35 Burst results for "First Round Pick"
The Dan Bongino Show
Dan Shares Observations From His Time in the South
"Paula at the Iron Bowl. And I said, listen, I obviously haven't met a person from the south, but I've been down here a lot, like for a really long time now. And this is my personal experience with you know, God matters down there. Not that God didn't matter in New York. My family was very religious. We went to St. Pancras Church every Sunday, but God really matters in the south. Central to everything. Everything. God comes first and everything else comes second. And you really see it in the south. It's just even the way they talk. It reminds me, you know, I love Morgan Wallen. That's actually a song, the way I talk. And as a guy who loves Jesus Christ and unfortunately fails him so often, you know, I'm just deeply impacted by how much people from the south so deeply love God and faith and the faith -based portion of the community. You know, sometimes up of earth. Things are like New Yorkers are just very skeptical of a lot of stuff. It's not a knock. It's just they've been burned a lot by a lot of bad people. So a lot of things are considered like hokey. Like, hey, is church going to do bingo. I've been to New York, it's like, ah, that's hokey. That's goofy. Right, Jim? That's like New York. That ain't doing it. That's kind of hokey. Not down south, man. That's a community. Yeah, it's bingo. That's cool. Let's go do some bingo. Whatever. Good for you, man. I also noted that things I picked up down On 20 years living south in New York. You know, manners and structure matter. You know, people don't say, yes, sir, and no, ma 'am, because they're obligated to. They say it because they want It imparts structure in a chaotic world. Respect the elderly. You know, they get over and out of the way when a funeral procession happens. Again, things I've seen, these are just my experiences. I'm not speaking for everyone. don't I stereotype people, good or bad. But structure matters. Manners
The Plant Movement Podcast
Nasir Acikgoz's Advice to the Next Generation: "Everything Is Achievable"
"For you being someone that touches so much that is powerful at the end of the day that can make things happen You've overcome so much being a immigrant with a dream and a vision not knowing whether you would be where you are here today You know doing what you're doing today and just going after it becoming fearless conquering so much You know having God guide you and on this path knowing that things happen for a reason Even if it might not be the way you wanted it to be it happened for a reason just like in finance I don't want to take this course But now you do you know what a P &L is and you can look at it and see if you guys are losing or winning What do you see for the future of the green industry and you know the youth when it comes to just you know? Your path and your career and what you've been able to do and how you're still gonna be able to do more What do you see for the green industry and the youth? What would you have to say to them youth like their new? Younger generations or even people that are that are sitting on the sidelines of going after something that they think is unachievable Everything is that you will you put in your mind Watch once you set your mind to it you work again You know, first of all, you got to believe in God God gives you a talent. I give God sees everybody talents You got to find it And you put something in your mind you work you wake up in the morning you dedicate yourself Into it work hard, but well, you gotta work hard because some people say I'm doing this and I'm working but it's not happening Then that means you didn't work, you know, you didn't work or it's not what you're supposed to be. They're supposed to me And it'll happen in in the green industry and the youth what I would say is You have an idea Try it say look. You know what? I want to Do it in your mind, obviously you have to do it and you have to draw, you know draw what how you want to do it get the first prototype or or first production depending on the products and in like I said in you know, you know beginning of the pop kit a podcast that it's The opportunities are limitless. There's no limit. So it's gonna happen. Believe me it If it's a product you put it out there With the right time right person right platform people will see it and they're gonna start buying it Or a service again. It doesn't have to be a product. It could be a service and And they're gonna start using it. So Again, the green industry. I love it You know, like I said, I start as a hobby, you know a side business, you know for one of my tile businesses but it became a an addiction to me and and And it's it's a you know, I'm like, I'm like, you know what? It's a good business. It's a huge business And there's no limit. There's no I would say oh you can't there's no you can't do this in this business. You can do anything you know with plants with rocks with Synthetic turf now, you know everything with everything who would have thought we're gonna have synthetic turf back there Maybe would have left a huge movement I don't I don't know what that that industry is now, but it's gotta be over a billion dollar industry at this point It's billions of dollars right now Yes And in other states actually they're building like coffee shops kind of thing like you go there some brand names that came out you go You know, the products are out there. It's like a boutique you pick the product you have your drink Yeah, the coffee or whatnot. You're like talking to the people and at the same time you're purchasing it. It's So people came out with the idea and they they didn't think it's not gonna work out and it worked out for them Maybe it took a while to adapt to that, you know product into the industry or the service But if you think it's gonna work and you did your research, right? It's gonna work and it's gonna happen So never say never never say I can't do it Never say this is not gonna sell never say people will not call me for this service People will not call me for this product if you believe in yourself believe in the product Obviously first you got to believe in God, you know, it's gonna all all happen even even if you guys are going to school right now and you're like man the Industry that I picked, you know people in my in my niche of what I'm gonna go study They only make sixty thousand dollars a year. That doesn't matter. That means that they make sixty thousand dollars exactly There's you know you can you can Get in that same Ballpark and blow it up and become something so much more do something impactful that can touch the whole industry and this industry Did thirty six point four billion dollars the plant industry for the state of Florida last year alone for 2023 It was the strongest year. Well, no 2022 was the strongest year Out of all the years, but the fact that it was done and that's just in plant sales 6 .4. Yeah billion dollars for Florida imagine only
The Plant Movement Podcast
Nova Hardscapes' Nasir Acikgoz on Thriving in Uncertain Times
"Think right now the way the economy is the way things have let's say slowed down the way interest rates have risen Politics, okay world governments and all this stuff that's going on They they you know, I feel it in the air that people just want to like curl up, you know And and they don't want to continue to push in a certain way It's kind of like let me hold all my money whatever I have left and I'm not gonna let it go, you know But you have to invest to create if you don't invest you can't create don't be scared to do that when it comes to what he's selling but My question for you is all of this stuff that's going on and you are full throttle you have I see you in the venture 36 -foot venture with quad 500 Merc's And you're flooring the throttles Why do you feel that way? When it comes to that, are you scared about anything that's coming up or you just go based off of off of what? Opportunity vision what I I don't stop I go full throttle all the time and What drives me that when I wake up I think I said I mean God has a plan and I believe in God and I I in he says it work be honest work and it's gonna happen and In this country opportunities are limitless. I mean, there's no limit. There's no There's no product you're gonna say all about people are yes, they're they're holding off They're not gonna they're you know, they're not gonna spend I will never think that way I still keep bringing and I'm gonna bring it We're gonna invest as a matter of fact The green industry has an advantage one of the biggest advantages that I've noticed is if the people are stressed They're stressed with things politics and all that how do they relax of course they go they do sports and stuff One of the things they'd relax is they work in the garden. They work in the backyard They work, you know, they do things or just looking at plants to look at plants. What did what does it do to you relaxes you? One of the things that I'm realizing because we do a lot of pool pools and you know Like we sell a lot of natural stone for pool pool decks and pool coping like for pool products That business is still booming because During the pandemic, obviously people were spending time outside and whatnot But also after the pandemic still that kept going it never stopped And the green industry picked up right right during the the pandemic. Yeah, it keeps going crazy boom Yes, it's still going. Yes. It's a little bit see slow down a little bit, but it's not gonna stop Nobody's gonna stop buying things. Well, we saw wasn't normal first of all. Yeah, it was out You know, it wasn't normal normal growth, you know normal growth year over year at least for me was 20 20 percent growth Correct, maybe 25. So I was able to do 20 to 25 percent more than I did the previous year Let's say that's normal. That's normal average, you know, but you have guys that went up a hundred two hundred three hundred percent in two years You know, so it's just a lot like even the the smaller landscapers they were used to doing, you know Three four hundred thousand dollars to say a small landscaper and a lot of them crossed a million in in two years I know, you know the Amelia 1 .5 to 2 .5 and how did that happen because of this crazy boom? So now what they're seeing is the slowdown effect a lot of people weren't prepared for this to slow down They weren't they didn't let's say understand what was going on or see what was going on And they didn't think it was gonna, you know finish so I hope everyone put you know something away for For this if not, you're gonna learn the next one. You need to yeah, you need to save obviously I'm not saying you need to spend everything but you know It's a cycle then the economy is a cycle four years five years up and then four year five years down four years So if you don't invest when it's down Obviously within your you know budget and and and means and means You're not gonna gain when it picks up again So what I'm doing is when it's up you keep investing anyway when it's down you keep going Obviously, I'm not in I'm investing. I'm actually reinvesting per se Not so aggressively as I did it during the pandemic because the demand was huge. Yeah, you saw it's still going I'm still going like I'm like, okay, so I was adding maybe five products back then but now I'm adding one two But I keep adding because I'm trying to prepare myself for the next rush. Yep, you know Hopefully we'll see those numbers again, but you know, it's gonna be tough. You'll see those numbers as more people use
The Plant Movement Podcast
We're Digging Deep Into Nasir Acikgoz's Journey to the American Dream
"So talk to me you're you are from Turkey that you were telling me I'm from Turkey originally. How did you end up here? Well Right after college finishing undergraduate undergrad in Turkey in electronics engineering. Okay, I talked to my father You know father I said, you know, I just want to go to America United States. He said to me Okay, but why United States you want to learn English? Yes, I want to learn English, but there's England here, huh? Right here three hours away. Why do you want to go all the way to 12 hours with plane? I said, I love the American culture I left the American, you know American dream the the colleges their lifestyle and this was all in the this was in the 1996 okay when I graduated from my from college and I graduate college a little bit earlier I was nineteen nineteen and a half years. Wow. Yes, man. Thank you. I Started going to school like five and a half years old because they had that like a program there different programs at that time They allowed kids to to be the first graders. Yeah to accelerate. Yeah, I took advantage of that and Thank God I passed all the grades, you know, I never missed anything. So as a matter of fact, I'm a third year of college I told my dad this, you know, hey, I want to go to the United States, please, you know, would you will you support me? He's so what you told me Whatever you do son. I'm gonna support you. Mm -hmm. So right after college I started applying to college. I mean the you know, yeah colleges for MBA program Okay, because I said I want to do MBA. I want to do master's in business administration If you ask me why because it was the hit thing in Turkey at that time if you have your Engineering background. I mean undergrad and then you have the MBA all the companies all the corporate guys, you know They want you and especially from the United States, you know the MBA so I had two friends in Orlando Back then and I applied other states as well And one of the guys in Orlando called me, you know, he said look Nasir I know you're applying to other states. We have the house here. We have you know, the dorms everything Yeah, the dorms and everything and and we know people in the college will help you out and we love you come over We'll hang out, you know first I was hesitant I said, you know, I'm gonna go there instead of learning English right away And now we're gonna be hanging out Turkish people, you know, so I had that doubt Yeah, from my town, yes, we know their families my dad knows their dads and but my father told me look It's better to know someone there when you start off and then you don't like it you move somewhere else It's easy, you know easier. It breaks the ice. It breaks the ice So I said, okay, so they send me the application from it's called seminal community college. Okay, it's where the Seminoles India All speakers English all like, you know, and you didn't know any English at this point very very little you speak it Very well. Yeah, I practiced there so much, you know, they applied to college community college. I said, oh, it's a community college It's not a it's not a university and my friends told me look, you know, it's this little college close by to our house It doesn't matter if you call you you're just gonna learn English and here there's no Turkish people only there were some Latins like Puerto Ricans. Yeah, a lot of Puerto Ricans. You're in Orlando. Yeah, that's the Puerto Rican capital. Puerto Rican capital. Yes Back then it was like this 1996 1997. So I loved the idea. I said, okay, no problem So we I applied and they said, okay, no problem. You can start the English as a second language program. I started going there Yes, I was the only Turkish guy. So I had no option but to learn the language So I loved it. So I said, you know what? I'm just gonna stay here I'm not gonna move anywhere else and I started getting to know people Okay I had I met a lot of people there and we started hanging out even though our English all of our our English were a Little bit, you know, like it's off. Yeah, but still with hand gestures with moves and stuff like that You you manage you manage to engage So I finished English as a second language course, then I applied to UCF University of Santa, Florida Okay for the MBA program they accepted me, but they said I need to take a lot of prerequisite courses and I said, okay, and they gave me a list. It was like 12 courses I said, wow, it's too much and I gave you my transcripts guys, you know, I'm an I'm an engineer I mean, but they said hey, you didn't take financial accounting. You didn't take managerial accounting They saw me like economics macro economics micro economics all these courses, you know, you know, and they said You know, you have to take them, okay, so I don't want to say I lost another year year and a half No, you felt like it I felt like it at first but then I appreciate it because that taught me a lot because you're learning the fundamental of Economics financials actually the courses that I took financial and managerial accounting courses They teach you how to read your balance sheet of the company, which is great A lot of people are clueless to that exactly and I actually I'm doing my old balance sheets PNLs That's awesome. I'm looking at every month and I'm kind of you know Looking through it, even though my CPA looks at it almost every month But when he talks about something I already know or you already know So that's why I was like that time out to me like oh my god I'm gonna lose another one year and a half two years, but it ended up working out working out for me so I started MBA program right after I finished it and Study administration business administration, so you studied what you wanted to study when you were with your dad Yes telling them this is what I want to do exactly, okay One little detail I left off before before I got into UCF the first year when I was in seminar community college My roommate told me hey, let's apply for a green card lottery. Oh, I said, what is that? I'm like lottery also is we're gonna win money is like no it's it's called green card lottery I still didn't understand the concept and he told me look you're gonna apply a lot of people are applying and they Pick you and if you they pick you you can stay in this country and you get the residency Okay, I'm like you're kidding for me to get my student visa I have to go through so much so much and they're just gonna give me my green card and that's it over like, you know Yeah, that easy. It's like yes, that's easy. I'm like Let's apply. Let's apply and I'm thinking welcome to the United States. Welcome to American dream.
The Greg McAfee Show
Mike Agugliaro: To Scale a Business You Have to Scale YOURSELF
"So what would you, what do we tell the company that the business owner who's been doing, you know, somewhere between two and four million and he's capped out and he's burned out and he's not charging enough. What kind of advice do you understand it? He's good at what he does, but he doesn't understand a lot of the business side. What kind of advice do you give that guy? Well, I mean, the first thing everybody should write down, that's listening to this to, to scale anything, you have to scale yourself. And I think people don't spend enough time investing in improving themselves. They, they carry these belief systems that they've been programmed with. Like my dad, you know, he, he told me when I was a kid, he programmed me with money doesn't grow on trees. And after I was doing about 20 million in business and just anybody listening, I went from under a million to 32 million in less than 10 years. So I had 165 service trucks on the road all over New Jersey. You know, we, we did 40 ,000 customers a month. So we did a fair amount of customers, 200 employees, double digit profit. And what's that? What year? That was 2017. And I sold it in 2017, which feels like yesterday to me, I sold it for a sign my name and walk away deal at one of the highest multiples, not compared to what's happened through this last roll up, but one of the highest multiples, I was like the cat's meow, you know, and my dad, I went to him and I said, dad, you were right about one thing and wrong about another. And of course, my dad's a big Italian guy. He wants to know what he did wrong, right? I said, first, you told me money doesn't grow on trees. I said, but if I had lemon trees and apple trees, I could pick that and sell it for money. And he said something to me that changed my life forever. He said, you know what, son, I only told you what my dad told me. And in his dad told him, I started to question myself, how many people struggling in business in the world today for whatever they want to do, because they keep following beliefs that might have some value, but may not have what you need today. So then, of course, Greg, you're probably wondering, my dad's like, oh, well, at least what did I tell you that that was true? I said, well, you told me you didn't own the utility company, shut the damn lights off. And I said, you were right. You still don't own you still don't own the utility company. And then I became just like my dad, my kids, my whole life telling them shut the lights off, right? I don't own the utility company. So I think that's part about business owners today is to sit there and say, hang on, maybe I don't know. The next one, I'd say probably number three here is I am such a believer in coaching. Not because we do forms of coaching. I've had seven coaches is the most I had at one time. I had spiritual coach, relationship coach, marketing coach, business scaling coach. I have seven. I am a big believer that you're investing in solving your most immediate problem. And you probably heard this phrase. Everybody heard it like success leaves clues. But like who has time to be like when my daughter was little, she used to watch Dora the Explorer for anybody that knows that like who has time in life, Greg, to go run around and play Dora the Explorer and look for a clue. I want someone to give me the clue right now and say, look, here's what I want you to consider. If you do this and this, you're probably going to get that. And we've proved that over time. So those three, those couple things there can change everything for everyone.
The Mason Minute
Changes At The Checkout (MM #4621)
"There's been a lot of talk about self -checkouts at your big box stores, at your grocery stores and how upset people are about having to do all the work themselves. It's become quite the hassle. Well, it looks like some big box stores, some grocery stores, some drug stores are reconsidering their position on self -checkouts and it's not because of customers being upset. It's because of shrinkage. They're finding stores that have more self -checkouts have a higher rate of theft and also in grocery stores especially. They have a problem with people being able to determine which apple should be priced the right way. If they don't sticker them properly, a person doesn't know one apple from another and therefore they sometimes pick the wrong price. So big box stores are all reconsidering their self -checkout policies. Now let's not get our hopes up here because every time we talk about Walmart deciding to change their mind, something else happens. I don't know if it's possible but some stores are finally thinking about taking care of customers again. Wouldn't that be something nice?
The Mason Minute
Changes At The Checkout (MM #4621)
"There's been a lot of talk about self -checkouts at your big box stores, at your grocery stores and how upset people are about having to do all the work themselves. It's become quite the hassle. Well, it looks like some big box stores, some grocery stores, some drug stores are reconsidering their position on self -checkouts and it's not because of customers being upset. It's because of shrinkage. They're finding stores that have more self -checkouts have a higher rate of theft and also in grocery stores especially. They have a problem with people being able to determine which apple should be priced the right way. If they don't sticker them properly, a person doesn't know one apple from another and therefore they sometimes pick the wrong price. So big box stores are all reconsidering their self -checkout policies. Now let's not get our hopes up here because every time we talk about Walmart deciding to change their mind, something else happens. I don't know if it's possible but some stores are finally thinking about taking care of customers again. Wouldn't that be something nice?
The Mason Minute
Changes At The Checkout (MM #4621)
"There's been a lot of talk about self -checkouts at your big box stores, at your grocery stores and how upset people are about having to do all the work themselves. It's become quite the hassle. Well, it looks like some big box stores, some grocery stores, some drug stores are reconsidering their position on self -checkouts and it's not because of customers being upset. It's because of shrinkage. They're finding stores that have more self -checkouts have a higher rate of theft and also in grocery stores especially. They have a problem with people being able to determine which apple should be priced the right way. If they don't sticker them properly, a person doesn't know one apple from another and therefore they sometimes pick the wrong price. So big box stores are all reconsidering their self -checkout policies. Now let's not get our hopes up here because every time we talk about Walmart deciding to change their mind, something else happens. I don't know if it's possible but some stores are finally thinking about taking care of customers again. Wouldn't that be something nice?
The Mason Minute
Changes At The Checkout (MM #4621)
"There's been a lot of talk about self -checkouts at your big box stores, at your grocery stores and how upset people are about having to do all the work themselves. It's become quite the hassle. Well, it looks like some big box stores, some grocery stores, some drug stores are reconsidering their position on self -checkouts and it's not because of customers being upset. It's because of shrinkage. They're finding stores that have more self -checkouts have a higher rate of theft and also in grocery stores especially. They have a problem with people being able to determine which apple should be priced the right way. If they don't sticker them properly, a person doesn't know one apple from another and therefore they sometimes pick the wrong price. So big box stores are all reconsidering their self -checkout policies. Now let's not get our hopes up here because every time we talk about Walmart deciding to change their mind, something else happens. I don't know if it's possible but some stores are finally thinking about taking care of customers again. Wouldn't that be something nice?
Mark Levin
Trump Files Motion for Mistrial in Civil Fraud Case
"The city and state of New York. They've used a statute, as Fox has reported, that's never been used ever against anybody else. And why? Because the statute's unconstitutional. And why is that? There's no victim. There's no complainant. So the case is really a case about Letitia and this judge in Iran. Deciding for themselves cherry -picking information on whether the assessments that were used, the valuations, and getting loans from certain banks, meet the standard that Letitia James and this judge Arthur and Garan think they should have met. No, they don't. No victim, no complainant. Not a single bank has testified against Trump. They're all paid back on time without delay. These banks are big with big law firms. The legal documents stated by Trump's lawyers and his documents not to rely on the valuations provided by the Trump organization. You're free and transparently make so your to own valuations and make your own decisions. So there is no fraud. There's no misconduct. The victim, well actually the only victim is Trump and his family. Thank you. And so they've appealed. And so the legal experts say it's going to be tough to appeal arguing that there's a mistrial. Oh really? Well the judge is a hack who ruled against Trump before he and his lawyers even walked in the courtroom. He ruled on the papers before he heard a word of testimony. And his conduct during the course of the trial, he was clamish. He was preening for the camera. The reason his law clerks sitting to his right
Dear Chiefs Podcast
First Responder Wife Daniela Shares Her Family's Harrowing Hostage Nightmare
"We have Daniella T from Ontario, Canada with us today. Daniella is a first responder wife and mom to two girls, as well as a full -time staffing coordinator at her local hospital. Daniella's life changed forever when her husband was taken hostage during a shift when he was working as a correctional officer. Four of the longest hours ensued not knowing what the future would bring. Thankfully, through the hard work of the negotiating team, he was released with minimal physical injuries, but it would be the invisible injuries that would have the most profound effect and that would end up testing them as individuals and as a couple. While her husband recognized he would need immediate help facing the challenges that would come with PTSD, Daniella pushed the need to reach out for support for herself in dealing with the trauma and focused 100 % of her attention and care to him and their two children. As time progressed, Daniella recognized that she too finally needed to truly process the ordeal and the injuries she had been enduring as a result. So she started a blog called The Often Unseen and that was a major step in her healing journey. Welcome, Daniella. Thanks for coming on the show. Thanks. I'm fangirling a little bit here because I've been following you guys for over a year now. And when I saw you guys kind of put a call out to, you know, people who might want to be a guest, I was like, Oh my God, pick me. Thank you for having the courage to come and talk about your healing journey with us today. So based on your own comfort level, walk us through the incident. Yeah. So it was September 14th, 2018, and it was a Friday afternoon. I'll never forget that date, but it was just a regular day. And if you ever hear my husband tell the story, he always starts with, I wasn't even supposed to work that day. It was an overtime shift that he had picked up, but it was a regular day. I was out running errands and I had gotten a message from the superintendent of the jail. Our town is a very small town and everybody knows everybody. And I knew this gentleman through other community things that we had been involved in. And he sent me a Facebook message saying, Hey, it's Steve, call me when you get this. And I thought that's weird, but whatever. So I called him when I got home and he started it by saying, where are you? And I thought that was weird. And I said, Oh, I'm at home. And well, where's home? You guys moved, right? And we had been in the process of, we had sold our house and we were living with my in -laws while we went through the process of buying a new house. So I said, yeah, we're here at the address. I said, what's going on? And so now I'm kind of thinking, you know, like I should preface this because I'm guessing probably a lot of your listeners are American, but up here, the jail that my husband worked at, it was sort of like a minimum security. And so really the only weapons that they carry to protect themselves were pepper spray. So I'm thinking, Oh, he had to use this pepper spray. He got some in the eye or, or something along those lines. And then he just said, I'm sending someone over to the house. And then that was when I sort of started to panic. And then he said, there's been an incident and they have John. And I just, I had like an out of body experience. I fell to the floor. I couldn't breathe. And I could see myself like sitting on the floor, trying to process this bomb that had been dropped. And it was probably one o 'clock in the afternoon. So my kids were at school and daycare. And so I thought, I didn't know what to do. So I called my mother -in -law who I was living with. And I said, where are you? In my calmest voice that I tried to, you know, where are you? And she said, I'm downtown. And I said, I need you to come home now. And again, we live in a small town. It takes less than 10 minutes to pretty much get it anywhere. And she said, okay, is everything all right? I said, I need you to come home now. And so as she pulled up the chaplain from the jail, as well as the police officer were pulling up. And so she kind of was like, do you have the right house? And so they were like, yes. So she came in and I had to tell her, I couldn't even really talk. I sent a text to my mom and my dad and my sister who all lived here. And I said, I can't talk. This is what has happened. I know nothing. And so my dad was retired. He came over, my mom left work. She came over and we all just sat around the table for like, you know, it was probably a total of three hours, but again, a small town. I started to get text messages from people saying, I heard this is going on at the jail. I hope John's not working today. And so the first person, a good friend of mine who texted me that I said, oh, where did you hear that? And he said, well, people are talking about it in the staff room at work. And so it was at that point that I said to my mother -in -law, we have to call my two sister -in -laws who also live in town. I said, they're teachers. I said, we have to call them. They can't find out that this is going on, you know, at school through word of mouth. So my mother -in -law called them. They came over and we all sat around the table. And then I finally got a call from the superintendent saying that John had been released and that he was taking him to the hospital to get checked out. So we went there, we waited, we met the ambulance. I've never known a relief like that in my life. And we were there for a couple of hours as they ran some tests and x -rays, but you know, he was lucky that there was just some bruising and, you know, a black eye. He was pretty sore just from, you know, they had him handcuffed and things like that. So, but no broken bones, you know, no open wounds, anything like that. So that we were probably back home by, I'm going to say 8 30. So all in all, it was about a seven and a half hour ordeal. And then, and then, and then life kept going on. Yikes. That's a lot. Yeah. It's, you know, if you're, you know, if you're a corrections spouse or in that corrections world, you know, that's sort of your worst case scenario, your worst fear of, you know, a riot or something like that happening, you know?
Capstone Conversation
Jared Asch Welcomes Walnut Creek's Teri Killgore to Capstone Conversation
"To this episode of The Capstone Conversation. I am your host, Jared Ash. Today, we are joined by Terri Kilgore from the city of Walnut Creek, where she serves as the assistant city manager in overseas economic development. One of the themes of this podcast is to talk about where are our communities going, but it's also important to look at economic development and how cities are continuing to improve post COVID in the new era with increased online shopping. And Walnut Creek has dove into a number of economic development studies and has a plan for the future of its city to grow. So we're going to introduce Terri here to tell us a little bit more about herself. Welcome. Thanks, Jared. It's nice to be here. So I've been with the city of Walnut Creek five years now, and it's been a wild five years with COVID thrown in the middle, as everyone has experienced. It's been a pleasure to serve both as the assistant city manager and economic development director. And while we had to pivot really quickly to help keep our businesses open during the pandemic and that involved outdoor dining and streamlining permitting for HVAC systems and other things people needed to do to survive, it's exciting that we're now back to working on real economic development work is what I would call it, where we're building a strategy and an approach. And we took the intentional path of picking an action plan with a two year horizon. As you mentioned, we did several studies to help inform us on this journey. As you can imagine, most of the data sets that we traditionally rely on, like the census and the American Community Survey, are just really dated and don't reflect the world post -COVID. So we went out to our brokerage community, got some quick updates on the state of the market and different subsectors. And so we think we've built a plan that is going to set our community up for long term success. And the future is bright for Walnut Creek. We obviously have challenges, as does every community. But we're starting from a really strong base. And so we're excited to really dig in and get working on these elements that will really move the ball forward. Awesome. So let's dive in to it. I like the fact that you're talking strategy, short term, long term. A lot of cities are going after just a big fish, right? They looking are to get a company that's going to have five or ten thousand high paying jobs in there. Walnut Creek is having multiple elements into their plans. So let's talk through what did you learn in the study first and then we'll go through elements of the plan. Yeah, the studies kind of reconfirmed a lot of what we already knew about our economy, which is that we are very driven by small to medium companies. We've got some notable headquarters located here as well. But that our bread and butter is really folks who live in the community and work in the community and grow their businesses here. And so there there is one strategy and economic development, like you said, where you go elephant searching and hope to get the one big thing. But that's a really risky strategy. It often takes a very long time to pay off. And so you've got to find a very specific niche where you can market what you have available that meets exactly with these unique needs of these mega companies. And so we looked at it and said that that's one approach. But we already have a nice mix of companies in our economic ecosystem. And I think the growing wisdom over the years in economic development is it's better to do economic gardening, is what they call it, where you help your local companies grow, you try to attract similar industries based on industries that are already present. And so for us, our big market drivers are medical, finance, insurance, real estate, a little bit of tech software, more so. And then a lot of small businesses that thrive in the retail and in the restaurant sectors. And so how do we really help those businesses that are here grow? And that includes reaching out to them and figuring out who do they know, who else might be looking for space, who are their vendors that they wish were close by so that we can continue to build on the existing strength of our market instead of kind of placing a bet on red and hoping everything just lands perfectly.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 11/14/23
"Lots of channels. Nothing to watch. Especially if you're searching for the truth. It's time to interrupt your regularly scheduled programs with something actually worth watching. Salem News Channel. Straightforward, unfiltered, with in -depth insight and analysis from the greatest collection of conservative minds. Like Hugh Hewitt, Mike Gallagher, Sebastian Gorka, and more. Find truth. Watch 24 -7 on SNC .TV and on Local Now, Channel 525. 738 on this Tuesday, the 14th day of November. Lots of Texas political news. But I did get a chance to spend a moment there in the opening half hour saying that I grow weary of the moral fog. In fact, on Twitter just a couple of moments ago, in these fractured times, I'm glad to give a Democrat some credit. Democrat Senator Chris Coons, who is right on Israel, was confronted by this stooge pro -Hamas activist on a train who badgered him. Why not a ceasefire? Why not a ceasefire? Sometimes moral clarity is something that needs to be delivered in a certain fashion. I'd like to think I have it intellectually and conceptually. My buddy Mike Gallagher joins us, who had an experience yesterday that will bring that kind of clarity in the harshest but necessary terms. I just can't wait to see how this day went. It had to be amazing and I'm just so glad you're here and the floor is yours. And tell everybody what you got a chance to do yesterday. Well, it was something that no one would want to see. It was pretty brutal. It was worse than I thought it was going to be. Israel put together a 45 -minute sort of a collection of video and audio and still photographs. They were videos from the terrorists' GoPros and their cell phones. There were closed -circuit videos and there were audio intercepts. They got audio recordings of the terrorists calling their families. The IDF was able to tap into some of these calls where they were calling their parents excitedly, saying, I just killed 10 Jews with my bare hands, Mom. Your son is a hero. Your son is a hero, Aloha Akbar. And they're all joyful and ecstatic. A couple of takeaways. When you watch the brutality of the violence that they inflicted on these innocent men, women, children, elderly people, there are a couple of things that really stand out. Number one, the ecstasy and the joy that the Hamas terrorists experienced as they were killing people, including little babies in little onesies and little daisy outfits and cute little kids covered in blood, slaughtered brutally. And they were absolutely euphoric, Mark. That's the only word to use. It was ecstatic for them. They had such a joy. And I kept telling myself, there's no way they think that Jews are human. There's no way that they regard them as human beings. You couldn't do that to another human being and have that kind of satisfaction. I mean, let's face it. When you think about crime in America or crimes of passion or murders or robberies or whatever, what have you, normal people don't have euphoria when they cut somebody's head off. They don't get joyful and they don't call their moms and brag about it and say, look what I did. Look what I did. So number one, that's one of the big takeaways. And the other thing I kept thinking about, and it was a somber mood. It was at the Israeli embassy. There were a number of some media people there, some pastors. It was a gathering from the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews who we worked with closely right after the terror attack of October the 7th. About 60 people in the room, maybe 70. It was very somber. It was very well done. But as you can imagine, there were tears. There was crying. There was weeping. One pastor in front of me, in fact, he happens to be a pastor from Sarasota, not far from where I'm at right now. When it was over, he kind of flung himself down onto the ground and laid across the stage and was laying on his belly just heaving, just crying and sobbing. I mean, you're looking right at the face of the devil. You're looking at evil with this. And I kept thinking, Mark, how I wish the people marching at Columbia and Harvard and in Austin, how I wish they could see this video. From the river to the sea, you proud now? You proud now? I mean, you know, the one pastor, I spent some time, I pulled double duty after the show and then I did the screening at this embassy. And then I was asked to do an afternoon show for WAVA, which is a huge Christian teaching and talk station. Over in Arlington, yeah. Yep, the Arlington. And so Don Crow has been out on a medical leave and they asked me to fill in for him. And I had with me Bishop Lanier, who is the chairman of the board of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, as a very profound speaker, very eloquent, very, you know, just a great orator and a great man of the cloth. And he said, look, I don't think we're going to change their minds. We need to change our minds. We need to change what we say from the pulpit. We've got to stop the equivocation. Well, it's two sides here. People are dying on both sides. That is both -sides -ism of the worst possible stripe. It really is, Mark. And I just want to reiterate that because I don't know that Israel, listen, if Israel was guilty of any of the stuff that I saw yesterday, that I experienced, and again, I'm not trying to be melodramatic. It's one of the most painful things I've ever, ever encountered. I mean, and I'll spare you gory details. You can imagine how bad it was. I mean, you already have seen some of it, you know, lining up on the streets and just shooting into cars of innocent passengers trying to drive down the street. But there was one scene in particular that got to me the most. I do want to share it with you. There was a father alone with his sons. The mother was gone, and it was in the kibbutz. They did a horrible massacre in this kibbutz, which is like a Jewish religious holy neighborhood, you know. But they're beautiful little homes. I mean, oh, their homes were so cute and decorated and, you know, plants on the porches and everything. And they were meticulously taken care of. So here's this father in the house, and it's all captured on the family's closed -circuit video. So they had like a ring system all throughout the house and outside, and it was all captured. So the father is with these two boys. I would guess the one little boy was about seven or eight. The other one was probably 11 or 12. And the little boys were in their underwear. And the shots ring out, and the father, they're all terrified, and the father desperately tries to protect his children. He scoops them both up, and they run into the backyard, and they go into a little shed that's in the backyard. It looked like a little gardening shed. And you see a Hamas terrorist come around the corner and casually pull the pit off of a grenade and throw the grenade in the shed. And it blows up, and the father immediately slumps out of the shed dead. You could tell he's instantly dead. But the two little boys are alive, and they come running out in their underwear. The one boy, you can see it looks like his eye is missing. He is terrified. The two little boys are crying, Daddy, Daddy, Mommy, Mommy. They go into the kitchen. Now the closed -circuit video picks them up in the kitchen where they're talking to each other. And they said to each other, and it's all translated, of course, and they said, Is this real? Is this real? I think we're going to die. Daddy died. Daddy died. Where's Mommy? Where's Mommy? And then the one little boy turns to his brother, his little brother, and says, Can you see out of that eye? He says, No, I can't. And he looks at him, and you can see that it looks like his whole side of his face was injured from the grenade. And he says, You can't? You can't? You can't see? He goes, No, I can't see anything out of my eye. And the little boys are crying, and they're calling for their Mommy. And then the closed -circuit shifts back to the backyard where a kibbutz security guard, actually two security guards, have escorted the mother to the property. She had been away. So they take her to the back of the shed where her dead husband is laying. She is now in anguish and screaming and collapsing and screaming, Where are my boys? Where are my boys? At the same time, the two boys, they run out of the house in the front, trying to escape. And Lord knows what fate they met. I don't have a whole lot of high hope that they made it. And I'd like to look into that. I'm going to follow up with my friends at the fellowship to see if those boys were reunited with their mother. But that's the human suffering that I wish people who seem to dehumanize Jews would see. It was eye -opening. I'm glad I did it. I'm honored that I did it. I'm glad you did, too. I'm so glad. But it was awful. And I wouldn't want anybody to see it. For people who – and sometimes you can hear people in your headphones and hear people driving around. And I want to give a voice to people saying we could show a horrible video of a Palestinian child to whom something terrible has happened, and that is undeniably true.
The Dan Bongino Show
FBI Officials Singled Out Agents Who Were Former Military
"And again, I'll say it again because the show is fair. have I very strong opinions about things, especially police state type activities, because I a was cop and I did not abuse my authority. And I don't understand why other people, if you're going to go in that space, can't control your inclination to do that. I know what happens, you know, as corrupts. I get it, but that doesn't mean I understand it. I never did it. Why can't you just do the right thing? So the story about the FBI potentially targeting members of the military, which again, they strongly deny. And I'm going to, Jim, is there any way you can do this? Do they have a PR branch? I guess you can read the public relations or something. No, I'm serious. Can we reach out? I'd love to. I'd love to get a comment on this story. They'd like to come hear it. There's this woman, Deena Perkins and Jeffrey Veltri, who were accused by Carrie Pickett in the Washington Times, basically of targeting people who served in the Marine Corps or military branches. This is serious charges. If the woman and the guy would like to come on, I'm happy to hear him out. I don't want this story to be true, but this is devastating. I mean, just think about this for a second. If even a shred of this is true, and I'll get into the article in more depth in a second, imagine you're a young man or young woman. You sign up for the Marine Corps, one of the toughest boot camps in the world. The Marines who are at the forefront of any time the world is in conflict, the Marines go out there first. You got expeditionary units, you got reaction forces in the Marine Corps. They're there on the ground doing God's work to preserve freedom all over the world. These guys are badasses. To all the Marines in my audience, I tell you this with respect. Don't take this the wrong way. I envy you. I really do. I don't envy lot a of people. I envy you. My greatest regret in my lifetime is not going in the Marine Corps, because it's a different breed of human. It just is. When I was an instructor in our academy, in my last line of work, I always made the Marines the class presidents, because they were just, they were always on time, looked sharp, and it was their example that kept everyone else in line. I didn't care if you were the CEO of a company. We had a guy in one of the Secret Service classes, went to the San Francisco office. He was a medical doctor. He was a nice guy, but I didn't pick him for class president. We picked the Marines, because they were always five paragraph order types. Bang, bang, bang. You go into Corps, Marine and you find yourself in the FBI, and
Crypto Altruism Podcast
A highlight from Episode 129 - Gitcoin - Elevating public goods with decentralization, quadratic funding, and community coordination
"You know, there are so many neat things that people are trying already. You know, like, for example, we ran around for a community group in Oakland, who had funding from their local government, it was basically all community organizations. You know, so really cool to see that play itself out. Even before we went down this road, Milwaukee was already doing some experimentation with quadratic rounds for very sort of niche applications, like helping people in Denver, Colorado, whose restaurants were struggling during the pandemic. We did a support for Ukraine round that was kind of a targeted approach at funding for that particular use case. But, you know, I think then another neat thing that's happening, which you may not even have heard about yet, is we now actually have a direct grants platform, which means it doesn't use quadratic funding. It's basically a way to use Web3 rails and all the existing tools, but just run more of like a traditional grants program. But I think we might start seeing things like people using quadratic voting to make decisions about how to give out the money amongst a smaller group of people internally. And so you might not be harnessing the wisdom of the crowd, but you can still have that transparency, that accountability, you know, all that kind of nifty stuff that comes along with using these tools. And also anybody who's created a grant proposal on builder potentially can apply to an even bigger number of different types of opportunities. So, you know, so I think, you know, we really, you know, are so just lucky to have such an innovative, creative, thoughtful global community. You know, like, we just saw a round run in Latin America where like the majority of the grant proposals were in Spanish, you know, and like we frankly, don't even have the resources internally to like provide support and documents and web pages. They just did it themselves, you know, which is so cool to see. And I think we're going to just see more and more of that. Like there's a Chinese community round that's happening. I've heard there's an African continent round that people are talking about, you know, basically any issue or cause you can think of, you know, there's probably somebody out there thinking about how they could run a grants program to do something about it. You know, and if somebody out there is listening and has some nifty idea, even without a big matching pool, like, you know, just like even a small amount of money that you put into a matching pool, or even just creating the space for people to give to something that matters, like even without a matching pool, I think can just be a really powerful thing. You know, there's something about just kind of creating the container for the conversation to bring the people together. And, you know, the neat thing about these grants programs is like the grantees are the ones who do a lot of that organizing, who bring their community with them, you know, and often do actually do a better job of supporting and onboarding people and creating guides and documentation and all that kind of good stuff in a way that makes sense to their community. So, yeah, I think it's super exciting and I definitely think about it a lot. Yeah, no, totally. I can see the excitement just as you talk about it now. And I think that, you know, what you said around the grantees is spot on too. It's just really cool seeing like how they've all kind of stepped up and contributed to the Gitcoin community in different ways, whether it's creating these educational onboarding materials, setting up one -on -one calls with people to walk them through getting a wallet set up and a passport set up, you know, which is fantastic. It's been really, really powerful. And, you know, obviously we have another Gitcoin granting round coming up November 15th, I believe you said was when it was starting, which is really exciting Gitcoin grant round 19. 56 million plus in funds allocated, really incredible. It's really been a catalyst for thousands of early stage Web3 projects. For those listening that haven't yet participated in a Gitcoin grant round, but are interested in maybe becoming a grantee, they have a really cool public good project, but maybe they're a little nervous. What advice would you give them? Yeah, I love this question. So a lot really depends on sort of what your starting point is, you know, so maybe slightly different advice, depending on like, you know, if you've already got a DAO that you're a part of, you know, you've got friends in the Web3 space, you know, I could definitely give some very specific advice for those folks, you know, versus like somebody who's brand new to the space, doesn't have an existing community. I think there's a place for everybody in Gitcoin grants rounds. And a big part of what we try to do as Gitcoin is like level the playing field, make sure that everybody has an opportunity to get in front of an audience, you know, that grantees can be discovered based on the kind of the quality and interest of what they're building. But yeah, I'd say the universal stuff, you know, it's very much like any community organizing or marketing. Like, you know, think about the picture that you put up as your picture, think about how you summarize the information in your grant proposal, think about the title that you use, good to have the name of your organization, and something to do with your value proposition. So people, maybe they're just looking for you by your name, and they know who you are, and they can find you that way. Maybe they've never heard of your project, but they're interested in your value proposition. So trying to be succinct and having both those things, kind of without needing to click away and go read it, you know, also that like, there's a bit of information that shows up kind of above the fold, as they say, like, you know, kind of in that little preview window, if you have a good little TLDR, that's like, this is what we're trying to do, this is how we intend to do it, this is why we're doing it, whatever you think is important for people to understand, like, I'm trying to raise this money so I can do this, you know, the more that you can be super clear about, like, by next round, or by six months from now, I hope to have accomplished this, and you can follow along and and sort of follow that journey. I think that's really important. Also, if you've been a grantee for more than one round, I know we're talking about new grantees, but updating people is super important, too. They sort of haven't seen that you've done anything with the funding, people start wondering, you know, like, you know, what are you really doing with this money? Should I give again? But I would say for like, people who in particular, who might be nervous, who don't have a web3 community, I would say like, there's a lot of people who are super supportive and helpful in our community. Like, so starting by coming to like our Twitter spaces, the Gitcoin hosts, which you can follow along at the Gitcoin Twitter account, and we're always announcing when the next ones will be. Also, you can usually find there's like a grantee support page, where we have like an event listing, which you can find linked to right off of the main Gitcoin website, gitcoin .co. So I mean, just follow along there, you know, and that can give you a sense of like, just if you just show up, you know, I can tell you that we are super friendly and supportive, you know, and you can just like come and talk about what you're working on, or even just listen for a while and see how other people are doing it and get comfortable, I think people will get a sense that it's a very welcoming and friendly space. You know, but also, like, there's a million, maybe not million, there's definitely tons of these Twitter spaces being hosted by people. If you're not already active on Twitter, I hear you, there's a lot going on in the world. And Twitter is not always my favorite place either these days. But, you know, it happens to be where a lot of the crypto community is, you know, definitely wherever your community is, like, try to bring them on board. But it's a lot easier to get donations from people who are already familiar with crypto, who are already familiar with Gitcoin than it is to like, you know, take somebody from never even having a wallet to like setting up their first wallet funding it, you know, connecting to passport going through all those stages. Definitely great guides out there. You know, I think it's a great idea to like host onboarding sessions or like office hours to help people in your community might want to support you. But definitely the lowest hanging fruit is the existing Gitcoin community that's quite active round after round. And you can find those people on our Twitter spaces, you can find those people, you know, in various discords, but also on the Twitter spaces that other people are hosting. And, you know, and I'd say one other thing I would throw out there is Telegram. All these tools that, you know, if you're from outside the web through space might be a little bit daunting. But you know, if you just join the Gitcoin Telegram group, there's so many people providing peer support, helping each other answering questions. Like if you just jump into that thread, which again, you can find it directly through our homepage, you know, you can from there, like find people who might want to help you with what you're building, or might have a similar project and want to collaborate with you, you know, or, you know, want to attend your Twitter space if you host one and invite other people. So yeah, I would say just like, focus on the people more than the technology. And like, figure out where the low hanging fruit is of like, where those people are that, you know, might be interested in working with you and supporting you. And don't hesitate to reach out and like DM people and, you know, and ask questions. You know, like, I'm always happy to chat if I can find the time. You know, definitely lots of people who are doing their project for the first time reach out. And like, you know, even share what you're thinking about posting in your grant proposal with others like, you know, there's no wrong time to do that. Even if you're listening to this right in the middle of an active grants round, and you missed the opportunity to apply, it's not too late to get involved to start listening to those Twitter spaces to join the Telegram. You can even post your grant proposal and then just apply three months from now in the next round. You know, so can't hurt to like, just moving start things forward, start onboarding your community, start playing with the tools yourself. Really helps to actually go and donate yourself to if you haven't before, because having done it yourself, you can then help other people do it more easily. Yeah, definitely. That's great advice. And you know, I think me personally, I only participated in two rounds, but was really kind of involved more as a community member and like just kind of listening in and being a part of the community before then, right. And it was a great way for me to learn and to kind of get my feet wet a little bit and to see what's going on before diving in headfirst. So great advice. Thank you so much for sharing that. As we near the end of our conversation, there's one thing I want to ask you about. I know that web3 can obviously be very stressful, fast paced, especially, you know, during Gitcoin grant season two, it can be feel like a bit of a sprint, especially for I imagine, the team that's working on the back end. You're also big, I know that you're a big advocate for getting outside for nature for laughter is the best medicine. I know you like to post some videos of you juggling, you know, by the lake is kind of a way to disconnect. Tell me more about how you stay grounded in this busy world of web3. Because I know that there's something that a lot of people struggle with. It's hard, man, honestly. And I can tell you, like, having spent much of my life working on, like, what feels like really life and death issues a lot of the time, like, this is definitely something I've struggled with for a lot of my life. I've definitely gone through cycles of burnout and like, you know, all that, you know, I would say just like, trying to not take everything too seriously, trying to take a step back and see everything in perspective, you know, surrounding yourself with like, friends and family that like, know you and love you and support you. You know, like, getting outside every day really makes a big difference to me. You know, my dogs are a big part of my life. You know, and they're, they're really a gift, because like, they demand that I take them outside. So even if I'm not feeling like going for a walk, they always do. And, you know, I feel like, basically, like, I having like a stressometer, you know, like, if you can sort of like monitor how you're doing, and when you get past like a certain threshold, like, just knowing that it's always okay to just like step away for a bit, you know, even just like, you know, just putting everything on pause and taking three deep breaths can go a really long way. But you know, like, I definitely feel like you really genuinely recharge your batteries by like going to a park or, you know, like the whole touch grass drink water thing like you have to take care of yourself to be able to like, you know, take care of business. You know, so like drinking lots of water or like, I mean, it sounds like, you know, sort of trite or soundbites or whatever, but I think it's really true. You know, and the older I've gotten, like the more just I haven't been able to just continue to like push indefinitely, you know, like that it used to be that I would just burn the candle at both ends and like, you know, it's like, I don't really need to go to bed at a reasonable time. I'll just stay up all night every day working and, you know, operate on zero sleep and not eat enough food and, you know, go for drinks at lunch and you know, like it just like all of that catches up with you after a while for sure. Totally. So I mean, like, as much as everything feels really urgent, like I think if you think back on what felt urgent, like six months ago, three months ago, month ago, even a week ago, sometimes, like a lot of the times things seem a lot more urgent and a lot more stressful in the moment that they really are. You know, so like just trying to have that perspective. And like, yeah, just, you know, take the time that you need to like pace yourself. That's, that's, you know, it's a marathon, not a sprint, that whole thing definitely can feel like a sprint. But, you know, even during the grants round, it honestly, it is a marathon. Like, you know, it's a, it's a couple of weeks with like, at least a week or two on either end of like, preparing and unwinding. And, you know, especially for our team, like, you know, I worry, even when I see like myself or other team members, like pushing a little too hard. And definitely, we see that with grantees too. But yeah, I mean, maybe just get off Twitter. I mean that, you know, the algorithms have a way of like, sort of sucking us back in, keeping us engaged. So, you know, like, you know, spend some time, more time on Farcaster or Lenster. You know, like, there's a lot of good vibes out there too, if you're in the web3 space. And honestly, I think there's a lot of alpha to be had in those social media networks too, that like, because it's a much smaller community, you can really focus on like talking to people who are working on similar things without a lot of the drama and chaos. And, you know, so like, even just making some little adjustments to how you're sort of spending your social media time, I find that pretty helpful for me. I actually hang out on Mastodon a lot recently, because it's an old school decentralized platform with all kinds of interesting people, and definitely different perspectives that I'm not hearing all the time in crypto Twitter. So yeah, I don't know. Everybody's got different things that are going to work different for them. You know, if you were having this conversation with one of my coworkers, you'd say meditation, you know, spend an hour at least every day meditating. You know, another coworker of mine would say, go dancing every night. You know, like, so I mean, you know, just like, I guess, like, figure out what it is that like, brings you joy outside of the space and like, force yourself to do a little bit more of it. And I think the end result is like, you'll actually find that your project is more successful, you're showing up with just like better vibes in general, and, and that resonates out and draws more people in and, you know, so, you know, there's even self -interested reasons beyond just like your health that I think, you know, people will notice if you if you make that little extra bit of effort not to burn yourself out. And if you are burning out, like, take some time away, like it, you know, might feel impossible. Like I definitely can relate to that. It feels like every time I take a week off at Gitcoin, I come back, it's a different organization that I left. But, you know, if you're in the right place with the right people, you need to trust that, you know, things are going to be okay. And, you know, if you're not feeling that way, like, maybe that's an indication that you should be thinking about if you are in the right place. And, you know, maybe there's a lot of different orgs, a lot of different, you know, things that you can get involved in, like, don't feel so trapped in the moment, especially for a lot of the younger people in this space, like, you know, don't have a mortgage or kids that they have to take care of, like, you can take those risks, you can make big changes, you can step away if you need to and experiment, explore other things, like, you know, give yourself that permission when the consequences are not nearly as severe as, you know, it will be like when you're, you know, in your 40s or 50s or whatever. Totally. Yeah. Yeah. That is some great advice. Well, thank you for sharing that, all that. And I can definitely resonate with a lot of that, especially the dog part. I have a very hyperactive black lab who I need to get outside at least for three or four walks a day. So it's been, oh, and there's my cat poking its head in the door right now, just on cue as we talk about pets. That's hilarious. So yeah, great advice. Thank you so much for sharing and so important in this, you know, rapidly growing, fast moving space. So it's been a pleasure just learning from you and hearing everything you've had to say. I've learned so much just from this short conversation. Obviously, we weren't able to cover everything. So for those listening along that want to follow you get in touch, learn more about Gitcoins work, what's the best way for them to do that? I am at Ben West on Twitter, because I was lucky enough to have a friend who registered my account for me in 2008. And I'm the same pretty much everywhere. I think Benjamin West on Telegram. I actually, if you go to my Twitter, I have like one of those link tree type things that you can click on it, I'll show you like a bunch of different places to reach me. But Twitter, Twitter definitely works. And probably most people listening to this are active on Twitter. So yeah, come find me there. That's probably the easiest one. Drew, thank you so much for doing what you're doing. By the way, I think you have crypto altruism is great. And the people the interview are super fascinating. And, you know, so so I'm, it's an honor to be part of your podcast. And thanks for doing what you're doing. Yeah, well, thank you. That means a lot. It really does coming from coming from you to hear that I really appreciate that. So thank you. And thank you for sharing all that information. I'll make sure to include that in the show notes for those listening along. And to wrap things up on this amazing conversation, I'm definitely going to have to take some time to reflect, you know, after after this conversation, because so many really cool things we've talked about. I like to ask everyone the same ending question. If you could name one thing that excites you most about the social impact potential of web three, what would it be and why? Hmm. And that's a tough one, because there's so many things that excite me about it. Truth be told, if I could pick one thing that excites me the most, but the thing that excites me the most is the opportunity for communities to empower themselves and accomplish their goals. Like I, you know, when I see projects come into reality that, you know, may not have otherwise that, like, are possible, because of, you know, whether it's Gitcoin grants, or just web three tools in general, you know, that excites me, there's, there's a lot of specific use cases that really are close to my heart. But like, I think the thing that's underneath all of it, you know, is that sort of cultural shift that, you know, that we talked about earlier, like that, you know, idea that decentralization really matters that, you know, individuals should not just be treated like cogs in a machine. You know, and I think for so many of us, we live in these worlds where like, our work day to day is not fulfilling. And, you know, we feel like we're not treated with respect. And to me, that just really sucks that that's fundamentally where we're at in our world. Like, you know, we've kind of democratized so much of our world. Yet, like, our work is this one place that is fundamentally undemocratic, fundamentally exploitative, often, and extractive. And, you know, and like, I think there's a way to change that, that's outside of these kind of old, like, left right socialism, capitalism paradigms. And like, to me, that's really exciting, because I feel like we've been trapped in this kind of debate that doesn't really go anywhere for a really long time. And like, there's a lot more nuance to be had in terms of like, how markets can be used by communities in positive ways, and how people can empower themselves, you know, by using some nifty tools and kind of working together. And, you know, really, just by all of us believing in this thing that we're doing all kinds of amazing stuff as possible. So yeah, I think that's really at the core of what excites me the most. Yeah, that's such a good one. And I couldn't agree more. I think that, you know, Web3 is such an interesting kind of confluence of so many different people and ideas and, you know, philosophies that it's really cool to just kind of be able to build and without kind of having to go through those same debates over and over again. So that's a great point to end on. Couldn't agree more. Ben, it's been an absolute pleasure. Thank you so much. Really enjoyed this conversation. And thank you for all you're doing to uplift public goods, Gitcoin and yeah, and to inspire so many early stage projects and builders. So thank you work you're doing. It's been an inspiration to me personally, and I know for many others as well. So thanks for being here today. My pleasure. Honestly, it's an honor and a privilege. And hello to your cat there who's joining us for the tail end. Yes, he always likes to make an appearance. Thanks, Ben. A huge thank you to Ben for coming on the crypto altruism podcast. Whenever someone asks me why I love the Web3 community so much, I typically point to Gitcoin grant season. It's a true testament to the power of decentralization and leveraging the wisdom of the crowd to fund what matters. Gitcoin is an incredible catalyst for public goods in Web3. And if you are listening to this between November 15, and November 29, then GG19 is live and you have an opportunity to participate by sending a VONATION to your favorite projects. So make sure to check out the show notes so you can follow along and get involved. And that brings us to the end of today's episode. Thanks so much for joining on the crypto altruism podcast. I had a great time and I hope you did as well. For more great content exploring the intersections of Web3 and social impact, check us out at crypto altruism .org. Also, if you love what you heard, I truly appreciate it if you rate, review, and subscribe to the show. You can also support the show by buying us a coffee or making a small crypto contribution. Crypto altruism runs on the support of community members like yourself and everything helps. Thanks so much for joining us and I hope you'll join us again for our next episode. Until then, let's keep showing the world the good of crypto. 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A highlight from The Best Altcoins To Buy This Week! (Act Fast)
"This may not be the optimal market to start DCAing into coins for long -term holds, but right now is the optimal time for trading with a lot of amazing trade setups presenting themselves every single week. So in today's video, I'm going to run through the 14, yes, 14 trade setups, all of which are long setups this week, because you know what happens when you try to fight the trend, you get wrecked. This is a market where as long as the uptrend lasts, is your friend until the end of the trend. And that means we long more than we short. So today I have 14 long setups I want to discuss with you. Most of the setups are a little bit shorter term, like mostly focused on this week, but a couple are a little bit longer term, I would say like in the three to four month range. Not focusing on super long term trades here, but still definitely going to have some alpha for you in today's video as to what altcoins I think could be part of a rotation. As we're seeing right now, basically narratives hop from narrative to narrative as traders seem to be rotating profits into different sectors. And we're going to discuss where I think that rotation could take us. 14 very different altcoins in today's show. We're going to cover a couple narratives like gaming, like ZK, and hopefully you enjoy. Smash the like button if you are enjoying the content at the moment. Let's just start with Bitcoin. An interesting observation to make on Bitcoin is that the last time it had four consecutive weekly candles in a row to the upside, as you can see, like we have currently gotten, it actually did this in early January and ended up reversing for two weeks before continuing an uptrend. So I mean, just because it happened once doesn't mean we're necessarily going to get like a sustained pullback now. But I think what needs to happen and what the market is already starting to show us with weekly open here is that Bitcoin needs a little bit of a cooldown. Now a cooldown is not bad for altcoins. A cooldown, if Bitcoin just moves sideways, maybe a little bit down is actually good for altcoins because it gives the alt some breathing room. It takes the wind out of Bitcoin sales a little bit and gives the alt some room to run. So what I want to see longer term is definitely a sustained increase in Bitcoin dominance that shows liquidity is flowing into Bitcoin. And then eventually I want to see that siphon off into the alts. So I actually want to see dominance pushing up to 60 % for a really healthy market. So altcoins can have a sustained run. But for now, if Bitcoin just cools and alts run a little bit, that's okay for now. Another interesting thing to note is that Bloomberg analysts still expect a 90 % chance of a Bitcoin spot ETF approval by the 10th of January. At the moment, the SEC has another five days to approve an ETF. If they don't approve it, then they're going to have to delay until January. So we could see an approval this week. I don't think this will be the case, but it is a possibility given the fact this week we are in an approval window. So definitely look for some volatility on Bitcoin. All right, let's get into the official list of altcoins that I'm looking at my weekly watch list. By the way, this is a show that I've been doing pretty much every week, but obviously now there's extra attention on the show because we're finally getting some market movers. If you looked at my watch list last week, basically I think six out of the seven tokens that I listed all ended up in profits. We had some amazing trades from that watch list. So congratulations to everyone that got involved there. Hopefully from this week's watch list, similarly, we have some good trades that come out of this one as well. The first place I want to start is ThorChain. What you need to understand about ThorChain is that it's the ultimate bull market token. Because of its reflexive mechanism, the more capital that goes into Roon, basically the better the yields end up being because they need to incentivize LPs to stake tokens in the pools to balance out the Roon LP because Roon is pumped in price, right? So when you have a higher APR, a lot of people ape into Roon, increasing the TVL. We can see the TVL is skyrocketing at the moment, as you can see here. And what that means is that Roon has this really explosive effect, this compounding effect, this flywheel when the market starts to deposit into Roon. So Roon is actually pretty much the ultimate bull market token. In a bear market, it's the opposite. It's one of the worst tokens because it gets hit really hard the other way. When the Roon price is going down, the yields tank. A lot of people exit the ecosystem because remember, to facilitate omni -chain swaps, what Roon does is it basically has LPs where you're required to hold an asset one to one with Roon. So if you want to swap from, let's say, Ethereum to Bitcoin, you're going to need in the omni -pool your Roon pairing with Ethereum and Bitcoin in order to facilitate that swap. So that's why in a bull market it does really well and in a bear market it does really bad. Because we're in a bull trend at the moment, Roon is clearly performing really well. It's one of the strongest performers in the market at the moment. And for that reason, if we do see a pullback like we're seeing right now, this is one that I'll look to ladder into on continuation. As I mentioned at the start of the video, this is really a traders market and it's a market where you probably want to be longing more than you are shorting. And when we're longing more than we're shorting, we want to look at the strongest coins. There are a few rotational players that I want to talk about but you generally want to look at the strongest coins and on any major pullbacks you can use them as dip buying opportunities, not for spot but for trades only. So depending on your risk tolerance, you can use different amounts of leverage. Some people, if you have more capital, you'll prefer spot trading. For me, I actually do a fair bit of spot trading so I might go in with a bigger position or a low leverage position because I don't want to get wicked out like we saw on the 10th of November. But here are some levels that you can look at to enter Roon on the pullback. The major level I'm looking at is this cross section here between the horizontal and the upwards diagonal trend which comes at around $4. If Roon somehow makes its way back down there, I don't think it will. This would be an amazing zone to do some buying. If not, then you do have this zone right here at the 4 .7 area that could be an interesting look as a small ladder in zone. You could probably ladder in here and then your last gasp is at $3 .60. If it starts breaking this trend, then that looks really bad that it's just going to reverse all the way back down. I don't think that's going to happen though. I think momentum for Roon has been upwards and as such, we should treat it with respect and it's certainly what I'm looking to have a nibble at if we continue to get any sort of sustained pullback in terms of trading, of course, not long -term. Long -term positions will be on more key high time frame supports. If you want to learn a bit more about that, I actually uploaded a video called If You Miss The Crypto Rally Follows This Exact Roadmap, which talks about long -term investing. So today is the short -term show. Yesterday, if you go onto the channel and go onto my playlist, and there's also a playlist linked in the description, that will give you a roadmap for the spot side of things. In terms of buying spot Roon, you want to be doing so on key support levels on the higher time frames because we don't like to buy long -term positions on the shorter time frames. It just doesn't make or the lower time frames. It just doesn't make any sense, right? 4 swaps an interesting play now starting to wake up as well being the main decks on Roon. This is definitely a 4 beta play or a Roon beta play rather. So 4 is definitely what I'm looking at in a similar gist to what I'm doing with Roon. Any major pullbacks probably going to gobble them up from a trading point of view. And you can also see they closed with an all -time high trading volume right now. A lot of people are actually using Roon to swap, which is an amazing thing and great for the ecosystem. So that's Roon. Now I want to talk about Solana because Solana is in a similar position to Roon in the sense that being one of the most explosive price movers. But it's kind of an interesting spot, right? Because it's come all the way up from what $15 to $53 in price. It actually hit $60 for a brief period of time. Spot holders don't know if they should take profits here. Traders don't know if they should be longing here. It's kind of in a weird position. But if we look at Sol, we can see that it broke above the key weekly resistance at the $48 level. So for me, a pullback into this zone similar to a buying opportunity, because I think what tends to happen with these coins is the most explosive move happens last. We haven't, I don't think seen that blow off top yet. And I may be wrong, this $65 zone could have been this blow off top. But I still have a feeling that we get that final thrust from Solana that just squeezes all those shorts that are now starting to pile up a little bit. And that will be your final blow off top for Solana. So because I think there's a tiny bit of juice left in the lemon here, I would be looking at any major pullback similarly to Rune continuing to ladder in until the trend reverses. Happy to kind of lose a bit of money trying to play this game considering that the upside is fairly immense in my opinion, if you can hit that trade. So Solana is one that I'd be interested in longing on a major pullback. You know the key level on the weekly. Obviously, you want to confirm that with lower timeframe trade setups because you have a fantastic level to look at. And on let's say the one hourly, the four hourly, that's when you'd actually be entering. Okay, let's move on to a new subset of tokens. These are the tokens that haven't moved. I know Rune and Solana have moved aggressively and we are playing the by the dip game, I guess on those ones. But some of the coins I want to talk about now actually haven't really moved. Now they have moved because the whole market's moved, but just not as much like Polygon hasn't done a 5x like Solana has or you know, 6x, 7x like Rune has. It is significantly up of course, but there is a really interesting narrative starting to brew here and that's the ZK narrative. So if you actually remember back to earlier in the year, January, February, some of the strongest performers alongside like AI and LSDs were the ZK coins. There was a lot of ZK hype and Matic being your biggest coin in this ZK basket of coins tends to be a market leader and it also happens to have this big announcement happening on November 14th which is garnering a leader of the ZK sector if ZK starts to wake up. Because right now we're in this rotational market, we saw Solana rotate into Avalanche, we saw that rotate into Phantom, we saw gaming pop off, we're seeing all these narratives pop off, AI popped off last week. I think next, a narrative that hasn't really popped off, but one that did in January is ZK. So Matic's definitely one of them. In terms of trading this, you do have your major support at 76, but what I would be more interested in is a break of the 92 cent level on the four hourly. Any confirmation above this level would be a decent entry in my opinion and you can see this level mapped out on the daily chart as your key resistance that we're currently trying to test at the moment. If we break that level, then suddenly we can look at a scenario that happened earlier in the year in February, as I said during that ZK run, where Matic ran all the way to 150. A 150 Matic in this run is not out of the question at all. In fact, I think it could happen if ZK gains steam. So that's what I'm keeping my eye on. Now let's talk about some of the other ZK protocols, but before we get into that, while we're speaking on the topic of Polygon, if you do want to earn any yield on the Polygon side, you can go to the farming page on SmartX, which is one of our official show partners. It's an AMM, which reduces the negative effects of impermanent loss and sometimes leads to impermanent gain that currently offers some of the most competitive, in fact, the best rates on the Polygon side for yield farming. So you can see in front of you, you've got 30 to 40 % APRs on a variety of pools, which as I said, have a mechanism which reduces impermanent loss, which is obviously one of the biggest headaches when it comes to Lping in crypto. So I highly recommend using the link in the description below to check out SmartX if you are interested in farming, or you can also do swapping on SmartX and get some of the best swap in the market as well. Link in the description below to check out SmartX. I've got some big announcements coming soon that I'm excited to share with you as well, so stay tuned for that. So let's talk about some of the other ZK protocols. So if Matic starts to make a run here, what will I long? Well, I'm going to long the leaders. I'm not going to try and pick the laggards in this sector. I want to pick the strongest coins in this sector. If we look back to the last run, as I mentioned at the start of the year, some of the best performers were Mina Protocol, Loop Ring, Nute and Dusk. So these are the ones I'm looking at because the market's really familiar with them. I think there's a bit of synergy here with that narrative in these coins. So those are some of the ones I'm looking at. But whatever leads in this sector after Polygon, those will be the ones that I'm interested in. And you can see Polygon and Immutable, the two biggest ZK protocols have run, but a lot of the others haven't run yet. So I think it's a narrative that's flying slightly under the radar, but I think it'll catch up quick once it starts to gain steam. So as a rotational play, this is definitely one that I'm interested in this week. Another one I'm interested in, which is already starting to pump, but probably has a little more upside left in it, is Sei Network. Now we know how explosive these career pumps have been in recent times. Pretty much every token that's been listed on Korean exchange a bit has exploded. We saw this earlier in the year with Sui and Aptos. We've recently seen it with Mina Protocol. Now we're on its pair on Upbit. So Sei is definitely one that I'm watching. It's catching a strong career pump. It has moved, but Sei is what I would call a new coin, right? It's a coin that has launched in the bear market. It's newer. It has pumpermentals because there's less underwater bag holders, and it still is down from its original trading price on its first day. Not from IDO price, but from the peak that it hit on its first day because it had a huge pump, ended up coming back down. It did hit its low of, what is it, like 0 .09 here. It's now started to move back up to 0 .15, but that's less than a 2X on a coin that has, as I said, pumpermentals. It's obviously a trading blockchain built in the Cosmos ecosystem. So some interesting stuff with Sei. If you do want an entry here, I mean, you could look to get an initial position, but if you're using leverage, you want to be careful. I mean, this is kind of not really a great place to trade. Obviously on one hourly, you might be able to find, it depends how, like if you're trading breakouts, you could probably look for like a breakout of this trend here. By the time you're watching this video, it might be too late. So the best I can do for you is actually looking on the four hourly and showing you these key support levels. The 0 .1344 level, if we do get some sort of confluence with the horizontal and diagonal trend here, this would be a great pocket to buy in. But any zone along this major support zone will be an area that I load up, but it does depend on your trading strategy. If you are a high leverage trader, you want to be a lot more precise. Me, I'll either go in this with spot or super low leverage. So I'm not so concerned about getting the exact entry. I'm just trying to really catch it for the uptrend. So depends how you trade, of course, if you're trying to snipe that entry, got to be a lot more careful. For me, a much lower leverage than your average person because I found that's what works for me because I don't have time just personally to sit in front of my computer all day and snipe entries. That's not me. I much more size. So let's say instead of taking a 2k position, I'll take let's say a 10k or a 15k spot position. And then I can't get wrecked on margin, which has been helping me a lot. Or I'll just go in with like a 3x leverage position. So it would take a lot to shake me out of a trade. So that is one I'm looking at. Similarly to say another coin that has pumpamentals and has shown this in recent times as another new coin is Celestia. Remember guys, the new coins can pump so much harder than all coins in the market. That's why I've been saying for a long time, you should definitely keep your eye on the new coins from both accumulation and a trading perspective. Celestia, by the way, is one if you've been following me on Twitter that you may have gotten an airdrop for because I did an airdrop guide last year and I included Celestia and this could end up being one of the most lucrative airdrops of the year. Congrats to anyone that watched that guide or watch my tweet and got involved because right now if you held your Celestia bag, you'd won to $2 ,000 but for some people it could be a lot more if you use multiple wallets. So I think this one is fantastic and there's a few people that have been coming out and saying that it's this cycle's soul. Smartestmoney .eth, it's an account I respect. The number one coin m p &l trader on Binance, that's pretty crazy, that is very crazy actually, has added spot to a massive seed position quote unquote and basically said watch and learn wannabes. These guys out here buying salt while I'm buying the next Solana. Big call but I mean the market cap is reasonably valued 700 mil okay five bill fdvs a lot but we know in the short term the circulating supply definitely goes to dictate how explosive the price moves can be market cap 700 mils reasonable at rank 71 calling it the next soul I don't know I like this one I like it as a spot play but not maybe after this massive pump in terms of a trade though super interesting now actually on support trend you'll notice a lot of coins are following the same trend they have a diagonal up trend as long as they stick to that trend you long if they start to break down below you've got to be a little bit wary but they've also got these horizontal support levels that they make after their retracements so this is actually a good one too long there's a couple of levels here for you to look out for on the one hourly on Celestia so that's an interesting one and let's move into some of the final narratives here I've got two more to share with you and both of these include a variety of alt coins so the first one is perpetuals I think if this volatility is to remain in the market we could definitely see perpetuals performing well we're starting to see a catch up in terms of price and fundamentals despite that not being the case a couple of weeks ago and if you see in front of you volume is performing really well this is purpose trading season this is an on -chain aping season this is the season where people are trading perps I think the centralized exchanges are doing the best that's where most people are trading but I think decks could catch up and for this reason as well as the fact that I think volatility could remain for the foreseeable future I think the perp decks remain super interesting looks at the moment not for short -term trades this week but over let's say the medium term so two to three months maybe even six months so these are definitely ones I've got my eye on dydx I'm going to do a video on this week that's a very interesting trade GMX and gains network being the ones that are kind of your decks perp decks proxies and a few others and as you can see on the weekly a lot of these are barely moved so especially like GMX and games they're a very interesting look in my opinion and if you do want to snipe better entries on a coin like GMX I recommend you use Kyber AI which is a software that basically tells you the momentum of a coin based on a variety of on -chain indicators like the number and types of trades trading volume net flow to whale wallets and what I would do on a coin like GMX is essentially if you're lining up a buy and let's say you want to start buying when shifts momentum what I would look for is a pattern like this where it shifts from bearish into bullish territory now since this video is not live you're gonna have to open your up your own Kyber AI using the link in the description below to see where it currently is but right now this would actually be potentially an interesting place to long GMX if on the lower time frames it lines up with what the Kyber score is showing which is basically bearish price momentum shown by a strong reversal so heading back into bullish territory as you can see buys are now starting to outpace cells and volume is also up ticking across GMX all of those are metrics that go into the Kyber score Kyber score is one of my favorite metrics in crypto if you go to rankings you can actually sort by market cap I love doing this so I go more than 500 million for the large caps that you can actually trade perps on and you can see which coins are looking the most bullish this can help you get entries in the market especially in a bullish market like this searching for the bullish coins can be an amazing way especially using on -chain analysis to get better trading entries so link in the description to check out Kyber AI it's an extremely useful tool especially for confluence with getting trading entries and crypto bad to subscribers will get early access versus the rest of the pack so link in the description below of course it's free so not showing you anything paid it is a free service to use the last narrative I want to talk about quickly is one I think people are forgetting about it has had a bit of a pullback um but it's the gaming narrative into YGG the reason I say people are forgetting people aren't forgetting about gaming there's a lot of talk about crypto gaming on twitter but I think they're forgetting about one of the biggest gaming conferences in five days time starting on November 18th it lasts for a week there definitely could be some I mean a lot of the major projects are speaking there so there could be some interesting announcements and even if not I think there's bound to be hype into that conference so for that reason definitely keep your eye on the gaming projects there's two in particular that I like YGG because it's their conference and this is now having a pullback into a decent zone in my opinion and also GMT which on the weekly and I know once again you don't enter short -term trades on the weekly but on the weekly if it can pull back down into this pocket at 0 .22 and confirm this is support and if you line that up with your lower time frame indicators of course that could be a decent zone also to enter a GMT trade so gaming is something I'm not going to fade the bees are kind of going from one narrative to another but gaming is one that I've got my eye on ahead of the conference so I hope you enjoyed this video these are all the narratives I'm looking at right now mostly short -term some medium to long -term hope you enjoyed this was fast it was alpha packed let me know in the comments below if there are any other coins I should look at and I'll see you in the next one. Peace out.
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A highlight from Chinese Communist Bitcoin Miners? And Lobbying For Bitcoin Mining W/ Dennis Porter
"Welcome back to the mining pod on this week's show. We're joined by Dennis Porter of the Satoshi Action Group to discuss Bitcoin mining and Politics we're mainly focused on the national security concerns when it comes to Bitcoin mining So we discussed with Dennis about moving into state houses and lobbying on behalf of the Bitcoin mining industry as a note Dennis is throwing a dinner at the end of this week on Friday at the North American blockchain summit Be sure to use promo code mining pod to get 25 % off your ticket. We'll be seeing you down in Fort Worth Do you have dinner plans November 17th? Well you do now down in Fort Worth, Texas at the North American blockchain summit Satoshi Action Group is hosting a dinner along with a lot of our friends in the Bitcoin mining industry You can join us November 17th at 6 30 p .m By going to Satoshi dinner calm and using promo code mining pod to get 25 % off your ticket again That's Satoshi dinner calm use code mining pod to get 25 % off your ticket. We'll be seeing you there Did you know that you can make more money by merge mining other networks check out make more money mining dot -com for information on bits 300 and 301 a proposal to bring more revenue to Bitcoin miners through side chains and merge mining called drive chains increase your mining revenues And learn more about participating in Bitcoin governance by visiting make more money mining dot -com Are you a miner who wants to activate Bitcoin improvements check out activation dot watch see what Bitcoin improvements the Bitcoin community? Developers and miners are considering and show support by signaling for one of many bits up for consideration activation dot watch Is your mining operation happening ready take control of your own future with the right energy strategy Link coin energy training platform is a tool used by miners to design monitor and seamlessly orchestrate sophisticated energy strategies within electricity markets such as or caught New York and PJM avoid penalties Participate demand response programs and capture hundreds of thousands of dollars per megawatt per year by deploying the right block and index strategy secure your competitive edge at link coin calm Are you a retail or institutional investor interested in Bitcoin mining companies the minor mag brings you free data and analysis from all major Nasdaq listed Bitcoin mining operations to know who stands out check out visualize metrics and data dependent stories at the minor mag Welcome back to the mining pod. Dennis is joining me today. Dennis Porter. Welcome to the show. How are you today? I'm doing excellent. Just coming back from a break. So are ready to dive into a jam -packed week of back -to -back calls Yeah, nice and tan back from your travels, right? Yeah, this is as tan as I get too So it's like, you know, ten days ten days in the Sun and this is as good as it gets So just everyone's prepared for that Are you ready to jump back into the Bitcoin grind or did you like really stop when you were vacationing? I oh, I never really truly fully stopped working the tweets keep coming, huh? Yeah It's an unfortunate byproduct of working in a 24 -7 365 non -stop nascent ever faster moving Industry that is Bitcoin Bitcoin mining when it combines two crazy worlds the one that I work in which is Bitcoin Bitcoin mining side which is the 24 -7 365 thing and then it's the Political realm which is just a total mess all the time. So it's a great combo. Yeah, I remember talking I want to stay sane Yeah, exactly my point. I was about to make you took the words out my mouth I remember talking to you like a year ago about the political side of things I was like, I don't know why anyone would ever want to get in that world at all. You're like, oh, I love it I love the I love the pool. I love being in the midst of it and still today don't get it Probably won't ever but I'm glad there's people like you who care about it And we you know agree on most things when it's firstly when it comes to Bitcoin mining so glad that's there Okay was transition over to Satoshi Action Fund. So you're the president and CEO you founded it. It's been two years Or so, it's a little over a year. We launched in June of last year and I am yeah I'm the president CEO I say CEO and president of Satoshi Action I'm there are two organizations now actually one is Satoshi Action Fund and one is Satoshi Action Education one I'm the CEO of and one of the president of so for simplicity's sake we just say it's all under the Satoshi Action umbrella But yeah, it's been going really really well We've had a ton of success and I'm sure we'll jump into that But I launched that in June of last year and we've been off to the races ever since Yeah, let's go into a little bit and then we have much more talking to show specifically We brought you on to talk about all the recent headlines with like rural Bitcoin mining and like the pushback We had a New York Times article about that there's some stuff in Arkansas going on So we'll get to that probably towards the second half of the show But let's talk about Satoshi Action Fund some wins recently and then maybe like a little more Flushed out what you guys are trying to to work on is like the product if you could say that for I guess a lobbying organization Yeah, yeah I mean it's good and that's that's probably one good area to start though with when it talk what comes talking about Satoshi Action is The one big difference between us and let's say like a lobbying organization or even a trade association Is that we don't we don't actually like do most of the lobbying. In fact, we hire lobbyists and we don't have members We have donors like more or less the premise of Satoshi Action Is that if you believe in the mission that we have pursued which is to make the United States? One of the best places in the world to be a Bitcoin miner or to be a Bitcoin er Then you want to support us if you agree with you know having the opportunity to stay here in America That's thriving off of this new technology versus being forced to move abroad You know that again is why I created Satoshi Action I think it's why people buy buy into the vision and the mission of what we're doing but we're very very structured very very different from from any of these other organizations that you might see out there and Once we launched Satoshi Action, the first thing that we wanted to do was try to go out there and show Right off the bat. What could we do? How could we be successful? How could we show that we can be effective because one of the most dangerous things that you can do with a political organization is You know get out there do all this, you know, make all this noise and then you don't produce any results You can do that a couple times you can even do it for years But eventually people will grow tired and they will move on and they will want to hear from someone else They will want to see someone else produce results There's definitely two the unfortunate part about politics Is there sort of two things you have to do one is you do have to produce results and the other is you have to? market your results market even what you're trying to do so that you can get people to buy into that they should buy into what you're trying to accomplish and fund essentially fund your operation because 100 almost 100 percent aside from our like You know, two three little s19 miners that we have plugged in that were donated to us The vast majority of our money comes from either donations or people that we get to come to our events was essentially a form of a donation So we rely a lot on on our donors to support the work that we do on a constant basis But right away we wanted to make sure that we were proving to our donors that we were having success So we said, okay, what can we do? We we got to the drawing board right away We brought on Eric Peterson who is our current policy director. Who's a wizard on the policy world and We had my two co -founders Mandy and Syria and we sat down we were like, alright, what are we gonna do? We started crafting public policy model policy For the Bitcoin Bitcoin mining space and what that means is that we created sort of like this like, okay here is a Example of a bill you could pass in your state that helps you advance this industry You know what we would do is we'd go in we'd say okay We have this great bill that we wrote up and we think you should pass it It'll really help you and they'll say like, you know, why would you want me to do that? Like we go in we pitch we say okay Bitcoin mining is great for jobs Great for local investment grid stability environmental cleanup the ability to enhance green and renewable energy projects really any energy project But policymakers particularly like when you can help solve some of the problems with green energy And then we win then we give them that bill the most popular of those bills that we did We know we have four of them Two of them have sort of moved or I should say three of them have moved around like have been introduced Or been worked on at the state level So far only one has passed into law which is a very big accomplishment but not to say only one but yeah I'm pretty yeah, it's pretty big deal Yeah, just one. It's just one of dates. So yeah so in then, um that bill ended up being called our right to mine bill initially originally was called the Digital Protection Act and then it transformed into becoming the rights mind bill and essentially that bill just protects Bitcoin miners from various forms of discrimination We saw real -time discrimination taking place across the country and we created real -time protections for that form of discrimination And we ended up being able to pass that bill into law in two states, Arkansas and Montana in fact in Montana is one of the states where Two things happen one. We actually saw some of the discrimination taking place where I don't know if you heard of the Missoula County there Where they changed the zoning laws and they like went drove a twenty million dollar bank when mining operation completely bankrupt because of it so Completely wiped them out all because they were concerned about things that were not true about Bitcoin mining, you know environmental concerns Oftentimes we see at the local level not necessarily in Montana But a big one is a concern is around Chinese mining particularly CCP mining I should say not Chinese owned but just that they're concerned that the CCP controls them So we saw real -time discrimination taking place in Montana We solved that problem the other problem. The other thing we discovered while we're there that we learned is That we can add things to this bill And we'll get into sort of like where we got to from that point But it was an important moment in the history of Satoshi action We added in a ban on any additional taxes on Bitcoin when uses a form of payment Which is critical because in the state of Montana, you know If you let's say you sell me a car like they'll tax that like peer -to -peer transaction Let's tax it like right off the top. So if I just sell you some Bitcoin or pay you in Bitcoin They would do the same thing. They'd be like, oh are we you owe us a tax for that? So we banned that which was great. And um, yeah, we'll talk about a little later but that was our big initial success huge success a small tear came down my eye when I When I passed my first bill into law Eric was like, you know done 10 ,000 times So he didn't he didn't really care as much but it was it was a big moment But I was like, we've done it. We've done it, you know, like he was like, ah Alright now I'm time for the next one right? So yeah right to mine. How'd you guys come up with that? It's like a very it's very catchy right and it's hard to argue against that Yeah, I don't know. I just can't use Brilliant top ahead. Okay, I came up with it sent it to I sent it to someone and said hey You should call this right to mine. I didn't even we didn't publicize it a really large news account I said hey just call it right to mine. That makes more sense. Yeah, and they did and then it just took off. Yes It was interesting for sure it's very amenable in a good way Okay, so you guys have passed some bills you're creating like this donor network to be able to to move it forward You've told me about a few wins here. I want to hear about some of like the obstacles which you already kind of alluded to so and we'll get to that later in the show the discrimination which we're seeing pop up right now, whether it be Chinese Bitcoin miners who are being Unfairly maligned for being associated with the CCP or not. And then also just like other Bitcoin miners who are unwelcome in certain areas But to the obstacles, what are some things that you've sort of like learned about why you come through this process creating Satoshi Action Fund and moving forward into these different these different State houses to lobby on behalf of Bitcoin Yeah, I would say that an overarching theme to the work that we do is that Things can go wrong very quickly and can be can be unrecoverable. They can be recoverable, but they can also be unrecoverable You know politics is very much like the real world so when real -world actions occur, there will be Consequences or there will be you know, either good or bad, right? You'll have good things or bad things happen because of real -world actions I'll give an example of a positive real -world example that Leads to us to do where we are today having a lot of success and that is the current consistent worry and fear around central bank digital currencies, so for some reason Which I definitely am aware of I Can't share too much on the story but definitely aware of a lot of Americans became very very concerned around central bank digital currencies and so Eventually, what happened was you had governors across the country including Governor Noem and Governor DeSantis eventually Working to ban central bank digital currencies at the state level There was this big huge kerfuffle around it and everyone was like doing everything they could to like stake their claim Literally Governor Noem took out like a steel Stamp of like a veto stamp and was like like stamped it into the bill. Like it was very it was very cool Actually, I loved it. Um so all of a sudden this like firestorm picks up where central bank digital currencies become this thing that Generally, I would say conservatives are against or Republicans are against but like really really opposed to like hyper opposed to it more so than I have seen anything in the The crypto space broadly I would I would consider CC central bank digital currencies to sort of be adjacent to the to the crypto space and because of that fervent Fear and concern around central bank digital currencies we've actually been able to use it as an effective way to demonstrate the value of Bitcoin because What happened was initially when they said Oh central bank digital currencies are a problem people started to say oh Well Bitcoin is a digital currency Is that also going to have the same problems as a CBDC and of course, we know we started education right away No These things are like way way different and then we just started to realize that it was best to classify them as polar opposites because they literally are like one is You know authoritarian sort of at least you when used on the retail level go ahead Yeah, send a CBDC between a bank or an institution. I don't I don't care at all force it on individuals In the United States without proper regular regulations and regulatory frameworks and then all of a sudden you have something that could be used in a way that you know is Sort of unimaginable to some extent to manipulate human behavior. So We started saying okay, these things are opposite and now when we're going into these states and we're saying okay, you should pass this bill It's pro Bitcoin. Also, it's anti CBDC people are like, oh hell yeah, let's go like we want to pass that bill So that's what that's one positive example of like how real -world things have had a really positive impact on what we're doing There's a lot of headwinds around creating or doing anything that you can to oppose CBDCs and so and as we pitch Bitcoin Bitcoin mining and You know all of our digital asset policy where there's always that thought in mind of how can we tie this into? Concerns around CBDCs which are valid and are linked We are not making some sort of leap here Bitcoin and CBDCs couldn't possibly be more more polar opposite. Gotcha Tell tell me about the some other stories Involving I have one video in mind of you going to Montana and speaking in front of Yeah, and there was someone before you who was just like going off and like kind of rabid It was good. And then you came in after and like kind of calmly presented some is Counter information this typically how the process is? Because I just think you are basically working in like the Parks and Rec version of Bitcoin. You have to like go deal like these Officials and like they don't know anything about it and they're like China bad Bitcoin bad That's that's my understanding every time I see this which is a really unfair characterization of it, but it's also it's stuck in my mind So lay it on yeah. No, it's it's you got you got it. You nailed it, right? Is the funnest example of Just how wild that can be out there So we go and we are getting ready to testify and every time we testify You know Especially because it's around Bitcoin mining we do get some sort of pushback usually at the local level typically from environmental groups Which is unfortunate because there's so much. I mean everybody knows in the mining space There are so many benefits from the methane component to balancing renewables to balancing the grid there's so many benefits that the You know Bitcoin mining space can offer to those that have come from even staunchly environmental the staunchly environmental realm so Needless to say there was two Opponents strong opponents to the bill one was a gal from an environmental group. She didn't get too out of control but the second guy he was a young a young gentleman from from Montana not originally and he worked at UCLA and he Was very opposed to Bitcoin and he started to go on this like speech like this really long drawn -out like monologue and Eventually at one point he says that that Montana will will like Die on the cross of Bitcoin essentially, right? It'll burn on the cross of Bitcoin I can't remember the exact word he uses but it's like very extreme very dramatic and Then he goes on to say that people are dying because of Bitcoin mine houses. I wish the camera was on me There's these cameras in every single Hearing room generally speaking every state Capital building when you're testifying in front of these hearings like they have cameras just like DC but obviously a lot lower tech But I just remember when he said that people are dying because of it He was so people are dying because of Bitcoin. He was so serious about it I just remember looking down my notes and just my face looked looking up at him was like So confused and I just wish the camera would have caught it because it would have been a perfectly it would have been a meme Like forever, but yeah, fortunately, there's a lot of great policymakers out there and actually, you know sometimes you love to rag on these guys, but You know, they do a good job a lot of these guys. They do a good job one guy asks him he says You know, he tries to run out actually that's part of the stories and this is important part of the story So let me backtrack so he finishes his speech. He tries to leave right away, which you don't do never do very rude tries to leave And as he gets to the door one of the people was like hey before you go even you usually we do questions at the End let's have you do some questions right now. We want to be able to talk to you a little bit Bring him back up to the podium He's like now son You made some pretty egregious claims there around Bitcoin mining Do you have anything to back up the statement that Bitcoin mining is killing people and the guy just is like well I don't have it here with me, but I can I can get it to you and He just like this this guy just is like, I mean you gotta remember this you see you sell a guy's like 22 years old he's a kid. Yeah Great great on him though. Great. Love the love the getting active at a young age, but he's just like son if You're gonna come in here and make egregious claims. You better have something to back it up and The kid just was like so upset like cuz he just got he's gave this great speech And he wanted to just walk out like drop the mic and walk out So he just blew him up I was anyways, it was it was definitely the most entertaining moments in the entire history of my experience And it's only been a year and a half So I I'm really looking forward to other stories that I can tell in the future Please catalog all these because I just like very Specifically remember watching that entire video and laughing pretty hard because it was it was pretty funny Okay, let's keep diving into this a little bit more. What have you been seeing in a lobbying front? That's been sort of helpful that you would encourage other people to look at we've had the call lines We've had the emails. We've had people going speaking to people I Think for the Bitcoin community we can all take like a breather and be like a lot of what we've been doing has not been working What has been working to speak with these people in state houses who need to learn about Bitcoin because Bitcoin's coming their backyard What has been working from your year and a half of doing this actively and putting boots on the ground? The things that have helped the most are Well, first of all getting clear of FTX collapse. I mean that is this is what I just tweeted this out yesterday. It's like I Still can't believe that we passed two bills into law in the middle of that collapse and it was a very testy time in the space so getting clear of FTX is Only gonna help us the other is just the way we Approach the conversation around Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining the way we pitch it is that we really focus on the benefits We do not talk about the technical side We do not try to explain how Bitcoin or Bitcoin mining works We give a very brief overview if they want more information Of course, we will dive deeper with them and we are very good at doing that you always have to be ready for those questions, but It's very important to just keep it as simple as possible Most of these policymakers have not made up their minds at all about any of this stuff They hear it in the news over there. They're their nephews trading crypto You know, like they're it's like they've got stuff all over the place, you know, you got some hardline anti -crypto anti -bitcoin Democrats You know, you've got some vocal Republicans, but they're not really like hardline yet. Like there's just not a lot of like really built -in statements or viewpoints on this on this technology and So what we do is we just go in and we say okay like Out of everything you've heard a lot of some of it is true some of it is not but most importantly what we're here to do is try to explain to you the value of Bitcoin mining for your state so we pitch Bitcoin mining and we it's a five benefits I mentioned earlier it can bring jobs local investment great stability Environmental cleanup and the ability to enhance green and renewable energy projects and out of those five No one ever says anything bad about it But out of those five usually a policy maker will say oh What kind of jobs does it make or like, you know, oh I I didn't know it could clean up the environment it's like an instant like gateway to being able to have a conversation about something they care about because usually you're hitting on something there like if it's not the economy if It's not the environment if it's not energy like at the local state level like those topics are huge Because the vast majority of energy policy is set at the state level. The vast majority of job creation is done at the state level And then a lot of this these like sort of decisions around how much green energy they're going to be building done at the state Level a lot of environmental stuff done in the state level Yeah, DC throws around big pockets big buckets of money at everybody and they certainly have regulations But a lot of these decisions are made by local state policymakers And so they care if they care a lot about these issues probably themselves, but also their voters care a lot about those issues Particularly the jobs one comes up a lot because we we know in the mining space that we create a lot of rule And jobs and jobs and economically depressed zones where it's very difficult to create jobs nearly impossible to create like long -lasting jobs So the moment you say oh we create jobs in rural areas. They're like boom the brain turns on like well How do you do that? Because that's really important to me As an example in New Hampshire, we've I've been there a few times now In the there's an area called the North Country. There's like no jobs It's a whole thing like they call it jobs for the North Country is like one of their pitches So when we go there and we talk about Bitcoin mining, we're like jobs for the North Country jobs for the North Country It's because it's true and it's something they care a lot about so that yeah, that's that's generally how we pitch it We do not talk about Too much about Bitcoin in the past We haven't talked too much about Bitcoin to the extent that it's like oh you're gonna need this because it's good as hedge for inflation or XYZ like we sort of stay away from that and focus on things that Like mining that we know will deliver value now, we've expanded our policy. We've expanded the way that we that we talk about it But we haven't gone into this new legislative cycle yet So yeah, that was all done everything that we just talked about that we've done and that we have done It was done in early 2023. We prep for it in early 20 or in late 2022 Now we are prepping for 2024 in late 2023 So we got we sort of have an idea of where things are gonna go and what we're gonna do and we're in a really Great position. In fact, we could be active in up to 20 states we probably won't be active in that many but we have the opportunity to be active in up to 20 states and as a Form of context we only introduced law or excuse me introduced policy in seven states, so we were only able to actually convince seven states to Try to pass our bills Whereas like this cycle, I think that number will be closer to like 10 or 15 only seven states That sounds like a lot of airline miles to me so it can be yeah. Yeah, this seems seems like a lot of work Okay, so we got a lot of that laid out Let's go and talk about some of the more aggressive headlines We've seen recently and we're speaking about the New York Times article that dropped to believe a week ago for listeners Check out that in the show notes will include that I think we also talked about the news roundup last week Essentially, there's a Cheyenne Wyoming based Bitcoin miner They are owned and operated by a Chinese national group that has some ties according to the New York Times to the Chinese Communist Party essentially the story boiled down to Microsoft is near this plant it's Bitcoin mining plant the US government has a missile siloed nearby an Air Force base nearby and Microsoft is worried that this Bitcoin mining base could be used for foreign intelligence reasons Then we also have the story down in Arkansas, which we'll get down to in a second But let's start with this first one this this thing with Chinese nationalist groups Bitcoin mining obviously to to you and I is more of an energy game and it's very simple, right? It's just like plugging machine. Let it hash I'm gonna collect some Bitcoin and then there's those five benefits you talked about to outsiders though. They're not thinking about that They're thinking about all these people coming into rural areas and even foreign investment Has that been a struggle when you've been talking to lobbyists groups or talking to people in state houses have they brought this up to you? Yeah, definitely it's um, it's a major concern I would say Most Americans like average American especially rural Americans care a lot about the encroachment of the CCP on on the United States from from a physical perspective so like from a geographical perspective they don't like the idea of a CCP owned controlled or even highly influenced business You know being next to them and then definitely not being in and around me sort of military installations I believe the location in Cheyenne is near a Also, is that the one that's also near a nuclear plant or a nuclear missile site as well? So yeah, something like that Yeah, so I share the concern like that I think the premise is like Do you want foreign adversaries to be in and around any sort of? Military installation any sort of critical infrastructure You know generally I like my stance is like I'm very like pro people coming here starting their businesses You know trying to accomplish the American dream, but at the same time We also have to be concerned about whether or not those businesses have strong links to You know the CCP or you know A lot of people care a lot about also like Russian oligarchs and their ability to influence America American politics American infrastructure you know the big argument today is that the electrical infrastructure is a critical part of national security and That we need to be doing everything we can to protect it and I agree I think that's important all of those things are important that we should we should keep an eye on them The the thing that I don't like is when the New York Times tried to spin this article as if like Bitcoin mining was some sort of like really powerful tool in the hands of the CCP like next to these sites I don't think it really matters what business was there.
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"DK, do you want to just give us the quick kind of how you guys now are working together and what we're doing now? It sounds like both of you have Roc Nation connections also, so shout out to Jay -Z and what they've done there. What's the future of how these brands, both one of non -marathon, are getting together and what you're going to be doing? And also, to JP's point, how are you utilizing that toolkit that they really helped to pioneer in going into the future? Absolutely. I mean, Avery, coming from the brand side of things, isn't this a dream? It's like there's not one thing that we have to like create new. It really became like a wait, we need to pause, go backwards and do as much research as we can because everything that we want to do from a technology standpoint, that everything that Web3 stands on top of, there's about five different ways for us to sculpt this to be something that is like directly in line with everything that they had been working on for a decade. So what we end up landing on is there's a couple key features that we thought we could really do in a next generation way. One is this concept of connecting physical to digital, taking, like you said, the free digital download alongside a physical copy and then relating engagement and reward opportunities based on your ownership of the asset. That's something that we thought that we could do better than anyone else in the world. That's where I spent the last three years. I understand the culture. I understand bridging the most forefront of technology into the neighborhoods that I grew up in. I knew I'd be the best at that. So that made me excited as a partner for those guys of doing that, bridging physical to digital for that. The second one is a big part of this is that there's a gap from the cryptocurrency to where we're at today within the proud to pay world that we almost missed out on. And that was, you know, the most traditional NFT drop. Candidly, we came in saying, you know, starting to partner with those guys at the early conversations into 21 or into 22, early 23 and saying, like, guys, this isn't a time for that. We're out of that phase of a traditional PFP project. It's time for us to go in a different direction. But, you know, under Black Sam's leadership, I quickly realized that, no, there's something that we have to go do still. We still need to make sure that there's a piece of the marathon in that PFP world, being that, you know, what he was doing and NIP was doing 10 years ago is what these guys have been trying to do. So we want to make sure we do this the right way. So what we partnered on is through Roc Nation. You know, that was just our relationship. They represent the brand. And so they've been in every call with us, making sure things go as smooth as we can and with some of the resources they have the power. And what we built is a traditional PFP membership to get things started. That's the next generation of Proud to Pick. Over the last decade, there's been a couple of different ways to get involved. Well, from here on out, the only way to get involved is through owning the marathon line, a true PFP project, but a PFP project that is true to the brand. I mean, from hand drawn art on every asset that's on it, every piece that you see, from an outfit to a pair of sneakers to a hat or items that have been released through the marathon. Every background you see is a monumental moment throughout Nipsey's Marathon that we're trying to bring to the forefront. So we wanted to make sure that we tap that first. Let's go out there and do a true PFP project to get things rolling. And then from there, you know, now let's get into all of those elements that we've been able to backtrack on of hustling and acquiring wealth, making sure you're turning your products into assets, making sure you're thinking about the longevity of your collectibles. So doing that through provenance and timelines and the ability to exchange the physical items. And through the random rewards that you just didn't know was going to happen, these things happen very quickly through our product to pay. So we wanted to make sure that we wanted to have an environment where you just never know what you might get. You might get an update a week before that. You got, you know, 10 percent discount on this early access on that. There's a lot of that. And what we call the marathon vault. And lastly, is making sure that once you're in this community, that you are first to know on anything that's up to come. So other from traditional drops they do in the marathon clothing to other digital initiatives, just from my little bit of time working with the brand, these guys have much bigger plans to not only preserve the legacy, but elevate the legacy specifically in a digital world across a couple of different activations. And we want the marathon vault, you know, the product to pay members to go to be the first to know. And, you know, kind of the one stop shop to be able to stay in touch on what's going to happen in maybe the gaming world, maybe the, you know, the Web3 world, maybe the cryptocurrency world. That's where we come in. We're the infrastructure. We want to be the connection between the physical and the digital. We want to be the platform that you can come in and log in and prove your ownership that you have that NFT to show that you're proud to pay member. And then essentially reroute you to all the different initiatives that we've been working on with these guys. So once again, discounts, engagement services to the products and what will be that back in dashboard for those guys and continue to. Once again, we weren't there with them through a lot of those stories, but hopefully use be the technology that can preserve those and push those forward the same way they're trying to push forth legacy. Just by the way, this is like one of the product offerings. So if you do have a proud to pay membership, you'll be able to purchase a proud to pay member only item. So it's like a diecast armored truck, which we actually have a real armored truck that resembles this race is modeled after something real. And each one of them is numbered. This is an addition of a thousand. So these are the type of product offerings we have. We also have like a all money in branded money counter, not just a bill counter, but the real money counters. Same ones you see if you're a bank teller and they're running through money, like saying it's the real deal money counter, which is something true to our brand. Obviously with the name like all money in, no money out. Yeah, that's what we're doing. Amazing. So how does one become a member? How do people join this community? First, we went backwards. We went to, you know, the a thousand Crenshaw signed copy official owners of the physical asset first. And then we went to also the mailbox money mixtape in 2015. There's a hundred copies of those at a thousand bucks a pop. So, you know, picked up those original eleven hundred there and then, you know, have been slowly rolling this thing out. You know, we're in the 10 year anniversary of the Crenshaw mixtape. So back on October 8th, directly on a 10 year anniversary, we had a little pop up event. So the collaborators on the project, alongside some new Web3 people, we wanted to get mixed in as partners into this, all came together to kind of announce this and get things rolling. So moving forward, the only way to become proud to pay is to own the Marathon Line NFT. So you come over to the Marathon Vault, you'd be able to purchase right there on the site. I'm obviously eliminating all the blockchain, you know, purchase a credit card, spend up managed wallets behind. But we're truly Web3. You know, that's another element to this is that there's no reason for us to shy away from blockchain, shy away from the NFT world. So while there is your non crypto native routes to everything, these are still, you know, we're operating either on an L2 polygon or an L1 Ethereum to make everything happen. And that's running in the background. So making sure that a true crypto, a true NFT lover can come in with their own non -custodial wallet and get the experience the same exact way that we can, you know, off chain. Which seems true to the final vision of what JP and Nipsey and the team were building, you know, way back when, bringing it to the future. We'll definitely keep our eyes out for it. Guys, thank you for spending so much time with us. We look forward to seeing where you guys are going with it. We'll make sure in the show notes, people can find everything you guys just talked about as well. And just, yeah, really appreciate you giving us the stories, JP, the kind of origin story of how this all came together, which was fascinating. TK, all the stuff you guys are doing with one of none. Really appreciate your time. Of course. Appreciate you guys. Thank you. I Sam, think this is the first time we had like a historical like piece of paper, receipts were ready. JP was not messing around. He remembers everything and he was there and it was really incredible to hear his stories. Yeah, I mean, I, as a hip hop fan, Nipsey was always on my radar as someone, as a creator musically. I did not realize how deep you went when it comes to his thinking about the ecosystem around his membership community and his fan base. I remember, I believe it's in Bobby Hundred's first book. He actually talks about how powerful Nipsey's like thinking was around this stuff. And he was a big inspiration for Bobby as well. So I was glad that we had them on 50th anniversary of hip hop in November. We had to make sure we represented. So pretty excited about that. And let's just wrap it up there and we'll see you guys next week. Dempsey, thank you guys as always for tuning in. This was a little bit of a different episode. So let us know what you thought and you love it. If you want to hear more sort of culture and hope you all have a wonderful week. We'll catch you all next week.
Bruins Beat
"first round pick" Discussed on Bruins Beat
"Of what the bruins would like to be. Good at drafting. Good at drafting. You look Braden point. Ross Colton, Anthony cirelli, Andre pilat. None of those guys are, you know, first round picks. And there's more. There's more on that roster. You can look at the third and fourth lines. You look all over the roster. And again, like vasilevsky was a first round pick, but still, I mean, you look at the roster and you go, that's a team that drafted well. Yeah, no, it's that. And even if we want to talk about Colorado, of course, you can look at the avalanche and be like, well yeah, you just got to draft a generational center and a generational defenseman. You get to go. It helps quite a bit. You want to become a car. Like, oh yeah, I could see why a lot of teams like that guy. But I think you look at, as you said, Tampa and the way they've drafted and the way that they can, again, relinquish those first round picks to put themselves over the top. I mean, how many times have we seen it, whether it's Blake Coleman, whether it's Barclay goudreau, Nick Paul, Brendan Hegel, all these guys that you can sacrifice that first run talent because you've got the scouting department in the organization in place that you can identify talent in the second, third, fourth round. Not to say that every time you're going to draft a brayden point or an akita kourov, but even you look at gallic Ross Colton who I think was a fourth round pick. That's a guy that's Vermont. Yes, that's a guy that scored. I think it was what the game winning goal, a series clinching goal, I think, against Montreal. I want to say, that was a bruins player. It was like didn't hind and people would be celebrating didn't hide in the streets. It never have to buy a drink. Over at the hop. But again, it's one of those things where they just identify talent all across the board. And when you've got a strong scouting department in an established organization, you can give up those first round picks to get you that town that puts you in a position to get you over the top over a playoff series. I mean, even look at Colorado, the fact that, you know, you look at Joe sagging what he's done there, whether it's trading for a gala devonte, who was in kind of a cap issue there with the islanders taking advantage of that..
Bruins Beat
"first round pick" Discussed on Bruins Beat
"Just use our promo code to see on S 50 to get the bonus and get into the action again promo code CL and S 50 for that 50% cash back on the first deposit. Bet online where the game starts. Where are the game stats? Judging by how the bruins coaching search has had it doesn't look like we'll get to say the Rick bonus 50% Rick bowness next year. We won't get to do that unfortunately. Might as well say announce get out and get out of the system Evan. Get it out of the system now. An interesting thing from our Friends over there, odds have been released for the 2023 Stanley Cup, which is always great. An early early look at where the bruins rag. And the burns had the 11th best odds. They're above Calgary, they're above some other notable teams. Obviously, the teams ahead of them don't really surprise anybody. Vegas is ahead, by the way, Vegas is ahead of them. After the bruins, you have the flames of the penguins, the stars, the kings, the islanders, the capitals, predators, and then everybody else just kind of stinks. I think they should be a little lower. I would put the flames above them. I would put the penguins are debated 'cause you don't know what the future of malkin is, and they always an injury issues. But the bruins 11th feels high for them. I don't know if you feel the same way. Yeah, I think it feels a little bit high. In terms of just what can go wrong with this team and you look that, of course, every team goes into a season with expectations and injuries happen all those things. Injuries are happening right now for this brood and seem like they're already going to be in a hole. And you look at just only the fact that even if let's say bergeron and creature were coming back and that was known before this off season even began. Let's say we turn the clock back a few years. It still be like, there's going to be some tough sledding for this team because of just the amount of key cogs that are going to be out of the lineup for the first two months of the year. So you look at that, you look at the fact you've got a new coach in place, new system that you have to implement. The need for younger players to kind of learn and roll with the punches and kind of hit those bumps in the road that come with playing in the NHL. Yeah, who knows? Maybe they can go on a second half run. I don't think that's likely, but I think you just look at the writing.
Strong Opinion Sports
"first round pick" Discussed on Strong Opinion Sports
"Oh my goodness. Good morning, good afternoon. Whatever it is for you, I hope you're having a fantastic day. My name is Zach Schumer. This is strong opinion sports episode 400 and 79. Welcome in. Really, truly hope you're doing well. Today, we are talking about the first round of the NFL Draft. Let's jump in. I want to share my thoughts about the first round of the NFL Draft, the stuff that I find interesting, the stuff that I like. Let's start here with the first overall pick in the NFL Draft. This is very noteworthy. You have to talk about the first overall pick. The Jaguars drafted javon walker out of Georgia. It's going to be interesting because the first two picks of the NFL Draft were both edge defenders. Basically pass rushers, javon walker, went number one overall, and then the Lions drafted 8 and Hutchinson, a defensive end number two overall. And a lot of people said that Aidan Hutchinson should have been the number one overall pick. And so I just think the storyline here is going to be interesting to follow as the years go on. Is who's going to be a better player? Trevon walker or Aiden Hutchinson, who becomes the better edge defender. As the years go on, they will constantly be compared. I think as they should be, and did the Jaguars get it right. I don't know, but I'm really curious as the years go on to find out. Aiden Hutchinson is a great player. It's a bit weird. He's not a, he's not miles Garrett. Miles Garret I think partially that's just to show how good miles Garrett is. I think miles Garrett, von Miller before him. Aidan Hutchinson has never going to be the best defensive end in the NFL. So for me, it was hard to think about him as a number and overall pick, but also he's not going to bust. I would be shocked if Aiden Hutchinson was 8 and Hudson was a bad NFL player and he certainly very good defensive end. He's got to be a good leader and a good in the locker room and he may not have the highest ceiling, but he also probably isn't a bust. So that's not a ringing endorsement, but I think with the lions did was a very good thing by drafting aid and Hudson. Let's talk about the Jaguars for a second first. So the Jaguar is not only drafted, javon walker number one overall. They traded back into the first round and drafted number 27 overall linebacker Devin Lloyd, it's a solid move. They just let miles Jack walk away. And so I think the Jaguars, they got two new starters on defense, javon walker, and Devin Lloyd. It's kind of a weird draft because there was no clear number one best player available. There was no Kyler Murray, miles Garrett, there was no player, they're like, that guy definitively should be number one. There was a lot of debate going on. And I go back to, I think it's going to be a really interesting 5 years from now who should have been the number one pick. Was it the right move? I think the Detroit Lions killed it. Not only did they get aid in Hutchinson number two overall, a local hero at a Michigan a defensive end a guy who, like I said, probably never going to be the best in the league at his position, but a guy who I think for the next ten years could be a staple and a really good player Pro Bowl caliber player in Detroit..
Newsradio 700 WLW
"first round pick" Discussed on Newsradio 700 WLW
"The raise in May. They went 22 6. They have won 16 of their last 17 games. Rays have also gone 729 games since their last complete game back in 2016, Minnesota's at Baltimore tonight. All the poor Orioles have dropped 14 straight games. Miami is at Toronto. The Blue Jays are playing in Buffalo tonight, their new temporary home. Buffaloes Triple a stadium. It's the first and then they did that at times last season, but they'll have fans in the stands Vision the first time Major league Baseball will be played in Buffalo with fans in the stands in the regular season in 105 years. Jays had been playing in Dunedin the whole thing because of the Canadian U. S border in the pandemic issues over the past year or so games involving NL Central Division teams. Detroit is in Milwaukee tonight. Take on the Brewers seven 41st pitch. San Diego is at regular to take on the Cubs. 805 1st pitch. David Weathers son, Ryan Weathers. Opposes Kyle Hendricks and ST Louis is at Los Angeles tonight. Cardinals taking on the Dodgers NL Central Division standings to begin the night Cubs or 30 and 23 half game lead over the Cardinals. Brewers or a game and a half back Reds or 5.5 back and the Pirates are 10 games back your leaders in major league baseball by division in the American like the East, led by the raise the White Sox lead the central, the A's lead the West in the National League. In addition to the Cubs in the central, it's the Mets in the East. San Francisco in the West. A note from down on the farm. This is this is pretty amazing, and I don't know how many more chapters there are to the story. But this is a pretty amazing couple of new chapter's being added to it. Nick Howard was the Reds first round pick in 2014. Out of Virginia. He was a closer And he battled multiple arm and shoulder and back injuries and other issues over the years and never advanced past double A developed a case of the yips. He could not throw the ball over the plate. He had trouble just playing catch with his teammates and throwing them the ball. He was released by the Reds in March of 2019. He went to the Florida baseball ranch to try to get right. It's kind of a version of Dr Line. He got healthy. He got his confidence back. He spent some time in the Royals organization before they released him. The Reds re signed him. He's now 28 years old, healthy Pitching for the first time since 2019 and he's at Chattanooga with the lookouts. He's made eight appearances this year, pitching nine and two thirds innings. He is not a lot of run. Eight appearances, nine and two thirds innings 14 strikeouts and he is said to be throwing in the upper nineties. Getting up to 97 98 miles an hour. How cool is that story? First round pick seven years ago for the Cincinnati Reds. Nic Coward. He was the 19th pick overall, and you talk about a struggle. He pitched it at a Virginia he had saved 20 games. His senior his final season helped lead that team to the college world, Syriza He pitched the 2014 the back half of that season at Dayton, where he made 11 appearances for the Dragons, one on a Daytona in 2015, where his earned run average was nearly seven in 2016 at Daytona, his earned run average was again nearly seven in 2018 at Daytona. His earned run average was 6 23. Has not pitched since 2019 and getting it done on the comeback trail for the Chattanooga Lookouts in eight appearance is good for him. That is a that's really cool story. Alright, May is in the books Reds turn the calendar, too. June, The Reds went 12 and 15 in the month of May there leading hitter Nick Castano's hit 409 for the month. Jesse Winker hit 3 30 for the month. That's on the high end on the low end, Alex Blandino went six for 41 in May. 1 46 soirees hit 1 86. Tyler Stevenson hit 1 88 au Radio Suarez led the Reds in May in homers and an R B. I's stories had eight homers, Winker had seven soirees drove in 17 Nay Quinn drove in 16. Appearances. Pitching wise Sean Doolittle led the Reds and appearances in May with 22 Curse and former had 20. Lucas Simms, 19 Garrett 18 CNL Perez 17, TJ Antone, 17 Wade Miley led the Reds in wins for the month with five Tyler Malli. Five different Reds saved a game in the month of May. There is no designated closer on this team, and in that bullpen, five different pitchers saved games. Simms head three, Antone had three and toned, led the staff and earned run. Average. It 1 61 on the high end Cassio's with 7 22 Garretts. Was 7 80 of note in the month of May, Alex Blandino and Max truck combined for three and a third scoreless innings hang tight. There is much more to get to go to take a look at the home run leaders and more You're heading towards a seven 11th pitch, The Reds and the.
Xtra Sports Radio 1300 AM
"first round pick" Discussed on Xtra Sports Radio 1300 AM
"That first round pick to it just seems like the market is pretty Um, they don't pretty pretty fertile Somebody like Julio Jones, right? And I understand why is great. And it's interesting because when asked about the Dallas Cowboys a week ago because he was wearing that Dallas Cowboys sweatshirt He kind of shot it down, saying, like, Yeah, I want to win. You know, I mean, whatever that means. Maybe the Dallas Cowboys are ready to win. Maybe he was actually saying, I just want to go somewhere that can win. Dallas is included, but Dallas doesn't need him. But all of those teams that you mentioned BT they're kind of right there. Ready to win. I mean the Patriots with one that you have a little bit of a question, Mark because of the quarterback situation. Is it gonna be Cam? And if it is for how long until Mac Jones eventually assumes that role, And if if if it is, you know Mac Jones won't you benefit from having a guy? Like Julio Jones was a consummate vet in a perennial pro bowl, right E think about the two tight ends that picked up. That's exactly where Smith and the hunter Henry Hunter him. You've got a ton of past catching talent. You always have a good running game up there. I mean, they're gonna do some work on the offensive line, or at least get some Some of those young players more experience. But if their defense returns to form the Pats could be competitive again like that after last year, we were maligned them, deservedly so right, And this year they will be good and we'll be right. I think, yeah, I think all of the potential spots for Julio Jones are good spots right there. Teams that are going to be competitive and potentially have a chance. All right, so there were obviously keeping an eye on. We'll keep an eye on this is well, my partner may have nailed that a couple of weeks back, maybe a couple of months back, So we know the NFL 17 game schedules in the hopper already these greedy update already plotting out of season. With 18 games. We'll get to that coming up in inbounds out of bounds, but first acts update years rich. See me? Yes for sports flag on.
Xtra Sports Radio 1300 AM
"first round pick" Discussed on Xtra Sports Radio 1300 AM
"They're not in the very competitive West. But The report by the New York Post Mark Berman so the Knicks would likely be willing to offer three or first round picks in exchange for Lillard. If it meant keeping RJ Barrett and Obi topping. Will be topping, of course, was their number one pick this last year. The Knicks are resurgent do too. Julius Randle playing so well along with R. J. Barrett. Topping has not emerged yet. But Quicken has so it's interesting. Let's go back to the phones. Los Angeles is our next stop. That's where John is, and he joins us on the Derby. What's up, John? Welcome to CBS Sports radio. Hey, thanks for taking my call. Sure. Real quick on the horse junkie, Okay? And being in l. A basic. I followed the Southern California Southern California circuit. Rock your world in my opinion. Has got every bit the chance today number one. The converter B is proving to be a speed favoring Outcome in recent years, and he hasn't the same insanity to Derby. He had to fight hard to get the lead, but then finish strong and clear with without knowing any pressure. And as we all know these air three year olds still improving and changing quite a bit. This is only his second start on dirt, and historically, horses improved quite a bit. The second time they do something like this turns to dirt there have deterred whatever. First time around two turns, etcetera, but this will be his second start on dirt. And if you get any improvement at all, if he gets the lead at that first turn, he's proven that he has got the ability to finish and the connections with Sadler and the pedigree that he's got for. Can't can't you ride was when the game was game asshole game is Forces on the planet. That's his father. Um, I would look for him to get the leads that make every effort to get the lead district on the front end. And then finish strong and cash at 45 to 1. I think it's a great place. So who you put underneath him? Mm hmm. Not soup and sandwich. I'm not gonna pick it. Because the last thing I'll say this. I know a lot of people that like the name but then Tyler ghastly owns a hell the jockey Now I'll even like the favorite of all, I wouldn't do it. I just played straight straight up. Just give me a win ticket and let me cash. There you go, John. I like your discipline. Thank you. Appreciate it. See, I like jobs discipline. Doesn't have to play the games. You know, they give you the exact and try effect and not as a present. They know their odds are up significantly when you bet the exactly try effective. The odds are you're giving them money. It's like You know? The power ball with the mega number or whatever they call the extra number that they threw in there. Hey, love you for you for you to play that. Because their odds just went up dramatically that they're keeping your money and not having to give it back. And the same with exact isn't try. Fact is I love when you bet those because the odds are in their favor at that point. And they're the ones they're going to get to keep the money. So so it works for them When you bet what they call the exotics, the Non straight bets. So there's one for rock your world to win, Okay? And just cashier five for one ticket. Move on. Don't make life so complicated. That's the secret. I mean, there's so many secrets. I can't keep them all but That's your secret. Make it Keep it simple. Rock your world to win. Like John. I.
Xtra Sports Radio 1300 AM
"first round pick" Discussed on Xtra Sports Radio 1300 AM
ESPN Chicago 1000 - WMVP
"first round pick" Discussed on ESPN Chicago 1000 - WMVP
"I don't know. But two first round picks this year's first round pick, obviously, next year's first round pick and a couple other picks. I'm fine with it, because if he turns out to be a stud all cost you was a first round pick. Because with the other picks, whatever this is A and I know we trash Ryan pays a lot. Right? This yesterday was a good day was a good day for Ryan Pace. It was a good day for the Bears franchise. It was a good day for bears fans. Raphael and Juliet kick us off Friday night calls. What's up, Rafael? It was tough guys. I'm just like I'm shocked like Didn't follow the draft coverage. I don't really watch college football, but like before the season started, you know, Even I knew Lawrence one fields to when the season eventually happened. Nothing about it, like changed my opinion. So, like I'm just shocked. How did Zach Wilson beat out? Just feel like we were talking about in the twitch. Dad, is it possible late round pick for the Bears in the first round, So it's like I'm just shook. I'm still shook. Yeah, I'm with you, Raphael. And you know if you listen to the show, and Raphael, it sounds like you do and you're in the twitch. Chat, ESPN 1000 Chicago. Think about it all the experts that we've talked to Breck Holman with his YouTube page. Excellent film breakdown, he told us fields is the real deal. Jordan Reed from the draft network told us that fields was the real deal and that it was kind of questionable toe why he was falling down Draft board's Connor Rogers. You talked to counter Rogers back in January, and he said Justin Fields will not fall out of the top 10. Well, he did to 11 and the Bears were able to snag him. Heck, we talked to build Landis, who for the athletic covers Ohio State football. We talked to him back October 31st on Chicago's college tailgate blacken up doll we're hosting that day, Jonathan Hood was off. We talked to Bill Landis, who was covering Ohio State. He told us that he thought Justin Fields could make a run at the number one pick, Whichever Lawrence. I know that might be a little overboard. He was never really gonna overtake. Trevor Laurence is the number one pick, But every expert we talked to was telling us that this kid was a real deal. Raphael. We agree. I am shocked. He was available, and I am thrilled that Ryan Paste made the move he made to go up and get Justin Fields, Mike and I 55 year on ESPN with thousands on Mike. Hey, I doing, gentlemen,.
KOA 850 AM
"first round pick" Discussed on KOA 850 AM
"News, the Broncos went Defensive with their first round pick last night in Alabama cornerback Patrick Ser Tan. He was the top defensive player on the Broncos draft board. According to GM. George Payton. Sir Tan had a conversation with Dave Logan, Rick Lewis and Big out just after his selection of Patrick. Congratulations. What was your first thought? When you got to call on you knew was gonna be Denver. When I got the call, you know, I was very excited. Um, you know, just All the hard work and everything I've been through since you know, spa dreaming of this moment, you know, special filming, But when I got the call from Denver, I know it's gonna be a great moment for me. Hey, Patrick, Before you came on, we were talking about in college. You practiced every day against four wide receivers. That were first round draft picks in the NFL just in the last two years. Obviously, that's good training for the National Football League. Yes, it is great, You know, just you know whenever revert back to those times, um, you know, competing against those for Steve. But I think ultimately got better. Um, as far as the cornerback And I believe I made them better as well, too. He knows And all competition is in every day and I can. Honestly when I look back on that I can honestly say that I was grateful for those experiences. Let me ask you about playing at the University of Alabama. There's gotta be. There's gotta be a lot of pressure and stress to play at a school like that that is used to so much success. What you got in there and played early as a freshman. Is it just confidence or is it Is it something else? I think it's all around, You know, confidence and just My experience and you know my preparation. You know, he's going into it Freshman year. You know, I I wanted to do things that I said out as far as it goes, You know, I wanted to come in and compete early at the freshman, you know when that's no championship on Americans Stuff like that. So you know, I just sit back and, you know, just look back on my goals that I have for myself. And, um, you know, I just work towards that. You know, now I'm here with it. Broncos first pick the ninth overall selection. Patrick's or Tan joins us from the University of Alabama. My last question. We talk to your dad about this, but I want it. I want to ask you the same question when you look at your game and the various techniques They're called upon today in the NFL from the cornerback position. What two or three things would you say without being boastful? But what two or three things would you say that you are Proficient. And how would you? How would you grade and sort of rate your individual game already at a high level high level? I think I'm all around the corner, but that goes to show what my experience thing corner. I've been playing corn ever since Freshman year of high school, So you know, just going back to it going back to my routine perfecting my technique every day. I think that's what help me. Shake me get to this position. Patrick, you dropped right into the Denver Broncos. Lap. It number nine. Did the Broncos spend much time with you? Predraft? Were you surprised that you got picked by the Broncos? I was a mess supplies. I had a few calls from Denver. We talked off them, but, yeah, you know, I just expected to be picked around that range between the seventh. Intent area top 10 areas, So you know when I got to call, um I knew it was gonna be a special moment because you know Denver been we've been talking from here and there. So you know, I was just excited. You know, I can't wait to join Broncos Nation. One of your teammates is here on you Probably have a teammate on every team. Not that I think about it in the NFL, But Jerry Judy is here. What has he told you? I'm quite sure you guys have been texting each other. Are you guys gonna be roommates? Or you just just going to go about it on your own? Yeah, I'm just go about on my own. Um You know, we we well, it takes from here and there. You know, we're great. We're great friends and you know, just going back to it. We're gonna compete at a high level. This like of the union between us, you know, I'm excited to get, uh, reunite with Patrick again. Congratulations before I let you go. Have have you ever been to Denver? No. I've never been this my first time. All right, well, we'll get used to the altitude, the oxygen that is the new cornerback for the Denver Broncos, Patrick's or Tan Night. Two of the NFL draft, starting Three with Ben and Ryan Live from U C Help Training Center. And then Dave, Rick and Big out. Pick up the coverage of five right here. Okay, we news radio. You know who has been to Denver? Aaron Rodgers. Oh, isn't going to come for good and be our next QB. We're talking about it. Should the Broncos go after him at any cost you're weighing in on Facebook and Twitter. Tom says there's not enough talent on DBS to support Rogers, Dan says they won't win with what they've got now, so absolutely, Michael Johnson says at some 0.1 side is going to show its hand. If Rogers wants to go out of G B and they finally fold. It would not be crazy to bring him here on 91% of the people on Twitter think that we should go after Rodgers and we're bringing the lead a little bit. I learned this news that Roger's fiancee Jaleel Woodley lives Interests older. Yeah. So got homes all over the place. Family is based out of boulders. Sure, they both been here quite a bit. Doesn't make it a bigger pool. Absolutely. I'm here. Yes. They are fiance, by the way, 6 30 on Colorado's Morning news. Let's head out ahead of the newscast Jonathan Steele has covered in the commute..
Vegas Nation - Raiders Football
"first round pick" Discussed on Vegas Nation - Raiders Football
"It's heidi here with sam gordon and we're gonna get into what happened. Here with the raiders at number seventeen in the nfl draft. Sam alex leatherwood offensive linemen from alabama selected. Seventeen for the. Las vegas raiders. What was your initial reaction. Because i know heidi first and foremost great to be here. I had a great time in cleveland. So far it's been a heck of an experience. Glad you're here With said In terms of your question definitely surprised right definitely surprised Not surprising right tackle. i Continued to voice leading up to the draft. I thought right tackle away to go was an obvious. Need in the offense of line of ministry of this team despite its it's consistent struggles. Last year's the offensive line was a pretty reliable unit and lot of turnover tram. Browns gone just going to be some reshuffling move out gave jackson you move out and you knew there was going to have to be some adjustments made and there was a glaring hole the right tackle and they went with right tackle so i they feel the need but just now player. I thought they'd fill that need with and you look at how the board was shaking out. Thought christian dare saw. I was going to be big especially considering what his grade was. And and and where. The raiders were picking. He wasn't now that said just because alex leatherwood is a surprise and we didn't expect him to be there doesn't mean he won't be a good player but it feels like more often than not the raiders. Under jon gruden. Mike mayock have reached for players that they could have gotten later and are maximizing the value of their first round picks damon are net in twenty twenty was a good example. That and even cleveland farrell. Who's a very good player by the way in the top five and twenty nineteen so a couple so with that in mind. I think alex leatherwood at trend. But the jury's still out on how good he's going to be i think he has a lot of potential beauge player was an all american big-time film comes from a big time program and he's gonna get his opportunity to prove mike. Megan jon gruden ryan look. I want to be optimistic about this. But i think there were other guys that were on the board. That had a lot of potential. And the raiders did go out here and they went out on a limb
Vegas Nation - Raiders Football
"first round pick" Discussed on Vegas Nation - Raiders Football
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Boomer & Gio
"first round pick" Discussed on Boomer & Gio
"And you knew the day. We're not going to have as bad of a record as the jaguars was zack. Wilson in your mind and honestly was zack. Wilson in your mind as a number for the number two pick. No okay and it's gonna be a quarterback it would have been actually a lance and then field field. But not in wilson after that so in your eyes you had trae lands as the number two quarterback coming at her aj now this year. I know and didn't play great. Bite his numbers from the year. Before were just craziness and i had seen equil- supply and during those games they were. They were pumping them up. And so there was talk about if you watch you know. Byu coastal carolina. Do i did. Yeah he was going to be a first round pick. You knew that he definitely. I first round pick the question is where would he go and in the first round and that again comes down to teams. Needy who's got the picks who's got the ability to trade up in the draft and the jets. Obviously you know it. Looks like they are totally sold. An all in on. Zach wilson all right each the morning show with boomer esiason and gregg giannotti boomer and geo the jets fitting lose to the rams intil. I'll give you the date right here. December twenty up until that point. It was trevor lawrence every single day. Now you want to tell me that there were a couple jet fans out there that were saying. Hey if they miss out on trevor lawrence here a couple other guys and there was that conversation. That was going on fine but the majority of the people hands down. We're talking about trevor lawrence being the jets quarterback and then after that everybody pivoted the justin feels right. Yeah i i agree with that. That everything that you've said is true except for this kid is not come out of nowhere. This kid has was projected to be a first round pick for the number two overall pick. He did in my opinion. Well yeah that's what i'm saying. Nobody said that he was going to be the number. Two overall pick until after scott the scouting season was donald numbers. Were in and then of course he wowed everybody does pro day saying that people weren't talking about him being a first round draft choice right. I just think that number two overall seems a little little quick little fast. How that all happen but hell. I want nothing more. This guy to come in and be a superstar for the jets with that swag with that chip on her shoulder with the great looks. In the air and the headband. I hope that he wins. Four super bowls for the jets. That'd be great. I just. I have concerns. That's all okay concerns when you have concerns about anybody. That.
Clock Dodgers Podcast - Motivation | Fantasy Football | Comedy | Pop Culture
"first round pick" Discussed on Clock Dodgers Podcast - Motivation | Fantasy Football | Comedy | Pop Culture
"Wanted to see you know. See what he did so he says you know i think you know nothing changes for me and my mindset going every day trying to get better player. Be the best leader. I could be impact the guys around me and ultimately it's just about winning football games being consistent in doing that to my mentality. It doesn't alter not one bit. He's focused man. He's focused and we don't know what this seems to do. Zach hurts has been the headlines as a potential person to be traded. I would love to see the eagles traffic wide receiver. Early jalen waddell. Devante smith one of those guys in a real weapon out there pair them would rager pair them up with the other guys in the offense miles sanders and if this team together weapon jalen hurts daily back there like i said cornell konami quarterback instantly jumps crazy in the dynasty rankings instantly. Instantly man top ten potential day. I love you man. I love it. It's a beautiful thing shot. The dak prescott sheds jalen hurts low. Seeing these guys get their bread. Now we just jameis winston he gets on by the saints. Full-term make him the starter. No question about it so we don't gotta hear this time hill stuff. No knock on tyson hill. Pay some hill tasting tasting. Tyson doesn't matter. No knock on him. But i just don't want him on the ball to throwing the ball man no again no shade. But i wanna see jameson. Get his opportunity to rebound another guy. That whenever i talk about them there's like hey there's hate from all corners you know demons. Winston left the bucks and tom brady brownsville. Superbowl wanted the first year. Well how can you say he's good. Wrote you understand your tom. Brady greatest quarterback of all time to to james winston who was still young who still developing. Who still growing no one's saying he's tom brady. But for fantasy purposes dynasty purposes and just even for a team i mean. i'll the quarterback. I think he can get things corrected. Is he perfect. Oh is he the best. What are the best. No but he has potential man he really does. He's better than some hill. He's better than that option. So let's get. Let's get that made their deal and make that official also seeing them just random headline here by seeing the titans finally Traded the offensive linemen. Isaiah wilson their first round pick Twenty twenty first round. Pick these kind of things you see this as a fan of a team you know. Just put yourself in their shoes for a second. I know i know they're the enemy if you're not a titans fan but the fact that your team has to trade a first round pick before the next season starts i s terrible man. It's as bad as the raiders. Have not limbaugh because they understood. What the hell. They were doing with him but he was later pick. But this guy didn't even get a chance to play. Because kobe did all that and then he calls all kinds of issues he was tweeting stuff out and delete and stuff. Titans saying get out of your man. They literally they treat him for nothing. They traded a him seventh round. Pick in two thousand twenty two for seventh-round twenty twenty one. I think just terrible it is. That's horrible man. If i was a fan of that team i'd be pissed and that's a good football team. It's a well run football team so to see that happen to them sucks. But i'm glad that they cut that in now. They got rid of that. When you when you see that kind of stuff grow him. Just get rid of it. So if you're a titans fan while you're not happy about the pick you gotta be happy about the urgency that he took the no nonsense approach to just move on from. It didn't work out. He wasn't working out. You move on cut bait and you and you move on i. I respect that quick action. You know when when is justified. When is justified. I believe it's justified in this case. So hey you know. Maybe the dolphins will have something here ability to work there. It don't look great. The dolphins take chances. That is a hell. I talked about limbaugh. They took limbaugh from the raiders to that worked out. Well so you know maybe this one workout. We'll see just a quick guys at mashhad deck press dak prescott cowboys fans up to mad man. Don't be bitter about this the oklahoma longer. Okay who cares. You got your quarterback of the future. Next four years you guys gonna be slaying. The rock arsenal a wide receivers and running backs have fun. Man just get that defense. Ranked compete eagles fans be bitter about carson wentz carson wentz fans. They'll be mad at jalen hurts. He's going to be fine good. He's quarterback you don't want to believe it reasonably good. This team is gonna do whatever they can to make sure that so of jalen hurts doesn't do good the end of the day. It may just be jalen hers fault. Because i really do believe the eagles are gonna do whatever they can to to to You know to to pump some real life into this offense and jalen hurts the first step he really is. 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One and Dunne Radio
"first round pick" Discussed on One and Dunne Radio
"Lhasa goes on this episode. Opened the show talking about the eagles and carson wentz and how they need to just basically take what they get and then tell the. Jj watt release. And what it means for the houston texans and probably. Why didn't want to release the shawn watson that point and then finally closing show talking about upset cinderella stories jeremy lin and the fcc you eagles.
KNBR The Sports Leader
"first round pick" Discussed on KNBR The Sports Leader
"There's a dump off in the middle of the field. Not anywhere near Mike Evans. The ball got intercepted. That's a pick up the flag and let's play football. Like why allow the penalty toe have that much of a weight in the Super Bowl? I just didn't like it. Into the first half. They didn't call the penalty on Tyrone Matthew in the end zone on Mike Evans. I don't think that's pass interference. I thought the ball was uncatchable. That's number one, and I don't think that the level of contact created, giving them the ball on the two yard line. I'm not here, blaming the officials why Kansas City lost. The officials are also part of why they lost like sometimes the officials could be a reason. But not the reason I'm saying. Have we're making the pie chart of blame. The officials get some of the pie. I thought they were the reason that the score was lopsided at halftime. I still think Kansas City would have been losing at halftime. And who knows how they would respond in the second half mean it matter? They ended up, not scoring in the game again. I still think they lose the game, but I think One reason of why it was 21 to 6 heading into halftime. I think that was the officials. I think it's hard to shake that, based on how the game was played. So coming up in a little bit, will head to Houston and we'll talk about the Houston situation with JJ. What we'll see where he lands. I think that the Packers and the Steelers make a lot of sense. With J. J. Watt. And we'll sort of see how that plays itself out and whether or not he's going to end up in a place like Green Bay or a place like Pittsburgh will see sort of where he ends up in this whole thing. I think the Carson Wentz story is probably going to be the big story this weekend, I think is going to dominate the headlines whenever you're watching your national TV in your debate shows in your radio topic, so if you missed it earlier today, Roger Dworsky, formerly of ESPN. He's in the Eagles Hall of Fame. He said that the Indianapolis Colts offered up to second round picks in exchange for Carson Wentz and the Eagle said no. He also said that the Eagles had not been offered a first round pick yet for their quarterback. I think the Eagles are holding out for the Matthew Stafford package. I don't think the Matthew Stafford packages coming. I don't I don't think the Matthew Stafford pack Is what Carson Wentz is worth. I think Quinn's played so poorly this year. I also think that because the lines organization is so bad, the shine has never really worn off Matthew Stafford. We know he's tough. We know he has a big arm. We know that he's ah, productive down the field passer. And we also know that the lines aren't really an organization to give you the necessary things you need. Help you win it on high level. I mean, we have 50 years of data that suggest that to be the case, I don't think the shine ever wore off. And if you go back, and you really read the reports I mean, it wasn't just the Rams that offer a first round pick for Matthew Stafford. Multiple teams offered first round picks. The Carolina Panthers offered a top 10 pick and Teddy Bridgewater. For Matthew Stafford, the Broncos what we're willing to trade a top 10 pick Andrew lock for Matthew Stafford. Multiple teams were in the mix for first round picks. For the Lions quarterback. That's not the market that Carson Wentz has, like. The market dictates the value for the player. And I think the market is telling you that Carson wants isn't nearly as viable as you think that he is. You've got your house listed it to 50. The market's willing to give you 1 90. So either you're not selling your house or you got to drop the price. I think eventually we see the Eagles drop the price. I do think we see Carson wants end up on the Indianapolis Colts because I think the Colts makes all the sense in the world and I think their offer is more than fair. Two second round picks is what Carson Wentz is worth in exchange to pick up his contract. And the Eagle's gotta bite the bullet that you signed a bad deal. It's that simple. You're listening to the Harrison Experience Live on C. B s Sports radio coming up. We'll head to Houston to learn more about the Shawn Watson and JJ Watt. But first, let's head to an update with my guy Mike McCann..
WFAN Sports Radio_FM
"first round pick" Discussed on WFAN Sports Radio_FM
"Allen Lamar Jackson in the shotgun's locked in the five in his hut. Touchdown. Willie Snead. Wait, Take my rush. Goes deep Man wide open. It's longer he's is Touchdown. Seahawks jail rolling growing up tight girl back to pass crows into the end zone. Yeah, intended for Tanya. Touchstone Bangles each time for Q B news. After hours. Matthew Stafford speaks for the first time, and he does it with a pair of Detroit media outlets after 12 years in the motor city. He and his wife there at Ford Fields on Thursday and it was empty, but they were kind of taking their time to look around. I think I saw a couple of kids in the video as well. Um, And certainly you can understand why they have a fondness for the place that he spent the first dozen seasons of his career, and you will probably see the headline on Friday. He and his wife, Kelly, have pledged a million dollars. Ability Detroit Education Center, which is amazing, it's after hours with a B. Lawrence on CBS sports Radio, Matthew spoke to the Detroit Free Press and then did a one on one interview with Hank Winchester of W W D I V TV, and he talked about this move to Los Angeles. It was honestly, um, you know, one of the one of the few teams. I didn't think you know, it was gonna be able to make it happen if they wanted to, even and the fact that they wanted to was huge and the fact that they were able to I think you have to give a lot of credit toe. You know, the Rams organization but also the Lions as well on bond, you know, being creative and figured out a way to get it done. Surprise. It only took two first round picks, a third round pick and Jared Goff in return. But yes, Matthew Stafford is a member of the Los Angeles Rams, or will be soon soon to be on W D. I v TV with Hank Winchester and Hank asked him about going to the front office and the owner. Of the Detroit Lions and asking for a trade and deciding that that was the move that he wanted that he didn't want to be part of a rebuild, but it didn't make it any easier, even knowing what he wanted. Right? Oh, by the artist conversation I've ever had in my life, You know, Um you know it was. It was a really tough, really tough deal. I gotta give. Um, the lions a bunch of credit for the way they handled it, Um, have all the respect in the world for the Ford family. It was mutual. You know, something that No, I think we both talked about, you know, and I think they wanted to see where my head was was And and I obviously expressed that to him and you know they understood. He said he met with team President Rod would and the owner, Sheila Ford, Hamp. Just after the season. They had the conversation and I'm glad it was mutual. And as much as we talk about how loyalty is fleeting in sports, this to me is a statement of loyalty by the Lions to Matthew Stafford. Wanting him to go somewhere where he could compete for a title, wanting him to go somewhere where he could continue his career in a way that it would be fulfilling for Stafford and not just For the Lions, and he told the Detroit Free Press that he didn't want to be part of a rebuild project because he didn't want to be where he didn't think he was the right person to oversee it. Meaning are there any other Lions who had more tenure than him other than the owner, and he was gonna have to be the leader in the clubhouse, so to speak. He was going to have to be the guy that would Show everybody the way with a new GM and a new coach, and he just didn't want to and didn't think that was a rule that he could fell. It's after hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS Sports Radio again, Good stuff with Hang Winchester, W D. I V. And if you want to see Stafford and his wife, they were talking to the TV station. That's on Twitter is where we found it now moving forward. Could there be another NFL QB Domino to drop? Could there be another trade coming up in the next few days? It all depends on Do you believe? But I suppose the divorce between Carson Wentz and the Eagles might be fitting on Valentine's Day because we know this much is Valentine's Day is about love and relationships. There's plenty of on the don't work. According to Adam Schefter, This is an imminent move with the Eagles. But sounds like the Eagles are potentially going to play the long game here and hold out for a little bit more legendary QB Ron Dworsky. Sharing what he knows with ABC, six in Philadelphia, Theokoles have offered to second round draft choices and maybe Ah, third of four somewhere down the road that appears to be the best. Offer. I am heard from all the sources that I have around the league. That's the best actual offer that has been made. I'm sure the Eagles Howie Roseman, Jeffrey Lori, we would like to get a number one out of this, but As of now that that doesn't seem to be happening. Roger Gorski indicates the Colts have put the best offer on the table so far, too first. I'm sorry. Two second round picks. They want a first round pick, but so far nothing is on the table and You can understand why the Eagles would think Hey, if Matthew Stafford could draw two first round picks than Carson should be able to draw one except the situations are so completely different. We know the Rams overbid. They overpaid for Stafford because they wanted to make sure no other team could jump in there and get him. Meanwhile, Carson Wentz is coming off a brutal season. A lot of turnovers. He's skittish behind. Ah, horrid offensive line. I got hit in time, His confidence waned. He lost his starting job. Now he's disgruntled. I'm not sure if this is rock bottom, but if it isn't I don't want to see what is for Carson went and the idea of a reunion with Frank Reich is very appealing. He still extremely young..
KTKR 760AM
"first round pick" Discussed on KTKR 760AM
"College presentation of the U. T s a road runners Sports network. When you need us, we're there when it happens on the diamond. I drive left field. It's gone in the trench. Yes, on the hard way Three to win it. Yes, we're the first place you'll hear about it. They take it. 7 60, Katie KR San Antonio ticket 7 16. We now join the following program in progress. Jupiter will start We've got to get to some summer star for yelling Everybody, Jupiter, says Jared Goff is the new Scott Mitchell of Detroit. Now they could draft wide receivers Rogers staying in Green Bay makes more sense. Now. What do you think of Jared Goff? We didn't even get to that part yet. What do you think? They're probably the favorite. The second favorite to win the NFC Accordingly. Right First I got to tell you. I don't think the Lions did all that bad now. Yes, God has a a horrible contract for the next couple of years. But you're getting a couple of first round picture getting a third round pick. Simply helps the rebuilding. I'm not so sure that it was a bad move for Detroit when it was all said and done, Why you It's a bad move for ball teams. Is that what you're telling me? Is that what you're figuring out or what? When did I say it was a bad move for either team? Let's start with that. You're just putting words in my mouth. So you make it sound like it wasn't helping the Rams it all right, so no, I just don't think they're the Super Bowl favorite. You're worse than our listeners right now that the fourth favorite in the NFC in the NFC, they'll If the past seems to get to the Super Bowl, Okay, I'm being serious right now. You and I are in Vegas hanging out with Bernie. I give you 500 bucks. You're going to the window and betting a lot, betting the Rams to win to win the Super Bowl. Getting 18 the one? Yeah, I'm going to go for some value there. No, you said you You're positive that they're going to win. It's not value. You said to lead the show. You're coming to l a rams. Don't win the Super Bowl. You have to quit your job. How about that? I'm going to put your job on the line there. I might have to quit by the end of this show. If you don't get off your high horse over there, are you Matt Stafford's agent like you must. You must work for him. Are you in the randy PR office? Is that a side job? But you haven't let me just ask you is. Do you not think it makes him a better team? I think It makes them a better team. Yeah, they dropped. Do they jump any of the other teams in the NFC because they were fourth. Do they jump the Packers, Buccaneers or Seahawks? In your opinion to me? I think Based on what I saw from the Seahawks this year, I think they're an organization training in the wrong direction. Bad defense, putting too much on Russell Wilson's plate. I think this makes the Rams the NFC West. Favorite, Not Super Bowl favorite, Not NFC. Favorite NFC West Savior NFC West favorite in the third best team in the NFC? Yes, you're not time. So you're acting like God, my lunatic by saying they're gonna beat out the Packers. I saying they're gonna have definitively win the Super Bowl. That's how you lead the show. Anita. We even played back the tape the tape I said, give me some. What? You gonna bet? I'm fed them the wind You let me hear it. Tell me if I'm nuts. Erin underscore Torrez. Ahmed's thinking, genius one. I can't keep up with all the tweets out there, so you could have the gonna be on your address. After this break. We I got a good one that just came in. Just slam dunk right on you. We got John Middlecoff to get to We'll get to the tweets of Keep it coming, because obviously I can't read him because Torres was talking too much, So we'll get to all that covered up next here on Fox Sports Radio. Whether you're getting up your doorman or your whining your date down This is Africa When you come in and hang out with these lunatics, we're here for you Love your show down mornings until.