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A highlight from 1420: Bitcoin Will Surpass $1,000,000 By This Time - Max Keiser
"And here's your prescription. I know just the pharmacy to get this filled. Who are you? A pharmacy benefit manager. A middleman your insurer uses to decide which medicines you can get, what you pay, and sometimes even which pharmacy you should go to. Why can't I go to a pharmacy in my neighborhood? Because I make more money when you go to a pharmacy I own. No one should stand between you and your medicine. Visit PHRMA .org slash middleman to learn more. Paid for by pharma. In today's show I'll be breaking down the latest technical analysis as one analyst predicts a Bitcoin price crash all the way down to $20 ,000. And check it out moving forward all crypto news alerts YouTube videos will have both English and espanol subtitles available. I'm also currently working on a dedicated channel dubbed 100 % in espanol. Let me know if that excites you. Also check this out Stanley Drunkenmiller is now known as one of the most successful hedge fund managers on Wall Street and is currently worth $6 .2 billion. He says straight up frankly if the goal bet works the Bitcoin bet will probably work better per each. Also in today's show Ethereum futures ETFs garner a lukewarm reception on the first day of trading with all of the trading volume across nine products at less than $2 million. We'll also be discussing the crypto community tells Elon Musk to dump the Satoshi X account. I'm also going to be sharing with you a Satoshi Nakamoto secret email emerging from the shadows never shared before. As well as here's what's in store for Bitcoin in the S &P 500 for quarter four of 2023. According to crypto analyst Jason Pizzino I'm also going to be sharing invest answers unveiling his max upside price target for Bitcoin in 2025. And quoting Max Keiser from November of 2011 he says Bitcoin has about 100 ,000 users now. My goal is to try to get that number up to 1 million in 2012. He also shared his short -term price target of $65 ,000 back in January of 2021 and lo and behold by November we smashed that price target. He now says that BlackRock agrees with my 220 ,000 interim price target for Bitcoin which he says is still in play. He also says by the time America catches up to El Salvador and starts buying Bitcoin the price will be over a million dollars per coin. 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 crypto news alerts dot net welcome everyone just joining us this is a live show as you know seven days a week welcome to the number one daily Bitcoin pod this is pod episode number 1420 just blaze today is October 3rd 2023 and the markets are correcting and consolidating after the recent pump let's kick off today's show with our market watch as we do each and every day you can see Bitcoin correcting down 2 .2 % trading just above twenty seven thousand two hundred dollars also ether is down trading at 1650 along with the majority of the altcoin market and checking out coinmarketcap .com we're still sitting at 1 .08 trillion dollars with roughly 36 billion in volume in the past 24 hours we've got the Bitcoin dominance which has recently been on the climb currently at forty nine point three percent with the ether dominance barely up trading at eighteen point four percent and checking out the top 100 crypto gainers of the past 24 hours we got gala leading the pack up almost seven percent trading at one and a half cents followed by conflux up three percent trading at thirteen point six cents followed by polygon matic three percent trading just under fifty seven cents and checking out the top 100 crypto gainers of the past week we can see ultimately a sea of green with a handful in I mean a sea I should say of red with a handful in the green with our LB leading the pack of roughly seventeen percent with the biggest losers being Bitcoin cash and Ave down collectively roughly seven percent and checking out the crypto greed and fear index one of my favorite indicators hence why I shared every day in the show we're currently rated dead in the middle with a 50 which is neutral same as yesterday last week was a 46 and last month a 40 in fear so there you have it how many of you are currently bullish on the king crypto let me know and how many of you are anticipating a low as I'm going to be sharing an analyst predicting a twenty thousand dollar price crash and we'll be breaking down everything in between so let's get it shall we and again welcome to everyone just joining us make sure to say hello in that live chat as this is a live and interactive show and at the end of the show I read everyone's comments out loud so let's break down today's Bitcoin technical analysis Bitcoin just hit six week highs to start off October but some forecasts still see the Bitcoin price returning to twenty thousand in which lo and behold there's a CME futures gap if you didn't know and while up around six percent since the start of last month and now circling twenty seven five Bitcoin is not fooling many with its current price behavior the Bitcoin price strength in the recent weeks has many market participants hoping for a push and even through thirty thousand resistance send it let's go for some there remains every reason to be cautious however in an ex post analysis published October 2nd popular trader crypto bullet reiterated that twenty thousand is still very much on the radar as the Bitcoin price target the latest trip to twenty eight six he argued is now forming the right hand shoulder of a classic head and shoulders chart pattern with the downside logically due to follow if it completes quitting analysts here second half of October should be bearish in my opinion the idea was built on an August roadmap with a short term upside target of twenty eight thousand before reversing towards that twenty thousand target let me know if you agree or disagree with the analysts I disagree I think we are bullish for this October and I think we're more than likely to continue up but it's good to cover all our basis is here now not all reasons headed heeded his warning with fellow popular trader you easy in particular skeptical of the likelihood for this scenario playing out crypto bullet however is far from alone when it comes to fearing that the worst for Bitcoin is over yet and one of crypto quants quick take blog posts on September 28th we had Wetson founder and CEO of crypto trading resource dominando crypto compared bitcoins performance between 2020 and 2022 quitting the analysts here between 2020 and 2022 Bitcoin underwent a notable appreciation region historic highs and capturing global attention however this phase was followed by significant correction that caused the prices to plummet sending crypto back to the lower levels say goodbye to your credit card rewards big -box retailers led by Walmart and Target are pushing for a bill in Congress to take away your hard -earned cash back and travel points to line their pockets Senate bill 1838 would enact harmful credit card routing mandates that would end credit card rewards as we know it if you love your credit card rewards visit hands off my rewards calm and tell them to oppose credit card routing legislation paid for by the electronic payments coalition now we also suggest that should history repeat a sub 20 ,000 level could resurface and an accompanying chart offered a fractal which now has been subject to a repeat quoting him again now in 2023 we are once again witnessing Bitcoin achieving over a hundred percent gains attracting substantial interest from institutional and retail investors nonetheless the market has recently experienced significant volatility and a downward price trend the similarity to the past raises questions about whether we are witnessing a repeat of the 15 ,500 USD if this fractal holds over the next few weeks which could result in a series of FUD and negative news in the crypto space furthermore there's a possibility of a redistribution where the price threatens significant highs but institutional profit -taking forces the price down creating the atmosphere of uncertainty in the market and as reported we also had another analyst rack capital who's demanding that the bulls step up to protect this support in order to avert the long -term retracement now for news as I shared in the intro of the show moving forward all crypto news alerts YouTube videos will have both English and espanol subtitles available and I'm currently working on a dedicated channel dubbed 100 % and espanol so we can serve our Latin community for the Bitcoin daily news let me know if this excites you and if you'll be one tuning in and also as shared here breaking news Stanley drunken Miller known as one of the most successful hedge fund managers on Wall Street who has worked 6 .2 billion he says frankly if the goal bet works then the Bitcoin bet will probably work better how many of you believe that he is probably right let me know your honest thoughts fam in the comments right down below and with that being shared yesterday was a historic day for ethereum futures ETFs launching however they ultimately flopped with less than two million dollars in trading volumes across nine assets so let's break this down and discuss it shall we here we go check it check it check it the rush of excitement that accompanied the launch of nine new ethereum futures ETFs appears to have yielded little in the way of investment dollars in comparison October 2nd nine new ETF products which are designed to track futures contracts tied to the value of the ethereum native currency arrived on the market of these funds only five hold exclusively ether futures while the other four track a mixture of Bitcoin and ether futures contracts quoting Eric Balchunes right here unprecedented day today with multiple ETFs all launching at the same time no clear winner has emerged all of them were pretty average lower than I would have predicted but it's a long run and remember these hold futures ETFs investors much prefer physical to derivatives that's right we much rather prefer spot ETFs because there's nothing but manipulation and price suppression continuously occurring in the futures market all by design hence by the regulators decide not to approve anything spot related but they continue to approve the futures ETFs which blows my mind personally in total all nine ETFs witness less than two million dollars worth of trading volume which is essentially nothing as a midday Eastern Time on the first day of trading the most popular of the futures ETFs products were Valkyrie's Bitcoin strategy ETF which tracks the combo of Bitcoin and ether raking up a total of 880 2 ,000 worth the volume it's worth noting had already been trading as a Bitcoin only futures ETF since October of 2021 but then adjusted its strategy to also include ETH the first day trading volume of ether ETFs paled comparison with that of the pro shares Bitcoin strategy ETF which debuted October of 2021 one month prior to hitting that all -time high and during a roaring market for crypto assets obviously it witnessed more than 1 billion dollars in trading volume on its first day so Wow compare that 1 billion in 24 hours to less than 2 million in 24 hours crazy now Balchune has noted that compared to the regular traditional finance ETF launched the volume witness was actually quite a lot though investors tend to prefer spot ETF products over futures Balchune has explained that all the products were scheduled for launch on the same day as the SEC wanted to prevent any one fund from gaining market domination now what if the SEC decided to do the same thing with the spot ETF approved them all at the same time like whoa meanwhile a range of United States firms jostled for the pole position for the nascent ether futures market ETF firm volatility shares canceled his plans to list a similar product saying that it didn't see the opportunity at the current time well we all know this we're all seeking the spot ETFs those are the game changers and there is probably about a 95 % chance that the BlackRock Bitcoin spot ETF get approved in 2023 I mean 2024 we're in 2023 hopefully right before the having occurs scheduled to be in what is that April of next year roughly six months out as we know it's gonna trigger trillions of dollars cascading into the Bitcoin market and that alongside the Bitcoin having are the two biggest catalyst for 2024 and let's add a third bullish catalyst which is a supply shock as there's currently less than two million Bitcoin sitting on the exchanges and for these ETFs once they get approved for the spot they have to be holding the underlying asset so there's gonna be mass accumulation continuing by the whales not only in this fourth quarter of 2023 but collectively in 2024 as well so let's freaking go and with that being shared now for the Satoshi X saga going on and also I want to share with you Satoshi Nakamoto's secret letter which came from the shadows never shared before I've never read it I'm gonna be reading it in real time with you so let's break this one down shall we members of the crypto community have rallied behind a post on X calling for Elon to remove a profile claiming to be the fabled creator of Bitcoin Satoshi Nakamoto and here's your prescription I know just the pharmacy to get this filled who are you a pharmacy benefit manager a middleman your insurer uses to decide which medicines you can get what you pay and sometimes even which pharmacy you should go to why can't I go to a pharmacy in my neighborhood because I make more money when you go to a pharmacy I own no one should stand between you and your medicine visit ph RMA org slash middlemen to learn more paid for by pharma October 3rd the user posted saying that both the account claiming to be Nakamoto and account with the handle Bitcoin should be removed because they breached the platform's terms of service which says doesn't allow misleading and deceptive identities as predator shared here hey Elon Bitcoin and Satoshi accounts are in breach of your terms of service for using misleading and deceptive identities please remove their checkmarks I guess it could be confusing to people thinking it is an official Bitcoin account and we know there will never be an official Bitcoin account and an official Satoshi account which we all know there will never be an official Satoshi account he says you can't misappropriate someone else's identity without disclosing you are a parody account it is no different than making a fake Tesla or Elon Musk account and I think he makes a great point what are your thoughts chat let me know the true identity of Nakamoto has been subject of discussion and the Bitcoin and crypto community as we know since the inception Satoshi X account is reportedly run by a user named Andy Rowe who was claiming to be posting from a profile back in 2018 and on July of 2018 Rowe said he curates quotes for the Satoshi account as outlined right here the account had been quiet since October 31st of 2018 however October 2nd yesterday the account made a new post saying Bitcoin is a predicate machine and went on to explain that it would explore different aspects of the Bitcoin white paper over the coming months as Satoshi Nakamoto announced here on X now what are your thoughts fam let me know another user call for the accounts to be disabled linking or likening them to how X responded to the account with the handle internet yeah interesting the Bitcoin creators true identity to this day remains a mystery what many people over the years claiming to be the true Satoshi the most prominent of which is fake Toshi Craig right now let's discuss this particular letter which recently surfaced from the shadows allegedly from Satoshi Nakamoto check this out fragments a Satoshi secret identity the genius responsible for the birth of Bitcoin has resurfaced shedding new light on the creation of the world's first crypto this revelation comes in the form of an email and bearing the date August 22nd 2008 we all know the Genesis block was I believe in January of 2009 now the email director to computer scientist way die offers a captivating window in the nascent stages of bitcoins creation a journey that would go out to profoundly alter the contours of the global financial realm this recently unveiled correspondence serves as a valuable historical artifact shedding light on the intellectual exchanges and collaborative efforts that paved the way for the development of Bitcoin by delving into this previously hitting piece of communication from Satoshi to way day we gain invaluable insights into the genesis of the revolutionary crypto a technology that would ultimately disrupt and redefine traditional financial paradigms worldwide so let's discuss it in the email Satoshi expresses profound admiration for way dies be money page indicating a strong connection to dies groundbreaking work in the field of digital currencies Satoshi goes on to reveal his intention to release a comprehensive paper expanding upon dies ideas ultimately culminating in the birth of Bitcoin now let's read the actual letter you can see it's dated here August 22nd 2008 sent at 438 p .m.
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Crypto Banter
A highlight from The 4 MAIN REASONS This Bitcoin PUMP Will Continue!
"The market is absolutely pumping. You got Bitcoin at $28 ,400. And I guess the big question that everybody's asking right now is, is this another one of those fake pumps? Is this a real pump? Is it going to continue? That's what everybody's asking right now. And I think that's what today has actually got to be about. We're going to ask ourselves the question whether this is another fake pump or whether this pump is going to continue. And if it is going to continue, when will it stop? And if you want to understand whether this pump is going to continue, you need to understand the pump. In order to respect the pump, you need to understand the pump. So today, what we're going to do is we're going to understand what's happening. Where is this pump coming from? And when we understand the pump, we will understand whether this pump is going to continue or not. So that's what today's about. Let's do it. So nice to be back. So nice to be back when the bubbles look like this. You've got to ruin up 12 points. Josh, why does it say Sheldon is live? Ryan is live. So you've got to ruin up twelve point nine five percent that I've got some room in my portfolio. Two dollars sixteen. You've got roll. But look at Robert. Fourteen point four cents. I did tell you guys the other day to buy Robert at I think it was twelve cents. You got BSB up seventeen point one percent. You got Solana up. You got render up. We're going to go through all of the old coins today. What an amazing, amazing, amazing day when that when the bubbles are green. So we're going to do we're going to go through the pump today. We're going to start understanding what this pump is actually about. Why is this market going? And I think when you understand this pump, then you'll understand whether or not the pump is going to continue. I think that's what we need to come out of the show today. We need to understand whether this pump is going to continue or not. So listen, if you are new to the channel, quickly, quickly, quickly, subscribe, subscribe, subscribe to the channel. I know we are over six hundred and fifty thousand subscribers. I don't know why you guys are showing a subscriber account for Banta Plus. We'll talk about Banta Plus. The scarecrows are off form today. Can we get the Banta Plus subscriber count off our screen here today, guys? We're going to talk about that at the end of the show. If we get one thousand five hundred likes, if we can get to one thousand five hundred likes by the end of the show, then we'll take a live trade here on the show. I'm going to show you a live trade that I'm actually going to be taking with you guys in the BitGet competition, because remember now we're in the BitGet competition. I know we've got about three hundred people on my team with Annie, but we haven't taken any trades. The competition only started yesterday. Today, if we get to one thousand five hundred likes, then we're going to do a live trade right here. You're going to see exactly what it is that I'm going to trade. So if you are here, let's get the show on the road. Tell me that you're present. Iris, if you're present, let me know. Ryan John, if you're present, let me know. Moonbird, if you're present, let me know. Kalen, Luke Sniper, if you're present, let me know. Let's get some some energy going up here on a day where the bubbles look like this. Not often we get the bubbles. Let's just quickly go to the one hour. See on the one hour, you can see the momentum is actually continuing. You've got to roll it up six point two percent in the last hour.
Bloomberg Businessweek
Fresh update on "fifty" discussed on Bloomberg Businessweek
"Cent the ten -year at four point seven three percent the sell -off in stocks and bonds did get reprieve a today as traders parsed u .s. data and increased bets that the federal reserve can refrain from further interest rate increases at the last fed meeting jerome powell and policymakers left the current rate in place of five and a quarter percent to five and a half percent tech stocks helped in finish we have some numbers here for you out of apple point seven three percent gain amazon stock was one point eight percent microsoft gaining one point seven percent and tesla leaving the charged in the tech group they're finishing up fourteen points that the gain of five point nine percent and over in oil let's check nine x crude that finished at eighty force seventy sixty seven about that's down five point five percent loss and spot gold or comics gold rather one thousand eight hundred thirty six dollars and fifty cents that's down about a quarter of a percent
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Neil Mammen
"Ladies and gentlemen, looking for something new and original. Something unique and without equal. Look no further. Here comes the one and only Eric Metaxas. Folks, welcome to the program. I am so excited right now. I could burst almost literally, but not literally. I have on a friend, Neil Mammon, who is involved in something that I've been talking about for some time. It's really exciting. So before I tell you all about it, why don't I just say welcome, Neil Mammon. Thank you, Eric. Good to be here again. Okay. We're going to be talking about something. I can't believe it exists. I feel like I dreamt it up, but nobody would ever execute such a thing. But you and Roger Elswick have made this a reality. This is a big deal. This is an answer to a real problem we have. I say everywhere I go that folks, if you're going to a church that is not dealing with the issues in our culture, that is unwilling to face this and that is whistling in the wind, that is fiddling while Rome burns, you need to find another church. I say this over and over and I beg people, God will judge you for sitting in a church that is shrinking from its duty before God to speak to these issues. And then the question is, people say, well, where would I go to a church? So, Neil, tell us. Well, the problem is really, really obvious and I get that all the time. I go around speaking, people go, oh, do you know a good church in this area or that area? Well, it turns out that more than that, it turns out 1 .7 million people look for a new church every month. 1 .7 people look for a new church. A billion. A billion. And now if you assume that's a family unit here or there, that's about 5 million people looking for a new church every month. 5 million. Most of them, turns out, it's Sunday morning. So I wanted to do some research on it, so I went on, you know, the source of all information is Google's Bard Artificial Intelligence. And I said, tell me what sort of churches these people are looking for. And Bard comes back with, oh, they're looking for progressive, more loving, more accepting churches. That's what Google's Bard said. And I said, really? Is that true? I don't believe that. So I said, give me the information. Give me the evidence of that. By the way, before I start, I should mention this. I have a statistic. I want a statistic. I want your readers. I don't want you to guess because you'll know the answer. Here's a quote. Only 17 percent of Americans go to church. The interest in religion is minimal. And in New York, single women are more likely to be sexually active than attend a church. Worse, 33 percent of all pregnancies in New York are out of wedlock. Now, I ask people, what decade do they think that is? And they always say, oh, oh, that's 1990s, 2000s, whatever, right? You know, actually, this is 1990s because today is probably a lot worse. But we'll come back to that. But so so I asked Bard, I said, what what since you think that these are people looking for progressive churches, can you give me a list of the growth rate of progressive churches? And Bard said, OK, so it gives me this rate and it's you know, it shows me this list of people of churches and like the UMC. They've dropped like 50 percent, the Presbyterian, the USA, you know, the liberal Presbyterian Church, they've dropped by 38 percent. And so I go down that list and I ask I ask I say, well, give me the list of all the progressive churches and how they've grown in the last 20 years. So from 2000 to 2020. So in 2000, the progressive total people going to progressive total was about 18 .7 million. And today it's about 16 .8 million. So they've dropped by 10 percent total. There's no surprise people going to these ridiculous, you know, quote unquote progressive churches that have veered away from biblical doctrine. I'm surprised anybody goes to those. Exactly. I mean, the the Presbyterians, they've dropped. The Presbyterians were the ones that dropped by 50 percent. The UMC has dropped by 15 percent. Yeah, because why go to a church like that when you could go to to like a local, you know, Neil, where are you going? What's the punch line? Because I'm getting confused. Are you? I know there's my assumption would be that most people who actually care about church are trying to find a conservative church, a church that teaches biblical doctrine, but also that speaks to the issues that people like because many people can go to these ridiculous mega church or whatever, where they they're avoiding the hot button issues that everybody has to deal with when they leave that church, their kids are dealing with it, everybody's dealing with it. What's going on in America? So the idea is, how do you find those churches? So I know that's where you're heading with this. So I turned the bar and I said, OK, now give me the conservative churches. I'm on board just looking for liberal churches, progressives. I said, give me the conservative churches. And it gives me things like, oh, the Orthodox Presbyterians, they have grown by 50 percent in the last 20 years. The Orthodox Russians have gone by 29 percent. Independent Baptists have grown by 33 percent. The conservative. And so I did I said, what about the Calvary church? The Calvary churches have grown by one hundred and fifty percent. And then the you know, even the Southern Baptists who's stuck in the news all the time, they've grown by seven and a half percent. OK, but conservative total have grown from sixty seven million people in 2000 going to these conservative churches to ninety two million going to these conservatives. So they've grown by almost thirty seven percent in the last 20 years. Now, what's interesting about this and this is the kicker here. This is all pre covid data. It didn't have any data for twenty one, twenty two, twenty three. This is twenty twenty. And as you know, and you're going to be preaching in my church in Santa and in in San Jose and sometime in your future Calvary Chapel, San Jose, right. They grew from three hundred people to three thousand people over covid. Why? Because a couple of things is very important here. Pastor Mike said, I'm not going to let the state determine what I'm doing. I'm going to be legislated, be active with voter guides. We had candidates coming in who's fighting the state. Remember, we say we're the finest church in all of America because we have four million dollars in Calvary Chapel, San Jose, because we wouldn't shut down for covid. So churches like these have been exploding all over the nation. So just these numbers are three years old and I can't seem to get the twenty twenty three numbers. So, no, the people who are looking for church. And so I went back to Bartlett said, well, this is the growth rate. Our people are really looking for more progressive rates. And, you know, I always say, well, I'm really sorry. I apologize. Yes, you're right. They must be looking for conservative Bible believing fundamentalist churches is what it comes back to. So it actually says, oh, yeah, you're right. You were correcting me on it. Right. So the issue here is then why? How do we find these if five million people are looking for churches every single month, how are they going to find these conservative churches? OK, this is this is a very long way of getting to the punch line, because this is such an exciting punch line, Neil, that I am just at the bit to get to this. We started. I know what I mean. I just want to say.
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Thinking Crypto News & Interviews
A highlight from SEC GARY GENSLER HEARING & SUBPOENA SOON? COINBASE CRYPTO ADVOCACY WITH NANCY PELOSI!
"Welcome back to the Thinking Crypto Podcast, your home for cryptocurrency news and interviews. If you are new here, please hit that subscribe button as well as the thumbs up button and leave a comment below. If you're listening on a podcast platform such as Spotify, Apple or Google, please leave a 5 star rating and review. It supports the podcast and it doesn't cost you anything. Well, folks, as you all may know, Gary Gensler testified before the House Financial Services Committee today. He got grilled. He got a lot of pressure questions and things that he was shaking and unable to answer. It's the same old nonsense. And I'm sure many of you saw the clips, so I'm not going to play a whole bunch of clips for you, but I'm going to give you the big takeaways. What can we expect next? And McHenry, Patrick out of the gate, started grilling Gary Gensler. He asked him, is Bitcoin a security? And Gary was like stumbling, like he couldn't even answer it. And of course, you know, Patrick McHenry was like, what are you doing, man? I'm giving you softball questions. You can't answer me. Is Bitcoin a security? So Gary Gensler continued his clown show. This guy's a scumbag regulator, as I've been saying for a long time, and needs to be fired. But the big takeaway from what Patrick McHenry said, folks, he threatened Gary Gensler and said, don't make me have to send a subpoena. And he highlighted that Gary has not sent documents about FTX. He highlighted Gary's losses in court and much more. So I think the next step, you know, I haven't seen this level of threat about a subpoena from these folks. So I think we're getting there, folks. And I'm actually going to be interviewing Congressman Warren Davidson, who also did a great job grilling Gary tomorrow. And he's going to I'm going to ask him about the subpoena and what are the next steps. And of course, he highlighted his SEC Stabilization Act, which essentially fires Gary Gensler and replaces that chair seat, adds another commissioner and an executive director. So it makes the SEC less political and more balanced. And he has some great questions to Gary. You know, he even alluded to the EITH Ethereum free pass. Some of you may have seen the clip. So he did a great job. And once again, I'm interviewing him tomorrow. So be sure you're subscribed on the podcast as well as the YouTube channel. And Tom Emmer also brought some heat on Gary Gensler saying, I'm convinced you are not an impartial regulator. And he went on and did a press conference about this. And Gary Gensler is a bureaucrat who does not answer to Congress and much more. So, you know, similar types of comments that we've seen historically. But I think the subpoena threat was the big takeaway for me. The other stuff was, you could argue, was said historically and said before and other hearings with Gary Gensler. Now, Democrat Richie Torres did a great job of talking to Gary and getting specific, like he highlighted, is buying a Pokemon card a security? Gary said no. So he said, well, what if that Pokemon card got tokenized on the blockchain? It's a den of security. And that's where Gary was going back and forth and saying he needs more details and yada, yada. But great questions by Representative Richie Torres, very laser targeted in detail where Gary is just like caught off guard and he's trying to dodge the questions. So Gary continues to get exposed. And I like what happened today. I think the clips and all the news that are coming out of it, while they may not be very much actionable, where Gary is getting kicked out tomorrow, right? They do paint Gary Gensler in a very bad light. And remember, I've said many times, a lot of politics is simply optics. And if you have bipartisan support against Gary Gensler, that's not good. He's not going to be in that seat for very long. So it's great to see Democrats coming out against Gary Gensler. Now, quick word from our sponsor folks, and that is Uphold, which makes crypto investing easy. I've been a user of Uphold since twenty eighteen. They have ten plus million users, two hundred and fifty plus crypto currencies, and they're available in one hundred and fifty countries. You can also trade precious metals and equities on Uphold. If you'd like to learn more, please visit the link in the description. Also, a great comment from Representative Andy Barr to Gary Gensler on capital markets. He said, if the U .S. capital markets are a gold medalist, you are the Tonya Harding of securities regulation because you are kneecapping the United States capital markets with the avalanche of red tape coming out of your commission. Wow. That is a pretty strong remark there. Many of you know about the Tonya Harding story. If you don't look it up, Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harden and someone who was sitting behind Gary Gensler started flashing the Coinbase stand with crypto NFT shield. Many of you have seen that. And someone also highlighted the stand with crypto logo on a piece of paper. So this is similar to what happened with the guy who did the buy Bitcoin behind Janet Yellen years ago. So they put this right behind Gary. So it's pretty funny. This is another one that's going to go in the record books. And on that note, the SEC did acknowledge that the 1 .5 trillion dollar asset manager, Franklin Templeton, spot Bitcoin ETF application. Now, that doesn't mean anything because we need an approval. But things are moving ahead for these new applicants. Now, as all this was happening, guess who was in D .C.? Brian Armstrong and the Coinbase folks. Pretty incredible. And they did this whole campaign where they're at the Hill and a Brian Armstrong tweet out here at our nation's capital for a stand with crypto day with 40 founders from across the country. It's time for America to join the rest of the G20 and get some clear rules on the books. So great move here by Coinbase because the juxtaposition of what Gary is saying and what a big publicly traded crypto company is doing with a whole bunch of founders in D .C., educating and providing advocacy is really, really great. So I love this. And you hear you see Brian posted some photos, he said a great meeting with Speaker Pelosi. Now, all feelings about Nancy Pelosi aside, this she's a Democrat, folks, and I think this is a very smart move, Brian. Very, very smart move, because today even Maxine Waters was praising Gary Gensler. Oh, he's the knight in shining armor. And Gary, you know, you've been doing your thing, protecting Americans from these crypto scammers. Right. So remember, just like two years ago, she was hugging up FTX saying she loves Sam Beckman Fried, blowing kisses, taking campaign donations from FTX. So she's can be bought and sold right pretty easily. And I really like this. Coinbase is playing chess here while Gary Gensler is getting grilled. I love it, love it, love it. And they took a whole bunch of photos here at the Capitol Hill. So smart move by Brian. Really, really smart move. Now, finally, Kraken sets sight on stock trading. So Kraken, the crypto exchange, they're looking to expand their services. And, you know, this makes sense. If you're ordering already an exchange where you sell crypto, you can easily move to stocks. And then I know some other folks have been looking to tokenize stocks and sell those. So this is a pretty big move. And we're going to see that these crypto exchanges are going to expand to other markets. And with the advent of tokenization, you know, they're going to tokenize a lot of the traditional financial markets and assets and commodities and much more. And allow people to easily get access to them globally, 24 seven trading and much more. So obviously this would put them up against like Robinhood, essentially right where you have stocks and you've got crypto in the mix. So I think it absolutely makes sense. Well, folks, that's the news. Let me know what you think. What did you think about Gary today in the hearing? And once again, I'll be interviewing Congressman Warren Davidson tomorrow. So be sure to check out that interview once it's published on Friday. And I'll talk to you all later.
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The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Hunter Biden's Shady $250K Wire Transfer From Beijing
"Is all over the place, but I'm just going to run with the one from Fox News. Hunter Biden received two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in a wire transfer originating in Beijing with beneficiary address listed as Joe Biden's home. So James Comer of the House Oversight Committee announced that yesterday, two hundred fifty grand in twenty twenty nineteen got sent Beijing to Joe Biden's house. Now I ask you, who among us has not gotten a quarter of a million dollars from Beijing sent to their house randomly? That could happen to anybody. And I am not going to join the mob accusing the president of complicity in Hunter Biden's nefarious schemes to get money sent to the family firm via Delaware simply because a quarter million dollars showed up from Beijing at the Biden family house. I'm not going to join that line. Not going to do it wouldn't be prudent.
The Dan Bongino Show
Fresh "Fifty" from The Dan Bongino Show
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Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 16:00 09-26-2023 16:00
"Right now, aviation companies like Lufthansa Technik are using virtual reality training to help their mechanics practice crucial engine maintenance skills, helping them prepare for real repairs. Learn more at meta .com slash metaverse impact. Go back 230 years of history, four and a half percent on the 10 year treasury yield. That's the average. So there you go. Yeah. 200 years? That's interesting because Katie keeps bringing this up. And what's great about it is there's, I don't think there's any way for us to actually check anyone's this because data goes back 200 and something from Taylor something years here. All right, guys, we've got a lot to talk about here. I want to start off with the Dow Jones Industrial Average. It is down about 389 points, around thirty three thousand and six hundred points down about one percent here on the day, but more importantly, a close back below its 200 day moving average. The first time that that's happened for the Dow Jones Industrial Average since May. The S &P 500 lower by about sixty four points or about one and a half percent. It is close getting closer to that 200 day moving average, but we should point out it is now on the precipice of being an oversold territory when it comes to the RSI. The NASDAQ composite down more than 200 points or one point six percent. And the Russell 2000 going to finish lower on the day by about twenty three points or one point three percent. All right. Digging a little bit deeper into the big cap names, the S &P 500. We've got the S &P 500, as you said, remain broad based in terms of selling some four hundred and fifty five names to the downside. Katie, forty six to the upside to unchanged. So really a risk off day. And unless my eyes deceive me, you take a look at the industry groups. Every single one is down. We're talking about twenty four industry groups. Hopefully we'll show them soon. Every single industry in the red bear telecom was your relative best bet, but still down two tenths of a percent. And then you go down the list, some of the biggest loser, there's tech hardware.
Mark Levin
NBC News: Biden's Approval Plummets Among Black Population
"Says that biden's approval rating among black voters is listen this as our new poll shows the president's approval among black voters is down 17 points the first year of his presidency mr biden is also down by double digits among leptinos voters college degree and independence and as we mentioned fifty nine percent of democratic primary voters tell us they want to see a challenger to president biden fifty nine percent of democratic voters say they want a challenger to joe biden he's down 17 points with african -americans now this also is an issue of enthusiasm and i want understand you to what enthusiasm means just so you i can get through the political bs for you traditionally when you the party that is in power there is less enthusiasm from that group of voters because you have the power and there's more enthusiasm for the underdog who's going to get you out of office okay so you can go back in history of polling and you can see that but right now there is a significant separation usually there's a slight separation right the party that's in power there's more contentment you think you're fine you're not as worried in the party that's lost power because you want to win back the white house or the house or the senate but the numbers are usually pretty close three to four percentage points that's changing this time republican voters are significantly more enthusiastic about the 2024 election than democrats not just a little bit which would be normal significantly more listen to this data from again nbc news with this new poll there's also this we found an enthusiasm gap between the two parties we ask folks on a scale of one to ten how enthusiastic are you about the presidential election and you can see republicans a democrat there is a gap right there where's the lag for democrats we found
DerrickTalk
A highlight from 50 Year Old Rapper Krayzie Bone Fighting For His Life In ICU...
"Spotify for Podcasters has revolutionized the world of podcasting by allowing the novice and seasoned podcaster to create a podcast painlessly and in real time. No cost, no hassle, and you can even record from the comfort of your own PC or phone. That's right, and the Q &A polls allow real -time interaction between the host and his audience. What are you waiting for? Download Spotify for Podcasters now and make your voice heard on sites like Spotify, iHeartRadio, Deezer and more. Prayers go out to Crazy Bone. He is a member of the infamous hip -hop trio Bone Thugs and Harmony, and of course everyone pretty much I would assume you probably know who Bone Thugs and Harmony is. They've been responsible for such hits as Crossroads, First of the Month. I mean, man, you know, if you are a 90s baby, you probably definitely have heard of Bone Thugs and Harmony, Crazy Bone, Busy Bone. I've actually seen them in concerts, so the guys were absolutely amazing on stage. I think I saw him at Chop Suey here in Seattle. But anyway, Crazy Bone is going through a medical emergency. It's not looking good. He is actually fighting for his life. According to sources, he checked himself into a Los Angeles hospital after he was coughing up a lot of blood. So he checks himself into a hospital, and obviously there's some type of bleeding going on with one of the arteries in his lungs, and doctors have been unsuccessful in stopping that bleeding. So they are attempting a second surgery after the first one was unsuccessful. So, they are attempting a second surgery to try to stop the bleeding, and he is on a ventilator. He is having to have assisted breathing, so it does not look good for Crazy Bone. Fifty years of age, just a bad situation. So we are praying for his recovery. I have not heard any updates, except the fact that they are performing a second surgery and the family is being very, very quiet about his medical condition. Obviously, the only ones that really know what's going on with Crazy Bone is probably family members at this point, but we are praying for a speedy recovery. Obviously, I think it's pronounced sarcoidosis, sarcoidosis. I think this is the disease, it's kind of like an inflammatory disease that attacks the lymph nodes, the lungs, the eyes, the brains, pretty much any organ in the body. For some people, they kick it. It's not a problem, but for some people, obviously, like anything, it can be very detrimental to their health. Bernie Mac, famous comedian, he passed away from sarcoidosis. So it's definitely something that can be fatal if not treated properly, if not caught early. We are praying for Crazy Bone, that he makes a speedy recovery. This obviously is very, very bad news. People like LeBron James, other celebrities are reaching out to extend their prayers. Definitely, we are asking that the audience members here on Convo Over Cigars pray for Crazy Bone, that he makes a speedy recovery after this medical emergency. You guys have been locked in to another edition of Convo Over Cigars on a Monday. I'm your host, Derrick Andre Flemming. It's a rainy one in Seattle. Everybody be blessed.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Bitcoin Bull Market: What No Ones Telling You!
"Anytime you start making paper Bitcoin, or paper silver, or paper gold, and what do I mean by that? Futures, ETFs, stuff like that, that creates paper version. That's not actual spot, right? So anytime you do that, yes, the same money that comes in to buy it, so that they can actually short it, and they could keep it down with unlimited money and unlimited leverage, they could keep it down indefinitely, or until they scoop up as much as they want, when everyone loses interest, and then it takes off. What's up, everybody? Good morning, good afternoon, and good night wherever you're tuned in from. Welcome to another Saturday edition of the Alpha series here on Discover Crypto. My name is Kelly Kellum. Welcome to the show. If this is your first time, and I hope to guarantee that it's not going to be your last time, we've got an excellent guest lined up for you today. Mr. Jesse Olson is going to be breaking down what it means to cut the noise out of all these narratives from FUD and HOPE. Look at the chart, let the chart do the talking for you. So without any further ado, let's go ahead and dive in right to our guest. And I want to ask him a question right up front. Jesse, first off, thank you for being here, but do you think we're still going to get another bull run, bull runs like we've seen in the past, or do you think all these new institutions coming in and big money players coming into the market are going to change the dynamic of what a bull run is in Bitcoin? What's your thoughts? What's up, Kelly? Thanks for having me on. I appreciate it. And we should have some fun here. Coming from a trading standpoint, right? I'm going to come from a trading standpoint and a point of view. When I first got the first bull run, right, 2020, 2021, I was still learning. And yes, I was doing pretty good 2021, really good. But the whole time I was saying this, I was like, please give me one more bull run after this, right? Please give me one more. I'm not 100 % certain that we get another bull run like we did on the last one. And I'm not as optimistic with the big institutions coming in. And I wasn't back in 2020 and I wasn't in 2021. Because coming from options, I know that manipulation is in there because they want to make money. They have billions, if not trillions of dollars. They've had algorithms for, I don't know, 12, 15 years or longer that are probably where us retail folk are at now, right? And they have the money behind it, right? So when futures were created end of 2017, I think Bitcoin started to become more correlated. Then there's trusts like GBTC. And if there's ETFs and stuff like that, I think it will become more correlated. I think it's amazing for traders, right? I just don't think that if I'm wrong, I hope I'm wrong because I will do much better, right? I will do much better if we get a massive bull run. But if we don't, it's because it will become more of a trading thing than it will be a long -term great. I just, you know, it can't be that easy. And if it is great, we'll all be there, right? I'm trading Bitcoin. I'm trading it with leverage. I welcome that. I make way more money on a long position with leverage than I do on a short position because, A, the leverage you're gaining profit and the coin value is going up. But on the short side, the coin value isn't going up, it's going down. So I collect more coins, but the coin value isn't going up. So first and foremost, I do want another bull run and I beg for another bull run so all my snipers can participate and they can make money as well and change their lives. But I'm not certain that it's going to happen. And I would be surprised if they allow it to happen. If big companies are coming in, you know, I don't know. We'll see. It'll be interesting to see. But we'll be there if it does and we won't be surprised if it doesn't. Put it that way. Now, Jesse, I have to say how much I appreciate people that are in this space that bring a balanced view because everybody thinks it's just going to go up, up and away, especially considering the fact that we have the halving right around the corner. Do you think the halving is going to be the primary driver of if we do get a bull run? Do you think the halving really truly is going to have an impact on price action? What's your thoughts on this? I have a couple of thoughts on it. So one, I think the halving will still play a factor, right? If all things are the same, if the same, you know, if the one there's a couple of things that could hurt it. Right. So Bitcoin has never Bitcoin came out after the 2008 crash. Right. So it's never experienced a dot com bubble crash. It never experienced 2008 crash. I have. I went back to zero. I lost everything. So for me, the up only left me a long time ago. Right. Like, I know it's not up only when I thought it was up only in my mid 20s. Right. So for me, a couple of those things. I do have hope for Bitcoin. I do believe on some level they'll be able to manipulate it and suppress it. If you look at gold and silver. Right. Gold and silver should probably be $30 ,000 an ounce by now for gold. And silver should probably be $1 ,000 per ounce by now. And because of paper, silver and gold should probably suppress it. Right. So I believe those are probably should be worth a lot more. The one positive with Bitcoin is anyone can go buy spot Bitcoin much easier than silver and gold. Right. I've bought silver and gold and they deliver it to you in a weird package and it's heavy. Right. It's not easily transportable and all that stuff. So there are some positive about Bitcoin. Right. So, you know, who knows what the agendas are? I don't. That's why I stick hyper focus to the charts, because I don't know what the backroom deals are happening. I don't know the narratives. I don't know any of that stuff. I'm not a top point one percenter making those decisions. So the only thing I can do is trade the charts. But, you know, going back, if we do get this bull run, I do have some reasons why, you know, like you said, you brought up one hundred fifty thousand. I do have a couple of reasons why that I could see Bitcoin hit one hundred and ten, one twenty five and maybe even top would be like one hundred forty thousand dollars. But that's a lot of what ifs. So, you know, we will take it level by level and swing trade the heck out of it all the way all the way up in the bull run. If we get another bull run, that's kind of like the topping that I would see price it. So now I appreciate that answer. And I'd like to shift gears here for a second, because you've been trading for years, years before Bitcoin was even around. And I'd like to dive into that experience a little bit and throw it back to the beginners out there, because we do have beginners that are out there still right now. But disproportionately, as we get new bullish impulses, especially in Bitcoin or the rest of the altcoin markets, we're going to have a huge number, a huge influx of new people into the space. So what would you say if you had that? Maybe not a secret sauce, but a beginner's pack, a beginner's sort of encouragement and the need to knows and the need to uses for people that are starting from scratch. Maybe they don't have a pro trading view account. Maybe they're not buying one of our indicators of one of your indicators or some of the many paid indicators out there. There's a lot of free tools. So what would you say for beginners getting started today or at any point in the future? Where do they start? How do they dive into this? Yeah, definitely. I mean, you know, first and foremost, like before this, I would say salvage as much capital at first as possible. I feel like the faster you want to jump in to make money, the faster you are going to lose money. So it sounds generic that, you know, learn first. Right. But say you already passed, you're going down discovery road and you're trying to learn and develop your own strategy. Right. Well, if you're on trading view, for example, you can get a relative strength indicator for free. If you're on trading view, free platform, you can get the MACD indicator. I think that's the most commonly used for beginners is the MACD indicator. And just before you do anything else, just study it and study it some more and then back test it and develop a strategy based off of your back test. There's an amazing replay button on trading view that you can go back and kind of after you develop a strategy, you can easily go back and hit the replay video and see what that, you know, how that kind of plays out in the past. It doesn't mean it's going to happen in the future, but you can get an idea over time of back testing with the replay button. That's probably number one. And then paper trade. I know it's not exciting. I know I didn't do it. I jumped head head first. I would have five digit wins followed by five digit losses. And it was brutal. Right. And I've never had a six digit loss, but I've had six digit wins. But I've had five digit losses and it wasn't until the five digit losses that made me like I made five digit wins with basically hardly any strategy whatsoever. And that was probably the worst thing that could happen. The best thing that could happen is that I had the five digit win loss and it made me go back to the drawing board. It made me reevaluate my whole life. What am I doing in trading type of thing? That aha moment. And that's when I really went obsessive on the charts and developing my own strategy. I saw other people's strategies out there. And when I would back test it, I went through a phase where I back tested so many other people's strategies. I would just say, didn't work. This doesn't work for me. This doesn't work for me. And every strategy could work differently for different people, especially on different timeframes. So develop something that works for you. Find a timeframe that works for you and your lifestyle. Some of our snipers, they can't do swing trading on the daily chart. They don't have the patience for it. They're scalpers. They're day traders. So you got to know yourself too. And then at that point, as you're graduating from paper trading and back testing, the next level is maybe risk some lunch money. The amount of money you and I would go off for like a nice lunch. And if I were to buy your lunch, I don't even think twice about it. Like something that I'm not even going to lose sleep over. Then I talk about doing lunch money. Then maybe you do lunch money with leverage or blah, blah, blah, or a little bit more money with spot, right? So you got to take it in levels and kind of make it a systematic approach. And if you treat it like a business in those levels, that's when you're going to have a better chance of making it. Otherwise, if you jump straight in and you want to go 50 X leverage, no strategy, no experience, no back testing. I guarantee you blow up account. I guarantee it. One of the things I say is like, if you're, if you're trying to double down, like you were doing well, right? So a couple of things that I've talked about in coaching is that, and by the way, I don't do live coaching anymore. I have recorded coaching, but I don't do live coaching. It's just too much time and energy. But when I was doing those live coaching calls, we talked about this and we talked about that. You know, every time you win a trade, if you're treating it like a business, you pull out, for example, I pull out my personal strategies. I pull out 50 % out of that trading kill and I take it out of the digital world and then go maybe put it in the physical world or diversify in some other way. Right? So you're always taking a piece off, always taking a piece off. And one of them, one of the students is like extremely young. Right. And, uh, I, I said, Hey, what are you gonna do with your winnings? Right. He crushed it. And I was actually jealous of his trade. He, he actually nailed it on high leverage. And I'm like, I'm like, go buy your mom something nice. Right. So not only take like money off the table, but it's the whole mindset. If you're not taking money off the table on each trade, what happens is you're up. Like you were say, you know, $50 ,000, $100 ,000, $10 ,000, $1 ,000. Maybe you're brand new. You're up $1 ,000. And that's the most you've ever had. You want to flip that into $10 ,000, right? Then you want to flip that into a million dollars. And that's, and that's what you just fell into that same example you just gave you fell into that mindset. And you only can do that by learning the hard way. So what you have to do is be more systematic about it. And after a win, fighting the urge of going back in and instead of going all back in, you're, you're pulling some out and then you're, you're, you're going at the new, every trade you have to treat as brand new and instead of jumping in and out is everything lining up on the charts, just like it did the first one, you nailed the first trade. And a lot of times this happens when you're, I talk about it, you'll have like nine winning trades in a row and we're human. We're not robots. I'm not a robot. I know I'm most likely to have a bad trade after I've had nine in a row. Why? Because my confidence is so high. I've skipped steps, right? So if you skip steps because your confidence is so high, that's when you're most likely going to have your next loss. And if you forget to put, and if you make a mistake on that, you forget to put in a stop loss. You do too high of leverage. Next thing you know, you're having a major setback and a change. It sets you back not only on financially, but mentally. So be cautious. Once you are making the wins and you are winning like nine times in a row, you're going to have a loss. And usually it's because your confidence is so high, not because you're, you've been on a losing streak, right? So just want to point that out. And it was based off what you're kind of talking about. You're winning. It was the bull run. And then all of a sudden you went all in with more leverage and took a $70 ,000 loss. So you learn from your mistakes, right? Yeah. Well, I got to say, I couldn't agree more with you on all those great places to start for beginners and how utilizing a lot of those free tools that are available to you to get started, to understand the mechanisms of all these tools that you're going to be utilizing when you're doing price analysis and trying to figure out when to buy and when to sell. It's not just about looking at price action. It's about looking at those underlying data sets that can give you an edge as to when trends are going to shift. So with that being said, I have to say, Jesse, thank you so much for being here. Thank you for taking your time to share your thoughts with us and your lens on this market. And everybody, if you want to see more of Jesse, throw one in chat, comment down below, hit that like button, hit that subscribe button, ding the bell. And if you would make sure you head over to Jesse J -E -S -S -E -O -L -S -O -N, find out so much more about him here, all kinds of different content he shares on a daily basis, really breaking down charts. He even has his own Market Sniper Academy right here at MarketSniper .Pro. You can also find out more information on BitLab Academy right here at Academy BitLab. Follow me, of course, at Kelly Kellum, K -E -L -L -Y, K -E -L -L -A -M. Make sure you check out bitlabacademy .com. We have all the tools and courses and strategies and the community that can really help you dive into this space and understand what is going on. Self -custody, trading fundamentals, psychology of trading, on -chain analysis, candles, candle patterns, indicators. There's so much in here as a point. Join us here in BitLab Academy. You can still use our coupon code GIVEME30 for an additional 30 % off your first month. I hope to see you in there in the Discord and over on the BitLab Academy daily YouTube stream right here at youtube .com forward slash at BitLab Academy. I'll see you there. I hope you all have a wonderful day. Have a wonderful weekend. Get out of the charts and we'll see you in the next video. Adios.
Crypto News Alerts | Daily Bitcoin (BTC) & Cryptocurrency News
A highlight from 1410: Bitcoin Will Hit $10,000,000 Per Coin - Binance CEO CZ
"In today's show, I'll be breaking down the latest technical analysis. And also I'm going to be sharing with you a 48 ,700 Bitcoin price target, pre halving according to a top analyst. Also did you know it was exactly six years ago today, China tried and failed to ban Bitcoin for the second time and ever since the Bitcoin price action is up 600 % and the mining hash rate is back at all time highs. Also quitting Max Kaiser, Bukele has restored the human rights to 7 million Salvadorians that have been taken away by murderous runts, the British and American state, a 93 % approval rating tells the story of the most popular leader in the world. And now Bukele -nomics is being copied around the world as a blueprint for freedom and justice preach. Also in today's show, Mt. Gox repayments delayed yet again. Creditors are waiting on Bitcoin, Bitcoin cash and Yen payments until next year in 2024. We'll also be discussing, according to this latest report, Coinbase currently holds 5 % of the entire Bitcoin supply in existence. That's right. While Coinbase holds 25 billion in BTC, the exchange only owns around 200 million in Bitcoin and its wallets. We'll also be discussing the catalyst, which will catapult the Bitcoin price action. According to skybridge capitals, Anthony Scaramucci will also be discussing the latest with the Binance CEO CZ setting the record straight on $250 million loan claims. That's right. The US court had recently denied an inspection plea by the SEC. I'll be breaking down this latest FUD and speaking of CZ, the Binance CEO predicts the Bitcoin price will reach $10 million per coin. In fact, a couple of years back in an interview, he said, if all of the major institutions allocate 1 % Bitcoin, we're going to see 1000 X or more growth of the Bitcoin price. And if you run the math, 1000 times today's price action is 26 to $27 million per BTC. We'll also be taking a look at the overall crypto market, all this plus so much more in today's show. Yo what's good crypto fam. This is first and foremost, a video show. So if you want the full premium experience with video, visit my YouTube channel at crypto news alerts .net. Again, that's crypto news alerts .net and welcome everyone just joining us. This is podcast episode number 1410. I'm your host JV and today is September 23rd, 2023. So welcome to another sat stacking Saturday. Let's kick it off with our market watch as we do here each and every day, seven days a week. We can see Bitcoin back in the green trading above 26 .6 and we also have ether back in the green trading at roughly $1 ,600. The market cap is sitting at 1 .06 trillion with roughly 17 billion in volume. In the past 24 hours, we've got Bitcoin dominance at 49 .1 % and the ether dominance at 18 .2 % as Bitcoin continues outpacing Ethereum and checking out the top 100 crypto gainers of the past 24 hours, we've got theta lead in the pack up 7 % trading just under 64 cents followed by rocket pool up 4 % trading at $21 .63, followed by chain link up 4 % trading at $7 .18 and checking out the top 100 crypto gainers of the past week, we have WeMix leading this pack up 15%. We have PLS up 8 .2 % and XRD up 11, I mean 7 .4 % and checking out the crypto greed and fear index, we're currently rated a 47, which is neutral. Yesterday was a 43 in fear, last week also a 43 and last month a 41 in fear. So there you have it. How many of you have been stacking M -Sats and taking advantage of the recent dip in dollar cost averaging? Let me know. And how many of you are anticipating Bitcoin price action to maybe dip a little further south before packing some new positions? Let me know how you feel with the current status. And also just quick reminder, we're almost at the end of September historically, September is the worst month out of the entire year for the Bitcoin price action, but it's always followed by up tober, which is historically one of the most bullish months for Bitcoin. So we only have another week until we get out of September. So we'll see how this is likely to play out. Let's break down today's Bitcoin technical analysis. Bitcoin failed to reclaim 27 ,000, though we came close. It stalled at 26 ,500 as of right now. Meanwhile, the altcoins are in no better shape with minor losses coming from most of the larger cap ones. With Chainlink, the only one with a notable price increase. So last week was expectedly less volatile, aside from the brief spike on Saturday that pushed Bitcoin then to the multi -day peak of 26 ,400. But after failing to continue upwards, Bitcoin retraced at 26 ,000 and spent the rest of the weekend there. Then Monday didn't start all that positively either, but finished the way. Bitcoin went on the offensive and soared above 27 ,000 for the first time in weeks, but then shortly dumped after. But the bulls kept the pressure on and pushed Bitcoin to a new 20 -day peak at 27 ,500 on Tuesday. The next few days were rather calm with Bitcoin maintaining 27 G's, even after the US Fed's decision to stop raising the interest rates. Yet Bitcoin's momentum disappeared by Friday as it fell to 26 ,400. It even tried to bounce off the end of the day, but failed and currently stands at 26 ,500. Its market cap is south of 520 billion, while its dominance over the alts still just inches shy of 49%. So there you have it. And as we mentioned a little earlier, the altcoins, a lot of them are also in the red with the exception of Chainlink, which seems to be outpacing the rest of the major alts. Now for a prediction from Titan of Crypto, here's what he shared on X. Bitcoin 48 ,700 before the halving rocket ship to the moon. You might want to bookmark this one. Fam, never in history the halving occurred without Bitcoin reaching the 78 .6 % Fibonacci retracement level. So first off, first cycle price reached this four months before the halving, and the second cycle it was two months before, and then on the third cycle it was 12 months before. The next halving is now roughly six months away. Bitcoin might reach the 78 .6 % Fibonacci level within this period as it currently lies at 48 ,700, but the million dollar question remains, will this time be different? So as we enter this fourth halving, let me know where you feel the Bitcoin price action is likely to hit before we have liftoff. I mean, obviously that would be a bullish scenario setting us up for a perfect price discovery in 2024 post halving. So I cannot wait. I hope the analyst is right. And if you didn't know, it was exactly six years ago. China tried and failed to ban Bitcoin for the second time because guess what? You can't ban Bitcoin. You can try. Good luck with that. And ever since the price action on the King Crypto is up 600 % and the mining hash rate continues to hit all time highs. And as you know, hash rate is a good indicator for the strength of the network, meaning the market cap is just north of only $500 billion. And as Max points out here, referring to Bukele, he has restored the human rights of 7 million Salvadorans that have been taken away by murderous runts. The British and American state, a 93 % approval rating tells the story, the most popular leader in the world. And now Bukele Nomics is being copied around the world as a blueprint for freedom and justice. Massive shout out to Najib Bukele and the people of El Salvador. Which country do you feel is likely to adopt Bitcoin as a legal tender next? Let me know your honest thoughts in the comments below. I feel it's going to be another Latin American country. I'd say a great candidate for that is Argentina, which has hundreds of millions of people. We have Javier Malay, the pro presidential candidate. There is a 70 % chance plus that he is elected as the president. And we already know the likelihood he could make Bitcoin a legal tender, especially being orange -pilled by Max Keiser, who is the senior Bitcoin advisor for President Bukele. As Max has already announced, he can't wait to touch down in Buenos Aires to orange pill Javier Malay. Then we also have Mexico. We have people like Ricardo Salinas, the third richest man in Mexico, very pro Bitcoin, claiming Bitcoin has been his best investment ever because, again, Max orange -pilled him back in 2014. Then we have Brazil and so many other countries that make Bitcoin a potential to become legal tender. And we all know that's going to be a game changer. And that's just another catalyst on top of the Bitcoin halving scheduled in six months in 2024, plus the approval of a spot Bitcoin ETF in the United States. So can you say fireworks lays ahead? Let's go. Now let's discuss the latest more bullish news, meaning Mt. Gox is going to be delaying these payments, which means no crypto is going to be dumped onto the open market anytime soon, which again is good for the hodlers. Check it out. Now we got Nobuaki, the Mt. Gox trustee in charge of the funds owed to the exchange creditors, updated the public on September 21st, two days ago, according to the trustee, because of the lengthy discussions with specific payment providers, he could not make the October 31st deadline. That was the initial deadline, fam. And because of this reason, the repayments will start next year. And so they say, quitting him here. Therefore, with the permission of the Tokyo district court, the rehabilitation trustee changed the deadline of the base repayment, the early lump sum repayment and the intermediate repayment from October 31st, 2023 Japan time to October 31st, 2024 Japan time, respectively. By the letter of the Kobashi details, the Mt. Gox creditors waited nine years for payments. Good Lord. Currently, they're owed one hundred and forty one thousand six hundred and eighty six BTC plus one hundred and forty two thousand eight hundred and forty six Bitcoin cash and sixty nine is that billion yen. Good Lord. I'd love to know what that equates to in dollars anyways, though the delay has been extended. The creditors who have completed their claims might receive the payment by year's end, quoting them again. Rehabilitation creditors who have provided the necessary info to the rehabilitation trustee will see the payments made in a sequence as early as the end of this year, according to the letter. However, this schedule could change. Kobashi also said that due to the high volume of inquiries regarding the process, the rehabilitation team might not respond promptly. Well, that doesn't sound so promising, but I guess it's a good sign that most of this cash is not going to be dumped off any time soon, as there's a lot of FUD that's always circulating. The Mt. Gox, you know, sell off is going to crash the entire market. I think that is very unlikely and is nothing more than FUD. And again, we're gearing up for the most bullish sentiment in the four year cyclical cycle amongst us in twenty twenty four. So versus being in fear, I would be very optimistic about what's to come for the king crypto and the crypto market as a whole. But what are your thoughts, fam? Let me know in the comments right down below. Now let's discuss the largest crypto exchange in the United States. Clearly, it is Coinbase. The CEO is Brian Armstrong. But did you know, according to this latest report, they currently control and own over five percent of the Bitcoin in circulation. That's pretty hefty. And let's break this one down. And how many of you have used the Coinbase crypto exchange before? Let me know in the comments below. Here we go. Blockchain intelligence platform ARKAM recently identified the crypto exchange Coinbase holds almost one million Bitcoin in its wallets like, whoa, the coins are worth more than twenty five billion dollars at the current prices. Now, according to ARKAM, the exchanges holdings amount to almost five percent of all the existing Bitcoin. ARKAM said Coinbase holds a total of nine hundred forty seven thousand seven hundred and fifty five BTC. And at the moment, Bitcoin circulating supply is around nineteen million four hundred ninety three thousand five hundred thirty seven, according to coin info on CoinGecko. And as ARKAM shared here on X, ARKAM now identified twenty five billion of Bitcoin's Coinbase reserves with one million, approximately Bitcoin on chain. This makes Coinbase the largest Bitcoin entity in the world on ARKAM, with almost five percent of all the Bitcoin in existence, almost as much as Satoshi Nakamoto. Crazy, right? Furthermore, ARKAM noted that it has tagged and identified thirty six million Bitcoin deposits and holding addresses used by the exchange. And according to ARKAM, Coinbase's largest cold wallet holds around ten thousand BTC. And based on the exchanges financial reports, the intelligence company believes that Coinbase has more Bitcoin than are yet labeled and could not be identified. And while Coinbase holds over twenty five billion worth of Bitcoin in its wallets, the exchange only owns around ten thousand of all the Bitcoin in which it holds, which is roughly two hundred million dollars, according to the recent data. Meanwhile, community members express varying reactions to the news about the amount of Bitcoin on the centralized exchange in which they hold. Some believe it's a sign to withdraw their Bitcoin from the exchanges, warning hodlers not to wait until the exchanges start to halt withdrawals. Others say that since there are legitimate concerns over cold wallets, there is no good way to store your assets. I'd like to chime in real quick. Obviously, if it's not your keys, it's not your coins. So while a custodian such as Coinbase can hold your crypto, you've got to also note that it's not yours. So if something were to happen, hypothetically, like we've seen with FTX and the collapse last year, then not your keys, not your coins, they don't belong to you at the end of the day. So you've got to start to weigh the risk reward with having a custodian such as Coinbase or a centralized exchange hold your coins versus taking the responsibility for yourself and learning how to self custody your own crypto and call storage such as with a Bitcoin cold wallet, such as a treasure. So I just wanted to point that out. There's no right or wrong way to hold your crypto. You've got to do what's in your best interest, of course. So, you know, I mean, just want to keep it real at the end of the day. So check it when it comes to Bitcoin ownership by companies, business intelligence for MicroStrategy still owns most Bitcoin. I believe it's over one hundred and fifty two thousand eight hundred BTC, to be exact, worth over four billion dollars at the time of this recording, making them the largest publicly traded company to have Bitcoin on their balance sheet. Now, another major company that controls over six hundred thousand BTC is Grayscale in their GBTC product, the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust, which they just recently had a lawsuit against the SEC with the plan to convert their trust into a spot Bitcoin ETF. So considering they already control the underlying asset in the sum of over six hundred thousand BTC makes them a pretty strong contender. Wouldn't you agree? Let me know your thoughts, fam. And now let's break down our next story of the day and discuss the Bitcoin price likely to catapult along with the altcoin to coin to SkyBridge Capital, Anthony Scaramucci. Let's break this down. Shout out to the Mooch, SkyBridge Capital founder Scaramucci is detailing how one catalyst could have a bullish impact on Bitcoin, as well as the alt. In an interview with the Wolf of Wall Street, Scott Melker Scaramucci says that a spot Bitcoin ETF could be approved in the first quarter of twenty twenty four, which seems to be a ninety five percent likelihood, according to top ETF analyst at Bloomberg, Eric Balchunes. So according to SkyBridge Capital founder, the approval of the spot Bitcoin ETF and the Bitcoin halving, which is expected to occur in April of twenty twenty four, could combine to ignite a crypto bull market. No, it's not. It could combine. It will combine. Just saying. Quitting him here as Wall Street or products on Wall Street are sold, they are not bought. And so there is going to be tens of thousands, if not one hundred thousand plus people at these Wall Street firms selling these products to their traditional investors. So people that are in Bitcoin understand the finite supply of Bitcoin, right? We all know there's a finite limited supply, 21 million, and they understand the nature and the quality the Bitcoin has. This will push Bitcoin up. Of course, it will have a dramatically positive effect on the altcoin market because it will lead to more capital into digital properties so people can think whatever they want. They can think short term about the near term volatility of Bitcoin. But these macro positive factors are overwhelming. And according to Scaramucci, the potential approval of a spot Bitcoin ETF filed by giant asset managers such as BlackRock, who controls over 10 trillion in assets under management and Fidelity, that controls over four and a half trillion in assets under management, can see Bitcoin increasing its market cap by roughly 24 times from the current level. We'll send it. Let's go quoting the Mooch here. It is important that now the largest asset manager in the world who started out with some level of skepticism related to digital assets and Bitcoin is now willing to adopt Bitcoin. I mean, I guess they mean BlackRock is willing to adopt Bitcoin, but even more important than that, they're willing to explain to their clients. I think BlackRock now has 13 trillion dollars in assets under management. So for them, seven trillion for Fidelity. While these numbers are higher than I even imagine, while their clients need exposure to digital property like Bitcoin. And so we have a five hundred billion dollar plus market for Bitcoin. So you and I know gold is at 12 trillion ish, depending on where it's trading. But yes, 12 trillion. There is no reason why Bitcoin couldn't get gold. So there you have it. And to watch this video interview he did with Scott Melker entitled 37000 Bitcoin. Can it skyrocket 35 percent? Check the show notes below the video in the description. And I think we all could agree it's only a matter of time before Bitcoin returns to price discovery mode, virtually meaning entering new all time highs. My personal prediction is sometime in 2024, considering the two biggest catalysts, which we just covered, the Bitcoin halving and Bitcoin ETF approval, which we know is going to be a given, especially considering the SEC is not going to be able to push it back and push back that deadline any longer because, you know, they just they have been pushing it back now for 10 years while they continue to approve futures ETFs, which can allow them to spoof and manipulate the market, which is all by design. At the end of the day, there's not new under the sun and three things cannot be long hidden. The sun, the moon and the truth. But just saying. Anyways, fam, now let's discuss the ongoing fight against CZ, the finance CEO with this 250 million dollar loan. And then I'll be breaking down his 10 million dollar price prediction and in fact sharing a transcription of him claiming that Bitcoin can thousand X from the current price, which would ultimately mean not 10 million, but we're talking twenty six to twenty seven million dollars per coin. Let's break this down. So here we go. First, with the FUD, the Binance CEO, CZ Shangping Zhao had refuted a recent report alleging that he received the 250 million dollar loan from BAM Management, the company that serves as the holding entity for Binance US. Now, how many of you have used Binance US or Binance before as the exchange? Let me know, fam. The development comes amidst Binance's struggles with plunging trading volume as the world's largest crypto exchange faces mounting lawsuits and increased scrutiny, regulatory which seems to all be by design by the SEC and the regulators. Right. The report published by Decrypt September 19th drew its conclusions from court documents associated with the ongoing lawsuit involving Binance and the United States. SEC, according to the news agency's interpretation, the Binance US legal representatives asserted in the documents that BAM Management US Holdings had issued a quarter billion dollar convertible note to CZ back in December. CZ, however, challenged the accuracy of the report when he tweeted the following. The amount of wrong information is just they got the direction wrong. I loaned 250 million dollars to BAM a while back, not the other way around, and have not taken it back. The Binance CEO clarified that the loan arrangement was, in fact, the opposite of what was reported in the post. The exec explained that he had extended a 250 million dollar loan to BAM Management and asserted that he had not yet received the payment. So there's nothing new under the sun. Just more FUD, it seems like, fam. The legal battle has taken a toll on Binance US, which saw a flurry of employee departures. The US SEC alleged that Binance was not cooperating in the ongoing probe and even claimed that BAM refused to make essential witnesses available for deposition. Concerns were also raised on CEFFU, which happens to be a custody service offered by Binance's international arm, Binance Holdings Ltd. The SEC's filing claimed that the platform appeared to be in violation of a previous agreement designed to prevent the transfer of the assets abroad. And despite the scathing attacks by the financial regulator, Binance scored a small win this week. The SEC's motion to approve an inspection into Binance US was denied by the USDC District Judge, Zia Farokhia. So there you have it. I mean, the ongoing FUD will more than likely continue, as obviously Binance is the largest crypto exchange in the world and regulators seem to have a problem with them and want to go after them for whatever apparent reason. So, like I said, hopefully in the end, you know, truth is revealed and the real story versus all the FUD and, you know, the manipulation of the price action and all the shenanigans we continue to witness in the market. And with that being shared, now let's dive into the Binance CEO, CZ and his 10 million dollar price prediction, as well as him predicting that Bitcoin price action could even a thousand X from here, sending the Bitcoin price parabolic to 26 or even 27 million dollars per coin. Let's break this baby down, shall we? Here we go. JV, have you ever heard of him? A crypto YouTube influencer from Crypto News Alerts remembered CZ's prediction. You're damn right I did. The Bitcoin would reach 10 million per coin. JV referred to the statement in a recent video uploaded on YouTube where he analyzes various aspects of the Bitcoin market development. Now, JV looked back at CZ's Bitcoin prediction while analyzing the Bitcoin CEO's recent Twitter comments. And in a Q &A session on July 5th, CZ addressed several issues, including Binance's reaction to the ongoing regulatory scrutiny. He also spoke about the rising interest of institutional investors in crypto currencies, as well as the proposed BlackRock spot Bitcoin ETF. CZ made the 10 million dollar price prediction back in 2021. In fact, I have the article already pulled up and I'm going to be reading word for word what he shared. Following MicroStrategy's announcement, allocating Bitcoin for the corporate strategy, CZ based his analysis on the possibility of several corporate companies, major institutions across the world, allocating just one percent of their corporate treasury into Bitcoin. And according to CZ, that would lead to a thousand X growth in the value of BTC. JV highlighted CZ's welcoming approach to institutional investors in the Bitcoin ecosystem, and CZ noted that advantages in traditional finance firms they bring to the crypto industry, despite concerns about their intentions clashing with Bitcoin's decentralized nature. And according to JV, CZ identified two key factors driving Binance's strategy for the next 18 months. They include the upcoming Bitcoin halving event now less than six months out, as well as, you know, we could be seeing a Bitcoin ETF here in the near future. The Bitcoin community expects the next halving to occur in April of 2024. Now quoting CZ word for word from the initial interview he made on Bloomberg Radio predicting a potential 1000 X increase in the Bitcoin price action. So here's what he had to say. Right now, I think only 11 companies again, this is right around the time that MicroStrategy announced putting Bitcoin on its balance sheet. They announced having allocating some talking about Bitcoin, like usually less than one percent of their corporate treasury to Bitcoin. And we think that it is most likely what caused the initial price rise. I think MicroStrategy's Michael Saylor started it first, but there are six hundred and fifty thousand companies in the world, like relatively established companies in the world, and their treasury is huge. Preach. So if all of them talking about these major institutions only allocated just one percent to Bitcoin, we are going to see, I don't know, 1000 X more growth in the Bitcoin price. And if they allocate more than one percent, then it's going to be even bigger. So I think people don't quite get the magnitude of the wave that is about to hit us. Now, let's run that math one more time. Fam, today's price is roughly twenty six thousand five hundred times that by one thousand. He's talking about a twenty six and a half million dollar Bitcoin price action. The potential if they only put one percent of their strategic reserves into Bitcoin, you do the math. If it's five X and five percent, what are we talking? One hundred and twenty million dollar Bitcoin price. Just saying this is coming from CZ, the world's richest man in crypto. So very powerful words indeed. Let's get back to this prediction of what he shared. So the finance CEO estimates that the flagship crypto can go up anywhere from nineteen hundred percent to twenty thousand percent from the current price levels from the time he made the prediction. And he goes on to share with price predictions. It is really, really difficult. I think it can go to, I don't know, one million dollars, ten million dollars. It is very hard to tell. And again, if we literally did a thousand X from today's price, we're talking twenty six and a half million per BTZ. So CZ also reveals that the exchange is onboarding new users as an at an unprecedented sustained rate during the bull run, outpacing its user growth during the twenty seventeen bull run. So again, this was during the twenty twenty one bull run. Here's what he had to share. Just to give people the idea, in twenty seventeen, when Bitcoin hit the peak of about 20 G's, we were seeing three hundred thousand new registered users per day. And that only happened for a couple of days. And that kind of trailed off and became slower. Now we're seeing sustained new user registrations above the peak and sustained like for over two to three months. So could you imagine running the world's largest crypto exchange and having over three hundred thousand new registered users every single day for like 90 days straight? That is insanity. And that's the previous market. I think twenty twenty four is likely going to outpace the previous market as Bitcoin becomes a common household name and as Bitcoin game theory continues in full effect. You have presidential candidates making Bitcoin a big determining factor. We have people like Ron DeSantis, Kennedy Jr., Javier Malay over in Argentina. So naturally, it's just going to create more commotion and positive catalysts for Bitcoin as we move forward into twenty twenty four. So, I mean, fireworks are ahead. Let me know how you feel. We're likely to finish out this year by December of twenty twenty three. Where do you feel the Bitcoin price action is likely to be? And don't forget to check out CryptoNewsAlerts .net for the full premium experience with video and to participate in the live Q &A. And I look forward to seeing you on tomorrow's episode. HODL.
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A highlight from ANTI BITCOIN BOB MENENDEZ CHARGED! SEC GARY GENSLER DOESN'T LIKE THE LAW (CRYPTO NEWS)
"Welcome back to the Thinking Crypto Podcast, your home for cryptocurrency news and interviews. If you are new here, please hit that subscribe button as well as the thumbs up button and leave a comment below. If you're listening on a podcast platform such as Spotify, Apple or Google, please leave a five star rating and review. It supports the podcast and it doesn't cost you anything. Well, folks, we got very interesting news, which I'm sure many of you may have heard in the mainstream media, and that is Senator Bob Menendez has been charged with bribery and a whole bunch of other crimes. And you may say, well, Tony, why are you talking about this? Right. Well, folks, Senator Bob Menendez, who is a Democrat, he introduced a bill back in 2022, which would help to stop Bitcoin adoption in El Salvador. And he was citing that the adoption would open the door for money laundering and corruption. Wow. Talk about hypocrisy, folks, right? This guy all along for a very long time, his track record, he's been accused of doing a lot of shady stuff and now he's being charged here. The folks at Bitcoin Archive said the senator who said Bitcoin can open the doors of corruption in El Salvador was just indicted for corruption by federal prosecutors who seized one hundred thousand dollars in gold bars and four hundred and eighty thousand dollars in hidden cash from his home. So politicians those who are often very loud and screaming against crypto are the ones who have a lot to lose and a lot to hide, who are probably doing shady stuff. For example, Elizabeth Warren, Brad Sherman, Gary Gensler, right? I'm sure they've got some really nasty stuff in their closet. And some folks have shown that Elizabeth Warren has a net worth of seventy three million dollars. And of course, her salary is just like two hundred and eighty thousand a year. That's a great amount of wealth she's accumulated from just a senator's salary, right, folks? But we know the game, right? This is why we got to keep fighting and we got to expose these corrupt bureaucrats and politicians like Elizabeth Warren and Brad Sherman. We know they are puppets on the string doing a lot of the bidding of the tradfi incumbents and people who would love to kill crypto and not just even kill crypto, but just stop or kill the startups and allow their banking buddies and Wall Street buddies to come in and take over. So I'm glad these folks are getting exposed. And President Nayib Bukele, who, of course, he's the president of El Salvador, he tweeted about this news. He said, this is the guy that called for an investigation against us. He ended up being charged, period. So I'm glad he's doing a victory lap there. Now we got some interesting news about a library in the SEC. So we had reported just about a week and a half ago or two weeks ago that library was going to file an appeal. And this is based on the Ripple lawsuit outcome. Right. It makes sense. We have new case law with XRP, so it makes sense for them to appeal. And the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston has directed library to file its brief by November 1st, 2023. Now of course, this is no guarantee they're going to win. But the point is, we want to put the pressure on the SEC and Gary Gensler. We want to expose them for their lies, hypocrisy and much more. So I'm glad library is doing this. Attorney Jeremy Hogan highlighted a video here with Gary Gensler being interviewed. And it just shows his hypocrisy that he doesn't care about the law. He just cares about his own power and his next job. And it's no wonder Judge Sarah Netburn said the SEC has no faithful allegiance to the law. So he says the crypto space is full of hucksters and noncompliance. Well, the reporter asked them, would anything a court says change your mind? Great question. Gensler said, well, no, not really. And of course, he looked very shaky. He's losing confidence. And Attorney Jeremy Hogan said, you can't make this stuff up. So clearly, this man has no respect for the law. He's just making things up as he goes. It's about his show, his power, his ego. And we can't have that, folks. This guy's supported by our tax dollar. He should be kicked to the streets. And I'm telling you, I hope that Coinbase mops the floor with his buffoon and the SEC so that he has so much pressure on him. He's forced to resign. I'm hoping that happens. Now, Stuart Aldarati highlighted that same video. And here's what he had to say. What's most concerning to me and should be to you in the full video clip, this is the shocking admission of an unelected bureaucrat that he won't respect the decisions of the courts. So I'm thankful for the judicial branch and the balances we have in the government that a corrupt scumbag regulator like Gary Gensler, as much as he can go around saying all kinds of nonsense and nasty stuff, he has to respect the courts in a sense of what they put out there. Right. The SEC has to abide by that. Now, he may not personally agree, and he can, you know, like in this interview, say, oh, no, I don't agree with anything. But at the end of the day, if he takes a loss, he takes a loss. Right. So we got to keep fighting. I'm hoping the industry keeps fighting back as well. Now, quick word from our sponsor, and that is Uphold, which is a great crypto exchange that I've been using since twenty eighteen. I've interviewed their CEO and many representatives so I can vouch for this platform. They have ten plus million users, two hundred and fifty plus crypto currencies, and they're available in one hundred and fifty countries. You can also trade precious metals and thirty seven fiat currencies so you can switch between these different currencies and crypto and precious metals at a click of a button. So it's a unique platform and they've been around for a long time. Once again, I can vouch for this platform. So if you'd like to learn more, please visit the link in the description. All right. Let's move ahead. Caitlin Long was at Mainnet and she was tweeting out some of the statements coming out of Mainnet. I was at Mainnet yesterday and I met her. I tweeted out a photo of us together. I was supposed to go on Wednesday as well, but I wasn't feeling too hot. So stayed home that day. But, you know, there was a lot of folks there. And Brian Armstrong, CEO, was there. He said the Biden administration has been terrible for crypto. Well, that's to say the least, right? That's an understatement. They've been horrendous, in my opinion. Caitlin also highlighted that 61 percent of pro -crypto voters actually this is she's highlighting what Chris Lee Hain had to say, that 61 percent of pro -crypto voters in 2020 voted for Biden. Democrats are at risk of losing them in 2024 due to anti -crypto policy. Absolutely right. And these Democrats are shooting themselves in the foot. Patrick Hanson of Circle highlighted the following, that the euro stablecoin, obviously Circle issues USDC, but they also have the euro stablecoin and it's now EURC instead of EUROC. So just an update there. So the euro coin is now EURC. So just heads up on that, folks. And I want to highlight something I tweeted out today, and I think it's important. And, you know, all emotions aside, all feelings aside, I was highlighting that I'm very bullish on Ethereum for the 2024 -2025 bull market. Now this is, once again, all emotions and feelings about Bill Hinman and Joe Lubin aside, I still want those guys to be held accountable. But as for the token and the code, it's getting adoption. And I highlight that PayPal is building their stablecoin in Ethereum, right, PYUSD, Citibank's token is built on Ethereum. JP Morgan is working on a deposit token, which is built on Onyx, which is a permissioned version of the Ethereum blockchain. Coinbase is obviously launching base, which is their layer two for Ethereum, or they have launched it, I should say. And there's a rise in institutional ETH staking. So I'm very bullish on ETH and this type of news, these facts now, not my feelings, not my opinions, but these facts of adoption from very big companies and brands has me very bullish on Ethereum. I obviously hold ETH in my portfolio. I stake it and I continue to buy the dip, not financial advice. You should do your own research. And obviously I'm not just bullish on ETH alone, but just there's been a lot of adoption. And I want to highlight that because it's about facts, not feelings now. And I'm bullish on Bitcoin, XRP, Chainlink and many other tokens. Let's talk about Core Scientific, which is a Bitcoin mining company. So Core Scientific sealed $77 million Bitmain deal for 27 ,000 Bitcoin mining rigs. The deal was first finalized in August with Anchorage as another party agreeing to an equity stake in the bankrupt crypto miner. So one of the key things is that BlackRock also gave them a bit of money. Guys, this was back in 2022. So it's kind of like to the Victor goes to spoils where Bitmain was in trouble and then a whole bunch of folks started coming in to grab up as much as they can. So the deal between the two mining companies will see Bitmain supply 27 ,000 Bitcoin mining rigs for $23 million in cash, along with $53 .9 million worth of common stock of the bankrupt firm. Apart from the mining hardware purchase deal, Bitmain and Core Scientific have signed a new hosting agreement to assist Bitmain's mining operations. The deal was finalized in August when a court filing highlighted Bitmain's plan to sell mining hardware in exchange for cash and equity. As part of Core Scientific's restructuring plan, apart from Bitmain, the restructuring plan also included Anchorage. And you guys may have seen my interview recently with the president of Anchorage and the co -founder of Anchorage, Diego Monica. If you haven't seen that, be sure to check it out. It says here, restructuring plan also included Anchorage, BlockFi and mass mutual asset finance. Apart from Anchorage, all other three firms chose a mix of cash and equity options to settle their claims. The expansion investment plan by Bitmain will come into force by the fourth quarter of 2023, pending approval from a judge. Once approved, the hardware will potentially add 4 .1 exahashes to Core Scientific's hash rate. The two crypto mining companies all have also agreed to work together to upgrade Bitmain's last generation miners hosted at Core Scientific's data centers to further increase the firm's productivity. So, folks, Core Scientific, I will be potentially interviewing the new CEO and I'll let you guys know when that's coming up. But I want to definitely get into the details here and what BlackRock is doing with them in addition to Bitmain. So I'll definitely be asking those questions once I get the interview locked in. But, you know, a lot of companies are preparing for the Bitcoin mining next year. And many of you may have seen my interview uploaded earlier today with Fred Thiel, who's the CEO of Marathon Digital Holdings, and Marathon is working with a sovereign wealth fund. So, folks, there's going to be a lot of capital coming to the market. You're going to see a rise in demand for Bitcoin as the spot ETFs get approved, especially around, you know, BlackRock spot ETF and Fidelity and so forth. So I'm very bullish, you know, like I've been saying, we are in quantitative tightening, fighting inflation, rates are high, but this will end right as it has historically boom and bust cycles. The Fed will eventually start its QE again. They're going to start printing money, global liquidity will go back up and we'll be back in a bull market. We just have to be patient, dollar cost average where possible. And, you know, don't look at the price every day because you'll drive yourself crazy. And, you know, it's very volatile. Sometimes it's moving sideways. It's very boring. And I know that's tough. But just, you know, take your positions, obviously do your research, take your positions and just be patient and then, you know, watch what these players are doing. Right. Not so much the price, but watch what the players like this are doing, who's investing, who's building, who's raising capital and much more. So that's what I'm looking at. And that's why I build this podcast to share the news, because, you know, this is not going to make mainstream news. This is not going to be on CNBC, Fox or CNN or whatever it is. Right. And a lot of people are not paying attention. But I'm glad I'm here early. If you are here early, pat yourself on the back because there's going to be billions of people coming in buying Bitcoin and other crypto at a premium and they're going to go to BlackRock and whoever else. Right. But you and I are on the side of smart money. We are on the side of BlackRock. We are on the side of Fidelity. Right. Accumulating the lows. And then when the bull markets come back, then, you know, the herds, the herd who watch Jim Cramer and listen to Jim Cramer will go by. And that's when I'll be taking profits. And I'm sure many of you as well. So once you understand the market cycles, both for stocks, even real estate and obviously crypto, you know, you can make money, folks. And that's what I had to learn. I had to unlearn the mainstream media finance and listening to Jim Cramer and all these things. Right. And study the charts and understand the market cycles and know when to buy and when to sell, because all those things, you have to be a contrarian. Right. You've got to go against your emotions. You've got to go against the herd mentality. And that's hard if, you know, all your life you've been trained to go with the herd. Right. From television and media and all these things, you have to unlearn that. And once you get it, boy, it's pretty sweet. Right. To be able to make a nice return, make nice money. And obviously you've got to diversify. I diversify into different tokens, into stocks. I've often tweeted and sometimes shared, you know, my positions. Recently, I told you guys I bought PayPal because Jim Cramer said to sell PayPal. So I bought PayPal. Right. I know it's not going to be some quick flip. It may I see I may see some nice returns by next year and that's OK. I a am patient investor looking to build wealth for me and my family. So anyway, guys, that's my approach. Let me know what you think. I would love to hear what you guys think about this news. Leave your thoughts and comments below. Hit the thumbs up button. Hit the five star rating on the podcast platforms. Don't forget to check out the merchandise store. Link will be in the description. Thank you for your support. Thank you for listening. And I'll talk to you all later. Thank you.
Crypto Banter
A highlight from Make 1 ETH In JUST 1 Hour! How I Did It!
"So we're dealing with the red day the hangover from last night's FOMC meeting It's like a delayed reaction to what Jerome Powell said last night We're gonna have to talk about what Jerome Powell said because at the time when he was speaking Nothing happened to markets But afterwards what we realized is exactly this we realized that what Jerome Powell did last night was he may have actually broken the market What is it that he said that actually scared people and why is it that right now if we look at Bitcoin? Here we are. We are at twenty six thousand five hundred and forty. You remember before FOMC last night. We were at twenty seven thousand four hundred We thought we were gonna get a pump We also touched the top of the Bollinger Bands and now we're gonna come down if we start coming down again to the bottom of the Bollinger Bands we could go back down to Twenty five thousand one hundred and fifty five. So what did he do? What did Powell say? What did Powell do that has set off this reaction that has set off the Dixie look at the Dixie The Dixie is now had one two, three, four, five six, seven eight nine We are in the tenth green weekly candle for the Dixie and to make matters actually even worse if you go into the daily the Dixie has just had a golden cross now You know what a golden cross is the golden cross is the opposite of the death cross When you have a death cross usually prices continue to go down when you have the golden cross That's when prices usually go up and I'll take you to the last time that we had this golden cross Look what happened to the Dixie. So what did Powell do? Why is the market responding the way the markets responding we need to talk about that I'm also going to show you something now and then I'm going to tell you that I'm going to tell you why I'm showing it To you so first of all I want you to watch this because this is probably the most important clip that you will see today Channel where we critique attack and under. Hello there you awakening wonders now This isn't the usual type of video we make on this channel where we critique attack and undermine the news in all its corruption Because in this story, I am the news I've received two extremely disturbing letters or a letter and an email one from a mainstream media TV company one from a newspaper listing a litany of Extremely egregious and aggressive attacks as well as some pretty stupid stuffs like my community festival should be stopped that I shouldn't So that's right That's Russell brand and that's the beginning of something that he said and we're gonna talk about it And I know you don't know it now But I'm gonna show you why that is the only Reason in the world that you need to go out and actually buy a Bitcoin today It's the most important nature actually gonna do I'm gonna link it back to the Russell brand story. That's gonna be Saying that we must talk about today This is a story that that cut me deep and we have to spend some time talking about Russell brand Getting potentially cancelled and why that means that you and I need to buy Bitcoin absolutely immediately Then I'm going to show you a brilliant brilliant brilliant trading to the training tool that's gonna change your life I'm gonna show you how I made one East in less than one hour and you can make one East in less than one hour Too I want to talk about a new blockchain the blockchain is that blockchain over there, which is a combination of Solana Cosmo Celestia and Bullrun or be a catalyst for the next bull run then lastly if you want a hundred bucks for free what you need to do is stay tuned until the end of the show and So to get the show going I want to thank the community who sent this to us Bull runs coming back bull runs coming back bull runs coming back bull runs coming back Bull runs coming back bull runs coming back I need crypto banter Give me crypto banter I need crypto answers Hey Hey Go Stack it up on my nose I'm getting obese from this East I've been buying more Sip coffee bean on my screens The crypto show I'm a bull under gold I'm turning these bears into ghosts Snap at school That's the crash course Crypto man runs in a fast Porsche So much news and research I'm just glad for it Spewing all this alpha we go mad for it Crypto banter I need crypto banter Give me crypto banter I need crypto answers You like it? Let me know in the comments if you like it I'd make it Obviously community members sent it to us Thank you thank you thank you If you were the people that sent it to us We will give you guys a thing I mean initially I didn't like it But then the whole day I was like Crypto banter baby Crypto answers Someone says this song is terrible Yeah well you let me know what you think Listen first of all I want to apologize to you guys I want to apologize On behalf of Jerome Powell For giving us the most boring FOMC Meeting of our lives I feel that we all wasted about two hours Of our time last night In fact the most exciting Part of the whole event last night Was watching the Subscriber count on our new channel So this is our new channel Called Crypto Banter Plus If you're not already subscribed to Crypto Banter Plus Go and subscribe to Crypto Banter Plus Because we're gonna have a whole lot of Trading videos here Annie's trading videos My trading videos Sheldon's trading videos And a whole lot more content here And as you subscribe What you'll see Is that we've made this little counter To see how everybody subscribes How do you subscribe? There's a link below It's a top link Click on that link Go to the channel Subscribe to the channel You're gonna miss out Because yesterday The FOMC that we did We actually watched it here On Crypto Banter Plus So this is where a lot more content Is gonna happen On Crypto Banter Plus So be there Join us This is where a lot of stuff Is actually gonna happen And the most exciting thing about last night Was actually just watching the subscriber count It was the only thing that was going up and down Anyway be there as it may Today unfortunately Things aren't so good We are dealing with a delayed reaction A hangover There we go See you guys are subscribing We are dealing with a hangover We're dealing with a delayed reaction From what Powell did Or what Powell said last night And we need to understand Why the market reacted The way that it reacted And that's what we're gonna be doing today We're also gonna be talking about Russell Brand And how Russell Brand is actually getting cancelled And the lengths that governments are going to To cancel him Why are they trying to cancel him And why is that a reason Why you and I need to buy Bitcoin immediately So listen If you're not already a subscriber to this channel Subscribe to this channel If you're not a subscriber to Banta Plus Go and subscribe to Banta Plus I see you guys subscribing to Banta Plus Thank you, thank you, thank you Let's get this show on the road We've got a lot to talk about today As we stand today We're still positive For the month of September Remember I said we're gonna be positive For the month of September We are still 3 % up Even though It's not looking good out there It's not looking good 26 ,570 Bubbles Are absolutely, absolutely red If Benjamin Cowen is right He says Get this Let's change the scene here Let's make it look more elegant How cool is that So in 2019 After the first 20 days of September Bitcoin was up 6 % But by the end of the month Bitcoin was down almost 14 % From its monthly open In 2023 After 20 days Bitcoin is up 5 % Wake me up When September You know what I mean Wake me up in September And so Question is Are we gonna follow this pattern Or are we gonna follow the pattern That I said Where we continue to go up I do have one little bit of good news For you guys Before we start talking about the FOMC The one little bit of good news That I have for you Is that the Mt.
Tech Path Crypto
A highlight from 1264. Government Shutdown Approaches | Crypto Markets in DANGER!
"All right, so today we're going to dive into the government shutdown. Take a look at how this may affect markets, especially the crypto markets, and of course break down a few charts for you guys at the end. You make sure and stick around for all this good stuff. My name is Paul Bearer. Welcome back in The Tech Path. All right. Before we get started today, I want to thank our sponsor, and that is iTrust Capital, for looking at long term holding. Make sure and jump over to iTrust Capital. You can do everything from Bitcoin, Ethereum, a handful of all coins, but you can also get into gold and silver. All of that is available into your own IRA account, self -directed. All you have to do is click our link down below. It's going to give you a $100 funding reward, and you can go on your journey of setting up your IRA. And it's almost that time of year. We're starting to get into tax planning and all those kind of things. Always consult your CPAs and or your tax advisors for the best advice out there. But check it out. All right. Let's get into a few things. I want to get into the government shutdown first. I've got a couple of clips we'll play for you. We'll get into some charts a little bit later for you as well. I want to go to this first clip, though. This gives you kind of a rundown of what's happening. Here's a refresher. First off, Congress needs to pass 12 appropriation bills annually to give government agencies a budget for the coming fiscal year. If some of those bills pass but others don't, by the deadline, the government enters a partial shutdown. If all 12 appropriations bills aren't passed, the country goes into a full shutdown. Congress has only a handful of working days left to keep the government funded. Speaker Kevin McCarthy says he's willing to keep the House in session on Friday and Saturday if a deal hasn't been reached to avert a government shutdown. However, both of the sides, the House and the Senate, will be off the following Monday in observance of Yom Kippur, continue to jam House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who's been trying and failing to pass bills to keep the government open with Republican votes only. Do you believe the government is going to shut down? Yes. And it's Kevin McCarthy's fault. Kevin broke this deal. And I intend to hold him to that deal or to hold daily votes on a motion to make. Some members warn an October 1st federal shutdown is increasingly likely, which could rattle the stock market and Americans for a one case. The seven hundred fifty thousand member American Federation of Government Employees has warned members to save up whatever money they can. This isn't happening in a vacuum. It happens when we have a spreading strike of UAW workers and we have a lot of people who are being asked to start paying student loans. So we could be hitting the economy with three things. Three things put together could begin to have a punch. I mean, are we already at more than 50 percent odds of a shutdown? Well, I think so. I think it's more likely than not. It's possible if there is a government shutdown and it lasts through the next meeting, then it's possible we wouldn't we wouldn't be getting some of the data that we would ordinarily get. And we you know, we would just have to deal with that. And I don't know, it's hard for me to say in advance how that would affect that meeting. It would depend on all kinds of factors that I don't know about now. But it's certainly a reality that that's a possibility.
Thinking Crypto News & Interviews
A highlight from Fred Thiel Interview - Sovereign Wealth Funds Investing in Bitcoin & Bitcoin Mining - Marathon Digital Holdings
"At five, six hundred billion dollars of total market cap for Bitcoin, if you include all the Bitcoin that have been produced today, a sovereign who wants to go park fifty billion dollars because they happen to have a five trillion dollar set of assets in their overall portfolio, that would have a huge impact on the price of Bitcoin. INTRO This content is brought to you by Link2, which makes private equity investment easy. Link2 is a great platform that allows you to get equity in companies before they go public, before they do an IPO. Within their portfolio includes crypto companies, AI companies, and fintech companies. Some of the crypto companies you may recognize include Circle, Ripple, Chainalysis, Ledger, Dapper Labs, and many more. If you'd like to learn more about Link2, please visit the link in the description. Welcome back to the Thinking Crypto podcast, your home for cryptocurrency news and interviews. With me today is Fred Thiel, who is the CEO of Marathon Digital Holdings. Fred, it's great to have you back on the show. Great to be here. Fred, we last spoke about two years ago. I'm excited to hear the latest updates around Marathon Digital. I'm excited about the boom in Bitcoin mining in the United States. And Marathon is certainly one of the leading miners. Tell us what's new with Marathon. Well, compared to two years ago, we've grown a lot. We're now with over 23 exit hash of installed capacity, about 19 exit hash operating, just waiting to turn on our Garden City site, which should be any day here. And we've also expanded internationally. So we now have a 250 megawatt installation in Abu Dhabi, 50 megawatts of which is up and operational. That's all immersion. It's the first site that we've designed, inspect, built and operate ourselves fully. So that's very unique conditions. It's the middle of the desert and next to the Persian Gulf. So it's very hot, very humid conditions. But we have this great relationship with the local grid operators that allows them to balance the grid using our Bitcoin mining, which they love at the moment, which is great. And that site should be fully operational by the end of this year. And then we've recently announced some additional machine orders. So we'll be growing our capacity to around 30 exit hash in the near to mid future. So we're very happy with that. Another thing, we announced a week ago that we were going to essentially redeem about $417 million worth of our debt for equity, which will put our balance sheet in a really strong place. We'll end up with a little over $300 million of debt with over $400 million of liquidity between cash and Bitcoin. And coming into the having, we think it's really important to have a strong balance sheet with no short term debt and a position to take advantage of whatever opportunities arise. Yeah, that's exciting. And I'm curious about the Abu Dhabi location. Was it more of a, let's say, friendliness to Bitcoin mining in addition to, let's say, low energy costs? But also, it seems in the Middle East, there's more opening up to crypto in general. What was the strategy behind positioning yourselves there? core So the desire was a couple of things. One, balance the grid, because in the summertime, they use four gigawatts of power. In the winter, it's only one gigawatt. So it's a huge asymmetry in the power need. And they had just put online a new five gigawatt nuclear power plant. And so they have this excess power. So what do you do when you have excess power? Well, you find a customer for it. And Bitcoin mining obviously being an easy customer to use because we have the ability to be an interruptible load, which for their needs is perfect because in the summer, they don't need four gigawatts all day long. They only need it in certain times of the afternoon and evening. And so where initially they were going to consider longer curtailment periods, they're actually doing it in very short increments now. It's working so well that they're looking to automate that whole process, which will be great because we're ready for that automation.
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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GM President Fires Back: 'Flow of Misinformation' Could Prolong Strike
"Myths being shared out there in other some words of the lies by the UAW boss UAW leadership leadership claims GM pays its team members poverty wages you also heard this from the Marxist Bernie Sanders this is simply not true in our current proposal we are offering a 20 increase percent how wage many of you are getting that including for temporary employees who make only up six to ten percent of our workforce what he's trying to say there is it's not like we're hiring all these independent contractors and temporary employees to get around the contract we only have a very small number of our employees who are temporary and they're getting a huge increase too says that means about eighty five percent of current representative employees would earn a base wage a base wage of approximately eighty eighty two thousand dollars a year did you know that mister set in base wage contrast the average median household income in nine areas where GM has major assembly plants is fifty one thousand eight hundred twenty compared dollars to the eighty two thousand and total compensation for the eighty five percent of the workforce with overtime and benefits ready will be more than one hundred and fifty thousand their benefits are through the roof overtime and all the rest so the base is eighty two thousand even before you get the benefits add in the benefits in the overtime thousand dollars a year over one hundred and fifty now can you imagine a forty percent increase? for a four day work
Tech Path Crypto
A highlight from 1256. $300 Billion Coming To Bitcoin ETF w/Mark Yusko
"All right, so welcome in today. We're going to be diving into topics around ETFs and also what is happening with the SEC in terms of their enforcement actions and some of the things they've been doing that could be causing a slowdown in innovation for blockchain. We'll break into all this good stuff today. I think you'll like it. My name is Paul Baron. Welcome back in to Tech Path. Joining me today is a regular guest, one that I think you guys all love, and that is Mr. Marc Usko coming in from Morgan Creek Capital. Great to have you on the show today. No, great to be with you, Paul, as always, and happy Friday. It's going to be a good one, Marc. Let's first of all get into a few things. I want to lead off the show with a tweet from James Seyfert, who is one of the Bloomberg analysts on ETFs. He does a really good breakdown. He's been on our show before. There's some dates to watch here. We've got middle of October, next major days to watch. October 16th with Global, and then also October 7th. And then you've got all these scenarios playing out right here with iShares, which of course is BlackRock. I'll zoom in on that a little bit so you guys can see it. Second deadline coming up on 10 -17, and then a slew right there on that same day. First of all, I want to get your opinion on, do you think that this October is when the SEC might actually give us an early Christmas present? Or are you just going to get pushed again? No, look, I'm 50 -50 at this point. So I do think more tricks than treats for anyone who's 10 -17 date. So any decision before that date, I think is a negative decision. I'm not sure it'll be an outright denial, but will definitely be an extension and a push. And then we come to the big dog. I believe, and I've said multiple times, that BlackRock will be the first one. I've actually been saying that for over a year. I actually might even go stronger and say, oh, that'll never happen. That would be too much corruption. Well, I'm just saying it's certainly possible. What's probably more likely is BlackRock first, and then a gap, and then some number of others. But the thing is, whoever's first is going to get the vast majority of assets. Vast majority. Well, first mover is always going to be taking. I mean, that's just like the gold ETF, kind of the same kind of scenario. Yeah. The gold ETF is an example with GLD. You had the Bitcoin futures ETF with Bitto getting 98 % and then a couple others getting like 1 % each. So that's just my belief. And I believe it's who you know in this game, not what you know. There are a lot of people who have should gotten approved. The Winklevoss twins were the first to apply. They should have gotten approved. There was no reason not to approve it other than, again, kind of the way the game is played and the people in charge want to be in charge. So any new disruptive players I think are unlikely. Cathie Wood partnered with one of our companies, portfolio Amun, to do 21 shares. That looked like a great application ding pushed out. I think Bitwise is a day ahead of iShares on 10 .16 as much as I would love it. Again, portfolio company, full disclosure. I would love for them to get approved. I just don't think it's going to happen. Again, I don't think it'll be denied. I just think they'll be pushed. And here's why I'm 50 -50, Paul, to answer the question. I think they could approve on the 17th, but I don't think they will. I think they'll push it into next year. So you push 90 days. That gets you into January. January 15th. Yeah. You could push again then into March, April. But that's it. Then you have to approve. Now, what's interesting is we have this little thing called the halving coming up in mid -April of 24. And so it would be an interesting alignment of stars. But I said, could they pull the trigger on BlackRock in a month? Yeah, they could. Yeah. All right. Well, with that and to your point, the third deadline, just so everybody can put it on your calendar out there, you've got January 15th for BlackRock and then moving in all the way into March, what we're going to discuss there. March would be an interesting timing. I think you're right, because obviously the halving right there on the cusp of that, along with maybe a little bit of lightening the load in terms of inflation, because I feel like we're going to continue to see some inflation hits through the end of the year. What is your thought on how the inflation numbers came in this week and how the Fed might react? I don't think the Fed cares about gasoline prices, quite honestly, Paul. All this little blip is gasoline prices, all of it. I think most of the other components were actually negative. And the gasoline prices are because Saudi has decided to go a different direction. We had a very hunky dory relationship with Saudi from 1973 till now. And that's clearly over, right? The big guy went over to Saudi right before the election last year and tried to get them to pump more to get oil prices down and gasoline prices down, because there's this inverse correlation between presidential popularity and gas prices. And they basically said pound sand. And so he came down, he came in and said, well, this is a convenient decision to get gasoline prices down. Guess what happened? Democrats did pretty well in the election. And because there's no way out for that now, though. I mean, there's no way. Now we have an empty SPR. And the thing is, we can't fill it up ourselves because, and again, not to get too technical, but there's, there's light sweet crude, which we produce and a number of other places, Nigeria and others produce. And then there's heavy sour crude, more sulfur content, because we cut this deal with the Saudis in the seventies, we built all of our refining inventory infrastructure, sorry, around processing heavy sour. Yeah. Well, here's the problem. If now Saudi is going to sell their heavy sour to China and Russia and other places, and we're not going to get as much of it, what are we going to do? Well, we've got to build new refineries or retrofit the refiner. It turns out no one wants a new refinery in their backyard. Yeah. I think I'm right. It's been like 30 years since we built a refinery. It turns out they spit out, you know, pollutants and things like that. So nobody really wants one around. We all like driving cars by the way. And and living our lives and, you know, Oh, well, you know, we can, we can stop using oil. No, we can't. Nothing you do every, I mean, everything you do every day, the vast majority of it is powered by oil and gas, the vast majority. And yeah, you say you could get an electric car, but where'd the steel in that car come from? Did they make a little electricity? No. How about the plastics? Nope. Oil. So it's just, it's kind of comical when I hear we're going to, you know, outlaw fossil fuels, but back to the inflation number I think this might not be temporary in the sense that Saudi announced, they're going to do a voluntary cut. Why? Cause they're just sticking the knife in a little bit deeper because they're like, all right guys, you said you were going to refill the SPR. You didn't do it. Oil prices were all the way down in the sixties. Could have easily done it for sure. Now oil prices are in the nineties. Yeah. We're going to hit a hundred bucks a barrel for sure. How does this, okay. So when you look at that Mark and you look at an election year coming in, you've got all this pressure from the macro side, including most likely jobs market getting a lot stiffer. Companies starting to really get some pressure on. We had bankruptcies at the highest point ever. We've had a very long period of time for independent companies. This does not look like a rosy picture. Where do you think we come out of this in relationship to the timing of the havening, a Bitcoin ETF, maybe into next summer? How far into 2024 do you think this happens? So I believe the ETF will be approved sometime around year end, whether it's in early January or December, sometime in that timeframe. And I think that will pave the way for a very large influx of capital. I know you've had Eric on the show about Eunice and he does this great work, right? I mean, there's 30 trillion with a T 30 trillion. Remember 1 trillion is a dollar every second for 31 ,710 years, but 30 trillion is going to come into, or that's the total amount of money managed by RIAAs and others that is not allowed at this point for whatever silly reason to own Bitcoin. And they can't own GBTC and they can't own Bitcoin miners and they've called a timeout. Well, once there's an ETF, particularly if it's an ETF that BlackRock runs, there are going to be no excuse and they're all going to have to approve it. Their clients have been asking for it. I would say I have a family harmony account at UBS. They let me buy what I want to buy. And they're like, no. So I think all that goes away. And I think Eric's number is, let's say one 10th of 1 % comes in. That's 30 billion. Well, but wait, 30 billion on 500 billion. That's not that much. Well, no, it's not 500 billion. 400 billion of the 500 billion of Bitcoin's market cap doesn't really trade. It's either locked up like the Satoshi wallet or the Winklevoss wallet or, you know, hodlers that just said, you know, take it out of my cold, dead hands. It's only about a hundred billion that is the free float to borrow a TradFi term. And so 30 billion on 100, that will move the price. But I don't think it's going to be 10 basis points. I think it's 1%. I think you have to do 1%. As a fiduciary, if you got, you know, 50 % in equities at some of the highest valuations in history, and you got another 30 % in bonds, which have had the first two negative years in the history of the bond market, 140 years of history, two negative years, looking pretty ugly. And you got this asset that is the best performing asset again, 11 of the 14 years that Bitcoin has been alive. It's been the best performing asset of all assets. It's the best performing asset then this year. Yeah. Eric hit on his prediction about 150 billion in terms of market impact. Do you like that number or do you think that he's still like it? Well, again, I think 150 billion would be half a percent, right? Instead of 10 basis points. And it looks like he's updated his, his thoughts. I'll go further and say 1 % seems more likely that'd be 300 billion, 300 billion on a hundred billion of free float price goes up a lot, a lot, a lot. And here's the, the interesting thing, Paul, is the way halvings work is the fair value increases. So we've got a tailwind that the fair value today based on Metcalfe's law model that Tim Peterson runs and that I think is fantastic, says that the fair value is somewhere in the low fifties, 52, 53, let's just call it 50. So at the halving, fair value doubles. What do you mean, Mark? What are you talking about? Well, think about it. The miners who secure the network, their costs are fixed, mining machines and electricity. So if their block rewards, the number of rewards that they're paid to secure the network gets cut in half and the price doesn't move, then they're out of business. So there's a built in mechanism to move the price higher, which is actually really interesting because that attracts attention because there's movement. And so long story short, fair value, every halving added has a zero. So we went from a hundred to a thousand, then we went from a thousand to 10 ,000. Now we go from 10 ,000 to a hundred thousand. So a fair value is a hundred thousand and we're trading at 26. It's a pretty rapid increase to fair value, I think, as investors buy things that are below fair value. But then what happens in the post fall halving, you get this parabolic blow off top. And in the previous cycle, fair value was around 30K. We got all the way to 69. That was because there was too much leverage and too much gambling and speculating. I don't think we go 2X this time or two and a half X this time. Could we get one and a half X? Sure. That gives about 150K, something like that. Yeah. Well, that is OK. So that's very intriguing. If you're if you're estimating this could be in the 300 billion dollar area, you know, for based on, you know, just the exposure to these funds and obviously how that might play out. How do you think retail response to this? Do you think retail is going to come in like a banshee coming in on this with a lot of now what would be legitimized ETFs? How do you think they play? Again, it's I've been saying this for five years. My hashtag get off zero zero is the wrong number, right? This is a truly unique diversifying asset that must be in everyone's portfolio. Doesn't have to be your whole portfolio. I never said that. It should be at least one percent.
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"Let yourself feel the things that's where you get stuck. You resist them. You resist them and it makes everything harder. Yes, everything harder. And I think it's so rather than just accepting that they're there. Okay, let them be. Let that fear be. And just observe it. It's with you now. Okay, it's with you for an hour, a day, three days a week, whatever. Just observe it. Don't let it control. You don't let it manage you. And let it pass through you. Finally, it will go away. Yeah. Just like any other emotion, you feel happy when you feel joy. You don't feel joy forever, right? It goes away as well. Unfortunately. But, you know, I'm just treated the same way. It's there. It's with us. Okay, it's going. It's emotions. Yeah, it's very true. So are there would you say in your journey, would you say there have been any people that have really influenced you or made a big impact? Helps you see things this way or if you felt it's been more sort of an individual. No, obviously, there have been people like that both my journey. When I was younger, it was some of my managers, my bosses that really allowed me to believe in myself to some of my CEOs or my bosses, men, actually. They were both men the ones that I really respect and loved working with and then later down the track. It was Friends of mine. Like certain girlfriends that really hug me showed me who I am, what I'm worth really kind of reflected who I am for them and then by that I trusted and I believed more that if they see me that way, I must be this. And it's kind of caused me to grow when I see how people view me. So when you have really good friends that really see who you are, by the way, this is a good exercise. I teach people personal branding and exercises I give them is ask people that you appreciate how they perceive you. Interesting. When they see in you what values were characteristics and you'll be so surprised in what they say, because we don't stop to ask that. No, because people are scared. Yeah, we're scared of what they're gonna say, but it's super interesting. And when you get that feedback and you see how people view you, you know, you can obviously improve things that are not good for you, but then the things that are great, you want to understand why they're saying it and are they seeing it in your not seeing it? They are not allowing yourself to appreciate yourself that way. And then take it, take it and trust that and grow because of that. And so some of my girlfriends have really good girlfriends that helped me see myself as a way shower and spiritual person and someone who can really bring light to many people and inspiration to many people. And also lately I've been following in the past year I've been following some spiritual teachers like Lori lad, for example. She's American. She's amazing. And my partner, my boyfriend, for 5 years, he has been an amazing contribution to my life and how I see myself, because I think that when I realized that he can love me so much and unconditionally and love every part of me, it really helped me with loving myself more. Yeah, I had some issues with how I view my body. For example, like many women, you look at yourself and you go on to fat and ugly and my hair, like this, like that, you know, my ass, whatever. Oh yeah. And when I hear him and see him, looking at me, loving every bit of my body, loving me so much. I'm saying, okay, he sees something that I don't. Why do I not like that? He likes it. You know, and I engage in that conversation with myself. And that really helped me throughout the years to love myself more, just by just by understanding his love for me. Well, I guess that takes a lot being very open. I mean, that's amazing though. Are you vulnerable? Very open. Yeah. Yeah, I think it goes back to a lot of the things that you're talking about, which is that you need to be open, you have to let yourself feel the things and you have to trust people as well. So a lot of things at play here that you're talking about. Not that guy wasn't hurt. That boyfriend that I'm talking about, we broke up twice during the 5 years that we were together, but I really trusted him every time. And yes, he broke my heart. Twice, but again, I gave him my trust because I really love him and he really loves me. And yes, there are breakdowns in their challenges. But when you love someone so much and you're willing to be vulnerable, you're willing to give yourself fully, you just grow together every time. Again, it's not that it's not difficult. It's not that it's not hard, but every time you are in that breakdown, you have another opportunity to grow to really grow and grow together if it's a relationship and grow together. Yeah. No, I think it touches on also what I think what's going wrong a little bit in society now, which is this belief that everything has to be happy, but actually if there's no south, there's no hap because you don't know. And so it's just this everyone is sort of trying to go for some sort of bland straight line, but it's actually in order to feel the things you need to feel you need to feel everything. You need to feel everything. If you try to just feel certain things, you're denying your humanity, because this human beings, we are designed to feel everything. Even the stuff we don't want to feel. Know exactly. And unfortunately, the world today is not an easy place to be at. There are so many struggles and challenges for people for humans. And we just, it's not right to try and close our eyes to what's happening around us. It's just not right for us, because we are becoming numb to certain things. And we are also denying some people the help we can provide for them. If we're not feeling them, seeing them feeling for them, you know, even if we are privileged enough to not be hurt, there are other people that are getting hurt. Everywhere you look. And you have to be brave enough to just see it and look at it and feel the sadness and feel anger and feel frustration and feel fear and be there for other people and be there for yourself, you know? Without feeling without letting yourself experience emotions, it's going to be very difficult to navigate this world in this time that we're in. That's what I think. Absolutely. I a 100% agree. Well, thank you. So much has been really great talking to you and those of amazing insights. Thank you so much. Thank you. Amazing. I made mcquillan. Thank you for listening to our 50 faces focus series. If you like what you heard and would like to tune in to your more inspiring Israeli woman and tech and beyond, please subscribe on Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts..
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"Let yourself feel the things that's where you get stuck. You resist them. You resist them and it makes everything harder. Yes, everything harder. And I think it's so rather than just accepting that they're there. Okay, let them be. Let that fear be. And just observe it. It's with you now. Okay, it's with you for an hour, a day, three days a week, whatever. Just observe it. Don't let it control. You don't let it manage you. And let it pass through you. Finally, it will go away. Yeah. Just like any other emotion, you feel happy when you feel joy. You don't feel joy forever, right? It goes away as well. Unfortunately. But, you know, I'm just treated the same way. It's there. It's with us. Okay, it's going. It's emotions. Yeah, it's very true. So are there would you say in your journey, would you say there have been any people that have really influenced you or made a big impact? Helps you see things this way or if you felt it's been more sort of an individual. No, obviously, there have been people like that both my journey. When I was younger, it was some of my managers, my bosses that really allowed me to believe in myself to some of my CEOs or my bosses, men, actually. They were both men the ones that I really respect and loved working with and then later down the track. It was Friends of mine. Like certain girlfriends that really hug me showed me who I am, what I'm worth really kind of reflected who I am for them and then by that I trusted and I believed more that if they see me that way, I must be this. And it's kind of caused me to grow when I see how people view me. So when you have really good friends that really see who you are, by the way, this is a good exercise. I teach people personal branding and exercises I give them is ask people that you appreciate how they perceive you. Interesting. When they see in you what values were characteristics and you'll be so surprised in what they say, because we don't stop to ask that. No, because people are scared. Yeah, we're scared of what they're gonna say, but it's super interesting. And when you get that feedback and you see how people view you, you know, you can obviously improve things that are not good for you, but then the things that are great, you want to understand why they're saying it and are they seeing it in your not seeing it? They are not allowing yourself to appreciate yourself that way. And then take it, take it and trust that and grow because of that. And so some of my girlfriends have really good girlfriends that helped me see myself as a way shower and spiritual person and someone who can really bring light to many people and inspiration to many people. And also lately I've been following in the past year I've been following some spiritual teachers like Lori lad, for example. She's American. She's amazing. And my partner, my boyfriend, for 5 years, he has been an amazing contribution to my life and how I see myself, because I think that when I realized that he can love me so much and unconditionally and love every part of me, it really helped me with loving myself more. Yeah, I had some issues with how I view my body. For example, like many women, you look at yourself and you go on to fat and ugly and my hair, like this, like that, you know, my ass, whatever. Oh yeah. And when I hear him and see him, looking at me, loving every bit of my body, loving me so much. I'm saying, okay, he sees something that I don't. Why do I not like that? He likes it. You know, and I engage in that conversation with myself. And that really helped me throughout the years to love myself more, just by just by understanding his love for me. Well, I guess that takes a lot being very open. I mean, that's amazing though. Are you vulnerable? Very open. Yeah. Yeah, I think it goes back to a lot of the things that you're talking about, which is that you need to be open, you have to let yourself feel the things and you have to trust people as well. So a lot of things at play here that you're talking about. Not that guy wasn't hurt. That boyfriend that I'm talking about, we broke up twice during the 5 years that we were together, but I really trusted him every time. And yes, he broke my heart. Twice, but again, I gave him my trust because I really love him and he really loves me. And yes, there are breakdowns in their challenges. But when you love someone so much and you're willing to be vulnerable, you're willing to give yourself fully, you just grow together every time. Again, it's not that it's not difficult. It's not that it's not hard, but every time you are in that breakdown, you have another opportunity to grow to really grow and grow together if it's a relationship and grow together. Yeah. No, I think it touches on also what I think what's going wrong a little bit in society now, which is this belief that everything has to be happy, but actually if there's no south, there's no hap because you don't know. And so it's just this everyone is sort of trying to go for some sort of bland straight line, but it's actually in order to feel the things you need to feel you need to feel everything. You need to feel everything. If you try to just feel certain things, you're denying your humanity, because this human beings, we are designed to feel everything. Even the stuff we don't want to feel. Know exactly. And unfortunately, the world today is not an easy place to be at. There are so many struggles and challenges for people for humans. And we just, it's not right to try and close our eyes to what's happening around us. It's just not right for us, because we are becoming numb to certain things. And we are also denying some people the help we can provide for them. If we're not feeling them, seeing them feeling for them, you know, even if we are privileged enough to not be hurt, there are other people that are getting hurt. Everywhere you look. And you have to be brave enough to just see it and look at it and feel the sadness and feel anger and feel frustration and feel fear and be there for other people and be there for yourself, you know? Without feeling without letting yourself experience emotions, it's going to be very difficult to navigate this world in this time that we're in. That's what I think. Absolutely. I a 100% agree. Well, thank you. So much has been really great talking to you and those of amazing insights. Thank you so much. Thank you. Amazing. I made mcquillan. Thank you for listening to our 50 faces focus series. If you like what you heard and would like to tune in to your more inspiring Israeli woman and tech and beyond, please subscribe on Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts..
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"Obviously, didn't always work. No, I found that for various reasons. I found that when I worked for a specific startup that was very male dominant. And I was a member of the management of the company. I was the only woman who was very difficult for me. Although I aligned with the product and what the company is doing and it was a good place from that perspective, I didn't feel at home in terms of the gender equality art and the way decisions were made, which I felt not included and my voice was not heard properly. And so that wasn't a right place for me to be in. So I walked out and there were other things that didn't work. So I walked out. And so it's not always the perfect place. I don't want to paint that picture of perfect life because I had any struggles and I do still challenges and struggles. But what's important is whenever I identify and I feel that it's not right, I don't want to be there anymore. And I follow my intuition and I walk away and I start something else. I think that's a really good point because I think there's always I think a lot of the time people are afraid of failure and they're afraid of it going wrong, but it's really not about it going wrong because everything goes wrong sometimes, right? Things go wrong. But it's about actually realizing that you're not happy and that you need to make a change. Absolutely. In terms of career, I think people just have so much fear around leaving something and the unknown that will come later. For example, a very common phenomena in the business world is that you don't want to leave a workplace until you have the next one line up, right? Women and men. Both. And I think that in some cases I can understand if you really have a financial difficulty and you want to make sure that there's not even one minute that you don't have a salary or whatever. But sometimes throwing yourself out there to the unknown and starting fresh and really letting yourself rest for a second and not being that race chase of the next thing really comes you down and allows you to center again to what is important for you. And that's fear of being without a job or a project or a business for even a moment is something that is really holding a lot of people back. And I think when you learn that taking risks and being in a void in a place where there is uncertainty when it is hard, where it is challenging, that's where you really grow. Because when you keep on going safe and you know, you do more of the same, okay, I have the next thing. Okay, I know what I'm doing. I'm going to explain continuing my journey to that. And you don't allow yourself to really have breakdowns in the middle or boys in the middle, then your journey continues safely and I'm not saying you're not going up, but you're going up pretty steadily. Rather than breaking down, stopping really freezing everything, giving time for yourself. Trusting yourself, being with yourself. She's very worth talking to yourself like hi, this is me, this is what I want. This is what I'm afraid of. This is what I don't want. Really having those that time for yourself to have these discussions and then moving on. And you know what? There's nothing wrong with lining the next thing up for yourself. There's nothing wrong with continuing in the same path. There's nothing wrong either way. It's just a question of how you want to challenge yourself and how much do you want to learn about yourself and how much do you want to grow and are you willing to challenge yourself? Or you don't, this time, it's not the right thing for you. It's okay. It's just really it's an opportunity and it's a possibility. People need to allow that possibility some space in their set of considerations. Because I feel like there's not enough room there's not enough space for that possibility that we just shove it out because it's so scary. Like play around with it, see if it works for you. Maybe you'll find that it's appealing to you. You do want to try and take that risk or do something different or yeah. I think that's great. That's really good advice is that the advice you might give your younger self, my younger self, yes, but I think I was always a risk taker in a way. I have this entrepreneurial spirit within me, so I did take chances. They were just very, very difficult for me to take when I took them. I remember when I was 20 and I had to decide if to go to Australia or stay in Israel. I was struggling. I was suffering. Within me, I was so afraid of taking that chance. I did take it finally, but the suffering I went through was horrible. And what I would say to my young self back then is just trust yourself. Don't be so afraid. Nothing wrong is gonna happen. You're safe. You're okay. Like, what's the worst that could happen? You'll make a mistake. You'll be wrong, you know? It wouldn't work out. So you'll try again. Like you've got what it takes. And when I thought I would say that you discovering the programming wasn't failing, but it actually is the thing that happened that you went and wasn't for you. That's not the worst thing. And I think that as I was going through my journey in life, I'm divorced by the way and when I got divorced when I was 30, 31, I felt like a failure after I got divorced. I felt like I failed. I failed that thing called relationship, like it's supposed to be done. And that fear of failure was something that was always with me very strongly. And I think what I've learned throughout the years being so old as I am now 41 years old, I feel like I've learned that that fear is always going to be there and it's just how I am being in the face of fear. Do I give it the space it wants? Because fear is just, you know, it's something that we are so used to, and we are so scared of, but it can also be something I can become friendly with. I fear, okay, it's fear. It's another emotion. We have so many emotions. We feel joy, we feel peace. We feel love. We feel fear. We feel hate. We feel many, many things, but the fear we have from fear is so big that we try to avoid it all the time and we pay a price for it. And what I've learned is just to allow fear to be. Just like any other emotion. And if I allow it to be there and I just let it go through me, it will pass. And I can continue. And I'm not managed by fear anymore. And I feel way less fear in my life today than I did when I was younger. That's why I can do bigger things today. That's amazing. Because I do think that is a very good point, which is if.
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"Of everything, sales, marketing, and when I was doing marketing, I felt at home. I felt like, that's my sweet spot. That's what I'm good at. And that's what I should continue doing. So I was there for three years and then I continued my journey and marketing and other companies. So when you say that that was the sweet spot, what was that marketing that really clicked for you? I felt that the skill I had to connect people around a mission a value proposition a vision to activate them and call them into action while I know how to articulate the value for them, the value for me, that's a skill that is resonating with me and that is working for other people. When I do it, when I exercise it, it worked every time. I could enroll people in a huge delegation to Canada with 25 Israeli companies for telecommunications. I could bring 35 tech startups to Berlin for a delegation with publishers here. And big things. I could really speak to people and explain to them what's in it for them. What's in it for us? Why is it good? Why they should trust me follow me. And take my word for it and do what I suggest for them to do, and that that feeling or that knowingness that I can make a difference for someone else by first of all having a set of values and a set of even a value proposition for someone else and giving it to them, providing it to them, articulating it to them so that they can then benefit from it is something that a good marketer is doing all the time. That's what marketers do. They find the value. They create a story around it. They deliver that story that message to the right target audience and they activate that audience into action. Now many marketers use it, I would say for bad things. To coerce people to make them do stuff. They may not want to do to insert an industries, you see marketing being used sometimes on a negative perspective. Absolutely. Yeah, advertising is like brainwashing people's minds, it's interesting. You can really use it for the wrong, but when I discovered that I can use this for good. Yeah. For something that could really make a good difference or a positive difference in the world for companies for people, whatever. I said, this is powerful. Marketing is very powerful. And I want to be doing that. And I want to make sure that I do that for a positive purpose. And actually, so that made me think about the start Israel's that you were featured in that article because it talked about social impact. Right. And so is that kind of also what you're thinking about. In a way, because I feel that being an activist is something I've been doing for years in different spaces, sometimes it's with female professionals with gender equality, sometimes it's with either minorities that can we have plenty of that fighting for other minorities, sometimes it's political. Like I take my activism where I feel it's needed and where I can make a difference. And I think that my expertise in finding values telling the stories, driving people into action is really helping me in my activist work. Now I wouldn't be so comfortable doing what I'm doing on the social side if I didn't have my marketing skills, I think if I would be shy and not speaking up and not trusting that my values are important, I would probably not be an activist today. And I think that my marketing background and my expertise and my global expertise as well really helped me carry out a lot of social impact for activities. Have you ever done a campaign or been involved in anything where you actually felt conflicted and had to pull out of the campaign you were doing as a market share or if you always should have been very clear from the get go what you wanted to do? When you were starting out, did you ever find yourself in jobs or doing things where you thought, oh wait, this is actually the opposite of what I wanted to do. You know why it's where I was facing this, it wasn't before specific campaigns. It was before specific jobs when I was in between positions and I could choose the next place I'd go to work for or the next company. I'd work with, I would face those moral questions of, do I want to be part of a company that, for example, like cyber company that does surveillance on people's mobile fonts? For example, because you have many of them in Israel, do I want to be part of an online gambling company? Those were the questions. And then morally, I would have to, because I knew as a marketeer, what I'm going to do when I get to that company, I'm going to drive people to do more of that. Yeah. Do I want to give my power and my voice and my expertise to that kind of cause to that kind of industry. And I would have my very clear checklist of which industries at which type of companies I don't want to work for. I didn't necessarily know which ones I do want to work for, but I knew which I didn't. And then I'd have to say a lot of noes to a lot of opportunities that came my way. And choose the ones that I did think that we're doing something good. That's super interesting. I feel like there's a theme consistently here. Is that you sort of have a sense of where you want to go. You have a lot of clarity, which I think is very hard to a lot of people find hard to have. And that helps guide you. Yes. And you know what? The clarity is not necessarily knowing what you want. But it may be knowing what you don't agree to, or what doesn't align with your values. What does it work for you? Because I must say, I don't always know what I want. I don't always know what my purpose is. But I do know my red lines. What I'm not willing to cross. And when I follow that, it kind of leads me to the right place eventually. Yeah. Because I know many people are finding it very, very hard to know what to do or what to choose or what they want to be when they grow up or what is their purpose. A lot of people are asking themselves, why am I here? What am I supposed to do in this world? What's my role? What's my function? And it's very hard to answer that question. And I think the more we try to answer it, the more we don't know. So my kind of motto is to try not to fight to answer it, but just to follow our values and our morals in what not to do and we're not to go and just trust ourselves that we will go to the right place for us. And it kind of takes us at least it takes me to the right places. Now have you ever found that you that hasn't worked? Is there ever been a point where you've kind of questioned that? Or if it's always, you know, has it always kind of functioned?.
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"Of everything, sales, marketing, and when I was doing marketing, I felt at home. I felt like, that's my sweet spot. That's what I'm good at. And that's what I should continue doing. So I was there for three years and then I continued my journey and marketing and other companies. So when you say that that was the sweet spot, what was that marketing that really clicked for you? I felt that the skill I had to connect people around a mission a value proposition a vision to activate them and call them into action while I know how to articulate the value for them, the value for me, that's a skill that is resonating with me and that is working for other people. When I do it, when I exercise it, it worked every time. I could enroll people in a huge delegation to Canada with 25 Israeli companies for telecommunications. I could bring 35 tech startups to Berlin for a delegation with publishers here. And big things. I could really speak to people and explain to them what's in it for them. What's in it for us? Why is it good? Why they should trust me follow me. And take my word for it and do what I suggest for them to do, and that that feeling or that knowingness that I can make a difference for someone else by first of all having a set of values and a set of even a value proposition for someone else and giving it to them, providing it to them, articulating it to them so that they can then benefit from it is something that a good marketer is doing all the time. That's what marketers do. They find the value. They create a story around it. They deliver that story that message to the right target audience and they activate that audience into action. Now many marketers use it, I would say for bad things. To coerce people to make them do stuff. They may not want to do to insert an industries, you see marketing being used sometimes on a negative perspective. Absolutely. Yeah, advertising is like brainwashing people's minds, it's interesting. You can really use it for the wrong, but when I discovered that I can use this for good. Yeah. For something that could really make a good difference or a positive difference in the world for companies for people, whatever. I said, this is powerful. Marketing is very powerful. And I want to be doing that. And I want to make sure that I do that for a positive purpose. And actually, so that made me think about the start Israel's that you were featured in that article because it talked about social impact. Right. And so is that kind of also what you're thinking about. In a way, because I feel that being an activist is something I've been doing for years in different spaces, sometimes it's with female professionals with gender equality, sometimes it's with either minorities that can we have plenty of that fighting for other minorities, sometimes it's political. Like I take my activism where I feel it's needed and where I can make a difference. And I think that my expertise in finding values telling the stories, driving people into action is really helping me in my activist work. Now I wouldn't be so comfortable doing what I'm doing on the social side if I didn't have my marketing skills, I think if I would be shy and not speaking up and not trusting that my values are important, I would probably not be an activist today. And I think that my marketing background and my expertise and my global expertise as well really helped me carry out a lot of social impact for activities. Have you ever done a campaign or been involved in anything where you actually felt conflicted and had to pull out of the campaign you were doing as a market share or if you always should have been very clear from the get go what you wanted to do? When you were starting out, did you ever find yourself in jobs or doing things where you thought, oh wait, this is actually the opposite of what I wanted to do. You know why it's where I was facing this, it wasn't before specific campaigns. It was before specific jobs when I was in between positions and I could choose the next place I'd go to work for or the next company. I'd work with, I would face those moral questions of, do I want to be part of a company that, for example, like cyber company that does surveillance on people's mobile fonts? For example, because you have many of them in Israel, do I want to be part of an online gambling company? Those were the questions. And then morally, I would have to, because I knew as a marketeer, what I'm going to do when I get to that company, I'm going to drive people to do more of that. Yeah. Do I want to give my power and my voice and my expertise to that kind of cause to that kind of industry. And I would have my very clear checklist of which industries at which type of companies I don't want to work for. I didn't necessarily know which ones I do want to work for, but I knew which I didn't. And then I'd have to say a lot of noes to a lot of opportunities that came my way. And choose the ones that I did think that we're doing something good. That's super interesting. I feel like there's a theme consistently here. Is that you sort of have a sense of where you want to go. You have a lot of clarity, which I think is very hard to a lot of people find hard to have. And that helps guide you. Yes. And you know what? The clarity is not necessarily knowing what you want. But it may be knowing what you don't agree to, or what doesn't align with your values. What does it work for you? Because I must say, I don't always know what I want. I don't always know what my purpose is. But I do know my red lines. What I'm not willing to cross. And when I follow that, it kind of leads me to the right place eventually. Yeah. Because I know many people are finding it very, very hard to know what to do or what to choose or what they want to be when they grow up or what is their purpose. A lot of people are asking themselves, why am I here? What am I supposed to do in this world? What's my role? What's my function? And it's very hard to answer that question. And I think the more we try to answer it, the more we don't know. So my kind of motto is to try not to fight to answer it, but just to follow our values and our morals in what not to do and we're not to go and just trust ourselves that we will go to the right place for us. And it kind of takes us at least it takes me to the right places. Now have you ever found that you that hasn't worked? Is there ever been a point where you've kind of questioned that? Or if it's always, you know, has it always kind of functioned?.
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"I'm basil Cullen and welcome to this 50 faces focus series which showcases inspiring Israeli woman in tech and beyond. I'm joined today by ephrat venison, efrat was featured as one of Israel's 2020 ones most promising marketing leaders who is focused on social impact. Effort is currently the CMO mindspace. And is a cofounder of the GCM O forum. She's also among other things. A feminist activist and videocast host. Welcome after thanks so much for joining me today. Thanks for being me. Okay, so if you started out as a program in Australia, what inspired you to shift to marketing? Yeah, so when I was 20 three, I started working as a programmer. After I graduated from computer science studies in a university in Melbourne and I worked as a programmer for a couple of years and it was quite clear to me while I was doing that that's not where my passion is. I didn't know where it was. I just knew that it's not in writing code for computer programs, although the people around me were great and the company was great. I just felt like it's not for me. And I did have passion for representing Israel around the world. I lived in Australia at the time. I am Israeli and I knew that I want to somehow represent Israel around the world, but it was just so far fetched from what I was doing at the time. And I had no idea how I'm going to do that shift and how I'm going to get to another function and find what I want to do. So I kind of just jumped into the cold order, the signing that I'm just going to quit being a programmer facing my parents who were very upset that, you know, I invited all this time and they invested all this money. And now I'm throwing away this education and this profession of being a computer programmer. Without really knowing what I'm going to be when I grow up, right? But I didn't know for some reason I had this internal knowingness that I need to do something related to business. That's where I started. It was quite broad. So I decided to open my own business. And I opened the two shops business in Melbourne in Australia for jury and accessories. And I had two shops. And I started also an online shop. It was back in 2005. Quite early on. Yeah, on eBay I had a shop. And I thought it's just going to be this small local thing, you know, in Australia tag, it's still online, and I could sell in my shops. And I started designing jewelry as well, which I really loved, apparently. And before I knew it, the online became really big and I started sending my goods overseas as well. A couple of years down the track, the business was pretty good, but I decided I'm going back to Israel. So I sold that business. And I continued with the online parts. I saw I closed the shops and I saw the business and I went back to Israel after 6 years of being in Australia. And it was quite hard to hold on to a business in Israel, Israel is not easy for small businesses. If you're not a tech company, just any kind of small business, there's a lot of taxes. There's export import duties. There's a lot of stuff. So it was quite difficult. And in Australia. So I decided to put that aside as well. But while I was doing that for those two years, I learned so much about business. I learned about procurement, I learned about finance. I learned about hiring employees. I learned about marketing and sales and design, which I liked. Everything there was to know in how you run a business. And how you take care of a business unit with expenses with income, et cetera. And I kind of connected to the sales and marketing world. So I knew that that's like my next phase of the journey. When I came to Israel, I got this job first job back in Israel in the Israeli export institute, which is an organization that helps Israeli companies in Israeli startups to do business overseas. So the Israeli expert institute, which is aimed to help Israeli industry do business overseas, I got this amazing job of being the best development manager for the high-tech industry. So I started creating my connections within the tech industry in Israel. And then taking the allegations overseas to represent Israel. Which is exactly what I wanted to do when I was in Australia and I didn't know how to do it. That's amazing. And it kind of fell into its place. So I kind of having that knowing that that's where I want to go led me to that place. I guess it wasn't all planned. It just happened. And it was really cool. And then I was there for three years. And I worked with a lot of tech startups and tech companies. And took delegations overseas, did big exhibitions overseas, broad delegations into Israel and created connections between business communities overseas with Israel. And then I moved on to other startups and other tech startups. But I think that that period of being computer programmer doing something that I was pretty good at I wasn't bad at it. But I had no passion for it, kind of kickstarted that journey for me of knowing that if I'm doing something that I'm not satisfied with, that I don't feel like that's the accurate thing for me or that's the right thing for me, then I shouldn't stay there. I should just move on to the next thing and it will fall into place. And obviously when I was 25, doing that for the first time, it was very scary. It was like I had no guarantee that what I'm doing is going to work. I didn't know. Obviously, yeah. But it just trusting myself and taking that risk every time. And leaping from one thing to the next, just knowing that what I was doing is not right, I should try something else. Finally, it worked out. And then while I was in the Israel experience institute in doing what it was doing there, I discovered my real passion for marketing because I was doing a little bit of everything, sales, marketing, and when I was doing marketing, I felt at home. I felt like, that's my.
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"I'm basil Cullen and welcome to this 50 faces focus series which showcases inspiring Israeli woman in tech and beyond. I'm joined today by ephrat venison, efrat was featured as one of Israel's 2020 ones most promising marketing leaders who is focused on social impact. Effort is currently the CMO mindspace. And is a cofounder of the GCM O forum. She's also among other things. A feminist activist and videocast host. Welcome after thanks so much for joining me today. Thanks for being me. Okay, so if you started out as a program in Australia, what inspired you to shift to marketing? Yeah, so when I was 20 three, I started working as a programmer. After I graduated from computer science studies in a university in Melbourne and I worked as a programmer for a couple of years and it was quite clear to me while I was doing that that's not where my passion is. I didn't know where it was. I just knew that it's not in writing code for computer programs, although the people around me were great and the company was great. I just felt like it's not for me. And I did have passion for representing Israel around the world. I lived in Australia at the time. I am Israeli and I knew that I want to somehow represent Israel around the world, but it was just so far fetched from what I was doing at the time. And I had no idea how I'm going to do that shift and how I'm going to get to another function and find what I want to do. So I kind of just jumped into the cold order, the signing that I'm just going to quit being a programmer facing my parents who were very upset that, you know, I invited all this time and they invested all this money. And now I'm throwing away this education and this profession of being a computer programmer. Without really knowing what I'm going to be when I grow up, right? But I didn't know for some reason I had this internal knowingness that I need to do something related to business. That's where I started. It was quite broad. So I decided to open my own business. And I opened the two shops business in Melbourne in Australia for jury and accessories. And I had two shops. And I started also an online shop. It was back in 2005. Quite early on. Yeah, on eBay I had a shop. And I thought it's just going to be this small local thing, you know, in Australia tag, it's still online, and I could sell in my shops. And I started designing jewelry as well, which I really loved, apparently. And before I knew it, the online became really big and I started sending my goods overseas as well. A couple of years down the track, the business was pretty good, but I decided I'm going back to Israel. So I sold that business. And I continued with the online parts. I saw I closed the shops and I saw the business and I went back to Israel after 6 years of being in Australia. And it was quite hard to hold on to a business in Israel, Israel is not easy for small businesses. If you're not a tech company, just any kind of small business, there's a lot of taxes. There's export import duties. There's a lot of stuff. So it was quite difficult. And in Australia. So I decided to put that aside as well. But while I was doing that for those two years, I learned so much about business. I learned about procurement, I learned about finance. I learned about hiring employees. I learned about marketing and sales and design, which I liked. Everything there was to know in how you run a business. And how you take care of a business unit with expenses with income, et cetera. And I kind of connected to the sales and marketing world. So I knew that that's like my next phase of the journey. When I came to Israel, I got this job first job back in Israel in the Israeli export institute, which is an organization that helps Israeli companies in Israeli startups to do business overseas. So the Israeli expert institute, which is aimed to help Israeli industry do business overseas, I got this amazing job of being the best development manager for the high-tech industry. So I started creating my connections within the tech industry in Israel. And then taking the allegations overseas to represent Israel. Which is exactly what I wanted to do when I was in Australia and I didn't know how to do it. That's amazing. And it kind of fell into its place. So I kind of having that knowing that that's where I want to go led me to that place. I guess it wasn't all planned. It just happened. And it was really cool. And then I was there for three years. And I worked with a lot of tech startups and tech companies. And took delegations overseas, did big exhibitions overseas, broad delegations into Israel and created connections between business communities overseas with Israel. And then I moved on to other startups and other tech startups. But I think that that period of being computer programmer doing something that I was pretty good at I wasn't bad at it. But I had no passion for it, kind of kickstarted that journey for me of knowing that if I'm doing something that I'm not satisfied with, that I don't feel like that's the accurate thing for me or that's the right thing for me, then I shouldn't stay there. I should just move on to the next thing and it will fall into place. And obviously when I was 25, doing that for the first time, it was very scary. It was like I had no guarantee that what I'm doing is going to work. I didn't know. Obviously, yeah. But it just trusting myself and taking that risk every time. And leaping from one thing to the next, just knowing that what I was doing is not right, I should try something else. Finally, it worked out. And then while I was in the Israel experience institute in doing what it was doing there, I discovered my real passion for marketing because I was doing a little bit of everything, sales, marketing, and when I was doing marketing, I felt at home. I felt like, that's my.
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"I love love that. This is like i got an idea. It's a it's a cat's based serial. No wait it's a serious about one character in no wait. It's a serial four cats and they got like the full galaxy braid by the actually. I've jj dire. Gabe enjoy flipped the entire thing on its head. Now there's cereal for cats about. That's what the boardrooms at heb. Some like when they're making new series they just let people embrace their while dreams and see where it lands So we you know. We talked about getting sent links When when and is in the news and john oliver Got got on cereals case for lacking innovation and I none of research probably went into the ps. But dan. I would like to hear your thoughts on it. You know. it's like obviously. He went into this for the very negative attitude. He has not listen to our podcast Just because i don't see how you can look at some of the cereals that came out in the past few years in say that. They're not pushing the innovative envelope at all. Like like within the time that you and i've been doing this. There's been chicken and waffles within the confines of this program. Yes our patch kids cereal. Come korean green onion checks. It's just been very out there with the rush to see what can happen next. I know it's not cereal but like everything bagel pop tart. Seems pretty up there. Also so i'm not really sure what his standards are for innovation in the serial game but there was one story that caught my eye that didn't seem to fit into our normal new segment that i thought was a really interesting example of cereal innovation. That is occurring right now and that is have you seen the kellogg's cereal vending machine that's lily rosemary about it. So it's kind of along the same lines as a coke coca cola freestyle machine in that. This is a a smart robotic cereal vending machine that is capable of creating you a custom bowl using twenty two different ingredient options including milk or yogurt as a base It's developed by a company called chow. Medics who also made something called a bowl bought. That did the same thing for salad mixing and you know naturally the evolution from a salad robot to a serial robot just shows how close to humanizing machines. We are getting But this is hot. Also off of the cold. Cereal heels of kellogg's new mashup of frosted flakes and apple. Jacks which I should have noted earlier as well. They're holding a A fan voting poll. For what the next kellogg's mashup will be. But unfortunately everything in that involves frosted flakes and something else so. I'm a bit more excited. I get a real sense from the mashup thing that they're like. We have to move a lot of frosted flakes. We've made too many and we don't know what to do about it kit shack on the line. We've got a lot of frosted flakes get rid of but the contents of the serial. Vending machines seem way more innovative to me because They listed a couple of the possible. Pre mixed bowls that you can order. There's one called last night. That mixes frosted flakes fruit loops in crave with chocolate drops. Banana chips espressos syrup. There's also hawaii five. O that blends frosted mini wheats and bare naked. Triple berry granola with coconut mango and pineapple. And like i don't know my own customs. Serial robot seems like a very good example of cereal innovation to me No kidding yeah. But unfortunately for now. They're only testing the rollout of this serial vending machine at florida state university and the university of wisconsin madison. Which is honestly kind of genius if you wanna get some You know good use data on how this thing goes because no one's gonna use it like college students are. What pizza hut did that with. When they rolled out their delivery program they started. They started by sending up outside college. Campuses after wonder though too if this was specifically designed for college students to keep them from going to the dining halls and filling up tupperware's in backpacks from those big circuit breaker handled cereal dispensers. Because that's how i spent my college years john oliver. I hope you're listening. There's a lot happening here. john join us. Thank you so much for listening to this program A prompt for this week. Or anything you want to ask people. I've got an idea. Yeah if there were to be an empty bowl cereal. What would you imagine that tasting like based on your experience listening to this show. Maybe we've asked that before. I don't know but out of that i did abstract. Thank you if you want to answer that. Go to bowl dot rest and you'll find a little button this as leave a and you can play the mike and your camera or in your computer or just answer. Salary wanna do We are on your phone whenever whenever works. Thank you for Listening if you would like to take the next step with this program if he got something out of it you can go to boll lot rests and pledge some money though be deducted from your account monthly That's a weird way of saying it will be. It will be removed from your balance. And that's how the serial vending machine would phrase yeah You can support us at levels of like ninety nine cents up to. I think nine ninety nine a month and half that keeps dot net running. That's stands website by the way and the other half goes to Shelter for people experiencing homelessness in my area. So we very much appreciate support you can. Also you know if you don't wanna do the money thing you can share the show around spread the link whatever you wanna do but you know it all helps. It's all good stuff. this is our i think. Fifty second episode that right there That's like this weekly exactly first year. It's only been three.
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"Hello dan ingested. This is stina. She her from knoxville tennessee. I believe that it is a real lost. My middle school sell but my favorite boy band. Hanson didn't have their own cereal. Pops i think the perfect Pops would have consisted of a three part harmony of honey. Cereal visas as golden as their lustrous. Hair flower-shaped marmots in the shape both the daisy or a rooms and freeze dried strawberries. Honor of their home state of oklahoma. I think it would have been a sweet and delicious. Cereal perfectly matched the boys who stole my young mark. Hi denna just in. This is james from dallas texas. My favorite childhood figure was lavar burton of spring rainbow and star trek next generation and while a reading rainbow serial. Kind of mix. Itself's i envision a star trek cereal as visor shaped corn visas with what court shaped margaret's and a golden honey flavour because jordan forged headache. Gold uniform You guys are great august haydn. Just my name is brittany as an imo tiled. My passion was with the album. Welcome to the black parade by my chemical romance. I think sort of made a perfect spooky. Halloween exclusive cereal with chocolate cereal pieces and perhaps smarter set look like skeletons and marching drums. Thus would've made childhood me happy and delights present-day me thinking about it. Thanks hi dan. Justin tasks in my childhood icon. Cereal would be based on mr moustapha lease from the musical cats which i loved growing up mr moustapha lease has a rainbow that comes out of a mug which would be a great that'll marshmallow as well as cats beeping in cats dancing. I don't know how it'd be flavored. My cat loves benita asleep. So maybe you could flavor it like that and then just have cereal for cats. I don't know anyway. I love the show. Thank you so much. I love love that. This is like i got an idea. It's a it's a cat's based serial. No wait it's a serious.
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"We're only the edge over here. Did you crack the mystery of the mystery. Mystery poverty and it. Just don't tell me. They're fruity pebbles flavor. And again i can't take a deeper breath from these ones because we really can't seem to stop talking about borderline unsettling cereal or cereal adjacent topics today mystery pop tarts which of course mystery flavored pop. Tarts are the single most shocking breakfast product. I think i've ever tasted in my years covering the genre. If you could call it the edge of i see what could this be. Okay so spoiler. Warning for everyone going forward we will be revealing the true nature of these mystery. pop tarts. let me walk. You have this on a source or is this just your based on your palate So i'll get to it. Let me start from the from the beginning. Because when i first opened the foil the smell struck me immediately and all i could think was no way. They can't do this but sure enough. yes way. The leading flavor here is very oily savory and cheesy now dan no it is getting out of the way. It's not pleasant. It's fun for like the first couple bites to think about eating like this overloaded cheese danish basically but whether you eat it normally toasted or an. I shudder admitting that. I tried this frozen. There's no way getting past this sort of smokey patina that covers every part of this pop tart. It's at the same thing that wipes out of gas station. Hot dog roller. Exactly my immediate guests. When i finished my first one was that it was cheese flavored staffer second unless drill down on when i finished my first one. There's two different ideas in there. That are i find are pretty challenging. Put her those. You finished it and it was your first one which has be there could be a second. Well i had to try them toasted in frozen as well and do might do. Journalists have diligence and also like these come in a pack of sixteen a sixteen count value pack of cheesy pop tarts. That is a bold decision. The first we actually talked about exactly this right about a swing to be like. Wow i sixteen of these. I hope i like them. Yeah so i've been giving them away to people in Sort of ruining their day with that kind of backhanded gift But yet my immediate guests was cheeses. And i posted my review to social media and this seemed to be supported because someone told me that twenty twenty. One is the hundredth anniversary of cheeses. Which by the way is insane to think about that. Jay gatsby could be serving cheese. It's at his roaring twenty parties but a week or so later kellogg's released the official promo site for this mystery flavor and they left a whole bunch of very obvious clues to lead you to what the real flavor is supposed to be And i'm talking. One of the clues was like this. Keychain is everything and then the key says bay goals so i if you think bagels. That's what all the clues tend to suggest. And you look at the ingredients. Which i probably should have done sooner. And there are like garlic and onion ingredients. I think to this was supposed to be everything. Bagel i believe but whatever you call them. These pop tarts are scarcely suitable for human consumption and is there upon revisiting it with that knowledge. That can change your perception. Do you get like a cream. Cheese vibe from at all is that part of the equation. I do think. I do think the cream cheese charts to make more sense when one of my friends noted when i gave them to her so i think they got the cream cheese element right but i don't know sure you're going to get some some buzz and some pr around this. But i feel like cheese. It would have gotten more like. That's almost a bigger like yeah. Yeah everything bagel almost sounds palatable to try as a stunt yeah. They need to like individually release these. I think that could be more fun as sort of a novelty than really putting in the investment. But if you under something really interesting that happened surrounding this story I mentioned when these first came out also that they were not the first mystery Toaster pastry ever exist because walmart great value brand released one three years ago now generically thirty flavored and they never announced what the answer was outright. I remember goofy but someone who worked on those toaster. Pastries emailed me wishing to remain anonymous. But wanted me to know that. I can exclusively break. The three-year-old news. That create value mystery toaster. Pastries were sugar plum flavored. Shocker blom fascinating. Yeah I don't know why that news never fully broke. But i'm glad i can have that that distinction on my blog of saying that. I'm i'm thrilled that you got this next one on here because i i have something to contribute at dan. I think the most underreported story in syria media which i guess is basically you and me and eight other people like we definitely I think we're doing our part here but is that heb texas's own h. I guess. Texas in austin Heb is become like the most exciting producer of cereals developer cereals in in the nation. Your thinking about this a lot especially after trying something like the lucky terms marshmallow clusters which feel like they slipped through the taste testing process accidentally by way of having no taste in the first place. meanwhile you can tell that there is someone i. It could be several people. Heb who woke up one day and just decided we're going to make the best serial on earth and we're really going to put our hearts into it. Yeah we're we love. Syria were actually got to do a good job at you. Know what we've never done an interview ever. I would love to find like the person. Heb his life were absolutely. We're going for it. Yeah so if you're listening to this and you either are or no the serial heroes over at heb. The mavericks feel free to send us a message at mail at bowl dot rest with the subject line Heb omg sure But on that note. I got sent three more. Heb cereals from listeners. Douglas I want to run the run through them really quickly. Since even though they aren't strictly speaking new each are testament to just how much love and care is put into the serial at heb. So i we have honey nut cornflakes with granola really buries the lead on this one because this is like honey. Bunches of oats matched up with kellogg's crunchy nut which they said they don't make any more. I don't know if you remember that one at all. I mean i know of it but i i throw longtime so that one's unique and likewise this one is for including actual peanut flavor as compared to peanut butter But peanuts in contrast bring a really great earthen oiliness to any cereal. And i think this was a very smart and simple hybrid of something that works very often in a cereal. And something that you don't see as much so big plus there. I also got strawberries and cream crispy rice. Which is these next to a honestly Auto label so this is like if you took strawberry rice krispies added real strawberry bits to add some fruit punching nist and then added and this huge freeze dried yogurt pieces which i personally think have the potential to replace markets in any marshmallow cereal and creamy. Inist that is such a nice contrast to the tart of the strawberries nauseous safe. Yeah i may look like something out of like a trampoline park foam pit. They also look very nice and finally out of these. Three is heb mango flakes which are also stellar stellar stellar on believable. These things and you could like they have these chunks of like the flakes are so vibrant. They've got like this huge their cornflakes with like big orange color but also just like really massive granola club. You really powerful things. Yeah the granola clusters really. What does it for me here. the only other mango cereal. I've had were trader joe's mangoes and those were very like yup. This is a mango cereal. But if i can handle very on the nose. Mango for a whole boxes worth about. Heb manages to throw in these granola clusters way. More puckering aftertaste. That really just makes this a fun. Carnival for the census in almost reminds me of like a The flavor palette you gift from like a peach cobbler. Hardy crunch mixed with tartness of the fruit. Like obviously mango is not exactly peach flavor. But you get the idea from that. I think it's a- that appeal H zero scott. Y'all get near you get get over there. Heb heroes embracing breakfast. That's what i'm going to say stands for. Hey eat breakfast. You gotta tell me twice. We've told them twice now. We have two great eight. Gb acronyms hey. We asked you our beloved listeners. Which childhood character you feel got the they deserved And.
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"Any other happenings in the world So it's kind of been slow going for actual retail store new serials but We have seen that for this fourth. July cap'n crunch is red white and blue crunch will be returning. This is something that appears just about every summer but this time the cabin is mixing it up a little bit because instead of just getting red white and blue colored crunch berries fears. We're getting a box of all crunch berry. Stars sounds delicious in crunch berry. Stars have appeared in christmas crunch before but they were only a small part of the overall mix. So i'm honestly a little bit worried about what sort of Rough of mouth havoc these crunch berry stars might have because you eat crunch berries already and you know the sheer goodness of them inspires you. Eat really quickly. Insertive a rope roughs up your palate a little bit and having these little cow. Trump's in the box now seems like a recipe for disaster at a backyard barbecue. Yeah the one thing. Kevin credited not need was like more texture more textural. Yeah i mean you even look at the cabins face on this box and i mean historically the cabin often does pretty funny faces with stink is an awkward smiles but in this one he really looks like he just got a five pointed crunch berry stuck in his throat. Somewhere so definitely. Don't forget to drink the milk with this one. Yeah and if only soothing balm to secure yourself One of the things we liked to do on the empty bowl is try new serials. And tell you if they're good or i won't even say back because even the worst serials pretty good. You know less than good you really. You could start transitioning into this version. Appropriately a yeah Lucky charms appointment on this one as painful dan. This wasn't hurt leader read. I couldn't even finish it. I've got incense burning a cup of tea and like a cat on my lap for this one to try and keep this discussion meditative because marshmallow. Clusters has to be a top disappointment from the past few years of cereal. I'll admit i'm not privy to the actual internal process of cereal development but having this serial which yes. You've been hired on as a consultant. Exactly exactly they'd probably too afraid that. I'll point out the clear gaps in their oat flour infusion process But the problem with this one was we. We've talked about it a few times now that two years ago it was first rumored that a lucky charms crispy rice clusters. Cereal was coming out and extensively. Seemed like this was going to fill a really big heart. Wrenching void left behind by rice. Krispies treats cereal which changed its recipe much so for the worst And from what we could see again of a very grainy image of lucky charms crispy rice clusters it had that same really good gobbled up toasted rice with a sugary binding element going on but somewhere over the course of the past two years the actual consistency and content of what is now called lucky. Charms marshmallow clusters changed dramatically. And now in addition to you know lucky charms. Marv you have these little squarish pieces made of like amalgamated grain dots Squared circles if you will and they just taste like nothing like there have been plenty of bland cereals over the years but this one takes the totally unfrosted cake really not not even more so than like the pieces of like frozen and and those that flock cereals the ones at least have sort of this density to them. They're very very light and airy. I will say that they're weirdly extremely crunchy. If that's what you're into but the flavor is just not buried kicks like rice or are they rice rice and corn mixed. So i can't really tell the exact blend but there's something very audible about the way they crunch but then you have marshmallows as well and ordinarily marshmallows exists to provide a fun pop of you know normal creamy sweetness to a more interesting cereal. Based but here it's like spreading marshmallow fluff on top of white bread It just adds nothing to. And i don't know i was really disappointed with this one so i. I wrote a bit of a scathing review that is far more negative in tone than we will permit on this podcast. But i'm already getting pretty fun. Narrative progression going on in the comments below. That post people will be like well. I can't trust your word for it. I'm going to spite by anyway. And then somebody else will apply and be like listen. That's what i said too but trust me. Do not do this. Maybe it's not all bad that something like low key. Charms didn't change anything about the cereal because lucky charms has not had a great track record lately with trying to fix what's not broken. So maybe stick to fancy margaret's for now Can we hope for better from team. Cheerios cheerios. i find that it's hard to actually go wrong because again i'm an old flower stand at heart and having this serial that's basically all about celebrating the potential of makes me really love most nutrients that come out So that was our original tagline for this show celebrating the potential votes. Exactly like the at the bureau did not give their sponsorship like we really hoped but these team cheerios. So we introduced these a news story last week and i kind of aronie asleep. Said they would just be a frosted berry flavor but they really did put in the effort to make this a cheerios mashup serial killer original team cheerios of the late ninety s. So what team sherry of does is combined. Strawberry blueberry and frosted cheerios for an end result. That is pretty. Alright right i think you see with cheerios. Allot where you're either going to get sort of a plainer more sensible cheerios variety. Or you'll get like the flavor blasted cheerios. That really hit you over the head with the indulgence factor and team. Cheerios leans closer to the former. Which if you go in expecting more of a subtle sweetness. You're probably going to enjoy them. There's a really good job of strawberry and blueberry just because those individual cheerios flavors. Were already really good. I thought this might be a little bit like very buried cheerios. But it doesn't have that same raspberry element that those did and for me. At least i'm not the biggest raspberry fan. Because i don't like how the sharp raspberry flavored tends to override everything else. So i was really happy with these team. Cheerios because he reminded me a bit of kellogg's fruity snacks which are probably the undisputed king fruits next right now especially since the old scooby doo switcheroo those for me and you know team. Cheerios isn't going to win. Any world records so to speak to talk to the team But i think they're still worth a try. If you like the constituent parts it probably could have done without the frosted. Cheerios is because they don't really contribute a lot but not bad overall especially compared to the marshmallow cluster. Lucky charms that. I had before him. It was nice to actually benefit of following this.
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"I've just got to go out on a limb and say that white people should start wearing robes. Okay unless unless you go into grandmother's house take the hood off my god. Being part of something called the veil profit is it seems weird it. Here's the thing if the words veiled prophet you're going to be afraid looking into wicky about that. You're not going to find something normal. And so the whole thing that this is revealed to is that like a lot of organizations in america that rich white people recreate were also fronts for white supremacist organizations And matter how much they change Or you know are forced legally to accept non white people in them like in the photo that ellie kemper debutante ball this black people in it you know but it doesn't mean that you know the the history of these groups is still there you know and they were created for a specific reason and it just begs the question if something is white. Supremacist an origin. Can it become non white supremacists in practice later. I'm talking about america. It did seem like a five was emerging were ap language grand wizard. I mean i love that as it's all by the way the first time i heard of some of use that was friends social rock. Oh i know exactly what you're talking about. yes like. She's an actress and she made a joke about charlotte rampling. During the time of her press cycle for her oscar nomination and forty five years. She had said something flippant about how that was the only white actors were nominated for oscars. Maybe that was the last time that happened. And she said well. Maybe no black actors deserved a nomination this year. Which shall we say. An unflattering comment referred to her as a grad with twitter. So wild truly underrated insomnia. Very funny also again the title grand wizard like the weird queer sounding titles of kkk. Let's i don't wanna get into it. I'm sorry i don't wanna talk about. Hey cribs but yeah. It's like you're racist. You hate black people but also you love magic. Your confusing sounds like something. You'd get a happy meal like a grand wizard. Yeah did you get the grand wizard or the veiled prophet also does merlin strike you as like hetero just such a get up. You know what. I mean. I feel like ups are Queer leaning At best you know we don't talk enough about the merlin from the sordidness down. And i would love to write crew ella version of merlin. Oh god who would. I like to do now. You got me thinking. Well i to do the carello version of lord liquorice from candy land. What's he doing on that board. He doesn't have his own spot but he is twisted. Do and i think he has a friendship with queen frosty that. I wanna know more about I think he gets his life. If you will in the molasses swamp behind a tree you know what i'm saying and one last. Keep it to sports fans in general. Sure whether we're talking about The celtics fans like who are throwing water bottles at kyrie irving or celtics fans in general which you know who love being racist. They're the real grand wizard of the sports community or whether it's people who have opinions on amir soccer decided to withdraw from the french open. Shut the fuck up. Yeah weird people mad at her for stating that. She didn't want to get interviews after the fridge. Open the french open in particular citing mental health issues. We tend to always care about mental health issues for athletes and until it actually comes time to do something for them right then when they decide to prioritize it. It's always actually got nash annoying. It is particularly the french open. Because the french openness the word stipulates this like interview nature that surrounds the tournament so she was going to be fined for doing it she also decided to just pull out rather than being ejected from it. And you know. I i just want to give a special shout out to the people who used to position naomi against serena as sort of the more docile sort of like palatable. A black person you know she's mixed raced Black and japanese so they were like oh like she is. She's nine as angriest serena you know when they were matched up before and i'm the one who's playing the game correctly right near so shook that this wacko is like actually no. I got some shit to say too right. I just want to say also that in particular this last statement she released sh- i mean she leaves you with no questions. She puts it all out there. And i so appreciate the level of candor. She puts down if you haven't read the statement this person just rules who had this level of maturity when they were this young. It's shocking and you know people trying to say that her career is danger after this it's like she is so fucking talented and she is so beloved at this moment in time that i have a very hard time trying to quote unquote ruin career over this. I think there's some hard questions that need to be. Had about how we treat athletes to be honest and what. We are what we allowed to happen to them. I just want to also say. Is naomi the only cool biblical name. I don't know i like ruth. Okay i mean that runs particularly old fashioned. You know what i'm saying. Naomi has a young edge. Something you can think of a cooler biblical name mma. Her sheila that counts. But that's that's specific to one person. At this point in time i always love to kick it with a bitch named eve. True i've been yeah evan's ler writer of the vagina monologues. Yes yes yes. Who adopted dylan. Mcdermott how strange. People don't know that did she yes..
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"Nikki likes my mcqueen's showcasing. I know she likes Seeing green I like nikki by herself. Same listen i like nikki photos by herself and i am all the way barb. Okay but we all say we love is truly. The bars are so shady. Dc when you see when the girls inc him out. But i feel like that. Not just about nikki. I feel like that about all the girls the stars it's like i'm need to see your man on the carpet with you. I wanna see you this. You're not army you. I mean we've accepted him. Like i will say that. When i went to radio they were very nice to me. And i remember she. Corrected co host. Who mis gendered you. Yes ma'am i do that like she don't kid but zoo was nice. I mean they were nice they to atmosphere like i just wanna know white queen. Radio is that i drunk. Let's kept talking about like nia. Of course of course to free every ground made it here budget of man like it was a bunch of white nearly as much black native nail. It was like streak natives universtiy the hood as bitch and i love her for being hood as she is now and bring my transsexual up there. Don't you all who talks about havoc. Whatever she wants to talk very vocal. She brought she came up. There i came there was. Snl we base somebody. But you know. I'll i'll like fish always. Oh my god. I love nikki i do. We have such a really good time. Clean radio joe button butlers. Keith came in with a game. is a true banadir. Damn off home magic school bus. Small magic i cam you know it. It was like i didn't. I didn't feel comfortable or anything. You know I love it. I still see i wanna see her. I love her like when when she's wrapping you know by herself They love china. Lee yes and listen like the way. The people have discovering like roman's revenge like pink fright like the production on that shit was next level. People are discovering it now. The talk and stuff again. I'm like her time is here it is i love my baby and i always anytime that i have a moment like that. I have a moment to really talk to her. Tell her things that i want her. I told her. I said i say queen. I want you to have a shoot line. And i want you to be high end shoes and i want you to be. I want you to happy bottom. Okay yeah take off. The zap is put on the nikki. I want you to have the peak bottoms. I want you to christian louison to do some kind of where he doesn't lion of pete bottom shoes for you. I told her this wrote her. So many things that i want her to do. She was harshly kisses stuttle. But unlike week. This is what i want. I want the stuff because like girl you came in you. Hill a decade of. Wrap down when there was nobody wrapping Iq reconstructed this stuff. You're the reason why girls are able to monetize offer their streaming and bring. What's so shady is that you came in. You re you reconstructed on the entire era of music and now girls are getting grammy's opposite. They're streamed online and they snubbing not just did that. But also like gave such a generation of like queer black people to feeling like they had a space and like be being able to like rap. Hard i'm not personally from the streets but you know there's like there's this gay st nicholas who like listening to pink friday and like okay. This is for me. Yes last question. Before i let you go. I'm leaving our. I know these. These are quick. These are baby. I along but you know because we gotta talk more. I love on okay. This is the most important question. I'm going to ask you. I caught you on instagram. Live with andy cohen asking him about porsche from real housewives of atlanta and her new man simon and you were trying to get the tea from him and he was like playing coy and i know you said we'll talk. Offline have got chatted yet. We have not really chatting yet. But i've been chatting with with with the circle. Okay we need to get you win win. Zoom shit when watch what happens live is back in person you need to be on what happens. Live first of all. Do you not see how i live out here in atlanta. I am definitely eligible to be a house of atlanta. Yes okay. We need a trans one. 'cause 'cause last season the last season the girls weren't doing it well they wasn't and i think it's because covert how would you re shake the shit. How would you reshape it if you were a friend of small. I'm the girls going to be some type of way anyway. Often they're saying hey ladies. I am a housewife up atlanta. Yes w. i. F. e. w. i. f. e. m housewives of atlanta. My husband does this to other. Y'all y'all may not ever see my has been but guess what my husband got it. I'm going out to eat dinner with your girls electric. And i'm gonna. I mean you know. I live luxurious lifestyle on a budget. I'll probably be the only one that looks luxurious lifestyle on a budget but still But no white refrigerator. no refrigerator grow. We gotta talk and refrigerator in his house. Yes i will go over there and shake it up and listen. I know that i don't wanna give. I continue contingency to me during the experience on we tv was. I didn't want to be fighting and all that stuff. The gloves are off on the housewives of atlanta okay. The gloves are off bathing suit. Es battisson experiences for the family and real housewives of atlanta's for the for the girls. Oh baby i'm coming listening. Y'all gonna let me in a sense now let's do it.
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"Well again specifically in this just the even the way. She breeze the way she takes a moment to just look forward and appear to be thinking about the gravity of everything while also expecting the gravity of everything. She's somebody who's used to the harshness of her own life and doesn't have an egotistical reaction to it and for some reason that was empowering to see i think but she is truly insomuch wild shit like quills Divergent movies know. What was she doing in the divergent movies. We really we basically through shaleen and young adult prison for a long time and made her do that. And you didn't even like i'm still not over. That shaleen by the way was supposed to be are weird granola queen and then she ended up with aaron rodgers which is just like the plane ass kicked cereal of celebrity spouses There's also appeared. She was married to sam mendes. Correct yes so. I don't like revolutionary road. No i don't. I don't think it's a good movie and have not read the book but i hear it's an awful adaptation of the book which is the sprawling thing but you do get michael shannon scaring people and i do believe we should have actress. Who seem like they're film the villains somewhere in the picture and now we've moved past christoph waltz and michael shannon can just take those roles this you think you think we think we no longer have use for christopher worlds. I'm sorry you get two oscars for doing that. You get to oscars for being wildly we g and fiddling with your mustache we just don't need third version. That's fair that's fair and we put him in that movie downsizing to punish him. I believe i heard about down-sizer what a crazy movie. It's like okay. it's gonna be a movie about people. Who are legos. No wait it's about. Climate change secretly just the rewrite palooza. That movie must have been. I guess i guess at the end of the day. I'm happy with of town and the mystery was fine. I guess yes. They worked really over time to get it to the end. Where there's you know like it's two women really went through something right also. Yeah you did get a dynamite. Performance from julia. Nicholson who's like the queen of unassuming performances. Like somebody who is the mark her though that character. Yes we'll talk you're talking about someone who also maybe stormed the capital. Who knows the grit. There i don't trust it but juliette nicholson's so good in august osage county where some people are great. Some people are okay and then benedict. Cumberbatch was like by the way i sometimes. Yeah he does to that. But here's here's my question. Who do you think's going to win. That mini series. Acting emmy is a kate. Winslet or any taylor joi- or actually will Underground railroad come into play. This is secretly the most competitive category coming up. And by the way the emmys are only a couple of months away the shrew you know i have to get into underground railroad so i'm just finally diving into all the shows i'd missed while i was out of I figured mayor had to happen. I because it was indie. Right if you had to pick between kate or anna who gives the superior performance I don't now. I got to think about that. One i think that enya was so compelling in that role and she was the main reason why. We love the queen's gambit coach. But i also thought it was fun and thrilling Ultimately enjoyed the queen's gambit. And more than i did. Murphy's town of interesting i definitely like mayor of eastbound more but like it's sort of comparing a star making performance and and yet to a veteran performance and i mean it's like the zodiac. You know you where you fall on. That tells me everything about you. I will go veteran. I want the venerable people to win it. I'm gonna vote for francis norman and nomad land. That's how i roll Do you know what else i did. Over memorial day weekend. I got very stoned with rise and watched crew ele. I got unsown and watch kerala which was mistake also a tour de force performance. Right interesting question. I like this movie. I liked it. I i wanna say that. Would we're in an era where disney is just want to like remake their animated films but basically like remake them in the way of like beauty and the beast the lion king where you're essentially watching the same fucking movie. Only it's with cgi now How wild that they were like. You know what you wherever the fuck you want for kerala and also i didn't halfway through it was like who the fuck directed this and it's craigslist. Who did i tanya so strange. Though i guess he's into gritty twisted retailing's of stories. You thought you knew so all right. That's fair but i will say i didn't not like i tanya mean and the real girl which he also did you know so. I think that this is i think he's found his footing. I thought the movie was fun. And honestly i can imagine why you do this because like i said you know if disney is gonna let you do whatever the fuck you want like a guerilla movie like this. I can see. Why am i read. This was like oh okay. This isn't like just redoing. One hundred one dalmatians like correct. Seen by seeing you know and there are. I think perks to this version like they get into swinging london. It's obviously very style heavy..
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"Were you surprised to find out that it was. I who killed aaron mcmenamin on mayor of east lead. My suspect listen. I'll tell you why they said it took place in a park at night and i was like. Oh that's my friend. Ira no question so you have been watching of east had week to week louis. Yes which has been both rewarding and incredibly painful since. I'm so used to in queens gambling. Everything and just picking a saturday to huff an entire television series as opposed to think about the languor of mayors life weeks on end wondering if she will ever be happy or satisfied or get over the death of her son see. I watched all of it in one day. Which was its own kind of rewarding experience. But i will also say that i didn't miss. I guess the talking about it week to week sort of people were doing with the undoing. But i still got my of conversation on memorial day weekend. You know like a friend had us over and made fried chicken. And everyone was just chatting about the finale. So i still got my colm rotary and chatting about a new tv show. And i feel like. I could dense it to one day. Oh good i was at a party with it was smallish but there were people. I didn't know and stuff and i was kind of dreading the entire day like knowing. I have to watch mayor today. I'm not an uncomfortable place. Will they have do. They know who mayor is. Do they care that. She's a hoagie eating hero. That we all need. And i eventually had to go back to my hotel and watch it. But i don't know something about this show was so i i don't know how to put it. Like shockingly good and ingratiating and that it was like a typical crime thriller but then every moment she was on screen she really was never contrived it was like you were watching. Someone lived their life. And i don't know home. The last show. I watched right honestly felt like i was getting one hundred percent of a person's life i really learned their whole story. It really felt super filled in and comfortable to me. Even though nothing in her life was good yeah. It felt almost like a throwback to you know from suspects more luther. It felt it had a sort of bbc quality about it where mayor was very realistic. And i will also say the benefit of this series you know especially as opposed to a lot of the other. Hbo mini mysteries. We've been getting like. I mentioned the undoing before every character in this at least felt well dronne and like they contributed to the story that was we were watching unfold as opposed to like the doing where i felt like. Everyone was a red herring. Why you in this. Except to be a red herring. Whereas i feel like i actually cared about most of the characters in this series. Yeah i questioned whether or not. We needed to know the college radio station drama of mayors lesbian daughter. But time you do need things to throw you off the sent a little bit from what's happening and because the way the mystery is set up your brain wants to go and fifty thousand different directions and suspect everybody and so you sort of need one or two red herrings. That said i. It is pretty wild to me. That guy pearce ended up being not a part of the main mystery just dependable and nice author as the rumor goes. Kate winslet asked him to do the role last minute. They obviously were in mildred pierce together a few years ago. Wonderful miniseries if you haven't seen it And rad to see todd head. yes quite. who's by the way. Todd haynes some my favorite movies and some of my least favorite movies. I don't know any director who was gone and back carol. Is it my top tier. And i'm not there if anybody brings it up. I become homicidal. You don't like i'm not there. Like what like dill. It is very complicated. Not really to be fair. I have not seen it okay. Well it's nothing. But i've heard so much of the opposite of that so now i have to watch it to see if you're right. I thought it was like pretentious. I mean she does. Kate does a great job. But that's just a segment of the movie you know it's like his knife is broken up into vignettes and julianne moore does a very strange and i will say somewhat mean portrayal of joan baez. That's still lingers. Maybe this is about my joan. Baez standing ultimately. Maybe i'll do that and finally watch walked. Okay walk the line. I only saw a few years ago on a plane. The plane plane movie. That ever planned a you. Don't watch it anywhere else. Okay i will definitely gonna play. Then the thing about this series two was that obviously there are two mysteries going on there. Were the missing girls. And then there was the murder of aaron an at no point that i think that they were connected at all and then episode five once. They really dive into solving the mystery of the missing girls. It really from that episode for me was a bit of a mass because it was all of a sudden it was yet. None of this is connected and this was just a certain lot going on in the background. Oh yeah that was weird because when they saw that part even though there was the thrilling shootout where her partner died they still tied up that storyline by being like oh somebody saw license plate and this random guy who has nothing to do with the story like they could have done that three episodes ago Yeah and that will always bring me back to veronica marci's and one which i always think is like a perfectly drawn mystery because there were two mysteries who was solving in that first season which was veronica's rape and also the murder of her best friend but the suspects list for both of these things overlapped in a weird way. It was the episode where she was figuring that out. You were still looking at the same people in the same story that you've been following all season right just making this a random guy and you find a license plate and then you're hunting him down and rescuing the girls from mike this cage that they're in like okay gives you the cop drama but it doesn't have anything to do with what we've been watching. It also seems very unlikely the cops would not have been able to find this giant batting cage tavern that we're these girls were captain. It seemed like like a year had passed. That felt a little unlikely to me but nonetheless. I mean you really get the kate winslet performance. You've been waiting for a sense as we all know. I hate steve jobs. But since at least revolutionary road for me at least in terms of or or mildred pierce. But it's a real return to form for her and by the way what whiplash. It was to watch the making of after where of course. Kate has her wonderful english accent and then her daughter though the lesbian with the haircut is australian again they just have infected us. The new co variant is australian actors. They just do everything for us now. Well anything to wash out the memory of collateral beauty. That and kate winslet movie. That i can't believe will smith helen. Mirren and kate winslet did i. I am really glad for this. Return form for kate because she's one of my faves. Let's kate winslet is truly one of my favourite white women. Yeah i don't know what it is. There's a trustworthiness about her. Well again specifically in this just the even the way. She breeze the way she takes a moment to just look forward and appear to be thinking about the gravity of everything while also expecting.