip the range. And with any luck, we'll see a legit test of the RS levels that will give us some clarity on where Bitcoin goes from here before the end of the week. And they also shared here in update number two, as noted earlier, it appears the Bitcoin bulls are gaining some momentum, but things are not always as they seem and goes on to share that sometime after last night's candle and close open, we've seen a new trend precognition signal develop on the daily chart and it seems to be bullish. I mean, we are breaking out. We are above 27 ,000. So let's freaking go. And also more strong foundation on the technicals. You can see Bitcoin hits yet another all -time high, which virtually means the network has never been this strong and this secure. Now I'm pretty stoked to tune into President Bukele's speech to the UN this evening. What do you think he has to share besides? I told you so. Let me know, fam. And again, welcome to everyone just joining us for the live show. Lots to continue to cover. So let's continue breaking it down. Next, let's discuss this adoption fund, which is a pretty big deal coming out of Japan. Let's go check this out. Japan's largest investment bank, Numura's digital asset subsidiary, Laser Digital Asset Management, launched the Bitcoin adoption fund specifically for the institutional investors. Bring it. The official announcement noted the Bitcoin -based fund will be the first in a range of digital adoption investment solutions that the firm plans to introduce. Now Numura is a Japanese financial giant with over $500 billion worth of assets, which basically that's half a trillion, baby, offers brokerage services to leading institutional investors. The Bitcoin fund launched by its digital asset arm will now offer investors direct exposure to BTC. The Laser Digital Bitcoin Adoption Fund offers long key exposure to Bitcoin. The financial giant has chosen Kamanu as its regulated custody partner. The Bitcoin fund is a portion of Laser Digital Fund's segregated portfolio company that has been registered as a mutual fund in accordance with the Cayman Islands regulatory authority. Now, Laser Digital Asset Management head Sebastian said the Bitcoin is one of the enablers of this long -lasting transformational change and long -term exposure to Bitcoin offers a solution for the investors to capture this macro trend. Now, the Bitcoin adoption fund might be the first of its kind launched by Numura and the digital asset arm, but the Japanese investment banking giant has been investing in the digital asset ecosystem for quite some time already. In fact, September of last year, the firm launched its digital asset venture capital arm to stay at the forefront of digital innovation. And also won Dubai's virtual asset regulatory authority license to operate in the country. The long -only Bitcoin adoption fund for investors in Japan comes amid a growing discussion around Bitcoin -based investment products from regulated and mainstream financial giants. The United States SEC approved two Bitcoin ETFs, even though there is a delayed decision specifically on the spot. Bitcoin ETFs. What's up with that, Mr. Gensler? Just saying. And apart from the US, Canada and focused investment products over the past couple of years. So there you have it, mass adoption, let's freaking go, especially on the institutional level. How many of you are in Japan? I know we have some in our audience out there. Let me know. And have you ever heard of this company before? Any plans in investing through them? Let me know how you guys feel. And now let's break down the latest. It gets more surprising and shocking every day with what all is going on with Bankman -Fried and FTX. Now his parents are involved. His parents are being sued by FTX. And it's just a nightmare of a mess, to say the least. So let's break down this latest story regarding SBF. Now, Joseph Bankman, the father of the former FTX CEO, Sam Bankman -Fried, complained to his son about the salary he was receiving during his employment at FTX US, turning the issue into a family matter. In a September 18 filing with the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, FTX debtors filed a complaint against Bankman and Barbara Fried, alleging that SBF's parents misappropriated millions of dollars through their involvement in the exchange's business. And according to the court documents, Bankman's contract with FTX US should have provided a $200 ,000 annual salary following a leave of absence from the Stanford Law School in December 2021. However, Bankman seemed to express ignorance about the terms of the contract, claiming to both FTX US and his son that he was expecting a $1 million annual salary. What about all that property in the Bahamas, fam? What about all that? Hundreds of millions worth of properties? Just wanted to throw that out there. The complaint states that Bankman was putting Barbara on this, suggesting that SBF's mother may have been able to persuade her son to follow through with the salary change. Things get even more interesting. So according to the complaint, Bankman's influence paid off, with SBF later providing his parents $10 million from Alameda Research. Can you talk about commingling? A 16 .4 million property in the Bahamas, funded by FTX Trading, the ability to expense roughly $90 ,000 to FTX Trading on the island nation in the Bahamas, and options to purchase company stock. Now, when reached out to the legal team representing Bankman and Fried, but did not receive a response at the time, unfortunately, the legal action brought by the debtors was the latest in the bankruptcy case involving FTX and many of its subsidiaries filed in November of last year. Bankman Fried also faces 12 criminal charges to be spread across two trials, starting in October of 2023, which is right around the corner, fam, and March of 2024, right before the halving, scheduled for April of next year. And since the federal judge revoked his bail in August, Bankman Fried has been largely confined to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. Where's Brooklyn at? Before the start of his October trial, then on September 19th, a three -judge panel heard an appeal from SPF's legal team requesting the former FTX CEO to be released from jail in order to prepare for the trial, citing the lack of internet access and first amendment issues. All I got to say is this, I mean, how many people realistically have access to the internet in jail? Why should he? Million dollar question right there. But what are your thoughts, fam? How do you think this is likely to play out? And do you think that Bankman Fried's parents are just as guilty as SPF himself with the commingling and the fraud of going up north of $30 billion, making it the biggest scam in history that we're aware of? Hence why we call him Mini Madoff, because he made off with billions of dollars worth of investors' money, and Gary Gensler and the SEC was protecting him behind closed doors. So it's going to be very interesting to see how all this is likely to play out. Now let's discuss post halving. We all know there is a halving scheduled roughly six months out. We all know post halving, the price action is most likely going to reach a new all -time high and enter price discovery mode. Well, this analyst shares a very intriguing target. So let's break this down, shall we? And welcome to y 'all just joining us. Say hello in that live chat. Let me know where you're tuning in from. I stream live here seven days a week from Puerto Rico. Synonymous analyst Rhett Capital tells his followers on X that Bitcoin can rally above $80 per ,000 coin in the months following next month's event. For the halving, send it. Let's go. The Bitcoin halving cuts the Bitcoin miners' rewards in half, as we all know, expected to take place in April of next year. And while Rhett Capital is a long -term bull on Bitcoin, he notes that it is possible for Bitcoin to continue its downtrend before the halving, putting him here. Hang in there and make the most of any deeper downside in this pre halving period. You won't see the post halving parabola in the outlines here in this chart. It shows you in the yellow, the pre halving period, then in the pink, the post halving resistance, and then in the green, you can see the post halving parabola when we hit those new all -time highs. Now, Rhett notes that Bitcoin may repeat its 2019 bear market cycle when it traded within a triangle pattern before breaking out and starting off the bull market, as he shares here, if Bitcoin continues to form lower highs, could Bitcoin fill the CME, which is the Chicago Mercantile Exchange gap, at $20 ,000 later this year or in early 2024? So it makes a good point. There is currently a gap sitting at that $20 ,000 psychological level. And he continues, if so, the possible path could be consolidation to the apex of the black triangle before finally breaking out to close the halving. And you can see that triangle right here in this chart. Now, looking at the chart, he seemed to suggest that Bitcoin will confirm the triangle breakout in April of 2024, followed by a rally towards his long -term target. Now, let me know your thoughts, chat. How many of you agree that Bitcoin is likely to break out to a new all -time high, entering price discovery mode in 2024, the year of the halving? Let me know. And what are some of your targets? I'd also like to point out that the Stock the Flow model and Plan B, creator of that model, he suggests a $100 to $1 million range price for the King Crypto post halving. We also have some very other bullish predictions, which I cover on a daily basis here on the channel. But I'd love to know your personal prediction. I think we reached the cycle peak personally sometime in 2025, but I think 2024, we enter that price discovery mode. But I'd love to know your thoughts and your opinions in the comments right down below. And now let's break down our next story of the day and discuss the latest from the macro guru, Raoul Pal, who is suggesting that the Bitcoin market cap and crypto market cap as a whole does something between 5 and 10x for this upcoming bull cycle. Now, you do the math. We have a crypto market cap right now. I'm going to ballpark it at a trillion. We have a Bitcoin market cap. I'm going to ballpark it at a half a trillion, which is 500 billion. So hypothetically, if we were to 10x Bitcoin in and of itself, we're talking about a 5 trillion dollar Bitcoin market cap, which would be half the current market cap of gold. Now, with the entire crypto market cap, we can potentially hit 10 trillion. Now, also note, back in November of 2021, when we hit that all time high of 69 ,000 in November of last year, the total crypto market cap was just north of that 3 trillion dollar market cap. So he's so let's break this down and shout out to Raoul Pal. Here we go. Former Goldman Sachs executive Raoul Pal says the next bull cycle can bring an explosion in the market cap of all of the digital assets. That's right. In a new interview with Altcoin Daily, the macro expert says he expects a huge increase in the adoption of digital assets, and that can cause the total market cap of crypto to skyrocket as much as 900 % from its current value during the next bull market. Quoting the analysts here, obviously, I think we'll go well through new all time highs. I think the whole ecosystem of crypto will go from 425 million users where we're at today. And I think at the end of this cycle, there'll be a billion users by that kind of use cases in which we have talked about. And let's not forget, we have got central bank digital currencies that are known as CBDCs and stable coins. There is a lot going on still. So if this entire space is going to grow 2 .5 X in the number of users, well, the market cap of the entire space is five or 10 X. Send it. Let's go. Pal also says he is closely watching development of layer two Altcoin projects for new use cases, which could boost the value of their individual market cap, quitting him again. And then let's see how people value layer twos in this. We don't really know how layer twos accrue much value. Do we have to have a massive amount of transactions in which case then you need stuff like Ticketmaster with millions and millions and millions of transactions to drive value to those chains because they batched them and batched them down to Ethereum. So there you have it. And to watch this interview, he did Raul Pal, the macro guru with Altcoin Daily entitled best cryptocurrency investing strategy into 2024. Check the show notes, blow the video in the description and let me know your thoughts on his personal prediction. Do you feel post having that the market cap for the entire crypto market can likely 10 X from the current valuation along with Bitcoin surging 10 X to roughly a five trillion market cap? And hypothetically, if the macro guru is correct, where do you think that would likely take the Bitcoin price? Well, let's run some hypothetical math. Bitcoin was the 10 X from the current price action of 27 ,000. Well, that's $270 ,000 per coin. Take that. And as we all know, Bitcoin rises like that, the entire crypto market cap would go along for the ride, including the altcoin. So please let me know in the chat, fam, which altcoins, if any, are you most bullish on in the crypto market? And what are your thoughts surrounding Raul Pal being so bullish on Solana? A few months back, I read in an interview he shared that 80 % or more of his portfolio was specifically in an altcoin called Solana. So I'd love to know your thoughts. Obviously, he has a high risk tolerance as I look at that particular cryptocurrency to be very risky, especially with all that went in with the venture capitalists and SPF and FTX exchange pumping that particular all. So I'd love to know how you feel regarding all of that. And with that being shared, fam, now let's discuss Peter Thiel and his $4 million price prediction, as well as rumor has it, and I'll be covering this as well, that he dumps most of his Bitcoin position at the top of the market practically 30 days before the crash. So let's break this down because Peter Thiel was actually one of the keynote speakers at the Miami Conference for Bitcoin. And here's what he had to share as I transcribed his speech, and then we'll discuss him reportedly making $1 .8 billion cashing out on his eight -year bet around the time he was touting these all -time high predictions. So here we go. He says, the enemy's list is a list of people who I think are stopping Bitcoin. He says there is a lot of them. They tend to have nameless, faceless bureaucratic perspectives, which of course is one of the ways they hide. He goes on to share, we are going to try to expose them and realize that this is sort of what we have to fight for Bitcoin to go up, 10x or 100x from here. Now, just FYI, to give you some perspective, at the time he made this prediction on stage at the Bitcoin Miami Conference, Bitcoin was trading at roughly $43 ,000 per coin. So you run the math. 43 ,000 times 100x is over $4 million per Bitcoin. So you know that? Let's continue with what he had to share. The central banks are going bankrupt. We are at the end of the fiat money regime. How many of you agree with that statement? I agree there 100%. The first person on the list is Berkshire Hathaway CEO, Warren Buffett. Thiel put up a picture of Buffett with two of his most famous quotes about Bitcoin. One was rat poison and the other, I don't own any and I never will. I also like to point out now since then, Warren Buffett has much indirect exposure to Bitcoin through Bitcoin mining stock companies and etc. So go figure. If you can't beat them, join them, right? And he goes on. He opined, I think the direct in it. Yeah, and I say also Charlie Munger goes along with him. Now, feel further noted that Buffett has a bias and makes him long on fiat money system and money managers who follow the Berkshire Hathaway executives advice will pretend it's complicated to invest into Bitcoin. I think we call that FUD. Fear, uncertainty and doubt. Now expect nothing less from one of the wealthiest people in the fiat money matrix Ponzi scheme. You know what I mean? So just saying. The next person on the list of Bitcoin's enemies is the one and only JP Morgan Chase CEO, Jamie Dimon, or as Max Kaiser calls him, Jamie the tapeworm. They'll put diamonds picture up with the following quote. I don't call them crypto currencies. I call them crypto tokens because currencies have rules of law behind them, central banks and tax with authorities. Now you guys already know how I feel personally about JP Morgan Chase CEO, Jamie Dimon. So I won't go any deeper there. But anyways, we know he's an enemy of Bitcoin and always has been. The next picture he put up was of the BlackRock CEO, Larry Fink, with the following quote. I see huge opportunities in a digitized crypto blockchain related currency, and that's where I think it is going to go. Now just FYI, Larry Fink is the CEO of the largest asset management firm in the entire world, which owns a large share in virtually all the companies in the S &P 500, and that is BlackRock. They currently have over $10 trillion in assets under management. And for a long time, he was spreading FUD regarding Bitcoin. But guess what? Like I mentioned earlier, if you can't beat them, join them because they just most recently, a few months ago, they submitted their application for a spot Bitcoin ETF, which ultimately means they're going to be introducing this to the institutions which have trillions upon trillions of dollars as there's currently north of $700 trillion in total addressable market, and they want their piece of the Bitcoin pie. So he goes on to share, the PayPal co -founder added that Fink's quote is somewhat representative of the whole genre of Bitcoin attacks that need further context, stating that pro -blockchain is an anti -Bitcoin term, very typically. Feel then brought up the environmental, social, and governance, ESG standards, elaborating the following, the label they have come up with, and perhaps the real enemy is ESG. I think that ESG is just a hate factory. Also like to throw out there, Elon Musk, he stopped taking Bitcoin payments for Tesla, and he says it's because of the FUD regarding this ESG, and we all know it's not more than FUD, and it's already been proven that Bitcoin is more than 50 % clean energy. So the million dollar question, when will the world's supposedly wealthiest man, Elon Musk, when will he start accepting Bitcoin payments again for Tesla? Isn't that a great question, and wouldn't you love to know the answer to that? Maybe you should ask Elon and tag him on X and see what he says. Anyways, feel stressed. You can always ask the question, what's the difference between ESG and the CCP, the Chinese Communist Party? Well, when you think ESG, you should be thinking of CCP per H. Now, he also goes on to share, it is the finance gentocracy that runs the country through whatever silly virtue signaling or hate factory to them, just like ESG, the billionaire concluded. This is what I would call and what you have to think of as a revolutionary youth movement, and we have to just go out from this conference and take over the world. So there you have it, fam. What are your thoughts surrounding Peter Thiel's prediction that we are likely to 100X, and along with his enemies list, as it seems, a lot of the enemies have come around and now have direct exposure to BTC, but it doesn't stop there because around that time he was making this $4 million Bitcoin price prediction. He allegedly dumped most of his position cashing out and with over a billion dollars in profits for his fund. So let's also break this down as this is also very relevant. How many of you were able to watch the speech he gave at that Bitcoin conference? It was epic, to say the least. I recall it now. So here we go. Check it out. Peter Thiel's venture capital firm reportedly made $1 .8 billion closing out its crypto positions around the time when he was an early Bitcoin bull, still predicting the token's price to surge by 100X. And again, from 43 ,000 price action, 100X means over 4 million. Founders Fund had cashed out almost all of its bets on digital assets by March of 2022, according to the Financial Times report that cited people familiar with the matter. But Thiel was still backing Bitcoin, obviously, when he spoke at the crypto conference in Miami the following month. He went on to share where at the end of the fiat money regime, he said, adding that the token's price could increase 100 fold from its level at the time, which was reported at $44 ,000 per coin. That prediction was proven false and as rising interest rates and failures, the high profile firms like Celsius Network, Three Arrows Capital, FTX, Terra Luna dragged the crypto sector into the prolonged bearish winter. Now Bitcoin plummeted by over 60 % in 2022 and was trading at under 17 ,000 by the end of the year. And I believe the bottom currently for the cycle is 15 ,700. How many of you feel that that bottom is in? Let me know, chat. Founders Fund first started pouring money into crypto all the way back in 2014, when Bitcoin was only trading at roughly $750 per coin. So by the time Bitcoin reached its all time high in November of 2021, it had surged 8 ,500 % from that particular level. Not too shabby for a seven year run, wouldn't you say? Now Thiel has a long track record as one of Silicon Valley's most prominent tech investors. He took early stakes in startups, which include Facebook, Elon Musk's SpaceX, and ride hailing app Lyft, and even co -founded PayPal back in 1998. Thiel is also a high profile supporter of the Republican Party and continued to voice his support for Donald Trump since the former president left office in January of 2021. The fund held around two thirds of his portfolio in Bitcoin at one time, but now not has significant exposure to crypto according to FT's sources. So there you have it. Fam, what are your thoughts surrounding his prediction and him cashing out at around that time he was making those all time high predictions of 100X? Let me know, fam. And don't forget to check out cryptonewsalerts .net for the full premium experience with video and to participate in the live Q &A. And I look forward to seeing you on tomorrow's episode. HODL.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
A highlight from Episode 11 The Drama of Atheist Humanism Fr. Joseph Fessio S.J., Vivian Dudro, and Joseph Pearce FBC Podcast
"Welcome, and welcome back to the Forum Book Club, with Vivian Deutero, myself Father Fesser, and Joseph Pierce continuing to discuss Henri Robach's classic, modern classic, the drama of A .K. Schumann. The last session we actually finished on the end of the chapter. Let's see what we can do this time as we begin chapter three, Positivist Transpositions. The previous chapter was about the alliance that he sought with the Catholic Church as an instrument of promoting the final status of civilization, namely the positivist order. So let's see how the transpositions take place. Joseph? Well, yes, at the top of page 12 and 16, again, I like there's an irony, a role irony, I think, in Henri de Lubac's voice here. He says, then, speaking of Comte, then the new Aristotle, so the philosopher, had changed into a new Saint Paul, so basically a religious zealot, in order to complete the edifice. Quote, I have systematically devoted my life, he says, in the systeme de politicians positif, to making real science ultimately provide the necessary basis for the sound philosophy, according to which I should then build up the true religion. So we have the evolution here. Real science leads to sound philosophy, which leads to true religion. This is where this positivism is going. And I would like to back up, if I may, to the very first page of the chapter, where de Lubac points out that this alliance that Comte wants to create to bring about his true religion was intended to be purely temporary. He thought it expedient because he no longer hoped that the triumph of his own church at any rate among the masses was as near as he had at first predicted. And I would just like to editorialize that every time people outside the church try to co -opt the church for their own purposes, for them, it's a temporary phase. You know, think about concordats with Mussolini or Hitler or any of these attempts to co -opt the church. Ultimately, the end is to destroy the church or replace it with this regime having total power. And so, thankfully, as we pointed out in the last chapter, de Lubac said this temptation will come again and again, but that it won't in the end. The church will, because of the Holy Spirit, will not be prevailed upon. But it's important to know that that temptation is a perennial temptation on the part of people seeking power to use the church and on the part of people inside the church to seek a legitimization on the part of the powers that be that want to use the church for their own ends. Yeah, but again, I do love, and this is such a, we might say, a dry topic, that I do like the Lubac's raw sense of humor. So even the first part of this, the true Catholicism, positivism through Catholicism. On page 219, three lines down, according to Kant, the new Catholicism is modeled on the old. The church had her sacraments. Skipping a couple of lines, positive has his rights to consecrations or social sacraments. And he says there are nine of these sacraments in positivism, including one that is received after death. That's an innovation. Right. Yes, he, so the transposition that's happening here is, you know, for everything that the Catholic Church offers its flock, he's going to transpose that with something of his own invention that resembles it, but is actually emptying it of all of its original meaning. Well, only these got out. Yeah, just these got out. No big deal, right? Including a liturgical calendar with saints, the cults of saints, prayers. All of this is spelled out in the next few pages of all the things he's going to make. It's sort of, as Lubac says, again, perhaps broadly, this process of incorporation after death, which may rather be compared with canonization. And in fact, it is, in fact, I think canonization, it's secular canonization. These people will be immortalized as heroes. It's going right back to paganism, right? You build statues of them all over the place. You put them on the calendar. And so, you know, if you're a good servant of the positivist religion, you will be immortal, not in the sense of going to heaven, but in the sense of being remembered and revered. Yeah, I'm going to jump way ahead to the conclusion of everything here. That's fine. Just one little sentence, 266 at the bottom, where the little box says here, Cohen's spiritual itinerary is that of man himself. Lost faith cannot long remain unreplaced. You know, you leave out God, something, some idol is going to take God's place. That's right. My father going right back 46 pages, you see it on the top of page 220. He's talking about that man becomes, quote, a veritable organ of the great being, capital G and capital B. I mean, what on earth is the great being if we're not allowed to believe in God? Is it Comte? Or if it's not Comte, is it humanity in some sense? Yes, it's humanity. The abstract deity, the great being. Yeah, yeah. That's I think, Chesson referred to that as similar to being on a crowded tram, as you would say, humanity. Amorphous mass all around you. I have something on page 229. Anybody before that? Let's go for it. Like the last part of that paragraph at the top. Apart from all questions of doctrine, this is Judelbach speaking. One cannot take seriously the musings of a man who never understood a word of the gospel and who sank deeper every day into the monstrous egocentricity. The crude and lacrimose consolations to which Comte innocently abandoned himself in his sanctuary cannot be taken for genuine spirituality. Telling it out how it is, basically, that's somewhere at the end. This is a madman, egocentric, narcissistic madman. And here's the Judelbach exercising that discernment that he says needs to be when we're dealing with these intellectual systems or ideologies, there's an intellectual discernment you have to go through and think about it. But then there's the spiritual discernment, right? That's what he said in the previous part of this book with respect to you. If we can go back perhaps to 224, just a footnote there, because this, I think, is very interesting and it has this wonderful phrase moral eunuch. This is somebody writing about Comte in a pejorative way, in a negative way, I should say. Comte is a man whom the exclusive culture of scientific ideas has reduced to a true degradation. He is a moral eunuch, all feeling, all poetry, which is to say, all manifestation of feeling is something he has completely disregarded or rather that is completely unknown to him. And now this whole different moral eunuch, not only is it a good phrase, a powerful poetic phrase, but it's really, I think, also a description of many of the worst psychopaths, right? Is that they actually have no moral compass. They have no moral feeling, no moral emotion. They can do hideous, horrible things dispassionately because they're morally impotent. Yeah, it's a strange thing. We all have a moral sense and we can't be human without it. And yet it seems to be a submersion of something. I remember years ago, I heard a confession of a young woman who is from a good family and actually lived a pretty good life. But this priest kind of seduced her. And so she was spending time in his factory bedroom and she confessed it. But it wasn't like it was something really serious. She didn't feel any moral seriousness about that, even though she did come to confession. But it just seemed like, for whatever reason, there was a colorblindness almost, you know? She could see some things, but couldn't see others. So it happened. A desensitization, which is, of course, dangerous, right? When you suddenly become so habitual, you no longer see it as being anything unusual and therefore nothing too much of an aberration, right? If you do it all the time, we excuse ourselves for it. I want to jump back to 229, unless there's something in between. The second section is called The Priesthood of the Scientist, which is a good description here. So far, only the most general of the transpositions in Catholicism has been considered. But there are two others that complete it, although he divides it into three here. A form of worship, a dogma, and a regime. In other words, it has poetry, it's philosophy, and it's politics. Those are the three transpositions I'm going to talk about. Here's one on page 232. You mentioned the thing I brought up before about the specialization of science. The new paragraph there. For what type of scientist would be worthy to belong to such a priesthood? Well, keep going. Comp never cared for empty learning. See, this is this dismissal of the theoretical pursuit of knowledge just for its own sake, which is what the pure sciences are. He has no time for that because that's just empty learning. And another quote from him, cloudy erudition that contents itself with mechanically accumulating facts and which is equally fitted to serve the most contradictory opinions. Well, that is right. When people are, you know, you might have run into somewhat the different theory from your own. Anyway, he just can't abide that. The irony is that, as I understood it from our early discussions of Comp's philosophy and positivism, was it was building a philosophy which denied the existence of metaphysics. In other words, the empiricism and scientific materialism were the only building blocks upon which any truth could be built. And yet he seems to outgrow that and sort of like a Saturn five rocket jettisons, the very thing that got him into orbit. And so the next sentence there, the true positive spirit, as he conceives it, is at bottom just as far removed from empiricism as from mysticism. So he seems to have no real connection with the very, very ladder by which he's climbed. And that's a brilliant expression of the fact that he rejects what he sees as wrong in empiricism, being too specialized. And he rejects mysticism, which is a transcendent, basically. And in the middle is what? Something's going to take the place of the mysticism, which is humanity, and him he as as the pontiff of them all. At the bottom, a couple more lines down, he blames, quote, the exaggerated intellectual narrowness that comes from an empirical specialization. And that is true. But what he says on page 233, about 10 lines down, the aim in view should be systematic generality. Analysis should be subordinated to synthesis as progress is to order in egoism to altruism. At bottom, the whole thing should be one single science, namely human, or rather social science. Social science. There it is. There it is. That's how we have departments of social science on every university campus. That's where it came from. But look how scary that is, that basically all analysis, in other words, all reason, is subject to synthesis, which is, again, it's the inversion, perversion and reversion of the whole Hegelian thing, right? Where you're using reason, you have a thesis, then you have an antithesis, and then you come to a synthesis. Well, now you get to a synthesis. This is the final synthesis. We will have no more theses and antitheses. This is this synthesis and all future reasoning, all future analysis is subject to this final synthesis to which we've arrived, right? That's absolute ideological tyranny and totalitarianism of the 20th century encapsulated. That's right. But ironically, on 233, he wants the scientist to be, this is the top of the second paragraph, to be a man with an encyclopedic mind. Well, I thought you just said you didn't want all these, you know, this detail, this clutter, you know, with, no, I guess he's going to handpick the details that are important. Yeah, the encyclopedia would be the positivist cataclysm. That's the encyclopedia, and you can't read anything other than that. But again, you know, facts themselves, you know, mathematical quantities, these have to, we have to exercise our faculty of judgment to decide of all of this litter of facts, what's really important and what's the hierarchy of value that they have and what is all of this knowledge to be in the service of in the first place, but to God. So you take that out. Now you're just going to have an arbitrary selection of facts. Okay, what does this sound like? It's going to be settled science. We're going to arbitrarily pick the facts that fit our program. Anyone who makes any questions or complaints about it is antisocial, by definition, going to be canceled, right? Like what you just said, Joseph, this is exactly the totalitarian ideological mindset that we're up against, even now. Which is putting the template in place, which will lead to the murder of millions of people or several decades later. We'll return to the Forum Book Club with Fr. Joseph Fessio, Vivian Dudrow, and Joseph Pierce in just a moment. Thank you. Did you also know that you can listen to Discerning Hearts programming wherever you download your favorite podcast, like Apple Podcasts, Google Play, iHeartRadio, Spotify, even on Audible, as well as numerous other worldwide podcast streaming platforms. And did you know that Discerning Hearts also has a YouTube channel? Be sure to check out all these different places where you can find Discerning Hearts Catholic podcasts, dedicated to those on the spiritual journey. 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Your feedback fuels our mission to help others climb higher and go deeper in their spiritual growth. Like, review, and let your voice be a beacon of light for fellow seekers on this spiritual journey. We now return to The Formed Book Club with Father Joseph Fezzio, Vivian Dudro, and Joseph Pierce. Well, on page 234 in the middle, this is what I mentioned before. He talks about the heredity and its characteristic of science only in its academic degeneration, when dispersive particularity hampers ascetic culture and the moral urge. Genuine science, on the other hand, establishes a double synthesis, first between the various branches of intellectual research and then between poetry and philosophy. But it's true that genuine philosophy would seek to find the hierarchy of sciences and show where aesthetics require human anthropology and therefore where poetry fits in. That's what true philosophy would do. But he subsides for true philosophy a kind of mechanistic social synthesis of all these dispersed facts, with no principle except his own ego. Right. And so this is the reason why we call totalitarianism that expression because of the word total. So these men who presume to be able to see the whole, right? And now they're going to impose their view of the whole on everybody else. But it can't help but be reductionist because no human being on Earth can see the whole. That's why our knowledge is in fragments. Yeah, who wouldn't like to see the whole thing? Well, when we get to heaven, even then, we won't be able to... You know, God is so beyond us, we're going to spend eternity reaching the whole, I guess. I don't know. It's why we should not trust politically or philosophically anybody who doesn't trust mystery, right? If someone hates mystery and we have to get beyond all mystery to some totality, which is encapsulated in the human mind, that person is leading himself and others to destruction. Because it can't help but be reductionist. It can't help but be reductionist. So what does that do? Oh, the man doesn't fit in this bed? Then we have to chop off his head and chop off his feet and make him fit. And it's true what Joseph said that, you know, this leaves out the transcendent in God. It also leaves out the cross. So the two main pillars of Christianity, Trinitarian God, incarnation and redemption to the cross are still rejected by him. He wants to have a utopia where there's no cross and no God, just us. Oh, by the way, and I'm in charge. That's right. And his priesthood is on 235 to spell this out even more. This priesthood in the middle of that graph on 235, in all things, this is the total, right? In all things that will decide what should be thought. Man's understanding will be subjected to it. In the positive regime, in fact, there can be no more question of free thought or of freedom of conscience. Just look at these attempts at lawmaking going on in our own country, taking away from doctors the freedom of conscience not to perform or to perform certain procedures or certain medicines or whatever. I mean, there is an all -out attack on freedom of conscience in medicine in this country going on right now. And this is a little box thesis for this whole book, the drama of atheist humanism, namely if you leave out God, you destroy man. That's right. Because the very thing that's being done here is everything which is really human, freedom of thought, freedom of choice, freedom of conscience is being subjected to some abstraction. The look -back kind of sums this up on page 237, sums up this section actually at the bottom there. Furthermore, there's nothing now to fear from complete subordination of the reason to faith because according to Kant, it's a kind of faith, but you can actually prove it if you had to, but most of them aren't capable, so they have to submit themselves. It is tantamount to that of the mind to the heart. That is to say, it subordinates personal to social instincts or more briefly, man to humanity with a capital H, and then the look -back asks the question, can humanity be a tyrant? And that the next chapter is spiritual. That's when you say, where does this lead when you suppress man's freedom of conscience? Yeah, it's interesting. I mean, that question, can humanity be a tyrant, should be an essay prompt, really, because an abstract concept itself can't be a tyrant, but those who subject themselves to the abstract concept can become and do become tyrants. That's the way I would ask it, if someone sent me an essay prompt anyway. Yes, well, and humanity can't be a tyrant because abstractions can't do anything. Right. If you claim to be the sole reliable exponent of humanity, well, then, of course, you will be a tyrant. And you can certainly, yeah, humanity is the totality. Of course, you can sacrifice people on the order of humanity, right? And on 241, de Lubac points out that it all, the purge was beginning, de Lubac says, meaning Comte was already threatening to, quote -unquote, unmask his false adherents, you know, already the purge was beginning. So this wasn't even something that was going to be saved for later. Comte was already beginning in his own circles to weed out, you know, weed out the unbelievers or the people who aren't the true believers anyway. Yeah, on 239, about six lines down, he's quoted some of this. The social order will always be incompatible with permanent freedom to reopen at will, an indefinite discussion of the rare foundation of society. So that systematic tolerance cannot exist, and it's never really existed except in connection with opinions regarded as indifferent or doubtful. So in the bottom of the page, in short, positive faith is not open to abuses because it is always demonstrable, but people cannot demand that it should be demonstrated here and now. So we've come to the truth. We're brilliant ones. Yeah, take our word for it, or you'll be shocked. Again, this quote, I'm backtracking again to 238, the beginning of this section, that block quote there, an indented quote by Mr Jean Lacroix. Competent men are so far ahead of the masses that all sorts of political and social catastrophes have tried to happen before the latter have reached a positive stage. Besides, the community as a whole must always lag behind the elite. And here we have something which is sociological and in some sense sort of socialist and certainly secular humanist, which is also elitist. And again, that also is very much what we have now, right, where basically the socialists used to be, and I think authentically, certainly in British history, was the working class. The Labour Party was a political organisation begun by the working class in order to give the working class, to enfranchise the working class politically. But now we see the elites have completely and utterly hijacked the machine and treat the masses with complete contempt. So a word like populism has become a swear word. You know, heaven forbid that a member of the elite should be popular. You know, that people might actually like him or he might be speaking for them. So this is just really systematic elitism as now the voice of the people. Right. And yes, so we must listen to the experts and suppress any opinions that are different from those of the self -appointed experts. That's right. And these experts, we see it now, cannot tell that what's in a woman's womb is a human being or can't tell what sex a person is or whether there are only two sexes. They're the experts. If you can't figure those things out, I don't want to hear your opinions on taxation or foreign policy. Well, with the famous line by William F. Buckley, he'd rather be ruled by the first 20 people randomly chosen out of the phone book than by the faculty of Harvard.
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"Genesis 11, Nimrod wanted to create the city of Babel to create a one -world government. The aim of the Marxists is to get rid of any differences. Diversity is not the strength of the Marxists. Conformity and elimination of differences is the strength of the Marxists. You must understand, it's the exact opposite of what they tell you. And isn't this true? They don't want any dissenting opinion. They don't want any differences or any dialogue, only uniformity, conformity. It's very totalitarian in nature. And so Karl Marx writes basically this idea that there are people in charge of society and we'll call them the bourgeoisie. You know, one, two, three, go after the bourgeoisie is with a chant. That's not what they say on college campuses. They'll use swear words, right? And the rest of us are the proletariat, the everyday man, the worker. Now, he came after this mostly through economic lens. That this was people owning the factories and people working in the factories and it's not fair. Now, this was basically him equipping the everyday rank and file with a playbook of how to criticize and how to attack any power structure. So fast forward, an obscure writer from prison in Italy, many of you know him, Antonio Gramsci, wrote this whole idea that we Marxists, we can't just have economic struggle, revolution against the factory owners, we need to have cultural struggle. That what Marx laid out was a rebellion not just against the rich, but a rebellion against anybody in power, including God himself.
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"Up, person de ketitel, a respect van vlees en bloot, for the keike die we luestern, and the luesterer die go keiken. Keike and luestern are... Caroline, van der Plas, welcome! Thank you! Eindeke eef rist? Euhm, neewen ik sie tom ik jou. Haha, there you are. Dit is heedleker eef een sprekjeso. Ja. Euhm. Euhm, dit is heedleker eef een sprekjeso. Euhm, neewen ik sie tom ik jou. Haha. Euhm, neewen ik sie tom ik jou. Haha. That doesn't happen all the time, but we do our best for it. That's a lot of work to do. So, since the general over -winning, with the rules... ...a club in the Netherlands... ...is it enough? No. No, the over -winning of 15 months... ...that took all the provinces together... ...and the United States... ...the formation of the colleges of the United States... ...the first came, and we said no. It was a long day for now. All uni, all cities and states... ...and all cities together... ...took a lot of time... ...and we came together in the same way. That's right. And Caroline for the Plus is the overall winner. Yes. You come to the overall table. So sick. Yes, yes, sicker. So we're going to take five or six years of Israel... ...in a module. Yes, clubs. What do you need? What do you need? Now, I have a lot of work to do. I work here, naturally... ...and a lot of work by income citizens... ...because, yes, I don't belong here. I come with my parents... ...and I also like to see that I'm still living here. I have a lot of work to do. Of course, Israel has a lot of work... ...by the opening of MBO here... ...and they say to me... ...you don't have time for that... ...but I'm still living here. I'm still living here. That's why I have a lot of work to do. It's a lot of work for people... ...a lot of work for people. I have a lot of input, so... ...yes, I still have a lot of work to do... ...with my kids. Well, that's it. We're really looking forward to it. You're a journalist. Yes. Are you more? No. I'm not more. No, you're not. You're more of a journalist... ...than a journalist. Yes. Who is more of a journalist than you? Yes, my father. My father was a journalist... ...a sports journalist... ...by David Dagblad... ...and, yes, at the same time... ...I also worked with a lot of sports... ...and so on... ...and I found out... ...that I really liked what he did... ...and that I really liked the Redaxi. What kind of sport was that? I've played a lot of amateur football... ...a lot of times in David... ...and I also played with the Eagles... ...because I think it's the most important thing... ...to be able to drive a motorcycle... ...and to be able to drive the Redaxi... ...and, yes, it's a little... ...but I also really liked the Redaxi... ...and I found out that I really liked... ...a lot of people... ...with a lot of spinners... ...and what -not... ...and coffee halls... ...for the journalists... ...and so on. I also liked the chocolate milk... ...because I thought... ...that I would also be able to help... ...with the KISS Rave. And so on... ...I really liked it. So it's a lot of fun. So it's not so much the journalistic... ...in the interest of where I'm going. No, my father gave me that offer. And he said... ...that you can't do anything... ...and you're not going to do anything... ...and you're not going to do anything... ...and you can't do anything else... ...and you have to pay for it. So it's a lot of the Redaxi work... ...and then the work comes up. So we all have to do something else. And... ...no, that's what I just said. Yeah. The question of whether or not... ...you're going to stick to it... ...can I ask? Yeah, yeah. No, yeah. I'm going to ask you to do something else. And say... ...you're not going to do anything else. No, no, no. I don't know if you know... ...the journalists... ...or the younger generation... ...with which I contacted China. I don't want to get into a Gladiator List... ...but I think it's also a big part of the younger generation. You know, younger generation always SCREAMS... ...about whether you're going to talk about their kind and... ... Their own states and things like that. So we can really talk about younger generations... ...who are going to talk about their own state. I always think that the criticism... ...and everyday else is applied to younger generations... ...so sometimes we think of younger generations as Russian... ...as being assume that it's not just you. We have had insane fish. They don't mind that that's not the best. We can do it without drugs. But we still have to find a way to double this on paper instantly In the mayoralpanels. Can you repeat the question in my context? Yeah well, our publictime support goes back to the start of the setup of the FC times, and to prevent so many types of emergencies. it works .pparang The pattern will break, in the states too fast. This will be ideal cherry grass, but that has to be done spiritually. They are very special for the society. This thing isDexter from the point of view of thephone. What about the speaker? There are several questions that you can answer. At least for a Rocky Buss. It's not that it's a big name, it's just a realistic name. But that's what we're talking about. Maybe if we're talking about problems? Yes. What do you think about that? I think that I'm 33 years old now. Yes, I'm not, but I'm an adult now. Yes, you are. Yes, I know, but... You don't have anything else to say? No, no, my ears are not really working. No, I don't have anything else to say. I'm not sure, but I'm not sure. But it was more that we were actually not really talking about the fact that we were talking about the fact that we were talking about the fact that this restaurant, the cafe, which is called Dina Weis, was a place that was closed for the first time. It was closed for the first time. And now that it's closed, the cafe is still closed, so it's hard to say. And you're from Bine, too? Yes, that was for him a question that is not working. There is no real time for it. No. There comes, well, a normal work up your ass. Yeah. And what you can do is take a stand from a bisturier to an angst for a new party. Yeah. The ground is open. Each year, at least, there's a tour back of the Bible, and stuff like that, so there's no real time for it. There is no real time for this party. It's open. So, it's a bisturier with the hand behind it. And that's what, what's the name of Caroline's bisturier? Her lance bisturier, that's what you're talking about. Yeah. No, it's a bisturier, but I think that we're seeing that we're already open to it. We're always open to it, that we're always looking at it, and that's what's next. And, of course, it's been a long time. And that's what we're seeing is the need for employees. And we're seeing employees that are always looking for a new job, a new job, a new job, a new job, So we're not too far away. So, we're not too far away. So, we're finally in the middle of the day. And, of course, we're having a good time with the candidates. We're having a lot of fun. We'll be doing some work with the candidates, we'll be doing some good things, and we'll be doing some good things. And we'll have a tour where we'll be able to get to know the candidates. So, yeah. Yeah, I think that I think that yeah, what is it? I think that it's a very important thing for the candidates. Because I see it on the wall. I'm not a fan of the wall. Yeah. I think that I think that we're not going to be able to do anything or do anything. Or, I guess so. But, what's your job for your audience? What's your job for your kids? Well, for my first job, I was really lucky. I thought I had a job, of course, and I thought I was very lucky. But I thought that it would be nice for my audience to be able to do something. And it would be nice to be able to do something if it were honest, if it were a technique, or something for my audience. What was it? Yeah, I think I was in the middle of the class. I was 13, 12, 13 years old. I was in the middle of the class. I was 13, 12, 13 years old. When I was really lucky. I didn't have any other things to do. I didn't go to school or other things to do. So, that was my thing. But, I did it. I got to have my own thing. And I was interested in it. I wasn't interested in it. I wasn't interested in it. I was very interested in music, pop stars, French, that kind of thing. So, what kind of music were you interested in? Aspen, ballet, and The Renderer, Ultra Fox, U2. That was the biggest thing. Were you interested in music? Yeah, I wasn't interested in music. I was interested in Spotify, so I wasn't interested in music. I thought, oh yeah, you can't do anything amazing. You have to do things in your head. You have to do everything amazing. Yeah, that's the thing. That's the thing that you have to do in your head. Yeah. on the other hand, you have to do things intuitively. Yeah. And that's another thing in politics. Yeah. No, I have a lot of things that in my head are the biggest things that the United States was in. The United States was free and I wasn't interested in music. I wasn't interested in music at all. I was interested in music. But I didn't have the best set of shows. I had a lot of things that I had done that the United States was free. I was not interested in music. It was good. Good. It was It was good. I was music. It was good. I didn't set of shows. The United States was free. The father was free. Man was free. The author was free. Most of the were free. In fact after that I was excited about my would you be more clear with the history of the place, the land and the state? Yes, I was at my base, but in the period before I came, I was in overland. My father was there in 2013, overland. So he didn't have much money. But my brother, my mom and my friend Henk, they visited as well. And they told me to come back. I was there in 2013, and I was there in 2013, and I was there in 2013. So I was there in 2013, and I was there in 2013. But I was there in 2013, and I was there in 2013. And they had a great experience. They came up with this idea of the Great Lakes. So, yeah. But who is that in the region that believes everything about it? And is there no state for it? Yes, then you have to think about what I'm talking about. Yes. Yes, it's a little different. If a person lives, has a loss of the right to be part of it, they have to go back home with a little bit of a miss. There's also the period that you're sick. It's going to be very difficult. Is it going to be very difficult? No, it's not. I think it's going to be very difficult. But, yeah, overland. In a health care process, I can take care of it. Yes, I think it will have a lot of impact on my health. I think that, with a lot of people, it's difficult to get enough of it. You have to take care of it. You have to take care of it. It's a little bit difficult to get enough of it. But if you see that you have a lot of pain and loss of health, that is a lot harder. That is not a good idea. That I think is a little bit hard. have That you a lot of pain and loss of health. That you don't have a lot of pain, that you're sick. And that's what I really want to hear, from the fact that it's over -layed, that it's all over the place. Is it a sort of good off -site? That you have a lot of pain? Yes, for sure. That's what I wanted to hear. A hundred percent. Overall, it's what I want to hear. That's what I want to hear. If someone has a heart attack and is sick, then they don't have the person who is sick. But you have to take care of it. That's what I want. That's what I want to hear. That's what I want to hear. And if they do that, then they will have a lot of pain. And that's what I want to hear. A lot of things can be explained. And it's sort of off -site, in the sense of, no, we don't have a lot of pain. We don't have a lot of pain. So that's a big deal. Yes, that's a big deal. A big deal. A lot of people do that. And that's a big deal. For someone who has a lot of pain, that they don't have a lot of pain. But I really want to hear it. And that's what I really want to hear. It's a very important moment that you have met Okaa. And you have to think about what it can mean in one day. And you have to work with it. You have to work with it. So you can take care of it. All of that will happen. You have to work with Okaa. And if it works, then it's not going to work. And that really is a real fact. It's not going to work. It's not going to work. So it's an important moment. Our lives and our practices will work together. So if you have a partner, or maybe even a partner, you have to think about it. If it doesn't work, it's not going to work. And realize that people don't have a lot of pain. No, they can't. No. And you don't have a lot of pain. Yes. You have to have a lot of pain. No, no. A lot. A lot of pain. A lot of pain. A lot of pain. Yes. Yes. No, but I've been very much involved in my family. My direct family. My sons. My mother. My brother. My life. That I really feel very good. That it's going to work. In the end, it's a very difficult thing to do. And how I want to do it. Is the state of your life, well, on your own right. Or on your own right. But if my own right is there, well, on your own right. That's it. I find it very difficult. That you have to be good at your own right. And after all, especially from my mother, my friend, my kids, have you ever felt yourself? Yes, it's a good thing. It's a good thing for me. It's a good thing that I'm on the court. I'm in a burnout. That I overcome my own right. That's what I'm talking about. Yes, I know. I'm a good man. I don't want to sit in the bibber as a rich guy at the bank. But if I'm going to be able to do it, it's a good thing. I'm a little bit of a man, but I'm a good man. If I can do it myself, I can do it myself. It's a good thing that my son can do it himself. I'm a big man. I'm a little bit of a man. I'm good at my own right. And I find it very difficult. I find it very difficult for people to do it myself. Yes, because you go to the middle, you have a hope in Bangladesh for a lot of people who are living in the States. That's a political point. But, it's a very big challenge for people to be in the States and be able to do it. And for people to be in the States, I think it belongs to you. Yes, it does. Yes, I think... ...you feel bad in your life, or have bad in your life, then... ...it's as if you make a thing out of it, that you think... ...is it really a bad thing, or is it a drug? And I think, no, it's totally not a bad thing. The people in my life are like a group. I have other things to do. That's why I think it belongs to you. But that's what's wrong, I think. I have a lot of talk about what the ungriving of my fund is... ...but now it's more about my base. My father was a journalist. He was a doctor. My mother was a reporter. She was a reporter. A CDR. A CDR, yes. You can't blame it. You can't blame it, then. No, yes, yes. I feel that it's really a bad thing. And we can work together. We can work together. But that's not the case. No, it's not that. I think it's a drug. I think it's a drug... ...to realize that people... ...who have a letter on their hands... ...have to pay for it. I think it's a bad thing. So I don't think it's a drug. There's no social media. But I think it's a bad thing. I'm a bit scared. But we don't have that. I think it's a bad thing. Yes, it's a bad thing. It's what you're saying. Yes, it's true. It's true. But it's true here. It's true. It's true. Like Savannah was talking about. Or like a little girl. I think it's a bad thing. I think it's a bad thing. I think it's a bad thing. And then there's politics. And then there's politics. I don't think it's a bad thing. But I'm aware of politics. That's what I'm talking about. People are asking for money and money. And that's what's coming out. Irish blood. Yes, I think it's a bad thing. Yes, yes. Is that a thing you're talking about? That you're not talking about Irish blood? In my personal life? Yes, of course. We have a lot of Irish blood. We have a lot of Dutch families. But I also have a lot of Irish families. And they say that I'm poor. But when they say that I'm poor, they say that I have a lot of other problems. In family, my my mother used to say that she had children. She used to work in a mail factory. She had a lot of children. And she had children. She was very poor. So she was very poor. But it was all right. It was all right. It was all right. Everyone was welcome. It was in the eyes of nature. She was very poor. She was very poor. She was the oldest. She was very poor. But she was very poor. That's what she thought. She was poor. And she was very poor. She was only eight years old. And she wasn't very old. She had two brothers of the Philippines. But she was very poor. And she was very poor. She was young. And she was very poor. She was straight and had a coma. And that was what she knew. She had three children. She was very poor. And she was very ill, she had a lot of children. Yes, she was very ill. No, she was very poor. She was a child. And in Limerick, she used to think that I that think the state of life, there is a state of life all over the world. The state of life in the middle of the channel. It's a big part of the roadblocks. It's a big part of the society with meteors. And that's why it's so much more controlled. And not only that, but also the IRAs. They were based on the boomers. And as we know, a boomers was created. There were a lot of strangers and strackers. That was a period when a lot of people... Yeah, a lot of people were in the Republic of Ireland.
The Financial Guys
A highlight from BONUS episode From Marine to Entrepreneur: Overcoming Challenges and Thriving
"Since September 11th, 2011, there's been 31 ,000 suicides, veteran suicides. So 7 ,100 of us have perished in combat. 31 ,000 have taken their lives, and part of that, I'm not an expert, I'm not a psychologist, this is just my personal feeling, part of that is lack of purpose. They've transitioned out, this 20 -year war that never ended that really didn't mean anything to anybody now, and they've lost purpose. Welcome, everybody, for our special release podcast. I'm Glenn Wilko here with Mike Lomas. We have a special guest in studio, and this is gonna kinda be a tease. This podcast, we're gonna be releasing now, but we're also gonna release this podcast again in the future as part of a series that we're gonna launch. And this is gonna be like a podcast miniseries, so it's not gonna be a forever podcast. We've got enough of those going already, right? This new series is gonna be a series will be just a probably 10 or 12 -episode series where we're interviewing different business owners, and we're gonna call it something along the lines of you built this. That's still in the works, so by the time this is the actual series release, it might be different. But back in 08, 09, one of the things I found extraordinarily offensive was when the Democrat Party, which really started with Elizabeth Warren, by the way, Obama actually ripped it off. He's not even, he even plagiarized that, the guy. But Obama was the one with the power to really resonate it. Move this thing, yep. And he came out, and he's, you know, everyone remembers famously saying in his speech, he said, well, you didn't build that. You got a factory. Somebody else made that happen, you know? And the whole idea was, and the whole concept, and their little tiny brains, was that somebody else built the road to that factory for you to be able to move their goods. That's right. What these folks didn't realize was that back in the days when some of these factories were built, there was no federal government interstate road system. It was oftentimes the business owner themselves that were indeed building the factory and the road to get things to the market. And they're still doing that because the revenue from that factory is what actually affords the road. Not some liberal in their mom and dad's basement that is on TikTok for the day. Right, but nevertheless, as business owners ourselves, and Mike and I have owned 12 businesses over the years. I think we currently own nine and have sold three. But we've also been extraordinarily fortunate to work with a lot of business owners that have sold businesses, are running businesses, and as I was telling our guests, who I'm gonna introduce in a second, before, I don't wanna tease it here, I'm gonna keep the suspense, before we started the podcast, it's amazing to hear the different stories and be fortunate of the people that have started their business, and how they built it, how they started it, what they had to go through, some of the sacrifices they made, some of the difficulties. I think a lot of people that have never owned a business have no idea what it means. And so this was, this I had an opportunity to bring you in, and I wanted to start with you, Robbie. So Robbie DeNiro is our very first guest here, and we're happy to have you in. Robbie, you obviously have been in the news a lot. You're famous in Western New York, of course, for standing up to the face masks and the garbage when you owned the gym. And I know we're gonna talk about the new business, which I'm excited to hear about, but just start me from the get -go of that business, how hard was it, some of the regulatory stuff. Remember, you started a gym, it's hard enough to start a gym, and then you had to go through COVID when they were trying to shut things down. How hard as a business owner is it to pay bills when you have no income and no revenue? I mean, it's crazy. They were so worried about people's health that they shut the gyms down to help their health. So Robbie, you built it, and I wanna hear how you did it. Well, I appreciate that. Thanks for having me come on. So I had just got done with about 14 years in the Marine Corps. I transitioned out. God bless you, by the way. Thank you. You got it. Greatest 14 years of my life. It's an amazing experience to serve the country, especially as a Marine.
Veteran on the Move
A highlight from The CoverBag with Murp McCarthy
"Marine veteran Murph McCarthy is the creator of the cover bag the best protection for your dress hat or dress uniform cover Coming up next on veteran on the move Welcome to veteran on the move if you're a veteran in transition an entrepreneur wannabe or someone still stuck in that J -o -b trying to escape this podcast is dedicated to your success And now your host Joe Crain As a member owned not -for -profit Navy Federal puts members at the heart of every single thing they do Find out more at Navy federal org All right today we're talking with Marine Corps veteran Murph McCarthy owner of the cover bag calm and The women's rugby coach at the Naval Academy, that's pretty cool So Murph welcome to the show before we get to talking about business and entrepreneurship As a marine fellow aviator having had one of those on this show for a long time. Tell us what you did in the Marine Corps yes, so I Actually, I enlisted right out of high school and things went really well I was a tower air traffic controller and I ended up at the prep school for the Naval Academy and then graduated from the Naval Academy in 2000 then TBS and then went to down to Pensacola and When so helos went out to the FRS out there in Camp Pendleton quickly fell in love with it learned how to fly frogs Then I went to East Coast and I did two deployments on the East Coast And when I came back from that second one, there was a bunch of ospreys on the tarmac you know, I wasn't sure I wanted to get into that so I solicited my services back out to Camp Pendleton and then I ended up with the Purple Did foxes a couple deployments with them and then along the road. I got I got the the drone stink on me Stick with VMU doing drones and when it came time for me to get out of the cockpit I actually my services were sought by people other than myself To go do that again. So I went To VMU three and did a couple deployments With those guys then I came back to the Naval Academy where I was working in the Stockdale Center for ethical leadership and I was teaching leadership and that's when I started coaching rugby at the Academy in 2011 and then I had one last gig down at DITRA defense threat reduction agency where I was doing I was working on the open skies treaty which is a fascinating gig if you can get it, and I don't think you can get it anymore, but and then I retired in 2017 and You know, that was my Marine Corps story from the end of high school 92 to 2017 interesting so You know, sometimes transition is different. You're retiring because at least you got that paycheck of the month club membership, but Sometimes retirement isn't any easier than you know being in being in the military for four years and then getting out also So what was your transition like? Well, I wasn't sure what I wanted to do when I grew up You know, I was still like volunteering coaching rugby and that I Didn't see myself ever getting out of that because that was just a really fun thing for me to do It filled a lot of the you know, what you miss about the Marine Corps stuff for me But I started looking into a couple different business opportunities. I Started a business before I retired probably almost ten years before I retired and that was the cover bag and what ended up being the cover bag calm and that just grew and grew and grew to where You know, I could definitely take up a lot of time just working that when I retired But I'm I knew that was I wanted one more thing at least And that's when I started looking into other business opportunities and I got into fitness I a started franchise in Annapolis and did that I looked at a Number of other franchise opportunities, but I knew fitness was probably going to be what I wanted to do, right? So Was there an entrepreneurial bug inside of you the whole time? You're in the Marine Corps to just come about at a later time Totally. Yeah, like I've been into that kind of thing when I was since I was a kid So I remember getting in trouble for selling fireworks in the bathroom at my junior high school You know, I came up with ideas for stuff to put on ball caps Slinging t -shirts like that was always a thing but the cover bag was an idea I had when I went to the Naval Academy and You know, you're always wearing that combination cover like in the Marine Corps You're lucky especially if you're in aviation like you already ever even see that thing Yeah, buddy with the chicken you're trucking that thing all around all the time and it's white And you know, all you got to do is sit on it once or you know Be holding an ink pen that you probably should have retired a week before next to it And you gotta take the whole thing apart or buy new parts or buy a new one And I'm like man if I just had a bag for this thing, so it was like a couple years of me sketching out what it probably should look like and then designing it and then You know once you make the first couple and then you kind of go from there, but no I've always had that Hey, wouldn't this be a good idea Like I probably I probably do that like three times a week. Yeah, I've always been the same way but I think like especially when I was when you're a kid or when you're really young you have no idea how to Capitalize on your idea like yeah idea how to implement it or execute. I mean, you just don't have those capabilities and then especially nowadays with the internet and all the technology and everything and in Alibaba and China and all these resources that are available You can you could come up with a harebrained idea in just a few months be taking it to market Whereas like 20 30 years ago. It was like almost impossible to do to do. Yeah. No, and that's something you People should keep in mind. Like if you've got what you think is a crazy idea Just keep kind of fleshing it out and then you know for me it was a buddy of mine He's like, hey, I got a buddy who's got a hat and bag factory in Newark, New Jersey And why don't you send me that sketch you talked about? 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Hello fresh meals together and when it comes to options, honestly more is more That's why hello fresh's menu includes 40 recipes and over a hundred add -on items to choose from every week We love how hello fresh takes the stress at a meal time by delivering fresh ingredients and easy recipes right to your door This fall skip that extra trip to the grocery store and have dinner ready in no time with America's number one meal kit Go to hellofresh .com slash five zero veteran and use the code five zero veteran for 50 % off plus 15 % off for the next two months to get America's number one meal kit. Go to hellofresh .com slash Five -zero veteran and use code five zero veteran for 50 % off plus 15 % off the next two months I'm back talking with Marine Corps veteran Murph McCarthy from owner of the cover bag calm. So When I saw your interview come through Murph I gotta admit I'm like the cover bag and I went to your website and I saw it and I'm like ding I get it instant instant like yep thumbs up and Cuz my wife and I were Amazon sellers for many years. We're totally out of the business now. Amazon just got to be Amazon was like walking through a minefield you like you thinking you're fine all sudden kaboom your right leg's missing You're like what the fuck? anyways So we're out of Amazon now, but I loved Amazon cuz like we talked about earlier when you're when you're young You come all these hair brained ideas. That's a great idea for product That's a great idea and I could I could run them to ground and be and be putting it on Amma be putting a great product on Amazon, you know within a few months sometimes Sometimes that's not a good thing because if it turned out not to be a good idea you lose a lot of money At least I could exercise these ideas for the first time in my life. And so I have a true appreciation for a great product and I Remember, you know getting my uniforms at the Marine Corps shop or the marine the marine shop in there in Quantico And I think I still have that white shredded cardboard box with my white cover in it somewhere back in storage and and I The whole time I'm like, how am I supposed to carry this thing around? I mean for 20 plus years in the Marine Corps I carded that thing around in a cardboard box and somehow it managed to work out for him when I saw the cover bag I'm like, oh, yeah, like I get it that that's it. Like like how did how'd you just come up with that idea? It was just I mean I get it It's like it's like a problem every one of us dealt with but nobody ever thought of the idea or at least executed on the idea Yeah, well, I always thought we you know, they're expensive So all you gotta do is have to replace one and you're like man, how do I not do that again? Yeah, and that's where it started but when I had You know that run -in with my buddy's friend who said he could make me a demo I was like a demo sounds like it sounds like I'm in it But he he produced, you know The first cover bag from my sketch and I and all I had was like a little couple tweaks And he sent I ordered about 15 of them and I opened up the box of these 15 cover bags And I handed him out to the guys that were doing the color guard For the ball when we had the ball the next night and when the Marines were like, holy shit, sir This is awesome. Where'd you get these? I was like funny story like I invented that and they're like what and then I knew that I had something and that's Really? Yeah pulling my money together and like spending quality time thinking about how I was gonna do it Wow Yeah, I got like a thousand questions cuz and like I said, I'm a product guy Like I love cool products and the idea behind it. So interviewing somebody that created a product it became successful Because it was just the right idea and Let me tell you man. I don't know if you realize this bit. It is hard to find to Manufacture something in the US and it's great that this is a military product Which by the way, I want to point out like I know in the Navy Marine Corps. We call it a cover your uniform hat The other services. I'm sure the Air Force didn't call it a cover. They probably caught a hat I'm not I'm not sure about the army But you know, I want to point out a cut the cover is your official military head piece or your you know It's your military hat but in the Marine Corps Navy, we call it the cover So your product is called the cover bag But I suppose you you wouldn't have wanted to call it the hat bag because then it would have just been like anything No, and I you know how you always wondered like you watch a commercial Or hear like a radio ad you're like I'm confused but like three minutes later you're still talking about it I think some of that. Yes, I think some of that has happened with calling it the cover back You know because I thought that I was gonna be selling to guys like you and me Like I thought this was gonna be you know by the troops for the troops type thing Yeah, but I have a ton of customers that are moms and Grandmas wives like they don't know what a cover is So they're like I pick up the phone and somebody says cat bag 95 % of the time really and I just I just kind of roll with it because it's one of those You got all these old ladies buying it to you're talking about it. So let's keep that up It's like the the the Red Hat Ladies Club is buying your bag for their hats and stuff or fancy hat No, they're buying it for their husband's boyfriend's grandchildren The cover bag is a huge gift idea like I'll send I'll sell like six figures worth of these things through the Marine Corps exchanges in a year I sell a lot more than that to friends and families of people graduating Parris Island and MCRD San Diego. It's it's absolutely fascinating and Much in the same way as cover bags hat bags hat covers all that stuff My favorite is that you know, I don't pay anything for advertising like I tried it a couple times It was to me It was like wasting money because I couldn't figure out if it was doing anything at all But people will get on Facebook and argue about what should be Embroidered on the cover bag. No, it should be last name first name. No, it should just be the initials No It should be first name and then the middle name and then the last name and I'm like this is amazing because it'll go on And then the website goes ding ding ding Yeah, well I suppose you know first initial middle initial last name, you know, maybe rank before that might you know if you're selling them to all the eighth and I Marines if it becomes that if he becomes a Regular issue piece of gear. Well, then you gotta you gotta do by right? I think that's probably eventually gonna happen. Yeah Yeah, the Marines like solve a lot of your problems. They just make you do stuff The Marine Corps ever figures out. Hey, we don't want anybody walking around with a bad -looking cover again We're gonna put one of them cover bags in their c -bag issue. Yeah, that's it. That'll solve that. Yeah Yeah, well then they won't have to walk around with it in you in there with their bent arm and hand, you know So So what are some of your numbers that you can share with us or just to give us a perspective on? How successful the cover bags? Well, to be honest The company's not openly for sale, so I'm not really in tune exactly with the numbers But I've been trying to get in with the Navy exchange So the last gentleman that worked there He didn't really understand and like how the cover bag was an amazing piece of gear But they're starting to get the memo now and the main number I've been talking with them is like hey Do you know I I do over six figures worth of business with the MCX at the Navy exchanges of which there is many Many more. Can you imagine how good this would do if it was available? Yeah to the Navy first hand and then retail, you know I do I do a lot more business retail than I do goals for sale. So well, dude, that's awesome. This is good you're always gonna need to protect that cover and like I said the the parents and Girlfriends wives and grandparents are on Facebook talking about what needs to be on a cover bag and they're like, what's a cover bag? Cover and then there I am my website just gets the pinks. Yeah You know, it's like that the old the old Henry Ford story where he says Well, if I had asked the customer what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse, you know, or right There's a quote similar from Steve Jobs Like sometimes the customer doesn't really know what they're looking forward what they need until they see it You can have any color car you want as long as it's black the other Henry Ford one yeah, and The cover bags kind of like that because if you said what's one of the biggest, you know You know pain in the ass things you do you deal with with your uniform? Nobody would have said I wish I had something to carry my cover in but I mean hardly anybody would have said that but When they see when they see the cover bag, they're like, oh, yeah I want one of them because I that is a pain point for me I just never realized that there would be as ever solution for it yeah, no, it's it's a no -brainer and eat and like People that aren't, you know actively using the cover like the parents can figure out that a cover bags a great idea And the other thing is, you know, mom's don't want to be buying their kids, you know, whiskey flasks and knives Something Practical they're not gonna put alcohol in or possibly shank somebody with It works out pretty good to get him a cover back and embroidery everybody loves embroidery that Yeah Now it's got your name on it, oh, yeah The embroidery thing for the cover bag is when it really exploded Yeah, and there's a nice big surface area on the thing for plenty of embroidery you can Yeah It takes a while if you come up with a design and you want me to put it on there that takes a little more time a little more involved, but I got plenty of patch choices and You can put whatever name you want on there nicknames Like if people get too wrapped up in what name they want in there or what order I'll be like Does your does your son have a pretty cool nickname? They're like, oh, yeah, we call him Sparky.
TEEN GOSSIP FACTORY
"factory" Discussed on TEEN GOSSIP FACTORY
"The window, had climbed over the side gate and in the backyard. Kids, it's dad. Open the door. I looked over at Ryan and Rachel, who looked as confused as I felt. I knew that mister Berkeley worked about an hour away from here, and there was no way that he would be back home before his usual time. I grabbed my phone and sent misses Berkeley a text, asking her if she or her husband were on the way. She replied rather quickly, telling me that she was staying put until the fog cleared out, and that her husband was in a business meeting. So then who was outside? Rosa, please bring the children out here. The person outside the window said. It sounded like mister Berkeley, but again I was getting a weird feeling about this. I put a finger over my lips, and we slowly got up and made our way out of the room. Rosa, I know you're in there. Bring the kids out. The voice shouted. We kept going down the hall until we got to mister berkley's office. Where I shut the door. What's going on? Rachel whispered. I don't know, but that's not your dad out there. I replied. Then who is it? And why does it sound like him? Ryan asked. I shrugged. Stay here. I walked out into the hallway, and peered into the TV room. Whoever was outside the window was still knocking, but they weren't saying anything. I could hear a car starting outside somewhere and heard it racing down the street. Suddenly it was silent again, and I made my way down to the office. I opened the door and looked around the room. Where's Ryan? I asked Rachel, who is sitting on the couch? He went to the bathroom, she said. I look down the hallway to the bathroom, but the door was wide open, and there was no one in there. The sound of a door slamming shut from the other end of the hall made me look over just in time to see it close as Ryan ran out. I looked back at Rachel. Come here. You're going to grab onto my arm and you're not going to let go, okay? I said. She nodded, wide eyed, as she grabbed my arm, and we made our way to the kitchen at the end of the hall. I pulled the door open, letting in a harsh cold wind. I flicked on the switch that turned on the lights in the backyard, but they were nothing but small dots in the distance. Crap. I mumbled. Where's Ryan? Rachel asked. I don't know. I replied. Rosa. I heard him call. Ryan, where are you? I asked. I don't know. I can't see. He shouted back. His voice seemed to be coming from all directions. All at once. Just follow my voice, okay? Come on, I can hear you. I called out into the darkness. I kept talking out into the darkness until Ryan finally emerged right in front of me. I grabbed him and dragged him inside, locking the door behind him. Right as Joel Sanders from down the street ran right into the door. Ah, dang it. I breathed as I jumped in. It's Joel, Rachel said, as I watched him pressed up against the small glass window in the door, grinning up at me. A high rosa Joel said. High, I watched as he shifted his eyes over to Rachel. I grabbed her and pulled her behind me. Ken Rachel come out to play. He asked. Not right now. I replied. Come on. Let her out. He said still grinning. Maybe later Joel, you should go home. It's not safe out. Joel banged on the glass with his head and the palms of his hands. Let her out. He screamed. I pushed Rachel back, and we all ran back into the office. We sat there as different neighbors knocked on windows and doors around the house, shouting. After watch felt like years, everything got quiet. Look, Ryan pointed to the window. I turned to see that it was clearing up outside. I walked over and slowly pulled the curtain away. The sun was back, and there was no one outside. I took the kids with me, and we all walked over to the living room, as I opened the front door, and looked out into the street. I gasped, and pushed the kids back inside, shutting the door once again. What was it? Rachel asked. Nothing. I replied. We waited inside the house in silence for a while until finally the front door opened and mister and misses Berkeley came inside, rushing towards their kids, and hugging them. What happened out there? I asked. Misses Berkeley exchanged a look with her husband, but didn't answer me. Stay here, she said. I'll be right back to pay you. They took their kids with them as they left me in the living room. Curious about what I had gotten a glimpse of before. I walked out the front door and onto the driveway. There were bodies everywhere. On the street, on the front lawn, everywhere I looked, there was a dead body. I kept walking down the driveway and onto the sidewalk, keeping a distance between me and the bodies. As I walked around my car, I jumped when I almost tripped over a body right behind it. I averted my eyes quickly, but the image was already burned into my brain. The body didn't have a face. I took a deep breath and made myself look again. And I realized that I had no idea who it was. And I knew almost everyone in the neighborhood. I forced myself to look at a few others. None of the bodies had a face. I was able to recognize one, however. The track suit and shiny blond ponytail were unforgettable. Misses clep and was on the Berkeley's front yard, dead. As I looked down the street or recognized something else. There was a car in the middle of the road. The front and back of the cars were completely destroyed and dented inwards. I walked over to the driver's side, and looked in to see a body there, and, in the passenger seat. Their faces were missing, but I knew for a fact that I recognized the car. I turned around and ran back into the Berkeley's house calling for Rachel and Ryan. No response. I ran out into the backyard and tripped over the body of two boys with missing faces. Rachel, I shouted. Silence. Rachel. I screamed. But again, there was nothing. I ran around the house, and back to the front yard, where I got into my car and backed out the driveway. Wednesday as I went over the body that was back there. As I pulled out into the street, I looked into the rearview mirror in almost screamed. In my back seat, there was a body of a little girl with a missing face..
TEEN GOSSIP FACTORY
"factory" Discussed on TEEN GOSSIP FACTORY
"Still getting darker outside, more so by the second. In fact, there seemed to be some sort of fog out there or something. I couldn't even see the tree that was a few feet out from the window anymore. I stood up and peered outside, squinting, and ordered to see anything at all. The houses were almost completely dark, and I couldn't really make out anything, except very dimly lit windows from one of the houses across the street. I could see some sort of movement a few feet away, and as it got closer, I could see that it was misses kleppin. I rolled my eyes. How crazy was this woman that she was outside in the storm, just so that she could somehow get me the leaf? What are you looking at? Ryan asked. I turned around. Miss kleppen is out there just walking around. I said. Well, maybe she's lost. Rachel said. Yeah? Maybe. I replied. I looked out the window again, but I saw nothing at all, only darkness. Hey, Ryan, why don't you turn on some lights? I'm going to call your mom and let her know about the storm. I said. I grabbed my cell phone and dialed misses Berkeley. She picked up on the third ring. A hey rosa, how's it going? She asked. Um, pretty well, but there's some kind of storm coming in right now. I don't know how far away you are, or if you can see it, but it's completely dark out here right now. I just wanted to let you know that it's probably not safe to drive over here until this clears up. I said as I watched Ryan and Rachel grab some coloring books and crayons from a shelf. All right, thanks for letting me know just keep the kids inside and give me a call when it clears up. I'll call my husband. She replied. We hung up and I spent the next few minutes coloring with the twins. About 5 minutes into it, the doorbell rang again. Stay right here. I'm going to go see who it is. I replied. I walked out into the living room, and peered out the window. But I couldn't see anything. Not even the plants that set out on the front porch. Suddenly, misses face popped up, pressed against the window as she banged on the glass. Damn. I snapped. Jumping back, my heart pounding as she continued to bang on the glass. She called. I rolled my eyes and pulled the curtain back again. Yes, I asked. She smiled at me which I had never seen her do before. I was just coming to check in on you. She said, still smiling. We are fine. I replied. She kept grinning. What was with this woman? Are you okay? I asked. Oh, yes. I'm terrific. It's lovely out here, isn't it? She said. I looked around at the darkness that surrounded her. Uh, yeah, that's one way to look at it. I replied. You should come out here. And bring the children. She grinned. Oh, no, no, I don't think so. Misses Berkeley wouldn't like that. I replied. Oh, come on. It's lovely outside right now, come out here, and bring the children with you. She said. I'm going to go check on the kids. I said. I close the curtain and walked back to the TV room, but I could hear misses kleppin, knocking on the window faintly. Who was it? Ryan asked. Misses kleppin. She was being weird. I said. She's always weird. Mom says she's a nosey. Rachel said. Yeah. Your mom is right. I replied. We managed to entertain ourselves for the next hour or so, until Ryan and Rachel got hungry. We made our way to the kitchen, turning on lights as we went, so that we could see our way around the house. I made them some sandwiches, as we sat around the kitchen table as they ate. When they were done, I washed the dishes and put them all away. And then we made our way back to the TV room. When we passed the living room, the door bell, rang again. Stay here, I said, as I walked over and once again, peered out the window. It was still pitch black outside, and I wasn't able to see anything. Rosa, it's me. Can you please open the door? Misses Berkeley said. I reach for the door knob, but then I stopped. What happened to your keys? I asked. What? She replied. Your keys. You don't have them? I asked. Oh, no. I forgot that when I left. She replied. Please open the door right away. I need to see the children. If you don't have the keys, how did you get here? I asked. There was something off about this whole thing, and while it was probably this fog that was making me paranoid. It was better to be safe than sorry. Besides I hadn't even seen misses Berkeley at all. I had only heard her knocking, and her voice. And even though I couldn't see outside, I would have at least heard her car driving up into the garage, where she always parked. So what was she doing knocking on the front door? What do you mean how did I get here? She asked. If you don't have your keys, how did you drive your car? I asked. That doesn't matter. Let me in. I need to see the children. She snapped, rattling the doorknob. I didn't reply and I stepped back from the door. Let me in, rosa. She shouted. I looked over at the kids, and motioned for them to be quiet, and to go back into the TV room. They nodded and hurried down the hall. I'm sorry. I can't let you in. I'm not even sure it's you, I said. A banging sound on the window made me jump. I could see that someone was pressed up against the other side, but I wasn't able to make out any details without pulling the curtain aside. I was right. It wasn't misses Berkeley. It was misses Clapton again. Lacing you little dick? Let me into this house right now, or I swear to God himself that I will kill you when you come out. Do you hear me? I'll kill you. She's snarled. She even sounded like misses Berkeley. What was going on? I backed away from the window, lighting the curtain fall back into place. I ran back to the TV room. I had no idea what was going on out there, but something was not right. Misses was a dick for sure, but not that much of a dick. I had never seen her like that. It was almost as if it wasn't even her that was in control of herself. I called the police who told me they would try to send someone down here. I warn them about the fog outside, and they told me that an officer was on the way already. I stopped looking at the window whenever the doorbell rang. Even though it didn't stop for about 20 straight minutes, but the police never showed up. I could tell the kids are scared. Even though they weren't acting like it bothered them. We sat in silence staring at the coloring books in front of us. Suddenly there was a knock on the window. The kids stared at me, and then over at the window. That particular window in the TV room was located towards the back of the house and the backyard, which meant that whoever was knocking on.
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"Claremont boulevard is an upscale called the sack, located about 20 minutes down from my non upscale street. The families who occupy the houses are the kind that owned fancy SUVs, and send their kids to camp for the summer. All the dads played golf and the moms get together for brunch at some fancy overpriced downtown restaurant, and then come back home and spend the rest of their afternoons tanning in their backyards, while their lawn keepers trim the hedges to look like swans. It's not a place where I would usually be if it weren't for the fact that I babysit for one of these families. The berkeleys. My friend Myra set me up with this job. She teaches gymnastics to children, and knows a bunch of families who are in need of baby sitters and ask me to take the job so that she would be able to go to Disneyland with her new boyfriend. I agreed, seeing as though I had just quit my job, and was in desperate need of money, in order to pay for my upcoming semester at university. The berkeleys had offered me $17 an hour to babysit their 8 year old twins, Rachel and Ryan. Apparently, their summer camp had been canceled last minute due to some accident with some of the camp leaders or something like that. The job is pretty simple. I leave my house at 8 10 a.m. and I'm at the berkeleys by 8 30. When I get there, mister Berkeley leaves for work, while misses Berkeley gets ready to leave for her yoga class. Kids are already up at this time eating breakfast, and at 8 55 misses Berkeley leaves as well. I'm alone with the kids until around one 30 p.m., but I don't actually leave the house until around 3 p.m.. Because misses Berkeley tells me that she really needs a break after her stressful errands. I'm not complaining, though. I'm making a decent amount of money for doing the bare minimum. I don't really even have to do much else besides making the kids lunches and washing a few dishes. We spend the majority of the time watching movies or playing video games. Sometimes they beg me to get the pool with them, which, of course, I do. I actually do like this job, and I'm getting paid a lot more than I was at my old job, where I was yelled at by old people all day long. So this is definitely a step up. Besides, it's a very nice neighborhood, where nothing bad ever really happens. Until today, that is. Today at around 10 a.m. I was sitting outside on one of the lawn chairs by the pool, painting my toe nails while Ryan and Rachel splashed around in the water. I noticed it was starting to get a bit cloudy. I could barely see what I was doing, so I took off my sunglasses. Only to realize that it was actually pretty dark outside. A glanced up at the sky to see some dark clouds rolling in. As the summer breeze turned into a chilling wind. Hey guys, it looks like there's a storm coming. We should head inside for a bit. I called to the kids. They looked up at the sky as well, and then swam over to the steps and climbed out of the pool. I carefully stuck my feet back into my sandals and tried to quickly walk back inside, without messing up the white Polish. I closed the door behind me, as Rachel and Ryan shivered. Their blond curls sticking to their faces. I grabbed their towels from the table near the door and wrapped each of them up, sending them away to take a warm shower, as I made sure the doors and windows were closed. While I waited for the kids to get dressed, I looked out the sliding glass door, as it slowly got darker and darker outside. It looked as if the sun was setting, but without any of the pretty colors. And more like if the sun was moving further and further away. The sound of the doorbell echoed through the house, making me jump. I stepped away from the door and slid the curtain back into place, as I walked down the hallway, and into the living room. I opened up the door to see misses kleppin, standing on the front porch and her running clothes. Yes, I asked. I came to check on the children. She said in her very fake concerned tone. There in the shower, I replied. Misses clappin stood up on her tiptoes and peered over my shoulders into the house. She blinked rapidly at me. Which was misses Clapton's language for. I don't like poor people in my neighborhood. Anything else? I asked. It isn't safe in these conditions, and there appears to be a storm rolling in. She said. Well, if it isn't safe, then why would I drive? She took a deep breath, staring at me the entire time. 5. She whispered. I'm going to call Celia. I don't think she would feel comfortable with someone like you being in charge of her children during this dangerous weather. Someone like me, I repeated. Oh, don't get offended. You know what I mean? She waved her hand towards me as if she was shooing away a fly. No, actually I have no idea what you mean. I said. You just. You come from a different family. You wouldn't understand. She said. Okay, look, I have to go babysit these kids, and I don't think Celia would be very happy about you distracting me from my job. Have a nice day, misses kleppen. I shut the door in her face as she started to say something else. I walked over to check on the kids, and found them in the TV room, trying to get the TV to work. I don't think that's gonna work, guys. I think the storm might be messing with it. Ryan turned the TV off. Well then, what are we supposed to do? He asked. Well, we could play other games. Do you guys want to play, you know? I asked. I guess. Rachel mumbled. Well, we don't have to. You can choose. I said, sitting down next to her. I wanted to swim more, she said. Maybe we can go back after the storm. I suggested. Although, from.
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"Our town wasn't known for criminality, or anything really, and looked very upset. His dark blue jeans had various cuts in the fabric, as if torn by fingernails. Something my mother pretended not to notice. His black sweater had at some point being splattered by something. And since I didn't remember him leaving the home in the morning with any stains, I assumed they were obtained during his alleged criminal act. His skin, which had been almost orange from the unyielding summer sun, was now unbelievably pale. As if he had been dipped in white paint and left to try somewhere cold and lightless. Black hair previously combed back, outside in a downward felled mess, covering his forehead and his right eye. He didn't seem to mind the obstruction of vision. The officer who had led us to his cell, said we had ten minutes to speak with our father, and that due to the nature of my father's crime, he would have to remain in the corridor to supervise. We don't have a family lawyer. We never needed one, and the suggestion of an attorney's presence was either unheard or ignored by my distraught mother. My sister finally realizing the realness of the situation ran to my father and hugged him. He didn't seem to notice her embrace, nor our gathering in the room. He just stared at the floor, I set deep in his face, and circled by darkness born of tiredness or fright. While his mouth hung open and breathless. That's what a nerve to me the most. In the large, quiet room where in any other city several prisoners would be held. But in this one, only our father resided. You could hear even the smallest sound. I heard my mother's unstable ragged breathing, my brother's deep self calming respiration, and my sister's heavy gulps of air between her sobs. My own breathing was as steady as I could keep it, but no exhalations could be heard from my father. He just sat there as motionless as a cadaver, staring into oblivion, or gazing upon some remembered horror. When it became obvious that my father would not respond to our questions of which there were many, even from myself and my brother, we left him alone, and returned to the officer, who escorted us upstairs and into the lobby of the station. In another city the building would have seemed underfunded. The officers ill equipped to handle even a slow day's worth of crime. But in our town, the police openly expressed themselves to be bored out of their minds. Some even jokingly wished for enough taking crime. But I highly doubt the charges laid against my father, were what those sentinels of peace had in mind. They laid out the full details and due to my father's lack of cooperation. Hadn't felt the need to spare us the grizzly or aspects. They were furious with him. Absolutely disgusted by what had transpired. And I realized that the suggestion of lawyering up was merely an admonishment of formality. They wanted my father locked up or perhaps even dead. When all had been said, my mother had been given time to process what she had been told. We drove home in silence. During the ride, my sister stared at the window and pointed at random objects. Mouthing imperceptible things to herself. Our child's mind wouldn't be able to fathom what she had overheard during our briefing at the station. My brother stared down at his hands, which rested palms down on his thighs. His face hard, unmoving. He was old enough to comprehend that things suggested implied and fully revealed. I could not see my mother's face, but I'm sure it was of a similar visage to my brothers. Though probably massed to some degree by what she thought was a comforting, everything will be all right, smile. My face was blank. I didn't need to come to terms with anything. And I had no difficulty in believing that my father could have commit the atrocities of which he has been accused. I was aware of my father's predilection for violence. 6 days ago, a girl had gone missing. Her name was Kelly, and she was 13 years old. We are the same age. The local news reported that she had wandered off from her short walk to school with friends. After something in the Woods caught her attention. The two girls with whom she had been walking did not follow her, even called out to her to return to the sidewalk. But she ignored them. They ran a school and told the staff who ran into the Woods, and when they could not find her, called the police. Her dispatched several officers to assist in the search. After an hour with no success, the town was alerted to the situation, and a full search party convened and dispersed throughout the Woods and I was lying neighborhoods. Today, after yet another unsuccessful morning search, a man walked into the police station holding a large bag. The man knelt in the lobby of the station cradling the bag, ice fixated on nothing in particular. But aimed at the general direction of the officers. They approached the man, asked what he held, and when he did not respond, they opened it. The reactions were what you'd expect them to be. After the immediate shock wore off, they issued somber pounds on the back of my father, who still had not spoken. They initially thought that in some gravely fortuitous loan man search, he had recovered the body of the missing girl. It was only when an officer noticed my father's hands and torn jeans that the atmosphere of the room dramatically shifted. Guns were raised in leveled at my father, orders were barked aloud and entered the radios, and the gloom befallen room was thrown into chaos. My father had a tale reconstructed to the best accuracy possible given the evidence abducted the girl during her sojourn into the Woods bisected her at the hips, hit in the lower half, and returned the upper portion to the station. The lower half which was found in the rarely used freezer recap in our basement had been preserved for a hideous purpose. Apparently, the girl had been slain on the last day of her abduction, and my father had spent the previous few days behaving as if he had not been holding her captive somewhere. Where? We never found out. Why? He kept her for so long before committing his secondary crime. We don't know. Some people believe the whole thing was some prolonged episode of insanity, making the largely uneducated assumption that years of heavy drinking had warped his mind. While others think it was the first of what would have been many murderous indulgences, born of some genetic predisposition for savagery. My brother took offense at that, despite not having any knowledge to disprove the assertion. It was only 11, and the seat of evil could very well be within him. I think that upset him more than the actual murder. The chance that he could one day carry out a similar act of diabolism. My birthday is in two days. Remember how I said I could very well believe my father had done such terrible things? Last year on my birthday, my father was late to my birthday party. He and my mother argued and in my desire to have a birthday not ruined by fighting. I tried to break up the argument. By obviously drunk father pushed me and I fell down our stairs, fracturing my spine. I was rendered permanently handicapped. My mother hoping to preserve the family unit, reported the incident as an accident that I had fallen while excitedly running up the stairs to retrieve a present. I didn't deny the story, only because I wanted to believe it was just an accident. That he hadn't truly meant to push me with such force. Whether my father's recent actions were born of immense guilt or the sick joke of a twisted mind, I can't say. Because I don't know. He won't speak to anyone and from what I've heard during my mother's phone calls with authorities. It won't be allowed back into civilization for quite some time. If ever. We plan on moving soon. I don't know if it'll be another small town, but I don't think it'll matter anymore. Even the smallest, most remote place can have crimes as awful as those in any big city. What keeps me up at night? What sends a chill through my inoperative spine as the note that was attached to one of the poor girl's legs. It read. Melissa, I am sorry for what happened last year. Police forgive me. I got you some new legs. Just your size. I know they're not exactly the same, or is there a bit less toned, but it was the best I could do. I mean, she just stumbled into the Woods while I was on my walk. I didn't even call out to her or anything. I hadn't thought of what to get you for your birthday that could make up for what I did last year. And those legs,.
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"Hi guys, you're all invited to the documentary bizarre stories in aviation history. This episode featured an interview with beta, a 60 year old witness to a plain hijacking. And now, based on her account, I'd like to share this one of a kind story with all of you, so let's have a look. Better is my name, and I am 90 years old, the incident occurred 60 years ago. I was just 27 years old at the time, and I was working for northwest airlines as the lead flight attendant. The company was not developed at the time, and security was not as good as it is now. On a typical working day, I collided with a man wearing a black trench coat and carrying a black suitcase as a pass through the passenger waiting area with my pals. That look wasn't out of the ordinary at the time, because all business people flew for their business travels, I apologized and promptly forgot about it. I entered my position to prepare for the flight. I had no idea that man would be the cause of the flight's demise. Nearly 100 people boarded the Boeing 7 27, unfortunately, there were quite a few empty seats because it was the holiday season. It would be a pleasant journey for me, I pondered. The flight was only one hour long from Portland to Seattle. I had to walk down the aisle as usual to inspect every single passenger. Instead, I concentrated on the man with whom I had a heated exchange in the waiting room. He sat alone at the far end of the jet, concealed from view, still clutching the black luggage with a chilly, strange expression on his face. Please put your suitcase in the suitcase area for additional comfort throughout the journey, I remarked calmly, he gave me a chilly look and knotted. After that, the captain announced the flight, and the plane took off shortly after. I sat in the flight attendant seat and watched the rest of the passengers, suddenly the man with whom I encountered handed me a note. I got up and performed my job. Please return to your seat and fasten your seat belt. You may be in danger since the plane has not yet achieved a stable altitude. He muttered to my ears before returning.
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"Hello, I'm Tina and today I'm sharing my story that how one prank went real and changed my life. So let's just begin. So basically, Allen and I dated for the past three years. Allen was very tall and handsome. He was very innocent. I must be the luckiest girl who was dating him. But you must be thinking about how we met. Well, it was just a magical coincidence. I'm passionate about dancing and go for dance practice daily. I was in the evening batch, so completing all my other work during the daytime, I used to make myself free by evening. One evening when I went to the dance class, I saw my mates busy and welcoming and entertaining one boy. I thought he must be the newly joined. So rather than taking much interest in him, I focused on my practice. He was quite handsome, but I didn't want to take initiative to interact first. When I looked at him, I saw him waving his hand at me. But then I got another thought that he must be waving at another person. I never felt myself to be so lucky that such a handsome boy would approach me first. So I avoided him rather than becoming a joke in front of everyone. Our instructor was late that day, hence everyone made themselves involved in doing dance practice. And so did I. He came to me and said, hey, I'm Alan, and you look beautiful today. I was shocked. I just smiled at him and said, thank you. But the story doesn't end here. When our dance instructor came, he asked me to dance with Alan. After then, we became dance partners. So daily we kept dancing together and we became very close to each other. We started sharing our day to today moments and slowly we fell in love. One fine day he proposed to me and without thinking I said yes to him and it's been two years we were dating. Days passed on a few months before one lazy day. I was sitting idle on the couch, scrolling through YouTube videos, where one video caught my attention, break up a prank on my boyfriend. I clicked on that video, and I saw that video and thought, why not try this prank on Alan? Allen was my handsome innocent and cutest boyfriend. I just want to do something that will make my day. So I thought, let's give it a try on Alan and watch his reaction. I involved my friend Alice in this prank for some help. So I called her and she received the call. Alice said, hey T now, are you? I'm good Alice. I need a favor from you, and I told her to visit my house. The same afternoon Alice came to my place. I told her about the prank video idea. She laughed heartily and agreed to help me in my plan. You would think, what was the prank I was planning? So the prank was to create a scenario that I cheated on Alan. I don't love him, and that's why I'm breaking up with him. Alice got the plan and we started preparing for it. Soon after I got a text from Alan, I'm on the way to your house. Wow, that was the right time to work on the prank. Both of us prepared ourselves kept the door open and were waiting for Alan to come, and then we heard his footsteps. That's when I started fighting intentionally with Alice. As the sound of Ellen's footsteps got louder, I cried at Alice. You know what? He's always busy with his work. I'm here all alone. I never loved him. When he proposed to me, I just accepted his proposal without thinking, and now I regret it. I was saying all this just for fun, and he was listening to everything. Then he said, you never loved me? Oh, you're here. Well, I did, but you're always busy with work. Never spend time with me. I was just alone rather than hanging around with you. Now my feelings for you faded, so let's break up. Allen said, you know, Tina, I'm working for our future. I agreed with this statement, but still the fun should continue. So I continued whatever Allen, I just want to break up with you. He got disappointed, but then he replied being rigid. Well, Tina, that's good that you can fast all that was there in your mind. If you're happy breaking up with me, I'm fine with it if that's what you want. I've been cheating on you for the past two months with your best friend Ella. After hearing those words from him, my heart shattered, and in the end, I was the one who ended up crying. But my idea of a prank helped me to get out of the trap of a fake relationship with Alan. He was such a creep. I broke up with him and told him to leave my house. I was crying endlessly. Alice handled me and made me understand that I left him just because he was not worth loving and to stop crying. This was supposed to be a prank, but it turned out to be real. Have you ever been in a similar situation? Share your story in the comments. Hit the like button if you liked my story. Subscribe to this channel to watch more such videos and press the bell icon for more updates..
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"I'm here to tell you a story about family love and betrayal that sure to shock you to your core. If you haven't already, can I ask if you have remembered to subscribe to this channel? If not, this is your perfect chance to. Not only will you get weekly updates when this channel gets a new video, but it would also allow this channel to grow. You're the reason people like me get to share their stories with the world and entertain everyone with our stories. So join the family and make sure to like this video as well. Now let me start my story by talking about my younger twin sister, Eva. Growing up, me and my twin were very close. We considered each other to be not just sisters, but best Friends. I know most people don't get along with their siblings and only tolerate one another, but not me and Eva. We would spend all hours together if possible. I swear there's no secret when it came to us. And when our mom passed a year before due to COVID-19, we relied on each other a lot to get through it. It was tough, but I felt like it brought us closer together. Around this time we decided to ask our dad, who isn't our real dad? If we should move out of the house. After all, we weren't his daughters. Now that his wife is dead, we didn't want to intrude, and we're already 19. We were sure to get a job somehow. So hand in hand, we decided to confront him together after talking it out with one another. We knocked on his office door in the house. Shortly after mom died, he converted the walk in closet into an office area, since he works at a huge software company. He usually spent most of the days there. Come in, he called out. Squeezing my sister's hand, we went in together. He looked up from his computer and put his glasses down with a smile. Hey girls, what's up? Eva started first. So listen daddy, we were just thinking that we should move out. I said, helping even to finish her sentence before we can check it out. We saw dad wyden his eyes in disbelief in our seriousness as he closed his computer. Before he can talk, I continued, it's not that we want to move out and away from you. That's not it at all. It's just that since we're not really your daughters, we've been thinking of getting out of your hair so you can continue on with your life and find someone. We're noisy, probably causing you a headache having two girls in the house. You're not our biological father, so it. But I consider you to be mine, he thundered, banging both his arms into his shoulder. We've never seen our dad that angry before. His eyes were so passionate possessive, and it made my heart race as he continued. I don't consider you to be a headache. You're not a nuisance, and you do not need to move. Ava, Eva. How could you think that I would ever want you to move out?.
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"So the hell with the rules, and yet I still wanted to know what was under that skirt. The same night we were texting each other and discussing our dinner for a long time. That weekend was supposed to have good weather and I invited her to go out of town and stay overnight somewhere. It would be our second date. And I still wanted to know her as closely as possible. You know what I mean? It was a sunny Saturday, I put all my stuff in a backpack, but all the necessary picnic products grabbed a tint, brushed my teeth and picked up Casey. That's her name, by the way. I was so focused on her that I even forgot to tell you her name. Her name was Casey, and she was 19 years old. We were riding in the car and listening to music. She was singing along and having a great time in the front seat. I seemed like a 50 year old man compared to her. I even felt embarrassed. I had never seen such an energetic and positive girl. We arrived at our destination, I put her in her wheelchair and started making a fire and setting up camp. She was watching me, and I looked at her out of the corner of my eye. She asked me to come over to her, I leaned over and we kissed again. That's when I knew that the fish was on the hook in that night would be everything that I had been dreaming about from the moment I liked her picture on Tinder. As time went on, we chatted and I started to see different sides of Casey. The more I learned about her, the more I violated rule number 5, which is don't fall in love. Her life was so full to spider limited abilities, sometimes I even forgot about her disability. I offered to cover her legs with a blanket when it suddenly got cold. And we laughed a lot about that one. Even the weather that day was on my side. It started to rain. We sat around the fire a little until we got wet, and then we moved into the tent. The Rain intensified, there was lightning, and with every strike Casey pressed against me more and more. So, we got into the car, rain, lightning, kissing. It was so epic. I wouldn't have even started telling this story if it hadn't been for that moment with The Rain, which helped us get down to business faster..
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"By this point we have noticed her personality growing slightly more stressed and oppressed as time goes on. Now if you've read up to this point, you're probably thinking, oh, she's just another dumb girl who picked up a sleaze ball guy whose milking her for all she's worth. And you're definitely not wrong. We all thought the same thing, until she one day dropped this little bomb on us. He is just recently told her that he used to be spec ops in the military. The air force to be exact, and they've decided that they want him to work for them again. They'll pay him 75,000 for working three days, three weeks, three months. The story always changes, something she doesn't find suspicious at all. Testing military equipment that's too dangerous, and could be life threatening. He agrees to the work, and we all think he's copying out of their relationship. She then tells us that if she wishes to remain in contact with him, they'll have to get married as soon as possible and she'll have to be prepared to move away with him. She explains that the military has been calling her and making stops at their house to explain to her that she'll have to marry him immediately, and she needs to be prepared to move to an undisclosed location at any given moment. From that location shall not be allowed to make any contact with friends or family, since all that is going on is top secret and she has to prove that she can be trusted. Obviously all of us are now alarmed. Every one but her, and her family. They are delighted that she's with a military man, and are proud that she gets to be a part of something much bigger. The rest of us sane people are trying to figure out what on earth he can be plotting. Is she going to be hijacked into human trafficking? Is he going to murder her? One of her coworkers has just called the human trafficking hotline and they think that this is definitely sounds like something they've seen before. Unfortunately they can't do anything about it until they actually make a move and takes her. We're looking into contacting our local police to see if there's anything that can be done about this. Before she gets the phone call that tells her when they have to make their move. When this is all so crazy, we don't know what to expect or just what danger she is really in. Any thoughts would be appreciated,.
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"Hi. I'm new to this site, and I'm not sure if this is allowed in the category, if so feel free to remove it. Anyways I am currently starting to fear for my coworkers life. Here's the story. My coworker, I will call her Jane as 33 years old a virgin and a very devout Christian. Her family is very strict and very religious. I am not bashing on their religion in any way. I was raised a Christian myself. These people, though, they just seemed to take their beliefs to a new extreme. Think of them as the Flanders from The Simpsons. I mentioned that Jane is a virgin, because she is honestly never even had a boyfriend before. She's been on a few dating websites as of late, but she's usually very strict when it comes to the types of guys she would date. She can be kind of stuck up, which has gained her very little popularity. She recently meets a guy on OkCupid, let's call him Miguel. Miguel claims to live in a bigger city than ours, an hour away, we are in the middle of nowhere in Kansas, and that he is 35 years old, claims to be a virgin and takes an interest in Jane. They chat for a while. She's very excited. Once they establish a fondness for each other, he claims that he has a $250,000 in savings and a job it says another pay $65 an hour. He has a nice apartment and two cars, one of which is a 69 Dodge charger. Sounds too good to be true, right? We all agree. Everyone but her. They agree to meet for a first date, and he says he'll drive down to see her. While driving down here, he claims to get into an accident on the interstate and his left hospitalized. Jane is devastated. The rest of us, who she was telling us to, all just assume that he was lying to her and this was his way of getting out of the date and her finding out that he was scum. We didn't think there'd be any more communication afterwards. We were wrong. They continued talking, and shortly after getting out of the hospital, he claimed he was hit by a car crossing the street. His life apparently took a turn for the worst, as he claimed he was laid off from cesna, his apartment was burglarized and all of his money in his car were seized by the IRS due to a misunderstanding in his taxes from a few years back, completely believable stories, right? Much to our dismay, Jane decides she doesn't care about these things, and she is willing to continue talking to the man. He soon starts calling her daily and coming over once a week to visit her at work. At this point we get to meet this guy, and he comes off as your typical loser with a beer belly who lays around on the couch all day, yelling at his woman to bring him a beer. Despite all of the money he claims to have, he wears clothes letter way too big for him. Usually sweat pants and flip flops. This earned him the nickname flip flops, amongst.
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"Everyone. My name is Becca, and among us is my new passion. Yes, I'm Lola's sister and I really dream about our parents divorce. I want to confess something I hate computer games so much as well as all the other games. It's insane that adult people are screwing around instead of doing something useful. They can read a book or talk to each other, for example. I was forced to install that stupid game as soon as my father brought it home. To be more precise, I had no choice. My father got into my laptop himself and installed it. He even connected it to my home network. He said all the family members are supposed to play it because it's more fun like that. I didn't feel any fun. It was boring and disgusting for me, especially because I could spend that time in a more useful way. I'm a graduate and I have lots of classes, projects, and preparations. I was not allowed to even hang out with my friends without playing several sessions of the game before that. So my sabotage was a real one. I was not playing. I was changing the placement of my character from time to time. When someone was killing me, I felt really happy. That meant that the torture has ended for some time. Then I saw the messages in the chat, like for real, our parents are fighting because of the game, aren't they? They were fighting not because of the marriage issues or money, or missed opportunities, but because of some game, it seems that the set of pixels on their screens means more than their own kids and house. The thought has almost killed me. So I decided to show them that they can't abandon their kids, even if the game is very interesting. So I decided to show them that they can't abandon their kids, even if the game is very interesting. I don't know whether it's destiny or my luck, but I've been getting the impostor role more often than any other, probably, I get it three times more frequently, and I've been taking full advantage of that, infusing chaos and disarray in the session. I could kill my mom and run away or instead I could let everyone live till the very end. My parents were getting mad because of that, and they started to fight even more. For some reason, they didn't see my sister in me as the real rivals. Then their fight spread to real life. And at that moment, my genius unfolded to the full extent. It wasn't too difficult to move the cup a few inches aside. Who would be able to see that its hand points the other way? I could leave the wet razor in the sink or throw the black sock to the washer full of white clothes. Well, I was little, but a very tenacious villain, and that was enough for my parents. They are ready to tear each other apart because of the little things and once again for some reason they didn't even think about my sister and me as though we didn't exist at all. This and also the fact that Becker cried all the time which convinced me that I was on the right track..
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"These days, I lay awake every night crying because, well, my family is shattered. There were four of us. Mom, dad, my sister, and me. Now my parents are packing their things and kicking each other out. My sister just keeps laughing saying that our parents went mad, but she doesn't do anything to help them or be supportive or help me every evening. I come to this game and dream of winning. I want everything to be just as it was earlier. If only I can win this blasted game. But it won't happen. Everything began with this. It's called among us. You've probably heard about it everyone knows about it, even if they've never played it. That's why my father decided to check it out and see if it's really as good as people say. We have this family tradition on weekends we gather together to play board game. We're used to different things. Carcassonne to kaido. We've even played the dreaded monopoly and haven't even fought for a single time. We're very bonded because of our tradition. Now, video games was something new for all of us. We all have our own computers because our parents were remotely, and they also bought laptops for us to study, so it wasn't difficult to join like the home network and get our accounts all connected. My father downloaded and installed everything for us. So the game is fairly simple, and we all started playing. At first, it was super fun. We were discussing the tasks, guessing who might be the impostor B planning our actions and my honest opinion, the game wasn't as good as mafia. I'm super good at mafia. But the adults really liked it a lot. My mom told me it reminded her her console that she had before we were even born. The game required quite a good number of players, so my sister and I had no opportunity to skip it. It was required for family game night. At first, among us was only weekend entertainment, but our parents soon became obsessed. They got involved with it so much that gradually the game became part of our daily routine..
TEEN GOSSIP FACTORY
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"Hello. My name's Jessica, and I want to tell you about something that is a little embarrassing for me. So my dad just got a new job and we had to move cities. So of course I had to find a new school. I'm quite shy so I was feeling pretty nervous on my first day. Dad offered to drop me off, but I begged him to let me take this school bus like all the other kids. It's not like my dad drives a really beat up old car. That's not why I didn't want to lift. It's just. Well, my dad's really rich. Like, stinking rich. He wanted to drop me off in his helicopter like he used to at my old school. I mean, I love riding in his helicopter. It's amazing up there in the sky. But it was my first day, and I didn't really know what to expect. The new school looks really cool, and I didn't want to give the wrong impression. I waited outside the gates of our house for the bus, but it never came. In the end, mom had to drive me in, and we found out that the school bus doesn't even come to my house because the school assumed it was some kind of fancy hotel. I already felt my face turning red as the head teacher told mom this. The first day passed in a blur, and I didn't really make any friends. At one point, I overheard two girls whispering about my designer backpack. The next day, everyone was smiling at me as I walked by. But then I'd hear them laugh and shout little miss rich. I couldn't believe word had already gotten out about my family being rich. It's hard enough being new. Never mind being rich, too. I also didn't understand how they already knew. Later that day, I caught a glimpse of something when I was walking to the toilet. Pinned next to the notice bore was a selfie of me and my family on our boat. And then another of us in our helicopter. I ran to the toilet and locked myself in the cubicle. How could I face my class again? Everyone was laughing behind my back. Sometimes I just wish we could be a normal family with a normal amount of money. They didn't even know me. Who would go to such links to embarrass me like this? I suddenly felt angry and wanted to know who would do this. I figured it was probably those two girls who everyone seemed to love. Maybe if they realized that I'm actually a nice person, they'd stop trying to ruin my life. The next day, a boy in my class asked me if he could get a lift home after school. In our private jet. He did this in front of everyone. I wanted the desk to swallow me up. Why did people have to be so cruel? After class, I plucked up the courage to go and confront the two girls. I was sweet to them and just ask them why. They ignored me and walked away laughing to themselves. If they wouldn't even listen to me, then I decided I'd just have to find another way to get through to them. Later that day, I realized no one was calling me little miss rich anymore. A girl named Annie even asked me if I'd like to have lunch with her. It had worked. That morning, I'd put a poster up on the notice board, saying that yes, my family is quite wealthy, but that doesn't make me a bad person, and that I am still a normal kid like them. I couldn't believe it when I saw the two popular girls walking towards me. They had their heads turned down and looked nervous. They apologized and said they were just jealous and hadn't mean to turn people against me. I forgave them and ask them to join me in Annie. By the end of the day, I had made three new friends. Sometimes you just have to be honest and tell people exactly how you feel. I think they thought that because I'm rich that I thought I was better than them. That I'm some kind of spoiled brat, but I'm not like that at all. It's important to be kind to people because you really never know someone's story until they tell you. Don't judge anyone, and don't be jealous. Anyway, now I have some friends and I'm slowly getting into my new school. I even offered the girls all right and my dad's helicopter. They can't wait. What do you think of this story? Feel free to share your comments and stories in the comment section below and don't forget to like the video and subscribe to our channel..
TEEN GOSSIP FACTORY
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"I flew into his room and threw his toys out the window, and then my mom came and locked me in a ruined room alone with a chaos that this petty bastard had arranged, and they took him to the park to eat ice cream in addition, they took my pocket money for the throne toys, or didn't buy anything at all instead of the promised cell phone. To be honest, this didn't add love to my parents at all, and getting older, when my brother turned from simply drifting into a small, uncontrollable monster, and all I wanted was to move, for example, to school, true, then the school ceased to be a Salvation for me. Four years is not enough not to intersect. So when Tim went to first grade, even my saving place turned into another quarrel. Only at school, the teachers weren't blindsided by the love of my brother, on the contrary. He had to stay there after lessons for his bad behavior. The worst thing was that Tim not only offended me, but he also misbehaved all the time. He bullied other kids. Took breakfast money from them, and was actively beaten out as a leader in the punishment. True, excuses didn't help him there anymore that I framed him because the parents of the offended kids knew for sure he was a bad guy. But for some reason, nothing has changed in relationship to him from her parents. They were still ready to blame everyone except their little son. Despite the fact that in the process of defense, the sun had dirtied his mother's coat with his boots, or rushed at passers by, right behind his dad's back. And if blind love looks like this, then please let me never know what it is. My brother and his small Friends put together a whole gang that was a nightmare not only for the kids, but even high school students, and they couldn't do anything because an adult guy will not beat kids. And if he does, then he will have problems with it from the principal and the evil parents of the kids. I try to avoid them, but it didn't always work out. The problem was that our school wasn't divided by the age of the students. In principle, it was the only one in the whole suburb. For example, in my class, a little girl was studying in the classroom, and she said in her former school, the younger students were kept separately and a different building on the other side of the town. I just dreamed about it, but the older my brother became, the worst is pranks over me were. At some point, I was even scared for my life because Tim could easily close me in the school locker room and leave or for example slam the basement door at home. When I chose cans there on mom's request, so far they found me, but for how long the luck will last. I didn't know, and there was no desire at all to check. Then, for the first time, thoughts of revenge crept into my head, if Tim understands only physical force, there will be force against him. Only it was necessary to crank everything so that he understood for sure. He was a little faggot that doesn't get caught. The trick, yes, and preferably as offensive as much as possible. I didn't have too many thoughts. In addition to some obvious things, more like wrecking, never came to my mind. For example, lured him into the basement and close it for a couple of days..
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"After this, he will never dare to offend you. Watch this video till the end. I've had constant conflicts with my brother since childhood. The most interesting thing is that I'm the oldest. For as long as four years, that's just the main person was. Well, you understand. It was always Tim. The youngest one in the pride of the family, it all started with a fact that my parents brought the screaming envelope poem, and I asked them to take it back. Tim never cared that he was too little. He would have had enough tricks and anger for ten adults. And he would do nothing like that. Even in swaddling clothes, he managed to crawl into my room and there did as many shitty things as he could. Mom said, he's small, and you can't be offended, but I didn't think so, because he didn't take off his diapers and pee on the carpet in any other room. Moreover, Tim did everything cunningly so that in case our parents catch us, it was always me who was to blame. Yes, parents never understood. Older? So Rick and full, and some investigations, checks, no, in my house, I was always guilty..
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"Hello, everyone. My name is Josh, and I can't feel cold like at all. And no, I'm not the legendary iceman that you sometimes see in a video about human superpower. I'm still a teenager. Because of this condition, strange things happened to me a lot. Once my parents were about to be deprived of their provincial rights. I've had the so called cygnus since I was a kid. I can't stand the heat and the sun. I feel really bad. It's hard for me to breathe. My heart goes haywire. I have huge hives if I stay under the sun for a long time. But when it's cold, I feel just fancy. I was the only one who felt great. I could breathe deeply and not get sick at the wrong moment. But when you Friends didn't share my passion, though they were used to such temperatures and it was really cool. Skating, skiing, jogging on the fresh snow in the morning, what a pleasure. They started to shout at my parents. Hey, your kid would get a cold. Mom had to quickly introduce my diagnosis and medical certificates to everyone. But there was still startling looking at the kit without a cap and a coat in such a climate. My parents are of orthodox religion. On great religious holidays, we go to church and sometimes swim in the font. I don't know what it means, but again, there was a real humdinger. Mom quickly took a duck and the font and went out, with goosebumps and shivering with cold, but a jumped in and started swimming. And no need for me to set me up for an angel. It was just my trade to swim in the cold water. Maybe I'm kind of bare, yeah? They seemed believing us. What we didn't go to this church anymore. But the commission scratched their heads. They started to see over about depriving my parents of their parental rights. You know, they seemed like not caring about my health. And it started. My parents claimed I had a disease. That's why we moved to the north. In the heat, I feel bad, and there's a risk for my life. But for some reason, no one listened to them. I was examined for a long time. My parents were forbidden to visit me till the end of the examinations. So we talked on the phone. We cried a lot, but having needled an x-ray to the bone, the doctors got we had been telling the truth. They gave me back to my parents. They didn't even say sorry. Anyway, I lost three months of life and a bunch of nerve cells. Now I feel sick seeing people wearing whites, but I've become the star of our city and some CDs nearby. Anyway, I'm glad it all ended well. Otherwise, I'd probably run away and come home on my own. But I learned a good lesson. First, adults can be stupid too, especially if they need a cause, and second, you shouldn't show your exceptional. It can lead to backfire. Some appearance brought me a cap anyway, and a cult too. Though I got all the lining out. But anyway, I started looking like everyone else. And yeah, I don't go barefoot on the snow anymore. My neighbors know me, but explaining this to every strangers, I would run out of my nerves..
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