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Simply Bitcoin
A highlight from $17.7 TRILLION IS COMING FOR YOUR BITCOIN | SB Originals
"I've recorded at least a couple of videos at this point talking about not selling your Bitcoin to BlackRock, how the institutions are coming, Fidelity, BlackRock, ARK, etc. The big players are coming and they want your Bitcoin. And I get the impression that many of you don't really appreciate why Bitcoin is so special, why the institutions do want your Bitcoin and will pay you whatever price they can to get it, and why selling it is the absolute last thing that you want to do. This article from Forbes is titled a fast growing 17 .7 trillion, that's T, trillion, Wall Street crypto earthquake is suddenly hurtling towards the Bitcoin and Ethereum price. Let's ignore that latter part, the Bitcoin price. Bitcoin has been thrust into severe uncertainty in recent months. Okay, first off, no, it hasn't. Maybe uncertainty if you don't understand Bitcoin, but this is baby sleeping time. This is not a time of uncertainty. These don't times matter in the grand scheme of things. The price dip and change from this to that is all irrelevant. It's all going to zero. And Bitcoin, on the other hand, is going up forever. So for the next little bit of the article, it talks about how the price has rose and dipped. And it's just a kind of a bunch of nonsense. But then it down here talks about Franklin Templeton. Franklin Templeton filed with the U .S. Securities Exchange Commission, the SEC, this week for a spot Bitcoin ETF, joining a flurry, that's an understatement, of applications that was kicked off by the world's largest asset manager. That's right, BlackRock in June and includes Fidelity, Invesco, Galaxy, Wisdom Tree, who between them manage 17 .7 trillion worth of assets. You have to realize that that's not really what matters. It's not that amount of money going into Bitcoin. It's what that signals to everyone else, because that 17 .7 trillion, yes, is under control by those asset managers. Yes, but you know what else happens when the big boys do things? Everybody else pays attention. So you get all these family offices going, wait a second, I'm sorry, BlackRock did what? They put what where? Oh, so, OK, I guess that's what we should do. This happens in every arena around the world. You can see it in literally everything. If a movie does something, other people try and copy it. If a technology does it, iPhones, for example, everybody else tries to copy it. So when BlackRock and Fidelity and Invesco, when they do move into the space and it is coming, they wouldn't all be filing for this just to do something to do because they're so bored. No, they're doing this because they want a piece of that. And why do they want a piece of it? Let's cut to something that seems completely unrelated. Post Malone has bought Magic's two million one ring card. And this is from the guy that found it. I believe he was in Toronto, Canada. When I found the one ring, the first person who came to mind was Post Malone. I have played Magic since I was a kid, and obviously it would be amazing to keep this card. But for a guy like me, being able to sell it is a life changing. I just really hoped it would go to someone who would appreciate it as much as I do. This is my dream come true. Meeting Post Malone and him buying the one ring from me is literally a moment straight out of a fairy tale. Post Malone, at Magic the Gathering, you have changed my life. Things like this don't happen to people like me. I guess it's Magic. I am forever grateful. In the past few months, Post Malone was on with Joe Rogan, and Joe Rogan asked him about that. And Post Malone was like, yeah, I did spend that much money on a card, and Joe Rogan doesn't get it. But here's why he did that, because it's the only one that will ever exist. And you might say, yeah, but Dell, you can go over to TCG player and get one for here. Look, with the 37 bucks right here, the borderless one, here's a different version for 60 bucks, 50 bucks, whatever this one, 100 bucks. So you don't need to spend two million dollars on it. Okay, no, you don't to actually have that card in your deck and can play with it. Sure, you can spend 50 odd whatever bucks on it and get it. But to get the exact one that Post Malone spent $2 million on, the one of one, that exact version, no, you do need to spend $2 million to get it or whatever Post Malone is selling it for now. If you've ever experienced a banking kerfuffle, to put it mildly, like I have, then there's a really good chance you already know the importance of Bitcoin. But you might have other questions. Maybe you don't feel quite as secure with your self custody setup as you would like to. Schedule a free 30 minute consultation call and they will help you solve whatever it is that you have about Bitcoin. Don't let a question keep you up at night. Call the Bitcoin way. At this point, I imagine you're wondering at least two things. Those are, what in the world happened with the banking story? What is Magic the Gathering have to do with this at all? And number three, so why in the world does Fidelity and BlackRock, why do they actually want that? Let me go through these. First off, why does BlackRock and Fidelity and all the big players, why do they want Bitcoin? Here's why they want Bitcoin. This one's from at BTC salvation. He says owning one Bitcoin is rare. How rare is it rare than the Magic the Gathering card? No, it's not quite that rare because there's only one ever in existence of that. But here's how rare it is. It's like owning roughly 25 pounds of gold or 107 acres of land in the US or roughly 1754 acres of land in the world or roughly 6 .7 houses in the US or roughly 109 houses in the world. And what has BlackRock been buying? It's homes. What has Bill Gates been buying? It's farmland. What do the people in power, what do these large players in the financial space want? They want, ladies and gentlemen, if you haven't figured it out by this point, I'm not sure what to tell you, but I'll tell you, they want scarce assets. They want the things that there is only a limited amount of. And what will there only ever be 21 million of? Bitcoin. That's right. There will never, ever, ever be more than that. What if somebody else forks it and they make a whole new thing called Bitcoin too? They've done that. It's trash. It's garbage. It's going to zero. It's all going to zero. You can only find perfect digital scarcity once. It's not possible to do it again. Anything else that's a copy of it is, oh, I already told you what it is. It's a copy of it. That's what it is. There is, you can't do it again. Bitcoin is true digital scarcity and anything else that comes along after it is a copy. So now what does this have to do with magic, the gathering and rarest things and scarce things? And well, let's jump over to something else that seems completely unrelated. I've had hedge fund managers, like, reach out to me on LinkedIn to be like, hey, like, could you talk to us about TCGs? Like, we want to know how they work. Like, that's an experience that I'd never had before. Do you see it yet? Are you starting to understand? Am I painting the picture clear enough for you that the power is to be how much of the pie they want? They don't want the tin. They don't want the crust. They don't want that nice top with the different funny shapes cut into it. They don't want the juicy filling. They definitely don't want the bottom. No, they want the whole damn pie. Every crumb, last every single little iota of the pie. If that includes card games, hedge fund managers are going to call card game designers and ask them, how can we get it on that pie? They want all of the pies, every last one. They're going to show up to the marine calendars and just give me the pie. Every last one. They definitely want the Bitcoin pie, every single one. So if that means contacting old Gary Gensler and saying, hey, get this approved, don't do that. If it means contacting drone pal and Janet Yellen saying, hey, print us all of the money ever so that we can entice these goons out of selling every last Bitcoin that they have so that we control and not they because they're just peons. They're just silly people. They don't know what to do with their money. They're clueless. They don't know. We know that's how we got here. Clearly, we're the best players in the room. We know what we're doing with the money. We're the ones in control. Let us have all of it. Print us as many Chuck E. Cheese prize tickets as you possibly can. All of them. Trillions of them. It doesn't matter. Who cares what the debt is? It just goes up and up and up. It doesn't matter. Give us more so that we can buy the Bitcoin off of them. They keep on kicking the can down the road and behind them, the road is crumbling. And where's the new road come from? They're just laying it as they go. And at some point they will stop to catch their breath and everything will come crumbling down. But guess what's under that road? Bitcoin. That's where everything falls to. Everything falls onto the shoulders of Bitcoin. And Bitcoin has some real strong shoulders. Let me tell you what. So where does my story end? My story ends with my banking crisis being averted. I finally talked to somebody that had since they knew how to solve the problem. They said, yes, let me actually get you to the right department. I don't know why those three other people didn't do that. Got to the right department. I was helped by a lovely woman who got me back access to my bank account. So that was a harrowing few hours of that morning. But I eventually did get access to my bank account. But for those few hours, it was a sobering experience to realize that I could be completely cut off from all financial access. I couldn't pay anything that I wanted. Rent was coming due, couldn't pay that, got bills due, can't pay those. Forget about buying a coffee, which might be nice to have or a sandwich or whatever like that. That's irrelevant. But when the bills start going, hey, you owe us this. And then we start turning off the electricity and you don't have Internet and then you can't do this and you can't do that. It's a real big problem. So, yes, the crisis was averted. But there is a global crisis looming, an absolute catastrophic world shattering, meteor impacting the world style event coming to the monetary system. And if you don't have some heavy shoulders to fall upon, I don't know where the road goes when the road crumbles. And if you have nobody to catch you, I don't know what's under there. I think it's just an abyss that falls forever. That's not a place that I want to be. Is it a place that you want to be? No, I don't know. But here's what I do know. If you're here on Simply Bitcoin, the chances that you don't want to be in that precarious situation is pretty good. So get subscribed, learn about Bitcoin, understand how important it is, and the answers will fall into place. And you, ladies and gentlemen, might fall upon the shoulders of Bitcoin. And like I said, this is not the first time I've talked about this. So check out this video right there where I go over in another way the institutions coming for your Bitcoin, because they are. Ladies and gentlemen, they are going to try and get it from you. Guaranteed they want it.
News, Traffic and Weather
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SI Boxing with Chris Mannix
A highlight from 3 Points with Chris Mannix - Dame is finally traded
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Stuff You Should Know
A highlight from Selects: How Air Traffic Control Works
"Or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, everybody. This is your captain, Charles W. Chuck Bryant. We're flying the friendly skies here in April. Looks like 2012 with an episode on how air traffic control works. So the seatbelt sign is off. You can recline. You can move about the cabin freely. You can gaze at stinky bathroom with a terrible sounding toilet flush if you wish. If I were you, I would hold it. But please listen to this episode. Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of iHeartRadio. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. This is Josh Clark. I'm with you alongside me is Charles W. Chuck Bryant. We're about to take this joint 33 ,000 feet into the air. About to push some tin. Yeah. That's the lingo. It is. I've seen Pushing Tin as well. Yeah, I saw that movie. I assume that's the lingo. Otherwise, they probably would not have titled it thusly. You could also, that could be about like a car driving movie too. Somebody who has like a pretty good radio flyer wagon. There's a lot of things that they could apply. Or a recycling movie. Yeah. Pushing Tin. Yes. We're speaking of the 1999 Mike Newell flick with Billy Bob Thornton and John Cusack. Cusack. Yeah, that's where John Cusack and Angelina Jolie met and ended up getting married. You mean Billy Bob Thornton? No, I'm pretty sure it's John Cusack. Yeah, I didn't think it was very good. Are you kidding? Did you like it? It was all right. All right. I have to admit that movies that I thought were awesome in the late 90s. When I go back and watch them now, I'm usually like... Not as great. Yeah, there's very few that hold up. I'm trying to think of one that I saw again recently that did hold up. I'm going to sit here for a while until I think of it. It wasn't Pushing Tin though. I don't know. I haven't seen it for a while. Well, in the movie, they were air traffic controllers. Yes. And that's what we're going to talk about today. So that's how Pushing Tin relates to this one. Right? I thought I'd clear that up in case people were like, what are they talking about again? You got any other good air traffic control movies? Well, Airplane. Yeah, of course. Lloyd Bridges. Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop, stiff, and glue. Yeah. Other than that, I have nothing. What about all the real airport movies? Oh, sure. Yeah. Airport 70, Airport 75, 77. 83, 94, The Grungiers.
News, Traffic and Weather
Fresh "First Stop" from News, Traffic and Weather
"Blimey Sports Desk at 10 and 40 minutes past the hour at Seattle's T -Mobile Park tonight. Another critical Mariners game against the Rangers and right now looking good. The bottom of the fourth, Mariners are up four to nothing. United States golfers get an early whooping in the Ryder Cup. Here's Northwest News Bill Radio's Swartz. Feeding off the energy of 50 ,000 raucous fans in Rome, Europe bolts out to a point five lead, largest day one margin in Ryder Cup history. In the afternoon session, the Americans led three matches but wound up tying. Norway's Viktor Hovland made a 26 foot birdie putt on the last hole to get a half point with Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas. No, I mean, I felt like we played some really good golf today and, know, you the Americans played some great golf as well and they kept pushing us and, yeah, it was, to make like a putt that on the last hole, that was huge for the team. The United States plans to change up its lineup for Saturday's team in the first half of the season. Defensive backs Quandre Diggs, Julian Love, Trey Brown, and Kobe Bryant all dealing with sprains, contusions, and more. Another 100 degree in Tucson. Fortunately, temperatures cool down Saturday night when 7th Washington rank plays a Pac -12 football game against the Arizona Wildcats and the Seattle Sounders are 0 in -2 soccer matches against Nashville. Saturday night they'll try and change that trend in Tennessee. Sports with sports at 10 and 40 after the hour. Northwest News Radio. Are you tired of loose and Have painful teeth? you thought about replacing all of your teeth? I'm Dr. Lance Timmerman and I will guide you to a new smile in just Just one day. A South Seattle Smiles full smile solution is a permanent full mouth teeth replacement. Get rid of your dentures. They don't function like real teeth. Your new smile will be custom designed to fit your face and lifestyle and will look just like regular teeth. You won't need to remove them from your mouth overnight and you won't need the adhesive to keep them in place. Rediscover your life with your new smile solution. Eat freely and smile confidently again. Replace your or teeth dentures and restore your self -confidence in one day at South Seattle Smiles. Do your research at drtimmerman dot com and receive a complimentary consultation and CT scan when you call. 206 -241 5533 206 -241 -5533 or drtimmerman .com that's drtimmerman .com or 206 -241 5533 that's drtimmerman dot com or 206 -241 5533. The smartest decision you can make when remodeling your kitchen and Bath is hiring a builder with all the services you need under one roof. We're talking designers, architects, and craftsmen all working in harmony on your project. It's possible with the all -inclusive modeling program from Evergreen Home Remodeling and Design. These guys take care of everything from design to the finished product. A true one -stop shop with an emphasis on being on budget on time so you can have a stress -free remodeling experience. With an impeccable five -star reputation, you'll see why hundreds of clients have trusted Evergreen Home Remodeling and Design for their kitchen and bath project. You can even get a detailed cost estimate in your very first meeting. Remodel the smart way. Experience the convenience of all -inclusive remodeling with Evergreen Home Remodeling and Design. Consultations are always free. Just go to EvergreenHomeRemodelingandDesign .com. That's EvergreenHomeRemodelingandDesign .com. Evergreen Home Remodeling and Design. On budget, time on design. plus I'm Scott, the owner of Solid Fire Pits. When I began welding my custom -made fire for pits friends and family, I shared them on TikTok because I was just so proud of them. Check it out. That's beautiful. I posted every new fire pit design and more people kept ordering. From 26 states and then on my birthday I had my best sales ever. Now how can the universe beat
The Charlie Kirk Show
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Leads Fight for No Ukraine Funding
"There's some good news. There's some good news. Despite all the Republicans voted against Ukraine funding, there actually was some good movement on a Ukraine amendment led by Marjorie Taylor Greene. She's been leading a very valiant fight. Congresswoman Greene, thank you so much for taking the time. Tell us all about it, Marjorie. Well, thank you so much for having me on, Charlie. I'm very excited. This has been quite an effort. I've been messaging, telling all my fellow colleagues that the American people are sick and tired of funding a war in Ukraine. I even had anti -war protests on the steps of the Capitol earlier this week. I have been introducing amendment after amendment to strip the money from Ukraine, and we got that accomplished. It's really because of the people, Charlie. Polling shows that most Americans do not support their hard -earned tax dollars going to Ukraine, so that was a big win for me, but it was also done with 117 other Republicans that agreed with me. All right, so Marjorie, I'm busy doing all sorts of stuff. You got to break it down for me because I'm sure the audience. Okay, so did this pass the House Representatives or pass a committee? Was this a single issue bill? Was this a rider? Was this an amendment? Just walk me through it because I want to make sure I understand it. Yes, thank you so much, Charlie. So the defense bill had 300 million dollars for Ukraine inside the bill that has been there for years, and this money goes into a special fund that the Biden administration has been using to send equipment and weapons to fund the war in Ukraine. As a matter of fact, they have spent a lot of the money out of that fund that was built up over the years, and so I've been demanding. I think I'm one of the few members of Congress that has voted for zero dollars to go to Ukraine since it has started, and I've been fighting very hard on the issue to stop it. Well, what happened this week is because I really fought my conference so hard, I'm the only Republican. As a matter of fact, I voted with the Democrats to knock down the rule, so I voted against the Republican rule for the defense bill, sending a strong message to my conference, sending a strong message that I am completely against the war money for Ukraine. Then after that happened, I had a lot of conversations. Again, I had an anti -war protest against the Ukraine war on the front of the Capitol steps. I argued in conference that if they want to fund money for Ukraine, they need to strip it out and they can vote for it, that I'm not voting for it, and there's other members that do not want to vote for it. Well, thankfully, leadership listened, and so what they did is they created another amendment that pulled them out, and we had to vote again on a separate rule that was pulled the money out of the defense bill. So the defense bill came to the floor last night, and we passed the defense appropriations bill, which is filled with so many great things, but we passed it with no money for Ukraine.
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 18:00 09-29-2023 18:00
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The Dan Bongino Show
Prediction: Dems Will Stop Calling for Removal of Sen. Menendez
"But enough about that there's because a lot to talk about today so of course right before we got on the air the news broke through you you know sadly not that surprising I think everybody expected it maybe not today but Senator Dianne Einstein who was 90 years old passed I've read it appears have been last night of course a Democrat senator from California so she was 90 and she was obviously struggling with her health so I woke up before the show and that kind of throws the Democrats a little bit of disarray you know I mean let the funeral and everything happen but it doesn't there's politics you just can't avoid you know the Democrats are now down to what a 50 Menendez 49 split is in trouble senator Menendez a Democrat from New Jersey obviously is looking at it a bunch of serious criminal charges right now I'm I'm gonna make a prediction and I'm gonna dispel one too I'll call it the gym prediction the Jim Verde predict cuz I don't I think it's crazy but if you're free to throw it out throw it out there I'm gonna make a prediction that all the calls now for Menendez to step down you can flag this right now they're gonna all stop because now if he steps down now they're down an additional senator and now it's 49 49 now granted Gavin Newsom is gonna of course appoint a Democrat it's not gonna be that long but you watch you think I'm messing with you they're all of these calls from Menendez to step aside are all gonna mysteriously go away why because it's never about principle or with the Democrats it's it's about power they did they wanted Menendez to step aside because of these corruption allegations why because the New Jersey off -cycle elections are coming up and they didn't want Menendez's name near anywhere the
Crypto Critics' Corner
A highlight from Elon Musk's ESG Con (Feat. Eric Roesch)
"Welcome back everyone, I am Cas Pianci. I'm joined as usual by my partner in crime, Mr. Bennett Tomlin. How are you today? I'm doing pretty well. How are you Cas? I'm doing good. It's early morning here, but today we're joined by a really special guest, somebody who's going to be chatting us through some really fun kind of concepts of fraud, individuals involved that I'm surprised we haven't discussed before. Eric Roche. How are you today, sir? I'm all right. How are you guys? Hanging in there. As you said, when we first jumped on, there's a lot of fraud in the world and it is hard to find the time to constantly look into it, which is your job. I reached out to you because I've been reading some of your Elon Musk work, which has been incredibly informative. I'm honestly shocked that Bennett and I have never discussed, I guess we've never discussed in an episode, Elon Musk and our issues with him. I mean, I've made a bunch of videos and stuff about it. Yes. On your personal channel you have. You and I, who I think we almost equally don't like this guy, have somehow avoided this topic. But Eric, your work on SpaceX and some of the permitting, the issues around the chemicals and the sheer like, I don't give a shit about these regulations, been on the front lines of this. Can you talk about why you're so into this, why you're so fascinated by it? I actually want to start with a story from 1959. This is actually a piece I'm working on. We're going to go to the corporate headquarters of the Chisso Corporation in Myanmar, a province in Japan. In December of 1959, the CEO of the Chisso Corporation, which was a chemical company, had a big PR presentation. The company had just installed a new water purification system for their wastewater system, and he famously took a glass of water out of the bottom of this purification vessel and he drank it as a PR stunt. Just that moment in time is really interesting for me because it was preceded by multiple decades of the Chisso Corporation dumping organic methylmercury into the Bay of Myanmar. It's an organic liquid. It goes to the bottom. It bioaccumulates as it kind of goes up through the ecosystems. The bacteria will kind of incorporate the methylmercury. It stays in the cells and it'll go up to the muscles and then the fish. Cats started eating it and they started showing weird symptoms. Children started getting sick. The effects of this disease have gone on and it's still actually going on today. The reason that moment in time is so interesting is that people knew in advance that there were problems. It was very clear that this was the one kind of chemical dirty company in the area. And so it was easy for people to point at it. And what's really interesting about that PR event is that that was forced to be installed because finally government took action and this is in 1959, but they actually didn't stop discharging that chemical for about a decade afterwards. And what's fascinating about it is that treatment technique was basically to get out particulates didn't actually treat the methylmercury. The other reason I bring it up is that for the PR stunt and the fact that it was ineffective and then also the costs over this huge period of time were something that shareholders in the company would have wanted to know. That's something that we would have wanted to discuss. And so that's why my blog is kind of focused on these kind of ESG topics, which has become this really kind of crudely discussed topic. But really, it's about disclosure and how fraudulent things, fraudulent risks can kind of manifest in ways that people don't understand until after the fact. That's where I want to start off that discussion. That's an interesting story you told because I'm imagining this executive drinking this cup of water to prove it's clean. And I'm reminded of a more recent political event that kind of aped that same imagery. And I'm, of course, thinking of Barack Obama visiting Flint, Michigan, after they had completed the first wave of fixing some of the water issues. Yes. And they were holding this big press conference and he makes a big deal of getting this glass of water, he says is straight from the tap, and he drinks it up to prove it safe. Do you have any thoughts on that imagery, that parallel imagery between those two? Well, the reason I brought it up is is specifically because of that. Well, there's also an example where Halliburton executive and I believe Dick Cheney was at this event as well. They drank basically a diluted version of the fracking fluid out of out of champagne glasses and I will see it safe. And it's really fascinating because it's like, you know, look at like basically that was the first example of that. And we keep doing that. And Obama, I think he's kind of at the inflection point of why we are where we are. And he's a really great Segway into like Musk and how he's become kind of untouchable. How are you drinking the glass of water still? Right. Because even if even if it had a toxic amount, right, methyl mercury is dangerous because it accumulates slowly over time and then works its way up to the food chain. So you could drink glass that has a decent amount of methyl mercury in it. And like that water isn't going to do anything. You have to drink that same glass of water. You have to eat those shellfish or those oysters, you know, every day for years. And then it builds up, kind of manifests in this debilitating disease that the Obama example is exactly why I still bring that case up, because it's like, have we actually learned nothing? I actually have an even more recent example of exactly the same thing, which is crazy. But I don't know if you guys are familiar, there's a YouTuber named Kyle Hill who does science science YouTube stuff. And he was invited to Fukushima because, as you guys know, they're going to be releasing this this radioactive water that they've accumulated because they've if anyone is unfamiliar, they've had to kind of take seawater, pump it into this completely effed up clear reactor core and basically make sure that it doesn't explode again. And they're storing this water because they don't want to just pump it straight out into the ocean. Well, now they're going to be pumping it straight out into the ocean after they've tried to kind of dilute it down and ensure that it's not super full of radiation. But they're getting pushback from places like China and South Korea who are saying, hey, we're not going to eat your fish anymore. We're not going to eat your food anymore. Like this is unacceptable what you're doing. To be fair, I don't think this is on par with any of the things we've discussed so far. I'm bringing it up because Kyle Hill went to a Fukushima tour and they did exactly what you're talking about. They pulled out bottles of water and said, here, everyone, look at this radioactive water. It's not even radioactive. You guys are fine. Nothing's happening. You're you're not getting hit. Your Geiger counters aren't going crazy. Well, it turns out that they're using plastic bottles. So this is, I think, theta radiation. It doesn't go through thick plastic bottle anyway. Like nobody is drinking it. Nobody is doing like any of the proof isn't actually proof. This is actually part of what we're talking about in that this is just PR shit, whether it's Obama doing it, the Fukushima plant doing it, or in the 50s, Chisso Chisso. That's the other thing. All right. So the Fukushima water rights, you look at the data they've presented. I actually think it's probably not a problem because it's above background. That brings up the question, why do we distrust it? Right. And the Chisso Corporation is a perfect example. Well, you know, the government's lied about this before. It's the same thing that leaves a lot of vaccine skepticism we see about these things don't just come from nowhere. Right. So you see, you know, these these kinds of paranoia.
Thinking Crypto News & Interviews
A highlight from Congressman Warren Davidson Interview - Crypto Regulations, SEC Gary Gensler Hearing & Subpoena, Bill Hinman Ethereum, CBDCs
"Oh yeah, I mean, I think book Gensler should have been subpoenaed already. I mean, I think the amount of patients that chairman McHenry shown, I mean, maybe that's why he's the chairman. He's like more patient study, kind of working it more diplomatic. Like, yeah, I think the subpoena was due like in February. This content is brought to you by link to which makes private equity investment easy. Link to is a great platform that allows you to get equity in companies before they go public, before they do an IPO within their portfolio includes crypto companies, AI companies, and FinTech companies, some of the crypto companies you may recognize include circle ripple chain, analysis, ledger, dapper labs, and many more, if you'd like to learn more about link to please visit the link in the description. Welcome back to the thinking crypto podcast, your home for cryptocurrency news and interviews with me today is Congressman Warren Davidson, who's a Republican out of Ohio, Congressman Davidson. It's great to have you on. Yeah. It's an honor to join you. Thanks. Yeah. Congressman Davidson, I've followed you for years and all the great work you've done with legislation around crypto. I think you were boy was maybe the first, if I, as far as I remember going back to the token taxonomy days and things like that. Uh, but before we get to all that, you know, tell us about yourself, where you're from and where'd you grow up. Yeah. So I grew up in Ohio, um, a little North of where I live now. So, um, graduated high school in the eighties, 88 listed in the army and, uh, got sent over to Germany when the wall Berlin wall was up, you know, the cold war was there and there, uh, wall separating the East and the West went through East Berlin and got to be there when that came down. And, uh, I'll just say like the people on the other side, weren't looking for more government. They were looking for more freedom and it was definitely a life -defining experience. Uh, from there, I got to go to West point, which, so that's not the normal way you go to West point, but, uh, it worked for me and, uh, graduated, went back into the infantry, served in range of regiment, 101st airborne division, uh, the old guard, you know, so some great units, but ultimately decided I needed to get out and go into a business. So my wife and I, and two little kids at that point in time, moved back to Ohio and, uh, started manufacturing companies, went to Notre Dame, got an MBA, and we basically had a little group of manufacturing companies. And that was what I was doing. And John Boehner resigned as speaker of the house. And a couple friends stopped in and said, Hey, you know, who are you going to back in the race? And I said, Hey, you know, you guys are the political people. And they cracked really a joke. They go, you know, it'd be great if there was an army ranger business guy in the race. So we just laughed and I went home and told my wife about my day. And she said, well, what'd you tell them? Like, well, we just laughed. Cause it's crazy. And she said, no, it's not. You'd be great at that. Well, here I am. So that's been like, you know, gosh, over seven years ago now. So it says it's pretty crazy. So in Congress, I got here and very few people knew much, very few elected office holders knew much about crypto. And I was new on the financial services committee and, uh, you know, kind of started that kind of army ranger business guy, the business guy, financial services also on foreign affairs. And, you know, that's, it's been a, it's been an interesting time to be in politics. Right. Oh yeah. Uh, well first thank you for your service. And, uh, it sounds like that wasn't, uh, just an incredible experience you had with the Berlin wall and so forth and being over there. Um, that must've been something, uh, life -changing it sounds like. Oh yeah. And look, I mean, the military offers a great opportunity for so many people. I mean, it's not a perfect fit for everybody for me. I just love that I got to be a part of it and it turned out phenomenally well for me, but it really is, uh, a great, a great thing to do and, you know, a lot of phenomenal people they'd go in and give a portion of their lives in service. And then unfortunately for frankly, some of my friends and others, they give their full life, um, you know, lost in combat or occasionally a training accident or something, but, you know, it's a serious commitment, but it is really cool that I had the chance to do it. Wow. Um, so let's talk about, uh, some of the work you've done in the crypto legislation front, because I remember as far as I can remember, uh, I, the token taxonomy act being maybe the first crypto legislation, and you can correct me if I'm wrong there, but, um, you know, tell us about the history of the different bills and things you've worked on. Yeah. So when I first got to the committee, you know, it was January of 2017 and, you know, you remember 2017 was like the ICO market people like, oh, you know, I could just write a white paper and kind of skip everything. And there were really good use cases, people trying to do things honestly. And then unfortunately there were just some outright pump and dump scams where people were being taken advantage of. And I'm like, where's the sec. You should be cracking down on these scammers and, uh, you know, they weren't really, you know, reacting well. They didn't really know who was going to do what. So there was this void and, you know, I was trying to get hearings on this subject and you, as the new guy, you don't get to choose which hearing. So this goes all the way into 2018. And, uh, we really couldn't get focused as a committee on the issue. Uh, so I was like, well, I can at least have a meeting. I mean, we won't be able to call it a hearing, so we'll have a meeting. And we did this thing at the library of Congress and it started out with a goal of getting about a dozen people together. And by the end, we had to cap it at 50 and like, people were like, oh, I want to send my CEO and I want to send my general counsel on, you know, we had some of the biggest names in, in, uh, not just crypto, but, you know, venture capital, you know, the New York stock exchange fidelity state street, I mean, you name it, any Andreessen Horowitz, you name it, the big players, we also are like, look, we got to have some startup companies and some founders that no one's ever even heard of some of those kind of knowing that still is heard of. They kind of went away. Uh, but a lot of them have really turned into some of the biggest names in crypto over time. And it was just an interesting conversation. So the goal was this listening to everybody and say, well, how, if we're looking at a tree, how far up can we go before everybody's interest starts diverging and branching out in a different way? And we want to kind of go up to that first level of branches and say, this is the consensus. If you solve these things, uh, you could provide a really difference making piece of legislation. So that was the token taxonomy act. Darren Soto, a Democrat from Florida, and I led the bill and man, think how different crypto would be if we had passed that bill in like 2018.
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 07:00 09-29-2023 07:00
"Do you need to let your field agents turn voice calls into video to get help from experts who can actually see what they're seeing? Vonage does that. With Vonage Video API, that's just the start. Get one -on -one and group video meetings on desktop, mobile, embed everything from video meetings to large -scale broadcasts on your website, and even help developers without video expertise build live video apps. With Vonage Video API, live video works harder for your business. See everything Vonage can do for you at Vonage .com. It realizes that we were bracing for a higher for longer environment with a higher cost of capital. It's the end of free money and we think it's a good thing. I just wonder whether there's a turning point happening now which isn't visible yet. When you see this kind of volatility, especially in yields, it's the concentration of risks that will cause something to break. This is Bloomberg Surveillance with Tom Kean, Jonathan Ferro, and Lisa Abramowitz. Down on the week, down on the month, down on the quarter, live from New York City this morning. Good morning, good morning. For our audience worldwide, this is Bloomberg Surveillance on TV and radio. Alongside Tom Kean and Lisa Abramowitz, I'm Jonathan Ferro. Your equity market is positive. It's up on the session by 0 .5%. TK, Q4 just around the corner. Q4 around the corner. We're going to see tons of research. It's going to be a massive reading -in weekend here as we straighten out Q4 and even the view to 2024. Stop the show. Economist of the week, Ellen Zettner, Morgan Stanley. She nailed the GDP revision, which goes to that uncertainty this morning about, okay, great. What's real GDP going to be? What's nominal GDP going to be? And then what does it mean for the markets? The problem for the recession calls, Tom, for most of this year is the recession, Lisa. That never was. And this bond market move, I think, speaks to that, particularly at the long end over the month so far.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
A highlight from Skin Deep: The Promising New Skin Test for Early Alzheimer's Detection
"What if there was a painless and non -evasive way to detect Alzheimer's disease earlier than ever? In this bonus episode, I chat with Frank Amato from SynapseDX, a pioneer in healthcare innovation who might just have the answer. In this engaging discussion, we dive into Frank's groundbreaking work on the DSCRN test, a revolutionary skin test for Alzheimer's. Frank's passion for healthcare and his mission to transform Alzheimer's diagnosis makes this conversation a must listen for anyone interested in the latest advancement in dementia healthcare. Welcome to Fading Memories, a podcast for caregivers of loved ones with dementia. I'm your host, Jennifer Fink. My mom had Alzheimer's for 20 years and when I went looking for answers, I had to start a podcast to find them. Join me as we navigate the challenges of dementia caregiving together. Through personal stories, expert interviews and practical advice, we'll explore effective communication strategies, stress management techniques and ways to cope with the emotional journey. This podcast is your beacon of support and empowerment. Let's share our experiences, find solace and discover the strength within us. Get ready to embark on a transformative caregiving journey with Memories. Fading If you're looking for additional advice, be sure to sign up for our weekly email newsletter. It's brief, gives you great advice. You can read it in less than five minutes and you know where to find the link. It's in the website, on the show notes. We're working on subscriber only information and specials so you're not going to want to miss out. Unfortunately, it's part of our modern world that some people will look to prey on the most vulnerable members of our society. With modern technology, scammers have more avenues to exploit people than ever before. Americans over the age of 65, especially those living with Alzheimer's and dementia, are receiving an average of almost 200 unwanted landline calls every week. That's more than 28 calls a day from bad actors trying to defraud our loved ones. Even worse, nearly 10 % of these calls have no caller ID, making it even harder to distinguish between legitimate and fraudulent calls. Older adults are less likely to be tech savvy and more likely to be home during the day to answer these calls. Please don't rely on notes by the phone as an attempt to stop a crime before it happens. You need IMP. IMP offers advanced call protection and a variety of other features to keep you and your loved ones safe from scams. IMP only allows wanted callers to ring through. Stopped are 100 % of the spam, scam, political, fundraising, debt collection, and survey calls before a single ring. Traditional call blockers can't do this and neither can the do not call registry. Don't wait until it's too late. Protect yourself and your loved ones by going to www .joinimpismhall .com. Also, the link is in the show notes.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
A highlight from Skin Deep: The Promising New Skin Test for Early Alzheimer's Detection
"What if there was a painless and non -evasive way to detect Alzheimer's disease earlier than ever? In this bonus episode, I chat with Frank Amato from SynapseDX, a pioneer in healthcare innovation who might just have the answer. In this engaging discussion, we dive into Frank's groundbreaking work on the DSCRN test, a revolutionary skin test for Alzheimer's. Frank's passion for healthcare and his mission to transform Alzheimer's diagnosis makes this conversation a must listen for anyone interested in the latest advancement in dementia healthcare. Welcome to Fading Memories, a podcast for caregivers of loved ones with dementia. I'm your host, Jennifer Fink. My mom had Alzheimer's for 20 years and when I went looking for answers, I had to start a podcast to find them. Join me as we navigate the challenges of dementia caregiving together. Through personal stories, expert interviews and practical advice, we'll explore effective communication strategies, stress management techniques and ways to cope with the emotional journey. This podcast is your beacon of support and empowerment. Let's share our experiences, find solace and discover the strength within us. Get ready to embark on a transformative caregiving journey with Memories. Fading If you're looking for additional advice, be sure to sign up for our weekly email newsletter. It's brief, gives you great advice. You can read it in less than five minutes and you know where to find the link. It's in the website, on the show notes. We're working on subscriber only information and specials so you're not going to want to miss out. Unfortunately, it's part of our modern world that some people will look to prey on the most vulnerable members of our society. With modern technology, scammers have more avenues to exploit people than ever before. Americans over the age of 65, especially those living with Alzheimer's and dementia, are receiving an average of almost 200 unwanted landline calls every week. That's more than 28 calls a day from bad actors trying to defraud our loved ones. Even worse, nearly 10 % of these calls have no caller ID, making it even harder to distinguish between legitimate and fraudulent calls. Older adults are less likely to be tech savvy and more likely to be home during the day to answer these calls. Please don't rely on notes by the phone as an attempt to stop a crime before it happens. You need IMP. IMP offers advanced call protection and a variety of other features to keep you and your loved ones safe from scams. IMP only allows wanted callers to ring through. Stopped are 100 % of the spam, scam, political, fundraising, debt collection, and survey calls before a single ring. Traditional call blockers can't do this and neither can the do not call registry. Don't wait until it's too late. Protect yourself and your loved ones by going to www .joinimpismhall .com. Also, the link is in the show notes.
Thinking Crypto News & Interviews
A highlight from SEC GARY GENSLER DELAYS BLACKROCK BITCOIN ETF, ETH FUTURES ETF APPROVED, RIPPLE FORTRESS, PAYPAL CRYPTO PATENTS
"Welcome back to the Thinking Crypto Podcast, your home for cryptocurrency news and interviews. If you are new here, please hit that subscribe button as well as the thumbs up button and leave a comment below. If you're listening on a podcast platform such as Spotify, Apple or Google, please leave a five star rating and review. It supports the podcast and it doesn't cost you anything. Well, folks, I want to start off with big news from the SEC. They have delayed a bunch of Bitcoin spot ETF applications, and the applications includes BlackRock's, Bitwise and some others. So not denials, but delays. So corrupt scumbag regulator Gary Gensler continues his clown show. We know he has approved futures ETFs, and in fact, we got news that Valkyrie got their approval for an Ethereum futures ETF. So why is he approving these futures ETFs without hesitation? Because, folks, they can be used to manipulate the market and drive the price down, right? It allows for folks to short the market. And that's why a Bitcoin futures ETF was approved, multiple Bitcoin futures ETF were approved over the years. And yet the SEC kept denying spot ETF approvals. And we know in the Grayscale lawsuit, the three judges said the SEC was arbitrary and Bitcoin spot ETF. So we have to keep putting the pressure. Again, we have a delay here and I think we can expect more delays, right? Until Gary starts feeling the pressure and we saw members of Congress send letters to Gary asking him to approve the Bitcoin spot ETF and highlighting the Grayscale lawsuit. So I think eventually the pressure will be on him where he's going to have to do this. And in one way, in one way, this is a good thing that it's not getting approved now, because in my opinion, I believe the Fed is going to continue to raise rates till the end of the year. And they're going to pause officially in Q1 of 2024, where I believe they're going to start quantitative easing next year. So global liquidity will come back. Right now we are in a tightening cycle, rates are up, inflation is still an issue. So the markets are not really primed for a lot of capital to come in. That doesn't mean that the approval can happen now. But in my opinion, the approval news will help drive the price up and eventually as these products are fully launched by BlackRock and others, a lot of capital will start flowing through them. So in a way it's a good thing, but still on principle, it just shows Gary Gensler is a scumbag regulator. So once again, Valkyrie got their futures ETF approved by the SEC, so expect more volatility around Ethereum. Now, speaking of Bitcoin, a luxury car maker, Bugatti, and that's a very expensive luxury car maker, Bugatti cars, many of them are like a million dollars and over, officially launches Bitcoin ordinals collection. So really cool that big brands are adopting crypto in different ways, whether it be tokenization, NFTs, and much more. The issue is the Bitcoin blockchain cannot handle these things. It more adds congestion to the network, which increases time of transactions as well as costs. So it's not made for that. And I know there are folks who say, oh, you know, this is a good thing, but I don't think it's a good thing for Bitcoin. I think there are other blockchains out there that can handle these things and not have ridiculous costs and fees. So but I think overall, this is good for the market. Now Ripple CEO, Brad Garlinghouse, tweeted out the following today, a few weeks ago, we signed a letter of intent to acquire Fortress Trust. We've since made the decision not to move forward with an outright acquisition. The Ripple will remain as an investor in Fortress. The Fortress team is incredibly talented and has built products solving real customer problems. While this outcome is different from what was originally planned, we'll continue to support them and hope to work together in the future. So obviously, we don't know the details as to why they're pulling out here, but they will remain an investor. So just an update on that, folks. Now a quick word from our sponsor, and that is Uphold, which makes crypto investing easy. Uphold is a great platform that I've been using since 2018, so I can certainly vouch for this platform. They have 10 plus million users, 250 plus crypto currencies, and they're available in 150 countries. You can also trade precious metals and equities on this platform. If you'd like to learn more, please visit the link in the description. Now we have big news around Coinbase. They tweeted out today, the expansion continues. Thrilled to announce that Coinbase International Exchange has secured regulatory approval from the Bermuda Monetary Authority to enable perpetual futures for non -U .S. retail customers. You may have seen the phase two of our go -broad, go -deep strategy for international expansion. Providing greater access to go -broad products, including derivatives, is a crucial part of that strategy, all with the support of forward -looking regulators. Coinbase Advance will begin to offer perpetual futures trading in the coming weeks as access to regulated derivatives expands to more global customers. So really big win here for Coinbase, obviously it excludes U .S. users, but they're going to be able to offer futures trading and much more to many parts of the world. And if only the United States could get its act together and pass regulations and do the right things, you know, U .S. users could benefit from this. But you know, once again, we're dealing with clowns like Gary Gensler. Now PayPal patent apps signal an interest in Layer 2's NFTs. PayPal continues, folks, to just go aggressive in the crypto market. Obviously, recently they launched a stablecoin. We know back in 2021, they launched crypto trading for both PayPal and Venmo. They've been four patent applications, which were published since September 21, suggesting that PayPal is taking a close look at distributed ledger tech. So they're going all in, folks, and I don't blame them, right? You better innovate and adapt to the new disruptive technology, or you will be disrupted and be put out of business. Just ask the folks at Blockbuster what happened to them as Netflix and the internet and streaming and much more went and took their lunch. So really, really bullish. Let me give some details on these applications. The most recent application, published Thursday and originally filed in March of 2022, delves into the details of how validators or miners should be selected during the process of adding transactions to the blockchain. The document states that the company's disclosed techniques could advantageously allow steering of blockchain requests to a desired subsets of miners slash validators. Three other patent applications released on September 21 were also filed in March of 2022. One offered up supposedly new methods and systems to enable off -chain transactions through NFT marketplaces. Boy, imagine PayPal launching an NFT marketplace. Another mentions the concept of a so -called omniverse, which in this context suggests a product that deals in multiple metaverses. The third describes another conceptual online transaction processor. This processor's goal is to facilitate payments between users and merchants operating on different network layers, layer ones and layer twos in a more efficient manner. So essentially looking to build interoperability, that is going to be key. And notice users and merchants, right? So you may have users, let's say on the XRP ledger and merchants on the Polygon blockchain, how do they connect, right? And I'm just giving an example, obviously they mentioned layer one and layer twos here. So it could be like Ethereum and Polygon is a layer two scaling solution, but also there's going to have to be compatibility with different blockchains. So really great stuff here from PayPal and a sign of what's to come folks. This is a stuff that makes me very bullish. Now Circle, they're expanding USDC on the Polygon blockchain, and that's going to be launched on October 10th. So Circle continues to make smart moves here, pretty much getting USDC on all the top blockchains. And once again, there's going to be interoperability and much more. So the ecosystem continues to grow. Now folks, some of you may have seen this, the New York Post did an article saying the Winklevoss twins, Tyler and Cameron, secretly withdrew $280 million in assets before the crypto firm collapsed. This is according to sources, right? So they didn't provide any proof. Well, the folks at Gemini, they addressed this issue and gave some clarity that it's actually false. They said, we are disappointed that the New York Post has chosen to recklessly publish a completely misleading story about the Gemini earn program. Everything the post alleges in its story is the exact opposite. The $282 million that was withdrawn from the Genesis in August of 2022 was in fact earned users money. It was not Gemini's corporate funds, and it was not the personal funds of our founders, Cameron and Tyler, or their investment from Winklevoss Capital. So they clarified that, but kind of a hit piece here from the New York Post. Now folks, speaking of the Winklevoss twins, Mark Zuckerberg, and many of you know the history of Facebook with the Winklevoss twins and Mark Zuckerberg, well, Mark was interviewed on the Lex Friedman podcast, and they did it through the metaverse. People have been roasting Mark and his version of metaverse for years, they've lost billions of dollars. Look, I've even roasted him a little bit, right? Because their metaverse product was not great, but boy, have they made a huge leap. Guys, go check out the interview with Mark Zuckerberg on the Lex Friedman podcast. They did it through the metaverse using the Oculus, and the new feature is this lifelike representation of their faces and their upper body, essentially, and it is incredible, folks. It is incredible. You have to see this. And you may say, Tony, why are we talking about this? Well, folks, this metaverse set up with full immersion, right, will eventually include a lot of NFTs and blockchain and tokens. It's all part of the same technological adoption. You're going to see more tokenization, once again, everything running on the blockchain, and you're going to need the blockchain in the metaverse because it's going to be hard to plug in Web2 payment apps, right? It's going to be hard to go use PayPal in the metaverse versus using stable coins or different tokens to exchange value. So this is incredible. I'm really blown away by what Mark and the folks at Meta did here. And I'm not some big advocate of you must live in the metaverse. I believe the metaverse is going to be useful. I think with everything in life, you've got to have balance. Will I be participating in some metaverses? Yes. Will I be spending all my time in the metaverse? No. I will be out getting fresh air, touching grass, going out for walks and so forth. That is how I grew up. Obviously, we live in a digital world, but we have to balance it out. But future generations, if you're listening, some of you younger kids, somebody listening to this 10 years from now, please don't be fully immersed in the metaverse. Have a balance, spend some of your life outside of it. But folks, this is incredible. Go check it out. Finally, some more good news here. Our judge denies temporary release for Sam Bankman -Fried suggests he could face a very long sentence. That is music to my ears. I love it. This guy is a fraud, a liar, a criminal. He should go to jail along with Alex Mashinsky. And we have to make sure we do a good job of flagging these guys, man, because we don't need this kind of stuff in the crypto industry. We're trying to mature, have good infrastructure and avoid any type of corruption and criminal activity as best as possible. Obviously, it's hard to stop those things. They happen because it's part of human nature. Just look at Bernie Madoff. He was in the most regulated financial markets, yet he was scamming people out of millions, if not billions. I hope this guy goes to jail for a long time and he doesn't get off because we know his parents are connected politically and there's a whole bunch of stuff that's been happening there where money from FTX was funneled to his parents. So, you know, I hope they are all held accountable, folks, friendly reminder, my interview with Congressman Warren Davidson will be published tomorrow. So be sure to check that out. Make sure you got the subscribe button hit, hit the five star rating on the podcast platforms. And I'll talk to you all later. Bye bye.
Mark Levin
David McCormick: Bob Casey Jr. Stays Quiet on Philadelphia Looting
"Da Larry Krasner. But bob Casey has been a wall and this is also the result, as you know, of a progressive liberal ideology that wants to defund the police, does not support law and order, puts dangerous felons on the street and uh, and hasn't done anything to stop the fentanyl crisis that's killing people in tensile million around the country. And so this is all coming to a head in our urban centers. Philadelphia is just disgraceful to see. I honestly got bob Casey's always a wall. He's a wall on everything. Um, he's not just not a leader, he's really not a senator. And I'll be honest with you, I can't tell which more senator dim with it. is Fetterman or bob Casey. Now bob Casey supported Fetterman even knowing he wasn't up to the job. Bob Casey is down the line, radical Democrat. He poses as a moderate. His father was moderate. a Bob Casey the son is no moderate. But on a matter like this, when cities in Philadelphia, in our cities, all throughout Pennsylvania are united in their objection to this kind of lawlessness and brutality, and these retail stores now leaving these communities, bob Casey's afraid to speak. So I assume you've challenged him or something or saying, Bob, we can't you? hear
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Katy Faust
"Hey you, have you checked your bucket list lately? Are you ready to take care of item number seven? Listening to The Eric Mataxas Show? Well welcome, tune in, and then move on to item number eight. Skydiving with Chuck Schumer and AOC. Here now is Mr. Completed My Bucket List at age 12, Eric Mataxas. Hey there folks, welcome. I'm excited to have back as my guest Katie Faust. Faust, Katie Faust. New book called Raising Conservative Kids in a Woke City. Katie, welcome back. So good to be with you. You've got a nice little feature in my storyline of authoring. I didn't write my first book until you were like, Katie, you need to write a book. And I was like, I don't have time. And you're like, well, then your little global children's rights movement is going nowhere. And I was like, well, then I guess I write a book. So credit to you for getting Stacy and I into the official publishing world because we wouldn't have done it without your coercive prompting. Wow, that's terrific. Now, the problem is biblically you have to tithe unto me after the order of Melchizedek. That's biblical since I was the one behind this. And you are without genealogy and eternal, is that how this is working? Well, this is Salem radio, so I guess it all makes sense now. Oh, my God. Oh, that is creepy. The priest of Salem, Melchizedek. All right. I love the fact that tons of people are saying, what, what, what are you talking about? Read your Bibles, people. All right, I don't have time. So Faust, Katie you are your organization is called Them Before Us. Talk about that a little bit before we get into the new book. Yeah, well, I am really passionate about two things. One is when it comes to the changes in culture, law and technology that are taking place in our world today. I'm very passionate about don't touch the kids. Leave the kids alone when it comes to changes in marriage, family, parenthood, reproduction. And right now the world is looking at kids and they're like, those are accessories that I can cut and paste into any and every adult relationship. So the first book is about no children have a right to be known and loved by their mother and father. All adults need to conform to those rights. So whatever is going on in your personal life, leave the kids alone. But I'm also very passionate about something else, and that is leave my kids alone. Don't touch my kids. But that's very challenging because this culture is insane and it's absolutely after our kids. They are hell bent in destroying children's life, family, mind and body. And they do that highly and very effectively through indoctrination, whether that comes through the schools, whether it comes through social media, whether it comes through mainstream media, their friend group, sometimes infiltrating their churches. And so my co -author Stacey and I have written a book about how we have been able to raise collectively our seven kids between our two families in one of the most hostile, progressive cities in the world, Seattle, and largely sending them to public schools. And you can't capture our kids. Like we have been able to locate our worldview in our kids to the point where they can spot the lie. They can stand against the crowd and they can push back. Right. And look, there are a few things that need to be said. First of all, the fact that we are now at a point where the left, broadly defined, is coming after our kids. This is when you move from like mere leftism or from liberalism or whatever we called it in the past into full blown Marxism, cultural Marxism, where they say and they believe the family is the enemy of the state. They want to crush families. They want to divide children from their parents. They want to divide husbands from wives. They want to destroy the family because the family, like God, like people of faith, is their enemy. And so this is something that we need to recognize. It's a new iteration in the long march to the institutions. They have now gotten to a point where they're open about wanting to steal our children, steal our children's minds. And you're quite right. You know, the buck stops here. That's that's not going to happen. We will die as parents before we let you do that. And we will die happily. That's right. Children from these vile ideas. So your book, the new book is Raising Conservative Kids in a Woke City. Now, I want to say there are other options, folks. You don't need to live in a woke city. Perhaps you don't need to send your kids to public school. You can homeschool your kids. I would say the first thing to anybody would be homeschool your kids. You know, go to Sam Sorbo, ask her how to do it. Everybody who says I'm not qualified to do it is totally qualified to do it. But what you're saying, Katie, is that even if you can't do that, even if you can't send your kids to a genuinely faith based traditional school, there is hope. Well, and the deal is like the woke is coming for your kids, even if you're homeschooling them, even if they're in a great private school, it is seeping into their world. I mean, I've got friends at great conservative Christian schools where the woke is infiltrating them as well, where kids are talking about being pansexual. You know, and it's a private Christian school. And I'm surrounded by homeschool kids who are awesome. And I love them. I'm currently running the youth ministry at our church and there's a lot of homeschooled kids. These kids are great. They're also battling these woke ideas. It is also infiltrating their world. So like you cannot bubble wrap your kids. And honestly, you should not try to bubble wrap your kids. There is an appropriate way to shelter your kids early on and then strategically expose them to these ideas. You, the parent, introduce them. You don't let the world introduce it to them. You introduce this in age appropriate ways, in developmentally appropriate stages. And that's what we do in the book is we kind of lay out sort of these stages of learning for kids what you need to be covering in each of these different phases, how to strategically make sure that you are getting to your kids first rather than letting the world introduce these concepts to your kids and thereby establishing yourself as the expert. And parents need to be doing this regardless of your zip code, regardless of how your kids are being schooled. You we all need to inoculate our kids against the woke virus. And if we can do it in Seattle with our kids going to public school, you can do it, too. Well, that's amazing. And listen, what you're saying is, is that, you know, when you say you can't bubble wrap your kids, the point is you want to let them understand why the ideas on the left are bad. Not just say that they're bad, but actually make them understand. No, no, no, no. They're actually bad. They're actually harmful. They're stupid. They're illogical. They're irrational. They're anti -human. They're inhuman. They are failed and failing and will fail. Our kids need to get that. So it's not just my parents believe that and they told me I have to believe that. No, no, no. It's actually true. It's like teaching your kid math. You know, then they can do it on their own. They don't they don't need you once they learn how to do it. So that's an important point to make. So the book is brand new folks raising conservative kids in a in a woke city. And I'd forgotten, Katie, that you lived in Seattle. Of course, I live in New York. And it needs to be said, you said it, but it needs to be said again and again that a lot of these places that we trusted, a Christian schools, Christian institutions, churches have themselves about the need to bail or are perfectly willing to go along with bowing the need to bail. A lot of the institutions that we once took for granted as on the good side have gone to the dark side. Christianity Today magazine completely gone over to the dark side. Campus Crusade, now called Crew, has opened the door to tons of bad ideas. The Gospel Coalition, which was once OK, has opened the door to tremendously pernicious ideas. And so it really does fall to us, the parents, to take this seriously and to understand it is our job. We can no longer entrust our kids to these to these places we once thought were safe. Well, and we talk about in the conclusion, like sometimes it feels like, what can I do? I don't have a huge platform. I'm not in political office. You know, I don't I'm not an author at any of these outlets. You actually have the most position as a parent. Do you understand the power of raising the next generation to embrace conservative ideas? And by that, we define conservatism as you're just recognizing historical, economic and biological reality. That is what conservatism is today. On team reality, folks, it's called reality. We believe in reality. That's right. It's no longer just return to the gold standard, you know, kind of people or or, you know. Hawks on foreign policy, it's like if you recognize that men and women are different, if you recognize that the free market is the best way to conduct ourselves in the economy, if you recognize that life begins at conception, if you recognize that, you know, we are defined by the content of our character, not the color of our skin. I mean, like if you recognize those things, you're a conservative. Welcome to the welcome. Welcome to the red pill, baby. And it's amazing. We have to go to a break. What's the website then before us? Then before us dot com is where you can keep up before us dot com. Katie Faust will be right back with the overturn of Roe v. Wade. Lots of companies are coming out saying they'll pay for employee abortion travel and expenses. Most of you have heard about some of these companies. You've decided to stop shopping or doing business there. But did you know that you most likely own stock in those companies through your 401ks, IRAs and other investment accounts? Folks, this is a huge problem. And we need to do something about this to send a message to Wall Street through our investments. You need to go to inspire advisors dot com slash Eric and get a free inspire impact report. This biblical investment analysis will educate you on what's really in your investment accounts, like companies paying for abortion travel. 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The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Kevin McCullough
"Welcome to the Eric Mataxas Show. Do you like your gravy thick and rich and loaded with creamy mushrooms? If no one was looking, would you chug the whole gravy boat? Chug! Chug! Chug! Chug! Stay tuned. Here comes Mr. Chug -a -Lug himself, Eric Mataxas. Hey folks, welcome to the program. If you're like me, last night you were able to watch the debate and you deliberately skipped it for your mental health. That's just where I am in life right now. I caught parts of it which made me wince and cringe, sometimes wince and cringe. I never wept, but you know what, it's probably better for me to find out what my guest thought. He may have watched the debate. My friend, Kevin McCullough, we call you votes tridamus because you are a prognosticator, a seer, a prophet politically speaking. Kevin McCullough of that Kevin show, how are you? I'm well and I can see some things very clearly today. There should be no more debates. These exercises in futility, and that's what they've turned into, are becoming embarrassing to the cause of what this election should be about. And last night, it's just hard to put into words how bad this debate was, from its execution to the policies, to the answers. It was just nothing good about it. Some people in my audience care about this. I'm in Irvine, California. I'm in a hotel room you people can see. I'm speaking today, so today's Thursday in Costa Mesa. So if anybody wants to come and hold my hand and hug me about the sadness of the debate, or just talk to me or get book signed or whatever I'm going to be tonight in Costa Mesa, you go to my website, ericmataxas .com, and you can see me and talk to me and hang out and whatever tonight in Costa Mesa. This is Thursday, folks. And tomorrow, there's a prayer breakfast here in Irvine that I'm speaking at. But the reason I bring this up, Kevin, is because I rarely have time to turn on the TV. And last night, I realized, oh, I'm pretty wiped out. Let me turn on the TV. Let me just look at the debate just to see. I literally really couldn't bear to watch it. So as someone who watched it, I'm talking to you. Am I being cruel or unfair? Because it was unfair. What little I saw was genuinely unbearable. No, as I was saying just a second ago, from the way it was structured, to the execution, to the answers to the substance, the format's wild and out of control. There's not really a possibility of getting very deep on any one of the single questions. And I think a lot of the questions that are being asked are not the right ones. And so as I've watched, and I didn't watch all of last night's debate in real time, I caught up on a bunch of it after the fact. But as I've sat through both of them now, it is easy for me to ascertain that no one in this field on that stage last night is serious about becoming president. And they're not biting into the enormous lead that the former president has only built on since the first debate occurred. The first debate, they had 11 million viewers put to put that in perspective, Eric, in 2015. For the first debate, they had more than 15 million viewers in 2020. For the first debate, they had about 18 million viewers. You're talking about a diminishing return a, a much less interested Republican base watching these, and they're not they're not going anywhere. And in the meantime, it's putting even with some of our better idea people on display as amateurs, even with Doug Burgum on the stage, hard to believe. Yeah. That would be like a rematch between Evander Holyfield and Mike Tyson. You're telling me people, Lisa Hutchinson was not able to be on the stage this time, as far as we know. Yeah, I think he took a, he took a face shot in the early rounds, and he was in his dressing room. Honestly, the thing there, what I said on Twitter this morning, was that they acted like it was 1985. We are living in a time in America, where most people see, we are in freefall, hell has been unleashed. Things have gotten so bad on so many fronts that it is, if you don't believe in God, which I do, and I trust in him, but if it weren't for that, I'd be scared to death. What is happening in this country? And they acted like it's 1985. And we're gonna, we're gonna have this conversation. And I thought, this is this is bad. I mean, the way the the deep state has been weaponized to go after Donald Trump, for example, I don't care if you're running against Trump, if you like Trump, but if that doesn't strike you as, as fundamentally un -American and sick as anything, as though, you know, we were being bombed by China, it's pretty bad. They seem not to be concerned. Well, they're responding to questions that have been supposedly thoughtfully put together by the moderators that are doing the debate. And Ron DeSantis did a little bit more of this last night, all of them to have done more of this, where he actually came with a little bit of an agenda to give little speeches every time that he was given the opportunity to speak. And he got more things out on the record than what he was asked about. But that should be the strategy of every candidate going into every debate. That should be the strategy of every thinker going on every media outlet that you can. Sometimes, Eric, it's better for me to go on Fox or Newsmax or somewhere and have something that I'm more intent on saying that what they want to ask me about. And if you're, if you're running for president in times of crisis, and I don't, I don't view the period that we're in right now as a peaceful time. We're not actively at war with anybody, but we are actively at war with evil on, on almost every front. So we need, there needs to be an urgency. There needs to be a sense of, we cannot phone it in and do it like we've done it in the past, especially knowing that we are going to run up against probably illicit, illegal, cheating schemes, trying to keep the election from actually being determined by the people that have the right to determine it. And before people criticize me for that, we've replaced the population of the bottom eight states in just illegal entries into the country over the last three years. Well, let's do that in a minute, because you wrote an article at townhall .com. That is one of the stunning nightmares that they acted like not, not really a big problem. But what you just said about cheating, I think most Americans know the Democrats cheat at elections. How is that not the most important thing to discuss when you're talking about a presidential election? Are you and I imagining, are millions and millions and millions and millions of Democrats actually cheat? Now they've done it for decades, but now we know that they have turned it into a science. They are at war with we, the people, they don't actually care about winning in a fair way. They just care about winning. How is that not unbelievably important and something that has to be discussed? But the Fox hosts and the Latina from Univision, which is another bizarre thing, they seem to act like January 6 was Trump supporters being violent. They seem to act like the election was fair. Biden won. What world are they living in? All of them. I don't know what to say. And obviously, I think Vivek and Ron DeSantis, they're the only two candidates that I can take seriously. I've got problems with them a little bit. But the whole thing was like, they were all play acting like we're living in a different America than the one most of us are living in. Well, I will hold one exception out to what you just said. And I believe that Nikki Haley had a sense of urgency about her last night. And she did in the first debate as well. And I think that's why she's now out polling DeSantis in several polls, is that people are beginning to understand that as a former governor, she probably has a shot at the VP pick. I don't think the VP pick is going to come out of this group. But if Trump did want one that I'm seeing kind of be serious on the issues that are the most pressing, she's the one that kind of gets the vote in terms of... I think of her as deep state, neo -con, next. All right. That's fine. I'm just saying in terms of her performance thus far. We've got you our wonderfully. I'm so glad that we do. We'll be right back. With the overturn of Roe v. Wade, lots of companies are coming out saying they'll pay for employee abortion travel and expenses. Most of you have heard about some of these companies. You've decided to stop shopping or doing business there. But did you know that you most likely own stock in those companies through your 401ks, IRAs, and other investment accounts? Folks, this is a huge problem. And we need to do something about this to send a message to Wall Street through our investments. You need to go to inspireadvisors .com slash Eric and get a free Inspire Impact report. This biblical investment analysis will educate you on what's really in your investment accounts like companies paying for abortion travel. You need to go to inspireadvisors .com slash Eric to connect with an Inspire Advisors financial professional who can run your report and help remove companies paying for abortion travel today. Go to inspireadvisors .com slash Eric. That's inspireadvisors .com slash Eric. Advisory services are offered through Inspire Advisors LLC, a registered investment advisor with the SEC. 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The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Michael and Thomas Pack
"Welcome to The Eric Mataxas Show. Have you heard that some people have a nose for news? Well, Eric has a nose for everything. That's why this is called The Show About Everything. Now welcome your host, who definitely passes the smell test, Eric Mataxas. Hey there, folks. Welcome to the show. It's The Eric Mataxas Show. I play the role of Eric Mataxas. In this show, which is nonfiction, I interview people, usually on subjects that are close to my heart or that I think are important. Today I'm talking to filmmaker Michael Pack, who's been on this show before, who is responsible for a brilliant documentary called Created Equal, Clarence Thomas in his own words, and other things, and also Michael's son, Thomas Pack. We are going to talk about something that is as close to my heart as anything could be. It's the idea of bringing, let's call them conservative values, although that's just a fancy way of saying truth and reality, into media. It is crucial. People of faith, people of Christian values have dropped the ball on this for, I don't know, about 100 years roughly. So whenever somebody is getting into this game, I want to do everything I can to get to know them and to bring them to you, the audience of this program. So Michael Pack and Thomas Pack, welcome and thank you for being with us today. Thank you for having us on, Eric. It's a pleasure to be back on your show. Well, as you know, Michael, I am hot to trot on the subject of what I just mentioned. Now, you just wrote an article at Real Clear Politics. I want to talk to you about that because you sort of summarize what I was just getting at or you explicate what I was just summarizing. Talk a little bit about that and you can mention upfront as well what Thomas is doing. So lead us into the conversation. Well, you're right. The Real Clear piece, which is a bit long, so I guess I explicate rather than summarize, but it tries to lay out what's happened in the culture war over the last at least 50 years, maybe you're right, closer to 100. And what we can do about it. I mean, the fact is, as everyone knows, the progressive left dominates the culture. And they have at least since the 60s where they announced a long march for the institutions and they said they were going to work to take over first the university and then other cultural institutions, and they have succeeded. But I say, Eric, that it is to their credit. This is a battle of ideas. And especially in the area of film and television, they're fighting for the ideas they believe in. You are quite right that we on our side have failed. They're to be commended for succeeding. They're fighting for what they believe in. I agree with you that what they believe in isn't right. So that's a negative, but they're commended for fighting for it. And over those years, they've built up institutions that supported and defended and make it possible. So I lay that out in the real clear piece, which people can also find on my on my Twitter page, Michael Pack underscore. But so I try to give how so over 50 years, the left has poured tens of billions of dollars into this process, and it is their right to do so. And we ought to say that they have allied themselves with a very powerful ally in the form of Satan. We don't need to we don't need to get more specific than that. But people need to understand that, you know, you're very gracious by saying, oh, they're fighting for their ideas. Their ideas are harmful to human beings, not to conservatives, not to people of faith, to human beings in general. And so you're right that they believe in these ideas. But I just have to say, speaking to you as a Jew, you know, Hitler believed in his ideas. So because somebody believes in their ideas, they get, oh, well, they've got their ideas. We have our ideas. I agree with you 100 percent. I know. No, of course, I know you do. And you're being gracious. So go ahead. But but the but but that's right. I mean, one way of looking at their ideas is they have a negative view of America just taking that one slice of it. And we have a positive, upbeat view of America. I mean, we we are documentary producers, and I think this is this left takeover of culture is both in drama, fiction and nonfiction and in the nonfiction realm. It's clear as a bell. The 1619 Project, which began in print, was now a multi -part Emmy nominated Netflix series. And and on like that is America based on racism and the defense of slavery, or is it based on the principles of the Enlightenment? Jefferson laid out in the Declaration of Independence and it matters for the country and the world which side you're on. So I agree with you. But their ideas are wrong. But given that they're wrong, they're right to fight for them. So we need to fight for ours. But but we have we have the model of what they have done and we need to just do it, too. It is not that hard. It's not that complicated. It was not a conspiracy on the part of the left. They announced they were going to do it. It's their right to do it. And they did it. I mean, I mean, even in America, communists, for example, have every right to promulgate their views, which I think is appropriate, given the First Amendment. It doesn't make their views right, but it does give them the right to promulgate them. And it's well, think of the irony, though, that the left is increasingly I mean, just to be fair, that it is because of biblical values, it is because of the values of the founders of this nation, that people on the left. On the wrong side, have the right, which we have given them to promulgate their views, it is why Nazis could march through Skokie, Illinois. It is right, so we believe in free speech. We believe in this kind of stuff. But the irony is that we're now living in a time where we're seeing the left having gained power, use it to squelch and censor voices with whom they disagree. So in other words, they were willing to ride the train of free speech as long as it helped them. And then now that they've gained the upper hand culturally and in other ways, they're suddenly deciding, you know what, free speech was nice. It was nice for a while. But now we don't want those conservatives to have a voice. So there's an irony here, which ought to be mentioned. There is. They're now the enemies of free speech. And in part, it's because, as you say, it's no longer convenient. But in part, it's because of the radicalization of liberalism, the sort of left liberal part of the Democratic Party. I mean, it used to be since the 60s, the new left has been an enemy of free speech. Herbert Mercuza and company never believed in free speech. But that was a minority view on the left. And now, as you say, it's increasingly popular under other rubrics like stopping disinformation and misinformation. And it is. Do they get that from Stalin? I'm always trying to trace these ideas back. I believe it was the Moscow School of Stalin. In any event, I think, you know, legally, you know, Karl Marx did not believe in human rights and individual rights. And he his whole worldview is opposed to that. If you believe in historical determinism and you know which way the world is going, why encourage freedom of speech? So both left and right, Hegelianism, Marx being left Hegelianism, was not really in favor of these kinds of freedoms, these Enlightenment freedoms. And in a sense, they were a reaction against it. I'm not an expert on this, though. Eric, you're going to get into topics too deep for me pretty soon. Well, obviously, we're not here really to talk about this exactly, but it's worth touching on. Well, look, the good news, the headline to me is that you and Thomas, whom we will let get a word in edgewise momentarily, are creating award winning, fabulous documentary films and trying to encourage others to do the same. It's it really is a wonderful thing, as you and I have discussed. I'm getting involved in that a number of media projects and yours have been done with such extraordinary excellence that, you know, even those on the left have had begrudgingly to honor you when we come back. I want to get into everything and I want to ask you, Thomas, about this kind of conservative incubator film project that that you're putting together. Folks, it's the Eric Metaxas show, ericmetaxas .com. Don't go away. Folks, have I told you about Moink? M -O -I -N -K. That's moo plus oink. I get all our meat and our salmon from them. M -O -I -N -K. Moink delivers grass fed and grass finished beef and lamb, pastured pork and chicken, sustainable wild caught salmon straight to your door.
The Dan Bongino Show
Rep. Troy Nehls: Garland, Wray Will Do Everything to Cover Biden
"Willing to stop arresting political opponents and going full commie. So, until that point, we need more people willing to, cause it's radio, bust us bells if you know what I mean. We need bell busters. And you seem like one of them and I like that. So, this hearing is happening with Derek Farland the other day, otherwise known as Merrick Garland, and you were having none of this. You just sliced into this guy. This guy I think makes Eric Holder know what I mean? I'm a legitimate attorney general. This guy is the most corrupt person I in that office in my life. And I was glad you didn't get interrupted when you were calling him out. Your thoughts on the status of the Justice Department under Garland? Well, thank you. It's a great question and we I all know think the American people are figuring this out that there is that. We talk about the two -tier justice system, the justice system under Garland and even the FBI Director Wray that will do everything to provide that cover for the crime family named Biden and then what you're asking and what they've done to Donald Trump over the past several years. So no, there is a two -tier justice system. I guess I am one of those bell busters and I know that you served in NYPD for years. I'm a 30 -year lawman myself. I was a chair of a large county in Texas. So I just call it the way it is. I'm authentic and I think I think people appreciate it, but AG Garland, you know, you get five minutes and you want to seize that that moment sees that opportunity. I didn't give him a lot of time to answer the questions that I had for him because I knew I would just get nothing but delay tactics and lies. So I answered the questions to him, but he did the video, the video of Joe Biden up there talking about firing Viktor Shokin, the prosecutor, or Ukraine and get the one billion dollars to me. That is bribery. The quid
The Dan Bongino Show
95-Year-Old Veteran Kicked out of Nursing Home for Migrant Housing
"It's going to sound a lot like this. This is a 95, yes, 95, 95 year WLS News. Have you ever covered a carpet Have This is AM Chicago, 94 WLS News. I want you to listen to this every single word of it. And if this doesn't bring a little bit of moisture to your eyeballs This is AM Chicago, 94 WLS News. This people in island shores they gave us time to 94 WLS News. This And one is day, there's a thing on the board, notice on the board, you gotta you next Chicago, 94 WLS News. I thought my This is AM Chicago, 94 is AM Chicago, 94 WLS This is AM And that was it. I said, no, no, no, no, you're not front of me, and they said, Yes, yes, yes, we are. And everything was done behind closed doors. We didn't have a chance to actually make any attempt to stop them because How do you how This is like, this is like a Gotham City Like a bad Batman movie or something. You kick out a 95 year old
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"first stop" Discussed on Epicenter
"Yeah, absolutely. We support everything out of the box. You know, Passport is just the offering that we have. I think the last thing, nice thing with Passport is because it integrates in a vertically integrated manner with our control of say like the ZK technology and the order book and the wallet, we can do things like say, you know, shared sequencing or cross wallet liquidity in really seamless ways. But other platforms can't because they only have one layer of the stack. And so our vision is no matter what asset you're trading on any marketplace, on any game, on any rollout, using any wallet, you can do so atomically and seamlessly with no loss in security or sort of custody with anyone else. And this is this vision of this sort of universal liquidity for digital value. Yeah. Talk a little bit more about, we talked about this before the show, the enforceable royalties. What's that about? Yeah. So this is obviously pretty topical. You have the marketplace wars over the last couple of years. First, as you had the blurs and the X2Y2s of the world basically say, hey, we're not going to respect royalties. And suddenly soak up huge chunk of pro-trading volume. Then you have an oversea card with some solutions and sort of contracts people use to make sure that they can only be traded these collections on royalty respecting marketplaces and smart contracts. I think this is all indicative of the fact that this really has to be sold as a product layer. Just to kind of understand the problem here. The problem is that when you have assets that are tied to royalty, so like I create like some suite of assets, I put those out on say OpenSea. Unless that contract has royalties built into it at the contract level, you're sort of trusting the platform to extract and deliver the royalties. And that's sort of the issue where if you take those assets somewhere else, if you like just send them to someone, those royalties are not being perceived by the creator. Precisely. So basically it's really hard to enforce royalties with traditional NFT smart contracts and NFT marketplaces. There have been various attempts at solving this, but ultimately it appears as though the game theory, particularly on Ethereum layer one, is to converge toward a zero or no royalties world, because that's the world in which you have to be in order to have any meaningful market share as a marketplace. All these pro traders who are doing the vast majority volume today. Our approach has kind of been from day one, make this enforceable at the protocol level, which we can do due to sort of a couple of things we've designed on immutable exits because we have a single sequencer, we can kind of enforce these royalties from day one. With immutable CKDM, it's going to be more of a decentralized solution where we're actually sort of engineering the ways that smart contracts respect royalties and people can opt in. But I think both the principles are, we firmly believe that enforceable royalties have to be available protocol wide in order for marketplaces to be able to fairly compete and gain their market share and game developers to be rewarded. And the thesis is quite simple, which is, you know, if you have Counter Strike Go or Magic the Gathering, Magic the Gathering has an estimated secondary market cap of 10 to $20 billion of cards. But every year they've got to make new, more impressive cards than everything else in existence, making them less value. I guess I sell my old Magic cards. Yeah, like they're tremendously valuable, right? But MTD, the company, has no way of tapping into the value of what they've created. That's why they have to basically dump on everyone else every year by creating this new, more powerful stuff. And so suddenly we can have a business model that doesn't rely on that. That's like, hey, Magic just gets 5% of every trade. Magic's only incentive would be increased volume, which might mean make new cards that make the game better and grow the player base. It might mean throwing more tournaments, might mean creating an esports league, whatever they can do to increase the value to players of that economy. And so you have complete incentive alignment, even though it can be an incredibly profitable system. So that's why I've been so passionate about it, is it actually enables a much better, more incentive aligned business model that we must protect in order to, you know, essentially have adverse selection or this kind of, you know, tragedy where we do a short-term benefit to players by giving them cheaper trades, and then there's no incentive for game developers to build or to build based on this much better business model. So why is it that this is not enforceable at the smart contract level? I mean, couldn't we just build like a better ERC721 kind of contract or enforce royalties? Is that possible? It is, but it's just very hard to enforce if the collections themselves aren't originally A, sort of written to be, to be opt into those smart contracts. And so a lot of the volumes say in NFTs has been the legacy collections, which weren't incorporated into this. So I think that's partially what has driven this decision with OpenSea. But B, the kind of more simple solution is if it's relying on individual, say marketplaces or individual collections to make this decision, it's just going to be an incredibly fraught debate. The answer just has to be sort of protocol-wide. This is an available standard that can be enforced. Okay. So you guys enforce this by having a sequencer include the sort of the royalty or like extract the royalty when building the block? Precisely. So that's on ImmutableX, on StarkX, an absolutist rollout, but we can do that on ImmutableZKDM. We're going to have a side of an approach. I think we'll be sharing more details soon. Okay, cool. So I want to talk a little bit about the token. So this IMX token, which is actually like, yeah, trading today. And yeah, I checked, there's like $13 million of trading volume somewhere around that. And, you know, actually I found the token price, like, you know, over time has stayed, I guess, like pretty consistent except for, you know, one peak where I guess probably during the bull market, but hasn't lost a lot of its value compared to, I guess like when it was initially launched. So I guess that's a good thing, I guess. How much do you think of that volume as speculators and how much is tied to actual platform activity? I guess maybe a precursor to that question is what's the token use? What's the token's utility is basically Immutable operates very differently to most of the blockchains in terms of our business model. Rather than having say, sort of this L1 chain thesis around value accruing to the token, the chains. And we will obviously, IMX is going to be the core gas currency of ImmutableZKDM. I think we're now, you know, capturing a lot of that narrative, which is really interesting. But our philosophy has always been, we think a much better and much more aligned business model is to make the most liquid value add platform possible for web3 games and take 2% of every trade. And this way we can build something that has completely aligned incentives for developers when they make money or when users trades when making money. And every single time those assets are traded, 20% of the fees must be paid for an IMX. And so IMX actually has sort of, you know, clear fundamental utility, which I think is, you know, people can sort of look at that and sort of build their utility models around rather than sort of alternatives in market. So that's our utility. That's been the clear goal since day one is to really have this integral into the protocol and how we add value to every single trade. And then yeah, the volume, you know, how much of the volume you think is, or do you have a sense of, is that something you're tracking somehow? I mean, like how much of that is tied to actual activity on the platform and how much of it is speculative? Well, the vast majority would be people trading based on, you know, what they sort of perceive the utility to be. I wouldn't necessarily call that speculative, but, you know, I can, up to the reader's interpretation, I think the most important thing is this thing has a clear, right, kind of that we've set in stone since day one. And our vision is to construct really just some of the most sensible tokenomics in the world. So the few things that really excite me about the token, obviously Immutable, you know, doesn't generate this. This is run by the Digital Worlds Foundation, but is one, every single person who trades on Immutable can own part of the protocol. And that's because, you know, every single time of trade you're earning IMX tokens. And the vision of this is really cool because you have 3.1 billion gamers. If this takes off, everyone can own a part of this open ecosystem of what the future of digital property ownership is going to be. And that's probably my favorite thing. And the second thing, you know, you talked about how the price has been quite stable. Obviously, you know, not here to comment on prices, but the circulating supply is much higher than most alternatives. It's sort of used a lot more. And we've been able to maintain that ranking or improve that ranking from 150 to 50 over the last year in circulating supply, even despite everything unlocking. I think that's because of sort of the, you know, the utility and the long-term alignment we have from Haulers today. And then the final thing I'd say is that obviously the vast majority of IMX allocated to ecosystem grants, the vast majority of these grants, all of which are issued by the Foundation, are almost completely underwritten. So, we don't just give them out to games in exchange for grants. The games actually have to deliver volume to the protocol in order to earn those grants. And right now, in order for roughly 180 million of tokens which have been allocated, over $12 billion in protocol volume has to be achieved in order for them to even be given out. So, in terms of ecosystem allocations, we run, you know, the recommendations here are incredibly efficient in terms of how they're structured for grants versus returns. And game developers love it because they know that ultimately, you know, that there's no supply just going out there, no value being brought. Everyone has to contribute to the ecosystem in order to sort of end up owning part of the protocol, which I think is really important. Very cool. Yeah, I mean, maybe to wrap up here, what is the, yeah, what's the roadmap and what should people be looking into when it comes to Immutable? How can people follow the protocol also in the project? And yeah, any final thoughts? Yeah, look, Testnet just went live two weeks ago. We have pretty much every game on the platform signed up to Passport. We've just done our biggest quarter of onboarding games ever in the company's history off the back of this Polygon announcement, basically, you know, increasing our win rate by 75%. We've got over four years of runway way over the long term, whether it takes a year to get to that hit or four, and we're here to change digital ownership for good.And the thing I would say is, look, coming up, we have Mainnet in quarter four, we've got God's Sunshine going mobile end of this year, Build of Guardians, Shardbound, Infinite Victory, all Immutable titles being published this year. And we've got a ton of our biggest games on the platform on the rise. Yeah, Across the Ages, number one in France, strategy game in Australia. You have Alluvium going out of their open beta, Imminently, probably one of the most hyped games in Web3 right now. We're really just excited by the continued raise of the caliber of quality of games right now. And, you know, as I said, you can't wave the magic wand on the timelines, but it's pretty clear that a single hit is going to pull gasoline on everything and catalyze what has already been a very heavily invested in category. So personally, we're actually thrilled with the pace and progress of things. I think it's just continued to build through despair and help people get to these hits faster, more profitably, and more sustainably. Great. Robbie, thanks for coming on and telling us all about Immutable. And also, I mean, I've learned a ton about Web3 Gaming so this has been great. Thank you. Thanks, Deb. Thanks for having me. Pleasure. your inbox as they're released. If you want to interact with us, guests, or other podcast listeners, you can follow us on Twitter. And please leave us a review on iTunes. It helps people find the show and we're always happy to read them. So thanks so much. 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"first stop" Discussed on Epicenter
"Welcome to Epicenter, the show which talks about the technologies, projects, and people driving decentralization and the blockchain revolution. I'm Sebastien Couture, and today I'm joined by Robbie Ferguson. He's co-founder at Immutable. Immutable is a platform for web3 gaming today. We're going to talk about the gaming market, we're going to discuss also Immutable, their whole developer platform, and some of their products, and understanding where web3 gaming is going generally. So Robbie, thanks for joining me today. Thanks for having me, it's a pleasure to be here. So yeah, tell me a bit about your background and like how you came to want to focus on web3 gaming. Yeah, of course. So I've been building technology startups for the last decade as a software engineer, originally self-taught, and most of these I built with my brother and my co-founder James. In fact, we actually started out by building a League of Legends betting application where you could automatically wager on your own matches. So I think we had, you know, we were massive gamers growing up. I think we had this thesis pretty early on that games were incredibly important, that the assets inside these games could be valuable, and that there was something that was being locked away from gamers. You know, back then we didn't know the technical architecture of that. But I remember even playing RuneScape on a shared account I had with my brother. And one day I decided to take his account out of the wilderness, I think he had full dragon, and I scowled and I lost all his items. And I felt so bad that I went online and I spent all my pocket money and I bought in-game gold so that I could buy his items back. And the next day the account was banned for real world trading. Six months later, Jagex rolled out first party support for real world trading, as long as the issuance was centralized and controlled through them. And so I think it was pretty obvious that, you know, the impunity with which people regarded these economies and made changes to them, even though they were incredibly important to people's lives and to their financial livelihoods, even in Web2 economies, where it was limited to a database. In fact, you can make arguments that the first ever sort of, you know, real world trading of digital assets was probably World of Warcraft. And indeed, you know, Counter-Strike GO through this essentially steam-locked database today did 32 billion dollars in volume over the last few years. So I think it's obvious that there's a problem and also that there's a need, there's a demand analog in the real world over these assets being traded or wanting to be traded. And they're really not being a good solution or infrastructure for it. So we started building, you know, more tech companies. We got into the crypto space in 2014 with Bitcoin. We basically got exposure financially. I thought it was kind of interesting. I wasn't super obsessed. But when Ethereum came out, I became a believer. I remember using Etherol and just becoming obsessed with this idea that someone could take what, you know, a gambling company spends billions of dollars or the government does, ensuring that the payouts on slot machines are compliant, that they have the probabilities rated between what their payout ratios are, 88 to 93 cents here in Australia. And they literally heuristically test this. They have to air gap the machines. And then someone built this little app called Etherol. It did all of that in 200 lines of code. And then it did something that the companies and the government could never do. It took the revenue streams from this institution or this enterprise and it gave it to every single person who used the protocol through tokens. And I was just obsessed with this idea of decentralizing and making companies cooperatives. I thought it was the way that capitalist incentives could finally solve some of the inherent problems in society. I was sold by this idea of a decentralized Uber where all the riders could go in the network. Now, it turns out that did happen. It just happened with on-chain financial products because the friction was much lower and you already have native product market fit with these 100,000 DeFi freighters slash airdrop farmers slash early users of Web3 today as kind of your core whales who are moving money around. And we basically started building trading bots for a few years on top of Poloniex initially and then on decentralized exchanges. But we always wanted to build something. And so at the start of 2017, my brother and I wrote a white paper called the Distributed Autonomous Bank or DAB, which was effectively Compound. And we hadn't solved all of the collateralization problems of lending protocols. I don't think they're sold today even, but we were about to launch it when five ICOs went to 50, went to 200 and we just got very cold feet about the space from a reg and compliance perspective. We thought a bunch of people were going to jail. And we wanted to build something that would be long-term feasible and that we would be happy to grow incredibly large without having the SEC knock on our door when it gets to a sufficient scale. And so we scrapped that, but serendipitously at the same time, the first ever NFTs came out in this idea of a crypto-punk. And we saw these and we said, this will be how gamers own in-game items. And actually the way we started was we built the first ever multiplayer game on any blockchain. It was fully on chain logic. It came out in December of 2017. It was called Etherbots. And you could basically battle robots and win real NFTs by having your machines win. They were composable of four ARC721s. You got a fully on-chain perk tree. You can play a game today and it'll cost you hundreds of dollars, but it can never go down. And so I think we learned pretty early on, you know, watch your goal on chain versus watch it off. And that really formed the thesis of how we started to build Immutable, which was build first party content much in the same way that Steam or Valve started out with Counter-Strike GO. And then we're able to leverage that knowledge and that sort of beachhead from the content perspective into building a platform that everyone could use. And that really solved core needs. And so, you know, Immutable today, we're nearly 300 people around the world, much more if you include the contracting on game development. We have hundreds of games building on us. We had more than a billion dollars invested in games building on us just last year. And we've significantly increased our market share since then with this Polygon partnership. And we've raised, you know, hundreds of millions from everyone from Temasek to Tencent's first investment in the space. And our whole mission is how do we deliver on this promise to web through gamers and to gamers worldwide on true digital asset ownership. You said something in the beginning, which, you know, kind of struck me as interesting is that you said that you were, I think it was League of Legends, that you had bought this gold and then ended up buying some assets to sort of make good on having lost your brother's assets and that that account was banned for real world trading. Why do gaming platforms and game publishers prohibit or want to prohibit or keep, or in the case of this game, having then allowed real world trading, why do they want to keep that sort of centralized and within their platform? So I think before now, the technology hasn't existed. I think it's impossible to do with databases. The availability of being able to change something means that companies will, and that means you can't form third party trusted ecosystem. Even if the current CEO wants to make a trusted third party ecosystem, you know, people can't trust the incentives and financials enough to actually build real enterprises. You saw this with Opskits, which was their $300 million third party marketplace for CSGO skins that basically went belly up when Valve implemented trade locks, and they limited skins from being created more frequently than once a week. And so I think there's actually just this technological impossibility and political impossibility with everything that doesn't rely on, you know, open, trustless immutable architecture such as NFTs. But isn't that a design issue? I mean, so there may be the technology issue, but there's also like the design aspect. So whether you're building on a centralized database or you're building in a blockchain, the designers of say the smart contract or the, and maybe this is getting a little bit in the weeds here sort of early on, but the design essentially is in the hands of the developer or the issue of that game. And so, I mean, couldn't you build a similar sort of design in a game where you have like an admin key and that admin key gets to decide who is able to trade or what the trading mechanisms might be? You can. So I think the technology is only one half of the picture. And the answer to that in Web3 is, I mean, if you work really hard, you can make things properly trustless and in general that they're much more trustless. For instance, if someone does a change that they don't like, you know, people can kind of fork those assets or find out some other ways to bring value to them. But in general, what we're relying on is incentive alignment, which means that the publishers have an incentive to grow the value of that ecosystem and grow the value of those assets because they now have access to things like royalties and secondary market fees. Rather than having to rely on this old model of I sell stuff, I deprecate that and make them more useless by releasing more powerful stuff that people want to buy every year. And so I think it's a fair point and it's certainly not, you sort of overnight solved unless you're doing fully on-chain clusters games, which, you know, are certainly not this cycle. I think we're seeing some interesting experiments, but it's Web 2.5 games that are going to go mainstream first. But the second question and the probably much more important one is just economics and incentives. I think this model hasn't existed before. I think it's difficult for games companies to see how they can, you know, for a long time, actually succeed off growing the value of these economies. And you have to remember as well, like in-game items being the biggest portion of spend is also a reasonably new phenomenon. Free-to-play gaming only came out in the late 2010s. And that's when you had in-game items as even something that was really important as a vast majority of monetization. The majority of monetization is now in-game items. And we're sort of seeing this pressure towards well, how do we actually create better economic standards and better property rights for gamers because of this? But 20 years ago, this was completely irrelevant because these, you know, these sort of economies were increasingly small and didn't have that much relevance to players. So I think the answer now is it's a bit of both. It's how can we prove out to developers this is a better and more aligned business model while at the same time you just have innovative dilemma. People are going to be disrupted. The goal we're going for is we want gamers to demand property rights. If they play a game and they give something to the database, that should be not good enough. And that's the point at which it's no longer sort of market to have a game that runs on a database rather than on open property systems. Yeah, interesting. We can get a little bit more into this a little bit later, but I just want to pull in and throw a little bit, you know, what is it that people like me take a snap back here? Like what is it that people understand the least about game development? You know, there's this whole kind of narrative around Web3 games and how Web3 games are inherently better than the traditional model, but like game development is a really, I mean, it's a huge industry. It's like a 200 billion dollar industry games and game development is expensive. And like there's all these, there's all these considerations around like licensing and publishers and distribution. And I mean, it's a very complex industry. What is it that people understand least about it that, you know, bears understanding if they're going to be building a Web3 game or if they want to go sort of in this direction? I think the first thing is probably timelines and how they get produced. The reason that DeFi bull runs correlated so quickly with DeFi innovation is André Cronier can put together a test smart contract and call it a production spawn contract in a week, right? Like you can build DeFi applications very, very quickly. They're all open source. They're highly composable. People can fork and sort of remix things. Building a game is not at all like that. It's like building a movie. You have a budget of roughly minimum five million dollars for anything reasonable unless you're looking at truly indie hits all the way up into the hundreds of millions of dollars for sort of, you know, Bethesda quality games. And even then, you will not be able to produce a Bethesda game unless you have the capabilities and processes of Bethesda. There are very few studios with sort of that internal capability and risk tolerance. And the time it takes is a lot longer. And then you combine that with the power law of gaming, which is that gaming, particularly free to play games, conform to a power law, which means that the biggest game will have more revenue or more players and more volume than number two and to the end. And the second biggest game will have more than number three and so on to the end. And what that means actually is when you look at why we haven't had a hit or the one hit we've had was sort of Axie, which was sort of medium sustainability, obviously had a sharp drop off, is there simply hasn't been enough shots on goal and one hit has got to dwarf everything else combined. You see this already in Web 2, Counter Strike Go doing 32 billion dollars in volume over the last three years or in revenues, you see that same topology. Axie then is roughly what, five or six billion and everything else is lower than that combined. And I think we're going to see that, but the failure rates are going to be incredibly high to start with, 90 to 95 percent. And so the reason we have such a broad platform play is we know there are going to be so many shots on goal and all that matters is they have sufficient funding to be one of those hits. And then we just have to make everyone as successful as possible and sort of focus on those top 100, top 200 opportunities. And what are the biggest challenges then? I mean, like you said, there's like 100 games on immutable and we've seen other games like Axie and there's the whole like sandbox ecosystem. What have we learned so far about Web 3 games that we've identified as like the biggest challenges to like hitting those shots on goal and like really demonstrating that this new sort of infrastructure and this new paradigm of gaming is inherently better and making suppositions here than traditional games? I think there's probably five big problems blocking successful games being ready now and available. And we think about this problem a lot and our goal as Immutable is to be the one stop shop that we could solve everything for a mainstream developer if they want to look at his app today. So I think the five problems are security and choice of technical architecture. Two, user experience for onboarding mainstream players. Three, developer experience for mainstream developers to build a successful blockchain game without having to touch things like Solidity. Four, having a sustainable and easily built economy. And five, the game design itself and the actual game production quality kind of getting live. And that's the one we have the least control over. That takes time. It takes game studios being built. And we had a lot of that investment. So that's kind of in progress and we're seeing stuff start to go live and we'll start to pick up the pace increasingly over the next 12 months. As the rest of the board, I think we've actually made massive progress. So the first one, security, I think this is basically now solved. And this was always something we were never happy to compromise on. It's the reason we didn't go down the path of sidechains, even that was the most favored sort of VC thesis for how you should build a valuable company was building an each killer, an each alternative. We always wanted to build on the thing that already had liquidity and had the best security. And we wanted to do so inheriting that security, which is why we're basically the first ZK roll up for NFTs, why we chose this architecture from day one. The second is user experience. And this was in a really bad place. By the way, on security, if you make the wrong choice here, your platform is dead and you lose all brand sort of security and trust with your customers. So this is a non-viable condition that companies have to be incredibly careful about. And it doesn't just extend it to inherent blockchain security. It's also the quality of your wallets, are they self custodial, et cetera, et cetera. So I think that's a really important decision. Second is user experience. This is probably honestly the most basic, but also the most important. If you ask a mainstream gamer, I even think friend tech is a perfect example of this. It was able to go viral within crypto and no further because as soon as you have that viral coefficient, which might've been just above one within Web3, you cut it down to like 0.1 as soon as you require anyone to go through Web3 onboarding. If you're required to learn what a wallet is to bridge, you lose a huge amount of your users, 90 to 95% of your users. And so we need a way of making this like downloading a game in the app store and paying. And I think we've come a very long way here. We have fiat on-ramps and off-ramps entering maturity. We have things like Immutable Passport where you can literally sign up to a wallet that's self custodial in under five seconds, sign on with Apple, sign with Google, sign with email. And that's kind of our view for the long term is this has to be completely invisible to the end user while still maintaining self custody as the default. Otherwise, again, we're just building a glorified database. Number three, I think developer experience is really interesting and has been overlooked by the vast majority of platforms and blockchains. A lot of people have invested in better frameworks for writing smart contracts, EVM compatibility. They are important, but they really service a hardcore use case of DeFi builders and people building right now. What our belief is, is 95% of developers will just want to build using APIs, like Stripe. And I think without that usability, it's incredibly hard for this thing to take off. I mean, even you have like curve finance, advanced builders using early version of Viper and then having a reentrancy bug that was not even really auditable. And so it's terrifying to build stuff using open smart contracts. You have brand new security concepts that do not exist in Web2, things like reentrancy, which are literally not sort of concepts that you encounter in conventional programming. And then on top of everything, you have immutability and financial contracts that inherently deal with money, which I think is just terrifying. As somebody who was originally a Web2 engineer and obviously had to learn solidity and build on chain products. The fourth is economies. And this one is really interesting because I think that had Axie had a sustainable economy, Web3 gaming would already be mainstream. Because what you have in every shift in gaming is, and there's been three major shifts in gaming over the last couple of decades. You have the free to play shifts, the social shift and the mobile shift. And then within that you have different game designs emerging based on each form of distribution. But with each form of distribution, basically you have early hypothesis, a few people taking bets. And as soon as someone has a mainstream success, there are a thousand copycats that becomes the new default form of distribution, huge influence of investment. And it basically becomes a commodity, how to build a successful game design for that game distribution or genre. You saw this with Farmville. Farmville spawned the social game genre. You had Mafia Wars, also created by Zynga, skinned into 15 different games that were literally the Mafia Wars code under the hood. They just had its skin for teenage girls with a beauty salon or lots of different other modes. And that's actually what we need in Web3. If Axie had a sustainable economy, I'm not throwing shade on Axie here, I'm just saying the reality of it was it was a bet that became extremely viral and then failed. But if that was sustainable, suddenly we'd have all the copycats step in, seeing sustained success. And I think that's what we need. It's why we build Immutable Studios is that we have to force ourselves to think from first principles, how to design an economy to be sustainable and work with things like the natural growth curves or churn of different games. That's incredibly important. And that needs to be just super simple. Games should not have to go and have to hire like five PhD economists to succeed in Web3. It has to be like, oh, cool, I'm building a gacha game. Here's like the open source template for building a gacha game. I might add some tweaks and make it hit like Genshin Impact, but really I'm innovating on core gameplay loops and retention, not like some really intractable stuff around economies. And five, and actually I didn't even touch on this, but like liquidity fragmentation is also a huge problem. I realize I'm talking a lot, but obviously it's something I'm passionate about. No, these are great points. So liquidity fragmentation is like the hidden demon of the blockchain today. It's the reason behind the fact that we even have ETH killers is because everyone says in the fantastic article, Chainlink God, Chain Rotation Thesis, you have a bull run, Ethereum hits Congestion. Congestion creates the narrative fodder for someone to create an ETH competitor saying ETH doesn't scale. They raise cash because they need to bootstrap liquidity from scratch for that alternative blockchain. And then they are able to seed DeFi and create artificial metrics on that new blockchain in order to seed some interest. And we've seen that happen time and time again with every single bull bear run cycle. The difference with the next cycle is we now have L2s and L3s that can scale Ethereum, the most secure and most liquid blockchain in the world. And our vision is, well, how do we just remove fragmentation whatsoever? How do we make it so no matter what L2 or L3 you're using, no matter what wallet you're using, no matter what marketplace you're trading on, no matter what game you're trading in, you can trade completely atomically, completely seamlessly with any other trade in the world. And I think that's incredibly important because everything I just said, marketplaces, roll-ups, wallets, and user funds, they're each fragmented to whatever particular product you're using in that particular time. And so we're having no network value created from everyone depositing. And this is what Apple does. Everyone thinks it's really easy to pay for things in the App Store, but at one point you actually had to sign up and give them your credit card details. You had to KYC or to register your username. That's why you can double-click with your face. And you have to do that for a million different times, for a million different liquidity-motored onboarding platforms in Web3 when we just need everyone to come onto a single source and start to be able to use their funds everywhere. I think that's the really important underlying network that every bit of value has to be accruing to. So those are the five things we think about. I think the majority of these are either solved or will be solved in the next six months. And so we're finally at the point where games are actually capable of succeeding, purely based on the infrastructure that they're using. So all these points, like these five challenges you cited when you were going through them, to me, they just seem like the same challenges. They're crypto challenges. They're not just crypto gaming challenges. They're the challenges for any crypto adoption, whether that's social networks, whether that's DeFi, whether that's whatever application you want to build on crypto. And I think some of these are getting solved, right? Onboarding is getting solved. Security is getting solved. Liquidity fragmentation, I think we're in the early stages of solving that with trust-minimized bridging and stuff like that. I really think that that's going to be one of the big leaps ahead in the next cycle, the next four to five years. Developer experience. And we're doing quite a lot of work here, I think, on a couple of things, which is our global order book, which basically aggregates and propagates liquidity to every marketplace that integrates with our wallet, which is self-custodial but doesn't lock your liquidity per game, which is what the majority of other sort of easy sign-on wallets do as well. Yeah. I want to talk about the wallet a little bit too, Passport. So I read on one of your blog articles that it says that immutable... So you guys sort of expect that 40% of the $200 billion gaming industry will shift to Web3 in two to two and a half years. I read that and I was like, that is a very bold claim. Do you think that in two to two to five years, all of these problems will be solved and there will be enough incentive for 40% of the gaming market essentially to drop what they're doing and move to Web3? I personally think this claim is a little bit optimistic. Yeah. I don't necessarily agree with that claim. I think the timelines are a bit aggressive on that, but it could be referring to 40% of the market being sort of the minimum bar of the amount, which are in-game items. And our conviction is certainly that's going to shift. I think it would take a decade to shift for the whole thing. But I think we'll start to see it snowball as soon as you have... I think the key inflection point is there's probably two coming up. The first hit that says sustainable, and then second is this ability to go to customers in Web2 and say, here's a much more effective model for running your games. And something we're not just choosing out of people interested in building Web3 games, this becomes something you can pitch to everyone. And it's like pitching them, hey, you should also launch your game on consoles, not just PC, because this is now a thing that makes you way more money and is a way more successful way of doing games. You guys were just at GamesCon in Cologne, so for those who don't know, GamesCon is like the DevCon of games, right? It's this massive conference that happens in Cologne every year. Actually, I was surprised to find out that it's more like a B2C conference than a B2B conference, which I find is interesting. But basically, it's like, you know, the biggest games conference in the world, all the game developers are there, all the big publishing houses, the entire industry is there. I'd like to get a sense from you, like, because I asked a friend who was there, like, we're just down the street from Ubisoft here, like, I have a couple friends who work there. And so I was asking your friend, like, hey, like, you know, were there a lot of Web3 games there? And his sense was that there weren't the narrative at the conference this year. So I'm curious if you echo that sentiment, and what is the general approach that incumbents like Ubisoft, like 2K, like EA, like these big game publishers, you know, how do they look at Web3? Are they adopting it? I guess my question is, like, is it similar to the way sort of finance looks at DeFi, like they're a little bit reluctant to adopt it, they think it's a little bit scammy, or are they like wholeheartedly sort of like throwing a lot of resources within this so that they can really sort of like be at the forefront of this tech? There's certainly a big difference, I think, in the promotional activities around Web3 games, just in terms of how much of a splash they're looking to make versus last year. There was so much hype last year, people were trying to launch a lot of tokens and do a lot of speculative upfront primary sales, which meant a lot of noise. I think people are now more focused on building games that have ROAS. So can they profitably grow, and can they have sustainable economies? I vastly prefer that. I think this is a very healthy shift in the industry. The game developers we have applying to us today are a very different profile or composition than a year ago. A year ago, it was mostly DeFi devs, or people who have been able to raise cash, who were trying to build a game on top of it. And some of them will succeed, but most of them don't have the interest in sort of, or we rate our confidence of you succeeding a lot lower, which I think is just an inherent factor in the game. It's a very specialist job, is sort of shipping successful games. The majority of people building today are now people who have successfully built things before, who are incorporating Web3 into their economies. We much prefer that, and I think their goal of sort of how do they drum up as much fanfare pre-launch as possible is less. The data point we see, Seb, is over the last four months, which we call a cycle, we've onboarded more games than any other cycle in Immutable's history, more than the peak run, et cetera. And obviously, part of this is the increase in market share, but we are still seeing a very healthy flow of sort of credible Web3 developers. In terms of how we think about the market and sort of incumbents approaching it, I think there's two things. One is, you know, some of the names you mentioned are already building a Web3, they've already launched projects. I think the West will have a sort of buy, build partner analysis approach, which is how do they hedge the risk in the future of knowing how to build successfully in Web3 without throwing all their eggs in the basket right now? Because it doesn't make sense that the beneficiaries of the current model, they are the incumbents who are able to sell $100 billion of digital assets without ever having to back the value of those assets as a liability in the future without having any ongoing obligations. So of course, it's a model that they're a fan of, and these are risk-minimizing enterprises. But that being said, out of the top 20 Western developers you could think in the world, A-Team would have full-time large teams, staff to look at Web3 gaming, whether it's now, whether it's longer term. You just had Zynga announce Sugartown, and obviously some of these with Asian roots. But I think that kind of leads into how we see the large studios in Asia approach this. And you literally have in Korea Nexon, one of the largest gaming studios in the world, putting their flagship IP, MapleStory, on the blockchain. You have Fumio Kishida, the Japanese prime minister, saying Web3 is the new form of capitalism and identifying NFTs and Web3 gaming as one of five core areas of national interest. You have MUFG, Mitsubishi Group investing in Web3 gaming. So we see really interesting leading metrics from Asia. And this makes sense because Japan and Korea have always been at the vanguard of shifts in distribution rather than reacting to it. They were the ones who ushered in the free-to-play new game design genres. They were the ones who helped to usher in a lot of social gaming. And I think they see themselves as, hey, if we can win on this, this will be a huge boon, and this is a really important experimentation for players' benefits. The final note I'll just say on all of this, Seb, is I really believe Web3's margin is Web3's opportunity. And that's the case in gaming. So the people who will be most motivated are not number one. It's number two. It's the underdog. And in gaming, there's many of these, and they're reasonable sizes, but we think it's going to be — just getting the lights on back here — we think it's going to be companies who want to compete with the biggest incumbents of the world by leveraging the growth strategies of Web3. And we've just seen, in my opinion, the most interesting real-world example of this, of token-driven user acquisition ever play out, which is with Worldcoin, where they were able to effectively bootstrap from nothing a giant token and then leverage the paper FDB to incentivize 20 million people to scan their readiness. Say what you will about whether you think this is dystopian or utopian. It's an incredibly effective way to essentially do a vampire attack in real life and then have massive incentives while giving people ownership of the underlying network. Cool. Well, this is really interesting, and I'd love to spend more time kind of like asking, talking about the market and where you think this is going. But I do want to talk about the tech a little bit and talking about Immutable as a developer platform. You guys are doing some really interesting things there and have just announced the ZK EVM on Polygon. It just happens we had Sandeep on last week or two weeks ago to talk about Polygon's work in ZK. So yeah, what is Immutable as a product? Who is this product for? Talk about the different aspects of this product and how they're useful for people who want to get into web3 gaming, either new web3 developers that are looking to build a game or existing gaming developers that want to shift to web3 economies. For sure. So Immutable is, we describe it as the one-stop shop for web3 games. If they want to build anything, we can service it. Everything from having an incredibly easy wallet to onboard their customers, to having the entire blockchain design done for them, to be able to use any marketplace instantly via our global audiobook. So if you list an asset for sale on Immutable, it lists on every marketplace that integrates Immutable, which means you're vastly increasing your volume, and it's a much better platform for marketplaces because they have much more volume that they can take fees on. We have things like enforceable royalties and mints, so that you can easily route primary sale, or you can easily take ongoing clips of assets no matter where they trade, if that's a really important part of your business model, like it is for Digi Daidaku or some of these bigger games moving in from web2. And all of this kind of comes back to, we're trying to operate at the most important layer of the stack where we can help unify what would otherwise be six different technical choices. And this is a really important reason behind why we did this Polygon partnership. You know, at the end of last year, Polygon was by far our biggest competitor for gaming. We both had roughly 40% market share. We were both competing pretty viciously in market, and you know, rad pricing was going up astronomically for top deals. We had this vision of saying, well, actually there's no reason for us to have to compete. We could have it so that players can use the Immutable platform. And under the hood, they could be using the Immutable ZKVM, which leverages Polygon's ZKVM technology. And by far they are the best developers of this in the world right now. They're the closest to production. Vitalik has said this a couple of months ago. And by combining the two, we just simplified the developer choice hugely. I think that's why our win rate has essentially doubled over the last six months since launching this partnership, and why we've been able to have such success in the market. And the reason I like that is it means these games spend less time wasting around what technical infrastructures they use and more time building quality games. And then the final really important part to Immutable, and I think probably what resonates with these game developers the most, is we are gamers and we build games. I think the reason why, even though we started out with far less funding than any major blockchain in market, you know, and we pretty much until early last year didn't have any war chest that was akin to these, and obviously we now have a pretty sizable war chest, and the reason we are able to compete and gain this market share is, you know, the Solanas of the world, the EOS's, whoever was relevant back then, they cared about everything. They cared about winning DeFi, PFPs, collectibles, gaming, RWAs. All we cared about was winning gaming and helping to usher in, you know, real property rights for the 3.1 billion gamers around the world. We had built several games internally where we're now publishing three more, and I think that radical focus meant that we built a product that was fundamentally designed for this use case, but that we also understood things on the economic side. If they were struggling with the App Store, we were struggling with the App Store because we were also at the coalface building things with them, and I think that's been really essential to the sort of DNA of our product and product teams today as well. Let's talk about the underlying platform here. So I learned that there is basically like two roll-ups, right? There's Immutable X that's built on Starkware, and you guys just launched this ZK-AVM on Polygon. Why did you shift to Polygon? What was the impetus to do that? And, you know, is the idea for Immutable X to be phased out, or, you know, are there still sort of like some types of customers that will want to use Immutable X? Both are continuing to run. We maintain and upgrade both of them continuously. I think, you know, StarkX is an exceptional technology as well. Ultimately, we needed to solve a couple of things. We needed to solve an EVM-compatible offering. So before then, the only ZK technology, and we wanted to go with ZK for security reasons, was an app-specific roll-up, which meant you couldn't just use Solidity or copy-paste your contracts from either one. And that was the choice that we had to make. I'm very happy with that choice. But now we have the first ZK-AVMs coming on market, and it's essential for us to have this product offering. Ultimately, we still think 90% of developers will build using APIs. But the people building now, and a lot of the hardcore, more advanced game development companies, DeFi companies, want to build with their own smart contracts, which means EVM compatibility makes this a lot easier for them. But the second thing was more pragmatic, which was sort of by partnering with Polygon with their ZK-AVM technology, we were able to provide this joint offering to game developers, which was this end-game tech stack and also this end-game commercial stack, where they could find it much easier rather than having to choose between Polygon or immutable. They could simply have a unified solution. And I think that's, you know, pretty much everyone who's originally deciding between the two has come to us and said, it's so much easier now. We find this much better. We get support from both. We're able to be much more successful in market. So I think partially a product decision. I think that ZK-AVM technology is exceptional. They obviously had what I think is one of the most successful examples of M &A and the Web3 history, buying three ZK teams two years ago for roughly a billion dollars a lot. And those teams have now turned into the kind of ZK technologies we're using today. But also on the commercial side, it just makes a ton of sense. How is this going to improve the developer experience? And I guess, you know, for let's say like a traditional game developer who wants to incorporate Web3 aspects into their game, you know, they might choose something like immutable. What's the learning curve for that developer to have to learn to build EVM smart contracts, all the concepts that that introduces security, re-entrancy, like all these all these things, right? That like takes people years to learn. How is that fair for traditional web gaming developers that are entering the immutable ecosystem? The cool thing is that you can use smart contracts if you want to, but you don't have to. And in fact, you can sign up and create a Web3 game while never writing a smart contract. You can use APIs for minting and for trading. You can basically use our template contracts and soon to be sort of almost entirely automated for deployment of collections and manage them via APIs. It's much more to share here with Immutable Hub, where eventually you can manage all of this through a GUI. And I think that is incredibly important. So our vision has always been make this as dead simple as possible for developers. We have a very high NPS on that, where instead of working continuously to make that develop, to make that easier. And I think as soon as we hit this inflection point from this being a really interesting sort of heavily funded niche of game design to being a horizontal, because this is not a vertical, right? Web3 gaming is not going to be a category. Web3 is going to be the way you own assets and multiplier gates. And at that point, this has to be like building incredibly easily on Unity SDK or Unreal or with Stripe-like APIs. And so a lot of what we also do is our ecosystem integrations. We have integrations coming out of the box from day one for ZKVM mainnet for Unity and for Unreal, where you can basically leverage our SDK from day one. Interesting. So talk a bit about the SDK and what's possible to do with the SDK. So you're building a game, would you want to start using that SDK early on? Or is it possible to take an existing game and sort of strap on the SDK in order to incorporate some Web3 mechanics? Yeah, so look, the majority of the stuff right now is initiating things like transfers, trades, mints, even things like forging. So you take, say, five assets, you destroy them, and you mint something, but it's required input output. And that's upgrading, say, five common alluvials into a rare alluvial, five common gods on chain cards. And we've even launched things like provisioning, where you can basically have this done automatically under the hood up to a certain value threshold, which is how we think about decentralization. So users can always set kind of almost the parameters for how much they're happy for the game to sign on their behalf. And then they can kind of say, well, I want to specifically approve or sign things above a certain value threshold, which to me makes a ton of sense. And it's the right balance between the two, as long as they're always the ones in control and the technology is architectured to be self-custodial. So the vision is you'll be able to initiate all of this incredibly easily through SDKs we expose through pretty much every version of Unreal, of Unity, and obviously trying to work with the app stores as well. What's it like working with the app stores? Because I realize it's probably, well, one of the big challenges for the Web3 gaming space is some of the barriers of having the work, particularly I think with Apple or having Apple sort of approve certain types of applications. Is that getting better, do you think, or are we still sort of the same place we were a couple of years ago? So the trend is toward more open permissions for app stores for digital assets and lower fees. We will see exactly how that plays out under the crystal ball. But here's some really interesting things. One, you have a lot of increasing economic pressure. There are more alternatives for people to download things. You have the EU forcing sideloading within the EU, which is a really big deal of apps. So you're usually able to download apps through any app store, not just the one provided on the device. You have Google basically allowing NFTs inside of their apps, which I think was a pretty landmark announcement. I mean, that provided just a ton of sort of compliance clarity to a lot of people building. And now a lot of people are building for sort of Android first onboarding. You have Epic Store, which is very pro Web3 as well. You have already, I think, 20 Web3 games live on there. Gods Unchained went live on there in the last few months, which is a massive source of distribution. So I think there's this really interesting sort of pressure mounting on the biggest incumbents as to how they can actually clarify permissions and fees. Ultimately, you can use, say, the iOS store today if you do two things. One is off-platform NFTs not used or use all the utility inside the game. And the second is you pay clips on these assets and you just kind of pay the Apple tax. It's very tricky, obviously, with secondary market to sort of add a tax onto it. So I'm pretty bullish on where this is going to get to over the next few years. I think there's already sufficient clarity for people to launch mobile first games. We're certainly focusing on it at this point. I think it's going to be the first ones to mainstream success. But that is kind of the billion or trillion dollar question is how will App Store rules interact with this open ecosystem? So I'd like to also talk about Passport, which is your, I guess, like non-custodial sign-in or identity solution. What is Passport and what technology? Is it leveraging MPC? How does that work? It does. So Passport is our easy onboard wallet that is completely self-custodial and is your universal wallet for every single game or marketplace or wallet you interact with. And this is our vision of this full Passport. The only easy onboarding wallets you had used a single state MPC system where in order to both maintain security but also have easy user experience, they basically generated a new wallet per user, per game. They could give that game escalated privileges for transactions because it was localized to that game's ecosystem. But it meant that for security reasons, you can't expand that to your general funds. And this is no unified liquidity or network value being created. If I'm onboarding into Web3, I can't use that cash to go buy assets from, you know, another game. Like in Counter-Strike Go, I can't trade with someone in League of Legends particularly easily. And so our vision with Passport was to solve that problem while not compromising on self-custody and while not compromising on user experience. And the way we solve this is with a multi-seq architecture system. It leverages two MPCs. One is in Immutables custody and we actually act as basically a guardian. So we basically will refuse to sign transactions that don't comply with either the economic missions that you've set or a general set of sort of heuristics we use to analyze bad behavior. And of course, the other one is the user's self-custody which is held in cloud storage in their legal self-custody via MPC. And the multi-seq architecture, and they can kind of opt out at this early point, means you can default to self-custody while still letting them sign up in under five seconds. We've just run AB tests. This converts 250% better than, you know, your default wallet. And we're looking to increase this drastically. And that's already huge. So you're already spending less than a third in user acquisition costs if you use Passport versus a traditional wallet today for one body. So you say it's fully self-custody. I mean, I understand that. I mean, I'd say it's more of a hybrid custody because Immutable does have like another piece of that shard. So technically Immutable could, if it wanted to, withhold or censor transactions or I mean, I guess probably not because you can't see the actual transaction. You can just see the signature request, right? Precisely. And they can always remove us unilaterally. So there's there's no ability for us to say, censor transactions if we really wanted to. Okay. The user can remove you from the MPC. So it's an opt-out system. Right. Okay. And are there, because I mean, we're dealing with like users that are, you know, fairly, you know, not like necessarily super technical. Are there ways for the user to recover their, like are there recovery mechanisms, say the user loses access to their, is it like an email login or like how does it work on the user side? Yeah. So we use OAuth at the moment. So you can log in with Apple, you can log in with Google, you can log in with your email. Exactly. And it's fantastic to your address. Okay. And so the user then sort of like backs up their shard, you know, in any number of, you know, cloud providers, it's encrypted like with a password. I guess. Yes. Ultimately that's automatically set, like saved in the MPC database associated with your email. If you can access your email, you can access that, that wallet. But our vision here is really, we're taking people to like zero to a hundred or $200 of value. If you want to store large chunks of value, we think that's the point you say, well, hey, here, like, here's the options available to you, here are the risks associated with each. I think that's kind of the way it needs to be done. Okay. And are there options? I mean, can users also decide, like, I don't want to use Passport. Like I have a ledger, I have like some other custody solution. I might use like an MPC wallet or like a custody so you can log in with that as well.
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The US has agreed to supply controversial cluster bombs to Ukraine to defend itself Russia. against Cluster munitions explode almost like fireworks but they are powerful tools of war which Ukraine says Russia has used against them with deadly effects. And now the US has agreed to supply Ukraine with matching firepower. We are signaling that we will continue to provide Ukraine with that the capabilities will keep them in the fight. When deployed, cluster munitions scatter smaller explosives called bomblets across an area that can be larger than several football fields. But sometimes those bomblets do not explode impact, on posing a threat to civilians and especially children after a conflict. It's one reason more than 120 countries have banned them, but not the US. The White House says American cluster weapons have a dud rate of less than 3 % for unexploded bomblets. That's compared to 30 to 40 % for Russian weapons. And they say Ukrainians have been asking for these bombs to their defend own territory. Ukraine would not be using these munitions in some foreign land. This is their country they're defending. These are their citizens they're protecting. The UN Human Rights Office said Friday that cluster munitions shouldn't be used anywhere. President Biden could face questions about the decision from NATO allies. He will travel to Lithuania for a NATO summit next week. Bradley CBS News New York. Ukraine's president thanked President Biden on social media saying the weapons will bring closer them to victory. The latest aid package to Ukraine brings total US spending on the war to more than $41 billion. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen saying she hopes the world's two largest economies can figure out a way to work together on climate change. As the world's two largest emitters of greenhouse gases and the largest investors in renewable energy, we have both a joint responsibility ability and to lead the way. She made or the day comments trip during to her Beijing. four And six people are dead in California after their plane crashed into field a and burst into flames early Saturday morning. The crash happened just after 4 a .m. near an airport in the city of Murrieta, California that's in southwest Riverside County located between Los Angeles and San Diego. The plane was engulfed in fire along with about one acre of vegetation when deputies arrived. The six people on board were pronounced dead at the scene. The Riverside County Sheriff's Department and the Federal Aviation Administration are investigating. They're both investigating the crash. Coming up after traffic and weather in money news. 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Northwest Newsradio
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"Europe tomorrow his first stop will be London. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is in Beijing for economic meetings. She told her Chinese counterpart the United States and China should seek a relationship of healthy economic competition that is not winner take all with but a fair set of rules would benefit both our countries over time. She said the U .S. would take actions to protect its own interests. Right now it's hot in many areas of the country. Four days this week broke single day global temperature records at ABC's Samara Theodore says that is the situation around the world. We're triple looking at digit heat index from Dallas 101 to Philadelphia feeling like 98 degrees today as we take it out west also looking at record -breaking heat excessive heat warnings for Tucson, Phoenix, Clifton, Arizona heat advisories for parts of Texas with triple digit temperatures expected and it's not just hot across the U .S. I mean this a is global thing that we're looking at here we have the hottest week on record. Six people were on board a test of the crash shortly after takeoff near French Valley Airport in Southern California there's no word on their conditions. You're listening to ABC News. Have you googled yourself lately? Are there negative posts from an ex -employee or from a former client? Maybe an outdated news article or sensitive personal information about your family. Search engines don't always get it right. But right or wrong it's your reputation on the line. That's where Reputation Defender by Norton comes in. One of the most trusted names online reputation repair. Reputation Defender has been fixing people's search results for over 15 years. Their cutting -edge approaches help you to wipe away unwanted information in your search results. also They promote the good stuff so that it rises to the top helping you put your best foot forward. Your good name is too valuable to leave to the whims of a Google algorithm. Take control with Reputation Defender. can You start by getting your free reputation report card at ReputationDefender .com or call 800 -6681 -401 to speak to an expert. That's 800 -401 6681. A federal judge in Texas sentenced a man to 90 consecutive life sentences for the 2019 shooting at a Walmart in Texas. The prosecutor said Patrick Crusius was motivated by a desire to kill Hispanic people when he drove from his home in the Dallas area to El Paso on the southern border with Mexico and opened fire with a rifle killing 23 Three people, victim's families say. Good that this is over so that we can start with a state and you can start serving paying for what he's done. This was part of a plea deal on federal hate crime and weapons charges. Crusius still faces state murder charges where he could face the death penalty. In California, a follower of Charles Manson is one step closer to being released from prison. California Governor Gavin Newsom says he'll no longer fight parole for Leslie Van Houten. She's in her 70s and has been in prison for 53 years for taking part in two fatal crimes. Her attorney says the state parole board must give one final sign off and Van Houten could be out in weeks. appeals A state court in May said she should be released. It cited extraordinary rehab efforts, insight, remorse, realistic parole plans, support from family and friends and good behavior reports in ABC News. No winner in last night's Powerball drawing. That means the jackpot for the next drawing Tuesday is close to half a billion dollars. This is ABC News. We're underway early Saturday morning here. It's Mark Christopher 804 right now. It's on the force. In fact, we have traffic weather for every you 10 minutes. A high performance homes traffic center. Let's see what John Nelson has for you right now. Well, whole not a lot has changed since we last spoke. We still have us left of a collision partially blocking the left lane southbound I -5 at 16th Street in the Marysville area in towards a gig Harbor Highway 302 is closed between Purdy Lane Northwest and 144th Street for ongoing road work.
WTOP
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"Who he thought was someone involved in an earlier assault case, but turns out he was not the suspect, stay with WTO for more on these top stories in just minutes. It's three 48. Traffic and weather on the 8s here's Joe Conway and the WTO traffic center. Sandy will start off in Maryland capitol building finding mostly pockets of slow and stretches throughout Montgomery prince George's counties, but nothing organized to talk about for you. The Baltimore Parkway likewise true between Riverdale and three two, just some slouch downs in strictest north and southbound, no incidents reported to block. 50 Maryland good between the bay bridges and the capitol beltway, edgewater color tells us about one stopped on the northbound south river bridge. Mid span only a single lane able to get by heavy delays trying to get through as authorities try to get things cleared. Over on two 70 you're in good shape, I 70 westbound, still dealing with the remnants of an earlier crash is 65 the sharpsburg pike and camera, we see the left lane still blocked only the right lane getting by, delays extend back toward alternate 40 and route 40 and a haggerstown exit there. You're able to do it by staying to the far right. Driving in the district no reports of any major issues highway volume delays are fairly standard as you drive on D.C., two 95 southbound, leaving eastern avenue 20s capitol street, north nus, 6 95 toward Pennsylvania avenue, 6 95 west is heavy steady from south capital street onto three 95 south over toward the outbound case bridge, three 95 north, is jammed up leaving The Pentagon toward the inbound case as well over toward main avenue and the third street tunnel. Elsewhere in northwest report of a crash on westbound I street near 70s treat of farragut square under police direction. Virginia beltway no reports of any major issues for you, 66, a brief slowdown westbound approaching one 23, nothing reported in the roadway, 95 southbound heavy and steady from launching toward the aka Kwan, northbound is slow out of triangle most of the way toward the aqa quantum woodbridge, easy pass lanes are north down 95 and three 95. I'm Joe comedy WTO traffic. Now to storm team four meteorologist, Ryan Miller. Lots of sunshine across the region this afternoon, highs close to 50° and less wind
Bloomberg Radio New York
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"Of your report what do you think is driving that optimism Yeah I think a few things stick out because we are building this one stop shop for financial services products on your mobile device We have businesses that benefit in a low interest rate environment and then other businesses that benefit in a high interest rate environment We also have businesses that benefit from stay at home as well as reopening So we've been able to navigate through the volatile environment of going through those different cycles over the last two years We had a record quarter of revenue which exceeded Q two which was a record in itself That was driven by strong performance across all three of our diverse businesses And so the diversity that we deliver to our consumers translates into more diverse revenue base and there are companies that are missing because they're only in brokerage They're only in lending We're only in a categories that benefited from stay at home Because we are a one stop shop We have that breadth of businesses and three that can offset each other in good times in one area versus the next So continuity and consistency is really important and we're proud of the fact that we delivered not just Q three but we still see strong momentum into Q four and gave guidance for accelerating revenue growth to 49 to 55% year over year Talk to us about the future of crypto on the platform How many more cryptocurrencies do you want to add And can you share what you're considering Yeah we started the year with 5 different coins on the platform We've now expanded to over 30 We'll continue to add selection and we have a very specific criteria of what qualifies to be at NASA on the platform We're also looking at other things beyond the assets that I mentioned in alternative asset classes down the road We want to give mainstream investors the access to investing vehicles that are similar to high net wealth individuals and the building deliver an IPO and IPO prices is quite unique There's an opportunity to do that in other asset classes as well All right so if I CEO Anthony Otto always good to have you here and it's Veterans Day I know you're a veteran so thank you for your service and share in time with us today Thank you I'm with take care All right Some other news we are following Uber is raising its base fares in London by 10% to attract more drivers customers have complained on social media about longer wait times Cancellations and.
Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
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"Tell you where they played in the field. He recognized the talent and the skill of these players in the negro leagues and he also recognize a negro lead owners needed to be compensated for finding scouting developing these players. Unlike ricky who kind of thought that the negro leagues was more along the lines of the racket and did not compensate owners at first for the players he signed for them and so he really sort of had a more allusive nature in terms of that. And i mean the the relationship that bill beck form with larry. Doby was extremely tight. If dobie was was at a bad spot beck would take him out to dinner. That go see they jazz bar. They listened to jazz just a show of expression of his support for jobe To know that we can get through this time and it was a bond that lasted throughout their entire life. Tell me what you learned about satchel page. We'll central page for me was kind of along the lines of beck. I knew the the sort of tall tales about him him. Sort of calling the fielders off the field so he could get batters out on his own. The sort of nicknames they had for pitches his His distinctive style. But what. I really learned about central pages. I think he is the greatest entrepreneurial athletes that this country has ever known. He came from the depths of the deep south. During a time of extreme. Jim crow and segregation laws and with insert of a decade of professional baseball. He builds himself up into basically a one man franchise he is belonging to teams like the pitch crawford's and whatnot but he's also leasing out his services to semi pro teams or other teams that that that could use a boost for their bottom line and he's pocketing gate receipts during a time. Whenever you know the new releases were in pretty dire. Financial straits satchel pages making about as much money as a superstar in the major leagues. Back he says at oftentimes when people ask him why he's not in the majors says it's because the major leagues can't pay him enough to be there. I'm on the idea of him. Building himself up into this sort of extremely forward thinking entrepreneurial businessman during that time i think is an incredible feat and one that that athletes from ranging from michael jordan. Lebron james really follow in that. That line so i always have felt like Look when we had the conversation about the greatest pitcher ever You know now would include a clayton kershaw pedro martinez roger. Clemens is sandy. Colfax walter johnson. I always thought satchel patriot being that conversation. Tell me about what you learned about him as a pitcher in doing this. Well there's no doubt about it He had a sort of the he. He had a sort of swiftness to his pitches. That that that was evident from a very early age very similar to to bob sellers swiftness which was also evident from an early age. But what people really sort of ingrained in him during his apprenticeship was command. He could put the ball wherever he wanted to over the plate and so he's not only sort of throwing fast in and hard but he was sort of a a master painting the corners and he always i mean he was very cerebral pitcher as well he would say that he could sort of look at your stance or he could look at the way that you're swinging in the batter's box inserted immediately began to identify where your weaknesses were and throw the ball. Exactly they're One of the things that he used to do while warming up was taking like chewing gum wrapper or a dime and having the catcher. Put it on various parts of the plate and then he just throw pitch overpitched after the over the chewing gum wrapper And so really. It's that sort of control that allows him not only to excel but the longevity that then defines his career yet which is why. Have you know among modern pitchers. I think of Him the closest cop might actually be jacob degrom. Who is you know you watch him pitch and he just owns this three and slid sliver right off the plate and he sort of had that same angle area that That satchel page. Did i learned more than any of the people that you wrote about in your book. Learn more about bob feller Who's you know. He was be around the indians for the rest of his life. After his career ended he would go down and do fantasy camps. But i didn't realize sort of the way that he was regarded within that You know within that organization in the way that he was. Can you just describe. That was fascinating to me. We'll bump filler. Was a sensation from the time that he comes into major league baseball he his is origin story. I think is is unlike any other that that you can imagine in baseball. He comes from a small town in rural iowa. His father senses an extraordinary ability and him from a young age so he clears off a patch of their farmland builds. In what is basically to build a dreams. Feller makes the news at age seventeen in his very first major league start ever. He ties the american league Record for strikeouts four-star slater. He ties the major league record. He is so famous that his high school graduation is broadcast live from coast to coast on radio And fellow really knows how to sort of leverage that story like page he has a very entrepreneurial bent to him He spends sort of a lot of his career. Just kind of leg self mythology In really looking for ways to sort of capitalize on his his spain his fortune through barnstorming tours through radio programs. Through everything like that. What kind of happens in nineteen forty seven and nineteen forty eight is that he stumbles a little bit as a pitcher He gets a little bit injured. His fastball of loses some speed and then once that happens spans kinda start to turn on him. A little bit They they think that he is devoting too much time to his outside interests and not enough time to pitching in so he becomes kind of almost like a villain to a lot of major league baseball at that time. And i think it's something you could see. Nowadays anytime in. Athletes seems to not be playing as well. People say oh he's he's too distracted by endorsements or relationships or whatever It's it's a manifestation of that so earlier this year we were talking with the director of forty two. And i asked him about the the coolest response that he got to that movie and he told us great story about rachel robinson in a sitting in screening for the first time. I'm curious about you as you finish his book and you unveil it. What was a cool response that you got to it. That really stuck with you. I mean i. I've been i've been very heartened by many people seem to have enjoyed it. I was most worried about the response. By bob feller's family. I go into a little bit of depth. About how feller was perhaps a little bit more along the traditionalist side when it came to integration. he Sometimes would say to the press that he didn't believe that there were any black players that were ready to be in the major leagues and his family reached out to be instead of that. They thought that it was one of the better one of the better portraits of their father that they'd seen in that they thought that you had to show all sides of for that So yeah it's it's been really heartening. Tell me about what you've heard from. Cleveland fans especially older fans. I'm sure you've got a lot of response. Oh yeah i mean. I'm i'm really. I'm really excited. Whenever anybody rights to be in says they were at a certain game of the nineteen forty eight world series of their father was up against. I've had so many people send me pictures of the ticket stubs that they've from the nineteen forty eight world series And it seems like a a lot of clevelanders that were alive during nineteen forty eight had some sort of interaction with bill that he was out and about on the town always. He loves her roam through the stadium and chat people up. It seemed that if you were in cleveland during that time you would just run into. It was almost like he was the mayor of that town. I got to tell you when you look at pictures of the nineteen forty.
Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney
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"That yankee game last night. Oh my god it anybody bet on that shohei ohtani would be historically bad for him and then the angels win the game. What a crazy game was you know. It's funny because a week ago. On thursday we were talking about all of those crazy games right. That was after all of those four kind of rollercoaster games are talking about and i was getting up this morning and maybe there weren't four of them but same kind of concept when we were talking about aroldis chapman. We're talking about the fact that i mean you know what was it a week ago. Now we can half ago. He got out of a situation where he would have allowed multiple at least a run. If not for a triple play and here he is again faltering. So i mean just absolutely. I don't think anyone would have envisioned when otani didn't even get out of the first inning. And i mean any fans that stayed there all the reporters that were there that entire time. I mean that game. I think it was the last game to end last night despite being an east coast. Seven o'clock game which is wild otani. I think is going to win the mvp. The american league this year because he's been so phenomenal. One thing i would say that at age twenty six about him as a pitcher is that One way to describe him as he is in precise he can be precise Even on his best days as a pitcher he will walk some guys in last night. You know pointed out on the yes network. The home plate umpire called the very consistent strike zone but he was not getting calls on the edges and he can get into these roles where he struggles to find the strike zone absolutely. And that's really what we've seen from him when he has struggled at any point in his pitching career. At least the major league level is those walks mean when you look at the box score you that he allowed seven runs in the first thing to the yankees. We know they have judged sanchez. Stanton everybody you're kind of expecting there to be a home. Run along that line as you go through. I've been instead. It's those four walks and we saw that earlier in the year. Two and i remember you. And i talked about when he had that start where his philosophy was down. And we're talking a little bit about how deep into games he was going at his compromises ability to go deep. Obviously lots night with separate. I mean allowing the seven runs name to be removed. But even these other starts. He's had a lot of them have been just about five innings and it's because his pitch counts get up pretty quickly with how many guys that he does walk yet on the other side of the ledger. The yankees losing this game no question. They're worse loss of the year and a season in which they had a number of bad losses You know to have that big a leading. It felt like even as the game was going along and he had some rain delays sarah. They had opportunities just bury the angels and they failed to do it time and time and time again and that said you would expect to hold a lead in the ninth inning of that magnitude but aroldis chapman in the month of june eleven. Four to era eight and two two-thirds innings three homers. Ten walks eleven strikeouts in a we talked about how there's this mass reassessment in baseball going on about the baseball since the foreign substance. Crackdown in which pitchers may have been using. Look he'd have to be one of the guys you throw into that conversation and i don't know if he was someone who's foreign substances before but his performances so dramatically different this month. It certainly is that you know. I feel like the days of earl. This chapman absolute lockdown closer. Have been gone for at least a year to now. I mean i know making those relief. Pitcher lists all that stuff we do in the offseason. He wasn't a definitive number. One or two or maybe even three for me. I don't think in each of the last two years and he's been more and more ineffective. I mean i think just you know. Maybe walking is a little bit more and You know everything that you're alluding to it. There's no question that this month has been particularly bad. But i do think that he hasn't been not absolute. You know that the ninth inning is over type of guy for a want to say at least a year. It's not a year and a half now. We had tyler captured the new york times in the podcast yesterday and we talked about how under brian cashman. The yankees have not fired a manager in season. They've not fired. A coach in midseason. And i was thinking about that game last night that you know what if it was a different owner. If it was a different general manager that would be a game that will lead somebody getting fired. You know they were calling. For and boone's firing fans were chanting that at the end of the game. And i you a longtime mets fan under previous ownership under the wilpon. I have no doubt after a game like that that someone would have been fired by the mets. I mean i'm thinking of. I wanna say it was twenty four teen the meta game where jose valverde blue save. I wanna say this may something like that and they. i believe. that's after that game. They removed him from the closer's role. They fired their hitting coach. I mean they were in the midst of a bad stretch. It wasn't just that game but you do see that sort of reactive nece or whatever else you wanna say from other clubs but i remember you ask i mean i think i looked into that. Not changing sanders in season. What was that at this point like a month and a half ago to talk to you about and i think it was two teams that have gone law. That have gone longer without doing that. It was. I think the twins and the giants but you know. I don't think that these types of issues are really managerial. I understand that fans especially sending their especially sending there at midnight in the bronx. They're probably five pm. I understand that you want someone to blame. And you're not gonna say fire a hitter or a pitcher or something because you know that those things won't actually happen. So i understand where that sort of energy comes from but i mean you know this is as you said a rule the shopping and struggling in certainly the team may be failing to pile on a little bit but again i have trouble connecting those directly to a manager. I would agree with you. I mean if you had a major league pitcher especially someone with a track record of roll this chapman even if he's not as good as you used has been in the past you hand that That picture that lead in that spot you would expect to find out. I will say this. We have no indication yet that hal steinbrenner has a fiery temper. If he's got a fiery temper we may find out today about that in fact they changed course because that is the type of loss that gets people fired. There's no doubt about it then. Chicago cubs at lead yesterday. But the brewers came storming back in. It's amazing how quickly this change has changed sarah. That ten days ago we're talking about the cubs being near the top of the the national league central. Are they going to be buyers rather than sellers. Now they've lost so much ground so quickly. I actually think they could make this very easy for the cubs front office which i think will make an unemotional decision about whether to try to contend. I think that the front office there. The ownership there was fully prepared to sell in mid season this year. But it didn't happen and looked it up this morning sarah on fan graphs. They have the cubs chances of making the playoffs at fourteen percent. And if that's kind of the range that they're sitting at in say july twentieth. I have no doubt that they'll start. Moving pieces what do you think. Absolutely i mean you know. I feel like we were here talking. Two weeks ago about how you know kris bryant. And he's playing so well. The cubs are playing. Well there in first place. They can't trade him..
Distorted View Daily
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"Well not saying hey paraded around children so funny because the horses are there. They're right in front of these people. They could not care less what's going on. They're eating food. they're having a great time. I love how this bitches so sure. What the horses are thinking you know. If they could speak they would tell you. We don't wanna be slaves. Maybe they don't think of themselves as slaves. Maybe they're like holy fucking shit our we princesses or something we get to wear t ara's we can cute. Little bows at our tail. Never have to go looking for food. It's delivered to us in buckets. Which is like our favorite thing to eat out of. Have to go look for shelter when it rains. We got a place to live. And we don't have to give them any money or do anything for them. Just let some fucking snot nosed kids pets every once in a while. Yeah i'm down for that. I don't consider it a slave thing. I think we're pretty fucking highfalutin. I think we might be royalty alright. This video goes on for a few more minutes but surprise nothing ends up. Happening begins in. Animal rights activists. They sure do love to hear themselves talk. It almost seems more important than getting actual results. Hey i've got a couple of really crappy songs to share with you. These are linda finkle hall of fame. Nominees first stop is hoochie. Love with her songs snatch. But i happen to prefer the snatch. Don't we all what the hail i'm for blonde gay. Okay did.
WTOP
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"Wait. Get a drain cleaning for only $99. Michael answer. Traffic and weather on the eighth day bill dying what's going on on the bill way through Virginia, leaving Virginia still obstacles outer loop backed up to near Van Dorn Street because of a crash in the local lanes and beginning of the Wilson Bridge Center of the local lanes blocked through lanes moving better, but slowly, both through lanes are open out of Alexandria on the inner loop. After Braddock Road, you got at least one stopped in the left lane on the inner loop. For the toll road, The lesion bridge. It's been a slow Thursday. It's all volume heading north on the inner loop into Montgomery County, Maryland, 66 West there Fairfax County, Autumn off the brakes, volume delays on 95 anywhere between Springfield and Dale City and South Down through Stafford. You can plan on congestion as well in Maryland, on 95 between Beltsville in Baltimore, just volume delays but on the inner loop coming off 95 through college Park it slow on the interlude because of the broken down truck before Greendale station that was along the far right. Tied to 70 no impediment slow as usual, at times, through Gaithersburg, in Clarksburg and on north toward and into Frederick Brute 50 without delay between the Beltway in the Bay Bridge, DC, to 95 north and south on traffic slow in the usual spots near the Anacostia Bridge ramps. 3 95 traffic is slow in down in the 14th Street bridge, but the disabled vehicle has been towed. It remains slow onto the South. West Freeway and volume delays from Maine Avenue out across the outbound span of the bridge, the the place where maritime leadership and naval technology converge register for Navy leagues, Sea air space C airspace that orc held August 2nd through the fourth National Harbor Day. Told in W T o p traffic. Let's go To my extent of her that storm team four. Looks like our temperature stay below average for the next several days with a few chances of rain also Tonight will be dry skies The racial. Partly cloudy.
KDWN 720AM
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"Should be fine. You'll be screwed, but you'll be fine. I mean it. She'll be fine. Just leave you in the dung heap. These leaders are sick and don't follow them. All right. Clip one B. Go ahead. HR One is all about that big, dark special interest money Scary, But you have to wonder why Nancy Pelosi is still using the term dark is a euphemism for bad, But whatever it's Nancy Pelosi so we can be sure it's not racism. Nancy Pelosi is a good person unlike you. The real question is how the party of ruthless corporate monopolies gets away with fake populist talking points like that. We need cleaner government shriek the puppets of Silicon Valley. The answer, of course, is they get away with it because no one stops them. This is the quote for the People Act we're talking about here. It's for the people. So shut up. What exactly is the Democratic Party intend to do for the people? Well, if you guessed, enshrine their own rule by force forever, you win today's daily double. I'll take authoritarian political movements for 1000 Alex before the People Act is the foundation of the Democratic Party strategy to control the federal government well into your grandchildren's middle age. Take a look at it, like most revolutionary documents is not a very exciting read Nothing in. It sounds especially radical at first, until you think about it. The bill begins by declaring that country to Article one of the United States Constitution, Congress has quote the ultimate supervisory power over federal election. Yep. There you go. Now. What they've done is they basically thrown it down, then they've talked about using the 51 votes to get whatever they want done. And lately, Clip three and Bernie Sanders lays it out for you go ahead. But you've suggested that Democrats might need to use a process called reconciliation, which requires only 51 votes instead of the 60 to pass the coronavirus relief plan. You just heard Mitt Romney's say that Republicans like him have shown that they are ready to compromise. So should Democrats move to pass coronavirus? Relieved with 51 votes if they can't get Republicans support say before the impeachment trial. Well, I don't know what the word compromise means. I know that working families are living today and more economic Desperation and since the Great Depression, and if Republicans are willing to work with us to address that crisis, welcome, let's do it, But what we cannot do is wait, weeks and weeks and months and months. Mm hmm. And by the way, here's what we should do. We should all send Bernie Sanders a dictionary so that he can get schooled on what the word compromise me. It's because he doesn't know what it means, of course. Because he's a communist Communist. Don't compromise.
KOA 850 AM
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"Down the four down the three sports in the paint dishes off the dry a horn in the way of his up in good that drives a drama dish that time my shorts that Tommy family opened man on the bus score first in Seattle. Good patients there by the bus. The shot clock was under five, but they kept moving It 90 seconds expired here in the first half, is Washington attacks for court. Right Bay up top hands off Aquatic Greentown Westbound Lane kicked that left side firing a three shot won't go rebound yanked away the week's time play of invaluable past. McKinley pushes up court right the left in the quarter. Eli Boys by the defenders. Short quarter pulls up from 16 am a jumper is helping Goodbye, Eli Park. A boy. That's a part of his game. That is improved tenfold from a year ago. Yeah, I never thought he would become a good shooter, but he has great percentage is this year? I mean, just to stop in pop guy Doesn't really hunters shot takes What is their common one? Stop for nothing. Two minutes. Combine on the right side. Stevenson with a basketball drives against McKinley cut off the baseline hook past cross court intended for bay. That was a dangerous long, high degree of difficulty. It was deflected away by Eli all about stays with Washington busted a good job of keeping nice side of the ball. Never lose an eye sight of that vision of the ball, old man. Right there, ball, you, man! Bull! You, man. You stay between No, Your man is there where the ball is What a great of the inn best shock like a seven crosses over down the paint. Kick out. Bait. Touch pass high in the left side. Hamir Right gives up the green left side for three fires and Mrs Office of Rebounding Side by Robert's kick out Stevenson right side for three fires and misses rebound tipped in the air. Another offensive rebound, right gets it back out Top Stevenson Good ball movement fires. The three shot halfway down, missed it and everybody's got the rebound and a reach in foul called against Nate Roberts. There was no reason to do that, with the rebound by batty. And from behind Roberts on a A reach him knocks it away. The shooting numbers this season by Washington are horrendous. They're last in the Pac 12 and field goal shooting at 40%..
WTOP
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"Up to the minute Info Free on apple or android the W T O t Mobile experience available free at your favorite app store, not just w t O p You are. W t o p 6 28 thinking whether on the eighth day building What does it look like? We're gonna start between the Beltway's south bound on 95. It's slow beyond 32 before the Howard County Rest area, Maryland Welcome center responders there with a crash blocking the right. Half. Two left lanes were getting by on 95 South bound Baltimore Washington Parkway work south of 32. But inside the Beltway, it's slow. From 4 95 past 4 50. That's because the left lane it's blocked ahead. At least one stop there in the left lane, according to a listener to 70 lanes are open. No delays between rock feeling, Frederick now it or Luke volume delays were easing and silver spring in Virginia on the outer loop. I could see state police with one along the right side. You're 1 23 likely crowding the right side there in Tyson's on the outer loop, 66 minor delays between Vienna and Oakton. The crash west of Fairfax Circle on 50 is clear, westbound 50 open. Your staff for Dr Ah lot of streets near the National mall are anything but open. Restrictions from the mall is far north as K Street as far north and east as Mount Vernon. Square and most of constitutionality was off limits between 23rd Street and Capitol Hill. More traffic in the third Street tunnel, but that's open along with the Southeast Southwest Freeway. The crash on D C to 95 North found your Pennsylvania Avenue should be clear. Or at least out of the way. Start the New Year New Year where your community grows stronger, joined the Y M C. A Today with a $0 enrollment fee to learn Maura about this offer and the wise safety measures visit Y M C. A. D c dot org's Dave Don't nine w T o p Traffic, UPDATED forecast. Now let's go to a million Drifter Beautiful day. Today We'll have increasing clouds tonight with lows in the low to mid thirties mid forties, too, near 50 tomorrow with mostly cloudy skies.
WTMJ 620
"first stop" Discussed on WTMJ 620
"Wisconsin's number one stop. We're breaking news, weather traffic MBA Packers, Brewers and Buck's news radio WTMJ Milwaukee Eight o'clock I'm Jean Miller. This is Wisconsin's morning news for Thursday, January 7th your top story, calm returns to D. C. Reflecting on what happened Wednesday in the nation's capital. More recognition for number 12 And I'm stuff Graham in for Debbie las ago. Some major headaches. If you are heading west on 94 this morning, we have an accident at Miller Park Way. The right lane is blocked, causing some major delays. 94 westbound downtown to the zoo will take you 18 minutes. That's 11 more minutes than usual. So avoid that area if you can. Otherwise, things are looking good. 94 eastbound Highway 16 to the zoo, 10 minutes zoo to downtown 7 94 North bound lane to downtown. Will be the usual seven minute ride and 43 inbound brown. The road to downtown is a 12 minute trip were traffic and weather together on the 10th time. Step. Graham wtmj paella wi com Time Saver traffic. So many clouds with some fog today and a high of 36 more Fuck Tonight, maybe some drizzle or flurries and a low of 30. It's 26 degrees in Milwaukee at a Doe one from the WTMJ breaking news center, the exit busy at the White House and number of administration officials resigning in protest over yesterday's violence of the capital, among them, former budget director Mick Mulvaney. He told CNBC he quit.
WNYC 93.9 FM
"first stop" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"A cluster violence, but the main island Tutuila is about 50 Square miles with about 50,000 people. A two Main roads that seems to be like the main route. There's just one mean road that you drive. So if if the oceans on your right you're probably going east. If the oceans on your left, you're probably going West and just I spent 12 days there, and it was just kind of like riding back and forth and back and forth with different people. With who had different ideas of What the island was about, which was really interesting seeing the same places. Through different eyes. Interesting. You're saying s O It is District court. First stop I made was to meet with a guy named Hi Yes. Charles Olive Lima, really smiley, silver hair, thin rimmed glasses, wearing a floral shirt and flip flops. Almost everybody at the courthouse was wearing football. Julia, this is Chief Let me When I caught up with him. He was actually meeting with a couple of salmon and men who were in the middle of a land dispute, which is basically the rights of the Chiefs. Control. This top of this mountain. Is that are these. Your client is in my club. But the reason I wanted to talk to Charles is that he has a case right now pending before the federal courts. That's basically he's arguing that denying American someone's birthright. Citizenship is unconstitutional. So I believe that when you were born in American sign what you're American Unusual American, but you are still one. Now. In Charles case, he's with some someone's called off because See, my mother was born in Auburn, New York, His mom is white and his dad is from Western Tamela, which is not part of the US his parents actually met in the states. His dad was in grad school in D. C. And my father and mother could not get married in Virginia because of the anti message A nation lost. This was back in 19 of racism. My mother kept trying to insist that someone's or not black there something different. She's just know he looks too dark, but they were actually able to get married in Washington, D. C and they moved to American sound more where Charlie was born. And you think that Charlie would be an automatic U. S citizen? And this is the year I was born in the U. S territory, but she had to because they had to register at the closest embassy, but his mom a U. S citizen, actually had to register him in a foreign country. The closest embassy was all the way in New Zealand, You know, it doesn't make any sense, and it's a And it's against the principles of the United States. Charlie says. The fact that American Sam wins are not automatic citizens by birth. It's hiding a lot of injustices that are going on. Injustices that could be remedied if you didn't say Oh, well, We're your national right. You could be treated differently. Yeah, I think you're being hiking boots. Should I be here? OK, so I drove around with Charlie for a while. This was the means He showed me the town center, which is really just a cluster of pastel colored buildings. These are all the old Navy buildings that We met remnants of the old Navy buildings and the original U S naval base, which is really where this whole thing got started. So the.