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Discussions of Truth
A highlight from OUTCAST by Gloria Giorno
"Seek and Destroy that has been the theme of discussions of truth now for well I'm in my seventh season here and we started the show on Wynwood radio in Miami 2016 is when I agreed to do the show with them aired the first episode January of 2017 this is Ian Trottier here and today we are going to start talking if you are not familiar with the name Charlotte Iserbit she passed away about a year and a half ago she's a former advisor to the Department of Education under Ronald Reagan her story is very interesting and captivating because she talks about having received a list of these Skull and Bones members via mail that was sent to her father who was a Skull and Bones member at Yale and Anthony Sutton was hot on that trail so two names that you should familiarize yourself with and that is Charlotte Charlotte's work and that is the deliberate dumbing down of America she talks about the invasion of the American education system and that having been formalized under Jimmy Carter back in 1979 Department of Education so she talks about that through her book and then also what I was talking about was Anthony Sutton calling her being hot basically on the trail of dissecting the corruption that is it's really manipulation because Ella Hugh Yale was a major stockholder a main president of the British East Indies trading company that is a Rothschild controlled trading company and the Rothschild funded the American Revolution so I may be off here ladies and gentlemen but if you look at the flag that was flown above the John Paul Jones excuse me the USS Alfred commandeered by John Paul Jones on the Delaware that basically started the American Revolution that flag is basically identical to the British East Indies company flag and then that you trace that and you go back to Cambridge Massachusetts and something called the flag committee which is Continental Congress approved Washington Franklin adopted what became the first flag of the United what became known as the United States and that was the US Grand Union flag which as being designed by Betsy Ross that is the US Grand Union flag which is identical to the British East Indies company flag because that is where the financing came to fund Washington's army and then you ask well wait a second that's English and well yeah this it is English but it's not English because London the city of London is not technically part of England it is its own banking it's sovereign nation a Roman banking colony still in existence these are all facts and you can cross -check them but anyway so seek and destroy corruption that is how I that is that is how I theme my discussions my conversations my talks it's what I do in Trottier with discussions truth today we're gonna talk about the Department of Education rather the state of the education system in the United States so quickly before we bring the guests on we'll be we'll be talking to Gloria Giorno and her son Stevie and getting their view as conservatives what it's been like for Stevie to go through I think it's Belmont University as a conservative so without further ado thanks for tuning in for the podcast on and we're bringing on Gloria and Stevie right now calling Laurie and Stevie this is Ian Trottier for Discussions of Truth Gloria hi nice to meet meet you and welcome to Discussions of Truth I've looked at some of the work that you're you've excellent hi Stevie so thanks for for joining the the the show and please give listeners an introduction to who you are Gloria you can start tell listeners who you are what you what you do and then and then Stevie you can do the same please I try to destroy a young conservative and I also did a nonprofit the name of it is United Women Foundation what we do is mentor employ aid and young conservative women who are in Stevie's situation and we also give out scholarships to conservatives who are not in need of a scholarship but who are conservatives and who are promoting the conservative agenda in their lives thank you Gloria and that's United Women Foundation calm I'll go ahead and put a link to that in the episode Stevie go ahead and introduce yourself for us please well thank you very much for having us on my name is Stevie Giorno and I serve as the chairman of the Tennessee Young Republicans and I am the former student body president at Belmont University where I was attacked by the radical left for being proud of my country and being proud to be an American on the 4th of July in 2020 during the as a mother for protecting your your family and your country I've looked at the website I've looked a little bit about both of you and what's interesting is you have been you've come my way and your stories come my way through a contact there in Florida and your Stevie your story is daughter went through something very similar and in her university classes but Stevie go ahead and tell us a little bit about about what you experienced you were the student body president at Belmont University yet you were attacked for your political views isn't that right picture of myself in front of the White House and I captioned it that I was proud to be an American and I thanked those who had sacrificed and served so that we may have the freedoms and liberties that our forefathers intended for us and within 24 hours my fraternity was blackmailing me threatening to label me a racist and remove me from the fraternity there were hundreds of comments on my Instagram post and there were hundreds of signatures on a change .org petition that sought to remove me as the duly elected student body president even though I was elected unanimously with almost 99 98 % of the vote and so it was really bad that students friends of mine my fraternity brothers wanted to attack me because I was proud to be from this country you know my grandparents escaped from communism in Yugoslavia and my mother lived there for a year so I've heard the first -hand horrors of what happens in a communist country and I fear that our country is headed that way every single day. Now what's interesting is one of the articles that I that I went through briefly was is written by Campus Reform it's published on an online newsletter called Campus Reform and one of the stories that they have today actually talks about glorifying Che you Guevara know this is a this is a socialist figure that that helped with the with the cubist Cuban communist revolution and Fidel Castro you're you're talking about your family having come from communist Yugoslavia are you seeing are you seeing Stevie in in in in your experience on on campus now I don't know what you're doing now maybe you graduated you can bring us up to date with where you at right now but are you seeing some of these same the same signs that that perhaps your mother or your grandparents were talking about that were that were red flags for for communism growing within the country are you seeing that experiencing that I do and I think unfortunately it is getting worse specifically at Belmont University they refused the school is refusing to allow a turning point USA chapter on campus I think it it's it's it's awful it's an infringement on our First Amendment right to freedom of speech and freedom of belief to protest to assemble and so it's really unfortunate what's going on with with colleges and universities I graduated in the spring of 2021 but I have heard of the horror stories happening at private Christian schools so -called Christian schools happening across the country and until students and parents and grandparents begin to see what is happening you know the first step to solving a problem is acknowledging it exists and it's there and it's not going to get better until enough conservative students and parents realize that they need to stop funding the indoctrination machines of universities and change course well it's very brave of you to say that glory I want want to get your your view and and and I want to first first say this I opened this show up before I brought you on with talking about somebody named Charlotte Iserbyt and I'm happy to send you her link to her book it's called the deliberate dumbing down of America what she did was she started dissecting what was happening under the Reagan administration with the attack on the indoctrination that we're seeing fruits of today a few decades later but Gloria did you did you ever expect or suspect that something like this might happen to your son I I he gets into college were there any anything anything happening up to that time where he's now the student body president of Belmont University anything before that that you were that you questioned well you know hey they he might he might need to defend himself or was this a complete surprise to you it was a complete surprise there was absolutely nothing the handbook the literature the online documentation about Belmont University everything fit a conservative Christian agenda there was nothing I mean personally I think it's a bait and switch but there was absolutely nothing I was friends with some of the professors who are conservatives at Belmont or who were conservatives at Belmont and we had spoken for two years before Stevie made the decision to go there and no there was not any kind of indication that anything like this would happen now we would never allowed our son to want to go to a school where he would have been threatened for his beliefs I mean he had been working for Republican candidates since he was 17 years old so it was out in the open it's on his LinkedIn it's public so no I mean we we were told on every tour we were told at every meeting that this was a fully free campus there would be no harassment it was Christian it was conservative and I read the handbook and Stevie followed all the guidelines when these things did start to occur he did follow all the guidelines he followed all the rules he turned everything into administration and they did nothing absolutely nothing and Stevie yeah go ahead to this day they have not responded in any way shape or form nothing and this has been three years now so you have not gotten a formal response from the school administration Stevie you're simply in DC taking a photograph outside the White House expressing your gratitude for the country and the values that it stands for did you ever suspect this type of backlash coming from the because he knew that if he spoke out against them that they would send him to a camp where he'd never be heard from again and really that whole year of 2020 was either you agree with everything we're saying you endorse the BLM organization but we're gonna do everything we can to destroy you and in fact because Tennessee is a single -party consent state that means you can record conversations with only one person knowing I did record those conversations with my fraternity which my mom put into her book and in those conversations my fellow friends my fraternity brothers say if you do not apologize for your post if you do not endorse this group we're gonna do whatever it takes to destroy you and your career and your reputation so it's a more mild form of what happens in communist countries but because these students were not held accountable it is only going to get worse and worse and it did I mean there was one instance where a female student who worked at a fast -food restaurant I would go to for my breakfast in the mornings she admitted in the official College Democrat group text that she was putting quote gross stuff in my drinks every single day because I was a an awful conservative who loved this country and one endorsed the BLM organization and the school guess what the school did when I turned her in what did they do they accepted her into Belmont law school you gotta be kidding me I'm serious 100 % she was rewarded for attacking a political opponent and I think that's dangerous as we see what's going on with President Trump he is being attacked because he's leading in the polls and it's truly unfortunate that we're becoming a banana republic yeah did the did she make you sick with whatever she put in the drinks and we couldn't even get the Nashville police who are unfortunately very short staff due to the liberal City Council and the liberal mayor at the time unfortunately they were they were unable to investigate it because I was perfectly fine thankfully but they said since there was no lasting issues that they refused to investigate and then the school accepted this girl into law school with full knowledge of everything she had done struck so it it shows the systemic problem we're having and imagine if this is happening in a conservative Christian private university in Nashville Tennessee one of the most conservative states imagine what's going on in all 49 other states we don't have the ability to record conversations and to take screenshots of texts and emails and and have such transparency I mean it's terrifying to think what's happening in these other colleges yeah very well said Stevie tell us about that book and tell us about how tell us about how it's been received my husband and I we want to speak out on this we want people to know I need parents and grandparents to know what their children and yes very teen but there still are children what they face and what they are up against when they go away to school we need for parents to fight back we need for parents to take a stand if 40 % of students stopped attending their respective universities you know that the agenda at universities with administration would change so we as conservatives we have that title of being silent majority because usually we are silent well Stevie and I wanted to change that hence the book I use I feel that the book is an educational tool for parents learn from what happened to my son learn from the experience that we've had we went to this university many times it's not far from our home we investigated it we knew people who worked there who taught there and never once did we feel that it was going to be a threat to our son and look what happened so whatever you're seeing I dread to think what's going on at public schools I just dread but I want parents to learn learn read the book you'll see everything is documented in there as my son said fortunately we're able to record and we're able to use everything for information but we need for parents to be more active in their students and their children's educations even when they are at college because they are all indoctrination facilities I did live in a communist country I went to first grade in Zagreb which was then Yugoslavia in 1972 and I can tell you that on my way to school my walk to school every morning I had 1 ,000 US dollars in my backpack I knew if civil unrest broke out at the age of six I knew how to get out of Yugoslavia get into a cab that was waiting for me at the end of the hill and that cab driver would take me to the border of Yugoslavia in Italy where one of my aunts would meet me and my parents would come when they were able I also knew the police officer on the corner he wasn't there for me he wasn't there to make sure that I'd be safe or anybody else he was definitely there to protect the communist regime and Josip Tito who was the dictator at the time and the parallels that I saw with what I experienced living in a communist country and what my son endured at Belmont University it's there if it's clear as day and I want to enlighten everyone who wants to hear from me I want all parents to know this is happening in our country now too we are being silenced and shut down the title of the book folks is outcast how the radical left tried to destroy a young conservative and that is Stevie so Stevie was this a the attack on you was this coming from the BLM movement at Belmont University or in Nashville have you identified the nucleus of where this attack came from okay so let me ask you a broader question we saw during the Trump Tifa uprisings mainly Seattle Portland but obviously across the country Chicago New York but that coincided with this this COVID -19 virus outbreak as a as a university student you've now graduated but Stevie were you were you drawing any parallels to either of these things happening during the Trump administration that seemingly linked to a communist revolt within the country does that making sense were you able to draw any connect any dots Stevie we know from history that it usually doesn't work that way and the government's gonna keep taking more and more of our rights and when you couple that with what is happening what did happen in 2020 with with the riots and people getting away with committing crimes to where if you and I or anyone else who was a conservative did burn down a courthouse like they did in Nashville or protest and kill innocent people in the streets we would go to jail however because they were advancing a political movement that the liberal district attorneys in big cities supported they were let go and they were not punished like they should have been like we would have been so the hypocrisy is terrible I think it does parallel communism to where you know if you remember the black shirts Mussolini's black shirts taking control of the Italian government because they were the advancing political agenda and movement that the powers that be wanted them to they were able to harass and intimidate people into supporting them and I fear that our country is going that way and we need people to stand up now if we're ever hoping to take back our country and get it back on the right track and under control Gloria the book is recently published it looks like it was just published last month and you've got us forward by Sam Sorbo how's the reception of the book been so far what are people saying who have you spoke to about it how is it being received lot Gloria a of media outlets that are reaching out to us I'm being asked to speak almost on a daily basis different organizations different groups Stevie and I have traveled to a lot of different states throughout the country and we will continue to be touring and we are I have started a conversation and parents are now extending that conversation with their friends and that is the goal we need to start with one person talking to another and now the growth has been exponential it's incredible the book is selling very well it's available on Amazon and wherever books are sold but from what I have witnessed and the calls I am getting yes it is and I mean if we as conservatives don't speak up we're gonna be done this is it and if America Falls there is nowhere else to go and our children are being indoctrinated I don't care what level of schooling it's that they're being indoctrinated on every single level and if parents do not set a strong foundation in the household when the child is born and continue that throughout a child's life when they go to college always we will not be America any longer so the book is being well received I do have parents who have reached out to me and who have asked me questions likewise I do have some haters but that's how I know I'm making a difference because the hate is there as well yeah absolutely well said it's like when you went once you're censored you know that you're putting up the correct information on the online right Stevie are you concentrating on any particular campuses as you tour the country you point of a Christian organization and unfortunately they they canceled the meeting that was going to happen at Belmont and so been trying to help the students out there at Belmont but really I think the key thing is getting in front of as many young people as possible who are conservative and letting them know that they're not alone that the hardships they're going through have happened before and they're gonna happen again and we've got to stand up tall for what we believe in and we can't be scared of people saying mean things about us or what people put on social media or what they may say to us we've got to stand up for what we believe in if there's any chance of saving our country thank you very much let me ask you this question Gloria as we as we wind down and then I want to give each of you an opportunity to leave listeners with some final words and thoughts but Gloria as somebody who's lived in a communist country and it sounded like you did at least one year schooling their first grade what's happening right now to the border of your country what's happening down there they believe they have freedom and to an extent they do and I equate it to when I speak I speak to a lot of young people because young people are what United Women Foundation is mostly about and so when I speak I they look at me very oddly when I tell my story but what I have found that works very well is I bring up a lion at a zoo and he's in a zoo he's caged his needs are met he has food he has shelter he has water he has medical attention and it's all for free but he is still in that cage but he is able to roam in that cage correct and then we have the next picture a lion picture lion in Wyoming in Montana anywhere in this country roaming freely that lion bends for himself he finds his own food he finds his own shelter he finds his own water he takes care of himself that lion is independent to me that is the difference that is the bottom line that is the difference between communism and America that is the difference between our constitution is that lion that is roaming free throughout this country and that's what we are right now so that is something that I think resonates with young people and I I believe that putting it in a perspective of a picture like that they are beginning to understand a little bit I hope at least I mean I don't know right now what I'm seeing is a lot of people have said we cannot have an opinion because we have not experienced it which truly breaks my heart my family in Croatia thinks that they are free in effect my family basically is a caged lion yeah incredible and and let me review what is happening right now at the southern border in in the U .S.
News, Traffic and Weather
Fresh update on "franklin" discussed on News, Traffic and Weather
"Sound. Expect some light rain here soon through a temperature 52 right now we got clouds of 56 here in Seattle. Newsradio 1000 FM 97. Stay connected stay informed. Thank you for tuning in to Northwest News Radio here for early Saturday. I'm Mark Christopher, painter web our editor overnight and early hours stories we have from overnight for you at this time police investigating another homicide in South Seattle occurred last night has happened along South Hanford Street near the Mount Baker neighborhood near Franklin High School in Elementary Kimball School. Please tell come all they responded to a 911 call about an overdose around 930 54 year old man was found unconscious and Seattle Fire notified SPD because the man had injuries that ultimately led to his That's death. not known at this time how he got those injuries Preston Phillips Como for we're hearing at least one person dead following a plane small crash at Arlington Municipal Airport yesterday the ultralight crashed about three o 'clock the National Transportation Safety Board's been called to investigate the Everett Herald confirming that that's a second ultralight crash in that area in two months the previous crash injured one person burglars hit another pot shop in a crash and grab early yesterday Como for Steve McCarron damage to the dockside cannabis store on 4th Avenue in Seattle Soto neighborhoods pretty significant police say the four burglars used a stolen Hyundai SUV to smash their way inside the shop's owner tells us they got away with hundreds of dollars worth of products and he says this was the seventh break in the chain has had so this far year on Monday of this week burglars smashed into another dockside cannabis location that one happened in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood 708 now here in Seattle multiple people without a home after six apartments caught fire early Friday in Everett Mukilteo Fire Chief Glenn Albright sang a couch cop fire then the flames spread through the complex the on 12 ,000 block there of Harbor Point Boulevard it's right across the street from Endeavor Elementary the first incoming coming engine company observed that the fire was spreading to the second and third floor and they immediately went to the third floor and started attacking the fire Red Cross already helping displaced residents no injuries reported by the way another week another controversy threatening the reputation of the Seattle Police Department this time an officer is accused of hurling racist insults Como Force Ryan Sims reporting chief Adrian Diaz has already apologized to the public for the latest controversy September 2023 will likely be a month that'll go down infamy in for Seattle Police first it was this video showing a cop joking about a woman who had been killed by one of his own she was 26 anyway she had limited value as outrage that video continues comes yet another scandal chief Diaz confirming that an officer is now on administrative leave after an audio recording captured that officer using racist language reaction action to this latest controversy was both swift and angry the trust is gone it's Victoria Beach is the head of SPD's African American Community Advisory Council I don't know where we go from here I'm struggling and if I'm struggling I know the community is Brian Sims come on if if you're wondering what game plan today we got for the Huskies and Cougars and how did the Mariners do for baseball last night we'll get to sports here in just one minute the Tacoma Medical Examiner right now challenging tried to identify a man who died after he was electrocuted while trying to break into a business first responders say the man was barely when they alive found him along South 23rd Street sergeant Darren Moss with Pierce County Sheriff's Department a lot of times we don't see crooks that are well thought out in their planning they have some half Cooked scheme and they think that they'll just do this and everything will work out and most time that's not the case turned out the man died from his injuries on the way to the hospital 710 here early Saturday here at Northwest Radio big upon a sparse desk. We got Seth Everett to get us all set up for sports today. A lot of football. Mark the Mariners and Rangers began the day tied for the American League's
The Café Bitcoin Podcast
A highlight from "Cryptosovereignty" with Erik Cason - September 20th, 2023
"Hello, and welcome to the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast brought to you by Swan Bitcoin, the best way to buy and learn about Bitcoin. I'm your host, Alex Danson, and we're excited to announce that we're bringing the Cafe Bitcoin Conversations Twitter Spaces to you on this show, the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast, Monday through Friday every week. Join us as we speak to guests like Michael Saylor, Len Alden, Corey Clifston, Greg Foss, Tomer Strohle, and many others in the Bitcoin space. Also, be sure to hit that subscribe button. Make sure you get notifications when we launch a new episode. You can join us live on Twitter Spaces Monday through Friday, starting at 7 a .m. Pacific and 10 a .m. Eastern every morning to become part of the conversation yourself. Thanks again. We look forward to bringing you the best Bitcoin content daily here on the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast. All right. All right. Good morning to all of you Cafe Bitcoiners. Good morning, Peter. Good morning, Ant, Dombey, Jacob, Wade, everybody else in the audience, all the loyal listeners. If you're new, we play that song at the beginning of every show. I highly encourage you to go look up the words and read the words to that song. It's mind blowing. Welcome back, Ant. Thank you. Thank you. I see you guys held it down. Yeah, we were all sad. We missed you. Oh, I'm really sure. I had to explain you to my sisters yesterday, Ant. Oh, I'm sure that went well. You were the technical guy, that's the other technical guy who does other technical things and has other technical knowledge. All the technicals. We did have like the Wicked show yesterday, was it yesterday? I don't know. We had a moment where the scale was up, came up and she was like, I have a wicked question. And then that was KSD. It great. was All right. You're listening to Cafe Bitcoin. This is episode four hundred and thirty eight. Shout outs to our sponsors on Fountain Nosterness. Our mission for this show is to provide the signal in a sea of noise, teach the other seven billion people on this planet why there is hope because of this bright orange future that we call Bitcoin. Today, again, we're going to try and discuss near perfect energy arbitrage. I've been meaning to do that for three different episodes now. We never actually get to it because the content is so dang good. The questions are good. The discussions are good. Hopefully we get that today. There's also a bunch of nonsense that the lizards are up to that I think needs to be highlighted. We shine lights on lizards and lizards doing lizard things. And it's I hope it helps you guys. Peter. Speaking of lizards, my banking saga continued. So, you know, yesterday I was talking about having trouble transferring money in my account being frozen, et cetera, et cetera. I thought, well, I'll just go into the bank, get out cash, and then I'll go make the deposit into my friend's account. Right. So I put my tweet up in the nest. I'm just going to it's real quick. I'm just going to read it. I said friend needed financial support, went to their bank with cash to deposit. Teller, we don't take cash. Me, what? Teller, sorry. Me, manager? Manager, we don't take cash. Random patron looks at me and mouths, what the fuck? Me, thank God. I literally said this. I said, thank God for Bitcoin. I walked out of the place. My friend, thanks for the BTC. You said that in a bank, Peter. What? You said that in a bank, Peter? Yeah. You're on the list. Hell yeah. You're on the list. That's like saying bomb on a plane. I looked at this lady, this manager, I looked at her. I was like, what the fuck is cash for? She goes, well, you can go buy stuff. I said, you're a bank. You don't take cash? No, thank God for Bitcoin. I fucking walked out. I couldn't believe it. You're all on a list. Every single one of you. It's OK, Peter. I got on the list a long time ago. I was on a phone call with my bank a long time ago and it was just like a lowly customer support person. And I was like new in Bitcoin, like brand new and like, you know, feeling it. And I was like, this is why y 'all are going down. You see, this is why Bitcoin is going to take you all out. So I'm sure I'm on the list as well. OK, later today, second half of the show, we've got Eric Kaysen joining us. Looking forward to that. That dude, he's one of my favorites. He's an extremely passionate Bitcoiner and deep thinker, in my opinion. He says some stuff that is I mean, there's a lot of edgy people in Bitcoin that are willing to say and call out lizard nonsense. Eric pulls no punches, man. This dude, when he's laying it down, I'm like looking around the room thinking, are any of these guys that are in here fed? Because he's definitely on the list. And so is everybody in this room. Oh, I'm sure we've had feds in this room for a long time now. Yeah, probably. I mean, these are all recorded, right? So, yeah, I guess they let it back. Yep, yep, pretty much. Good morning. They won't get the emojis, though. Yeah, screw them. I wish these guys would do something illegal. Mike Hobart, good morning. Mickey Koss, good morning. Terrence Yang, good morning. Oh, by the way, congratulations, Terrence. Terrence was on Bloomberg again. Dang. Thank you. Thank you. He's a regular now. Whenever they want to know something about Bitcoin, they call Terrence Yang. Your star's rising, Terrence. And Terrence is like, oh my God. And Terrence is like, hang on one second. I got to hang on one second. I got to park this dim sum cart so I can go get into a nice background place and do my interview with you guys. Exactly. Exactly, due to my crappy or just something's not great with faces for my audio, so it doesn't do noise suppression. So but it's motivating me to take a walk. So instead of you guys listening to the piano music from the hotel again. As long as you don't walk into that ballet center again, Terrence. I think that was Beetlejuice. I did not record. Terrence, if you don't mind me asking, since I didn't see the Bloomberg appearance, what did they ask you about? Did they ask you about any of your opinions on the Binance situation or is it just strictly Bitcoin and price? A little bit Binance. It was price, not as much price this time. I think I'm not sure why, but it was more about ETF kind of timing. And we got into spot versus futures of the SEC loss badly against Grayscale. So actual signal then, that's good. Allegedly, yeah. No, they ask good questions. That's good questions. And then talked about some tax stuff, stuff like that. Terrence, you were telling them how it's going to go down this year. That's interesting. How did they react to that? I did point out that 75 % of quote unquote experts surveyed said that Bitcoin ETF will be approved by year end, which I don't agree with. Yeah. Who are these experts? Are they the writers that coined it? These crypto people, right, because sometimes our stars do align a little bit with the crypto people short term. So their PR machine is formidable. So I think they just go around and random crypto experts opine on Bitcoin ETF timing based on their chat TBT law degrees or whatever. Here's a big wrench, Terrence, and you have a law degree, so you can tell me if this is possible. This may throw a wrench into the some of the bets on the side chains. What is it possible for the SEC to approve Grayscale, but with a go live date that's next year or far out or some kind of ambiguous, like, yeah, it's approved conditionally with this. And then people, well, it wasn't approved. It was approved. That I don't know, but typically they just kind of approve, delay or deny. And then when they approve, you just have to do all the paperwork. It's like they're always approved with conditions. Everything the government does or lawyers do. And now you're talking about government lawyers. So every approval is like if you meet the, you know, registration requirements, blah, blah, blah, you can do it. Go ahead and file the paperwork and, you know, give us comfort that you're compliant. Yeah, but they can attach conditions like, OK, so you're saying you're doing the surveillance sharing agreement. We are only doing this if that actually gets signed is, you know, not clear that that signed it, blah, blah, blah. They might add some details. I think that's possible. I don't actually know that much about ETF approvals, but that should be how it goes. It's kind of based on all the other stuff that government regulators tend to do. Yeah, because that's that's my new thing is, is this is backed by no for the listeners, no legal knowledge whatsoever, zero. But if they can find a way to approve Grayskills, put a timing on it that somehow screws them and lets BlackRock, whoever's first in line for the ETF, go live first. That's what I see them do. Yeah, that's possible. I feel like they're not that explicit. Like, OK, so a couple of things. One, if you're a Gensler, political animal, Bitcoiner, allegedly, you would probably want to do what? Delay approval just because, you know, hurts to lose three to zero in the D .C. In or batches dispersed would be one of the big four. It doesn't have to be BlackRock, right? Because the public perception, at least in some corners of the universe, they tend to think that BlackRock is super evil because they're so big, totally misunderstanding how asset managers work. But anyway, you might pick one of the big four, the new one being Franklin Templeton, 1 trillion .4 AUM, I think Invesco is like 1 .6, Fidelity and BlackRock are orders of magnitude. So one of those big four. Maybe do it in batches, politically you might do, I hate to say it, Cassie Wedge from ARK because she's a woman and she's very vocal.
Thom Hartmann Program
Fresh update on "franklin" discussed on Thom Hartmann Program
"Free Speech TV. There you go. Everybody listening. Prayers to everyone. Thank you for the weekend and now what I heard The young lady that called in single parent, you know the hard work, you know, you got sometimes, but I grew up in the same, you know, the same era, right? Mom stayed at home, and union jobs it was work. I had a little piece of it myself. I'm big and still working months. six It is work. I learned to appreciate your mom, my mom, all mothers, grandmothers. It was tough, but at the end that is fine because I was raising a granddaughter. Okay. From a little polywad with one, two, three, two years old, getting into everything. I've had three kids, but I never experienced my children that was working nice. Yeah. And a blessing, short term pain, longterm gains, but there was no pain. It was a blessing. I just want to say to the ladies, you know, God bless you because they learn what it's like, man. My mind was all over the place. Laundry, mopping, shopping, dusting. Yeah, it's work. It's uncompensated work too in our society, which is unfortunate. They need a pension and I honor them. I always do Labor Day. Don't forget the ladies and the man to stay home, some of us. So I did it. The pleasure, exercise, Tom, dancing, my granddaughter dancing, man. She had me dancing again. No, no, four dances is enough. So, and I want, and your show is part of it. See, I do a grateful list. I learned to do that and your show is one of them. GT science. I have to share that 70. Yeah. We're over 70, right? Happy. Yeah. Use a little plant, but it's okay. You don't mean for the pain. Me too. Yes. Yeah. Okay. Thank you, Bobby. It's nice to hear from you. Thanks for the kind wonderful words and sentiments. It's always so nice to hear from you and give Vivian our best. Thank you. Darien in Fort Mill, South Carolina. Hey Darien, what's on your mind today? Hey, Tom. It's good to Oh man, you, you really touched on a topic right now that is, is, is a, is what I live every day. I don't, you can tell talking on the phone, I get a little bit, what topic is that? ADHD. ADHD. Oh yeah. Okay. I'm 51. And, um, so at my age, you know, in 1980 when I was young where I'm eight, I, you know, I was diagnosed or whatever with a behavioral disorder, but I was that kid throwing spit balls, you know? And, um, I was that kid that had the, the uh, teacher had a desk and my desk was always right next to hers. And then everybody else had their day here. Same here, but, um, yeah. And so, but I was, I was good in some other areas, you know, it was a good athlete and, um, you know, and I was relatively popular and stuff. So, but I really wasn't good at communication. I wasn't good at these other things and I couldn't focus. So I struggled through, um, uh, school. I did make it through college and, um, you know, I, I did really well in life. I had a successful career and I've worked for like, you know, a big medical company is one of the top, you know, Forbes 100 was number two. So I did really well at a young age, but I found myself in that box you're talking about and, and I freaked out and, um, I just couldn't do it anymore. But but anyways, long story short is as I got some help from my ADHD as an adult, I knew it was a little bit more than that, you know, so, but then I just recently was diagnosed with autism. So, you know, but it's on the spectrum. It's on the, it's, and I have ADHD as well. So they're kind of two different things working against each other. But this topic is so dear to my heart and you're so right. I think more than anything, I have your book, by the way, I think more than anything, it's an evolutionary I was just whether this is, this is how, you know, we're going to get ready to go. I'm either losing his genetics and I'm just kind of an outlier. You and me are outliers and the rest will conform, or we're on the front edge. I think we're on the leading edge. I mean, you know, Thomas Edison was one of us, you know, Ben Franklin was one of us. I mean, the people who have really changed the world, sometimes for the better, sometimes the for worse. Adolf Hitler is probably one of us, too. But, you know, some of the, some, some really remarkable people, I cite a lot of them. I tell, you know, a bunch of biographies in my first book on this topic, ADHD, Hunter in a Farmer's World. So, yeah, I'm with you, Darren. Yeah. And, you know, I've been watching you talk for like 20 years. And so, but basically, when I left my job, I left this really, really good job. I was married. But I was masking. I was living a life that wasn't me. And it got to the point where I couldn't do it anymore because I was, the sensory stuff, you know? Yeah. And people didn't really realize it. So I got into drugs and I almost died several times. Oh, my. But I made it through all that because the only reason I was living is because I had to find out what this was. And it was that autism. And, you know, but the path was through ADHD and, you know, public health and doctor's mind. So the good news is I found something to do on my own, you know, which is grow me mushrooms, you know, like the lion's mane and. Yeah. So you found your passion. Yeah. And I don't really deal with many people, but I mean, I get the dopamine satisfaction you talk about. It's not to do it. It's after you're done and you look at it. I've never been more satisfied in my life. And it's wonderful. It also brings you back to the earth and it brings you back to how actually we all live as one organism on this planet. It's just profound. And I'm hoping I'm getting to that enlightenment part of the hierarchy. But anyway, you tickled me today. What a cool topic. And I, you know, well, thank you, Darren. Thank you, Darren. Yeah. Are you friend of Paul Stamets? Oh, I yes, did.
Crypto Curious
A highlight from 96 - Token2049 Highlights, Binance's SEC Showdown, Yuga Labs Update & Friend.tech on roids!!
"One of the big questions is - What is money? For practical purposes, it exists in a series of heterogeneous databases, very different databases. Do you believe in crypto? Digital currency may be an answer, but it is a highly respectable disaster. I'd go on Bitcoin. There is no second best. Welcome to the Crypto Curious podcast, proudly brought to you by the Bamboo app. Crypto Curious is your go -to source for all things cryptocurrency. Whether you're a seasoned pro or new to the world of crypto, we've got you covered. Each week, we'll break down the top news stories of the past seven days, giving you the information you need to stay on top of the latest trends and developments. Plus, we'll share quick bites of news and insights that you won't want to miss. If you're new to crypto, we recommend starting in our early episodes, where we break down the basics and give you a solid foundation to understand the crypto world. Join us as we explore the ever -evolving world of cryptocurrency and educate ourselves along the way. On today's episode, we'll give you a complete rundown on the token 2049 event that Blake and I attended in Singapore last week. Sneak peek, it was pretty amazing. Then we'll get into a number of big stories over the past few weeks, including Yuga Labs producing a movie, Binance are in hot water again, the Friend Tech field day, and we can't miss out on more FTX shenanigans. So stay tuned. My name's Tracey, and I'm joined by my pals, Blake and Craig, as we catch up on the crypto news. Hey guys, how are you going? Very well, Trace. Back in the swing of things this week. How are you? Yeah, good. After a week off. Did you miss us, Craig? Yeah, sure. No. That convincing. was I got an extreme FOMO from the group chat photos that you were sending and the talks that you guys went to that looked like a lot of fun, and I wish I went, but maybe next year. Yeah, definitely. Definitely next year. Maybe we should just dive straight in then and talk all about the token 2049 conference, which is the largest annual digital asset events in Asia and Europe. And this year it was bringing together the leading voices and the most sensational projects in Web3. And we did. We had an awesome time. Singapore is amazing. It was my first trip to Singapore. And Blake, give us your initial impressions and what you loved about the event. Yeah, so this is probably the biggest crypto conference in Asia, really. And I think about 10 ,000 people came to the main event itself, but then there were also about 400 side events, more than you could pick, or even too many, too many, really. And really, I think it's an industry focused event. You know, there weren't that many retail investors coming along. Tickets were priced accordingly. And yeah, it was an incredible event. They brought the who's who of the crypto industry to speak, talk about where the other projects are at and what the future looks like, the state of regulation and where we are in the market cycle. And it was fascinating to be there learning and hearing about how everyone else in the industry is thinking. And there was certainly no indication of us being in a bear market. My God, no, it was money, wasn't it? It was out of control. You know, the big exchanges were, were splashing cash around. The Formula One was on at the same time. So lots of people added a bit of excitement, didn't it? Yeah, we're coming over for that. And yeah, we could probably, you know, maybe give us your high level thoughts, Trace, and then we can get into a couple of the interesting things that we learned. Yeah, look, I think it was a really vibrant atmosphere. There were some excellent speakers. I was impressed with the setup. And the event ran really smoothly trying to get 10 ,000 people in over two days. You know, you'd expect a few hiccups, but there wasn't. I thought it was pretty, it was pretty well done. You know, there was a real big emphasis on, on building. And like you said, you certainly didn't feel like you were in a bear market at all. There was just money being splashed everywhere. Lots of giveaways, you know, certainly went trying to get a bit of merch to make Craig feel jealous. Definitely got a few to pop into the chat. What about the talks, guys? Like, which one was your most impressive project, most impressive person that you saw? Yeah, there's a couple that really stood out for me. Firstly, there was a talk on stablecoins, looking at the data and the adoption rate. What was really interesting is that you're even through this bear market, the stablecoin adoption rate has is increasing as you know, the crypto prices go down and less activity happens on chain and on exchanges. And this is really pointing towards the utility of stablecoins and what they're going to mean for the future. And importantly, what was recognised in that talk was that in the US, US -based stablecoins are being used less and less and offshore and algorithmic stablecoins are being used more and more. And this is really because of the regulatory pressure in the US market. People don't want to interact with US businesses, essentially. And, you know, probably the second most interesting talk that I saw was, you know, the founders Yeah, that was my favourite. Yeah, that was interesting. I didn't think I'd love it as much as I did. But I think me and you both sat there and was like, this is really interesting. Yeah, we had the founder of Polygon, the founder of Arbitrum and the founder of ZK Sync. You can see that the ZK Sync group, probably the most technologically advanced and that's a scaling solution that uses zero knowledge protocols on top of Ethereum. And yeah, definitely the most advanced, you know, scaling solution on top of Ethereum. Secondly, your Arbitrum is very focused on research and creating a really great product that anybody could use. And of course, Polygon's focus is on business development and getting adoption from web two companies. So coming at it from three very different angles there, but all for the same purpose of increasing adoption and scalability of the layer ones. I really like that layer two talk, but much like a music festival, you had to pick who you wanted to see because they're all overlapping. There was, you know, there was a main stage upstairs, another one downstairs. There's a few different talks. I ended up stumbling into the Neo founder, do his chat, which was really interesting. I quite liked that one. And for everyone's information, Neo is a layer one blockchain that was founded in China, very much focused on, you know, being an Eastern kind of competitor to Ethereum or so on. You guys remember the Chinese Ethereum narrative and it pumped Neo like 200X? Been around for a long time. Yeah. So you just kind of, but there was a lot of stans, a lot of people, you know, shilling a lot of different things and, you know, you could kind of get lost there for a while. There was a strong push for mainstream adoption through Web3 and gaming. And I think that was on a lot of panel discussions and a lot of side events were also pushing that. I know Animoca Brands had a lot of big events as well. So I think that was a big focus also. I think we didn't get to see him, but Robbie from Immutable was over there speaking as well. Now, was there one project that you didn't hear of that sort of came across a token at the conference? Like, was there a project that you put into your watch list? Not really. Just the big dogs just reinforcing there. Yeah. Just talking about where the innovation is moving, you know. And one thing that really stood out to me is that, you know, the regulation conversation just isn't that prominent in Asia because the regulation in Asia, the regulation in Asia, there's no issues. And, you know, I think that we can easily have a US -centric point of view sometimes. But in Asia, they're ready to do business there. You know, there's lots of investment happening. There's lots of deals happening. There's lots of growth happening. And some of those stories we'll talk about in today's episode. All in all, the event was memorable one for us and worth attending for our team. And it really did reinforce, you know, our love for the industry and just how far we have all come. And so if anyone's referenced token 2049, the next event will happen in Dubai in early 2024, in April, I believe. So you can check that one out. In April? That's only like six months away. I know. I did say to Blake that I thought that was quite soon. I think they have multiple events. You know, they have them in different regions. There you go. Well, I'll go to that one for the crypto curious community. I'll fly the flag. Cheers. Now, folks, we're going to mix it up a little bit this week, and we're going to cut out our short, sharp news bites at the end, and we're going to go to a few biggest stories because, as you know, we missed our show last week. So we're going to cover off a few biggest stories, starting with Franklin Templeton, a large asset manager who has joined the race for the holy grail, the Spot Bitcoin ETF. As we've previously reported, the aim of many of these leading institutions applying for ETF is to attract large institutional investors, which could potentially bring trillions of dollars into the crypto industry. So Franklin Templeton's ETF will be based on a mix of crypto exchange Bitcoin prices to deter price manipulation. So just another big boy entering the space and solidifying the general thesis that it is inevitable that this Bitcoin Spot ETF will happen. There you go, boys. What else are we going to catch on that's happened in the last few weeks, Craig? Yeah. So last week Vitalik, the Ethereum founder, he had his Twitter or X account hacked, and he shared a malicious link, and it actually led to just under $700 ,000 that was drained from people's wallet. So it was just a scam. People connected their wallet, got drained. But it was coming from his official Twitter. Right. Okay. This was due to a SimSwap attack. Right. These big dogs, even they get hacked. So stay on it. Stay safe, everybody. Yeah, we had that story a couple of weeks ago where your people's private keys were being stolen from their password manager, which had a vulnerability. So even when you're doing best practice activities, you know, sometimes you're still not safe. Can't trust anything. All right. Next up, we have a story that came out on the 13th of September. So received FTX approval from the US bankruptcy court to sell and hedge its crypto holdings valued at $3 .4 billion. That's a lot of bloody crypto. This is when everyone was freaking out about where they were going to drop their salon. Yep. Yeah. So we talked about Galaxy Digital was engaged to help, which is a big crypto focused asset manager to help the liquidators or the administrators sell down these assets. So what they have is $1 .16 billion worth of Solana and they have $560 million in Bitcoin and the rest in other tokens. So, you know, this is a little bit concerning. I think the Bitcoin market could probably absorb, you know, the sell down of $560 million of Bitcoin over, you know, a period of time. But what's the market cap, Craig, of Solana? Well, Solana is still, you know, in the billions. Let me just fact check. They can't sell all the Solana at once or it's going to be $9 .2 million of Solana released for them to sell every month, which I think is fine. So not all the Solana will be dumped in the market, but they have an $8 billion market cap. Yeah. And Solana did take a bit of a dump. I think it dumped around 5 % off this news. It's about 20 % of 15 to 20 % of Solana's market cap. But if they're smart, they're going to do this strategically over time anyway. Yeah, well, the three biggest holdings are Solana, Bitcoin and Ethereum. And then the other ones I've got is APT, Updos, Doge, Tron, Matic, Ripple and BNB. Very minuscule amount of BNB. So, yeah, this caused a bit of a shakeout, didn't it guys? Yeah. But, you know, I'm sure that they'll work on a strategy to release those tokens back into the market over time. I will potentially suppress price, but, you know, hopefully not for too long. Next one. This has happened over the last four or five days. The SEC has gone after the Stoner Cats project. I remember this one from a few years ago and mainly for its connection with Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher because it was, you could buy the rights to, it was a TV show, a cartoon Stoner Cats show. I think they only produced a couple of episodes and Mila and Ashton were the voices of the Cats. I think Jane Fonda was also one of the voices. So the SEC has charged a project for conducting an unregistered NFT offering that raised $8 million and one of the arguments the SEC used was that the entire, the entity promoted the potential for its NFT prices to increase in the secondary market, similar to all NFTs. So Stoner Cats agreed to pay a $1 million penalty and to destroy all NFTs in its possession, but they did not have to admit that it was guilty of the charges. So setting precedent there, so I'm not sure if that was the best way to go for them. And the SEC, you know, are really going for different projects at the moment. This wasn't the first one in recent weeks. So one to watch here, I know Elliot from our marketing team, who you guys see sometimes on our Instagram page, sent an article around talking about the SEC going after NFT projects and Guy from the Coin Bureau also made a big statement about it recently that he's slightly concerned. What are your thoughts, Blake? Well, I think there's a big lesson here. Don't sell cryptographic assets to Americans. Stay the hell away and you'll be fine.
Live Local and Progressive
Fresh update on "franklin" discussed on Live Local and Progressive
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Thinking Crypto News & Interviews
A highlight from BIG CRYPTO NEWS!! CITI BANK TOKEN & JUDGE DENIES SEC GARY GENSLER IN BINANCE US CASE!!
"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 or wherever you get your podcasts, make sure you hit that five star rating and review. It helps support the podcast and it doesn't cost you anything. Well folks, we've got big news coming out of Citigroup today. They have officially launched a token that will be used for deposits and the transference of money. Let me give you the details. Citigroup launches deposit city token services for institutional customers. This product will be based on a private blockchain controlled by the bank, converting customer deposit into digital tokens that can be sent instantly. Customers do not need to set up their own digital wallets and can be accessed through the bank's existing systems. This was reported by Bloomberg. This is huge news. There's many layers to this story. First it is further validation of this asset class and technology. And this technology is disruptive folks. And disruption is at the doorsteps of the banks, whether it be Citigroup, JP Morgan and many more. And they are trying to build their own versions, right? If the old system is working so perfectly, why are they trying to build blockchains and use blockchains and build tokens? Why? They know this new technology, this new asset class is the future. This technology is here to stay. It has many benefits. It will leave the old system in the dust. Folks, disruption is happening. Another major move here by a bank. And it's once again, further validation with technology. The other layer is that just about a week ago, reported on September 7th, JP Morgan was reported that they were building a deposit token themselves for settlements. JP Morgan is reportedly developing the infrastructure to run a new deposit token, allowing settlements between banks for corporate clients. Pretty clear what's happening here, folks. They know, especially with the likes of Ripple winning the lawsuit and XRP getting the clarity and not to mention CBDCs and stable coins and PayPal building their stable coins. This technology is here to stay and it's moving at a rapid pace. And look, I've been on record saying that I believe the TradFi incumbents, such as Citi, such as JP Morgan, Goldman, and these guys, weaponized Gary Gensler and the SEC to go and try to kill the stable coins, kill Ripple, kill whatever payment or crypto startup, right? Because Gary Gensler and the SEC are controlled by these TradFi incumbents. I had Caitlin Long on the podcast talking about the bias towards the TradFi incumbents, right? And we know how the political system works with campaign donations and much more. So it's pretty clear what's happening here. If you sit back and you look at the timeline, you look at the parallel of these things that are actually happening, right? We're not saying that we're not fabricating something here. It's clear what's been happening. It's clear what Jamie Dimon was saying since 2017 and what his bank was actually doing, right? Watch what they do, not what they say. Folks, first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, and then you win. It's pretty clear that this tech is so disruptive. They're scared of it and they're trying to build their own versions. But the problem is these wall gardens that they're building on private blockchains, no one's going to trust it. Why would another bank want to trust your token that you control the blockchain, you control the nodes, and much more? There are going to be private blockchain systems, don't get me wrong, right? Citi may launch its token and within its own different branches move money and settle instantly, but don't expect JP Morgan to use their coin and vice versa. So this is what's happening. They're not going to be able to disrupt the market with cross -border payments and all the different blockchain systems that are out there, which provide more of a free market, trustless permissionless setup. So very bullish folks for the crypto asset class that these banks are so scared. They're trying to launch their own tokens. And once again, JP Morgan is trying to do the same thing. And as mentioned, this is being reported by Bloomberg and they're calling it Citi Token Services once again. Let me give you a quote here from Shamir Khalik, global head of the company's services division. The development of Citi Token Services is part of our journey to deliver real time, always on next generation transaction banking services to our institutional clients. Oh, but I thought the traditional way of doing things was working. I thought crypto and blockchain, all these things are scams and a Ponzi. I guess not. The move is the latest by an established banking giant to offer so -called tokenized deposits or transferable digital coins that can represent a claim against banks. Crucially though, these tokens are processed on blockchain reels, meaning settlement is instantaneous. Yep. Folks, I'm so glad I'm here early. I'm paying attention. I'm researching, I'm dollar cost averaging and I'm hodling. Now a great way to dollar cost average in is using Uphold, which is a great crypto exchange. They are one of the sponsors of this podcast. I've been using Uphold since 2018. They have 10 plus million users, 250 plus crypto currencies, and they're available in 150 countries. You can also trade precious metals and 37 national currencies where you can easily transfer between crypto to different Fiat currencies to precious metals. That's a pretty unique feature to Uphold. If you'd like to learn more about this platform, please visit the link in the description. Well, folks, we've got big news around the SEC versus Binance. The judge declined the SEC's request to inspect Binance US. So if you recall, there was news that the SEC rips into Binance US over a shaky asset custody asked court to order inspection. The regulator asked a US court to reject Binance's half -hearted objections to its motion seeking depositions and inspection and communication from the exchange. This is another big fat L for scumbag regulator Gary Gensler, and this is being reported by Bloomberg. Here's the headline. SEC fails to win immediate inspection of Binance US software. Regulator says it is not getting enough access in lawsuit. Magistrate judge didn't grant expedited discovery requests. So the SEC says it has been struggling to get information from Binance US since it sued the American exchange along with its international affiliate Binance Holdings Ltd and its chief executive officer Changping Zhao in June. So Gary is taking loss after loss after loss. And I think a big blow is coming with Coinbase. I think Coinbase has a strong case and just like the grayscale situation, a lot of legal analysts are saying, yeah, we think Coinbase is going to walk away with a victory. Now, it may not be a full victory, kind of like the ripple situation where the SEC did win on some grounds, but it will be the lion's share of the win, or if you were to count up the numbers here, and that is what we're looking for. And you may say, well, Tony, why are you bashing the SEC and Gary Gensler so much? Don't they have a job to do? You're absolutely right. They do have a job to do, but we know, and this has been confirmed by the crypto industry as well as members of Congress and other regulators, even SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce and Mark Ueda, the SEC and Gary Gensler have not been acting in good faith. They have not been abiding by the law. So this government agency, which is supposed to have integrity, which is opposed to abide by the law, are themselves not doing that. Well, you have Judge Sarah Netburn rip a lawsuit saying the SEC lacks faithful allegiance to the law. What a burn. What a statement, right? That a government agency is being called out by the judicial branch and you lack faithful allegiance to the law. And even Bill Hinman and his conflicts of interest with Ethereum. And the list goes on and on and on. Gary Gensler is a puppet on strings doing the bidding of the incumbents when he's supposed to be a neutral party just looking to protect investors and they are attacking good actors. So it's not like they are just going after bad actors and that's the end of it. They're attacking good actors. And it goes back to what we were talking about at the beginning of the podcast. Citibank and all these banking incumbents have weaponized Gary Gensler to kill the startups that are disrupting them. The other aspect is Gary Gensler is not working with Congress to provide clear regulations, right? And he's flip flopped over the years. He's a big hypocrite. He's a liar. We've seen him lie many times. And he continues to say there's hucksters and scammers and so on and so forth in the industry. I tweeted about it today. You have some of the biggest names entering the crypto market, such as BlackRock, Franklin Templeton and many others filing for Bitcoin spot ETFs. Earlier this year, Charles Schwab, Fidelity and Citadel launched a crypto exchange called ADX Markets. PayPal launched a stablecoin. Deutsche Bank just reported last week they will offer crypto custody. Mastercard launched a CBDC program. Visa expanded their use of USDC stablecoin on Solana. So Gary clearly tried to distract and attack the startups while his Wall Street TradFi buddies come in and take over and look at the facts, right? I just listed out a whole bunch of big names that are coming in. And remember, Gary met with Sam Beckman Fried and FTX officials, didn't do anything. Big collapse happened there. He didn't do anything about Celsius or three hours capital and a whole bunch of other things. He didn't stop Terra Luna or anything like that, right? He just sat back and waited. And I think that was part of his strategy. I think he knew of the things that are happening, but he let them collapse so that they would hurt the market, right? Let the flush out all these startups who look, they're not established like the banking incumbents. And then what happened this year? Oh, I'm going to go after the good actors. I'm going to go after Coinbase, right? I'm going to go after this company and that company and NFTs and many other projects. So it's pretty ridiculous what's happening. But guys, we will win the war. We've seen historically that the disruptive technology will progress. It will get adoption. And if these folks don't get on board and it looks like they're trying to with their tokens, they will get or have their blockbuster moment. Now, speaking of further adoption, blockchain capital raises $580 million for two new funds. Venture capital's firms, record funding comes as space is teeming with exceptional innovators, despite bear market execs says. So the capital keeps coming in investments into the crypto industry. These companies and these funds are investing in both the companies, building the infrastructure, as well as the tokens are very, very bullish. Despite all that happened last year with FTX and Celsius and so forth, there's looking beyond that. They're looking at the future and the horizon of the adoption of this technology and much more. So one is the San Francisco based companies, six early stage fund in line with such funds it has previously launched, while the other is its first so -called opportunity fund. The $580 million marks the company's largest raise in its 10 year history, according to blockchain capital executives, Spencer Bogart, Bart Stevens, and Jason de Piazza. Such funding coming during a bear market reflects our investors trust in our long -term perspective, they said in a Monday blog post, adding that innovation often thrives during tough economic times. Despite the downturn in liquidity prices, we see a space that is teeming with exceptional innovators and founders, each aligned with the first principles of open source innovation, credible neutrality, and censorship resistance, Stevens told block works. The firm's first opportunity fund was conceived as a post dislocation investment vehicle. According to blockchain capital, Bart Stevens, it was designed with a high conviction concentrated mandate to pursue financing opportunities at the later stage. Very bullish news here, my friends. And here we got some more quotes. We felt generalists and newcomers misjudged the opportunity set he added. In contrast today, the fundraising environment for late stage crypto companies is barren, creating a unique and compelling opportunity for targeted capital that understand web three technology. Pretty incredible folks. And this is a lot of capital and more is going to keep coming, right? We're just seeing some of the biggest trad fi names entering a lot of capital being raised by different funds and new funds popping up and they're going to invest in the market and we're going to see continued growth and the S curve adoption keeps moving higher and growing folks. It's happening day by day, week by week, month by month, year by year. Now we got news here in New York financial watchdog proposes strengthened crypto guidelines. The New York financial or the New York department of financial services published proposed guidelines on Monday aimed to strengthen how firms list or delist coins. It also proposed guidance on adding coins to the state's green list. So we're seeing states move in the direction of trying to figure out regulations while the federal government continues to drag their feet. Obviously we got two bills in the house and shout out to patch McHenry and those folks who have been trying to get things through. Even Senator Cynthia Lummis and Christian Gillibrand in the Senate also have a bill, but we need Congress to act, right? Things are moving really slow. They need to put the guardrails in place, but we're going to see a lot of states do this. And I think as they do this and with their grassroots movements and much more, it's going to put pressure on the federal government to eventually act. So I think this is a good thing. However, the devil's in the details. New York can sometimes be very heavy handed. They obviously have the ridiculous bit license, which they should get rid of. But I think that's Wall Street's gatekeeping to allow only companies that they want and much more. So it's tough for a lot of crypto companies to get that bit license in New York. So we shall see what they come up with, but let me give you some details. Since joining DFS, I have made it a priority to ensure the department's regulatory and operational capabilities keep pace with the industry developments to protect consumers and markets. And why DFS Superintendent Adrian Harris said in a statement on Monday, and why DFS has been active in regulating crypto in the state for years, having launched its bit license regime in 2015. A slew of firms have virtual currency licenses in the state, including Coinbase Incorporated, and according to its site, although some firms close up shop in the state. So let's see what they come up with and all the details as it comes out, and we'll have some of the legal experts review it. But I am for regulations. I think they're important. Now, I don't believe in draconian regulations. I believe there's a balance. You allow innovation to flourish, but you protect consumers. That's the balance. But we got to keep our guard up and push back on anything that's draconian. Finally, Malta, they seek to change their crypto rule book to get ready for MICA. So the EU MICA regulatory framework was passed. The EU and the UK are ahead of the United States right now. The country's financial watchdog wants to align its framework with the EU wide rules set to take effect in 2024. So once again, EU and UK ahead, and it looks like these countries and the European Union are going to look to align to this. So this absolutely makes sense. Now, this law and this regulation is not perfect, right? And there's still some fine tuning that's needed, but it's a really great start. And I'm glad they were able to get things through because it just once again shows crypto is not dependent on the United States. This in technology the digital world that we live in and everybody on the internet, it doesn't need the United States land and borders to operate. It can operate from anywhere. Now, obviously I say that, but the United States is the world's largest capital market. So matter of capital raising and funding and so forth, that is certainly a big factor for the United States, but for these projects to launch and to build and to grow, they don't need the United States. And living in the United States, I'm worried that the US is in danger of losing some of these companies and a lot of jobs and economic benefits, but hopefully they can get it right sooner than later. And this EU MICA bill will take effect in 2024. And I think we can expect to see other countries align with it. And that is really great because there's not going to be different rules for different countries, at least in the EU, they can online and provide clarity to the different businesses operating in the EU. So this is good news, I think all around. Well, folks, that's the news. Please let me know what you think about the Citibank token, the SEC taking another big fat L, the judge striking down their requests in the Binance US case. And what do you think about all these items? Leave your thoughts and comments below, hit the five star rating on the podcast platforms, and I'll talk to you all later.
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"Military aid to Israel on respect for Palestinian human rights. They have shielded the country from pressure at the United Nations over its illegal settlements and have continued to stress the importance of the U .S.-Israel alliance. So we should be that clear these that Biden is deeply uncomfortable with this far right Israeli government because it has an agenda at odds with how Biden conceives of Israel. But he continues to support Israel with money and diplomatic support. And so when Biden says his support for Israel is ironclad, it basically means that his support for Israel is unconditional even as it in the occupied territories and escalates ethnic cleansing processes that are going on right now. And the issue of Saudi Arabia, when Joe Biden ran for president, he said he would make MBS, bin Mohammed Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, a pariah for the assassination of the Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, among other human rights issues. the But now U .S. pushing for normalization of relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia. Yeah, Biden believes that the fundamental root of the sort of conflict in the Middle East that Israel is involved with is Arab rejection of Israel as a Jewish state. And so as a result, he's doubling down on Trump -era normalization deals known as the Abraham Accords, in which Israel, in exchange for dropping plans to declare annexation of the West Bank. Israel normalized ties with United the Arab Emirates, as well as Bahrain, Morocco. And so when Biden came in, he decided to pursue this. And now with Saudi Arabia, he's looking to Israel basically bring and Saudi Arabia together with some serious S U guarantees of this talk of a U .S. defense treaties with both Saudi Arabia and Israel, which would bind the U .S. to come to the defense of these two repressive countries. And really what what the Abraham Accords will do, there's a lot of talk of, you know, how this will help the Palestinians, who are, of course, a under brutal military occupation. But what Saudi normalization with Israel would do with U .S. help will be to further isolate and marginalize Palestinians. So it's not going to help regional peace. It's just going to further consolidate Israeli apartheid, this time with the blessing of the most important Muslim state in the region. Let's bring Yousef Munir into this conversation, Palestinian America. And as they met on the sidelines of the U .N. General Assembly, that's Biden and Netanyahu. This was just a day after six Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces. Can you talk about the significance of this? That's among 240 about Palestinians who have been killed by Israeli forces so far this year. Yeah, thanks for having me, Amy. That's correct. In 2022, last year, the United Nations noted that it was the single deadliest year for Palestinians in the West Bank being killed by the Israeli military in nearly two decades of them keeping track of those numbers and the pace that we are seeing for 2023 looks to come. We're seeing a lot of people go over the numbers from the record -setting year before. I think if we're to describe the Biden administration as way in any critical of the Israeli government and Netanyahu in particular, we really need to put that kind of criticism in perspective and in the context, the extreme context, which we are seeing on the ground of unprecedented violence against Palestinians on a daily basis, not just being carried out by the Israeli military. Which as you noted, has been accused by various human rights organizations, Palestinian, Israeli, and international human rights organizations of committing the crime of apartheid, also but violence against Palestinians at the hands of Israeli settlers who are running amok in the West Bank, feeling a sense of support from an extremist government in ways that they have never felt before, and really conducting attacks on Palestinians with a sense of impunity. And all of this is happening alongside of course this Israeli government attempting a massive legislative power grab to ensure that right -wing forces in Israel remain in power in Israel for years to And come. so while we've heard some mild criticism from the Biden administration, particularly around these That criticism does not match the extreme elections, it seems completely ignorant of the very dangerous Couple that with the fact that the Biden administration is also doing for Netanyahu things that other administrations have not been willing or able to do before. This American administration is racing towards granting Israel entry into the US visa waiver program, something that Israel has sought for many years that the Biden administration seems willing to bend over backwards to accommodate, even if it means accepting the discrimination of Palestinian Americans traveling into and through Israeli controlled borders. It's also working on providing Netanyahu now with perhaps his biggest political achievement in the world. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Thank you. This is The Washington Post. is a pleasure. Thank you. It's hard to think of this administration as any way critical, but rather providing full throated support between the Biden policy towards Israel and Trump's policy towards Israel. You know, in some ways, the Biden administration policy is worse because I think It's more hypocritical. With Trump, you had this ethno -nationalist approach that was at least in harmony with what the Israelis were trying to do and what other right wing leaders across the world were trying to do. With the Biden administration, you have language about human rights being at the center of foreign policy, but the reality is completely different. You see this not just with Israel, of course, but with Saudi Arabia, the that administration is normalizing its relations with after calling them a pariah a few years ago. You see that as well with India, which has just been accused of a gruesome act of transnational repression in neighboring Canada. And many people have been outspoken and criticizing the human rights violations of the Modi regime in India, that the Biden administration welcomed with a red carpet here for a visit state earlier this year. So the Biden administration, you hear talk about human rights, you hear talk about hypocrisy, but the reality is quite the contrary. And I think that hypocrisy is what separates the most from Trump Donald because, you know, you knew what you were getting with Donald Trump and he honest was quite about it. And with the Biden administration, you hear talk about democracy, but the reality is that they're supporting apartheid and authoritarianism in many places around the globe. Very quickly, Alex Kain, you're a senior reporter for Jewish Currents. Do you see Jewish public opinion in the United States shifting around Israel and the occupation of the Palestinian territories? Yes, particularly amongst young people, but not just young people. People are I'm waking up and particularly now as Netanyahu's extremist government puts on display a shocking level of violence. We have over a thousand Palestinians that have been displaced this year, their villages literally wiped off the map, young American Jews, and I think many other, not just young American Jews are waking up and seeing this, but that is not being reflected the in organized American Jewish establishment, which continues to lobby the US government to support Israel as it does. So there's a real gap between Jewish public opinion and what the organized American Jewish community is telling the Biden administration to do. Alex Caine, I want to thank you for being with us, senior reporter for Jewish Currents. We'll link to piece. your Biden's legacy will be apartheid. And Yousef Muneir, Palestinian American analyst, Israel head of the -Palestine program at Arab Center Washington, DC. Next up, we speak with California Congressmember Ro Khanna as Republican infighting could soon lead to a government shutdown and more. Back in 30 seconds. This is a WCPT Veteran Minute. When thinking of the Revolutionary War, many think of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. However, few know the name of the man who is believed to be the creator of the American army, Baron Frederick von Steuben. Three years into the war, Benjamin Franklin recommended von to Steuben Washington due to his military experience with the Prussian military. Franklin also downplayed the rumors that Steuben von was dismissed from the Prussian military for being gay. 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Coin Stories with Natalie Brunell
A highlight from News Block: Bitcoin Outperforms Other Assets, FTX's SBF Jury Questions, Binance vs SEC, Anti-CBDC Bill, Grocery Inflation
"Welcome to the CoinStories news block. I'm Nathalie Brunel and in the span of just 10 minutes, roughly the same time it takes to mine a new Bitcoin block, I'll provide you with concise, insightful updates on Bitcoin and the global financial landscape so you're well informed on the week's top stories. Everything you need to know in one place in one block. Let's go. Bitcoin started the week with a nice little green candle. But zooming out, Bitcoin is officially the best performing asset class in seven of the last 10 years. That's according to data shared by market strategist Charlie Bilello. Between 2011 and 2023, Bitcoin's annualized return was about 145 percent. Compare that to the Nasdaq 100 index at 17 percent, the S &P 500 at 12 .5 percent and gold at just 2 percent. Sorry, Peter Schiff. And for those lucky enough to buy Bitcoin in 2011 and hold, their cumulative return exceeds 8 million percent. Wish that was me. More institutions are eyeing a spot Bitcoin ETF, the latest being Franklin Templeton, another giant asset manager with 1 .5 trillion dollars in assets under management. Franklin Templeton's application joins BlackRock, Fidelity, ARK Invest and several others. As I've reported here on the news block, a spot Bitcoin ETF would make getting exposure to Bitcoin as easy as buying any other stock or bond in a traditional brokerage account. It would increase access to Bitcoin and make it easier for funds to flow into the space. But of course, that's dependent on approval from the SEC, led by Chairman Gary Gensler. The SEC's main complaint for why it has rejected spot Bitcoin ETF applications is market manipulation and fraud. In a Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs hearing last week, Gensler answered questions related to the SEC's oversight of the entire crypto industry. Gensler testified, quote, given this industry's wide ranging noncompliance with the securities laws, it's not surprising that we've seen many problems in these markets. Thus, we have brought a number of enforcement actions, some settled and some in litigation, to hold wrongdoers accountable and promote investor protection. Gensler is continuing to hold the court decisions for him in the SEC's lawsuits against Grayscale and Ripple Labs. And when pressed in the hearing about how the SEC will protect investors from crypto fraud, Gensler responded by saying these companies need to be compliant with existing securities laws, adding this. But right now, unfortunately, there's significant noncompliance and it's a field which is rife with fraud, abuse and misconduct. We saw some of that fraud and misconduct with the high profile downfall of FTX. FTX founder Sam Bankman -Fried's case is set to go to trial October 3rd. But this week, a story gaining attention is related to the proposed questions SPF's lawyers want to send to potential jurors. And prosecutors are trying to stop this. The would attribute a crypto firm's failures to the owner of the firm and why, and whether they think it's wrong to donate large sums to political candidates and lobbyists. Another question was about SPF's effective altruism, the idea that he only wanted to amass wealth to give it away and improve the world. And yet another was about whether the juror had experience with people with the medical condition ADHD. Now, the DOJ's prosecutors are worried these questions are aimed at getting jurors that would see SPF in a sympathetic light and have written a letter to the judge to remove these questions entirely. SPF faces more than 100 years in prison if convicted of a number of charges, including fraud, conspiracy and money laundering after he allegedly stole and lost billions of his customers' funds. Meanwhile, Binance, another exchange in hot water with the SEC, also made headlines this night, including the CEO, the head of legal and the chief risk officer. Binance US has also cut a third of its staff. Binance issued a statement blaming, quote, the SEC's aggressive attempts to cripple our industry. Now, the layoffs arrived just as the SEC is accusing Binance of not cooperating with its ongoing investigation. The SEC says Binance US has failed to hand over proper documents that ensure that its customer assets are safe and in sole control of the organization. The recent resignations of Binance US leadership, including CEO Brian Schroeder, only added to the growing concerns. Binance CEO CZ responded saying, quote, there has been some speculation regarding recent management changes at Binance US. Brian Schroeder deserved a break after accomplishing what he set out to do two years ago. Ignore FUD. Keep building. Binance makes up about half of Bitcoin's trading volume, so the government complaints and investigations could delay any spot Bitcoin ETFs from being approved. So I'll be staying on top of this developing story. Now, in other news, in an industry first, Swann Bitcoin announced its plans to launch a Bitcoin only trust company with crypto custodian BitGo. This comes after Swann's former custodian Prime Trust filed for bankruptcy in August, and its current custodian partner, Fortress Trust, was acquired by Ripple Labs. The creation of a Bitcoin only trust company is a positive development given the risks that we've seen arise when custodians hold other cryptocurrencies or do business with companies that handle them. Let's turn now to a bill reintroduced by House Republicans that would outlaw a central bank digital currency or a CBDC. Last week, Republican House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, along with forty nine co -sponsors, reintroduced the CBDC Anti -Surveillance Act. The bill aims to prevent the Federal Reserve from issuing a digital dollar due to the risk it imposes to privacy and individual freedoms. Tom Emmer tweeted, quote, if not designed to emulate cash, a government digital currency would dismantle Americans' right to financial privacy and embolden the administrative state. I won't let that happen. Specifically, the updated bill prevents the Federal Reserve from issuing a, quote, intermediated CBDC, which would be a digital currency issued by the Fed but managed by retail banks. This is a similar system to what's currently being deployed by China with its digital won. Congressman Emmer adds that this bill puts a check on unelected bureaucrats and ensures the U .S. digital currency policy upholds our American values of privacy, individual sovereignty and free market competitiveness. Whereas Republicans are focused on stopping a CBDC, the Fed is only concerned about bringing down inflation. But this past month, inflation was on the rise again. CPI rose to three point seven in July, and that's mainly driven by rising energy and food prices. But don't worry, economist Paul Krugman, the guy who famously said the Internet was a passing fad, notes that if you exclude everything people actually need, like food, energy, shelter and used cars, inflation is actually down. But here in the real world, people continue to struggle with the rising cost of essentials like groceries and gasoline. And instead of taking responsibility for their inflationary policies, some politicians are identifying scapegoats for the rising cost of living. In a speech last week, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau blamed grocery stores for price rises and said the companies could be hit with new taxes if they do not take steps to control food prices. And let me be very clear. If their plant doesn't provide real relief for the middle class and people working hard to join it, then we will take further action and we are not ruling anything out, including tax measures. Leaders of the Canadian grocery store chains responded by saying they are not profiting from inflation because although prices have risen, so have their costs. Grocery store profit margins remain razor thin. In fact, the CEO of one major Canadian grocery chain, Loblo's, said that on a customer's $25 grocery basket, they earn just $1 in profit. Performing price controls or taxing these companies would only negatively impact the available supply of food even more and risk putting these grocers out of business. But once again, government policies are threatening to worsen the problem they helped create in the first place. This is true in America, too. Grocery store profit margins remain some of the lowest in the economy, averaging about 1 to 3 percent. Some grocery stores are struggling to keep their doors open here, especially in big cities amid massive waves of theft. This has even led to cities like Chicago proposing to open government -run grocery stores. Will this help the inflation picture? Doubtful. Of course, inflation isn't the result of grocery stores profiteering. It's the result of central banks and governments injecting trillions of dollars into the economy since 2020. As politicians continue to blame inflation on everything but their spending and central banks continue to raise interest rates to try to bring it down, inflation continues to erode the savings of every household holding the currencies that these institutions manage and control. Bitcoin fixes this. All right, let's wrap up this news block with the craziest Bitcoin headline of the week. It was reported that Paxos accidentally paid more than $500 ,000, that's more than 19 Bitcoin, in a transaction fee. Bitcoin fees are up in 2023, but not by that much. Now, the good news is the mining pool that won that block is going to refund that payment to Paxos. That's got to be a relief. If you want to learn more about Bitcoin fees, full blocks, and what Bitcoin block scarcity means for your investment, don't miss my latest Coin Stories episode with Bitcoin miner Bob Burnett. That's it for the news block, your weekly Bitcoin and economic news update. I'm Nathalie Brunel. Make sure you're subscribed to Coin Stories so you never miss an episode. This show is for educational purposes and should not be construed as investment advice. Until next time, keep stacking.
The Breakdown
A highlight from The Five Most Important Stories in Crypto This Week
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Saturday, September 16th, and that means it's time for the weekly recap. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. Hello, friends. Well, as you know, I have been doing something a little bit different for the weekly recap recently. I've been collaborating with Scott Melker, the wolf of all streets on Friday morning with a live show that we've been doing. That's basically a chance to count down what we think are the most important stories and have some more editorial analysis around them. Obviously, you guys know that when it comes to the normal breakdown show, the way that I insert editorial isn't me giving my opinion on every story that comes through. Instead, it's about how I curate the breadth of different opinions, and that's what really matters to me. I want you guys to have lots of different opinions so you can make up your own minds about everything that's going through this industry. However, people have responded to having a chance to have a little bit more of subjective that opinionated take. And so today, while Scott is in Singapore for token 2049, I decided that I would do my own countdown. This is pretty off the cuff. I'm just letting it rip. But these are what I think are the five most important stories in reverse order. Of course, we're going to do a countdown. Let's make it a countdown. At number five, we have the Gensler hearing and his subsequent comments. So what happened? Well, there was a standard oversight hearing for the SEC this week in the Senate Banking Committee. And of course, everyone in the crypto space was waiting with bated breath to see what soundbites would be trotted out against us this time. Certainly, they were there. Sherrod Brown, who's the chair of that committee, certainly used it as a chance to reinforce his view that a crypto is bad and that be the SEC's enforcement record is good. And Gary's prepared testimony also had some knocks on the crypto space as well. When it came to the hearing itself, the biggest soundbite from Gensler was when he responded to Sherrod Brown, saying right now, unfortunately, there's significant noncompliance and it's a field which is rife with fraud, abuse and misconduct. That was the headliner quotable that people ran with. And yet what was notable about crypto in this hearing was how little crypto there was in this hearing. Indeed, it was almost totally supplanted from the GOP as a topic of interest instead to be something like Exhibit A in a broader case that it seems like Republicans are going to be making for the American public heading into election season, which is about the overreach of Biden appointees and government agencies in general. There was a lot of antipathy towards Gary Gensler for his refusal to comply with Republican requests for oversight. Ranking member Tim Scott, for example, called this dereliction of Gensler's duties to the American people. And in general, it seemed like Republican members were gearing up for much bigger fights. Things like the major questions doctrine, which is a new vector for having the conversation about how much authority agencies and unelected officials can claim. Those seem like the battlegrounds that are shaping up in this pre -election season. So the reason that this hits number five at the list is not that there was something really substantive that was said. It's the fact that there wasn't. And indeed, that crypto has become part of a very different narrative, which is something that given that we are just at the beginning of presidential election season, I think we're going to see a lot more of. Now, as to the question of whether crypto not being a hot button congressional issue throughout the rest of the election cycle is a good or bad thing, I think that's a little bit in the eye of the beholder. Certainly, we had a pretty good chance to get some bad legislation on the books during the time when antagonism towards the industry was highest. But at the same time, you have a whole lot of people and a whole lot of companies and a whole lot of institutions that simply aren't going to touch the space with a 10 foot pole until we get some at least basic clarity. I think that if you are in that camp that wants that basic clarity, the best that you can hope for is some very targeted legislation such as common sense stablecoin rules or something like that. Number four on our list today, we have of course, Binance executives leaving. This was the only one that I knew had to be at this certain level. Because of course, four is CZ's favorite thing to say when anyone has anything to say about Binance this year. TLDR three executives left this week from Binance US making the total 13 across the entire conglomerate since June. News broke on Tuesday that Binance US CEO Brian Schroeder was gone. And then on Thursday, the head of legal and the chief risk officer followed suit. Now added to that we have allegations from the SEC that Binance US were not cooperating with document discovery and that their wallet provider is a Binance subsidiary offshore. In other words, effectively a direct allegation from the SEC that Binance lied earlier on in the lawsuit when they said that they would not send client funds to Binance International. Now CZ did come out and address the rumors around Brian Schroeder. He said in the tweet, there's been some speculation regarding recent management changes at Binance US. Brian Schroeder is taking a deserved break after accomplishing what he set out to do when he joined two years ago. Under his leadership, Binance US raised capital, improved its products and service offerings, solidified internal processes and gained significant market share, all of which helped to build a more resilient company for the benefit of our customers. We are grateful for his contributions. Of course, the crypto world falls into basically exactly two camps. The one who followed up that post saying thanks so much for the explanation. Of course, that's it. And the rest of us who are looking at it sort of shaking our head saying, of course, that's the only thing that you can say. So what's actually going on? Well, it seemed for a very long time like Binance had basically no future in the US. It is under absolute assault from basically every regulatory angle. And regardless of what turns up, there's already been a huge impact on market share. It doesn't have access to banks. And at this moment, we're seeing trading volume in the single digit millions for 24 hours, which effectively means it's not doing anything. We've had eight months of online science from that CEO Brian Schroeder. And so it's hard to imagine that there's any real future there. Now at the same time, it's important to remember that Binance doesn't necessarily need the US. It is still by far the biggest exchange in the world, although its market share has decreased as well. And it would be a pretty rational move at this point just to move on to greener pastures. Now that said, it does not at all feel like the regulatory story and the investigative story around Binance is done. And while I'm certainly not rooting for them to have done bad things, because God knows this industry doesn't need another SAM. I also would like whatever's going to happen to happen so we can get on through it. Speaking of SAM at number three, we have FTX selling approved. This has been a big emergent narrative, really more of a fear than a narrative. And the TLDR is that Galaxy Digital has been approved to start selling FTX's liquid crypto assets. FTX has about 3 .4 billion worth of liquid crypto to sell. And Galaxy has been authorized to sell 50 million of that this week and next week, and then 100 million per week after that. There had been some discussion before this approval around whether people could just get their crypto back instead of it being converted to US dollars. But basically, the bankruptcy estate said that that was just impossible based on how messed up things were internally at FTX. Now, why this matters is less the bankruptcy process and more about the market internalizing this deep fear that we have this big multi -billion dollar sell pressure coming right down the pipeline. Lots of people have pointed out that it's not in anyone's interest, Galaxy Digital FTX or any of us, for this group to just mass dump this and create negative price impact. But that hasn't stopped people from being scared. It feels to me like one of the next things we just have to get through and frankly might correspond with another round of negative press around SAM's trial coming up next month. But if we're asking for opinions, get through it, we will. I think the pressure will be less bad than people think it will. And I think there will be a little bit of a rebound narrative when people realize that it is less bad than they anticipated. At number two, we have the SEC but in a different context. The SEC settled their second case against an NFT project this week, that project being Stoner Cats. Now, I did a whole show about this. But basically, the important things about this are one, the SEC saying its jurisdiction extends to NFTs, two, the reasoning for the SEC's jurisdiction extending to NFTs making it seem like their jurisdiction extends to your Magic cards and your anything else as well. Three, for the fact that we are again seeing their strategy of going after smaller projects who have very little incentive to actually defend themselves and much more incentive to just settle and move on with their lives. And four, for the increasingly direct dissents from Hester Purse and Mark Ueda. Now, there are a lot of pieces of that. I don't really want to go into the whole NFT and collectibles argument again. I did that on the show a couple days ago. I will only say here that I do think that overreach in this area potentially undermines SEC authority in the long run, because I don't think it's going to hold up necessarily. I think the bigger thing to watch is once again, the culmination, the crescendo, if you will, and the coming endgame between this SEC and the industry. Now, of course, should the SEC be emboldened by another Democratic administration, things could just continue or even amplify. But it does kind of feel like we are at the period where most of the big shots have been fired, cases against Coinbase, cases against Binance, etc. And now they're back to trying to pick off easy targets that have implications that would lead to the accumulation of their own power. Perhaps once again, this is the reason that the GOP opponents of the SEC have decided to make the issue not crypto per se, but regulatory overreach in general and Gensler's desire specifically to expand his personal authority and the authority of his office in ways that undermine the authority of Congress. In other words, the reason that the Stoner Cats decision gets so high on this list is not so much the Stoner Cats decision. In fact, it's not hard to find people even in the crypto community who don't really want to go out on a limb to defend Stoner Cats. Instead, it's about what it represents in terms of the cycle and where we are in the fight versus the SEC, which leaves us with our number one, which is actually a news story that broke a week ago on Friday, which is Ripple acquiring Fortress Trust. Now, it's not really Ripple acquiring Fortress Trust. That's the number one. It's what has happened subsequent to that. Specifically, the very brief timeline of events is that last Thursday, this is Thursday, September 7th, said that there was an incident and that all client funds were safe. On Friday, however, Ripple announced an acquisition of Fortress, which coming right after that all client funds are safe announcement certainly raised some eyebrows. And indeed, by Monday, back to this week, we found out that this was actually a bailout and that $15 million was stolen from Fortress, which was made whole by Ripple. On Wednesday, Coindesk dug up the incident report from the software partner, and it appeared that the software provider and not Fortress themselves were the ones that had the breach. Although it also doesn't appear that Fortress were really abiding by the best practice security offered by that provider. On Monday, Anchorage Digital co -founder Diego Monica had discussed the issues with housing crypto custody within trust companies that may or may not have the technical expertise to do it safely. Now, it was related to the prime trust wallet incident, which, by the way, happened under the same watch of the guy who was running Fortress Trust. But it's certainly just as applicable here. Diego said it is an integration failure. It is a company that did not have the technical ability to do what they're saying that they do. So you've got multiple layers of why this story matters and why it's at the number one slot. First, you have the significance of this crypto institutional consolidation. Fortress was one of very few custodians, and so seeing them get acquired by Ripple will have Ripple effects for the rest of the industry. Second, I think that it is reflective of the larger brittleness of crypto institutions right now coming off of the chaos of the last two years. The infrastructure for big businesses and major funds and major investors to interact with this industry is very, very bad right now. Now, of course, a lot of that is due to the fallout of things like Operation Chokepoint 2 .0, where it's just getting harder and harder to be banked, for example, to get access to things like banking services and accounting services. But whatever the set of reasons, it has set back and will set back the industry. Obviously, one of the major positive trends that we have in crypto right now is the fact that major institutional players are circling around the edges, starting to wade their nose in. You've got Franklin Templeton adding their ETF application to the mix as a for example, and maybe that should be on the list as well. But it will be a significant barrier for those companies if they're not able to actually interact with these basic services like custody without having to go build it themselves. Now, the most likely outcome in my estimation is that they do, in fact, go build it themselves, that the companies who are good at all of these different parts of the traditional financial sector reapply simply that expertise to the crypto space. And I wouldn't be at all surprised if what happens and how the regulatory stuff resolves is that basically authority to do all these things is given to who the regulators perceive as the adults in the room. Another way of putting this is that in the same way that BlackRock is likely to get the first ETF, because that gives regulators the ability to say, look, we gave it to a safe party, I wouldn't be surprised if you see more and more crypto activity being managed by these storied, vaunted financial institutions that have long term relationships with the regulators themselves. At the same time, of course, there is no crisis without opportunity. And by the end of the week, Swann had announced that they have plans to spin out a Bitcoin only custody service. They announced that they are working with cold storage provider BitGo to develop the service and they are planning to structure it as a trust company. Now they are quite clear that this is a very difficult thing to do, that there is going to be a long period of getting the requisite regulatory approvals. But ultimately, I think it would be a huge boon to the ecosystem for that service to exist, especially from a service provider that Bitcoiners have built trust with. And that ultimately that combination of reflecting where the industry is, and the really low ebbs and hard points of what's happened over the last couple of years. But also the fact that there are multiple paths forward, some which we might prefer to others is why the Fortress Trust Ripple and now Swann situation makes my number one for the week. Anyways, my friends that is going to do it for the weekly recap. Let me know what you thought of this format. Come join us on the Breakers Discord. It's a great place to talk about this. I hope you are having a great fall weekend. And until next time, be safe and take care of each other. Peace.
Simply Bitcoin
A highlight from $1.4 Trillion Asset Manager Files for Spot Bitcoin ETF | EP 823
"Good morning, everybody. What's up? What's up? What's up? It is Wednesday, September 13th, the year 2023. And we got some more news coming out from the top financial asset managers of the world, officially filing another spot Bitcoin ETF. This one is Franklin Templeton, which has about $1 .4 trillion of assets under management. So it seems like Bitcoin is maturing right before our eyes. Love to see it. And I know there's the negative Bitcoiners out there, like we don't need them. Well, hey, even if we don't, there is tons of capital sitting on the sidelines waiting to get into Bitcoin. And so even though the price is crabbing sideways, it seems like there is a ton of interest in Bitcoin and you love to see it. And it really makes you wonder whether this time will be different this next bull run. And then, of course, the secondary questions of what is the SEC doing? Are they going to approve Bitcoin ETFs this year? Are they waiting for next year? What is holding them back from approving a spot Bitcoin ETF? All the things that make you say, hmm, you know, what is the final thing that will finally let the boot drop and release a spot Bitcoin ETF? So we got all that for you guys. And then as well in the news, we saw some rumblings coming out of the G20 summit about a global digital ID system, CBDC systems, which when you really read into it, it's absolutely terrifying. And interesting enough, they are using new framing and new words for this. So we'll bring you all the receipts so that you can keep track of what they are saying. But as a Bitcoiner, it's kind of one of those I told you so moments, you know, we've been talking about this for months on the show about what their plans are. And now it's no longer just us speculating about what they want to do. They are saying it for themselves. They want global control of your identity, of your transactions. And it's very interesting about how this game theory is going to play out. You know, on the one hand, as we say all the time, there is Bitcoin and then there's slavery. There is a freedom money. And then there is a total digital tyrannical authoritarian monetary system that they are trying to roll out in real time. But anyways, welcome to Simply Bitcoin. We are your number one source for the peaceful Bitcoin revolution. We cover breaking news, culture and memetic warfare. We bring on Bitcoiners from all around the world, from the biggest names to the everyday Bitcoiner. We got them all. And we will be your guide through the separation of money and state. And I am not alone today. Of course, I am here with Dell. Dell, how are you doing? Good to have you back. It is a Wednesday, of course. So we do the hosting duties. How are you doing this morning? Ah, I'm good. Things are interesting. It's how amazing people will turn on each other for entertainment in any space. Like you see things going well or they're going well, then people are happy. Like if there's a party and everybody's there and all the kids are woo, yeah, there's stuff. There's a clown and a funny clown, he's making balloons. But as soon as all the clowns go away, there's no jumping castle. There's literally nothing to do except find entertainment. The kids are probably going to turn on each other. They're going to band into teams. They're going to go. I mean, hey, what is that? Lord of the Ring, not Lord of the Rings, Lord of Flies. That's not right. Is that what it is? Lord of Flies? I think it's Lord of the Flies, right? Lord of the Flies. There we go. I knew it didn't sound quite right to me for some reason. Brain farted there. They're going to turn on each other. You see this in pretty much every situation ever. So here it is in Bitcoin space. Nothing's really happening with the price. You get tiny little blips of news. I imagine this whole, which recently revealed today, PayPal mistake, spending five and a half a million dollars to send about 800 bucks worth of Bitcoin. That would have hardly made a blip if we were in a bull market. If things were popping off and like, oh, it's 30 ,000. Oh, it's 40 ,000. Oh, I can't believe it. This little thing would happen to like, oh yeah, okay. Need would just be a little road bump along the way. But now things like that are crazy. My point here is that people will turn on each other and stay nice, be nice, be kind, rewind. It's just bear market things. This is a rite of passage. This is just how things happen at the very end of a bear market. Anyways, we are not alone today. We have a good friend. Dare I say the best producer in the game or is Jacob going to get mad at me? Anyways, we got Chris Alamo from Bitcoin Magazine here and we're going to be talking about all things Bitcoin Mag during the culture. So Chris, how are you doing today? Doing well, not the best producer. We're just the collectively the producers for the best asset in the world, we're good at that. So shout outs to you and Jacob. No, but happy to be here. Thanks for having me guys. No worries, no worries. Actually, can we do a little story time? Remember when we were at Pacific Bitcoin last year and we were walking back and we were joking, like if you, myself and Jacob are traveling somewhere, we can't all be on the same plane because then like the majority of Bitcoin producers are just completely, there's no more content being made. But yeah, anyways, anyways, good to have you Chris. Good to travel separately basically. It's like state of the union. Someone, one of us has to be missing basically. Oh my goodness, it's so true. All right guys, let's get into the numbers for today.
Markets Daily Crypto Roundup
A highlight from Crypto Update | Franklin Templeton Joins List of Asset Managers Wanting Spot Bitcoin ETF, With Host Noelle Acheson
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by Kraken. To make sure you don't miss an episode, be sure to follow the podcast on your platform of choice. And just a reminder, Coindesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. Now, a markets roundup. Crypto sentiment continues to be weak. Earlier today, crypto prices recovered part of yesterday's slump but are still down on the previous day. As at 10am Eastern Time, Bitcoin was trading just over six tenths of a percent lower than 24 hours ago, at $26 ,122 according to Coindesk Indices. Ether was down almost eight tenths of a percent, trading at $1 ,596. Yesterday, Bitcoin dominance, which is the Bitcoin market capitalization as a percentage of total market capitalization, popped back above 50%. This means that Bitcoin now accounts for half of the whole crypto market. Usually, a rising Bitcoin dominance suggests that investors are rotating out of smaller tokens and into the relative safety of crypto's largest and longest -running asset. A falling Bitcoin dominance points to greater investor confidence as they move out on the risk curve in search of higher gains, focusing on smaller, more volatile tokens. So, the rise of Bitcoin dominance over the past week confirms what the prices have been telling us. Investors are uneasy, but Bitcoin is outperforming other crypto assets. Moving on to traditional markets, U .S. markets are slightly up this morning as traders digest the U .S. inflation data out earlier. Month -on -month U .S. inflation for August came in as expected at 0 .6 % versus July's 0 .2%. But the annual figure was slightly higher than forecast, showing an increase of 3 .7 % versus July's 3 .2%. Month -on -month core CPI inflation, stripping out energy and food prices, was also slightly higher than expected at 0 .3 % versus July's 0 .2%. The data is moving in the opposite direction from what the Fed would like to see, which is strengthening conviction that another rate hike this year is likely. CME futures are signaling more or less even odds that the Fed will hike again at or before the December FOMC meeting. There's some more key data to come out, though, before the FOMC meeting next week. Tomorrow we get retail sales expected to show a slowdown, and next Tuesday we should get some more clarity on the state of the U .S. housing market. The market is not expecting the Fed to raise rates in the September meeting, and it would be very unusual for the Fed to go against short -term market conviction. As at 10 a .m. Eastern Time, the S &P 500, NASDAQ and the Dow Jones were all up roughly 0 .2%. Over in Europe, the FTSE 100 was flat on the previous day as investors digested weaker than expected GDP data. The British economy shrank 0 .5 % in July, the biggest decline so far this year and reversing a 0 .5 % expansion in June. European stock markets are trading weaker, with Germany's DAX index down 0 .4%, as at 10 a .m. Eastern Time. The Euro Stoxx 600 index is down almost 0 .3%. Trader attention is focused on the European Central Bank's policy meeting tomorrow, with the possibility of a tenth consecutive interest rate hike weighing on sentiment.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from MARKETS DAILY: Crypto Update | Franklin Templeton Joins List of Asset Managers Wanting Spot Bitcoin ETF, With Host Noelle Acheson
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by Kraken. To make sure you don't miss an episode, be sure to follow the podcast on your platform of choice. And just a reminder, Coindesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. Now, a markets roundup. Crypto sentiment continues to be weak. Earlier today, crypto prices recovered part of yesterday's slump but are still down on the previous day. As at 10am Eastern Time, Bitcoin was trading just over six tenths of a percent lower than 24 hours ago, at $26 ,122 according to Coindesk Indices. Ether was down almost eight tenths of a percent, trading at $1 ,596. Yesterday, Bitcoin dominance, which is the Bitcoin market capitalization as a percentage of total market capitalization, popped back above 50%. This means that Bitcoin now accounts for half of the whole crypto market. Usually, a rising Bitcoin dominance suggests that investors are rotating out of smaller tokens and into the relative safety of crypto's largest and longest -running asset. A falling Bitcoin dominance points to greater investor confidence as they move out on the risk curve in search of higher gains, focusing on smaller, more volatile tokens. So, the rise of Bitcoin dominance over the past week confirms what the prices have been telling us. Investors are uneasy, but Bitcoin is outperforming other crypto assets. Moving on to traditional markets, U .S. markets are slightly up this morning as traders digest the U .S. inflation data out earlier. Month -on -month U .S. inflation for August came in as expected at 0 .6 % versus July's 0 .2%. But the annual figure was slightly higher than forecast, showing an increase of 3 .7 % versus July's 3 .2%. Month -on -month core CPI inflation, stripping out energy and food prices, was also slightly higher than expected at 0 .3 % versus July's 0 .2%. The data is moving in the opposite direction from what the Fed would like to see, which is strengthening conviction that another rate hike this year is likely. CME futures are signaling more or less even odds that the Fed will hike again at or before the December FOMC meeting. There's some more key data to come out, though, before the FOMC meeting next week. Tomorrow we get retail sales expected to show a slowdown, and next Tuesday we should get some more clarity on the state of the U .S. housing market. The market is not expecting the Fed to raise rates in the September meeting, and it would be very unusual for the Fed to go against short -term market conviction. As at 10 a .m. Eastern Time, the S &P 500, NASDAQ and the Dow Jones were all up roughly 0 .2%. Over in Europe, the FTSE 100 was flat on the previous day as investors digested weaker than expected GDP data. The British economy shrank 0 .5 % in July, the biggest decline so far this year and reversing a 0 .5 % expansion in June. European stock markets are trading weaker, with Germany's DAX index down 0 .4%, as at 10 a .m. Eastern Time. The Euro Stoxx 600 index is down almost 0 .3%. Trader attention is focused on the European Central Bank's policy meeting tomorrow, with the possibility of a tenth consecutive interest rate hike weighing on sentiment.
Thinking Crypto News & Interviews
A highlight from SEC GARY GENSLER CONTINUES CRYPTO FUD, BILL HINMAN PROMOTED, FRANKLIN TEMPLETON BITCOIN SPOT ETF, & COINBASE VECHAIN!
"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, scumbag regulator Gary Gensler testified before the Senate Banking Committee today and there weren't too many takeaways. He continued his lies about crypto, saying it's ripe with fraud, manipulation and, you know, his same bullshit narrative. But what we saw, there was some more members pushing back and asking him questions about regulation by enforcement. When are you approving the Bitcoin spot ETF and much more? I believe there's going to be more fireworks and more pressure on him in the House Financial Services Committee at the end of the month. So today, crypto made up a small portion of the questions that Gary Gensler got. He got a lot of questions around A .I., ESG and so forth. Here are some takeaways from some of the questioning that he received. The first is from Senator Steve Daines, a Republican out of Montana. The vast majority of the agency's rulemaking agenda has been a voluntary undertaking. Chair Gensler, you are not an elected official that is beholden to your constituents. You are an unelected bureaucrat that has taken it upon himself to reshape American markets. We do all we can do based on Congress's authority, Gensler responded. Not to be fair, Congress makes the laws. But Gensler, of course, is a corrupt bureaucrat out of control, right? He could be trying to put out clear guidelines working with Hester Peirce, who has provided many great solutions, such as the safe harbor proposal, and to be working with the crypto industry until Congress acts. But of course, he's not doing that. I just look recently, CFTC Commissioner Caroline Pham, she introduced a pilot program or proposal for a pilot program to work with the industry. So he could be doing these things. But of course, he's not. We know he's a puppet on strings controlled by the bankers in Wall Street who are looking to weaponize him, or they are weaponizing him, to shut down, to kill these crypto startups, such as Coinbase, such as Ripple, and so to allow his big buddies like the BlackRocks, the Goldman Sachs, and JP Morgan to come in and take over this market. Now, here's what Senator Bill Hagerty, Republican out of Tennessee, said. He asked what the SEC would need to see in order to approve a Bitcoin spot ETF, an issue the industry has been increasingly frustrated with. We're still reviewing that decision, Gensler said, about a federal court granting Grayskills petition for review of the SEC's denial of its Bitcoin ETF. I'm looking forward to the staff's comments. Now, once again, not much grilling happening. Yes, he got some criticism, but nothing like what the last House Financial Services Committee was like, where Patrick McHenry and all these folks were grilling the hell out of Gary Gensler. So this is pretty softball.
Crypto News Alerts | Daily Bitcoin (BTC) & Cryptocurrency News
A highlight from 1399: Bitcoin Will Shatter $100K By This Date - eToro CEO
"Bitcoin is unstoppable, and that's never going to change. In today's show, Bitcoin faces a ton of resistance after daily price gains pass 5%. In breaking news just in, Franklin Templeton files for a spot Bitcoin ETF. The fact is they're a $1 .5 trillion asset manager. Let's go. Also quoting Max Keiser, considering yesterday was the 22 -year anniversary of 9 -11, here's what Max shared. Bitcoin is the currency of resistance. If Satoshi had released Bitcoin 10 years earlier, 9 -11 would have never happened. Also in today's show, PayPal enables U .S. users to sell cryptocurrency via the Meta Mask wallet. We'll also be discussing crypto investor Chris Bernzik predicts a Santa Claus rally before the Fed cut rates in 2024. We'll also be discussing Bitcoin to hit $100 ,000 around the time of the next halving. That's right, the Canon vice president believes the supply deficit following the next Bitcoin halving will drive the price past $100 ,000. We'll also be discussing the eToro CEO sees the Bitcoin price rallying to a new all -time high, literally shattering $100 ,000. I'll be breaking down his timeline. We'll also be taking a look at the overall crypto market. All this plus so much more in today's show.
The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from The Process is the Penalty with John Eastman and Rep. Andrew Clyde
"We're proud to announce our brand -new ACLJ Life and Liberty Drive. Our legal teams will be focusing on the issues that you, our ACLJ members, have told us matter the most to you. Life and religious liberty. We join the ACLJ in the fight to keep America free. Hey everybody, it's Hannah Charlie Kirk show. Andrew Clyde joins us to talk about trying to defund Jack Smith. And John Eastman, a victim, a target of the out -of -control regime, joins us to continue to discuss. As always, you can email me directly, freedom at charliekirk .com. Subscribe to our podcast by opening up your podcast application and type in charliekirkshow, that's charliekirkshow. As you get involved with Turning Point USA, it's the most important student movement in the country. So go to tpusa .com, that is tpusa .com. Buckle up everybody, here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House folks. I want to thank Charlie, he's an incredible guy, his spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job. Building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here. Brought to you by the loan experts I trust, Andrew and Todd at Sierra Pacific Mortgage at andrewandtodd .com. Joining us now is Representative Andrew Clyde. Congressman, thank you for joining us. He tweeted out, the American people gets to decide who wins the White House, not the deep state. We must defund the left, sham prosecutions against Donald Trump. Republican lawmaker unveils push to block funding for Trump prosecutions, obviously, but this was met with opposition by 16 Republicans. Inexplicably, we will name their names shortly. Actually, we'll get to that. Congressman, thank you for joining us and tell us about it. Well, thank you, Charlie. It's great to be with you. Well, I think it's important that, as you said, the American people decide who our next president is going to be and not the deep state, not the weaponized government. And we are seeing time after time where the federal government is being used to prosecute a political candidate. That doesn't happen in America. That's kind of the conduct that you see in banana republics, where the sitting that those in power use their power to prosecute and try and throw in jail their political opponent. So these two amendments, so one would defund from the federal level any funds going to the prosecution of a presidential candidate between now and the November 24 elections, OK? And then the other amendment would do the same thing. It would deny federal funding to any state entity that does the same thing, that prosecutes a presidential candidate. It's very even handed, both Republican or Democrat. So what I'm trying to do is prevent the process from becoming the penalty here, because that's exactly what the left, the weaponized left is trying to do. Because you can't recover from the process. So how is this being met by and I was talking about actually when you tried to defund the FBI headquarters, we'll get that in a second. How is this being met by your more moderate Republican colleagues? Well, so far, for those that I have spoken to on the Appropriations Committee and in leadership, it's being met very positively. I think it's the right thing to do. There's still some work to be done. So I'm calling on all of my Republican colleagues to support these amendments. It's going to have to go into the Commerce Justice Science appropriation, which has not yet been marked up in our Appropriations Committee. I'm on that committee. And so I'll be offering both of those amendments and I expect that they will be approved and go into the base text of the bill. But then if we do a C .R. as well, you know, there's some qualifications for or any C .R. to go forward, in my opinion. Then it would have to be part of the C .R. as well. So I think it's very, very important that that all the Republicans get on board and support these amendments. So there was also a question about blocking the FBI's new headquarters. And is it true that 16 Republicans got in the way of that, Congressman, when you were attempting to do that? Tell us about it. Well, that was in the markup for the financial services and general government appropriation. And there is about six hundred and seventy million dollars that was set aside for the FBI's new building. It's about a little over half the amount that currently exists. The whole project is like four billion. It's going to be bigger than the Pentagon in size, which is absolutely ridiculous. The FBI does not need it by introducing an amendment to defund that six hundred and seventy million and to apply that to our national debt to pay off that portion of our national debt. And it did not pass in the in the appropriations process. We had 16 Republicans that voted against it. Now, I'll tell you that after that vote, there were some that came to me and said, hey, I think I made the wrong vote. And we're going to give them another opportunity when that actual appropriation comes to the House floor. I'm going to introduce the same amendment again. And I think there will be some change of heart, I believe, when it comes to their vote on that amendment on the House floor. So, yeah, there was a list of 16 Republicans that resisted it. Is that correct? And I want to that is correct. OK, so I want to name them. And if I have the wrong list, correct me. But it looks as if it's Steve Womack, David Valadeo, Mike Simpson, Hal Rogers, Daniel Newhouse, Julia Letow, David Joyce, Ashley Henson, Kay Granger, Scott Franklin, Jake Elsie, Mario Diaz -Balart, Juan Siscamani, Jerry Carl, Ken Calvert, Mark Amati and Robert Alderholt. What what possible reason could they give you for opposing that? Well, not a lot of them gave me a reason at all. But, you know, mind you, some of them came to me after the fact and said, hey, you know, I think I made the wrong choice. Why? Because they were hearing from their constituents. The FBI does not need a new building. I mean, they've got one point two billion dollars set aside, six hundred and seventy or so million in financial services, general government appropriation and another five hundred some million in the commerce justice science appropriation. So I think these folks will probably take a strong second look when the amendment comes onto the House floor for the FBI bill. And I believe that that there will be some change of votes. I really do. And I hope so, because that's the right thing to do. The FBI has been so weaponized as of in the last couple of years under this current administration. There is truly a two tiered system of justice here. We are seeing it time and time again when you have the treatment of Hunter Biden and then you have the treatment of President Trump. And all of those who support the conservative voices that are crying out. So I think we're going to see some different votes here. So let's now focus on September 30th. This looks to be the big day, right? So a previous Congress punted it to really, really neuter you guys. So this date has been on the calendar for quite some time. So you're inheriting a previous Congress's funding deadline, September 30th. What are you guys willing to do? Our position on this program, no short term funding bills, line in the sand. We need a fight. We gave you guys a majority for a reason. Where's your head at? What are the asks? Are you willing? How close to the line are you guys willing to get? Walk us through it. Well, I'll tell you, first off, you know, we've known the September 30th deadline has been here for a long time. And we promised as Republicans that we would bring 12 appropriation bills out of committee onto the House floor. And I expect us to do that. I expect us to keep our word. I'm on the Appropriations Committee. I'm certainly willing to be there from from today until the very end of September so that we can get all these, the rest of the appropriation bills across the finish line. Ten of them have come out of committee already. We've got two left to deal with in committee, both the Labor Health Human Services Education Appropriation and the Commerce Justice Science Appropriation. Those are the two we have left in committee. But we've got 10 that are available to go to the House floor. Actually, one already has the Milcon VA passed in July. So we've got nine that can go immediately to the House floor and get a vote. We need to be doing that to keep our word. Any short term continuing resolution, though, cannot be an unqualified or blind or what they call clean CR. Otherwise, we are simply promoting the policies of the policies and the spending levels of Nancy Pelosi. And that's wrong. I will never support that. And I'll tell you, a significant number of Republicans will not support that either. Well, that message needs to be heard loud and clear by the leadership. So just really quick, Congressman, and I just I'm hearing different things and I've always gotten along with Speaker McCarthy and I still do. But there's whispers that there might be a vote to vacate. Are you hearing that from other members? Well, I will tell you that a clean CR or an unqualified CR, it will risk our majority and therefore it will risk the speakership. I think what you're seeing is is the country gave us the majority to change the direction, change the course of Congress. We had the speakers fight in January, which I think fundamentally changed the way Congress operates. And I think that has to continue or we will truly jeopardize our majority and we will jeopardize Kevin McCarthy as speaker.
Mark Levin
Democrats Destroy Every Institution in Our Country
"That Democrats do not destroy and now having destroyed most corners of our culture having destroyed the media having destroyed education having destroyed our sovereignty having destroyed our economy working on destroying our energy system working on destroying our health care system undermining our military destroying law enforcement now they have a wind at their backs and I think about investigation I got the thinking you know for most of its existence it's been a corrupt organization for of most its existence the FBI has been a corrupt organization Jared Hoover some he might might approve of him I do not illegal wiretaps planting of evidence setting up people leaks to the media J. Edgar Hoover worked for Franklin Roosevelt in tawdry in horrible ways J. Edgar
Divine Naples Podcast
A highlight from #433 Carl Osburn People of Divine Naples The BEST Barbeque Master in SWFL that been rubbing the meats over 20 years with secret spices, love and gentle hands. His KNOW HOW brought lot of people together around his Table with slab of ribs. THANK YOU CARL
"Welcome to another podcast episode named People of Divine Naples, today you will hear an interview that was done on the very beginning of our Divine Naples podcast, this was the second interview I have ever done in the United States on 14th of January 2018, this interview was never published but for many reasons today I have to bring it to your ears, you will hear voice from my dear friend for 22 years, my neighbor for 18 years, the businessman that you should have known and the person that will be missed by many, if you are one of them you will always find his voice here speaking, enjoy the show. Hello all divine people, welcome to episode 433 named People of Divine Naples, I have the great pleasure to welcome person that decided to dedicate his 22 years of passion for people, he enjoyed to make them happy through taste buds and good vibration, he started experimenting in Naples 2001 with Chicky Hut where he blended in community immediately, after that he opened best rated and most successful barbeque restaurant in South West Florida, Black Eyed Pick and he built from scratch Franklin Social, here is one and only Carl Osborn. Hey Rich, how are you today? I am doing great, good to have you, you are comfortable? Yeah, oh good. Yeah, and our bar is serving good? Yeah, beer is good, check that out. We like to have interviews relaxed so we are prepared with whatever you wish as drinks, so if anybody want to come over and do the interview, so make sure we get the right information. So you are sitting here in a very humble studio, I hope you are feeling comfortable and good, whether it is cold outside, it is good, probably a good time to maybe do barbeque, a lot of people maybe do barbeque because it is Sunday today and you have been doing this for 15 years, isn't it enough of barbeque right now, you still going to continue? Yeah, we are just getting on a good roll right now, we are actually at the restaurant, we are in year 10 right now, but I had 5 years prior doing outside stuff. The question was, you know, if you still like it. I still like it, I love barbeque. That is good, let's just tell everybody what is the name of your restaurant, where you are located, so we can start with that and let's just roll. We are at the Black Eyed Pig Barbeque, it is 5307 Shirley Street in Naples, just off Pine Ridge Road between Airport or Naples Boulevard and Goodlett Road. It is hard to find, so you guys have to get on that road and it is a very short distance from Pine Ridge and you will see from a long way the pig eye, the design on the building. So it is barbeque with a big pig face. Yeah, it is a very inviting pig face. I wanted a big pig to put on top, but they won't let me do that. Oh really? Yeah. But you can smell it from a long distance. Yes. All right, you end up in Naples when? When did you come here? 2001, came down from the Orlando area. Oh really? So you lived in Orlando before? I did, I came to Orlando in 1986 with the Olive Garden. Oh really? So I didn't even know that. I know you for a long time, I didn't know you were in the Olive Garden. I was with the Ruby Tuesday prior for four years and came with the Olive Garden in 1986 to Orlando when they had four restaurants I think. So there is a long way, you are the expert in restaurants, you picked up a lot of practice there. Yeah, I've had a lot of practice closing restaurants and opening restaurants and lots of employees. So you know how to do it? Yes, absolutely. And you know there is a reason for probably keep it on the size you have it because it's very limited on seating, it's very limited with employees, so you can focus on the quality and there is probably, the end is, you've been voted, as many people say, the best barbecue in Naples, so what is the special on that? Well, we decided in the beginning, the building was a breakfast lunch restaurant when we bought it and I've never been open for dinner, so we started opening lunch and dinner and we got rid of everything that we don't do, we got rid of salads, so we're basically just barbecue. If you smoke it, we got, so we just sell what we do. We don't try to be everything to everybody, we do barbecue, that's it. That is very simple? Yes. And you do the hot sauces? Everything is yours? Homemade sauce. Recipes? Everything. Really? I just have to tell everybody who is listening right now, we don't talk ordinary barbecue one like you can buy in the Costco and you roll it out at your parking lot, load it in your SUV, this is serious business. Your barbecue is probably 10 times maybe more bigger, now you bought another little barbecue I would say, right? Specialty built for you, for your business? Yeah, we've got a competition smoker now that we're going to start with this spring, but we use it on a lot of caterings. But going back to the recipes, I've got a great friend of mine who I met here in my first business venture here in town, which is a little bar, he's from Oklahoma and his family has been in business since 1930 in the barbecue business. So a lot of my recipes came from him, so they're well tested, they've been there 85, the one on 88 years now. So, would you say this is like Saturn taste or what is this exactly? Well, Oklahoma, it's a dry rub, everything's dry rub and hickory smoke. Never baked, never boiled, it's just smoked. How many hours do you have to smoke like ribs? Ribs are around three and a half to four hours depending on the size. We do baby backs and St. Louis as well. St. Louis are the ones that came out of Oklahoma, we kind of threw the baby backs in for the East Coast kind of people. And what's the best seller? They sell about equal, we sell a couple of hundred racks of each a week, we have 35 seats, so we stay pretty busy. I think you did really well when bikers start showing up because they love the type of food and I think there's always a lot of bikes on your parking spaces. There's a lot of bikes, there's a lot of guys, golf outings, we always get the guys, we're a big guy hanging out for lunch and then they all bring their wives at dinner. Okay good, so you do what, I mean you do pick, you do chicken, you do sausages, just tell us a little bit. So everybody who's listening, their mouth is already watering right now. We do pulled pork is our specialty, we call ourselves home to pulled pork.
Divine Naples Podcast
A highlight from #433 Carl Osburn People of Divine Naples The BEST Barbeque Master in SWFL that been rubbing the meats over 20 years with secret spices, love and gentle hands. His KNOW HOW brought lot of people together around his Table with slab of ribs. THANK YOU CARL
"Welcome to another podcast episode named People of Divine Naples, today you will hear an interview that was done on the very beginning of our Divine Naples podcast, this was the second interview I have ever done in the United States on 14th of January 2018, this interview was never published but for many reasons today I have to bring it to your ears, you will hear voice from my dear friend for 22 years, my neighbor for 18 years, the businessman that you should have known and the person that will be missed by many, if you are one of them you will always find his voice here speaking, enjoy the show. Hello all divine people, welcome to episode 433 named People of Divine Naples, I have the great pleasure to welcome person that decided to dedicate his 22 years of passion for people, he enjoyed to make them happy through taste buds and good vibration, he started experimenting in Naples 2001 with Chicky Hut where he blended in community immediately, after that he opened best rated and most successful barbeque restaurant in South West Florida, Black Eyed Pick and he built from scratch Franklin Social, here is one and only Carl Osborn. Hey Rich, how are you today? I am doing great, good to have you, you are comfortable? Yeah, oh good. Yeah, and our bar is serving good? Yeah, beer is good, check that out. We like to have interviews relaxed so we are prepared with whatever you wish as drinks, so if anybody want to come over and do the interview, so make sure we get the right information. So you are sitting here in a very humble studio, I hope you are feeling comfortable and good, whether it is cold outside, it is good, probably a good time to maybe do barbeque, a lot of people maybe do barbeque because it is Sunday today and you have been doing this for 15 years, isn't it enough of barbeque right now, you still going to continue? Yeah, we are just getting on a good roll right now, we are actually at the restaurant, we are in year 10 right now, but I had 5 years prior doing outside stuff. The question was, you know, if you still like it. I still like it, I love barbeque. That is good, let's just tell everybody what is the name of your restaurant, where you are located, so we can start with that and let's just roll. We are at the Black Eyed Pig Barbeque, it is 5307 Shirley Street in Naples, just off Pine Ridge Road between Airport or Naples Boulevard and Goodlett Road. It is hard to find, so you guys have to get on that road and it is a very short distance from Pine Ridge and you will see from a long way the pig eye, the design on the building. So it is barbeque with a big pig face. Yeah, it is a very inviting pig face. I wanted a big pig to put on top, but they won't let me do that. Oh really? Yeah. But you can smell it from a long distance. Yes. All right, you end up in Naples when? When did you come here? 2001, came down from the Orlando area. Oh really? So you lived in Orlando before? I did, I came to Orlando in 1986 with the Olive Garden. Oh really? So I didn't even know that. I know you for a long time, I didn't know you were in the Olive Garden. I was with the Ruby Tuesday prior for four years and came with the Olive Garden in 1986 to Orlando when they had four restaurants I think. So there is a long way, you are the expert in restaurants, you picked up a lot of practice there. Yeah, I've had a lot of practice closing restaurants and opening restaurants and lots of employees. So you know how to do it? Yes, absolutely. And you know there is a reason for probably keep it on the size you have it because it's very limited on seating, it's very limited with employees, so you can focus on the quality and there is probably, the end is, you've been voted, as many people say, the best barbecue in Naples, so what is the special on that? Well, we decided in the beginning, the building was a breakfast lunch restaurant when we bought it and I've never been open for dinner, so we started opening lunch and dinner and we got rid of everything that we don't do, we got rid of salads, so we're basically just barbecue. If you smoke it, we got, so we just sell what we do. We don't try to be everything to everybody, we do barbecue, that's it. That is very simple? Yes. And you do the hot sauces? Everything is yours? Homemade sauce. Recipes? Everything. Really? I just have to tell everybody who is listening right now, we don't talk ordinary barbecue one like you can buy in the Costco and you roll it out at your parking lot, load it in your SUV, this is serious business. Your barbecue is probably 10 times maybe more bigger, now you bought another little barbecue I would say, right? Specialty built for you, for your business? Yeah, we've got a competition smoker now that we're going to start with this spring, but we use it on a lot of caterings. But going back to the recipes, I've got a great friend of mine who I met here in my first business venture here in town, which is a little bar, he's from Oklahoma and his family has been in business since 1930 in the barbecue business. So a lot of my recipes came from him, so they're well tested, they've been there 85, the one on 88 years now. So, would you say this is like Saturn taste or what is this exactly? Well, Oklahoma, it's a dry rub, everything's dry rub and hickory smoke. Never baked, never boiled, it's just smoked. How many hours do you have to smoke like ribs? Ribs are around three and a half to four hours depending on the size. We do baby backs and St. Louis as well. St. Louis are the ones that came out of Oklahoma, we kind of threw the baby backs in for the East Coast kind of people. And what's the best seller? They sell about equal, we sell a couple of hundred racks of each a week, we have 35 seats, so we stay pretty busy. I think you did really well when bikers start showing up because they love the type of food and I think there's always a lot of bikes on your parking spaces. There's a lot of bikes, there's a lot of guys, golf outings, we always get the guys, we're a big guy hanging out for lunch and then they all bring their wives at dinner. Okay good, so you do what, I mean you do pick, you do chicken, you do sausages, just tell us a little bit. So everybody who's listening, their mouth is already watering right now. We do pulled pork is our specialty, we call ourselves home to pulled pork.
The Garden Question
A highlight from 125 - Cultivating History: Exploring George Washington's Mount Vernon Garden - Dean Norton
"The Garden Question is a podcast for people that love designing, building, and growing smarter gardens that work. Listen in as we talk with successful garden designers, builders, and growers, discovering their stories along with how they think, work, and grow. This is your next step in creating a beautiful, year -round, environmentally connected, low -maintenance, and healthy, thriving outdoor space. It doesn't matter if you're a beginner or an expert, there will always be something inspiring when you listen to The Garden Question podcast. Hello, I'm your host, Craig McManus. Dean Norton fell in love with the Mount Vernon Estate Gardens 53 years ago and never left. After receiving a degree in horticulture from Clemson University, he began his career as the estate's boxwood gardener. The historical gardens of the first president of the United States, George Washington, became his responsibility in 1980. His promotion to horticulturalists allowed him to apply the latest plant science and horticultural management techniques for historical gardens. Dean has devoted considerable time to researching 18th century gardens and gardening practices. He has received awards for conservation from the DAR and the Garden Club of America, as well as the Garden Club of America's Elizabeth Craig Weaver Proctor National Medal. He is an honorary member of the Garden Club of Virginia and the Garden Club of Providence. He has been awarded an honorary doctorate from Washington College, serves on several historic property boards, and lectures nationally and internationally. This is Episode 125, Cultivating History, Exploring George Washington's Mount Vernon Garden, with Dean Norton, an encore presentation and remix of Episode 64. Dean, why did General George Washington, the first president of the United States, garden? Well, he really gardened for necessity. The earliest gardens were called gardens of necessity for health and survival. Of course, the most important plant to be planted within a garden were vegetables, something that you were going to have at the dinner table to eat. Vegetables were huge to him. Even during the Revolutionary War, he wanted to make sure that his troops were getting as many vegetables as they could whenever possible. I would not actually call him a gardener per se, but for a year and a half, he became a designer. He totally redid his country seat from a very simplistic design to one following naturalistic design principles. Then that landscape were four very fine gardens that he oversaw. What story does the Mount Vernon Garden tell? Tell us the story of a man that wanted his gardening world to be complete, I would say. He had a very small botanic garden, which he fondly called his little garden. When he was here on site, he was typically doing that work himself on his knees, planting seed and seedling saplings. He kept such good records in that little tiny garden that we were able to recreate that quite nicely. His earliest gardens were a fruit and nut garden and a kitchen garden, but when he changed his design, the kitchen garden remained as it is. The fruit and nut garden became a pleasure garden with vegetables in there as well, which is kind of an interesting combination. He had a vineyard for a while, but the grapes failed, and that became a fruit garden and nursery. The nursery was for plants that he could grow to plant on other areas of the estate and also to grow things just for collection of seed. What is today's mission for the garden? Today's mission for the garden is interpretation. We are trying to share with our visitors what life was like in the 18th century, why these gardens were important. Certainly after 1785, the gardens took on a new role, which was for people to come when he had created here at Mount Vernon. The story of gardeners themselves, the gardeners that Washington hired through the Articles of Indenture, also the enslaved gardeners that worked with the professional gardener to cultivate till to harvest. It's a great story. It's one that we thoroughly enjoy telling. Gardening really hasn't changed much from the 18th century, so the more we're out there digging in the earth, we think of those gardeners from the past. Today's visitors, how do they respond? I'll tell you what, when they come through the gates and they get to the Bowling Green Gate and see the house for the first time, that's exactly what they were expecting to see, this beautiful house that Washington lived in. But then the further they go into the landscape, they're really totally blown away by the amount of landscape and gardens that Washington had. They weren't expecting that at all. I think the gardens are well received, and I think that the stories we tell throughout the estate in so many different areas are certainly appreciated by our visitors. The garden's been there for about two and a half centuries. You've told us that there's four gardens that make up the Mount Vernon Garden. Could we walk through each one of those and you tell us about them? Sure. The panic garden is a simple garden, very small. It was intended to plant things that Washington was not familiar with, although sometimes other things that he knew quite well ended up in there as well. He received 500 Chinese seed, which he planted in one of the beds. None of them came up. So actually, we could show one of the beds with nothing but bare dirt and we would be exactly correct. That was his playground, and he truly loved getting plants he wasn't familiar with and planting them in there, and he did most of the work in there himself. There was an area that he started a vineyard, hoping to get some grapes for making wine, but that failed. That four -acre area became a fruit garden and nursery. Washington kept such good records that the fruit trees are planted exactly as he describes in that particular enclosure. Part of it is a nursery as well, where he grew trees and shrubs, also some other grasses and things just for the collection of seed. The kitchen garden was the first garden laid out in 1760, and that has been cultivated as a kitchen garden since 1760. It's never changed in its purpose, which is the only garden like that on the estate. Both the kitchen garden and fruit nut garden were an acre in size, so that's a significant garden. The nut garden changed from a garden of necessity to a pleasure garden, and that was meant to be the aha moment. When people were strolling around the Bowling Green, they could look through that gate, they saw a beautiful conservatory. The idea was to walk in there and just enjoy the beauty of the flowers, and those flowers were there for their enjoyment and not for their use. I think his gardening world was quite complete. You said the conservatory, would that be the greenhouse? That's correct. It had a greenhouse that he copied from a lovely property called Mount Clare, just to the north of Baltimore. The owner was Margaret Carroll. He asked for permission for some information, and she was thrilled and gave him all that he needed, even his first plants for his collection, to get his greenhouse started. I started studying that greenhouse in pictures. When I think greenhouse, I think a glass top or a plastic top or something like that, and this was constructed quite different. Could you tell us about how it was constructed and it was heated? The greenhouses in the 18th century typically just had glass panes on the south side, this was southern exposure. Also typically they were triple home windows, so you could open top and bottom to allow for good air circulation. This was quite modern, very good. It had a vaulted ceiling, so hot air didn't get trapped up at the corners. It had a wood door on the west side of the structure to keep afternoon sun from coming in. It was too hot. A glass door on the east side to allow morning sun in. It had shutters that closed very tight, so in the wintertime when you got whatever heat you could get from the solar energy, you could close those shutters and retain the heat overnight. It was heated by a stove room on the opposite side of the structure. The fire pit was quite low, and that hot air and smoke would go underneath the slate floor in the greenhouse and then rise up along the back wall and out the chimney. It was very efficient. It housed the semi -tropical plants and citrus trees in the winter. Not for them to continue to fruit, so he had lemons and limes and all that. Just to keep them alive in the wintertime. In all these gardens, he's combining beauty with necessity. How did he accomplish that? The one garden that really does that beautifully is the upper garden, or pleasure garden. He wanted a pleasure garden. He wanted the aha moment when someone walked into there. It's a 10 -foot -wide path, edged in boxwood with this greenhouse at the end. He was concerned, though, in that he didn't want to lose a lot of space to the growth of vegetables, which were still the most important plant that he grew on the property. 18th century horticulture said, look, George, you can do both. Plant your vegetables and then surround them with a border of flowers. The border could be three feet, five feet, whatever you so decide. It's the border that's actually the pleasure garden. So you're really not losing that much space to growing vegetables. How did Washington change his gardens to enhance Mount Vernon's natural beauty? He adopted the naturalistic style. There are four key elements of that. The curve line is nature's gift, management of surprises, random planting, and hidden barriers. If you can do those four things, you're well on your way to a wonderful naturalistic design. The management of surprises, the curve line helps you with that. Around each bend, you can do something different. The book that he's learning all these techniques from was written by a gentleman named Batty Langley. He wrote the book in 1728 called New Principles of Gardening. Washington purchased it in 1759. Langley goes in, he says, once you've seen one quarter of your garden, you should not have seen it all. There's nothing more shocking and stiff than a regular garden. He said every garden must have good shade. If you have to walk more than 20 paces in full sun, your walk is not worth it. Washington really took all these thoughts and comments to heart and made sure he put trees on either side of his serpentine avenues. Around each bend, he added shrubberies in wilderness areas and groves. It really was a complete landscape, and it was all just trying to stay within the qualifications or the requirements of a naturalistic garden. There are many historical events that took place away from Mount Vernon. For long periods of time, Washington was gone. How did he stay in touch with his garden and its growing? Much to his demise, much to our benefit, Washington, during the 45 years he lived here at Mount Vernon, he was away for 16 years, only visiting his house a couple times during all that time. When he is away, he's communicating with the land manager with lengthy letters, three, four, five pages long, giving him instructions to do this, make sure that is done, have you planted this, I want to try to do this next. We have that exchange of letters. Gives us a tremendous advantage in being able to represent Mount Vernon as accurately as we do in today's world. You should be considered the current garden overseer, but there's been many that have come before you. Have you got any good overseer stories about your predecessors? Yeah, there's some. I'm number 37. I don't know if that number is exactly correct, but I'm honored to be the current gardener, whatever number I am. They were all pretty competent in their practices. Washington called one clever because he was so good at grafting trees. Probably one of the cutest ones is when Washington's trying to hire a gardener. He's writing to his land manager saying that the gardener should not have any children, but if he does, only one, but certainly no more than two. He just keeps going on and on, giving almost any option possible for the gardener. He was always looking for the Scottish gardener because they were some of the best. I'm thrilled to be following in the footsteps of so many great gardeners. I hope that I'm continuing their tradition of maintaining a beautiful Mount Vernon. Tell us about the people that worked in the gardens during Washington's time. He hired gardeners under the Articles of Indenture, so they would come over, he would pay their way, and they would have to work that to pay Washington back. Some of them stayed for many years. There was a German gardener named John Christian Eller who was here for a number of years. They had a bit of a falling out, but apparently after Washington passed away, he actually returned because there is something in the notes about a German gardener saying that he used to work here. There is one from Holland, England, and then of course you had your Scottish gardener at the very end of his life, which Washington said that he was dedicated, sober, passionate about his work, and that in short, he's the best hired servant I've ever had. What makes it even better is that he says he has never been happier. I think that's really wonderful, and it certainly rings true for me. For being here at Mount Vernon as long as I have, my life here as a gardener has been a very happy experience. What did the garden go through between Washington's death and until the time it was bought by its current owners? It started to fall and disappear rapidly. Visitors' accounts have been occurring since Washington lived here. People visiting, and they write in their diaries or letters to friends, which is tremendously valuable to us, for that is our Polaroid to the past. Washington died in 1799, and visitors in 1801, 1802 are saying that it's deteriorating, it doesn't look anything like it did during Washington's time, so things just started to fall apart a little bit. You didn't have the money, you didn't have the dedication maybe to do as well. Not to say that work wasn't being done and things weren't being cleaned up as best as possible, but definitely it was noticeable to visitors that it was in a bit of disarray. When the Ladies Association purchased the property in 1858, things started to change, of course, quickly. And of course, Mount Vernon is in their hands today, it's a beautiful, beautiful site. Did they buy it from the family? They bought it from John Augustine Washington, the fourth Washington that owned the property before it was sold to the ladies. It cost them $200 ,000, and with that they received 200 acres, where others said you should take everything down but the mansion, because that's all that's important. They made the decision that they wanted to keep everything that was there during Washington's time, which was absolutely the right thing to do. We have all the outbuildings. It's an amazing opportunity for visitors to come to see an estate, a plantation, as it was during the time of the owner. Are there new discoveries being made through modern archaeology and research, or do you feel like you've re -established everything there? No, there are new discoveries all the time. It's amazing. Archaeology, the science, is becoming more and more exact all the time, with radar and LiDAR flyovers and just all these wonderful techniques that they now have. We're still finding letters that we didn't have before. Eventually we may find the plan that Washington did for the Bowling Green. We have the plan's key that is in his hand, but we don't have the actual plan itself. You can never write the final chapter in this adventure that we're in here from Washington's time till now. We try to represent things as accurately as we can, but we may find a new letter or something that will totally alter our interpretation of what we were using or going on to create an area that we thought was accurate, but new information may change that, and we will go back and make those changes so that it's historically accurate. Where did Washington acquire his plants? Initially, the landscape was completed by nothing but trees and shrubs that he found in his wildernesses surrounding Mount Vernon. So it's certainly a native landscape, and he identified these plants in the wintertime by structure and bud and had them dug and brought back. He did say that he was looking for exotics. He loved plants of all sorts. Now, we don't know if an exotic to him was Mexico or South Carolina, but what we do know is he said he wanted plants outside of his geographic area. People sent him gifts of plants often. Also he ordered from three of the principal nurseries of the time, John Bartram in Philadelphia, William Hamilton in New York, and Prince on Long Island. He ordered a lot of these plants and that he was experimenting with and putting within his landscape. I heard a story about a Franklin tree. Was that ever a part of the estate? The Franklinia, I think it was actually ordered from Philadelphia, and we've tried to grow them any number of times. We can't get them to survive. They're very finicky. They need to be in a spot they're really happy with, and so far we haven't found that spot on the estate, unfortunately. What's the significance of the Bond Plan? A gentleman named Samuel Vaughan visited Mount Vernon in 1784, I think it was, or 83. He was a landscape designer. He did a good bit of work up in the Philadelphia area, actually did some work around Independence Hall. He came and visited Mount Vernon, and in his sketchbook drew the plan of the estate, and then went back to Philadelphia. We drew a beautiful big plan that was very, very accurate. Washington said that you've drawn my estate accurately except that you've enclosed the view with trees, and so the only problem that Washington states is when looking from the house down the Bowling Green, down a vista to the forest beyond, there were two willow mounds that were planted on the Bowling Green. They weren't meant to act as punctuation points. No planting would occur within that, so you had a wide open view to the west. Whatever reason, Vaughan decided to draw trees all in there. In Washington's eye, it was all correct except for that. So it's a beautiful plan, archaeologists have used it, and all the buildings that he shows on that plan are where they find them when they dig in the soil. So he was recording the existence and not proposing new things. There's been some debate about that because Vaughan was a designer, and some say, well, how do we know that this is something Washington had, or was Vaughan drawing what he thought it should be? The written account seemed to support what Vaughan was drawing was accurate. So it's all about interpretation. We could look at two passages somewhere and interpret it both totally differently. I think the Vaughan plan is amazing. I think it's as accurate as we can possibly get. You've mentioned the Bowling Green a couple of times. What grass did they use in the Bowling Green? Their grass was called goosegrass or speargrass. They also had rye, and it's even bluegrass. It was a very coarse grass. Coarse grass was kind of important, actually, because they mowed it with the English sigh, and a very fine -bladed grass would be very difficult to cut with that implement, whereas the wider -bladed grass, they could cut quite nicely if they had a good sharp edge on their sigh, and the sickle, of course, would have been the weed eater. The Bowling Green was meant for games and entertaining and would have been mowed on a regular basis, rigged, rolled, and mowed right up until you may have a drought or something where the grass would stop growing, just like we have in an experience today. What variety do you grow there now? Weeds. It's just, I'm serious. It looks great from a distance, but if you walk up on it, it's just clover and creeping Charlie, and if it's green, I'm fine. We don't want to use chemicals on the lawn. We have a lot of visitors, a lot of children running around, so it's just as natural as possible. We overseed and everything, but no, just don't look too closely. Well, that'd be more accurate to the period, I guess. You know, I don't know. It'd be interesting to see the grass back then. It was maintained in a way that it was intended for them to bowl. They had lots of games with the hoops and other things, so it was used a great deal as a green for entertaining. How do you cut it now? Oh, we have John Deere's to go 13 miles an hour. It's pretty nice. You know, front deck mowers, it's great. Is that a reel? No, my goodness, no. Years ago when I started, our only riding mower was a Toro reel. Now, nothing against Toro, okay, but that thing never worked. Poor man that was operating, he was a World War II vet, and he was always in the shop just standing here waiting for his mower to work. So no, it's not a reel. My dad had a reel mower, and he was always working on it too. My dad's way to fix anything was with a screwdriver, not to actually tighten any screws. He would just beat on it. He was so upset. You've got the serpentine pass. What materials did they use? It was a combination of gravel and clay, pea gravel, smaller grade gravel, and it was cobblestone up around the circle in front of the mansion. Washington said if he could find any alternative form of paving, he would certainly use it because gravel roads were constant maintenance of raking, rolling, adding new gravel to keep them from being muddy all the time. That's exactly what was used in the gardens as well, was a gravel type path. Is that gravel mine from the Potomac? Washington talks about a gravel pit. It would seem as if they got a lot of it from the Potomac, and they would have sifted it to get the right size stone that they wanted. I think there were a couple sources, but not real clear on it. What kind of staff does it take to maintain all this? In horticulture, my responsibility has to do with anything that deals with chlorophyll and manure. The gardeners, just like in the 18th century, they said a garden an acre in size will require one full -time gardener, and so every principal garden we have is one full -time gardener working in that spot. Then we have a swing gardener that does all the smaller gardens and helps in the other gardens as well. We have a landscape gardener that takes care of all the non -exhibition areas. It's truly bare bones. We have some summertime help, college students, some high school. College students love it. We give them as much opportunity to learn whatever they want if they want to work in the greenhouse or use equipment. It's a really great program that we have for that. Then we have our livestock crew. We have five full -time livestock employees that maintain the genetic line of three very rare breeds, and those animals are here for interpretation as well. One thing I just want to share is that Mount Vernon is a very special place. People come and they don't leave real quickly. I've got almost 53 years. Our five livestock staff combined have 92 years of service here at Mount Vernon. It's just truly amazing. Wow. What type of livestock? We have a milking red devon, beautiful reddish -brown cow, aussebal island hogs, hog island sheep, and a Narragansett turkey. So all these are on exhibition at our Pioneer Farmers site, which is a site that we created in the 1990s down near the river. That's a site where we interpret Washington the farmer. That's the livestock's playground. They get to take the animals down there, the oxen, the horses, and work the fields. So it's really very exciting. It helps bring the estate to life. Are you taking the manures and the straw and things like that and using it in compost, or how does that all work? 100 percent. That's all we use. We have huge piles that we are able to windrow with using a manure spreader. We always have these windrows, just these lines of the material that is whipped around by the manure spreader. The row is about maybe eight feet wide, ten feet wide, and it's about six feet high. The oldest windrow is used as the fertilizer used in the gardens. And once that's gone, we windrow the next row over to aerate it again. We just always have a source of compost that we can use in the gardens, and it just works out beautifully for us. How long does it typically age? It doesn't take long, really. We have a pile that's been here for so long that even stuff that is not that old, maybe three months or so, when you mix it up with the other, it turns out very, very well. In the 18th century, Washington would take manure from the stables and just put them in a dung repository for a fortnight or two. You're only talking two or four weeks, and then they thought it was readily available for the gardens. So it was much more rapid for them than it is for us. Are there any special approaches that you take to maintaining a historical garden? The approach to maintaining a historic garden really is visual. We want them to see a garden that is planted in the manner that would have been in the 18th century. We want them to see what an 18th century garden looked like. As far as our actual practices, it is really no different than what would have been going on in the 18th century. Our tools may be a little sturdier, a little nicer, rakes, shovels, soil life, and everyone has one of those on their bill. You can do anything with those. As far as planting, we're definitely concerned about height derangement more than color coordination. We want to make sure the plants we plant are appropriate to the 18th century. Paths, the box which should be trimmed, are very short. They were never intended to be a backdrop for perennials, just as a border. That's the main thing. We want it to look right. The way we take care of it, that hasn't changed for 250 years. What are your biggest challenges with the garden? People, compaction, really the damage that comes from, especially kids, I used to share that the worst pest we can have is a child that's been on a bus for five hours from somewhere, gets here and the chaperones go, go, go, and they just start running. Back when we had big boxwood, they would just go and run and jump in and break a branch of a 150 year old boxwood within 10 seconds and that's hard to control with any kind of spray or whatever. But I developed to have a hard trap that was a bit larger. I found out I put an iPad or something in there, I could catch five or six at a time and I would let them off at the West Gate. The chaperones would eventually find them, but at least we got them out of the garden.
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A highlight from Guest Host Kevin McCullough Tackles The Return Of Covid Mandates
"The Mike Gallagher Show. For decades in this country, people have beaten a path to California. It's a beautiful state. And yet they never lost population until their current governor took office. Now they're hemorrhaging wealth. Now they're hemorrhaging population because you see things like what I saw the other day in San Francisco. I saw people defecating on the sidewalk. In the ReliefFactor .com studios, here's Mike. Some words I would rather not hear in the middle of my morning, but Governor Ron DeSantis is right, and that's part of the problem. We'll continue to take your calls about the evil that's being done and how they're not being quiet about it anymore, but willing to stick it in your face. We'll talk some more about that. But I want you to know that today is the last day that the Mike Gallagher Show audience has to assist the very vital work of food for the poor, especially in this hurricane season and it's just getting started. There's going to be a lot of storms through the fall, and what we are dealing with is the need to be ready to help those with emergency items, specifically food, as those difficulties come. Joining us here at the Mike Gallagher Show is Paul Jacobs of Food for the Poor, and Paul, a longtime friend of Kevin McCullough as well. It's good to hear you and see you this morning. Paul, there's been some major hurricane action that our media here in the States hasn't even really picked up. Well, since the very first day of this campaign with Mike Gallagher, we've been sharing a very important principle, and that is we must pre -position aid emergency relief supplies under blue skies. For three weeks in the month of August, we saw nothing in the Atlantic, nothing in the Gulf, and then here we are on really the final days that we're together with you listening, sharing this need, and there are storms on both, as we've seen, in the West Coast of the United States as well as two very powerful storms, Franklin that just pummeled the Dominican Republic and now Edalia that is going to crush the West Coast of Florida, possibly into the Panhandle and states in the Southeast. We really need everyone that's listening right now to understand that if you have listened and you've heard the passionate pleas of Mike Gallagher about these needs of these families, whether it's disaster relief kits or it's a gift of $500 to provide a generator, you are needed right now. There are two, no, sorry, three months left in this hurricane season, and there is more going on, and Kevin, you and I have traveled to Haiti. We've seen the effects of these hurricanes on developing nations, and so we know all too well the aftermath and how the victims like children are affected when the needs and the supplies are not made available. Yeah, I want to emphasize what you said there about developing nations. In highly developed nations, we have trouble with hurricanes in Florida and elsewhere and sometimes are caught a little off guard. Imagine being a country that has one -third or one -fourth or one -tenth the GDP of the United States and trying to survive under these circumstances. It is really, really a tough struggle, and I love the term pre -positioning because that's exactly what it takes, Paul, in order to save these people. There's not, the decisions have to be made in the splits of seconds in order to be able to save lives, and if food for the poor has put the supplies where needed, then those decisions are much easier to make. Last week we just celebrated, we just remembered the 31st anniversary of Hurricane Andrew devastating my home here in South Florida, and I remember all too well what that was like, but the thing that stuck out the most for us and why pre -positioning is so vitally important is that the when hurricanes strike, when the storms hit, when natural disasters occur, the supply chain lines are cut off. And not only that, but it's harder to get to these affected areas, our partnerships at Food for the Poor in these various countries. So when you give right now, just think, your gift is making a difference in delivering aid on day one versus having to wait through the disaster and get the supplies there on day 30. And you can imagine the vulnerable, the vulnerable populations that are waiting for that aid, waiting and praying to God, asking when will something come and having to wait 30 days. But right now, while things are favorable, while the cost of items are less because they haven't been driven up as a result of these supply chain disruptions, as well as a lot of the prices going up in the midst of these natural disasters, you can be a difference maker right now and help a family. You may not meet this side of heaven, but they will feel your compassion like never before. There is such a huge need for particularly the children in such circumstances. Here's the phone number, friends. It's 844 -860 -4673, 844 -860 -4673. And the much easier way to do it is just to text the word Mike to 911999, 911999, text the word Mike, and you can give your gift there. You can also go to MikeOnline .com, and you'll just click the red banner at the top of the page, Emergency Supplies. It's pretty easy to find on the website there. 844 -860 -4673, 844 -860 -4673, or text the range of need. There's lots of things that the people in the affected countries that food for the poor work in need on an ongoing basis. There's regular need for shelter and for clean water and so forth, but food and clean water specifically in the hurricane season are even more important. You mentioned the generator. You mentioned the ways people can get involved, but the real lifeline for these people is sometimes having a bowl of food that they wouldn't be able to have otherwise. Think of it. The most, the essence of life, the basics of life is food and water. And when you talk about a disaster that is just, that blows through a community that cuts off not only the power to a lot of homes where they cannot keep food fresh and they cannot keep the food items safely stored, then they need to have food on a regular basis provided to them. Stores are shut down, access to stores, and even these island nations and many of these countries where they depend on exports coming in, food coming being shipped in. Well, when they're not getting there on time, because as you see in the video that we're showing you for those that are watching on the live stream, you're seeing that the the streets and roads are cut off. There's no access to these communities outside of what is already there in the community. Families, children that need to eat every single day. Many of these children in countries like Haiti and like Guatemala, their only meal comes when they, their nutritious meal that is, comes when they go to school. Schools are closed down until the foreseeable future. And so your help right now, a gift of a hundred dollars, pre -positions a disaster food kit in these countries so that children and families can eat tomorrow and the day after until things get normalized and they can get back on their feet. You will effectively help these families survive another day. And survive is no overstatement. It is really truly what they are they're praying for. And friends, as we can sit and have discussion on the Mike Gallagher show about all of the things that are going wrong in the world and certainly the things that we need to be fighting for, the innocence and the protection of these children are something that if we are truly pro -life people, we believe in. If we believe that abortion is bad, then we have to believe that starvation of children is also bad because God is not not respecting one form of death over the other. He wants us to be caring about our brothers and sisters. And I will tell you, as Paul made mention, I've traveled extensively with Food for the Poor in Haiti and in Jamaica and in another couple of places where they have been doing their work. I've seen the houses they've built. I've seen the water filtration systems where they did not have any clean water to drink and all of the diseases that come with polluted water. And then within the installation of a water filtration system just a year later, thriving, beautiful, joyous community with clean water every day. But food, water, the basics, that's what you're helping with with these emergency supplies. And as we made mention, we're just getting started in the hurricane season. This is the beginning of the rocky road, and we've already had some activity in the Caribbean just even over this last weekend. So please pick up the phone. Call 844 -860 -4673, 844 -860 -4673, or text the word Mike, M -I -K -E, for Mr. Gallagher, Mike Gallagher, Mike, M -I -K -E, to 911999. Paul, just spend a minute with me on the importance of the fact that Food for the Poor is a Christ -centered organization and seeks to do Jesus's work amongst the people that they work with. For more than 41 years and into our 42nd year, Food for the Poor has been working hand in hand with the local church. We've named a number of countries that Food for the Poor works in Latin America and the Caribbean. And as I stand here in our headquarter office in Coconut Creek, Florida, I tell you this, there is no way that 350 employees working in this vast big building could reach all of those communities and all of those areas of the world in this region where we work for these many four decades if it wasn't for the local church. Pastors on the ground, their compassion because they live in the communities where they're helping these families. Pastors and ministry partners that are committed, they don't just help these families, they stay and work alongside them to build these families back onto their feet. In fact, one of my favorite scriptures, and I've seen it live and in full effect, is Galatians 2 -10. It was a letter that Paul wrote to the Galatian church about the help and the need of families. It says, all that they asked was that we remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do all along. That is the passion by which you are fueling right now with your generous gift in these countries where Food for the Poor works. So please understand, yes, you're helping feed a child. Yes, you're helping deliver disaster relief items, but you're resourcing the local church to do what they do best, and that is help the physical body, but as well as the spirit. As a Bible -believing Christian, I don't believe that there are accidents. And friends, if you're listening today or you're watching us on the Salem News Channel, and a thought crosses your mind that you had not heard about this before, that's no accident. I fully believe that God intended for the people that needed to hear this to be here right now. And the truth is, there will be children who will not make it through this next hurricane season without these emergency supplies being pre -positioned in the areas where they will be needed. And friend, if you have the ability to do something, that's not by accident either. God is obviously trying to touch your heart and say, hey, get involved, do my work, help me be the satisfaction for these children, the supplier of their needs, if you will. 844 -860 -4673, 844 -860 -4673. But imagine, even in your own family, if it was you, if it was your child, and you knew that they were going to run the risk of starving this hurricane season, to what length would you go to express to the people that are listening right now, would you help us, can you help us, please help us? Those are the cries coming from the families, the children, and the people in Latin America and the Caribbean, where Food for the Poor is at work. Again, the number is 844 -860 -4673, 844 -860 -4673. You can also just text the word Mike, M -I -K -E, to 911999, 911999, text the word Mike, and you can get there. And if you want to go to MikeOnline .com, you can do that as well. The banner is at the top of the page. It's a big red one that says emergency supplies needed, and asking you to help out today. Paul Jacobs of Food for the Poor, thank you for what you're doing. Thank you for trying to inspire us to be involved. For what it's worth to the people of, listen, my family, the McCulloughs, we've given to Food for the Poor for almost two decades now. We love this organization, and we love what they're doing, and I've seen it with my own eyes do the good that Mike has been telling you about for these last many weeks. We're coming right back on The Mike Gallagher Show. Lots of news still to get to this morning, and lots more of your phone calls when we return. Stay here. Something has gone terribly wrong with the world economy. Before you lose faith, be sure to read the book, Life After Capitalism, now on sale from Regnery Publishing.
Stuff You Should Know
A highlight from Farmer's Almanac: Literature to Poop To
"Hello everybody, the Xfinity 10G network was made for streaming giving you an incredible viewing experience now You can stream all of your favorite live sports shows and movies with way less buffering freezing and lagging Thanks to the next generation Xfinity 10G network You get a reliable connection so you can sit back relax and enjoy your favorite entertainment Get way more into what you're into when you stream on the Xfinity 10G network learn more at Xfinity .com Now is the time to experience America's pastime in a whole new way Major League Baseball has teamed up with T -Mobile for business to advance the game with next -gen 5G solutions going deeper with real -time data visualization new camera angles that put fans on the field with their favorite players and Even testing an automated ball strike system in the minor leagues This is the 5G era of baseball see what we can do for your business at T -Mobile .com Major League Baseball trademarks used with permission officially licensed product of MLB players incorporated Welcome to stuff you should know a production of I heart radio Howdy and welcome to the podcast I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W Chuck Bryant Jerry's here, too and We're just some homie folksy types ready to spin a good yarn for you about the old farmers That's right. You know why I commissioned this one. Why Chuck why because I thought it would be fun To put a old farmers almanac in the outhouse at my camp Okay, wait first you have an outhouse. I have an outhouse. Is it just a pit like a latrine with a log over it? No, it's a composting toilet. Okay with a little solar panel outside that runs a fan Okay, and the fan do the fan moves air through to provide aerobic Interaction exercise the with the with the with the poop and the composting Pete I just made a Compost tea like that, but I used a submerged little fountain pump. They create the air movement Yeah, pretty neat it is neat. So yeah, I got a composting toilet. It's good It helps I don't use it. I use it to go poopy if I'm there for more than a couple of days But largely I put it there. So You know some of some of the ladies in my life and and friends wives and things Don't like to squat in the woods. Some of them don't mind but I put that there So everyone would want to go camping at the camp and be like, yeah, you got a composting toilet I feel good about using it I can I can see the conversation between the couple in the kitchen back in Atlanta like one now He's got a composting toilet Well now I work now you can count me in Well, and now I gotta say is he's got a composting toilet and an old farmer's almanac in that outhouse Because I thought it would just be sort of a fun thing because I knew from growing up as a kid That an old in the south that an old farmer's almanac was quite a common thing to find in a bathroom or an outhouse To read while you're there on the john, so I have one there. It's from a couple years ago I need to get a new one. I should change it every year, you know, that's sort of the whole point of an almanac pretty slack and So I thought I was reading it the other day when I was up there cutting grass I was like, I don't really don't even know the history of these things and so let's find out So did you read them when you were a kid, too? I mean a little bit here and there is not very interesting for a kid. Sure But grandmother my Bryant my my dad's mom was a backyard farmer her whole life and you know, she was one of these people that Put a lot of stock in the farmer's almanac And so it was just something I knew about in my life as a kid probably didn't read it a ton though I was never exposed to it. I knew it existed you were from the north Yeah, it was Midwest but to Georgia Ohio was the north Yes, still but there was corn corn everywhere around where I lived Oh sure So it is a little surprising But the biggest surprise that I received since we started researching this is that you me Apparently used to read the farmer's almanac when she was a little kid Nothing you ever tell me about you me will surprise me. It's true. You just never know. No, you really don't that's great For those of you who've never met you me you wouldn't consider her a farmer's almanac type That's pretty safe to say yeah, so I was I thought that was neat she's very well -rounded but I In in like chia pet fashion went on and ordered this time myself a farmer's almanac I was gonna order you one and I was like, I'll bet he's already got one on. Oh, look at you very smart Also, I've made a joke about you're from the north as it turns out as we'll see the old farmer's almanac came from New England Originally, yeah, so I was you know people from the north There's plenty of farming that went on all over the country by God they even cover the weather forecast for the year in, California Exactly, they they don't discriminate. All right, so big thanks to Dave Ruse who helped us out with this one We're gonna talk mostly about the old farmer's almanac, but we will talk a little bit about its rival the farmer's almanac But we're talking about the old farmer's almanac the one that's that's looked the same Since its inception with that yellow cover the Four seasons. It's very Did you get yours in the mail yet? No, I pre -ordered it. I won't arrive until August 30th. Oh, this is for next year Yes, that's very smart Well, I mean what am I gonna do be like well what happened two weeks ago getting this year's, you know I mean like I want that you could from August to December you could surely gain some insight No, I don't like to waste money. I'd rather just wait But it's been the same well We'll talk a little bit more about the cover and its presentation and all that but it's very iconic looking if you've ever seen one It's been around since 1792. That's amazing Which means it's the oldest Continuously published periodical in North America. Yeah, and I looked it up. That's the the oldest Published anything that's been continuously printed in North America is the Hartford Courant We started as the Connecticut Courant in 1764 not too much sooner than the farmers almanac But then if you look for the world the the Swiss have us beat by a mile yeah, they have a What's called the post and domestic times the post ach in Rick? Tiden in Gar Okay, and again that means the post and domestic times which has been printed continuously since 1645 Amazing, but still that's nothing to sneeze at 1792 and they never missed an addition pretty good Yeah, totally in these these books basically, I mean those sort of an almanac craze at one point Lots of small family farms all over the country. Yeah pre industrialization There were hundreds of farmers almanacs all over the place a lot of regional ones Even local ones and what you would find in them if you were like, well guys what the heck? It's a farmer's almanac. Good. Good walk back. What it is is there are books that will say things like Here's when you should plant things. Here's some tips on cattle very importantly here are Astronomical Charts this is when the Sun is gonna rise and set in the spring and throughout the year These are the phases of the moon. Here are some recipes. Maybe here's some jokes. Here's some poetry So they would mix in some folksy fun stuff and entertaining stuff along with Sort of boots to the ground advice tips and raw data for farming Yeah, and but the big draw is the long -range weather forecasts like they essentially forecast the weather Generally for the entire United States and Canada a year in advance Yeah, we'll talk about that and they say that they're 80 % accurate, which is mind -boggling. It's it's almost unbelievable yeah, and it's things like I remember my grandmother referring to it for her crops later in the year to see like How rainy is it gonna be this fall? How rainy will it be six months from now exactly and people put a lot of stock in it And some people still do even yeah, so it's it's an unusual and unique combination of folksy folk wisdom and folklore even Things like if you want to have turnips in the winter and you there's no such thing as refrigeration Keep them in packed in sawdust during the summer or whatever stuff like that. It's useful, but then there's also like Astrology like horoscopes and that kind of thing So it but then it's alongside like actual legitimate astronomical data that is accurate It's a weird combination of really is and apparently it grew out of the medieval era And the word almanac itself seems to have been invented by medieval French astronomers in the 13th century although they said that it was an Arabic word almanac and That meant calendar of the heavens and apparently these astronomers just totally made that up Yeah, it was yeah, like you said invented by the French these medieval almanacs were they were just handwritten this before the printing press and They did some similar things though. They talked about like celestial bodies and Moon phases and stuff like that Eventually when the printing press comes along They were some of the first things to be printed like people live their lives by these a lot of times So they were some of the most popular early Books and periodicals that existed in the world essentially Yeah, because of their popularity and because even back then they were just kind of bizarre creatures their own thing They were also widely satirized too as early as 1532 There was a French satirist named Rabalais who created a parody almanac And he prognosticated Stuff that's quite obvious as a way to just kind of mock what almanacs do But he started a trend that lasted for hundreds of years and the most famous parody almanac was poor Richard's almanac Which was published by Benjamin Franklin from 1732 to 58 and what's neat is Even though it was a parody and they made stuff up and it was funny and satire of almanacs It also contained like actual helpful useful information, too Yeah, it did he wrote under the pseudonym Richard Saunders and It's famous for a lot of things one of which like you said it was around for What 20 something years 25 26 years? I'm guessing like 30 something Yeah, but it was like the best -selling for that long but it was very famous now for these a lot of turns of phrase that Franklin invented as Saunders such as We still use today Haste makes waste is one Fish and visitors smell after three days And of course the old standard early to bed early to rise makes a man healthy wealthy and wise Very all came from poor Richard's almanac.
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"franklin" Discussed on Stuff You Should Know
"Hopefully everybody will get re-interested again when we start going to the moon again soon. One of the big names in the one of these search parties was a guy named John Ray. He was, he was the guy that sort of well, we'll get to kind of his big reveal in a second here, but he was very noteworthy and proficient guy. He knew what he was doing. He had been all over the Arctic. I think he was one of the guys who listened to the Inuit, right? He was, and he was, he got shouted down as a result because he came back from this exploration and interviewing a number of Inuit. And he said, Hey, they told me that these guys probably not probably, but definitely engaged in cannibalism. That's how desperate they became. And that did not want to hear that. No, that did not sit well with lady Jane Franklin. And she actually got Charles Dickens to basically write this diatribe about how terrible a person Ray was for listening to the Inuit and how terrible Charles Dickens. Yeah. How terrible the Inuit were. John Geiger says that it was just a stain on his reputation that continues today. It was very racist, the stuff that he wrote. And he did it on behalf of lady Jane Franklin to basically say like, you're slandering these heroes. And Dickens even said, if they're dead, I'll bet it was the Inuit that did this. Anything but the possibility that they actually became so desperate to engage in cannibalism. And as we'll see, it turns out that the Inuit who said that this happened were actually proven correct like a century later. Yeah, exactly. By the 1900s, they had found graves. They had found corpses. They had found a lot of the stuff except for the ships. And remarkably, just, oh, how long? Like not even 10 years ago in 2014 and in 2016, they found the Erebus and the Terror respectively in about 30 feet of water, fairly intact considering how long it had been. And this was, I think Terror was off of King William Island. Erebus was a little further south near the Adelaide Peninsula. And they just don't know for sure how the Erebus exactly got there, whether it was sailed there or moved there or just accidentally drifted there. Some combination of all those, who knows? Yeah, it's possible it drifted like after the ice melted. Some people say maybe the ice moved it all the way down there. That wouldn't have happened. It would have crushed the boat. It could have very easily been sailed. But either way, like finding those ships was enormous. And there's really cool Parks Canada videos of scuba divers swimming through these ships that are like almost entirely intact. There's like still dishes on the shelves and bottles on shelves and like desks intact. And the drawers are closed. They think because of the state of the water and the anaerobic conditions that there's probably lots of documentation of what went on during the expedition in those drawers that they're going to eventually be able to get to. Totally. As far as why they perished, there are a bunch of theories. Sort of, you know, three of them can be kind of lumped together and it could happen to sort of any expedition, which is, you know, bad luck with the weather. You know, those two really bad winters in a row without that summer thaw that they maybe were counting on combined with not being as prepared as you should have been. I guess two, not three. Even though they were prepared, they were heavily stocked. This is just really rough territory. And the clothes they had might not have been perfect. They really held water well, which would freeze. The equipment was really heavy. They, like we said, they weren't listening to the locals about how you should really do things. They were doing things their way. So that's a kind of under preparedness. And so those are just sort of under the normal ways that one could die on an expedition like this then. And with the bad luck in particular, where they got iced in for that second winter, even the Inuit are like, well, you don't really go around there. They called it Tununni, which is back of beyond, which is a terrible name for a place that you're iced in in the Arctic. And then on that NOVA documentary, they took ice core samples and they found that those winters that they were iced in were two of the worst winters in 700 years in that area. That's called bad luck. They had terribly bad luck for sure. Yeah, slash under prepared because it shouldn't have been there to begin with. Right. So those are all sort of normal ways that you could perish. Like I said, the last one that we have to talk about, though, is this lead poisoning. We talked about the contract with the guy that was innovating with his 10 meats. He had rushed this thing through. It apparently leaked lead, and it was lined with lead, and that leaked into the food. They did lots of studies over the years. The first, I believe, was 1981. There was an anthropologist named Owen, Dr. Owen Beatty, and basically was the first person to say, you know, I think this we literally are founding lead in their bones, like at levels that we should not see. And it seems pretty obvious that was lead in the examined corpses. Like it may not have been everything, but it definitely had something to do with a lot of the deaths. Yeah, it's kind of criticized that he didn't have a control group. Like it's possible these guys had tons of lead in their bodies anyway, just from lifelong exposure to lead, and that it's possible their bones released it as they started to die, basically. We don't know because there isn't a control group, but it is quite possible that it had some effect on the expedition if it wasn't directly killing people. They also think that the contaminated tins or that the poorly soldered tins may have been contaminated with botulism, which would have killed off a lot of people too. And then, yeah, so it's just not clear. A lot like those first three graves that they found from the first winter, like you said, they were, I think they died from pneumonia, from tuberculosis. But so few people have been found, and the state that they've been found in hasn't really allowed for forensic anthropology to say, this is how this guy died, this is how this guy died. So it's all left to the imagination. And I think one of the things that captures my imagination the most is that there are Inuit reports that in the summer of either 1851 or 1852, there were still four survivors left from this crew, four of them in a dog, probably Neptune, the Newfoundland, I imagine, and that they were the most skilled at hunting. So they had survived the longest and they were all that was left. And by 1851, 1852, there had already been numerous search expeditions launched. So that means that there were people searching for them while they were still survivors. They just didn't, their paths didn't cross. They just didn't find one another. And those guys were, those last four were the last of them. And I guess they did not go on. I guess we should talk a little bit about the cannibalism thing because that's, you know, that was what Ray was sort of brave enough to talk about and was, you know, like you said, he was, he was basically shunned because of this. They didn't want to hear anything like that. And it turns out that he was, he was basically, he was right. I mean, there's no other way to say it. They found cut marks on bones, on leg bones. They found a skull from the same person that was intentionally broken. All these, like they, now that we know what cannibal sites look like, it has all the markings basically. Literally. Yeah. Like intentionally breaking bones, cutting bones on purpose. What else? They found like clusters, clusters of bones together. Like they'd just been tossed. That weren't like just part of the body dying. Like bones that shouldn't be together were together. Yeah. And then a lot of the bones that were found were like long bones. So they suspect that they had just been like carrying arms and legs as portable food. It was, it was a bad jam. So there is, it is clear that they did engage in cannibalism and not only was Ray right, the Inuit who told Ray that they had engaged in cannibalism were right. And throughout some of these expeditions that came during this, what's called the Franklin search period from 1857 to 59, a lot of Inuit agreed to be interviewed with translators with some of these explorers and they documented these interviews. And it wasn't until like a century later that historians like John Geiger went through this stuff and was like, oh, the Inuit knew all along exactly what had happened. Apparently one of them pointed to where the ship was, I think the Erebus, and they still didn't discover it for another century after that. So it's a really interesting, just kind of side note that like there's this whole group of people who were willing to cooperate and share their knowledge and they were just totally ignored. And that's what led to the mystery that lasted for over a century. Yeah. I mean, I think if it hadn't have been for him poking around more, they were quite happy just to leave this as it was. And that sort of be the end of it all. Yeah, I guess so. I guess so. Good stuff. Yeah. So that's the Franklin expedition. And now that we found the ships, yeah, they are pretty confident that we'll have a lot more information soon. So that'll be pretty cool to look out for. And since I said it's cool to look out for, oh, by the way, if you want to know more about this, go check out that Nova episode on it. It's really, really good. And since I said that, it's time for listener mail. I'm going to call this the shortest short stuff, because this is from Kent and Kent talks. He's basically sending in a short stuff suggestion, but I think says enough about the thing that they can just be its own little episode here at the end. Oh, and we're talking about the 70s trucker craze on the trucker episode, long haul trucking. And he said, we all know truckers have their own lingo, but one phrase that has died out in usage is the Monfort Lane. You ever heard of this? I hadn't until I read his email. Yeah, the Monfort Lane referred to the left lane of the interstate. In the early 70s, a Colorado cattle legend named Kenny Monfort started shipping meat to the East Coast. He had a fleet of supposedly triple digit trucks and drivers who are not afraid to mash it. They turned two trips a week from Colorado to New York City. One driver recalled he had $1,200 in speeding fines one year when these were back when tickets were about 15 bucks and points didn't accumulate on your license. It's important. Yeah, you just rack them up forever and have the company pay for them, I guess. And interestingly, the Monfort family is now the principal owners of the Colorado Rockies baseball team. That is very interesting. And that is from Kent. Thanks a lot, Kent. Good stuff all around. That was the short stuff right there on the end of the Franklin Expedition episode.
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"All right. So at this point, things are going really bad. The expedition itself, as far as trying to get these last 300 miles that that passage figured out was, I mean, forget about that at this point. These guys are just trying to be alive. They're walking across frozen sea ice that they're just walking. It's that much ice that it's just like one continuous sheet all the way to Canada. Yeah, not a healthy prospect for survival. And one other thing, Chuck, I want to throw in. They're not just walking. They're pushing huge ships loaded with supplies. They're dragging them and pushing them along this ice and rock. Okay. Not a fun task. No, exactly. So this is where the search period begins, which spanned from 1847 to 1859. All kinds of people went out looking. Lady Jane was ringing that bell. The Royal Navy was offering up 20,000 pounds in 1850. Ton of money. Do you want to know? I mean, let's hear it. Is this an American or a... I got both, buddy. Well, let's hear it. That would be 2.2 million pounds today or $2.8 million today. What about euros? Oh, I didn't do that one. You got me. Interesting. You could have said, what about drachmas? You're typically more thorough, but that's fine. Sorry. No, that's man. That's a lot of money. Enough to attract what eventually ended up being over 30 expeditions that were going to be fraught with the same peril. You know, I mean, it's not like things had changed and it was now easy, but it was, you know, it was sort of like in Jaws. You know, all these, all these people had money on their mind. They had their mind on their money and the money in their minds, right. And wanted all those pounds. And it was a big, it was a big public thing. Like people, people wanted them back and they tried to get them back their hardest. Yeah. Because, you know, one of the reasons why John Franklin was known was because he was the man who ate his boot. Gotta get that guy. The English pub, right. And the English public was also very much fascinated with Arctic exploration. It would be kind of analogous to the American public being interested in going to the moon in the sixties. Yeah. Kind of like that. Yeah. Not like now, no one cares.
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"Yeah. And the Inuit, the ones who who listen to them, a few dozen of them did make it to mainland Canada. But just because you made it to mainland Canada doesn't mean like that you're saved. Like they were still in big trouble. Oh, yeah, obviously. At this point, Lady Jane. Well, should we take a break now, actually? Yeah, let's take a break. All right. We'll take a break and talk about what Lady Jane did right after this. He'll forget about the video game you gave him on his birthday. Wow. Thanks, Grandpa. But he'll never forget how you invested in his future with the Unest app. Wow. Thanks, Grandpa. Don't just give them any gift. Give them a gift that can grow with them. Invite grandparents and family friends to contribute to your child's future with the Unest app. Unest is an investment account for kids that makes it easy to gift funds that can be used for college tuition, their first home and more just by sharing the link or include a Unest QR code on party invitations for birthdays and holidays. For a limited time, download the Unest app and use the code IHEART50 at sign up to receive a $50 bonus when you fund your account. That's code IHEART50 when you sign up at UNEST.CO for a $50 bonus. See terms and conditions at Unest.CO. Hey, everybody. Can a podcast help you sleep better? Explore your relationship with sleep in season two of Chasing Sleep and learn how you can get the sleep you need to wake up happier and live healthier. Yeah, there's still a lot we don't know about sleep, but we do know it impacts almost everything we do. Sleep can affect our work, our emotions, our overall health, even our sex life. So join new co-host Katie Lowes and Adam Shapiro as they connect with sleep doctors, sleep experts and listeners just like you as they find the answers to all of our burning questions about sleep. Like, oh, I don't know. What's out there, Josh? Oh, do you get better sleep if you don't share a bed with your partner? Or why are exhausted parents the biggest practitioners of revenge bedtime? Also, what's a revenge bedtime? I don't know, but I'm going to listen and find out. This season is all about getting down and dirty with our relationship to sleep. Listen to Chasing Sleep, an IHEART radio production in partnership with Mattress Firm on the IHEART radio app or wherever you get your podcasts.
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"Like, oh, what's something funny about someone who can't sail? They have lead feet. How about Leadfoot McCantswim? Oh, boy, that's not a good sailor right there. Or James Francis Can't Steer. I love it. Should we, speaking of steering, should we talk about these boats? Yeah, let's, because they're kind of important, too. Yeah, very important. One, as I guess is named for the TV show The Terror. Or vice versa. Yeah, and the Erebus, what said it was named after the TV show. And the Erebus, these were, previous to this outing, they were warships, but they were ships that didn't, you know, have like cannons up and down the sides. They were delivering big mortar rounds close to shore. So they were squatty and they were super strong and they were sailing ships, but they were retrofitted for this adventure. I keep calling it adventure. It was an adventure, I think that's fair. Yeah, for a while at least. They were retrofitted in a bunch of ways. First of all, adding these iron plates to the front to, you know, break through the ice. But then they also added a steam engine to the sailing vessel, not to just use full time, but, you know, because you require too much coal, you can't do something like that. But to get you through, like I was talking about that moving ice, if they were like, oh my gosh, we need to get over there quick because I see a channel that's closing, they could kick in that steam and get over there faster. That's just like one ways that they would use the steam engine. Yeah, like if you were playing Frogger, you wanted your steam engines going. Exactly. So they also figured out how to use the steam as basically central heating. This was like state of the art. We're talking like the late 1840s here, and these guys were going on an Arctic expedition and I think they may have been the first crew ever to sail into the Arctic with central heat. So that was an enormous luxury. And they also used the steam system as a water distillation system. So they had all the fresh water they needed, but they could desalinate it. They could decontaminate it. It was just a really ingenious system, all kind of built into one. And if you're wondering about the propellers being a problem with the ice, they actually retracted back into the hull when they were in shallow water and icy water. So like for the 1840s, this felt like a very modern operation. Oh yeah, for sure. So it's important to remember though that the steam was meant to just kind of give them a boost. They were still sailing ships. That's mostly how they moved was through sail. Yeah, and they brought a lot of stuff. We always like to talk about the load of any expedition and what they kind of carried because it's usually a precursor to they didn't either have enough or they had the wrong stuff. They had 32,000 pounds of beef, 33,000 pounds of tinned meat, which will very much come into play. We'll get to that later. They had fresh veggies. They had livestock. They had live animals on board, right? They had cattle, sheep, pigs, hens, all meant to probably not last very long. And then eating was good at first. Exactly. They also had pets too, Chuck. There were three pets. There's a monkey that Lady Jane Franklin gave to the ship as a present and I guess was kind of Captain Franklin's pet. Yeah. And they apparently used to seal stuff a lot, but it was a super cute monkey, so everybody forgave him every time. Much more popular was a dog named Neptune in Newfoundland. I mean, come on. Gotta have a dog on board. And then there was a cat that may or may not have had a name because I think I got this information from a historian named John Geiger, who is basically dedicated his career to the Franklin expedition. And he does not name this cat. And the fact that he didn't makes me think that cat didn't have a name. It was just the cat. I don't think they named cats for a while. Yeah? Yeah, I've seen a lot of historical stories where there was like a cat they just called cat. So like Mr. Sphinx didn't come around until like the 70s maybe? I don't know. We'll find out with the short stuff. Just wait and happen. They also had thousands of pounds of sugar, had tons of spices. I mentioned the veggies they had. You gotta have tobacco. They had about 7,000 plus pounds of tobacco. Tons of booze, 4,000 gallons of either rum or wine, close to 3,000 pounds of candles so they could see because, you know, it gets during the winter there. It's dark for long, long periods of time. For sure. Lemon juice? Lots of lemon juice? That's a big one. They had 930 gallons of lemon juice to stave off scurvy. And every crew member got an ounce a day. And unfortunately, it didn't work for a lot of people. A lot of guys seem to have gotten scurvy. Their teeth fell out and they were fatigued and all sorts of terrible things happened because of a vitamin C deficiency. And yet they had enough lemon. And apparently historians think that the lemon juice may have started to ferment. And so to kill off that bacteria, they may have boiled the lemon juice to kind of recharge it. And in doing so, that would render the ascorbic acid, the vitamin C, totally ineffective, inert basically. And so they could have been drinking lemon juice all day long and they still would have gotten scurvy. So that's a great theory. I don't know how accurate it is, but it's the best one I've heard. It's also the only one I've heard, but it still sounds pretty good. And how about we set up the first part of this tinned food thing and then we'll reveal what happened later. But it was sort of a new thing. Usually you would take dry goods like salted pork and stuff like that if you wanted to eat well on a ship. But Franklin said, no, let's do this a little better. Tinning technology is new. I'm going to contract with this guy. His name is Steven Goldner. And he's, well, I was about to say the best at this, but he was doing this. And they said, give us whatever you can get us on time. We need 8,000 tins of food, cooked beef, cooked pork, preserved meat, elk soup even. Don't forget the pemmican. Well, what is pemmican? I've heard of that. I saw it described as paste of dried and pounded meat mixed with fat and spices. I saw it compared to oily beef jerky. And then some people like, I guess, keto people like will add like maybe some fruit or something to it just for a little bit of carbs. But it was a very popular staple in the Arctic because it was fatty and full of protein. And that's what I needed. Those are good things. Yeah, for sure. And Goldner was like, all right, this stuff is going to be great. It'll last you a few years. And I need to get to work, though, because I have a short timeline. But delivered those tins and that's where we're going to leave it for now. So they took on all these supplies, I think after they passed Scotland in Disco Bay, D-I-S-K-O. Yeah, it's a shame. Yeah, they do not dance in Disco Bay. That's in Greenland on the west coast of Greenland. That's where they took on supplies. And then also, really interestingly, they left behind five guys. There were originally 134 crew members, but five of them were left behind in Greenland because they were basically booted off the ship by Franklin. The only explanation I saw is that they had run afoul of his bans on swearing and drunkenness. So they actually managed to avoid this grim fate by cursing and being drunk, essentially. Yeah, good for them. Yeah, for sure. So they took on all of these supplies. They took on the coal. They took on all the tin meat and all that. And they started sailing toward Baffin Bay. Not the one in Texas, this one is up in the Arctic. And they were about to enter Lancaster Sound, or they did. Right before they did, they were sighted by a couple of whaling ships, the Enterprise and the Prince of Wales. And it's really disappointing they didn't spell the Prince of Wales like a whale. They spelled it like the country. It's a whaling ship, come on. Yeah, I mean boat names are supposed to be puns. For sure, for sure. Oh man, I can't think of one right now. I can't either. All of them are though, aren't they? Yeah. At least the ones in Florida and, you know, California, like San Diego. Yeah, they're very punny usually. Okay, so these whaling ships hung out with them. Apparently they boarded and like looked around. They were like, oh my God, central heat. When they took their leave of the Erebus and the Terror, they were the last people, they were the last Europeans to see these people alive. That's right. And one of the other things I just want to say about Lancaster Sound, Chuck, from Baffin Bay. If you look at it on a map and they don't map out the sea ice, it is a, you could shoot an arrow from Baffin Bay to the Arctic Ocean, which would eventually take you to the Pacific, just straight through Lancaster Sound. And yet because of the ice, it was so bad. They couldn't go anywhere near across Lancaster Sound. They had to immediately start to go south. Yeah, boy, go south indeed. I guess we should talk a little bit about sort of how you navigate through this ice. We did mention that that had, you know, iron on the front of their ships and any any sort of ice ship or fishing ship that's in icy waters will have a reinforced hull because, you know, you can break through some of this stuff. If you ever watch, you know, Deadliest Catch, they do that kind of thing here and there. But if you really get sort of in a position where you, you know, the ice is too thick and, you know, this ice is continually being just smashed against the shore until you have like ice mountains along the shoreline and it just it just stacks up on each other. So eventually, if you get to a place where you really can't get through, there are a couple of things you can do. You can wait for summer and like cross your fingers that it'll melt because it may not even melt then. Or you can use a process called warping, which is when you basically inch yourself along little by little by if there's land nearby, you could like tie yourself to something strong on land and and winch yourself by little by little. If there's no land around, you can put your anchor in a dinghy and send somebody out, probably not a dinghy, a little bit bigger boat, drop the anchor and then winch yourself going if you can even get through at that point. I think Ed used one example of a rescue expedition that was trying to find Franklin that spent nine hours basically going the length of their ship like an inch at a time. So it's not fun. It is. But it's like that may be your only chance at survival sometimes because you can you could get stuck in ice forever and die for sure. And that's actually what the Franklin expedition found themselves in that situation. At first they were doing fine. They wintered at Beachy Island, which is not very far past where they entered from Baffin Bay, because I think they set sail on May 19th. And winter comes quickly. Right, exactly. They finally oh, sorry, they finally left Disco Bay in July of 1845. So yeah, winter comes way earlier up there than it does here. So they wintered pretty quickly. And they were successful that first winter. The ice started to melt and they started to do some cool little navigating and apparently doing U-turns and all sorts of stuff that we'll never probably know exactly what they did. But that first winter and summer went fine. Yeah, but three guys did die of basically kind of how you die back then in those conditions. Could have been pneumonia. It could have been, I mean, who knows what kind of health some of these guys were in. But it wasn't anything like super unusual. They just lost three guys. Yes, but that supposedly was not a good record, even for an Arctic expedition, losing three guys that quickly. So aside from the three deaths, fine. Things went pretty well compared to the rest of the expedition. That was great, right? So the first winter comes and goes, the first summer comes and goes. And now they've made it to the northwest corner of King William Island and they get iced in for the winter. And again, this is what they're expecting. They had three years worth of supplies. They figured it would take that long to circumnavigate all of this ice flow throughout these seasons. So they're not worried yet. When they start to worry is when the next summer comes and the ice doesn't melt. Right. And that's what I mentioned earlier by crossing your fingers. Sometimes it melts, sometimes it doesn't. It all depends on the conditions at the time. At this point, they had been there for a while. And like you said, we're surviving. And they were even sending guys ashore that were charting their location. And nothing was really out of the ordinary, like you said, until they were like, well, we're still stuck. And that's when it got fairly scary. This is, I guess, spring or what would be spring. I don't even know what you would call May in that area in 1847. Winter part two, maybe? Sure. There was a team that went to leave. They had this method for leaving messages. They would use these Royal Navy forms basically like they should have just had letterhead because they would have had more room to write. But instead, they would write in the margins of these Royal Navy forms just to make sure people knew it was them. And they would leave them in sealed canisters in various places. This one was under a cairn that someone else had built before them. And it was a pretty brief note. Things were OK. Nothing out of the ordinary to report at that time. These people came back to the ship from delivering this note and making sure it was safe to be found later. And Franklin had died while they were gone on June 11th. Yeah, they even said in the note, Franklin commanding and then all well. They should have said, as far as we know. So that's, I mean, that's kind of a big deal. I mean, the leader of the expedition dies. It's not like, well, what do we do now? I mean, there was a second in command, a guy named Francis Crozier and then a third in command named James Fitz James. So there was like a clear chain of command of able able captains and leaders. Right. Sure. But it's still I mean, at the very least, that's just seems like bad juju when you're up on an Arctic expedition and you've been snowed in through summer. Right. Yeah. And a few other people died, too. So at this point, they've lost, you know, probably close to 10 people. So from September 1846, when they first got iced in for the second time, this time off the northwest coast of King William Island, all the way through 1848 and actually beyond, they they just sat there. Their ships were iced in. They were they didn't move. They just stayed there. If the ice moved in, the ships moved. But that was it. They didn't move within the ice. And these guys are like living on these ships, kind of living on shore. They made camps and then they finally abandoned the ships because it was becoming clear that I guess Crozier had this this gamble to make. He could either wait to see if the ice melted next summer and in which case they they could probably make it through to safety. They could sail the safety during the summer and be saved. But if the ice didn't melt, he would have wasted several months waiting for to see if the ice melted when they could have been walking to safety. And he chose option B. He said, we need to start moving towards safety because I don't think that this ice is going to melt again.
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"He'll forget about the video game you gave him on his birthday. Wow. Thanks, Grandpa. But he'll never forget how you invested in his future with the Unest app. Wow. Thanks, Grandpa. Don't just give them any gift. Give them a gift that can grow with them. Invite grandparents and family friends to contribute to your child's future with the Unest app. Unest is an investment account for kids that makes it easy to gift funds that can be used for college tuition, their first home and more just by sharing the link or include a Unest QR code on party invitations for birthdays and holidays. For a limited time, download the Unest app and use the code IHEART50 at sign up to receive a $50 bonus when you fund your account. That's code IHEART50 when you sign up at UNEST.CO for a $50 bonus. See terms and conditions at Unest.CO. Hey, everybody. Can a podcast help you sleep better? Explore your relationship with sleep in season two of Chasing Sleep and learn how you can get the sleep you need to wake up happier and live healthier. Yeah, there's still a lot we don't know about sleep, but we do know it impacts almost everything we do. Sleep can affect our work, our emotions, our overall health, even our sex life. So join new co-host Katie Lowes and Adam Shapiro as they connect with sleep doctors, sleep experts and listeners just like you as they find the answers to all of our burning questions about sleep like, oh, I don't know. What's out there, Josh? Oh, do you get better sleep if you don't share a bed with your partner? Or why are exhausted parents the biggest practitioners of revenge bedtime? Also, what's a revenge bedtime? I don't know, but I'm going to listen and find out. This season is all about getting down and dirty with our relationship to sleep. Listen to Chasing Sleep, an IHEART radio production in partnership with Mattress Firm on the IHEART radio app or wherever you get your podcasts.
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"Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh, and Chuck is with me too, and we're just a couple of intrepid explorers sitting around in tiny rooms. I don't know what we're exploring, but we're exploring something. Freezing to death? Yeah, I'm a little warm, actually. I'm kind of sweaty. Maybe scurvy? I don't know. Pneumonia? Blood poisoning? Yeah. Yeah, there's a lot of bad things that happened about this expedition that we're going to talk about, the Franklin expedition. Very, very famous, I guess, polar. No, it wasn't a polar expedition. It was an Arctic expedition from the middle of the 19th century. And if you've ever seen that show on AMC, The Terror, did you ever watch that? No, I remember you recommending that a while ago, though. It's so good, Chuck. So there's two seasons, two totally different stories. I'm recommending the first one, because it's all about, like, a speculative fiction about this. About this very thing? Yeah, believe it or not. The second season is about a Japanese family in an internment camp during World War II. Well, that sounds equally uplifting. Totally different. But the first season is really amazing, and it is all about this. All the characters in that season are based on actual people from this expedition. It's really neat. Well, now it all hits home. Yeah, there you go. So even before AMC came along and did it, this is probably one of the most famous expeditions in history, mainly because it was such a colossal catastrophe. There are 129 crew members, including the captain, the expedition leader, all the officers, and all the crew, and not one survived. All of the crew was lost. That's really rare, even for Arctic exploration back in the day. And then on top of that, for a very long time, we had no real clue what happened to them. Well, we did. We just ignored the clues. But it was a mystery. They just vanished, basically. The last time they were seen was by a couple of whaling ships at the very beginning of their voyage, and that was it. Yeah, I mean, there's lots of ways to disappear. Especially in the Arctic. Yeah, in the Arctic, in that time of the 19th century. Very easy to happen. Yeah, but at the same time, this was remarkable, even at the time. It was weird that this expedition just went so colossally bad. And then one of the reasons, like I was saying, that it's been such an enduring mystery is because we never really knew. We never had much evidence. And then we had scant evidence over time. And the little evidence that we did collect didn't really just explain everything. There were lots of question marks. And even today, with all the stuff we found and discovered along the way, we don't really know why this whole thing went so pear-shaped so quickly. Yeah, for sure. But we're going to talk about whatever we do know. I think that's our task today. Are you prepared for this task? It sounds like a very not-thought-out name that our show could have been called. Our task is to explain this today? No, everything we do know, instead of stuff you should know. Oh, OK. Should we talk about the Northwest Passage? I would love to, because it's kind of important. Yeah, well, it's funny. It kind of is, and it kind of isn't. I think that they thought it was going to be really, really, really important back in the day when they were like, listen, we've got to find a route to sail, basically, straight from the Atlantic to the Pacific. And as it turns out, it didn't end up being a big, heavily-used passage. There's a problem with the Northwest Passage, and that is it's really hard to get through. There are a lot of Arctic islands up there, north of Canada. And there's a lot of ice, and that ice moves around a lot. You can never exactly predict where you're going to find that ice, or where it's going to recede. And even when you're out there, it's going to be moving around. So it's almost like playing a game of Frogger sometimes when you're to the, forget the car part, like the highway, when you get to the river. Because you're like, oh, I got a passage now because I see it in front of me, but I might not have it in an hour because the ice moves. So it's a very tricky thing to get through. A lot of people and a lot of expeditions went, tried to get through it, charted it, you know, great deals of it. And as we'll see in the end, John Franklin and his crew was tasked with basically about 300 miles of, you know, sort of figuring it out, charting it. And that was sort of the last bit. And even had it been all charted, it's still not like an easy thing to get through. No, but just charting it was a huge mission for the Royal Navy. Because at the time, the middle of the 19th century, the British Royal Navy was the greatest sea power in the world. And in their backyard, the Arctic, there was an entire piece of the globe that was just a blank question mark. I saw a really great documentary on Nova and they showed a map of the world as they understood it in the mid 19th century. And everything else had been charted except for the spot in the middle of the Arctic. And they had a question mark there? They actually did. They had a blank space and a question mark. Amazing. It was like the Riddler had done that photography. But it was like a blemish on the reputation of the British Navy that they still hadn't been able to chart it despite trying for hundreds of years to at the very least chart it, if not make it through. So it was a big deal and they really wanted to do this. And like I said, a lot of people, you can't point to a single person and say they discovered this passage for some of the reasons we've been talking about, the 30,000 islands and the ice and people getting bits and pieces together a little bit at a time. But a lot of people take credit. There are a lot of people that are given credit for different parts of it. There was one guy named Robert McClure from the Royal Navy, of course. And he's credited as the first complete transit. Part of that was on land. And then there's a guy, a Norwegian named Rald Amundsen, who was like, all right, now this is the first guy who did it all by sea. And this was like, what, 50 plus years after McClure had done it partially on land. So it's like a lot of time is passing. And this is at a time when the advances of sailing and getting through passages like this was sort of at its peak. Yes. And by the way, Rald Amundsen, he was also the guy who was the first to make it to the South Pole. So he was quite a show-off as far as explorers go. Look at him. So yeah, it wasn't until the 20th century that somebody actually made it all the way through by ship. So that kind of goes to show you that they weren't really successful, this Franklin expedition, and even after the expedition. But what's interesting about it is Ed helped us out with this. And he made a point that there were a lot of rescue missions to go find the lost Franklin expedition. And while they were there, they charted stuff that had been uncharted. So Ed makes the point that by getting lost, Franklin actually contributed more to the charting of this unknown part of the Arctic than he did while he was actually alive, because he didn't actually make it very far. And his crew made it kind of far. But by the time they made it to where they were going, they couldn't have cared less about charting. They were just trying to stay alive, unsuccessfully, as we'll see. Well, there you have it. I guess I can spoil that. After having already said that not one of the 129 men survived. Yeah, you're like, no, wait, I spoiled it in the first 30 seconds, not just now. Exactly. All right, well, let's talk a little bit about Franklin, John Franklin, that is. Not Benjamin, of course. Sure. He hated boats. John Franklin was born in 1786. And he was not a rich guy. He did not come from some noble family. But he did end up getting a lot of seafaring experience in the Navy, a lot of combat experience. Like, he knew his way around a ship. So in 1819, he saw that the British Navy was downsizing some. And the writing was kind of on the wall, or at least he felt the writing was on the wall for him. And he said, all right, what I should do if I want to, you know, continue at sea and, you know, I kind of like this life is I got to get out of the military and become an explorer, become an Arctic explorer, because that was like a path post-military that you could do. You could become an adventurer. Yeah, and he was still part of the British Royal Navy. He was a captain in it, but he wasn't engaging in warfare. He's engaging in exploration. So it was almost like they had two prongs. You could either go like Discovery Corps or, you know, the Corps of Death and Destruction. Sounds like both lead to death. Yeah, in this case, Discovery Corps didn't pan out very well. I just spoil it again. So, yeah, we'll just, everybody just forget that everyone dies. We're working up to that, apparently. So he got to work on his discovery path. He was doing pretty well. He commanded some expeditions here and there. One ended up being a big failure on the north coast of Canada, exploring near the Copper Mine River. And half of the men died. The reason that this is noteworthy is because that even though it was a big failure, he gained a lot of notoriety because he survived grim conditions and very famously ate his on a loan on that TV show I watched that some guy ate part of his belt. Oh, yeah. How did it go down? It didn't go down well. I can't imagine it would, man. I think the idea when you boil leather like that is that it's just, you know, some of the fat will come off and it might give you a little bit of caloric intake, but it's not a great plan for success long term. But Franklin earned a lot of notoriety by eating his boots and wrote a big bestselling book about it and was knighted even though it was a failure. Yeah, because they kind of saw it as, you know, he had sacrificed that much in the name of exploration. So why not knight him? You know, it's better than like throwing rotten tomatoes at him upon his return. The guy had to eat his boots for Pete's sake, you know? Yeah, exactly. So that was one of his two initial expeditions. The one that we're talking about today was his third. The other one was pretty catastrophic, too. Nothing like the first one and nothing like the third one, but still noteworthy enough that like it was not successful. They got lost. And both of those first expeditions, Franklin and his crew were bailed out by Inuit who basically made sure that they stayed alive. He probably wouldn't have survived that first expedition had it not been helped from the Inuit who made sure that they made it back and were fed and all that stuff. And that's a big recurring theme that we're going to run into is that the Inuit were in the background, like back in England. People knew they were there. They call them Eskimo, spelled like it would if you were in New Orleans or something with the A-U-X at the end. Oh, really? Yeah, that's what they did. They were not thought very highly of. And yet the whole time, as we'll see, like the Inuit were just witnesses to this history, had an extensive and detailed oral history, knew exactly what happened wherever what went down when. And yet the British and other European explorers just would not listen to them. And when they did listen to them and they tried to explain it to England, England shouted that person down and told them they were a fool for listening to the chattering of these these Eskimo. So that's just kind of a common theme as we'll see that the Inuit played a huge outside role that we're only now starting to kind of like acknowledge or recognize. Yeah, they also there was a common theme that if you were smart enough to listen to them while you were there, you fared much better than if you did things your own way. But the problem was, is like that was not something you would want to do back in the mid 19th century in front of your crew. Officially, yeah. You could very quickly like your crew could lose confidence in you because you were doing something totally out of the norm and probably out of the bounds of respectable behavior by following the lead of of, you know, an Inuit at the time. Or I'm sorry, an Inuk. Something I learned is Inuit is the plural, Inuk is the singular. So if you're talking to, you wouldn't say I'm talking to an Americans, say I'm talking to an American and in the same way say I'm talking to an Inuk who's a member of the Inuit. Yeah, what they were smart to do would be to take an Inuk around behind a big block of ice and very quietly say, listen, old boy, if you have any advice, please just let me know quietly. Happy to follow. Can you draw out where we should go in the snow? And then erase it very quickly and with a safe face. With your urine. So no, no, no. Erase it with urine or spell it out in urine. You would erase it with urine. You could do both, but the spelling it out with urine would be too permanent. You would want to pee all over it and it would melt out the instructions once you committed them to memory. And everybody in your crew would have thought you just went behind the ice block to pee. Well, that's why they have the slogan as the Sharpie of Snow Riding. What does pee? Yeah. I didn't know pee had its own slogan. It did. I really circumnavigated that like a big ice flow. That was nice. Clumsily, somewhat breaking through with my iron force. There were a couple of bumps in there, sure. All right, so where are we? He had the second expedition that he said wasn't as bad as the first and third. Still not great. He's kind of thinking about hanging up his half-eaten boiled boots at this point. He's in his 50s. And in 1837, they said, no, why don't you take this appointment as the Lieutenant Governor of Van Diemen's Land, which we now know is Tasmania. Sure. And that only lasted a few years. And his wife Jane said, you know, what you should really do is finish strong. You're getting old. You got one more in you just to sort of save the family name. One more Arctic expedition that might really be great and cement you as a victor. And he said, I guess I'll try if they'll have me. He said, Roger, Roger. Yeah. So he did. Well, she did, I should say. He kind of just went along with it. Lady Jane Franklin really worked behind the scenes to get her husband appointed to the head of an Arctic expedition. And in particular, this one that was considered potentially the last one to map the Northwest Passage because there was only that 300 miles of uncharted territory.
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"At KGO 8 10 once again Here's Chip Franklin. Yep, That's me. 88 80 88 10. Let's do this. Let's let's all agree that That we're going to get through this weekend, and we're all going to be the better for it. I mean, it's going to be hard tomorrow is definitely worth listening to because caller is going to be talking about their experiences. John and Pat have put together a tremendous show. Uh, everybody from Nikki to Mark Thompson to to Brett Burkhardt to me, too, Because I mentioned path. It's just going to be Um, community thing where we all come together and talk about, uh, the event and what it means to us today. 20 years later, um, it's important. Let me go to Robert in the city on the lesson, the over arching lesson that we have learned or should learn, I guess And your case, I'm Robert. Chip. We haven't learned two things. There's 32 nations sailing around the Black Sea right now, and Russia has all but sad. The next NATO worship that sales within 12 miles of the Crimean Peninsula will be sunk. We are there are a lot of us Torit ease out there, Chip. That are weighing in on this and the Washington Post. Don't make me laugh. Uh, there that had all but you can go in and read what? The Russian foreign services. Okay, let's go back to what happened on 9 11. Okay. Russia wasn't involved in that at all. Um yeah, the the lesson. I think that most of us are talking about here is American involvement. Um, obviously, Russia and Putin Are well, especially Putin is running a country that is in dire shape. He and his, uh kleptocrats are stealing billions from it every year. Um, they have a lot of problems. You know, and I thank you for your call. I don't think there's going to be a war between us and Russia. Uh, it would not serve anyone and saying what China. Now it's it's the non uniformed combatants. That we have to watch for. And the question is, why are they gunning for us? Um Is it a righteous thing? Or is it based on ignorance and fear and jealousy? Or maybe a little bit of both. I mean, that is a fair question. Um You know, just look at our country here. Okay? And look at vaccines..
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"I. My red flag hadn't gone up. I thought okay. I'm okay with that. I'm okay strap in new york and it's a blast i. I don't think they need to necessarily be negative term but this particular one. We weren't fan so low. That was okay next. We have our tips from the travel agents. Riches i wish we had to be creative in cova Due to eating outside. But i think some of our cool tips came from having to be creative. One of them in particular was we found a rooftop bar called. The assembly was on the ben. Franklin parkway thank you oh my gosh this this absolutely fabulous Rooftop bar the tip comes in the form of go to a rooftop bar but call an advance and call for two reasons. Get a reservation if you need it. 'cause we found that a lot of rooftop ours are just totally booked and then to ask about dress code we we were prepared to dress up on this little weekend getaway. I had my shorts and my little akron. T shirts with me yeah. We didn't have any breast cancer jess shoes now and we found some of these. We're so glad that we call the rooftop bars for rooftop restaurants. I before going. 'cause we learned. Oh gosh we would have needed. Need trust the part to show up. So that's that was tip number one check out a rooftop. Are we recommend the assembly. It's huge dinner menu. But they did have nice apps and a great selection of drinks cigarette place to Nightcap and to pull out pull out a smartphone and and just aim your photo anywhere into the city and you're gonna get a fabulous picture. Absolutely our next tip had to do with that. It's that awkward moment. When you have to check out of your hotel or airbnb or boutique hotel at. I don't know eleven. Am or noon but your flight is in the evening. Oh yeah what do you do with your bags. Yeah in we found specifically in philadelphia. I don't know if they're countrywide. But we found a an app or website service called verto the e. r. t. o. e. I think that's how you pronounce it absolutely where a local Business will offer them a lockers up to anyone to come off in drop-off suitcase luggage. Whatever it is that they have Fee and they'll just watch over it and you can go and enjoy your day so you go on the website you find a local restaurant nearby. Where a local shop. They have Some safes you go to local place and you tell him. You're vertigo buyer. They'll take your luggage. they'll Tag it and everything so it's completely safe throw it into a safe place and they just they just watch over at for however long you need obviously will and i are both trusting people but we're also realistic so it's like my dad's rule don't don't tempt people unnecessarily so i think we keep your tricks on you whenever you're traveling. There's no reason to leave. Your passports behind in safes are lockers or in our case it was basically a small grocery store that was willing to hang onto our bags. I felt very i. I totally trusted them to such a reasonable cost. Think he was under twenty dollars. It was. I think it was twelve dollars for the two of us or the rest for the whole they. We didn't have to worry about our bags while we explored the city and then we just was time to the airport picked up. The saks ran out to p. h. l. philadelphia international airport Tip three is all about locations for where you're gonna stay. Oh yeah we were a little off the beaten path or just kind of far from everything we needed wanted to do. Yeah yeah we were. I think a mile away from city hall but it didn't feel like it. I mean it really. Didn't i recommend a like maybe one of the hotels off of Delaware riverfront there's a holiday inn that's pretty close buying If you're looking for a cheaper option right and then there's a really nice hilton. That's right off the water. It's if you're looking for a little bit more hilton. Let's see if we can find hilton. Scale where river. I mean just the location. Yeah yeah you you look it up and I think You know one of the not so much a tip. I kinda wanted to talk about some of the things that you absolutely have to do. When you go to philadelphia and one of the things for me. We mentioned rittenhouse. We've mentioned love square. We've mentioned independence hall. But i really want to hammer home that you need to go and check out. Benjamin franklin parkway There's a ton of museums there. There's the rodin. Museum is a replica of one of the david statues there which is really cool. And then yeah. There's the philadelphia museum of art but tucked away kind of behind it. Just maybe oh a five minute. Walk from the philadelphia museum of art. Is this Row of halloween houses. Yeah right That's called little house. Row country clubs so to speak. Yeah yeah they're they're Rowing clubs there to the local rowing clubs. That make up this row called boathouse row. And it's really cool in the daytime but it's especially cool at night at the night. Everything's lit up. They have depending on The season if there's a holiday if it's fourth of july and halloween. If it's christmas the they will light up according to the holiday. And it's just a really cool place. I mean there's a lot of maybe college age kids around the area that we're hanging out but At night and during the day there's a up beer garden. It was a really cool place and it really is about five minutes away from the philadelphia museum of art. So i think you realistically spend a whole day in the benjamin franklin parkway just checking out museums checkout restaurant checking out a rooftop bars Checking out the boathouse row and you really have a good day. It's a really cool place checkout if you're gonna come away from this podcast with kind of that way. What are the they set a lot. What are we supposed to do again. I think we can. We can summit up with spend time delaware. Riverfront spent time at benjamin franklin avenue area slash boathouse row and spent time in the old town. Yes seeing the the museums and whatnot. That hilton museum by the way was the hilton philadelphia at penn's landing nice and it is right in front of what was our favorite restaurant mushoo later. We're gonna talk and during our interview with a local. We're gonna talk to john from philadelphia. I'm just kind of eager to see he. He's really seems to be the restaurant. Expert of philadelphia. I've kind of eager We'll just see if he happens to throughout mushoo our favorite restaurant as one of his. Or maybe he won't mention. I don't know we'll.
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"Alright Chip Franklin with Ben Foyer from the California appellate Law group. Before we get to the case, you think really needs to be at the top of the list. Ben of this morning, the Supreme Court declined to take up a case of a florist that didn't want to Do a same sex wedding. They allowed the state law to stand and said, Basically, you want to stand business. You gotta you gotta treat everybody does that surprise you? I mean, since Gorsuch earlier on kind of supported gay marriage. Yeah, You know, we have a an interesting do dynamic in the Supreme Court, particularly with the Trump appointees. Donald Trump got three justices on the Supreme Court and replaced, uh to one liberal justice and one moderate justice with two real conservative religious folks. Cavanaugh and Barrett Gorsuch also pretty religious. So a lot of folks I think thought these people were going to come in and they were going to be reactionary conservatives and they were certainly going to be anti gay, right anti gay rights and there certainly are very conservative. In some ways, they're certainly very religiously oriented in some ways, But they haven't been really as sort of antagonistic to the rights of of gay Americans, as I think some people thought they were would be Last term. Remember, Neil Gorsuch wrote an opinion. It wasn't about gay marriage but is about whether the Civil Rights Act from the 19 sixties protects gay employees and transgender employees from being fired on that basis alone. And he said that it does this surprise joined with the Liberals that surprised a lot of folks. Um, this term, just as you just mentioned the court declined to take up a case involving a florist didn't want to do a wedding again, You know, sort of saying, Look, you know they dealt with The wedding cake issue. They basically said, you know, states really have to balance genuinely held religious beliefs against the need to to not have very much discrimination. But by the way, Ben and they left this one stands. But Gorsuch dissented. So that's the weird part, right? He descended in this case today. You know where he supported? That's weird. I don't you know, anyway, what is the case? Yeah, I think of all the stuff that we're looking at right now. What is the one that jumps to mind Is that health care is that gay parents? Is it, uh, you know, qualified immunity. And please, What is the one that because everybody wants to know about guns, But there's really I don't see that anything like that coming down the road. Um there's a big case on guns. Next term That's coming up. That really is going to question They raised the question whether or not you have a right to carry a gun in public, or you need a permit, or you can do without a permit. Um, but that's going to be next term, which starts in October. Um this term, you know, with a new whenever a new justice comes on the court, the court kind of tries to slow its docket down a little bit tries not to take maybe the biggest cases. I think it was especially the case this term because the court really didn't know if they were going to be deciding some crazy election cases. Remember when the court sort of Yeah. Whether you know the term began in October, and you know we did you know, we had things were coming up and and you know, with no one knew what was going to happen in this election. And you know the the ultimately the trumpets folks brought like 60 lawsuits, all of which were complete garbage. I mean, they really had nothing whatsoever behind them factually or legally. And you know the court kind of got lucky and didn't have to decide any of them because the lower courts kind of threw them all out and said their garbage so the Supreme Court could kind of stay above the fray and not get involved. Um, you know, so so that and then Covid has been going on. They really didn't know what kind of cases they were going to be taking up regarding Covid. The Covid situation is one where you really can see a difference in the change from Ruth Bader Ginsburg to Amy Coney Barrett on the court when Ruth Bader Ginsburg Was on the court. There were a number of challenges brought saying, Look, States can't limit religious liberty by keeping churches shut down or limiting the number of people who go to churches and 5 to 4. With John Roberts joining with the Liberals, the court said, you know, no. Look, this is an emergency. You know if the states think that they need to limit how many people can go into a room in a closed space in order to Lock down this pandemic. They can do that, even with churches. When Barrett came on the court, all those cases started going the other way and there, and so now the court has held look. States have very limited ability to shut down or or or even even reduce the attendance at churches, Um, even during the pandemic, even when they think that it's necessary to prevent the pandemic. One really big difference that yes, and that and that, I think is going to play out over time. And religion always seems to float around like you know, like incense. I mean, it always seems to be at the core of a lot of of these issues. But let me ask you real quick about the Arizona at versus a Democratic National Committee. They just, they said, in essence, That Arizona was allowed to do what they did. And when you look closer at it, it looked to me like maybe the the Progressives might have overreacted a little bit because I didn't really I kind of agreed with a little bit of what Alito said it. It didn't seem to me that it was a race issue there. Do you agree? Wow. You know you're you're on record now. Saying that you agreed with a leader alot had I know thing, Chip? That's you know, they're gonna hold that Someone might hold that against you One day. Um, you know, Look, I think this is a really, really interesting question. This case came up based on changes to the law in Arizona before the 2020 election. Arizona prohibited a couple of different, um Very seemingly minor regulations. One was whether you can have people who go and collect all the mail in ballots in a neighborhood and then kind of bring those to the post office or a polling station. They're called ballot harvesters. I think a little bit pejoratively. But those are people say that those are important in minority neighborhoods where people may not easily be able to get to the polls. There was another regulation that said, Look, if you're voting in person, you have to vote at your local precinct. You can't go to another precinct to vote that, you know. And so there's this Voting Rights Act from the 19 sixties, and it was revised in 19 eighties, and there's a law that really was designed to limit state restrictions on Basically black voting now. That, of course, applies to many other minorities. When the law was passed in the South, something like 2% of African Americans were registered to vote. Things like literary tests, poll taxes all of these ways of really trying to prevent minorities from exercising their constitutional right to vote. And so Congress passed these laws. Over time, the Supreme Court, especially as it's turned more conservative in the last, you know, 10 or 15 years has whittled the this law down dramatically in 2013. They removed the requirement that states with histories of racial discrimination had to get clearance in advance from the Justice Department when they want to change the voting laws in a way that reduce may reduce minority participation. The framework basically got rid of that are basically said Congress has to redo it if it wants to keep that rule, and now there are other. There are challenges that are coming after elections, uh to voting changes, and that's what this is about, but that you're right. These were sort of minor seeming regulations, The state said. Look, you know, we want to prevent people from doing fraud. We think there's fraud. There really isn't any evidence of voter fraud in the United States. It's just at least at the pep Yeah, so it's not an effective way to change election outcomes. But the Republicans are really concerned about that. You may remember over the last kind of five years. There's this big push against and for voter I d laws. These are laws that said, Look, if you want to go and vote, you have to bring a state issued. I deal with you and the Progressive said Oh, my God, This is really terrible, A lot of the violation of the Fifth Amendment. Well, I don't know about that. But they said it's Ilana what they said Don't have government government. Yeah, they said it was 14th amendment. I think they were focused on and the, uh the Postwar men's. But they said, Look, you know, it's certainly the violation of the Voting Rights Act because this is designed to limit minority participation, and you know minorities, they said. Don't have Ideas in cities as much Maybe they don't drive and don't trust the government, and this is really just targeted at reducing minority participation..
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"Kim McAllister More of Chip Franklin coming up next on KGO, are you But its chip Franklin here with you as we're on the second half of the show, John Rothman.
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"franklin" Discussed on Harvard Classics
"The autobiography of benjamin franklin by benjamin franklin but this affair having turned my thoughts to marriage i looked round me and made overtures acquaintance and other places but soon found that the business of a printer being generally thought a poor one. I was not to expect money with a wife and less with such a one as i should not. Otherwise think agreeable. A friendly correspondence says neighbors and old acquaintances had continued between me. And mrs read's family who all had a regard for me from the time of my first lodging in their house. I was often invited there and consulted in their affairs wherein i sometimes was of surface..
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"Now back to the chip Franklin show with Chris Merrill, filling in on kgo a 10 Super Bowl last night. I'm still obsessed with it. We've been talking about it here of the this afternoon with not only the streaker that was running across the field, we also talked about some of the messaging. With the NFL and whether or not we felt like it was honest or disingenuous. Joining me right now is our ABC News entertainment correspondent Just Nathan sent and Jason, of course. We're interested not only in, you know who's watching the Super Bowl, but also word Some of the reactions to the commercials, and every year we look forward to the commercials, but I always I always try to gauge it with social media sort of easier to gauge. I think, as far as what fan reaction is to some of this commercial, I wanna talk about that. One thing I saw was interesting was that it seemed more people were interested in Tom Brady in Boston than they were in Tampa. Ah, help me understand how that shakes out? Yeah, According to the early numbers, the rating was better by about almost 5% in Boston than it was in Tampa. 57.6% of all TV's in Boston, vs 52% in Tampa And you know one of the possibilities. There is that you just have more Brady fans still in the Boston area who either watch them because they like him or they were hate watching it because they hate him At this point. I don't know. What Which the cases, But, um, that you know, knowing how big a fan they are of the Patriots, and they were a Brady that that kind of makes sense to me. In Jason. It seems Tampa Bay hasn't been to the Super Bowl in 20 years or whatever, right? I mean, it's been a long time since day one. This is only their second Super Bowl. Seems odd to me that barely 50% of the televisions in Tampa. We're paying attention. What was going on? It seems like the city would have rallied around that. I wonder if weather played any Um, uh, Any part in Boston having a better viewership? You know, they had bad weather here this weekend, so nobody wants to really go out and watch the game there. Excuse me. Nobody wants to go out. So they're sort of stuck at home. I guess I watch the game. Tampa I supposed nice day, They can all go out and do whatever. It just seems strange to me that The city would be rallying around their own team like that. Maybe I'm not sure I mean, and we're talking about a couple of percentage points. Both of them were over 50%. So that's it. That's a huge number of TVs in both markets watching the game, but it's you know, I don't know exactly how they monitor something like this. It never made sense to me in terms of the ratings because, especially with Super Bowl, this is something where most people in a normal year. Would go and watch somewhere else. Right? You go toe a friend's house. There's 20 people there. Maybe five extra people show up. Maybe 10. Extra people show up. So then how do you calculate that? When it comes to the ratings it never. It never made sense. I'm not good at math. I took statistics in college. I probably flunked. But, um, this is not my my strong suit. But you know, knowing how how wrong sometimes we get the polls when it comes to politics. And if this is taking on some kind of average, or some kind of diary or some kind of phone type calling thing, How do you have just how do you do when people are going to bars when people are going to people's houses when they're not watching at home? How do you calculate something like that? And maybe this year, then maybe that's why it's taken so longer To get the ratings than usual is the fact that it's just a little harder to tabulate this year given you're such an anomaly. Jason Ader Xander, ABC News Entertainment correspondent, Jason I know that the Nielsen ratings that used to be the box would sit on top of the TV. Do they still do that in some markets or or is it all gone? To what? We haven't radio? The personal The portable people meters? I think they also monitor the televisions. As well as radio, don't they? Yeah, it's a device that monitors monitors he electronically. So I'll go over that, however, that is in the various homes and their various places. Um, but you know again, I don't know how that knows if five people are watching at home. If people are watching at home, I have no idea. Yeah, I suppose I use some sort of a static algorithm to try to develop that. We've always complain the radio that the margin of error could be as high as something like 40% on those things, So that's just wild to me. I'm still feeling a little bit dizzy from watching the weekends halftime show when he when he went backstage, felt like he was walking into a music video, which was kind of cool. I like that. But he just kept spinning around for people. I didn't see this. He grabbed. I don't know. It looked like he was holding a selfie stick and singing into the cell of a steak while he spun in circles in this gold. Lit mirrored room. It was it was like it was like being high in a carnival house of mirrors. That's what it was to me. That's that's the way I was, and I just Wanted it to stop and I was hypnotized all the same time. I thought it was a pretty cool. In fact, I thought it was it was fun, and it was visually one of the most interesting things that he did, but again. The Super Bowl is all about spectacle and big and outward bigness, right? No Katy Perry writing an elefant Diana Ross in 1996 taking off in a helicopter. This went internally visually interesting, which might be emblematic of the times that were in and not being able to have his biggest spectacle, as we would have seen in other years. Or what? But I felt the whole show I was interested. I was surprised because we learned last week that he spent $7 million of his own money on this, which is above and beyond, Possibly what the NFL and Pepsi gave him which might have been up to 15 million. So possibly 20 million was spent on this and I was wondering how we were going to see that represented. I don't know that I saw that represented there yesterday. I didn't Jason. I did not see $20 million with shows. Discussing is my wife earlier and I said they were saying that could've cost $20 million. My wife said. I could have done it for two million. But my wife, incidentally, is a medical bill, a contract analyst for for hospitals. The idea that she could put on a show for $2 million is really stark. It's Zsa remarkable. What? I didn't I didn't see $20 million worth. I don't know how we justify $20 million expense. What I I'm still confused by is the bandaged face. It is that we saw a number of dancers. If anybody didn't say this, a number of dancers came out there must have been 100 or more dancers who all had their faces bandaged up. While they wore red coats. It was reminiscent to me of played doctors. I mean, they were one really long beach nose away from happily a plate really understand it, But help me help me understand this stupid Elizabeth was trying to display with that covert related No, it wasn't And this is one of my issues with with the performance overall because in a Super Bowl performance, I think we want either We want spectacle, right? We want some big, fun, splashy type show like a Katy Perry. Or if you're going to have some kind of message in it, like Beyonce did a couple years ago. Um, incorporate that with spectacle of everything, or even secure in jail a last year where you have this message of unity and females, um and um and Letty Knows doing it together. Um, and that all gets mixed in with the spectacle of the show, right? But you see it and you visually, you can understand it. What we saw yesterday was this thing that he's been doing for over a year now to promote his album after hours and the first live performance that he did for that to promote that album, which I think was on Saturday night. Live with him bandage stuff like we saw some of the guys yesterday. His face was bloody and bruised, which the agency yesterday there, But he was continuing That story line that he's been doing in promoting this album that there was no if you're a casual viewer, you don't know who this guy is necessarily. You have no way to connect the dots to those two things, and you don't know what the message is. You don't know what he's trying to say. Quite frankly, we haven't known for the past year what he's been trying to say. He revealed last week that it had something to do with Hollywood and image and distorting your own image and things like that. But it didn't come through last night. And I think for the Super Bowl, you kind of got to make you have the biggest audience you're ever gonna have make your message clear. Yeah, yeah, again. I'm a casual fan. I don't have to ask you the next day What that was all about. I really don't have any idea..
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"franklin" Discussed on Harvard Classics
"He liked to have as often as he could. Some sensible friend or neighbor to converse with and always took care to start some ingenious or useful topic for discourse which might tend to improve the minds of his children by this means. He turned our attention to what was good. Just and prudent in the conduct of life and little or no notice was ever taken of what related to the visuals on the table whether it was well or ill dressed in or out of season of good or bad flavor preferable or inferior to this or that other thing of the kind so that i was brought up in such a perfect in attention to those matters as to be quite indifferent. What kind of food was set before me and so unobservant about it. That to this day if i am asked i can scarce tell a few hours after dinner. What i dined upon this has been a convenience to be traveling or my companions have been sometimes unhappy for want of a suitable gratification of their more delicate because better instructed tastes and appetites. My mother had likewise an excellent constitution. She suckled on her ten children. I never knew either. My father or mother to have any sickness but that of which they died he at eighty nine and she at eighty five years of age. They library together at boston. Where i some years since placed a marble over their grave with this inscription. Footnote this marble having decayed the citizens of boston in eighteen. Twenty seven erected in its place a granite obelisk twenty one feet high burying the original inscription quoted in the text and another explaining the erection of the monument quote. Joe cya franklin and abaya. His wife live here interred. They lived lovingly together in wedlock fifty five years without an estate or any gainful employment constant labor and industry with god's blessing they maintained a large family comfortably and brought up thirteen children and seven grandchildren. Reputable from this instance reader be encouraged to diligence in thy calling and distrust not providence. He was a pious and prudent man. She a discrete and virtuous woman their youngest son in feel you'll regard to their memory places this stone j. f. born sixteen fifty five died. Seventeen forty four at eighty nine af born sixteen. Sixty seven died. Seventeen fifty to eighty five by my rambling..
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"franklin" Discussed on Harvard Classics
"Mold and the moles were cast candles attending the shop going ahrens et cetera. I disliked the trade and had a strong inclination for the sea but my father declared against it however living near the water i was much in and about it. Learnt early swim well and to manage boats and when in a boat or canoe with other boys i was commonly allowed to govern especially in any case of difficulty and upon other occasions i was generally a leader among the boys and sometimes lead them into scrapes of which i will mention one instance as it shows and early projecting public spirit though not then just like conducted. There was a salt march that bounded part of the mill pond on the edge of which at high water. We used to stand to fish for minnows by much trampling. We had made it a mere quagmire. My proposal was to build a warf their fit for us to stand upon. And i showed my comrades a large heap of stones which were intended for a new house near the marsh and which would very well suit our purpose accordingly in the evening when the workmen were gone. I assembled a number of my play fellows and working with dull gently like so many emmett's sometimes two or three to a stone. We brought them all away and built our little wharf the next morning. The workmen were surprised at missing the stones which were found in our wharf inquiry was made after the removers. We were discovered and complained of several of us. Were corrected by our fathers. And though i pleaded the usefulness of the work and convinced me that nothing was useful which was not honest. I think to know something of his person and character. He had an excellent constitution of body was a middle stature but well-set that very strong he was ingenious could draw prettily was skilled in music and had a clear pleasing voice so that when he played some tunes on his file in and sung with all as he sometimes did in the evening after the business of the day was over it was agreeable to hear he had a mechanical genius to and on occasion was very handy in the use of other tradesmen's to but his great aunt's lay and a sound understanding and solid judgment in a prudential matters both in private and public affairs in the latter. Indeed he was never employed the numerous family he had to educate and the straightness of his circumstances keeping him close to his trade. But i remember well. His being frequently visited by leading people who consulted him for his opinion and affairs of the town or of the church she belonged to and showed a good deal of respect for his judgment and advice. He was also much consulted by private persons about their affairs. When any difficulty occurred and frequently chosen an arbitrator between contending parties at his table..
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"franklin" Discussed on Harvard Classics
"His grandson samuel franklin now lives in boston he left behind him two quarto volumes s of his own poetry consisting of little occasional pieces addressed to his friends and relations of which the following sent to me as a specimen footnote. The specimen is not in the manuscript of the autobiography. He had formed a shorthand of his own. He taught me but never practicing it. I have now forgot it. I was named after this uncle there. Being a particular between him and my father he was very pious. A great attender of sermons of the best preachers which he took the down in his shorthand and had with him many volumes of them. He was also much of a politician too much perhaps for his station there fell lately into my hands in london a collection he had made of all the principal pamphlets relating to public affairs from sixteen forty one to seventeen seventeen. Many of the volumes are wanting as appears by the numbering. but they're still remain eight volumes in folio and twenty four in corto and in october a dealer in old books met with them and knowing me by my sometimes buying of him he brought them to me. It seems my uncle must have left them here when he went to america which was about fifty years. Since there are many of his notes in the margins this obscure family of ours was in the reformation and continued protestants through the reign of queen. Mary when they were sometimes endanger of trouble on account of their zeal potpourri. They had got an english bible and to conceal and secure it. It was fastened open with tapes under and within the cover of a joint stool when my great great grandfather read it to his family. He turned up the joint stool upon his knees turning over the leaves. Then under the tapes one of the children's stood at the door to give notice if he saw the parashar coming who was an officer of the spiritual court and that case the stool was turned down again upon its feet wherein the bible remained concealed under it as before this anecdote. I had from my uncle benjamin. The family continued all of the church of england. Tell about to the end of charles. The seconds rain when some of the ministers the had been outed for conformity holding convertibles northamptonshire benjamin and at here to them and so continued all their lives. the rest of the family remained with the episcopal. Church footnote conventis secret gatherings of dissenters from the established. Church does area for other married young and carried his wife with three children into new england about sixteen eighty two. They invented goals having been forbidden by law and frequently disturbed induced some considerable men of his acquaintance to remove to that country and he was prevailed with to accompany them feather where they expected to enjoy their mode of religion with freedom by the same wife. He had four children more born there and buy a second wife ten more in all seventeen of which i remember thirteen sitting at one time at his table. Who all grew up to be men and women and married. I was the youngest son and the youngest child but to and was born in boston..
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"franklin" Discussed on KGO 810
"Good. Have you along Chip Franklin with you? We are counting the days down until Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46, president of the United States. Actually, he's won so many of these court cases and elections probably like the 95th president, United States Andhra ump again, you know, has be grudgingly admitted that he lost. But the real key here in the real question here is is. What do we do in the interim? Now we're gonna impeach him tomorrow and there's no doubt he deserves to be impeached and removed from office. The question is, if we impeach and we don't get the vote in the Senate on, we have to wait until you know it's the 50 50 Senate. And then of course we still won't you know if we can't get the 67 votes Is it worth it to impeach? I don't have a problem with impeaching him there, I would. I would also like to see Article three of the 14th amendment imposed where both houses vote and say he can never run for federal office again. I like that. I think that the you know, I don't think I hope that pants. Um won't pardon him. And that he'll pardon himself. And then we could you know, that won't last because I don't think the Constitution allows you to pardon yourself. It says Grant apart, which means that somebody has to request it, and that's a third person. You can't request it and grant to to yourself. It's not in the language of the Constitution. Let me go Toe Marlin in San Francisco. Marlon, what do we do here, man? Well, First of all, I wouldn't make a statement coming here. Do you remember in 2016? When Trump won the election, the people invoke the protests. All right. 2021 Trump invoke the protest. So there's a big difference. One is violent. Young is not a spar. As for the trump to to be a peach, I think there will be a 67% chance that he will be impeached after he removed from the office after January 20 minutes, he's gonna be impeached tomorrow. But you're talking about convicted conviction is what you're talking about, Right, man. He'll probably be convicted after the 20th of January. Well, you're bigger optimist me and thank you, but I don't. I don't think that's gonna happen..
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"franklin" Discussed on KGO 810
"Franklin with young kgo Capitol police are disputing the CNN report that they cop died during the riot insurrection. Whatever you call it. That left four people dead. Capitol police say media reports regarding the death of U. S Capitol Police officer are not accurate. That's good. Well, fine. I'm sure we'll hear more about that. Moving later. Images from this thing's fiasco show people with links to far right movements report on these other facts, checkers. It's really interesting. So are photographs of being shared online. People who stormed the capital suggest ties to far right movements, according to New York Times on done of the Aunt Eva activists Bs that that you've been hearing about from You know everybody's check this out. Snopes Politifact, buzzfeed news. Other organizations, none of it, but you know he's out there, saying it Our Ingram, Mac age. The Washington Times. I know that one of the editors over there nice sentiment note today and I we've known each other for 30 years when I said Dude, how can you How can you print these articles and push this antifa Bs? Can't really watch my language Also, I was that really pissed me off. The idea that they would really say that Mo Brooks, the congressman from other senator she's made from Alabama who was in a new idiot of the highest order. Kind of push that again. Trump Jr is tweeting it. Um, you know, uh What's his girlfriend's name? Kayleigh Mcenany saying that you know, and then they're all just echoing the same lie. Anyway. All right. Um, So what? What is the proper thing to do here? And what is the next way to go with this? And? And how likely is it? That will get, um either the 25th amendment or impeachment. We're gonna be right now is opinion Editor at the Washington Post. Molly Roberts. Molly, What is the status of all this? Molly? We're breaking up. Hello? We try that again, guys, we shouldn't get more time. Molly. What is the status again of the of the impeachment process? Well, the status of the Democratic pushes that it's pretty much official. It's coming from Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer both, and I think it would be Pretty tough to find a Democratic elected official in Congress who doesn't agree with that. It's a little more oven open question on the Republican side. We do have some Republican Congress, people who are saying that believes that the president should be removed and that they would support removal. I think they're most talking about the 25th amendment, but it's certainly not anywhere near the majority of them. Yeah, it would be. And that's exactly what you need. Not to mention the Cabinet and Mike Pence. It doesn't seem likely. I think that there is we're still in a kind of shock after what happened yesterday and Um, you know, it's interesting, too, because I You know, I I grew up there and listening to the local news. You get a lot more coverage than we do here nationally, and I was watching some of it online and just some of the people that came down out of curiosity. And then they had this one guy that worked over off of 17th street and you just can't walk down there to see what was going on. He ended up running for his life. He was Africa, half African, American and Asian, and he had people san things to him, like, Go home. You're gonna go home. We're gonna kill you. And, you know, I mean it. I don't know that we can really fully on media 3000 miles away. Understand how how weird. This was in the nation's capital. It is he something that had not happened since the war of 18 12. Um, is how palpable is this anger? And how long will it last towards the president for pushing the people to this point? I think it's certainly palpable. I think that Particularly what frustrating Too many people who live here is this sentiment. Not necessarily just among trump supporters. But even among people who disagreed with what the president did yesterday, Senator Ben Sasse, for example, that at Washington isn't a place where real people live and where real Americans live, and where people raise Children. Instead, it's just this Seat of government, and so you can treat it just as this site for protests, And of course, it's important to be able to come here on purpose. But when you protest in a way that's actually armed insurrection. That is damaging not just to those legislators who had to go it had in the Capitol basement, but also to the everyday folks in the city. You know, there's been, um Some opinion around the country That is horrible is this was this is what it's like now to be 1/7 grader and a junior high across America and that the idea that you know the guns in the Second Amendment, you know, and everything that we talked about. Just was brought home to these legislators that look, there's some real problems out here. There's some dangerously ill people. There's too many guns and there's ah predisposition. To solve these things violently and that maybe this was, you know, for them and up close encounter. I wonder. I wonder if it's gonna have that sort of effect on them when we talk about Even moderate Republicans when we talk about gun control, and we talk about, you know, 2 30 this bill that maybe maybe there is something to that where Facebook shouldn't be allowed to just allow Trump and others to put this This stuff by white supremacists on this public platform that everyone can see..