40 Burst results for "Fraud"
Mark Levin
This Election Is Getting More and More Hideous by the Second
"Barrier to fraud and that exists of course they want to nationalize our elections and turn the whole train to California this is a problem that is an understatement so the question is what do we do about this and it's a complicated question because when you have a Democrat Party that literally hates the country will and do anything for power and so will their media when you have this kind of autocratic force taking in the country it's a huge problem but I don't have a magic wand I'm not king of the country but I have a microphone I have a TV camera so it's very important that I call out what I see so you the army the army of Thomas Pains and Paul Revere's can get the message out to your friends and family and your co -workers this is crucial absolutely the aggressive hideous propaganda campaign has begun actually never stopped but it's getting more and more vile okay and the best measure of that the best guidepost to that would be Joe Scarborough Joe Scarborough has no limitation on his ability to lie the demagogue and the propagandize and that's what happens with low IQ individuals who are given a public platform by a woke corporation like Comcast by a very weak cable channel like MSNBC
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "fraud" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
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The Dan Bongino Show
Are You Falling Into the Left's Trap?
"Glum all the time we should not you know I get it I did a locals video this morning on my locals account which is you know for subs and stuff but I do these short videos every day before the show and sometimes they're about lifting and nutrition and sometimes they're about whatever I'm feeling but the video this morning I did about about not getting disgruntled and alienating yourself from the process because that's what the left wants whatever you're doing what your political opponents want you to do what you're probably doing is wrong correct that's called the trap right that's what it is it's a trap remember admiral akbar like they draw everybody in they uh you know they draw the rebels in and it's a thank you admiral there you the left loves to do this they love to get you I like the voter fraud thing I was talking about this morning on locals the perfect I'd example like to stream in a thing on time the left engages in voter fraud right the other by the way some Republican candidates have been accused of this too it's not it's not sunny it's uh not just the left thing they seem to take advantage more than Republicans do but either way it's really matter who does it but they love to take advantage of it because the whole idea is that they'll alienate you from voting in the entire process and even when voter fraud is it you know is minimal say in a state like Florida we have pretty decent controls over it they're gonna get you to say I'm not voting it's not worth that's the whole goal so when you're doing what they're doing you're probably losing and that's I think what happened we'd cancel culture too there was this infection brewing amongst the left have everybody's scared of their neighbor kind of like what you have in a communist country like am I gonna get ratted out by mrs. Jones next door to dear leader I really believe that that the cancel culture thing was deliberately done by institutional kind of money leftist hardcore leftist who knew what they were doing to kind of dismantle
The Dan Bongino Show
Fresh update on "fraud" discussed on The Dan Bongino Show
"Patriotism at all none zero it's more of an indictment of the political leadership who are trying to destroy you it's so sad to watch them our military just being dismantled with I for initiatives what the hell does that have to do with creating a lethal military that can go and kill bad guys all this stuff is falling apart who are we who are what do we stand for you know we're on in Washington DC it's one of our bigger markets I say to these lawmakers you gotta ask yourself that question I know I get it you got lobbyists up your caboose 24 hours a day I want this oh I get it I get it you're in this so long sometimes you forget and detach yourself but you ever sit down and ask yourself that because I promise you I self reflect a lot man I screwed up a lot I like wrote a whole book about it I'm not anybody's like moral or you know spiritual leader by any stretch don't follow me you'll fall right off the cliff but I'm gonna tell you something with complete candor the reason I'm so depressed all the time you are yeah I am you know sounded on the show the press not sad they're two different they're not always the same thing but the reason I'm so depressed all the time is I'm engaged in this constant act of self -reflection it's like the worst thing you can do it's true if you look like it up people have this depression they just they're constantly self -reflecting they call it self -monitoring all the it's the craziest thing I just want to let it go and I can't but every day like someone will write something to me on like Facebook or something like that and it'll be some nasty comment or something and you know that it stings you get used to it a little bit you start to let it go more and more and more but I wonder like up in Congress do you guys do that at all I'm not telling you gotta have like depression clinical over this stuff but do you ever just sit down and say like who are we like what are we running on like what is this movement what is it about it's about fiscal constraint well are you constraining the government fisc no so okay you're what you're a fraud or you just never believed in the first place who are we what are we about we're about limited government well have you actually done anything to limit government well no no not really okay so again are you a fraud or you just didn't believe it in the first place we're about defending life from conception to natural death okay have you actually done anything to do that no I haven't done that either okay so again are you a fraud or you just didn't believe it in the first place we're about defending the Constitution and the Bill of Rights like all of the Bill of Rights like the right to bear arms to adjust some of it what have you actually done I'm not trying to be a jerk I get it some of you up there are decent guys we got good one guys of the coming up later I understand that I get it you we don't have a huge majority I understand you're not gonna balance the budget tomorrow you're not folks anyone telling you try to do something maybe take a stand on something once in a while can we get one thing? I mean I read this piece last night the Republicans looking are to trade border security for more Ukraine money can we at least get some border can we at least do that? folks these are perilous times this is no for time weak -kneed phony frauds and with this new disease outbreak in China in an increasingly perilous world threat this is the time for real leaders to step up look in the mirror and ask themselves who the hell am I and what am I doing here am I gonna be truthful and honest with people am I gonna continue to BS people because we we got got an election coming up and it'd be really refreshing up on a debate stage for someone to go up there and say you know what we're going broke entitlements are bankrupting us spendings bankrupting us we don't have enough money we're not doing enough to defend life we should have a national concealed carry because the Constitution was always designed to be your carry permit it'd be really refreshing she said that's what I stand for because I'm a conservative and if I lose I'm gonna die on that hill that'd be refreshing be to see that for once you won't but you gotta ask man who are we what do we stand for because if you can't ask that and you don't care enough about your reputation to ask yourself the question who and are we what do we stand for then we're not going to care about your reputation either and that's why faith in institutions is at an all -time we'll be right back
Mark Levin
Bidenomics Is Trying to Persuade You That Things Are Going Well
"And his talking had this guy Kirby, who is a fraud complete and a phony. They're trying to persuade you that are things actually getting better, that things are working out just well. They're not working out just well. And so what do you take from They this? are completely detached from what goes on in your life in anybody else's life. And they're going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars, maybe up to a billion dollars, to persuade you that Donald Trump is Hitler, that Donald Trump's going to destroy democracy, that Donald Trump's going to create World War III. And conversely, open the border's because of Donald Trump. And but for Donald Trump, we'd be in World War III. And but for Donald Trump, food prices would be down and they are going to work it, work it, work it. Now, if they can call him Hitler, I guess I can call them Goebbels, right? Yeah, I think so. The Democrat Party. The Goebbels Party. Goebbels Party. Why not? Rock is in, I mean, I guess, if I guess the we Third can all talk that way.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh "Fraud" from WTOP 24 Hour News
"26 this morning in Roslin. 640 money news at 10 and 40 past or brought to you by PenFed. Great rates for everyone. The credit card and savings account partnership between Apple Apple and Goldman Sachs is ending. People briefed on the matter tell the Wall Street Journal Apple recently proposed ending the deal in the next year or so. Goldman had told Apple earlier this year that it wanted to wind down the partnership. The credit card launched in 2019 the savings account became available just this year. Do you read online reviews before you buy something? Online language company Preply analyzed hundreds of reviews with four -and -a -half star ratings or less. The most frequently posted words in bad reviews are beware, lied, scam, fraud and joke. Customer service is the number one complaint even more than complaints about actual products. And as WTOP business reporter Jeff Klaybaugh, Preply found the products and services with the most negative reviews are related to travel, electronics and money and insurance. her movie opening Friday, what Taylor Swift did with her blockbuster concert film film last month. Beyonce's 56 show global tour included a stop at FedEx Field in Landover Maryland in August plagued by lightning and crowd crowd control issues. But this time you can dance under the roof of your local multiplex with Renaissance a film by Beyonce intercutting footage from her live shows with behind the scenes interviews by Queen Bey, her team and family. I think about all of My and heroes all that they endured. I know that all of my struggle and sacrifice is opening the The film runs two hours and 48 minutes about the same as Taylor Swift's movie. Just be sure to stick around through the end credits for a bonus surprise. See the setlist on wtop .com. Jason Varela, WTOP news. A judge The judge awards real estate to the children of the late Aretha Franklin years after her death. The judge says she's following the wishes of a handwritten will from Aretha Franklin from 2014 that was found between couch cushions. Despite scribbles and hard to read words, a jury earlier this year said the will So now, one of her sons will get her home in the Detroit suburbs, valued at just over a million dollars in 2018 but now worth more. Another son was given a house in Detroit, though it's already been sold for $300 ,000. Franklin had four homes when she died of cancer in 2018. There's dispute still a over the handling of her music assets, though the will appears to indicate that her sons would share any income. Coming up here on WTOP, debate in the Senate over conditions on aid to Israel. 643. For more than 50 years, KBR's science and engineering expertise has enhanced our ability to explore, examine, and understand the universe. As a leading provider of technology solutions both on and off planet, the no company is better equipped to solve the challenges of mission -critical operations and health technology than KBR. From launch to landing and everything in between, we are the team behind the mission. For more information and career opportunities, visit kbr .com slash careers The power's out at our house. But
Mark Levin
Judge Temporarily Lifts Gag Order in Trump’s Civil Fraud Trial
"On CNN and MSNBC and everywhere else how about all these phony legal analysts that said Donald Trump clearly violated this judges gag order or that judges gag order and they should send them to jail remember who said that Joe Scarborough Mr. among reprobates other judge David Friedman of the intermediate appeals it's a weird system in New York their Supreme Court is the trial level then they had the first level the intermediate appeals court and then they have ultimately their appellate court which is effectively their Supreme Court why mark well somebody got drunk that's why judge David Freeman of the state's intermediate appeals court issued what's known as a stay suspending the gag order and by the way there was a judicial nominee that Joe flopped Biden up there in the Senate and Senator John Kennedy I love this guy can't get him on any of my shows so I gave up he answered a simple quote what's the difference between a stay and an injunction I really don't know what you what he asked these people the most basic questions even and they know don't the answer because Joe Biden is loading the courts with ideologues and I might add with the help of Mitt Romney and Lindsey Graham sorry Lindsey that's what you're doing the trial judge Arthur Ngaran not to be confused with the dictator Islamist of Turkey imposed a gag order on October 3 after Trump made a false comment about the judge's law crack on social media how do you know it was false then then he finds trump fifteen thousand for violating and expanded it to his lawyers after they question the clerk's prominent role in the trial what was happening is this clerk over and over again kept whispering to the judge and the judge kept whispering to the clerk like they were on a date or something but as I explained the other day a lot of these judges are absolutely stupid and have almost no real litigation experience even more than that they can't write or whatever and they rely on their clerks to
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "fraud" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"The widespread deaths and damage in Gaza believe the U .S. has a moral duty to consider conditions on aid. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. There are different views on that and we're going to have to have a discussion with the caucus and the administration. Schumer says his chief goal is bringing legislative a package to the floor soon that will include aid for Israel, humanitarian assistance, and aid for Ukraine. On Capitol Hill, Mitchell Miller, WTOP News. House lawmakers could vote as soon as today on whether to remove New York Republican George Santos from Congress. This comes after the Ethics Committee this month said Santos is guilty of corruption and fraud. The clock is now ticking on the brief, tumultuous congressional career of New York Republican George Santos. They're confident that this is a constitutional way of doing it. Democrats made the move on the House floor, forcing Republican leaders to bring the expulsion resolution the floor within two days, with many of Santos' own GOP colleagues supporting his ouster. He said he won't fight. It's not a good use of my time. That is CBS News congressional correspondent Scott McFarland reporting. Three men are facing a slew of charges connected to credit card fraud in our area. 21 -year -old Vernon Lee Brown III, 25 -year -old Elijah Walker, and 21 -year -old Jalen Oliver were all arrested yesterday at Tysons Corner Center. Fairfax County Police say they got a call from Saks Fifth Avenue after the three tried to use stolen credit cards there. Police say the three were able to make than more $8 ,000 in purchases at Neiman Marcus. Investigators say the men were found with
Mark Levin
Democrat Judges Are Destroying America's Judicial System
"You have to force your will on the public. It's not Congress. It's not the elected branches up and down the chain. It's the judiciary. It's judges. That's exactly what's happening in Washington DC, the chudkin, exactly what's happening in Manhattan. And honestly several not already. Just thrown out. But the media, they love these judges. Trump files motion for mistrial in New York fraud case. He filed it today. We were going to have Alina Habbar on program. the I think she's an excellent attorney. She's asked to come on tomorrow. And she's, if not the lead, one of the judges. In this case, like Bratz case, are so contemptibly politically motivated it's appalling. This case in Manhattan, the civil case, has the potential for denying Donald
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "fraud" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"More than 50 ,000 pounds of supplies coming from the U there needs to be that stopping and fighting for longer than these two extra days. So for to that happen, more diplomacy, more negotiations, and certainly from Hamas, more fighting across here to Israel. A law makers on Capitol Hill could vote as soon as today resolution on a to expel embattled New York Congressman George Santos. Last night he took the floor. I ask that all my colleagues in the House consider and understand what this means for the future and to set the record straight and put this in the record. I will not be resigning. A House Ethics Committee report found Santos guilty of corruption and fraud. They're getting an early taste winter of in the Midwest and the Northeast. The first major storm of the season has dumped up to two feet of snow in some spots. Rich Kerstetter lives in Washington Township, Pennsylvania. There's other snowfalls that we had years past, last couple of years, made us into wimps. We're not used to this. There are freeze warnings as far south as northern Florida this morning. Final All the living first ladies and three presidents, including her husband of 77 years, paid tribute at a service in Marietta, Georgia, and will be a private funeral Mrs. for Carter in her hometown of Plains today. When was the last time you rented your home? If it was within the past year, it probably cost a lot more than you expected. New data show home repair and remodeling prices jumped six more than and a half percent. Consultant Rick Charga. A lot of this is probably due to supply chain disruptions which have increased the cost of materials and finished products that are used for repairs and remodeling. S &P futures up 15. This is CBS News. You don't need a job platform, you need a hiring partner. Indeed lets you schedule and conduct virtual interviews all one from place. Start at indeed .com slash credit. 503 On Wednesday November 29th, 24 degrees. Coldest temps of the season this morning I'm John Aaron
Mark Levin
Trump Files Motion for Mistrial in Civil Fraud Case
"The city and state of New York. They've used a statute, as Fox has reported, that's never been used ever against anybody else. And why? Because the statute's unconstitutional. And why is that? There's no victim. There's no complainant. So the case is really a case about Letitia and this judge in Iran. Deciding for themselves cherry -picking information on whether the assessments that were used, the valuations, and getting loans from certain banks, meet the standard that Letitia James and this judge Arthur and Garan think they should have met. No, they don't. No victim, no complainant. Not a single bank has testified against Trump. They're all paid back on time without delay. These banks are big with big law firms. The legal documents stated by Trump's lawyers and his documents not to rely on the valuations provided by the Trump organization. You're free and transparently make so your to own valuations and make your own decisions. So there is no fraud. There's no misconduct. The victim, well actually the only victim is Trump and his family. Thank you. And so they've appealed. And so the legal experts say it's going to be tough to appeal arguing that there's a mistrial. Oh really? Well the judge is a hack who ruled against Trump before he and his lawyers even walked in the courtroom. He ruled on the papers before he heard a word of testimony. And his conduct during the course of the trial, he was clamish. He was preening for the camera. The reason his law clerks sitting to his right
The Dan Bongino Show
The Israel Conflict: Are You Misinformed?
"Not because unlike Democrats I'm not a fraud but people are a lot of people tend to be sometimes misinformed about issues especially on the left but ladies and gentlemen I'm going to tell you some when it comes to this Israel conflict right now what's going on over there I have never seen an issue where so many people who know so little feel so entitled to give an opinion about something they know nothing about it is stunning here's what I mean Jim cue up on that the talker tick guy kosher kosher deals so he goes out makes these videos he does he's man on the street interviews at these rallies for the pro -terrorist rallies and people say some of the dumbest craziest things ever I want you to listen this where he has to say hey yo you love Hezbollah didn't they bomb that place in Lebanon and kill all those people lazy though the Jews did it oh really we're like rewriting history now here take a listen I see more freedom fighters where do you believe has was a terrorist organization I don't know I recognized mean they're by everyone else is a terror organization well they're a legit political party weren't they responsible for that big bomb that the tragedy and who who is responsible 1400 people's a lot of people to kill for I love your shirt first I'm just making youtube videos if you want to watch the video it's on my rumble pod today rumble podcast it's even more powerful watching how stupid people really 1400 people's a lot of people to kill the guy chimes in over the lady's shoulder but basically I they love deserved it they're occupied I've never seen so many people so misinformed even in the conservative content space listen your opinion you're allowed to have it it's constitutionally protected and god -given you have the god -given right to speak it's only protected by our constitution and I passionately protect that but again it also gives you the right to be stupid and I've never ever discussed an issue with so many people feel this entitlement to an opinion which you do have
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"Investment Advisors switch to interactive brokers for lowest cost global trading and turnkey custody solutions. No ticket charges and no conflicts of your interests at IBKR dot com slash RIA. This is Bloomberg Radio. From the Bloomberg Interactive Brokers studios, this is Bloomberg Daybreak for Tuesday, November 14th. And Israel ramps up its ground war against Hamas. That's as Israel supporters come out in force with a march in Washington. A critical 24 hours as Congress tries to avert a government shutdown. And Joe Biden and Xi Jinping are set to announce a deal to crack down on fentanyl. Donald Trump Jr.'s testimony on the witness stand and his family civil fraud case. Plus, the Supreme Court put in place its first formal code of ethics. I'm Michael Barr. More ahead. I'm John Stash, Aaron Swartz. The Knicks lost in Boston, the Islanders lost in Edmonton Monday Night Football. The Broncos upset the bill. That's all straight ahead on Bloomberg Daybreak on Bloomberg 1130 New York, Bloomberg 99 1 Washington, D .C., Bloomberg 106 1 Boston, Bloomberg 960 San Francisco, Sirius XM 121 and around the world on Bloomberg Radio dot com and via the Bloomberg Business Act. Good morning. I'm Nathan Hager and I'm Karen Moscow and U .S. stock index futures are higher this morning. S &P futures up two tenths of a percent, about nine points. Dow futures up a tenth of a percent or 40 points. NASDAQ futures up three tenths of a percent or 44 points. Ten year Treasury yield four point six one percent. Nathan, Karen, let's get you caught up on what's happening in the Middle East. The focus is turning to hospitals in Gaza, where Israel accuses Hamas of housing command centers and weapons. President Biden says the Al -Shifa hospital.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Heroes
"If you have your Bibles today would you turn with me to 1 Corinthians 1 26 through the end of the chapter and I was thinking today on heroes in honor of our Remembrance Day there are blessings to any country that will make the God of the Bible their God and abide by his truths as laid out in the Scriptures. These truths though initially sated by David towards Israel can apply to us as Gentiles as if we're obedient to them and Psalm 33 12 blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord and the people whom we have chosen for his own inheritance and the truth is there are great blessings in being a child of God. I understand this if you know Jesus Christ as your personal Savior we are entered into the promises and blessings of Abraham and we will enter into that lineage so that's a blessing there. I was thinking of a hero, a hero is a man or a woman of distinguished valor or enterprise in danger or fortitude in suffering a prominent or central personage in any remarkable action or event hence a great or illustrious person. A little further on this a pastor and author recently wrote that our society has lost the meaning of the word hero he said that we think that if an athlete can put a ball through a hoop they're a hero. If a musician can play eight chords on a guitar they're considered a hero and if an actor can pretend to be something they are not they're considered a hero in Hollywood. This pastor wrote I remember watching a well -known journalist interview an actor about his recent movie which featured a politically troubled region of the world. The journalist asked the celebrity what he thought should be done about the political situation there the actor responded who cares what I think and went on to point out that he was an actor. This pastor said real heroes are people who actually do something sacrificial or courageous he points out that God does not seek out heroes to accomplish his purposes God isn't looking for a strong man or woman per se rather he's looking for someone whom he can be strong on behalf of. Amen end quotes there and that came by Jim Sandel but I think about some other heroes of the past. One of the heroes that rates highly in my mind is John Wycliffe. He continued his reforming attempts and particularly began the very significant step of translating and writing out the New Testament in English a radical step as it brought the Gospels close to the ordinary person who could not understand Latin and remove the church which would be the Catholic Church at that time as the interpreter having God's Word available to the public in the language of the common man English would have meant disaster to that church no longer would they control access to the scriptures if people were able to read the Bible in their own tongue the church's income and power would crumble they could not possibly continue to get away with self indulgences which is the forgiveness of sins or selling the release of loved ones from a church manufactured purgatory people would begin to challenge the church's authority if the church were exposed as frauds and thieves the contradictions between what God's Word said and what the priests taught would open the public's eye and the truth would set them free from the grip of fear that the institutional church held salvation through faith not works or donations would be understood the need for priests would vanish through the priesthood of all believers the veneration of church canonized saints and Mary would be called into question the availability of scriptures in English was the biggest threat imaginable to the wicked church neither side would give up without a fight end quotes John Jeffcoat English Bible history as he recounts the history of the Bible through the centuries now when we really consider the idea of a hero or a person to whom we characterize as a hero whether secular or sacred we think of men and women who've denied themselves for a greater cause this cause they saw worth fighting for much to their own detriment much to their own adversity and they may have thought with or without weapons those who go to war for the country do so out of duty and the heroes are not just those who died but those who have stood tall in the face of evil the Christian hero is the person who does not stand out in front of and herald their greatness or absorb the plazas of men rather it is the person who's faithful to Christ irrespective of the dangers they were called to encounter behind all of these feats these harrowing feats and these determinative there actions lies a person an ordinary person like you and I whose love for Christ I'm speaking of Christians as heroes particular Christians to whom Christ was preeminent in their life now may we not seek to be heroes may we just seek to be faithful until the day we breathe our last it is an attitude that has gained much applause respect of others of the heroes of the faith Hebrews chapter 11 we'll deal with that passage tonight here in 1 Corinthians chapter 1 verse 26 for you see your calling brethren how that not many wise men after the flesh not many mighty not many noble are called but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty and base things of the world and things which are despised that God chosen yea and things which are not to bring to not things that are why does he do this the no flesh and glory in his presence but of him are you in Christ Jesus who of God has made unto us wisdom and righteous and sanctification and redemption that according as it is written he that gloria let him glory in the Lord you think about the ones to whom Jesus decided to use as apostles tax fishermen collectors everyday citizens these were not of your upper elites now I understand there was Luke who wrote the book of Luke and he was a very intelligent man it was a doctor Paul an apostle was also very intelligent but overall God would use some fisherman with sometimes some very sour attitudes cranky attitudes he would use a tax collector who was hate noted as being a scoundrel in communities God would use these men to turn the world upside down they weren't some theological pinnacle of excellence the only pinnacle of excellence in their lives would be obedience to Christ but yet while Christ lived they forsook Christ at the moment he most needed them it's not about us it's about Christ you think about Revelation chapter 2 verse 10 as he tells the Church of Smyrna be thou faithful unto death and I will give thee a crown of life first Peter chapter 5 verse 6 humble yourselves therefore into the mighty hand of God that he may exalt you in due time and we still talk about those 12 apostles today Judas we obviously don't talk about in a positive light but we talk about the Apostles in a positive light men who hazard of their life for Jesus Christ and turn the world upside down and you and I might think I could never do anything great for God because it's not about you it's about the God that we worship I want to look at three qualities today of a true biblical hero it's an interesting study may we seek to be devoted not promoted and there are so often times in Christian up does in Christianity pandering a to elevate an individual it's not about elevating an individual it's about elevating Jesus Christ heroes who are heroes those on the battlefield are everyday men and women who answer the call to go to war they go to war they learn all that they need to they go to war and they perish sometimes but they're like every one of us same flesh and blood I trust today that we would seek as verse 31 says he that glory let him glory no Lord let's pray dear only father Lord I love you Lord Jesus I yield the state of thee God I pray that you'd work in my lips my thoughts to preach your word faithfully I pray that we would be found worthy more than pleasing to thee would help us to be an example to others behind us of faithful Christianity it doesn't matter how we started our life doesn't matter all the turmoil of what we've done in our lives but God may we be faithful found faithful into death Lord Jesus I yield this time to thee I thank you for being our gracious Savior in your name I pray amen.
"That's Why You're Single"
"fraud" Discussed on "That's Why You're Single"
"I'm not, I don't want no beef. I'm part of the community. I'm not, you know. Remember I asked you that the other night, remember? I said, remember I asked you that the other night, I was like about the LB, the gay people. LGBTQ plus. Oh, what the fuck? L-G-B-T-Q plus. I mean, there's more letters than that. I didn't know what the fuck. L lesbians, Q, queers, T, something else. Can you say that? Can you say that? Can you say that? Yeah, it's not live TV. No, no, I'm saying that's a real word that you- And that's the community it's called. It's called the L-G-B-T-Q community. I'm gonna tell you one thing. You know how we say, you're part of the black community, you're a part of the white community, you're part of- The black lives matter community? Yeah, yeah, you know how you're part of different communities, whatever? You also fit in the L-G-B-T-Q community. Who fits? Everyone fits in it. How? What'd I do? I don't fit in it. You fit in it as well. Y'all think it just, y'all- What'd I do? What'd you do? I didn't do nothing. Y'all play- You- Everyone fits in it. If you had to play it or not, you'd fit in. There it is. No, look, you said L-G-B-T-Q. L-G-B-T-Q plus. No, I'm the negative part. I'm not into that. Plus. I'm the negative part. I'm not into that. You are a part of it too. You've got a spot in there. No, I'm not. You didn't do nothing. You are a part of the community as well, my friend. I'm 45 years old. Yep, and you're a part- There's not nothing. Yeah, y'all are a part of it. And that plus me, there's more letters of the alphabet in that. Cause each letter has a different spot for different people who are part of it. You know what? That brings the story up. I fucking bought a polo vest that's very colorful. It has yellow and red. Like it's a very colorful vest. It's fire. I spent like $200 on this vest. And this girl said, your vest looks gay. Why do I get that? All right. So to do my- Do they own the rainbow? No. So it is L-G-B-T-Q-Q-I-P-2-S-A-A. That's the way you go. You lost me after L. That's the whole- You lost me. DJ, did you wake up this morning knowing that you was part of that community? You didn't. There's a spot where you were fit. Where is this spot? Where is this letter? It was my- Where is this letter? Yeah, what am I? All right. So it all depends on what you- Where is this letter? What am I? I'm what? There's an actual test that you could go online. No, wait, wait. Wait, wait. There's a test. There's a test. You could go online. What am I? I'm trying to answer the question, damn it. All right, so there's a test you could take online, right? And it's- He don't know. Just say you don't know that. I'm trying to help you. You guys can give me a chance. You're a halfway participant. There's a test you go online, right? Because I even took the test myself, because when- So what letter are you now? I believe they put me under- Yeah, you know. I don't know at this time. He don't know. He's a face affronter. I am not. All right, so I'm going to tell you- He's a face affronter. He's a face affronter. I'm going to open the sex quiz for you. You want to know what? Fine. You want me to take the sex quiz? I'm going to check with this podcast. Nappy is fake. You want to take the sex quiz, TJ? Take the sex quiz. Take the sex quiz. Take a sex quiz? Front alert, front alert. Take the sex quiz. Front alert, front alert. All right, it will tell you if you take the sex quiz. Like, I don't know what I will stand, all right? Nappy is the smallestest person to have- All right, time out, pause. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. You guys are talking about someone who's poly, so I don't fit in so many places. He would kick his own son out. You think? Don't let him dress in here, motherfucker. I never stop kicking out. Get the fuck out of here, bitch. I wouldn't kick out for wearing a dress. That's wrong. I wouldn't do that. No, wait, no. You can't get out, but it's time for us to talk about you getting out. You got a dress on. You didn't stop when you get out. It's time, we got to talk about, it's time for you to start thinking about getting out. Nappy is a fraud. That is what we do. Oh my God. You got this. You got this. Oh, here. Wait, wait, wait, wait. So wait, each letter means something. Yes. So wait, what am I? You got to take the quiz. That's what I'm trying to tell you. What do you? OK, wait, wait. He don't know, man. I don't know. I fit in so many spots. OK, since the first time I took it, I have grown as a person. Nappy, are you happy? No, I am not gay. No, I'm 100% straight. But I do allow certain things in my relationship that would also throw me in there, in that rainbow. All right, so that's the next podcast we're going to talk about now. We're going to get all in your, in your shit. I can't say all of your ass. That might be one of the ladies. But he say he's not happy. So he's not happy Nappy. But I recommend anybody to go on the website, right? Go on sexquiz.com. You know what? You're a bad spokesperson. Because you used to say it was dateyourself.com. You don't know the number to the correlate for the date. It changed so many times. You don't, you don't know what the letter T.J. is. You're supposed to be a spokesperson. I'm not a spokesperson. You don't know, and he's asking you questions. And you telling him to take the quiz. Just take the, you ask, you got to answer your own question by just taking the quiz. Nappy, I can answer the question. It's called no. All right, just take the quiz. It's called no. Take the quiz. Just take, if it's a no, then take the quiz. T.J., you would never know if you, unless you take the quiz.That's why I know, that's why I'm single. This is That's Why You Single Podcast. Pick it up. Nappy, T.J. Take the quiz. T.J. time out. Hope y'all enjoyed yourselves. Call in next week. 475, what's the number, Nappy? 4-7-size. D.J. time out sucks. 4-7-size. Jesus. 475-300-73-76. Nappy is a, well, I'm sorry to expose Nappy on this. First of all, he didn't expose anything. He's just too hard headed. He has his own dick up his own ass. I think he needs to pull it out. But, okay, but I'm definitely not, I'm not happy, Nappy. Yeah, hold on, time out. All right, 4-7-5-300-73-76. We're going live next week and video next week. Oh shit, okay. All right, so make sure you guys get your shit lined up. Do what I'm saying, get your shit from that. Call in, people. Changeourselves.com, Nappy. And we out.
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"And I said, I don't want to do no anal sex. I said, anal sex? I was like... That's gay. That's how buttholes... Wait, let me finish. That's wrong. Dudes got buttholes. And then TJ said... Dudes have mouths. You would let a chick suck your dick. And you say, hey, tie your hair back and handle your business? I didn't have no answer for it. I wanted to fuck TJ up. What's the difference? Definitely, guys. What's the difference? When you go to prison, you learn quick. So that was my Jedi trick on him. You know what I'm saying? That true pull though. I forgot that years ago. Well, I'm saying it to you. Answer your question years ago, man. And then John J had a saying. He was like, leave one alone. Leave one alone, man. What the fuck? All right. But yeah, to answer your question, right? It goes like this. If you are man enough and feel comfortable enough to walk around the way you feel it, right? All right. One thing first is I ain't have no grown ass man live with me. Would you let a grown ass man live with you? 18 is not a grown ass man. I'm saying if your son come around with a certain swagger or a certain demeanor that you feel like, all right, is grown ass man behavior, what would you do? No, like if you say he's being disrespectful or non-respectable. Yeah, but you gotta get the fuck out. You'd be disrespectful to get the fuck out. But as far as I'm not kicking my son out until he, because I left, I left, I was forced out. And I will end up being homeless because it sucks. I wasn't kidding. I wasn't kidding. He was angry. He was angry, y'all. I wasn't kidding. I'm not kicking him out though. I'm saying it's about time for you to look for your own place. When it's time for, I'm letting you know, it's time. So you're going to have to start telling my son, listen, you're going to have to start manning your shit up. You know what I mean? Start finding yourself a good job. Find yourself a good partner. Find yourself, whatever. Man up. It's time for you to man up. Meaning you walking around like you, like you a man, man up. That's part of the girl with me. But if he's wearing dresses and that's not walking around with him. You know what? I was going to say. What are you talking about? You're missing the point. You're missing the point. We're going to change the subject. Y'all are missing it. My mama caught me having a threesome with, my mama caught me having a threesome and she knocked on my door. Hey, Amy, I just wanted to sit down and let you know in a little while. I mean, you're going to have to sit down and have a talk because I think it's about that time for me and you to have that talk for you to move out. I was having a threesome with two bitches in my room. Oh, that was a good question I was going to ask. Because it's not a threesome if it's two guys in one chair. That's a train. I understand that. Yeah, I just, but some people don't. Yeah, but I'm saying I was having a threesome with two girls in my room. My mom knocked. I'm proud of you, Nappy. She knocked.
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"Everything can't be talked about, man. Everything can't be settled and just speak about it and just figure it out and talk about it. There's some shit that's just fucked up and you'd be like, what the fuck? Oh, I know. I know. I know. Listen, my life has been a fucked up roller coaster, but it ain't all sunshine and rainbows, but I know. It ain't all sunshine and rainbows, but I get you. You know what I'm saying? I know my demeanor says it's been sunshine and rainbows, but it hasn't been. I just choose to deal with the things I choose to deal with. Hey, y'all look happy Friday night. Y'all was happy. Y'all look happy. We're happy. We're happy. We're cool. That's why you're single, fam. Give it up to Fanapi. He did his first stand-up stand-up comedy routine. He did a great job. We're proud of him. Come on out. Everybody, come on. That's because he got the baby coming on, so he's doing everything he can to try to make some money. That's a fact. Listen. I'm about to do the trash. Mess around with me. I'm about to be the best drug dealer in the world for a little while. He's trying to take my DJ job. Move time out of there. That nigga trying to do everything. That nigga just told me he's going to the NBA. I am. I'm trying. I've been trying. That nigga 5'3". I'm trying, okay? I'm trying. I still got hoop dreams out here. That nigga just came out the blue. I'm going to do a comedy set. Oh, shit. You're feeling the pressure, huh, Nappy? Not really. You ain't feeling it yet. You ain't feeling it yet. Just for the record, we were talking about gay people and gay stuff. Happy people. It doesn't matter, but okay. Do you know what they do? They got more rights than us. Yes. Nowadays, yes. They have more rights than us. Yes, because of people like y'all. People like y'all together. That's why they got more rights than us? I didn't know that happened. Don't you know they have like, you know, because you know in our profession, we drive them to like camps. Like they have festivals and camps and shit. And all you can do is just say, how did that happen? I almost lost my job one time. I was at work, right? And there was this girl, right? Oh, I didn't know there was a girl at the time. Wait, what? There was this girl, right? It was a girl. First of all, when she started working, I didn't know. Her haircut was better than mine's. Yours. Yours. Her edge up was better than all of ours. So what was your first thoughts when you saw her? When I saw it. Alright. I'm about to ask her where you get a haircut at. Where as Barbara is. Shit, that shit is sharp as hell. Jesus Christ. That shit look good. Fuck. I want her shit to look good. Yeah. Fuck. So, I'm in the lounge sitting there. I'm in the lounge, laying there relaxing. Watching TV. We're on the lounge. There's like a whole bunch of, we're watching TV. And she came, oh, and she, we were on the lounge watching TV. And she came into the lounge and went to the female bathroom. And I was like, I was like, and everybody didn't see that. I was like, no, no, no, no, no. I was like, yo, yo, yo. Cause I didn't know his name. I was like, yo, yo, no, no, no, no. I said, yo, our bathroom's right there. I was like, no, no, no. Oh, yo, no, no. Don't go in there. Don't get in trouble. That's the girl's bathroom. The our bathroom's right there. Don't go, don't do that. And she looked at, well, it looked at me at a time. And everybody else looked at me like, they looked at me like, what the fuck did you say? I'm just like, shit, I'm trying to, I'm just watching fucking criminal violence. Shit, I don't know what you're talking about. And it was like, and I was like, why would y'all, I was like, why would y'all let him go into the bathroom like that? Why would you let him go into the female bathroom? Don't do that. That's wrong. Don't get in trouble. That's not right. And then, he went, it went into the, them. It went into the, them. No, it. Them. Them. Them what? Them, that's their college of pronouns. Them, they. Oh, yeah, yeah. Whatever it was. Them, they. Went, went, went to the bathroom, in the girl's bathroom. And then, the person's ex was like, yo, you know that's a girl, right? I said, what's a girl? Ain't no girl. What's, what's a girl? Them were born a girl. Them, they were probably born a girl. So therefore, they're body parts.
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"My dad says. My dad grew up in church and he grew up in that old church. So for him, it was like, you're going to hell for being X, Y and Z, even though that has nothing to do with it. Can I keep it real? Yeah, keep it real. I'm gonna keep it real. I have a family member that I learned recently that was gay. Why are you talking so long? Oh, you can't? I'm sorry, my phone. Can you hear me now? Yeah. I had a family member that, you know, came out and told me that they was gay. And this was somebody that I helped raise in my life. You know, I helped raise this person. Okay. You know what I mean? And when I found out, real talk, and I'm not even joking around laughing, that shit fucking killed me. That shit hurt my heart. You know what I'm saying? I cried for like two days in a row. They sent me home for crying. I was crying at work and it was like, yo, TJ, go home, relax, man. I was crying. I couldn't, I couldn't breathe. I was crying. Okay, I have a question. What about it hurt so bad? What hurt so bad was that because I helped raise him. I helped raise this person. So I felt like I failed. I felt like I did something wrong. Or you shouldn't think that back. Well, no, no. Back then, no, no. Here's the thing. I've learned, I've learned to accept it. You know what I'm saying? I've learned to accept it and learn to deal with it. But back then, shit, I wanted to die. What now? You kidding me? I don't know. I think if anything, either way, I think differently, this goes for any parent out here. If your children choose to come out and choose to be brave enough to say it, that comes out to you as a parent and installing them confidence. Confidence for them to come out and be and tell you and tell the world that, yo, this is who I am. Don't suppress it. No, no, right? No, no. Cause kids kill themselves for shit like that now. You right. No, absolutely. But the thing is, what I want to say is like, I'm going to just take this like this straight up. Yeah. I ain't nobody. I ain't no knowledge scholar. I ain't nothing. I ain't nobody.
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"First things first, what you are attracted to, right, has nothing to do with your physical appearance. That is something different. But those that are attracted to the same sex, they tend to want to look like the opposite sex. That's something different. You know what I'm trying to say. Alright, for example, there is a So you would not accept if he what would you call him? If he decides to be gay, whereas he says, Dad, I am attracted to men or boys or whatever. Cool. Fine. Be happy. Whatever you do, son, just understand. I want to break it down to him. There are going to be people in this world who aren't going to like you. Like your daddy. You can't wear a dress. That's not what I'm saying. You just said that. Let me explain. There are going to be people who aren't going to like you for two reasons. First of all, you are black. First of all, you are black. He was born black. First things first. He was born black, right? I would assume so. Now you're black and gay. Now that's two hate crimes right there. I want to make sure that he understands that first. So you're going to try to talk him out of it? Not talk him out of it. I'm trying to educate him. And the hopes of talking him out of it? No, no, no. So what's the point then? The point is to educate him so that way he doesn't get hurt. No one wants to see their child get hurt. Nobody wants to see their child get physically injured, harmed. That's not what we come in the world for. Okay, so after he says, okay, I understand the dangers. I still want to come home with my lipstick and purse. First things first. In order for him to even want those things, right? He would have to be exposed to it. He would have to be exposed to those things. If he chose to be gay. No, he does not. Gay is sexual preference. Gay is sexual preference. Your sexual desires. He's telling me, Dad, I don't desire a female. He can say, hey, Dad, I desire that couch. As long as you have it. There are some people who desire like a doll. Like, that is your sexual preference. His sexual preference has nothing to do with you. He says, okay, I desire this couch and I want to come home and wear a wooden dress. Are you up for that? What? Jesus Christ. I want to wear a wooden dress. Jesus Christ. Jesus. I want to try to roll with you, man. I want to try to roll with you. I want to roll with you, man. Jesus, I'm trying to roll with you. Because that would be full of shit. I truly think that that would be full of shit. He's trying to play the lie. I'm not playing the lie. He's trying to tell the lie. I'm trying to show him. For example, there is an artist called by the name Neo, right? What's his name? I think the R &B singer, songwriter. Yeah, that guy, yeah. He has the same same preference as me. If his son wants to be our child wants to be gay, that's fine. But to then come and say I'm changing my gender because you can be straight and say I change his gender but still wants to wear a dress and lipstick and makeup. Makeup and purse. Magic Johnson's son didn't change his gender. He can't come home. He just dresses like a female. First things first, once again. That's Lakers. Lakers, that's Magic Johnson's son. You should know that. Once again, that has nothing to do with his sexual preference. His sexual preference? But those that prefer that sexual preference usually prefer That's not all. So you think Magic Johnson's son wants to bring a girl home or bring me and you home? I don't care. That's not my business. I don't care about that. No, I'm asking you. That's his preference. If his preference, I don't know the son's preference. I don't know. I physically, I'm trying to tell you. I don't know his preference, so I can't tell you because I don't know. He dresses, everything he just said, everything he just said, he walks around with a dress, lipstick, his wardrobe costs more than all of our clothes put together right now. For all you know, he's married to a woman. And what's your point? He's not married to a woman. I'm just saying for all you know, we don't know that man's personal life. That's all I'm saying. We know he likes to fuck dudes. We know that. Okay, then that's just his personal choice. And that's okay. That's his own personal choice. Let me ask you a question, Mappy. What up? You know that song. Would you ride around listening to that Usher song? What? Trading places. Would that be something you would bump around town while you in your car? No. The whole song is... I don't even know what that song is, really. Well, actually, I understand what he's trying to say. Trading places mean instead of... Ain't no single man, ain't no real man going whatever trade places would want. First of all... That's what the song is about? First of all, time to talk. No, he's talking about like on a date or a whole day instead of you doing the flowers and the fucking... I would say that sometimes me and my fiancé had done that. Where is she? I had a girl come... Wait, wait, wait. Is he gay? Is Usher gay? I can't speak about that. That's completely different. He made a song talking about trading places with women who are gay. Well, no. Like you just said. On a date? My wife did that before. She treated me... Nah, but I don't... I think the problem is Walter is homophobic. He don't want to admit it. You say you're homophobic. No, wait, wait. Whoa, whoa. That's what it sounds like.
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"But he's doing female things. Who can't? Because you accept that. You do not have to accept first. That's what the problem with these days with these parents. But because I'm confused, Nappy. You say you open. I'm open to the idea that he is gay. That is... Are you really? Yes. If he's gay and he's happy, I'm gay. So that he should be able to come to your house with a purse and lipstick on. That is something different. No. Why do you need to do your research, my brother? You know what? You need to go to a gay bar one day. No, I don't. And just go out there. No, I don't. So you want to bring a dude there and tuck him down in front of you? That's gay. I'm not saying do all that. I'm just saying be respectful. The same way I would want him to be in front of, if it was a female, in front of me, be the same way if it was a dude. Just be respectful. Now if you guys want to, you know, hang out, go hang out little movie days and hang out, whatever. Just a longer day in your house. Exactly. Because that would be the same thing if it was a female. You would hang out, I could do whatever, go. But you said you accepted. What? That's not really accepting. No, what I'm not accepting is the change. If he wants to change his gender, that's not what I'm okay with. He is changing his gender if he's doing female things. That's his sexual preference. His sexual preference has nothing to do with your gender. So he's saying as long as he didn't chop his dick off. That's what you're saying. Don't try to ever dig off. Alright, so then he should be able to come in the house with a dress on and that's it. It's totally different. He didn't chop his dick off. That's so different. That's what I'm saying. He didn't chop his dick off. Navi, are you confused? You are confused. I'm not confused. I'm trying to explain it to you. Look at his face. He's confused. You guys are confused. The more you talk, the more he gets confused.
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"That's all we wanted to know. Well, listen, happy, happy, happy. Let's get it better. Let's give our eye witness and our guest, Dante, a big round of applause. Thank you for being on. Appreciate it, appreciate it, appreciate it. All right. I'll talk to you tomorrow, man. All right. All right, peace. Take it out, man. All right, peace, peace. All right, so, I just wanted to just get that off my chest, and again, I'm going to play the clip of Ebony and her first experience of going to the same doggone establishment. And you guys understand. And maybe we'll take a trip up there just to see where type of experience. We'll take a trip up there. Go to Bridgeport, next time we'll go up there next time. All right, so, what was the other subject we was going to talk about? My subject that I had, this one was for people, you know how I got myself healing factors for people who were waiting for being in a relationship. So, when you get into a relationship, right, are you supposed to change your whole life routine around? Just because you're in a relationship now? Or, are you going to just go as business as usual, I'll talk to you when we talk to you? Because the way I explain to a friend of mine, who she's just now getting back with this dude, and he tends to be very popular into the community, he's very helpful, he's a hard working man, but the problem is, he seems to never have time to be on the phone, he doesn't have time to talk, because then again, he's just busy, he's a working holic, you know what I mean? So, now her being her, and we've established her part, is that she wants more out of this relationship that she's in because she feels like he doesn't talk to her for three, four days at a time. I'm trying to tell her, it's okay. It is okay if he doesn't talk to her for three or four times, if he's working like he says he is. Okay, I like that. But, that's a little serious right now, I want to talk about something more fun because, TJ is a funny dude, no disrespect now, but we're going to talk about that, but that's just giving me a low right now. You want to hide? I want to hide, because now I'm amped up, my blood is boiling, I finally got somebody on my side, so I want to talk about something that's a little more funny to me, what? Not funny, like hot, like, what is it? This is so good, it's funny, I don't know. I don't know what you're talking about. We're going to talk about, uh, yeah. Well, I don't know what you're talking about. We're going to talk about happy people. What? So you're talking to the wrong person, you're talking to Nappy's happy. What's good? What's happy? Nappy's happy. Nappy ain't the happy that I'm talking about. Nappy's happy. He ain't that happy. You're talking about happy as in, like, just stupidly crazy happy, like, everything they do. Nah, that ain't the happy I'm talking about. What kind of happy? You know what kind of happy I'm talking about. No, we don't know. Are you talking about high happy? Are you talking about low happy? What kind of happy you are? Happy people.
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"No. No. All right. Now, can I tell y'all where y'all went wrong in this whole situation? First of all, you went to a black business. Okay? First of all, a black business, everybody knows it's usually a startup. It's never just a straight establishment. It's been there over a year. Okay. They still trying to get the rep up. You got to bring the rep up. They got to give them some credit. You know what I mean? We supposed to support our black, fellow black and white people. I tried to support them. We supposed to support our fellow black and white people. What are you talking about? Black and white people. The people who was half black, half white. Oh. You got to support them too. They part of the culture. This is because the other half isn't a little too far from the left field. We ain't going to talk about them right now. But my point is, you got to let them, right? Have their time. You know what I mean? The shipment didn't come in. It's Sunday. First of all, we got to give them some credit. Who ordered food on a Sunday? You ain't got a grandmama, an auntie, an uncle house you can go to. You black. You supposed to be over there. This is not the 80s or 70s. This is the two down. Y'all ladies don't know how to cook. You stood there and go to my grandmama's house this time. What you mean? Grandma at her party or not? Grandma is young these days. What are you talking about? Grandma 45. She had brunch. Grandma at the club. Yeah. She had brunch. She had a fucking day. I didn't do that. She had a date party somewhere. I'm just saying. That's where you were wrong. Okay. My boy, Dante. Yeah. I didn't tell you I was going to get on you live on here, but next time I store him out, man, follow soup, man. Nah. You act like you was Jesse Jackson, man. Nah. Nah. Nah. Just because you out here talking about, I'm going to shoot everybody in the club, now I got to roll with you? No. You did the right thing. Jessica, he ain't going to do that. He's a fucking idiot. He's got the right to be mad. Don't mean you got to be mad with him. TJ. You agree with that? Dante don't even agree with that. I think there was type of scenario though. That's a different type of scenario right there. So, all right Dante, if it was you, that said, forget this, give you my money back and store him now. Would you expect me to walk out with you? Hell no. Yeah. And then I, and then I ain't going to sit down. Look at it now. Look at it now. I'll probably would. Yeah. And then they, they eating on the front. They eatin' this shit, talkin' about this shit good. It was worth the wait. All right, wait, wait, here's a question. Nappy, let me ask you this. What up? We in the club together, right? Yeah. You and you came together. Yeah. Right? Mm-hmm. You get into it with some girl. Mm-hmm. And her man come until you wanna fight, and he got three dudes with him. Mm-hmm. We came together. Mm-hmm. You expect me to be right there to help you fight, right? No, I don't expect it. But if you wanna be a homie and get involved with me, I ain't gonna be that at it. But wait, wait, wait. I'm not expecting it. But ain't that my job? No, that is not your job. So what would you do in that situation? So you would leave me. You would leave him. No, I would sit there and be like, homie, I will give you my proper advice. Bro, this bitch. You give me advice? I give you proper advice, I be like, come on, let's just walk away. Let's just walk away. You give me advice? Watch out for the poo. Look, don't, don't be mad. He's coming with a bat, TJ. He's coming with a bat. Nah, it'd be like, yo, I would be a responsible friend and be like, yo, dog, it ain't working. Let's just walk out. What's to be the bigger person? Let's bounce. I'd expect my friends to be like, listen, the numbers are not against us. Let's just, let's just fit. Duck, TJ. Duck. You're like, I'm the duck. I'm not saying that, I'm just saying. You're the one that way. I'm just saying, we both have everything. Look for the exit, TJ. Take the blood out your eye. Look for the exit. We over here. We over here, TJ. You see the sign? You see the sign? Come this way. Throw the keys to the corner. TJ, throw the keys. Wait, when you came together, me and you came together. I'm saying, yo, and that's the choice. I'd be like, bro, it's not even worth it. Not leave you, not leave you. I'll give you a tap. Oh, you wouldn't talk to the guys. No, I would tap you and say, look, let's just go. I would like tap you on the shoulder. I would grab you and be like, listen, it's not even worth it. Let's just go. Let's just go. Oh, wow, you in the headlock. Remember, I got four dudes in there. We're the cutest. First of all, even before you're after that situation. Hey, TJ, let's go. Leave this girl alone. Before we even got to that situation, I would have just told you, like, wait, let's go. Let's just go. This is his problem. He think he could talk everything out. Nigga, you ain't dealt. You know what? I just figured it out, TJ. You, on your upbringing, you ain't dealt with enough niggas in your life. No, that's not what it's OK. He was in Norgata. Niggas don't negotiate. You niggas don't. No, no, no. The niggas just fight. First of all, I was worried about trying to go to jail for saying the wrong word. We're trying to negotiate, while we just beat the fuck up. I'm like, yeah, nothing. Yes, sir. No, sir. I did not say that. Yes, sir. I did not say nothing to that crap. You're wrong with you, Navi. Ain't that wrong? I'm sorry. Yo, Navi, let me ask you something. My upbringing was mostly, let me tell you what my upbringing was, right? My upbringing was mostly this. It was mostly, no, sir, I did not talk to that cracker. No, sir, no, sir, I didn't look you in the eye. No, sir, I'm right here. I'm a good working student. Yes, sirree. That's my whole upbringing. Y'all talking about, we ready to rumble, we ready to fight, y'all can say things and pop off some type of way. I couldn't, I wasn't allowed to. I wasn't allowed to. Wait, let me ask you this. Have you ever been in a fight, Navi? Yes. Has anybody ever walked, punched you in the face? No one has physically walked up to me. But there was a physical altercation when I moved to Water Bay. You ever been jumped? You ever been thrown to the ground and just got thrown? No, I've never been jumped. It's always been a one on one fist fight. Always been a one on one. Oh, you've never been jumped before? Never been jumped. He doesn't know getting drunk etiquette and the strategy. He don't understand niggerisms. No, he's from Noggin's Club. You're in the club right now. We in the club. Right. School him. We're in the club. I'm talking to this chick. She come up, her man come up, man has some trouble doing it. First of all, that's a simple- That happened to us. My thing is, to me, that's my bad partner. I didn't know she was taken. I'm going to fall back. And that's it. It's not worth it. And it's just that simple? It's not worth it. Oh, I'm sorry, sir. I didn't know what you drove. Have a good day. And walk away. That's how it goes. Because you don't know what he's- Salutations to you, sir. Hey, in my mind, you don't know what he got.
"That's Why You're Single"
"fraud" Discussed on "That's Why You're Single"
"A man with sensitivity and that's not me Nigga why you gotta fuck up a good song with your negativity? Why you gotta fucking be happy all the fucking time? Maybe because I'm in a relationship? And maybe that's why you sing with it So TJ I wanna discuss something with you real quick man While man he finishes his damn lunch He ain't fucking offering nobody nothing So something happened to me today speaking of eating I went to a black business today And I'm gonna play the clip for you of Ebony And her experience, me and her experience to this restaurant What was the name of that spot? Fucking Delight Well there's nothing delightful about that shit right now man I ain't coming up this way no time soon The oatmeal, I mean isn't that serious I'm telling you man I'm fucking telling you Yes and the way they set that shit up They set that shit like I ain't the first one to come in here asking for that shit My thing is see me business wise I'm thinking about so much money walking out the door So my thing would be if they didn't have it to offer I should have received a 10% coupon off my next order Cause that's an inconvenience for me I'm coming out my way You see how highly I was speaking of this shit So for me to not have it I feel like a fool I feel like y'all fraudulent I feel like the shit somebody should use their food stand cart Go get the fucking oatmeal with the creamer to make the fucking peach cobbler It's unacceptable That shit is, you don't understand that shit is so fucking unprofessional That's why I fuck with the white people when it comes to food It's unprofessional Time would have been like we're cooking it right now We're making it hot, sorry, sorry At your run out in the back They ain't had no other oatmeal you could have had? No! Motherfuckers look like they ain't even served their oats today period It's unacceptable And I couldn't even make a big deal of it You know why Walt? Cause I would have looked at it Cause it's old bill deal I would have looked at it ignorant But my thing is We did But the thing is Hey Walt look at us In a professional business Soon as I walked in that door it should have been good morning how are you today Just want to let you guys know we not serving people Let us know what you're not serving There's no reason somebody should be walking there and getting their hopes up For something else that you're not serving And you're not making it a weird to the customer But why I couldn't get mine? Fuck that shit Fuck, fuck my life Why you make me leave? They ain't get none of this money They ain't get none of this first I could have got some fish and grits I didn't want no damn peach cobbler oatmeal Fuck them fish and grits I could have got some Fuck them fish and grits Walt I only got to save your fucking life Fuck them fish and grits How can I sit down and let you You see how everybody looking at us Fuck them When you said You made me look like a herb too man You ain't ordering nothing Like I ain't no man You are a man Walt You want to order fish right They would be like Oh we just served our last grits When the fuck was y'all gonna say nothing? Now my boy want fish and grits And ain't nobody say nothing He don't want no fish Stay away Like you get It's just the black community It's just It's just like We just We've learned so much But we're still lost You know We want our own shit But we still don't know how to manage our own shit Remember in life The movie It's like I don't wear no carpet What I don't wear no oatmeal What Nigga when you said on something What you said on it I get ready Like I didn't have a plan B I was speaking Like oh shit Like Then you hit me with the fuck That a safe setting Fuck it's a go What This bitch gonna greet me with the Oh well got that today I said is you playing right now? That should have been the first thing from my home home If I was to go apply then I'm taking everybody's out Cause you know why Nigga I'm keeping that shit in books Listen listen We do not have this today I don't want you guys to try to order it And not be aware of it We're not serving it today But is there anything else I can get you He need to have fucking A coupon ready Ten percent off Ready Two or three dollars off It goes a long way That means you have the opportunity For that person to come back I'm not coming back to this shit Cause of no oatmeal Cause of the oatmeal It's the principle of the situation If I go to another part of the town And it's a white owned business They're gonna have fucking oatmeal Probably eight different flavors of fucking oatmeal Why don't you have one of your best selling things Available Think of the money walking out the door If you wouldn't let twenty dollars Walk out the door With a twenty dollar bill Fly out the door With a door open Why would you let me Walk out the door With twenty dollars Why would you let me My twenty dollars Plus your twenty-three dollars Fifty dollars Just walked out the door And a tip And it's weird because the girl That didn't serve my friend that day She was multitasking doing other things She forgot to check on us To see if we gonna have our food So her first reaction was She's pissed now Cause she's not getting the tip The order she put in Got canceled So now she's like fuck Nigga that's you baby Stick to what you know And it ain't multitasking Just take it It's bucking these tables Not multitasking You can't be a register Can't be a server And you can't be fucking trying to greet people And forget about the people you sit in It's just unprofessional Now she had a horrible experience But I didn't understand why she was so upset Until we left And until I went back today And the same thing gonna kinda happen to me So my whole point is We black businesses We gotta do better in the service department So the reason I got an eye witness on the phone Because you and Nappy always talking about I'm always mad I'm always angry I overreact Yada yada yada So I got an eye witness On the phone You just need some pussy But we ain't gonna talk about that Shut up Nappy Alright I got an eye witness on the phone Eye witness Say what's up to the people My man Dante Yeah what's going on Alright Yo Dante What up man Yup Alright so I got you on the phone Because you were an eye witness Of what happened today You know what I'm saying And I want you to tell the story And tell them my reaction And how I handled the situation Probably because we ain't gonna talk about that Alright so This the business you can steal up So morning we was going on the bus Whatever the case may be We was going to try this little place called Is it called the light? Alright cool So this is my first time This is my first time growing here Now Based on my First My first What I wanna say My first experience now I know the order ahead of time now If I'm ever gonna order from here again So we went there this morning And We just happened to go there On our second humbug of a choice So we went there You know we ordered our little food Whatever the case may be We sitting down So I'm a DJ time out Sitting down Whatever the case may be And one of the One of the What was it One of the Employees gets up and say Yeah well Can you mind moving over here Because The people that are dying Ain't gotta sit right there So he moves up You wanna see Okay Boom Whatever the case may be Now he like Alright Did you Did you actually get money back After that situation right there? Turn it on again? Did you actually get money back After that first incident Or the second incident? Hold on You know how you got up again You know how you got up again Yeah no Not at that point Tell them tell them So the first time Like you said The first time Like you said Yeah They didn't even tell They didn't even tell him At first Not to even sit there They just told him They told him to get up Because The people Were gonna be dining there So They gotta be sitting there So they made him get up And he was like Alright cool whatever Alright so stop there Stop there Dante Stop there Stop there So to recap Cause TJ Say he couldn't hear you So TJ What my man said Was we went to a restaurant Okay But you forgot this Dante First They didn't have what I wanted They Oh yeah They didn't have the beef They didn't have the beef bacon Yeah So I wanted to steak Egg and cheese With the beef bacon Not everybody has beef bacon I don't eat pork Yeah So I was very excited TJ I was my mouth was salivating For this fucking beef bacon So I order And I pay And they say Oh I forgot We don't have the beef So I was mad Damn Okay And like he said After that I ordered my food And I sat down And what happened After I sat down Dante Tell him The second time again No The first time The first time What happened After I sat down After I ordered my food Just recap Tell him again After you sat down I ordered your food Yeah After I ordered And then I sat down What happened Uh They told you to get up They told you to get up Because the other people Were gonna be sitting down there To eat your food I guess Right So stop there So to recap TJ Are you listening I'm listening Okay So I sat down After I ordered my food I sat down To wait For my food To be prepared Jesus Not cooked I was waiting for my food To be prepared Right So As I'm sitting there One of the employees Comes up to me And asks me to move Because there were people Trying to sit down and eat After I was sitting there For ten minutes already I say eight minutes So I got mad I agree Would you like Would you be Your reaction first To that Me? Yeah Alright first thing I would Me personally I would Oh First thing You're the wrong color No this is a black restaurant That don't mean nothing Cash rules Alright I had cash They didn't know that I paid for my food They knew that Listen What Cash rules Alright So would have you been mad When somebody came You would sit down I would be pissed Okay Absolutely So you're on my side I'm on your side I would be pissed Okay I would be mad Okay So then Dante You stood there right I witnessed I witnessed Dante You stood there right Yup Alright So What did I do After they asked me To move my seat After I got comfortable I think I had Tied my shoes and everything I was getting comfortable Alright So did you ask for your money Back after that No That's it You're going too far Alright You moved to another table I moved To another table T.J And Nappy I moved To another table Was I Was I rude When I moved Dante Huh Was I rude Rude When I moved My seat Nah nah nah nah I made sense I made sense I just asked them If I move Would it make my food Come quicker You know Yeah quite You wanted them You wanted them You wanted them To spit in there So yeah I just asked them Will this make My food Come quicker Food come faster Yeah yeah But I moved my seat Right Dante I moved Nappy are you listening I moved my seat Okay And then Dante After I moved my seat And I was sitting next to you Yeah And I was sitting next to you For how long Dante And then what happened Not that long Like probably a couple more minutes And they told us They told both of us To get up again Yeah Wait wait Here's my question Do you Not understand You're the wrong color Everywhere you go This is It don't matter It don't matter where you go You can be Sitting next to Obama But they made me move They made me move For other Black people Maybe they look Maybe they dress better Or something I don't know Well fuck that shit So Wait wait Wait Maybe they dress better So look Let's recap Let's recap Little play by play Not only do they not have my beef bacon That I'll salivate you for That you wouldn't That I wouldn't I'll salivate you for that shit Alright Then two I go sit down Wait For my food to be prepared And you ask me to get up For these Two Ugly Little They look like nappy What you trying to say Wait Wait What about balls What you trying to say Wait No Wait Wait No Young Young Young in love Motherfuckers Couple and shit You know what I'm saying Three lonely couples On a date Trying to get their game On a fucking date I don't give a fuck So Then I move to another table Five minutes later They ask me to get up again And this time It ain't no other seats So what did I do Dante? What was my reaction Dante? Ah shit Alright so now at this point You asking your money back You should have Did you hear him? Did you hear him TJ? No Wait I'm trying to hear him Wait What you saying? Say it again What? What are you doing? The nigga asked me to move again man Alright Uh TJ back in the day What would have I mean I would have I would have gave it to them man They would have I would have Back in the day We'd be in jail We'd have to go to jail Y'all would have been calling You did it The bell be out We'd be in jail We'd be in jail We'd have to go to jail So Alright Yeah yeah but again Come on y'all We gotta go get walked That nigga locked up Come on man You got to start GoFundMe for Walt How much you got? I got ten You got fifteen You got thirty Jesus Christ Alright so It's seventeen It's seventeen hundred You got three You see I got five Shit Yo So what I'm saying is now So look alright What did I do Dante After the second time they asked me to get up What did I do? Ask for your money back I asked for my money back I said I want my money back I'm not patronizing you You know what I respect that Get my money I'll respect that No I'll respect that And I left Me I respect that And me and the other two people I was with No I left The other two people included my eye witness And I got a bone to pick with you Dante Next time I leave a place I storm out an establishment Or I ask for my money and I leave You need to come with me man He didn't leave with you? Whoa Whoa He didn't leave with you? No Him and the girl Stayed and got their food I stormed out With my money And I turned around They were there with me And they still was in there saying eat Okay wait wait wait Just for the record Yeah Alright I don't know you Dante I don't know Dante I don't know you But if Me And Walk And Our team is sitting somewhere And he get up and get mad And leave We all get up and leave together Yeah I was thinking the same thing I was thinking the same thing Huh? What's that Dante? You definitely should have left You should have left You're damn right I love you so you wouldn't tell me because you left Hold on Dante They really would have been mad Because they would have made that food for nothing Right And they would have felt me So I told them I went back to the vehicle we were in And it was raining earlier And I parked We parked like maybe a block and a half away So me being a little older I would have the petty thoughts I should make they asses walk To the winning condition You were driving? Yeah I left them right there You left them I left them right there Alright No And me and you together Right Are you mad about something? Yeah Even if I'm not mad I got to get in and leave I got to leave I got to go too That's what Ebony did She made me leave Man y'all gonna hear it on the clip when I play She made me leave And I wanted something to eat And I didn't understand why she was forcing me to leave Until now Until I turned around And I saw Judas and uh And the female Judas sitting there waiting for their food I told her I got on her I was so mad at them I said man y'all couldn't hang with Martin Looked the king back in the day Yeah I don't Nah I don't Hmm nah Alright now I'll rock like that Now can I tell y'all where y'all went wrong in this whole situation First of all you went to a black business Okay First of all a black business Everybody knows it's usually a start up It's never just a straight establishment It's been there over a year Okay they still trying to get the rep up You gotta give them that credit They may even get two years They gotta give them Gotta give them some credit You know what I mean We supposed to support our black fellow black and white people I tried to support them We supposed to support our fellow black and white people What are you talking about black and white people The people who is half black half white Oh You gotta support them too They a part of the culture Cause the other half isn't you know A little too far for the left people We ain't gonna talk about them right now But my point is You gotta let them Right Half they time You know what I mean The shipment didn't come in It's Sunday First of all Who ordered food on a Sunday Everybody You ain't got a grandmama An auntie An uncle How she gonna go You black You supposed to be over there This is not the 80's Or something This is the 70's This is the Too down Y'all niggas don't know how to cook You sit there Go to my grandmama house at this time What you mean Grandma at our party or not Grandma is young these days What you talking about Grandma 45 She have fun She have She have brunch Grandma at the club Yeah she have brunch She have fucking day Had a day party somewhere I'm just saying So That's where you were wrong Okay so My boy My Dante Yeah I just I didn't have any I didn't tell you I was gonna get on you live on here but you know next time I storm out Man follow suit man Nah You act like you Jesse Jackson man Nah Nah So just because you out here talking about I'm gonna shoot everybody in the club Now I gotta roll with you No You did the right thing Jessica he mad Don't mean you gotta be mad with him TJ you agree with that Dante don't even agree with that I think there were types of scenarios So alright Dante If it was you That said forget this Give me my money back And storm down Would you expect me to walk out with you Hell no Yeah Yeah And then I And then I Looking at it now Looking at it now I probably would Yeah And then they They eating on the They eating and shit Talking about this shit good It was worth the wait Alright Wait wait Here's a question Nappy let me ask you this What up We in the club together right Yeah I mean you came together Yeah Right Mmhmm You get into it with some girl Mmhmm And her man come until you wanna fight And he got three dudes with him Mmhmm We came together Mmhmm You expect me to be right there to have you fight right No I don't expect it But if you wanna be a homie and get involved with me I ain't gonna be bad at it But wait wait I'm not expecting it But ain't that my job No That is not your job Yeah What would you do in that situation So you would leave me You would leave him Nah I would sit there and be like homie I will give you my proper advice Bro You're giving me advice Do you want me to give my advice I'd be like hold on just walk away Let's just walk away You give me advice Watch out for the poop He's coming with a bat T.J.
"That's Why You're Single"
"fraud" Discussed on "That's Why You're Single"
"Whoa. Whoa. He didn't leave with you? No. Him and the girl stayed and got their food. I stormed out with my money and I turned around. They were there with you. Oh, wait, wait, wait. And they still was in there saying, eat. OK, wait, wait, wait. Just for the record. Yeah. All right. I don't know you, Dante. I don't know Dante. I don't know you. But if me and Walt and our team is sitting somewhere and he get up and get mad and leave, we all get up and leave together. All right. I was thinking the same thing. I was thinking the same thing. Huh? What's that, Dante? You definitely should have left. You should have left. You're damn right I should have left. Yeah, you should have left. You said you wouldn't tell me because you left. Hold on. Dante. They really would have been mad because they would have made that food for nothing. Right. And they would have felt me. So I told them. I went back to the vehicle we were in. And it was raining earlier. And I parked. We parked like maybe a block and a half away. So me being a little older, I would have the petty thoughts. I should make they asses walk to the winning condition. You was driving? Yeah. I left them right there. You left them. I left them right there. All right. No. No. It's me and you together. Right. Are you mad about something? Yeah. Even if I'm not mad, I got to give it and leave. I got to leave. I got to go too. That's what Ebony did. She made me leave. And y'all going to hear it on the clip when I play. She made me leave. And I wanted something to eat. And I didn't understand why she was forcing me to leave until now, until I turned around and I saw Judas and a female Judas sitting there waiting for their food. I told her. I got a little. I was so mad at them. I said, man, y'all couldn't hang with Martin Luther King back in the day.
The Breakdown
A highlight from Markets Surge as BlackRock Files ETH Spot ETF
"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 Friday, November 10th, and today we are talking about BlackRock's Ethereum ETF filing. 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, happy Friday. Before we dive in, I just have to give you a little bit of information about the show and the weekend. Unfortunately, this show is going to be a little bit shorter than normal and there will be no weekend episodes. Late last night, I started having to deal with an unexpected family situation that has wanted to round out the bullish end to this week and really capstone our shift away from the SAM -based world of last year and face forward into what's coming next. With that in mind, on Thursday morning, news broke that BlackRock had registered an entity called the iShares Ethereum Trust in Delaware. Although representatives for BlackRock refused to comment, the filing appeared legitimate. It named the Managing Director of BlackRock Advisors as the filing agent. There was initially some skepticism at first and people not sure if it was rumors, but suspicions were confirmed in the afternoon after markets closed when it was revealed that BlackRock had filed to launch a spot Ethereum ETF. Now this is not the first spot Ethereum ETF to be filed. A few months after the flurry of spot Bitcoin ETF filings in June, asset managers doubled down on crypto products with matching Ethereum filings. VanEck, ARK Invest slash 21 shares, Hashdex and Invesco slash Galaxy Digital all have applications awaiting approval. There's also a conversion application for Grayscale's Ethereum Trust filed with the SEC. The difference with BlackRock's application is, of course, that they are BlackRock. They are an order of magnitude at least larger than the other asset managers. And of course, what that means, at least according to the markets, is that these ETF applications are not merely speculative but actually stand a good chance of being approved. BlackRock's track record speaks for itself. The firm has filed over 570 ETF applications with the SEC and all but one of them have been approved. Now the rationale for the legality of a spot Ethereum ETF is the same across all of the current applications. Following the Grayscale court decision, it seems that the approval of spot Bitcoin ETFs is almost assured to happen. The court found that there was no material difference between spot Bitcoin markets and futures markets. As the SEC had already approved futures based Bitcoin ETFs, they had no reason to deny spot based products. Ethereum futures markets have grown massively over the past few years, achieving a similar size to Bitcoin futures in 2021 when those ETFs were approved. Partly due to this increase in market size, a large number of asset managers were able to launch futures based Ethereum ETFs last month. So then, using the same logic that was deployed in the Grayscale lawsuit, Ethereum spot markets are obviously tied to futures markets. This would dictate that spot based Ethereum ETFs should be approved to trade alongside their futures based counterparts. Nate Grassi, the president of the ETF store, put it more succinctly in a tweet. Grayscale Courtwin plus SEC approval of Ether futures ETFs should equal spot Ether ETF approval. Now BlackRock pointed to this argument specifically in their filing, stating that, quote, given that the SEC has approved ETFs that offer exposure to ETH futures, which themselves are priced based on the underlying spot ETH market, the sponsor believes that the SEC must also approve ETPs that offer exposure to spot ETH, end quote. Now, if the BlackRock application is approved, it will include a market surveillance agreement with Coinbase to monitor spot markets for manipulation. BlackRock also leaned on existing surveillance sharing agreements with the CME Ethereum futures market that are present in the other products. They wrote in their filing, Ether CME surveillance can detect spot market fraud that affects both futures ETFs and spot exchange traded products, or that surveillance cannot do so for either type of product. Having approved ETH futures ETFs in part on the basis of such surveillance, the SEC has can detect spot market fraud that would affect spot ETPs, and the sponsor thus believes that it must also approve spot ETH ETPs on that basis.
Tech Path Crypto
A highlight from Gary Gensler Wants To Relaunch FTX | SEC vs Crypto
"All right, so a lot happening this week, and today is no different. Gary Gensler is on the Warpath, we're going to be talking about that, and also breaking into what's happening with Bitcoin and some of the markets. We'll get into all that good stuff for you guys today. My name is Paul Bearer. Welcome back to Tech Path. Before we get started, I want to take a moment and thank our sponsor. On November 14th and 15th, Human Protocol is hosting Nukeonomics 2023 in Lisbon to discuss the impact of AI and Web3 on the world and the economy of tomorrow. Make sure and use our promo code PB50 for 50 % off. Nukeonomics is planned to set to explore the future of Web3 with thought leaders around the world. Cool thing, across the program, they're going to be doing a full kickoff. On starting the event, you'll be able to get access to new speakers. They're going to discuss the impact of blockchain and creating human -centric economies and the future of crypto. They'll also have this thing called the L -Room, which is going to be a startup pitch, so make sure and check that out. And then the following day, you'll be able to go to what they call the LX Mainstage, and all of that is going to be where we'll see Web3 in music, along with AI and other influences in digital media. Some of the guest speakers include Sam Weeks from Google, Erica Wykes -Snade from Adidas, Cyrus Faisal from Swisborg, and Javier Garcia de la Torre from Binance. Make sure and check them all out. Don't forget to use our code down below. We'll leave a link. All right, so let's break into it today. Let's go over to the first tweet. This is the Kobayisi letter just in. Market cap of Bitcoin officially rises above $750 billion for the first time since April 2022. I want to zoom in on that for you guys a little bit. The entire crypto space is nearing $1 .5 trillion market cap. That's nice to see, $1 .5 trillion. First time nearly two years that we've seen this. Bitcoin prices are now 35 % over the last month, 120 % on the year. I want you to take a moment for all you guys out there that are buying in Bitcoin, have been buying maybe since the beginning of the year. You're 120 % up. How do you say that to people when you look at that? I'm just kind of curious. How do you play it? And also, what tokens are you playing right now? Make sure and leave some comments down below. Smash the like button if you guys like breakdowns like this. Let us know. These are the kind of things. So we'll kind of guide you along here. But the resilience of crypto is incredible. The statement here, can't really deny what's happening out there. You guys are in the right place at the right time. The cool thing is, is when you like this video, it's going to share it to others who will start to learn what's happening out there in crypto as a whole. A couple of posts here. I want to go to Scott Johnson. And it looks like we've got some confirmation. One with a hard timeline, so almost certainly decided along with other open apps, the most likely outcome, US SEC said open talks with Grayscale on the spot Bitcoin ETF push is underway. So this came in further on him and he said, my guess is Grayscale is one of the two positions they received assurances that they will receive a new order, X number of days alongside the open apps. And then they have not received assurances, maybe demanding a new order. Kind of curious which one you think would be the case. Will Grayscale be aligned with the rest because with this alignment of discussions happening, you get back into the scenario of, yes, ETF is going to start positioning and maybe that's the opportunity. Now, the real question is how does Bitcoin respond once an ETF does come through? Pentoshi kind of hits on a couple of points here. A lot of people argue that Bitcoin ETF is going to be sell the news. Yes, some pricing is going on, but we have no idea what the demand will be and there will be some to start. Sure, illiquid supply is at an all -time high. That's one thing. A lot of Bitcoin is now in diamond handlers. Yes, we know that. And then don't pretend you know what's going to happen. I agree. I don't think anybody really knows for sure. You can assume, I think with some reason, that there's going to be some demand movement. But the biggest point, I think, is a little bit of a ephemeral approach to it. And what I mean by that is that when BlackRock comes into the space, if BlackRock is the one that, say, leads the way out, maybe there will be another winner here. Could be ARK, could be Fidelity. Whoever wins that marketing war, I think that's the point in which traditional investors will start to question their resolve around crypto. And when that happens, there will be a tipping point and I think that's the point in which a lot of this is going to start to peak. Now, maybe the timing is going to be perfect too because you've got, obviously, next year we've got the halving occurring. Hopefully we're out of what could be a recession. Hopefully we're out of these conflicts and other things are starting to settle. We'll talk about that in a second. Here's Will Quamente. He kind of jumps in on this. It's pretty obvious that if BlackRock is filing an ETH ETF, then the Bitcoin ETF must be a dumb deal. I don't know if it's a done deal, but this is interesting that they bring this up front. Now, granted, they may have enough indicators there that this is going to happen and they don't want to be left behind in the sense of a strategy around an ETH ETF. I just had James Saferd on. He and I had kind of been going back and forth. First time I had James on, he mentioned to us and we asked him straight blank, what about an ETH ETF? He wasn't really a fan of that, but he's changed his position. So I think that he, along with other Wall Streeters out there, are in a position now that ETH is going to make it through as an ETF. Here's John Deaton. Although I believe a spot ETF, Bitcoin ETF, should have been approved a long time ago, I believe the timing of a spot ETF approval is going to help create a perfect storm for Bitcoin. Whether you look at, you know, Wall Street getting what they want or you know what's happening overall, what he talks about here is we all know no matter what happens in the not too distant future, second and third quarter, rate cuts going to happen combined with rate cuts. This is my point is that you're going to get into some scenarios for 2024 where the cycle starts to feed upon itself. Rate cuts, the market looking at a much more structured capital alignment with an asset class that has now maybe come of age, along with all the technical components of what's happening with Bitcoin, and then what I think will be an absolute barnstorm of what's going to happen in Web3. That's going to include all the traditional tokens that we talk about here all the time, including, you know, ETH, AVAC, SOL, and many others in the Web3 ecosystem. So a lot definitely kind of lining up here for good news. SEC Chair Gensler says rebooted FTX is maybe a possibility if it's done within the law. All right. So this I would tread on very, very lightly in the sense that I think the brand damage has been done. I just cannot imagine, it would take maybe years to get way past where we are today. Any of the people that know about crypto today are going to most likely be feeding into the crypto investors of the future, and what I mean by the future, the next two to three years. FTX is still going to be a memory that's not one that's easy forgotten. And I think because of that, just the brand ethos that FTX pretty much imposed itself on the industry, I don't think is going to be forgotten. So I think it's going to be a scenario. They will not be overcoming it. And the thing that, you know, Gensler might be trying to do here is maybe just set it up for failure so he can do what I told you at some moment. I don't know. But I would not. Why? Go that route. Why would you bring that sore back up into the industry when there's so many great projects out there and great exchanges and places where you can do things, including all these new entities? I just don't know. I'm not sure. Let's listen to a clip right here. This is Brad Garment House. He's talking about FTX. Listen in. I've spoken with a lot of Democratic lawmakers, crypto skeptics about this, and they cite fraud often, that a lot of people are defrauded through crypto scams. How much more work needs to be done to push back against that kind of narrative? The fraud FTX wasn't a crypto fraud. I mean, yes, it was a fraud. Maybe if Gary Gensler and the SEC weren't so focused on going after Ripple and meeting openly with Sam Bankman -Fried, maybe we could have actually avoided some of that, right? Marty bracing myself for when I go check Twitter after this to see everything the XRP army had to say about this conversation. All right. So you can kind of see maybe with Brad Garment House, obviously I'm trying to take this to the Supreme Court, will maybe adjust his opinion of how they negotiate with the SEC. And maybe that's what he's talking about there. It would be interesting if that actually occurred. Maybe there is something that could be done and salvaged between that relationship. I don't know. I want to go over to another clip here. This gets into Garment House talking about Coinbase and what their current status is. Listen in. I followed the Coinbase case a little more closely. And so maybe I can comment there a little bit more. You know, the SEC is not trending well there. And again, if at some point you would think if you keep getting losses, you would say, okay, wait a minute, let's step back, let's reevaluate. Or even better, let's be part of championing a legislative solution. Well, you say you're hopeful that something happens legislatively, but ultimately the way things are going right now, do you think more clarity is likely to come from Congress or is it just going to continue to come from the courts and the judicial branch? I think that's a question for Chair Gensler.
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"Dive deep into the blockchain realm with The Protocol Podcast with Coindesk founding editor of The Protocol newsletter Brad Count and tech journalists Sam Kessler and Margo Nykerk. They unravel the intricate technologies powering cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum one block at a time. Just a reminder, Coindesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. Hello and welcome to The Protocol Podcast. I'm Brad Count here with my co -hosts Margo Nykerk and Sam Kessler. Please first don't forget to subscribe to our weekly newsletter The Protocol on Coindesk .com. And real quick, let's just take a second. We've got Sam Kessler here. He's actually missed a couple of our recordings over the past few weeks because he was down covering the Sam Bankman free trial, which is a story that Coindesk owns. Or we did break the story that led to the ultimate collapse of his business empire. Sam, you've been down at this trial and just like getting up at what, like 3 a .m. to get in line to get in the courtroom. Tell us what has it been like covering that trial? Yeah, it was a crazy experience. I'm glad to kind of be back to my normal life. Like you said, some days you had to wake up as early as 3 a .m. Somebody showed up at 10 p .m. the previous evening once to see Sam testify. I was not that crazy. I can only do that a few times the early day. But anyway, overall, it was a pretty insane experience. And yesterday we did sort of a panel with Coindesk reporters, four of the five Coindesk reporters who have covered this throughout the month long run of the trial to hear from members of the crypto community about questions they had and reflections on what was going on. And one of the questions that we received was around whether this trial was, in fact, the indictment of the cryptocurrency industry that everybody in the mainstream seems to frame it as. Or is this kind of this anomalous thing that exists outside of crypto, particularly because FTX was a centralized exchange? The question being, why did it feel like such a big deal? And I think the place where we all landed, like why this got the sort of breathless coverage that it did is because there is a difference between the crypto technology and the crypto industry. And I do still feel and I think those the folks who joined me on the panel agreed that this whole thing, even though it doesn't say much about the technology that undergirds all of these projects that we talk about on this podcast, this whole fiasco was an indictment of the crypto industry. The money, the attention, the focus, you know, the panels that people are willing to go on with Sandbank Manfried all just go to show that it does matter. The companies and the folks who we associate ourselves with cover. I mean, media plays a role in this, too, regardless of whether it has anything to do with the core blockchain technology itself as a centralized exchange in this case. That's super interesting, Sam. I mean, one thing I would just add, you always see giant frauds around new technologies, right? I mean, it's just like inevitable. People are always taking advantage of the opacity and the incredible, complicated stuff. And I mean, we see it all the time. But it's just stuff so hard to understand that it's pretty easy to like pull the wool over people's eyes. You know, I mean, I think we can talk a little more freely about this now that he's convicted. Anyway. OK, well, thank you, Sam. We're so glad to have you here. All right. Let's get right into it now, as we say, with the latest news and developments in technology behind crypto and blockchains. In our first segment, we will be talking about Arbitrum's governance. Of course, Arbitrum is the biggest layer two network atop Ethereum. Margo covers them all the time and they are super interesting project. But Sam, you know, this story you wrote yesterday focuses on some dissension in that community. Why don't you just give us a little brief overview of what that story is? Yeah. So like you said, Arbitrum is one of the people that I might be aware, I might remember last spring when they switched over to a decentralized governance model. So they made this big shift where they launched a token ARB and allowed holders of that token to be a part of something called the Arbitrum DAO that would govern the protocol. And the thing that we're seeing here is a nod to the growing pain, one of the growing pains that we see with all decentralized autonomous organizations, which is the difficulty of reconciling the need for decentralized governance, vast networks of people governing these protocols in like the spirit of crypto, with the reality that you need some somewhat centralized or at least professionalized decision making expertise in order to guide the direction of these really important platforms. Arbitrum has, you know, over two billion dollars locked in it as of today, if I recall correctly. But anyway, in this specific case, Arbitrum's community is currently grappling with a proposal to introduce a research coalition that will be helmed by BlockWorks Research, the research arm of the media organization, Gauntlet, a risk firm and one other cybersecurity firm that's not as specific to crypto. And those folks will kind of serve as this guidepost for the wider DAO to make its decisions. And there's been a lot of controversy around how much they'd be set to get paid under the proposal that BlockWorks presented in conjunction with these other. Let's just, Margo, what were your thoughts reading this story? So, well, two things. I sort of want to know what's in it for BlockWorks. Like, why are they putting themselves forward in this kind of proposal? But also this sort of like what Sam was alluding to drew us back to last spring when there was a controversial proposal about the DAO and there was like a ratification and they started transferring tokens before like that period had even ended. So I feel like ever since that happened, there's been a lot more attention on the DAO and like the proposals it puts forward. So there's always these controversies around DAOs and like the grapple they have to do with centralization and decentralization or professionalism in that case and having some kind of an authoritative figure that will make decisions. And so I wonder if we're looking at this more with a critical eye because of what happened six months ago and because we've sort of seen some controversy with the Arbitrum DAO. But I don't know, what are your guys thoughts on that? So it's a really good question. So that event that you're talking about was essentially when the DAO was established, there was also this foundation that was established, the Arbitrum Foundation. And you see this set up a lot of times where you have a foundation, you have a centralized company that builds a product, and then you have a DAO. The foundation kind of straddles the middle where it's like a real incorporated entity. But anyway, the foundation was suddenly granted a bunch of tokens from the initial mint of ARB. And members of this new DAO who had also just been airdropped a bunch of tokens were like, whoa, wait a minute, we didn't really have a formal vote on where those tokens should go. So it essentially looked like what it was, which was the people who initially created the blockchain granting a bunch of tokens to this foundation, which people think had some links to the old organization, the firm that ran things. So the chief irony here is that the whole idea of a DAO and the whole idea of this specific proposal is to decentralize things further so that something like a centralized foundation, something like the organization that created Arbitrum don't have an outweighed role in the direction of the chain. But the irony is that people see the same centralization issues with this new format. So one of the comments that we have in this article came from one of the voters in this Arbitrum DAO who said, quote, having the same parties review and provide opinions on proposals, cover those proposals publicly via media networks, vote on proposals, review the security concerns of a proposal, and then execute the Arbitrum network upgrades is fundamentally lacking separation of powers, which is a nod to the role that all of these different entities who would be on this coalition currently serve for Arbitrum. And this person showed that these folks who would be on this coalition also hold a huge number of ARB tokens. They'd now be kind of suggesting proposals or at least giving research on these proposals that they're also voting on and have an outweighed weight in terms of, you know, I mean, it's so interesting. It gets right at the heart of this debate, you know, the topic that just keeps coming up over and over again, which is, is all of this really about the tech or is it really about the money? It's like everybody wants the money and some people are providing value. Sometimes it's hard to tell whether this is going to actually be valuable or if it's just somebody who wants money, right? I say I'm curious, the research they're talking about, what kind of research is this? Like, why do why does Arbitrum DAO need research? Yeah, it's a good question. So it's quite interesting. One of the cool things about DAOs is you can go into the governance forums of any of them and you can see people weighing different proposals and those proposals will. So when it comes to research, sometimes there's going to be financial sort of research that they'll do into like what kinds of rewards we should give users of our protocol for doing certain things like what sort of interest should accrue to a token. Not really relevant in this case, but in the future, you know, if ARB should accrue interest, which it doesn't currently, it would kind of help make that call. You'll see a lot of risk assessment. So if Arbitrum is deciding on what bridge partners to use to transact with different chains, somebody like Gauntlet might come in or the cybersecurity firm might come in and do research to determine, hey, which of these bridge partners, given the technology we use and whatever platform we're bridging to uses would be the most secure. That's something that you saw in the past blew up on Uniswap when there's questions around conflicts of interest between the people doing the research and the bridge platforms themselves. But that's the kind of research you'll see, kind of like the technical and financial. Very briefly, the reason why this, you know, bristled so many people was the fact that it would cost two million dollars over the course of a year. And based on the cost breakdown, one person wrote, can the organizations involved demonstrate their time is worth, quote, six hundred fifty dollars to fifteen hundred dollars an hour? That seems exorbitant, as in more than I pay for a Harvard lawyer's exorbitant, literally. So these folks are asking for a ton of money in exchange for their services and they've had to defend themselves. And currently the proposal is really 50 -50 in terms of whether this is a temperature check, whether it goes to a real vote. The community can't decide whether that's a fair breakdown of costs. When does the temperature check end? It ends tomorrow. It ends tomorrow. And there's still some big voters that haven't weighed in yet. So we might be talking about this next week. One thing that is kind of cool, I will say, is in companies, modern companies, you know, the CEO and the board make the decisions and, you know, shareholders do not get to weigh in real time on kind of major strategy stuff or even like line item costs, initiatives or whatever. So that part of it is kind of cool that, you know, people are voting on whether they should spend the two million dollars. So let's turn to our next segment here. Well, there's a project called The Graph, and they came out with some news this past week. We wrote a short story about that. They call themselves the Google of Web3, or they say that people call them the Google of Web3. And the idea is that what they do is they basically look at the data that's on the blockchain and then kind of figure out how to, and then deliver that to protocols or teams and for whatever they need that blockchain data from. It's sort of like, my comment was the opposite of what Chainlink does, which is deliver, you know, stuff data onto the blockchain for protocols that need it. But they came out with this new era roadmap. I mean, a lot of it's pretty technical stuff, you know, it's like features, but they, you know, the line in the story was that this was one of their biggest upgrades since they had a 50 million dollar fundraising last year. And the development team, you know, similar to the decentralization in the previous segment, there's always, there's a development team and then there's the project. The development team is called Edgenone. And we sat down with their CEO, Tegan Klein, who, by the way, I think they said she was going to go on her honeymoon this week. So shout out to you. Congrats, Tegan. But anyway, Margo, you know, you were on this call with Tegan and you wrote up the Q &A. What were kind of your big, big ideas on this? Yeah, I thought it was interesting to hear her talk about like what the graph is, like who they serve, sort of like what entities, what protocols they serve. What I'm still sort of grappling with is like, I understand, like obviously there's a need for decentralizing data, but, you know, we'd asked sort of who her competitors are, who in the space is sort of similar to what she does. And her answer was that there isn't really anyone else in the space that does indexing like they do. Like if they do do indexing, it's something in -house. And so, yes, there's been efforts, I think, which one of, you know, Sam or Brad, you guys can talk about that because I know you have talked to Tegan about that before. But if there's no one else that does the indexing like the graph does, like how much of a hold do they have over organizing data on blockchains, especially because she claims that most of DeFi uses the graph? You know, I think that is a rare position to have in this industry, if that's true. You know, I think we haven't done a ton of reporting on this particular space. I think we're sort of more focused on the blockchain stuff that's kind of infrastructure layer of things and who's winning that race and all the apps. These are, they're kind of one of these middle players. They're not really front -facing, you know, they're sort of B2B in the sense that they're, you know, taking stuff from blockchains and delivery it to kind of like the backend of somebody's website or whatever. But I mean, in general, you know, we're going to get in the next segment, we're going to talk about all the layer twos, you know, that are developing and there's tons of layer one blockchains. But I don't know, that's kind of interesting to have a dominant position in anything in blockchain. It seems like there's tons of competition. I don't know. What do you think, Sam? Yeah, nothing comes to mind that does exactly what they do, which is they serve as a kind of like Chainlink sort of Oracle -ish function, but they're completely on chain. So they aggregate and index data on blockchains so that entities like Chainlink, like Uniswap and so on can use them. But I think that there are some, like I remember reporting on them a while ago and one of the problems that The Graph had and continues to have is just that it's extraordinarily complicated. They have their GRT token, they have these things called subgraphs, this role like indexers. And there's like all of these different, you know, jargon that you find all throughout crypto, but is particularly pronounced on The Graph that some people think is wholly unnecessary and it wouldn't be worth getting into all of it on Coindesk on this podcast, you know, is something that they still haven't been able to fix entirely at the same time. Yeah, I do think that they are somewhat unique in this intersection, but I also noticed that like some of the folks that they mentioned to you, Margo, that they, you know, are partnered with are the same folks that they've mentioned to me over almost like, I think like a year and a half ago when I last wrote about The Graph. So it's like art blocks, which is an NFT project that is really cool, but hasn't like been, you know, super huge in a while. They mentioned Uniswap. I also mentioned them, but if I recall from at least when I was, you know, writing about The Graph, their Uniswap thing is used for Uniswap to display prices on its website. It's not something used in the protocol itself, which is a distinction that might matter. The Graph is like certainly a really exciting project and it is the only one that I'm aware of that's doing, you know, this whole indexing decentralized role. I think that they are still kind of trying to exactly find their place and reach that level of ubiquity that they've wanted for a while. That's really interesting. You know, especially given that these projects that they help haven't really changed over the last two years. And one of the things we had asked her sort of is like, where are these new users that they can cater to? Especially, you know, we're in winter, so where's the growth? Like who are you poaching users from? So that's interesting. Yeah. I mean, to their credit, they did make a big gamble a while ago where they got rid of this centralized, this hosted service that they had, which is more akin to a Web2 service where they would index things and then you would query their own kind of hosted server in order to read off the data. They moved to this decentralized model a while ago and there were questions around whether they'd be able to kind of sustain those operations. And it seems like they have, you know, they really are working in alignment with that whole decentralized crypto ethos in a way that a lot of these sorts of information providers, aggregators aren't. They've had some staying power, at least as a result of that, regardless of whatever their user numbers and partners are. I mean, it's interesting when you were mentioning how technical some of this stuff is. All right. Well, let's take a quick break. And when we come back, we're going to talk about the story of the week. Margo Scoop, Kraken coming out with a layer two. We'll be right back. Calling all developers. Consensus 2024 is happening May 29th through the 31st in Austin, Texas. Experience three days of intensive learning with technical talks, 40 plus expert speakers and 20 or more in -depth workshops, including dedicated half days for Ethereum and Bitcoin. 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"In an unsettled world, knit yourself in truth as you gain the knowledge and skills to meet the challenges of what's to come. Regent University is a Christian community that seeks to honor God and serve people. Christian leadership begins here amongst your professors and alongside your classmates. Find your Folks, welcome to the Eric Metaxas show, sponsored by Legacy Precious Metals. There's never been a better time to invest in precious metals. Visit legacy PM investments dot com. That's legacy PM investments dot com. Welcome to the Eric Metaxas show. I shouldn't tell you this, but Eric hired someone who sounds just like him to host today's show. But since I'm the announcer, they told me, so I'm telling you, don't be fold. The real Eric's in jail. Folks, welcome to our two final segment with our friend John's Mirack, who you can follow on my twitter feed. John, um, you said a lot of things. This is the article that you wrote at the stream. What's the title of the article? It's stream dot org. The title is Israel must act alone and we must step out of the way. Okay, so let me play devil's advocate. Sure. Um, but before I do that, I'll do something along those lines. Not quite devil's advocate, but you were praising the Abrahamic accords that Donald Trump managed to pull off during his administration, which was a, uh, diplomatic masterpiece, foreign policy coup. Now you have to give Jared Kushner a lot of credit for that, even though you're not a fan of his, uh, in terms of his domestic policy influence. Right, right. Um, yeah, I'm not a fan of Jared. I have said that if Donald Trump wants a second term in office, he should be forced. He should force Ivanka to divorce Jared and marry Steve Bannon. I've not heard that. I stand by that. Brilliant. Absolutely. He's still single. He's he's in his 60s. He is single. He is not, he is not directly on board with this proposal. Um, I have not asked Steve what he thinks about it. Frankly. I don't care. It would be like one of those diplomatic marriages that the Habsburgs had, you know, you have to marry princess of Asturias. I know she's a hunchback dwarf and she is your first cousin twice over, but this is a necessity of state. So I want to hold the empire together. I want the Ivanka Steve Bannon wedding. Um, and I would happily attended be the ring. I'd like to be the ring bearer dressed as a court dwarf, but that's, but, but I digress slightly. Uh, it was a brilliant foreign policy coup by a very prudent and responsible Trump administration. I a lot of my friends support Trump because of all the peace, prosperity and patriotism. I'm fine with all that, but really I was just in it for the mean tweets. I it's our favorite part about Donald Trump, the mean tweets. What I'm saying is I'm using that to highlight the fact that people like David French and Rod Dreher and Russell Moore all said, we couldn't, we cannot support Donald Trump. Look at the mean tweets and oh, the slaughter in Israel, the war in Ukraine, chaos on our borders. These are the results of sniffy prissy, weak Christians saying, oh, I find these tweets on winsome. I simply, I cannot exist in the same political party as someone who says things like that is what the result is slaughter in Israel. The result is slaughter in Ukraine, your prissy -ness, your delicate refined sensibilities that led you to have contempt for the Jericho march, have contempt for the January six demonstrators. Uh, it has real world consequences. You never Trump Republicans who undermined our efforts to challenge the 2020 election fraud. You have the blood on your hands of the war in Ukraine. That wouldn't have happened if Trump were in office of the Afghan translators who were slaughtered by the Taliban, which wouldn't have happened if Trump were in office and of the slaughter in Israel, which wouldn't have happened if Trump were in office. The blood is on your prissy little manicured hands. And there's plenty more, uh, if you want to talk blood on your hands, the open border with, I mean, again, even talking about this, I, I, Bonanza for child sex traffic, I'm going to weep or scream or cry. When I think about the fact that young people, ladies and gentlemen, think about this, think about this, that the Biden administration, this is true. We're not making this up. They changed the policy so that, uh, we have men bringing young women and boys across the test right now under Biden, think of the satanic evil. They are allowed to say, Oh, this is my nephew, or this is my niece, or this is whatever it is. And they take them into the country. These children, children are being raped and our government turns a blind eye. I can't think of anything more wicked and sick. And so when people say, Oh, I can't vote for Donald Trump, you better understand God will judge you because that is happening because of your action, because of your inaction, that's a reality. And people sometimes act. It's like, it's like people saying I cannot in conscience support Samson. So I cannot support Samson. I have to allow the Philistines to overrun Israel and destroy the temple and Institute child sacrifice because Samson's manners are not winsome. He's not a good representative of the gospel. I feel that my Christian witness is impugned by being associated with Samson. Cause not, let's face it, Donald Trump is Samson and Delilah is the establishment Republicans. Mickey Haley is Delilah. And she keeps. Have you written an article of using this, uh, this, uh, that's tomorrow's article. You're serious because I thought that's, that's really interesting. I'm the way I say it is the next election is Barabbas versus Samson. Joe Biden is the Barabbas that the mob chooses over Jesus. And Samson is the shampling guy who shoots himself in the foot and lets people lie to him and makes mistakes because he's flawed. He's not Jesus. He's Samson though. And I'll take Samson over Barabbas any day. But when Donald Trump, uh, ate honey, uh, out of a carcass of a lion by the very cool, that, that just ended it for me. I said, I cannot vote for a man that's why I didn't vote. I wrote David French in, uh, because I, I thought that that was the moral thing to do. I like to think of myself as the jawbone of an ass that Donald Trump used to kill a lot of frequency. That's good. That's good right there. I like, uh, I'm going to like the John story.
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A highlight from CARPE CONSENSUS: Moving on From Sam Bankman-Fried
"This is Carpe Consensus. Join hosts Ben Shiller and Danny Nelson as they seize the world of crypto. Hello and welcome to Carpe Consensus. This is a podcast from the CoinDesk Podcast Network. I am Benjamin Shiller, Features Editor here at CoinDesk. And joining me today is Danny Nelson. He is the co -host. And also Helene Braun. She is a reporter here at CoinDesk. And we're going to be talking about the SBF trial, which just wrapped up last week with the former founder of FTX being found guilty on seven counts of federal fraud and related charges. And that was a pretty big deal for the crypto industry and certainly here for CoinDesk as we broke the story originally. So Danny, what was it like to be there at the end of the trial there with the verdict? Yeah, I got to say it was unexpectedly emotional, right? So for five weeks, we heard all these co -conspirators, these insiders who pled guilty to various crimes, testifying against Sam saying he made me do this, he told me to do that. Caroline, Nishad and Gary all coming with their very powerful stories. And then at the end, Sam testified and then he was bad for him. I know, weird thing to say. I don't feel like he is innocent or I don't think he's not guilty rather. He's definitely guilty. He's guilty as hell. But watching him in the courtroom, watching his parents there, I just felt like this sense of, wow, I felt the gravity of the moment. And I don't know, we should lock him up, but we shouldn't give him 115 years. This is a hot take, I know. Maybe we can get into the rights and wrongs of how long he's going to get. Helene, what about you? How did you feel when you saw the verdict being read out? Yeah, I did not feel bad for him at all, especially after we heard all the closing statements. We heard two different closing statements from Assistant US Attorney, Danielle Cezune, and they were very compelling and very convincing. And I felt like there was this moment in her closing argument where I looked at Sam and it just felt like he finally realized that this was it for him. There was no going back. His defense was just not good enough. And I think the jurors knew too. And at that point I was just like, I hope he gets 150 years or 200 years. I don't feel bad for this guy. All the evidence that we've heard was just crazy to me. So no, I totally disagree with Danny. I think he deserves to be in prison for the entirety of his life. Right. So you mentioned the defense there. I mean, there seemed to be a consensus amongst lawyers that we spoke to about the trial and the defense that he didn't get a very good service on that score. I mean, how much of a difference do you think that actually made? I mean, it seems like a structural set of circumstances where he would get a guilty verdict anyway, and most people expected him to go to jail. But do you think if he had a better defense, he could have gotten a better sentence or a better verdict? Yeah, I think it's interesting because in the beginning of the trial, it sort of felt like the defense wasn't trying very hard. And I think it must be so funny if you're Mark Cohen, the defense attorney that Sam was represented by, to read all these articles about you and bad of a lawyer you are and how bad of the defense strategy you have from all these, you know, journalists that have nothing to do with the law and are attorneys themselves, and they're just judging your work, basically. But I think in his closing statements, I could see that he was trying really hard and that I think he was he had hope for his defense. I don't know. He's supposed to be good. I don't know. I was wondering that, too, if is he supposed to be a really good lawyer or is he just the guy that all the bad guys go to? He's the only one who is willing to defend them. From what I've heard, I think Mark Cohen is a fine lawyer, but that's the name of the game when you're a defense attorney. Your clients, especially the more outspoken ones like Sam Pink and Fried, you're not going to win all your cases. And if you have a really bad deck, well, that's the deck you have to play with. And he went to trial with this guy who had so much evidence against him. I think it was very insurmountable. So, sure, maybe he wasn't as quick on his feet with some of the strategic and tactical things in the courtroom, like objections and phrasing of questions and things like that. But if you have all these people testifying against your client, and then when your client takes a stand, you can't get him to sound the way that an innocent person would sound. And also, you have to remember, before the trial even began, the trial would go. The judge wouldn't allow the defense to bring in all of Sam's philosophical arguments. They wouldn't allow him to bring defensive counsel arguments. He went to trial with a losing hand, and it's not completely his fault that the trial ended up going against his client. Right. I mean, I have to say I agree with you, Danny, about feeling a little bit sorry for SBF. I mean, both things can be true. On the one hand, you can say this guy was a fraud, he was a criminal, he took a lot of people's money, and he spent it lavishly and irresponsibly. On the other hand, he is a human being. To get this huge sentence, he could go away for 115 years at maximum, seems like a rather excessive amount of time. And there is an argument out there that he is very much the fall guy for the industry, and the guy who's kind of taking the rap for a lot of cultural problems in the industry and a kind of lax, general corporate governance culture out there. I mean, there were VC funds that put millions of dollars, billions of dollars into FTX without doing any due diligence. And that's not a criminal act, but it was an act of cultural indifference or negligence that you could say contributed to this enormous folly. So, you know, I think there's a reasonable argument to say that he is taking the rap for the entire industry when maybe he doesn't quite deserve that kind of level of status here. What do you think about that, Danny? I don't know. I think it's a special kind of stupid to set up a company in the way he did. And sure, there's a lot of follies that crypto in general has committed, but just the arrangement between Alameda and FTX, and that's this whole case, right? That Alameda spent all this money from XTS customers. That is so unique, right? That doesn't even have to do with crypto. The way that this fraud was committed was mostly because people were wiring their money into Alameda Research to get it into FTX. So there was also the allow negative code and the let's borrow $65 billion code that was more crypto native, but I don't know. And, you know, look at me, I'm contradicting myself again, right? Because earlier in the episode, I'm saying, well, I feel bad for Sam and here I'm saying, well, he's guilty as hell. I don't know. I think there's room for both statements because it's very hard to watch someone's parents in the room when a guilty verdict is handed out. Like they're older, right? He's going to be locked up probably for the rest of their lives. I don't know. I just, I can't get over that scene in the courtroom. I did feel guilty. I'm sorry. I did feel bad for him. Did you steal the money? I did feel bad for him up until his testimony, because up until that point, all these people that he used to be friends with that were all part of the scheme to like, he wasn't just the only one that committed this fraud. All these other people, Caroline, Nashad, Gary, they're all part of this. And they all were put up on the sand as the good guys, so to say, just because they cooperated with the government and they told their side of the story. But his then testimony just showed that he is not remorseful at all. He still is trying to lie to people. He's still trying to talk himself out of this. And at that point, I was just like, it's too late for this. You're already in this trial. You're on the stand. It's time to look back and be a little bit remorseful and stop thinking that you're smarter than everybody else. I mean, do you think it would have made a difference if he was remorseful? Well, if he was remorseful, he wouldn't be convicted even faster. Yeah, except because he can't really be remorseful because in his opinion, he's not guilty. Right? So what's he going to say to the jury? He could say something like, I'm sorry, the people got hurt and I made mistakes and something like that. Well, he did say that. That was the very first thing he said, basically. And then after that, everything was basically, I don't remember. He decided to say it because he had to. Helene, among the witnesses that flipped on Sam, who's the biggest villain? Like you sat through that whole thing too. Who do you walk away feeling the least bad for and who do you feel the most bad for? I feel like there are easy answers here. I feel the least bad for Caroline just because literally just because of that tape that we heard from that meeting in November where she told her employees that it was kind of fun to, you know, steal money. She obviously didn't explicitly say it like that, but she said it was fun. She sounded a little crazy in that recording. So after her testimony, after hearing that recording, I thought, wow, she's definitely not the innocent little girl that everybody says she is. She certainly knew what she was doing. And she certainly, you know, she's certainly guilty as well. So I feel the least bad for her. The person that I felt really, really bad for wasn't a shot. Okay. But I also don't know if that's just because he's very soft spoken. He has a very low voice. He seems like a very sweet guy. So it could just be a front that he put on for his testimony. I have the opposite answers, actually, like a complete opposite. I feel like Caroline from reading the Michael Lewis book, which is sympathetic to Sam, but also some of the things that were said about Caroline were repeated by the government in their narrative. Caroline just comes off to me as someone who was completely, I guess the word I would use is submissive in every aspect of this business and personal relationship. And I don't feel bad for her at all, but I feel the least bad for her, even though she did big fraud. I think that Nishad, though, is next level evil. He presents himself, like you say, as this guy who is soft spoken. Oh, by the way, after he learned that the companies were stealing money from customers, he took out $3 million to personally buy a house. This wasn't like in furtherance of the scheme to keep it all afloat. This was so he could have a house, like personal enrichment. So I think it's all just a front. And Gary, I don't know how to read him. I think he just doesn't talk much. And he took the deal as soon as his lawyer said, we should make moves here. Do we know what the deals are with those collaborators who turned on SPF? I mean, will they be getting any jail time? We don't know that aspect of it. I would imagine that Gary will get the best deal because he offered himself up to the government before the government was even investigating. Caroline, she didn't speak until they raided her house. So you get negative points for that. And I don't know about Nishad, but I would expect Gary to get the best deal. Gary said he hopes that he doesn't get any jail time, though. And I think that could actually be the case, because we see in a lot of these white cases that those people or the witnesses that cooperate with the government actually get zero jail time. So I think that's a possibility, which would be crazy to me. Yeah, we'll probably get years of probation. So if they would violate the deal, then they would go right to jail. But I think Caroline might get some time. I don't know about Nishad, and I would expect Gary to get no jail time. Could we even see them back in the crypto industry? I highly doubt that that seems exceptionally unlikely. I think they want nothing to do with this. In fact, in other cases, the government, like for securities fraud, so some of them have some of them pled guilty to securities fraud. When you plead guilty to securities fraud, the government often makes you say, I will never work in the securities industry again. That probably means they shouldn't work in any of crypto, because most cryptos are securities. Bitcoin's not a security. Well, Bitcoin's not a security, too, and neither is Ether. But a lot of the other ones probably are. So if I were them, I would steer clear. I don't know. I think they've had their fair share of the crypto industry, and I don't think anybody needs to see them back in the industry. I think Adam Yedidia, who was one of the first witnesses, who was a senior software engineer at FTX, I think, or Alameda, he is a high school teacher now. Yeah, he's a math teacher. He seemed a little traumatized by this whole experience. Well, maybe in a few years' time, we can do a sort of where are they now article.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 11/7/23
"The United States Border Patrol has exciting and rewarding career opportunities with the nation's largest law enforcement organization. Earn great pay with outstanding federal benefits and up to $20 ,000 in recruitment incentives. Learn more online at cbp .gov slash careers slash USBP. No more annoying figure politically, but there's Barbra Streisand news that has nothing to do with her weird politics. Did you catch this yesterday? Barbra Streisand. Go ahead. I know the news. Well, I think I know the news that she's being interviewed by Howard Stern. Oh, Lord. OK, well, that'll be something. No, this is a much tinier thing that nonetheless I got it kind of a kick out of. If you ask here, hang on a sec. Let's see if they fix this. Hang on a sec. If it wasn't it wasn't it was Siri. Who is married to James Brolin? Hang on. My phone's not on anyway. It pronounced her name wrong. It gave it a soft S. It would say James Brolin is married to Barbra Streisand. Get it? Streisand. Streisand. Right. Exactly. It's not. Her point was it's not a Z. It's an S. It needs to be Streisand. So guess what she did? She sued them. Much, much simpler. She called Tim Cook. Oh, well, yeah. And he fixed it. You know, there was a there was a have you ever studied the Streisand effect? You know what the Streisand effect is? It's fascinating. And this is something that has become kind of part of the it's sort of the lexicon. The Streisand effect means she was once livid that somebody took pictures of her Malibu estate. And of course, she lives in a palatial mansion right on the water. You know, she's got more money than Fort Knox. Incidentally, speaking of people with more money than Fort Knox, can I share what it's like to rub elbows to somebody with a lot of money? By all means. Don't worry. It's like me. Focus, focus, focus. I'll go back. If Streisand is going to be interviewed by Stern, she has a memoir coming out called My Name is Barbara, I believe. So I think that's why she'll be interviewed all over the place, probably. And that's an interview I'd listen to because, you know, he's a master interviewer. He is an absolute master into the guy is brilliant at that. I mean, if he could lose all the filthy stuff that he does in the you know, the idiocy and lose the covid idiocy. He's gone hard left. independent The fiercely rule breaker, bold Howard Stern is dead, but he remains a very good interviewer. A hundred million dollars a year might do that to you or whatever he gets. He gets some crazy amount of money. And as I was rubbing shoulders with, I'm just going to say, somebody we all know who's got a very familiar face, I rubbed elbows with them at the Job Creators Network event. And this particular person was, I was told, lived in Palm Beach, which I didn't know. And I've known this person for a while. I'm not going to mention the name because I don't want to embarrass anybody. But I said to this person, I'll have this figured out by 830. I said, well, you probably know now if you think about it, if you do the math, I told you who was there. But anyway, I said to this particular person who I love, I said, hey, I didn't know you lived here in Palm Beach. The answer was, well, I don't actually live here. I do have a home here. And I thought, now that's money. Just one of many. That's money. And Palm Beach. Listen, it ain't a double wide. I mean, there's nothing in Palm Beach under about 10 mil. Anyway, so the Streisand effect is that Barbara Streisand sued somebody because she was upset that the pictures they took of her estate weren't authorized, because she's a notorious control freak, and she didn't want people to know where she lived. She sued based on the pretense of security measures, right? Okay. I understand that wish, but go ahead, all right, go ahead. Here's the Streisand effect. So the Streisand effect is the lawsuit had the opposite effect of what she intended, because after she sued, then it was very public where she lives, then the whole world knew. And so there's something in the legal jargon now that has become known as the Streisand effect that sometimes litigation, you know, emphasizes or puts an unwanted spotlight on something you're trying to quelch, to quelch, to quelch. So anyway, that's that. But I would love it. I am. I'm going to try to listen to the stern Streisand interview. I can't wait. And speaking of South Florida, aren't you packing for South Florida as we speak? Indeed. On the stage, DeSantis, Haley, Scott, Ramaswamy, Christie, oh my gosh, poor Chris Christie. I know. Gosh. I played that clip yesterday. Me too. Do you feel sorry for him a little bit? No, I do not, because he is an absolute virulent idiot. This is a willful thing that he's doing. It is a, as I said on Twitter, if he's just on a speaking tour and trying out some Trump hatred as a thought experiment to see how it works and what is still Trump's GOP, whatever, free country, free speech. But in an attempt to supposedly win votes in a campaign for president, it is an act of stunning malice, stunning idiocy. He is a self -absorbed fool and I have zero, zero empathy for that. I can't see him. I can't even picture him without the image of like a pro wrestling mask on his head. He's like a wrestler now. He's become to me a cartoon caricature. Do you hear what he said? Your aversion to the truth is not deplorable. Your aversion to the truth, as if I'm the sole arbiter of truth, is reprehensible. And then he said, you know, your cat calls, you're booing. That doesn't make anything better. That doesn't solve problems. But in an indirect way, yes, it does, because it is a crowd showing disapproval for him in their approval of Trump, who will make multiple things better if he were president again. Well, he's clearly rattled at this stage of the game. He's not liking any of this. He really is very unhappy with the – and what did you think was going to happen? What did you think was going to happen? What in the world did he think was going to be the end result of his vicious attacks on Trump? Look at what's happening to Trump right now. I was reading an article. I just talked about this, what he stands to lose in this New York civil fraud trial. He's at the risk of losing his entire New York empire that his whole life, his whole career was built on. This vicious Soros attorney general, who's trolling him regularly on social media, who's taunting him, who's strutting around like a peacock, bragging about how they've got him, and incidentally, that's how she campaigned. She said – she campaigned on it. I'm going to take him down. I'm going to get him. We're going to get Trump. That was her campaign promise and she thinks she's got him down. She's got this – they got this whack job judge. The judge literally said in the courtroom yesterday, I don't want to hear what you have to say. Also said, control your client or I will. Or I will. But I don't want to hear what you have to say. Well, then what's he on the stand for? You got him on the witness stand ostensibly to hear what he has to say. But they don't want to hear what he has to say. Of course, that was a revealing moment. This is so reprehensible and – but here's the thing, Letitia James could lose by winning. If Trump does lose his business empire, and he could, I mean they – and what he stands – I mean, for example, permanent disbarment of Trump being able to serve as officers or directors in any business headquartered, registered or licensed in New York, Mark, that's the goal here is to crush him financially. Of course it is. Financially, politically, reputationally, and in the midst of us talking about this courtroom appearance. And of course I've become fairly intrigued and amused by the various courtroom sketch artists. I mean, are they doing him a favor or not a favor? But I take you to a larger issue for just a moment because I don't know what your thought is on this. It was a bit of a debate yesterday. Speaking of things that are an outrage, it is an outrage that we didn't get to see this for ourselves, that we have to rely on reporters and courtroom sketch artists. Every courtroom in America contains the public's business being done. There should be cameras in every courtroom. Are you with me? A hundred percent. If we could see what is actually happening in this particular trial, it would only elevate his standing.
The Breakdown
A highlight from How Crypto Can Actually Move Past SBF
"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 Tuesday, November 7th, and we are back with The Breakdown. 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. All right, friends, we are back from that anniversary trip that you knew about. Very rejuvenating, excited to be back with you all. And today, although it is by now long old news to all of you, for the sake of completeness, we are going to wrap up our coverage of the SPF trial. Now, I'm going to focus on some of the logistics, what happens from here, and of course, spend most of my time on community reactions. So, on Thursday night, Sam Bankman -Fried was found guilty on all seven counts of fraud and money laundering. Sam's defense attorney maintains his innocence and says they will continue to, quote, vigorously fight the charges. After the verdict was handed down, Damian Williams, the U .S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, delivered an ominous warning on the courthouse steps. He said that although the cryptocurrency industry is new, quote, this kind of fraud, this kind of corruption is as old as time, and we have no patience for it. Williams noted that Sam's case moved at lightning speed, which he said was a choice, not a coincidence. He said that this case was a warning to quote every single fraudster out there who thinks they are untouchable, that their crimes are too complex for us to catch or that they're too powerful for us to prosecute. Williams warned that if the remaining fraudsters in the crypto industry don't cut it out, quote, I promise we'll have enough handcuffs for all of them. Now, Sam's sentencing will be carried out in a separate hearing tentatively scheduled for the 28th of March next year. Sam faces a statutory maximum sentence of 110 years in prison. However, of course, he will likely be sentenced to far less than that, as terms of imprisonment are often served concurrently across all charges rather than consecutively. Katie Haun, a crypto VC who previously tackled high profile crypto criminal trials as a federal prosecutor, explained the way that federal sentencing guidelines work in this context. As Sam's crimes surrounded one of the largest fraud schemes in history, the guidelines place him in the highest possible bracket when considering the size of losses and number of victims. His sentence will also be enhanced by his leadership role within the scheme and the sophisticated nature of the fraud. Sam maxed out the scale as a result of these factors, which means the guidelines would suggest life in prison as the appropriate sentence. Even if the judge reduces some of the factors to fit Sam into a slightly lower sentencing bracket, the guidelines would still indicate a sentence of 27 to 34 years in prison. Katie wrote that Sam faces likely decades in prison. Now, aside from sentencing, the major question that remains in the legal process is whether additional prosecutions are still to come. Long before the trial, the Justice Department added charges related to campaign financing. These were not included in last month's trial due to objections from the Bahamas government that the charges were not agreed to when Sam was extradited. During her testimony, former Alameda Research CEO Carolyn Ellison discussed bribery of Chinese officials. That evidence would implicate Sam in breaches of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. With Sam now convicted of fraud, it's an open question whether the DOJ feels the need to pursue additional charges or is satisfied with the prosecution already carried out. There is a second trial tentatively scheduled in March of next year to deal with the campaign finance charge and other allegations from the revised indictment. Over the coming months, the DOJ is expected to inform the court whether they intend to proceed with extra charges, which will be unlikely to result in additional prison time for Sam. The political sensitivity, however, of the campaign finance charge could complicate that decision. The other question is whether additional people involved in managing FTX will be charged. The three executives who testified against Sam will be sentenced alongside him in March after pleading guilty. And although he was mentioned several times during the trial and implicated in decision -making at Alameda Research, we still have no real insight into why former Alameda CEO Sam Trabuco has not been charged. Similarly, significant testimony seemed to imply that the conduct of Sam's parents could rise to the level of criminal liability. Now when it comes to reactions from the crypto community, one of the big themes was a sense of relief. Crypto researcher Noelle Acheson said the verdict came as a huge relief. While it looked increasingly likely as the trial wore on, there was always the outside chance that SPF would yet again embarrass the industry by showing that crypto fraud can be hard to prosecute. That didn't happen. And the swift and unanimous decision from the jury definitively shows that fraud is accountable. The closure of the SPF phase should help to show the next wave of investors that crypto markets can be grown up. And hopefully now we can get back to building the capital market infrastructure the ecosystem deserves. Paul Brody, the head of blockchain at EY said, it's a wonderful moment for crypto. Accountability in the sense that bad actors will be punished is important, not just for deterring bad actors, but to give confidence to those who are operating with integrity. However, another reaction was that prosecutors are likely to be even more emboldened. Preston Byrne, a partner at Brown Rednick said, I would not read too much into the SPF trial result as a forward looking matter. What's done is done. SPF is off the board as a major player in crypto, probably for the rest of his working life. What this is, is a significant and decisive victory for the US attorney's office in the SDNY, convincing a jury that fraud is fraud, even in a context where complex novel technology is involved. I would expect that the USAO has a lot more confidence today than they did yesterday that they can win other big cases against bad actors in crypto. Now at this point, it's worth noting to me that one of the things that I was watching is whether the idea that this was the crypto industry on trial would actually take root. In other words, would this be characterized as the trial of SPF or as the trial of the crypto industry as a whole? In my estimation, it was much more, much more about SPF. Part of that was that the prosecutors were pretty clear about that. And indeed that speech at the end of it all from Damian Williams really drove it home. Yes, he was warning others in the crypto industry that if they were rotten, he was coming after them. But his bigger point was that fraud was fraud, regardless of what context it was in, and whether or not it used novel technology like cryptocurrency. In other words, the prosecution made a specific decision, presumably rooted in actual belief that the Sam Bankman Freed trial was a trial of Sam Bankman Freed. Now one really interesting conversation that has generated a lot of discussion is what the appropriate sentence for Sam actually is. Unchained podcast host Laura Shin wrote, I see a lot of people debating how long a sentence SPF should get. Curious to take the temperature. Also curious to hear if you think sentences are too short or long in general and sentences for white collar crime, financial crime, et cetera. Now of the choices she gave, which were one to nine years, 10 to 19 years, 20 to 29 years and 30 plus years, 30 plus years got 58 .6 % of the vote. Laura then noted that she had misjudged how many people think this will be a long sentence and revised her post. For that new poll, her options were one to 14 years, 15 to 29 years, 30 to 44 years and 45 years to life, 45 to life got the most votes at 44 .1%. Now if that shows the general mood of crypto is particularly vitriolic towards Sam. There were some who said that his sentence should not be that long. Tiffany Fong wrote, I bet this will be my most hated post, but I personally do not root for life sentences or equivalent for nonviolent criminals. I lost my life savings to Celsius last year and obviously punishment is necessary, but I care far more about every penny getting clawed back to creditors and that they're forever barred from financial institutions. I don't personally benefit from or take pleasure in the prospect of SPF or Mashinsky sitting in prison for life. I'm sure this post will enrage people and agree to disagree, but that's just how I feel. ProPublica senior editor Jesse Eisinger said, SPF should not get 110 years. I'd say around five to seven reiterating my longstanding position that one, we should put fewer people in prison generally, two, but send more white collar criminals to prison with far shorter sentences, four, prison should be much, much more humane. Now this one generated a lot of response. DC investor wrote, understand that SPF caused serious financial harm and serious emotional harm. His fraud and his theft of user funds who believed they were being held as sacrosanct led to suicides. Five to seven years isn't nearly enough. He deserves at least 30. Eric David Paul from block tower put it a different way. He said, if the punishment for stealing 10 billion plus by defrauding hundreds of thousands of laypeople was five years in prison, it would be rational for most people in the world to commit the crime and the head of people like SPF. This is probability. They say X percent chance they get away with it. Y percent they don't. If they think 80 % they walk away with 10 billion and 20 % they go to jail for five years and keep nothing. It's a good trade. David Z Morris wrote, he won't get 110. That was never really on the table. And I understand the empathy, but based on the trial, he fully deserves 25 to 50. He has a callous manipulator who straight forwardly did not believe the law applied to him and still doesn't. He lied under oath repeatedly. DC investor followed up in another thread, give him only five years and O 'Leary just funds his next startup. You either create consequences and thus a disincentive for bad actors or none of it even matters.
The Dan Bongino Show
Dinesh D'Souza: No One Has Disputed Facts in 'Police State'
"Care to be first I'm not this in for clickbait or anything like that so me and you gave this a lot of time well maybe it's an error Walmart maybe it's a mistake it's not like we jumped the gun on this too you know let's talk about this and maybe conservatives will pick it up and we'll sell more DVDs no folks that has nothing to do with it this actually happened I can see no reason why Walmart would not sell the DVD police state Dinesh without going through the back end stuff you and I both know this thing sold out theaters across the country you have the second I think highest grossing documentary of all time you're not some like tomato can ham and hi you came on the scene yesterday they have can you think of it seriously can you think of a single reason they would not stock this film other than somebody winking and nodding at them and going hey you know be a bad idea if your place burned down if you stock this film that's the only reason I can think of look I mean I have sold innumerable books and DVDs at Walmart and Amazon before number two unlike 2000 mules which at least in some quarters is a banned topic because of election fraud police state is not a banned topic on any of social media number three there's not been a single fact -check challenging a single thing in the film no one has even disputed anything in the film the film is accurate from top to bottom it hasn't even been questioned and there have been reviews of the film which have deplored disagreed with the thesis of the film but again not questioned any facts in the film so there is absolutely no legal no moral justification no justification at all for doing this other than where we have the power to do it we don't want to have the product and therefore too bad for you go get it someplace else and that's ultimately what we have to do go get it it sells fortunately it's available very good customer service get it from Salem get it from Shopify but this
Crypto Critics' Corner
A highlight from Wyre: Another crypto payment processor involved in fraud
"Welcome back, everyone. I am Cas Pianci. I'm joined, as usual, by my partner in crime. We've already recorded an episode today, so we're just going to jump right into it. We're going to talk about a company called Wire. Wire spelled W -Y -R -E, weird company, wound down in June of this past year. But yeah, I want Bennett to kind of walk us through this. He wanted to record an episode about this. And I think it is, once you delve into the weeds of it a bit, it's pretty fascinating. Wire is a cryptocurrency payment processor, one of the most common targets of our eye around this channel. And it was, like many cryptocurrency payment processors, seeming to do things a little unusually. And part of this story, the beginning of this story in my mind, involves Ryan Breslow, who I've made a couple videos about on this channel, but we've never done a full episode on him because, frankly, he's not that important. Ryan Breslow has a couple of different companies. One was called Eco. Eco was a company that said it could earn its users yield, and it claimed to do this by lending to people like Goldman Sachs and Fidelity, but was actually lending to people like Wire and BlockFi. And so that's how Eco was making its yield for its customers. That was a Ryan Breslow company, but so was Bolt, the one -click payments company that at one point was valued at like $11 billion or something crazy before a New York Times investigation revealed that they had misrepresented what they were able to do to people in order to get them to sign and then misrepresented the nature of those relationships in order to get other people to sign. Before Bolt was exposed for that, they put in a $1 .5 billion offer for Wire, making it at the time one of the most valuable cryptocurrency acquisitions of all time. What makes this even stranger is that this acquisition was announced in April of 2022. One month before that, in March of 2022, Ryan's other company, Eco, had notified users that they were moving off of Wire and on to Prime Trust. So one company moves off in March, April they announce they're going to buy the company, and even more interesting, Eco didn't actually get all their funds moved off until the end of May. Shortly after that, in September, it's announced that the deal's not going to happen. Bolt backs away, and a couple months after that, very end of the year, December beginning of January, Wire announces they're going to be scaling back operations and laying people off after this deal blew up. And that's like the first phase of Wire, right? It's a cryptocurrency payment processor doing what cryptocurrency payment processors do, making risky loans, throwing funds around into DeFi protocols, announcing acquisitions that never actually happen. It's a classic crypto payment processor. So when I go to Wire, their website, which is still up, it says, Wire is winding down and it talks about what they did and how they're ending. And they basically, it seems like they tried to do this in a way that allowed people to get their funds off of the payment processor in time. I don't know if you know anything more about that than I do. Funny enough, I'm like, Bolt is still around though. And this is Ryan, that's still Ryan Breslow's company, right? We didn't even get into all of Ryan Breslow's fuck ups, right? Like he had the movement Dow that he gave away to like a known fraudster that was separate from like his movement not for profit that ended up like embroiled in some other scandal. We've got some articles we'll link in the description and there's some videos we've made on this channel about it, but like Ryan Breslow's whole like group of companies is a fucking mess. I'm looking through his career and just some of his stuff in general. First of all, this guy is 29 years old. He's younger than me. And 29 is very, very young crypto pharmaceutical startup, the movement, a dance nonprofit. I am confused about this guy's entire life. Surprise went to Stanford. Gosh, I'm all over the place here just because I'm like, wow, so eco didn't work out. That's gone, right? Eco still has a website and they're still tweeting. And they still have a token that's down, oh, down 70%. Remember, there's two tokens, right? There's eco and there's ecoX. What does ecoX do? Well, that's the deflationary supply token serving as the governance asset that's used to secure applications on the eco network, of course. It's deflationary. Why is it down 88 %? It's not deflationary enough? I feel like this is so similar to our discussion about Terra Luna, man. We're not going after Ryan Breslow's stupidity today. They're all interconnected, wire, bolt, eco, love, whatever the fuck these are. And they're all doing poorly. They're all stupid. How much money was going through wire? There's some answers to that I'll get to, not as much as you might be thinking. At the very beginning of 2022, wire announces they're scaling back operations and doing these layoffs. And then on January 7th, wire announces that they're going to be changing withdrawals, limiting how much you can withdraw. You can only withdraw up to 90 % plus other daily limits. Five days later, though, things get better when wire announces that they have received financing from a strategic partner that will allow them to continue their normal course of operations. And this is always good news when crypto companies get strategic financing from undisclosed partners. That takes us into the Binance US era of wire. Binance US, in the beginning of 2022, was using Prime Trust as their principal payment processor. They started switching off of Prime Trust, and by May 25th, 2023, had much of their funds stored with wire.
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"fraud" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"The Democrat party is like an open air Epstein Island. They are all doing something illegal. The regime knows it. They have it on film and they'll use it as blackmail as a way to try to get you what you want. Pelosi, Schumer, and so Mayor Johnson, you think Mayor Johnson is going to come out and do a big press conference about the illegals overrunning Chicago? Message received. You think that Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles, is going to come out and do a big press conference about the illegals destroying LA and LA County? Message received. Even if nothing materializes with, I don't know, the Turkish government paying off Eric Adams, which just feels so weird. I'm not that interested in that. Like maybe if it's a U.S. senator like Menendez, it has some obvious bearing on U.S. foreign policy, gold bars, Egypt. That's interesting. That should be investigated. Chairman of the Foreign Intelligence Affairs Committee. But this is what you're going to go after the mayor of New York on? No, it's a shot across the bow. It's Joe Biden saying, yeah, you wanted them. My goodness, it's so mafioso. It's really dark in Machiavelli when you think about it. Hours before he's going to sit down with Joe Biden, the federal government raids his top fundraising and it worked. That's what's so incredible about it. It worked. Eric Adams returned home, canceled it. Eric Adams is now I'm under investigation by the FBI. What did I do? Eric Adams, it's not a matter of what you did. You took money from some sultan or Erdogan or whatever. That just makes you a Democrat. That doesn't make you a criminal. Democrats do that all the time. It means we're watching you, Eric Adams. We see you. Obey. You better love Big Brother or we'll raid your home. We'll put you in jail. Quickly. Because we have the power and you don't. So let the Mexicans in. Let the Nicaraguans in. Sit down and take it and stop complaining. Thanks so much for listening, everybody. Email us as always. Freedom at CharlieKirk.com. Thank you so much for listening. For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk.com. When I grow up, I want to work for a woke company like super woke. When I grow up, when I grow up, I want to be hired based on what I look like rather than my skills. I want to be judged by my political beliefs. I want to get promoted based on my chromosomes. When I grow up, I want to be offended by my coworkers and walk around the office on eggshells and have my words policed by HR. Words like grandfather, peanut gallery, long time no see, no can do. When I grow up, I want to be obsessed with emotional safety and do workplace sensitivity training all day long. When I grow up, I want to climb the corporate ladder just by following the crowd. I want to be a conformist. I want to weaponize my pronouns. What are pronouns? It's time to grow up and get back to work. Introducing the number one Woke Free Job Board in America, RedBalloon.Work.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"fraud" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"So you got Ken Buck. He's not running. Adam Kinzinger is complaining, promoting a new book. The Republican Party is changing. It is recentering. It's reorienting. It's not going to happen easily, but it's you guys, the grassroots that are making it happen. You got to stay on your elected officials. You got to get involved in the precinct committee stuff, get involved in the state parties. It's about action. Detoxing is hard. In fact, sometimes detoxing can be very painful. Your body actually might fight itself. It's actually called a Candida cleanse. Sometimes when you detox, you literally sometimes have flu-like symptoms. You want to go back to how things were. You know, this detox is necessary. The Democrat Party right now is going to go through a very, I want to say difficult, but uncertain time. They're pure totalitarians, so they might figure it out. They ordered the hit on Eric Adams. Oh yeah, he's getting donations from Turkey in a New York mayor's race. Yeah, okay, great. I am convinced with Eric Adams, they had this one sitting and waiting, and you're trying to tell me they ordered the hit of the raid of his fundraiser the day that Eric Adams was going down to DC to shine a light on the open borders and how it's flooding New York mafioso tactics. And let me get this straight. So Eric Adams is running for a local, it's not local, it is local, mayor's race, and the Turkish government wants to influence the city of New York? Why don't you guys worry about, I don't know, the Muslim Brotherhood Persian infiltration into the State Department? Even if Eric Adams was bought by the Turkish government, what is the worst thing Eric Adams could do as mayor of New York in advancement of Turkish interests? I'm half kidding. I'm not saying it's ethical or admirable, but the amount of pay for play, foreign purchasing of elected officials and bureaucrats in our State Department and in our Department of Defense is so naked. It is so clear that I'm not that interested in the mayor of New York, whether or not he got donations from Turkey, but we know why he flew too close to the sun. He complained too loud. He actually cared about his citizens too much. Eric Adams, don't you know that if you're mayor of New York, you must not care about your people? That's like the most important thing. You must keep your mouth shut and mass migration from the third world is a top priority of Joe Biden and the regime. They must allow as many people from the third world as possible and you must keep your mouth shut. Eric Adams, being a former cop black mayor, who I don't even think is a good mayor by the way, but he was saying some good things, complaining about how the city is being overrun, how the city is being trashed by illegals, real erosion of support in the black community. And the Biden mafia had to order a hit. They needed to make an example. And you better believe that black commie, what's his name, Johnson, who runs Chicago. He's not going to be saying anything anytime soon because these people are all a bunch of criminals. These Democrats, they have been committing crimes for decades. It's just a matter of who's going to enforce it, who's going to mention it.
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"fraud" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"The second largest donor to Joe Biden is now a convicted fraudster. Sam Bankman freed coindesk.com cryptocurrency CEO donated second largest amount to Joe Biden's campaign. But the dark money aspect of this is very important. There was a book written years ago by Jane Mayer, who is a left wing reporter with The New Yorker called Dark Money. And while I disagree with a lot of her politics, it's actually a very interesting book. And it was mostly obviously aimed at the right. And so dark money was a pejorative phrase that Democrats used against largely the Koch brothers and money that does not have to be disclosed. Dark money is a brilliant marketing label. It sounds a lot worse than it is. There's nothing illegal about it. So at Turning Point USA, for example, we do not have to publicly disclose our donors at turning point action. We do not have to publicly disclose our donors. No different than Planned Parenthood action. No different than priorities. USA Action, a lot of the groups on the left. And so therefore, if you don't have to publicly disclose your donors, as long as 51 percent of the money is spent on social welfare, not on 49 percent on politics, then the donors remain anonymous. You can also receive money from LLCs and from companies. They don't get a tax deduction. So so dark money, again, that is a phrase that is largely pushed by the left, is now actually used far more by the left than the right. And one of the untold stories of the last decade is how the left went from complaining about campaign finance, complaining about Citizens United to embracing Citizens United to beat us. It is one of the untold stories of the last 10 years where it used to be a major issue of Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, AOC. The base of the Democrat Party always said money is corrupting politics. Money is corrupting politics. We need to publicly finance our elections. And the smart people, the Democrat Party, who just want power, said, yeah, yeah, yeah. Actually, we have more rich people than they do, especially post election of Donald Trump. Let's use the dark money laws. Let's use the ability to raise capital without public disclosure against Republicans. So that's a very, very important thing to recognize is to the Democrats credit. They were the loudest ones to complain post Citizens United decision. The Citizens United decision, which I believe Clarence Thomas wrote the opinion for this Citizens United decision, basically said that you cannot regulate the amount of political speech. So you could give unlimited politically. You might have to have disclosure laws and public stuff, but you can't put limits on how much an American citizen will engage politically. And there's some really good arguments that were made in that court case. For example, would a book written negatively about Hillary Clinton be considered to be a campaign contribution? That was actually one of the pieces of evidence that was presented in the Citizens United Supreme Court case. And the liberal judges or the liberal advocates or plaintiffs said, yes, that would be considered to be a political contribution. So our podcast radio program, our commentary, our books all could have become regulated political speech. So the Supreme Court made the right decision by saying, no, we are not going to micromanage podcasting, news broadcasting, newspaper articles and say that that's political speech. So it's really good. So anyway, so Citizens United set a precedent for a flow of capital and Republicans were the first ones to use it. The Koch brothers used it a lot in the early 2012, 13, 14, 15. You started to see it emerge more and more. And Democrats got very wise to it. And they said, wait a second, why don't we start pumping our own money of our tech oligarchs, especially with the tech boom into things such as, you know, Priorities USA and all this other stuff? According to crypto whale analysis, the Sam Bankman-Fried made donations on over 100 instances. Out of these instances, only nine were to Republicans, and they weren't Republicans that we like, by the way. The rest went to Democrats. The investigation and the subsequent trial revealed that Sam Bankman-Fried had planned to donate over $1 billion to Democrats in the 2024 election. Now, this story is really important, everybody, for a variety of reasons. You're now getting a very accurate and unprecedented picture into how the deep state and the Uniparty finances their schemes, how the administrative state is able to recruit candidates, how they are able to support their entire infrastructure. The buried lead of the Sam Bankman-Fried fraud case is, yes, he's a bad guy who got really cocky and thought highly of himself, and he believed in this fake effect of altruism. But a level deeper, everybody, is we are now getting a window into the dark money that subsidizes the deep state. Now, not all dark money subsidizes the deep state, but this certainly does. Sam Bankman-Fried was not giving because of ideological reasons. He was giving for naked political protection. And then we're going to go a level deeper about restitution. I meant to get there. But if you look at most major fraud cases, when somebody steals money, there has to be some way to find a remedy. The question is, why hasn't Joe Biden returned the money? Why hasn't Chuck Schumer returned the money? We're talking about tens of millions of dollars, and we should push for a judge to make it happen.
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"fraud" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"Adam Laxalt in Nevada fell two thousand votes short of Cortez Masto. In Nevada, would we control the Nevada Senate seat if it wasn't for the fraudster Sam Bankman Fried? This smells exactly like 2020. They do the illegal thing as quickly as possible, not caring about the cost. And if they caught too bad, we're in power and you aren't. Well, I have an idea for restitution, because when you have fraud cases like Bernie Madoff, it doesn't stop with the conviction. You have to make your victims whole. Hey, everybody, Charlie Kirk here. Do you know that the average American spends about 20 years in retirement? That's a long time to live without a steady income. We want to make sure you enjoy every moment of it and don't outlive your money. Retirement is about more than just investment. It's about living your best life. Let's not retire. Let's pivot. My friends at Pax Financial Group developed a course for the sole purpose of helping you pivot. If you want your own free guide of pivoting into the next chapter of life with purpose, visit paxfg.com slash Charlie. That is paxfg.com slash Charlie. I have some of my money managed by Pax Financial. They do a wonderful job. And remember, retirement is about more than just investments. The Charlie Kirk endorsement of the Pax Financial Group LLC was given for compensation, which creates an incentive to recommend Pax's advisory services. You make sure that disclaimer is very clear. So check it out, paxfg.com slash Charlie.
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"fraud" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"Lots of channels. Nothing to watch. Especially if you're searching for the truth. It's time to interrupt your regularly scheduled programs with something actually worth watching. Salem News Channel. Straightforward, unfiltered, with in-depth insight and analysis from the greatest collection of conservative minds. Like Hugh Hewitt, Mike Gallagher, Sebastian Gorka, and more. Find truth. Watch 24-7 on SNC.TV and on Local Now, Channel 525. Hey, everybody. It's here on The Charlie Kirk Show. Sam Bankman Freed is convicted of the dark money fraud that is financing the Democrat Party. We talk about that. Also, Adam Kinzinger says he's voting for Joe Biden. What does a Republican mean anymore? Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com and subscribe to our podcast. Open up your podcast app and type in charliekirkshow. Get involved with Turning Point USA at tpusa.com. That is tpusa.com. Email me, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com and become a member, charliekirk.com. That is charliekirk.com and click on the Members tab. Get involved with Turning Point USA, the nation's most important organization, at 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.
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"fraud" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"Legitimate question. Is Ken Buck being blackmailed by the intel agencies or by the Democrat machine? Do they have some sort of blackmail on him? Why would one change so dramatically and start parroting the talking points of the regime? Mass mail-in balloting is perfectly safe and secure. It's eroding our trust in the institutions. That's a really interesting new talking point. Joe Scarborough and Morning Mika uh they he mentioned this the other day. So this is a new talking point from the Operation Mockingbird trusted news initiative. They say well aren't you conservatives? Don't you conservatives care about the trust of our institutions? Isn't it a Burkean conservative value to protect the institution? And the answer is if the institution has been corroded and taken over by a bacterial infection, you have to either remove the infection or burn the institution to the ground. We're not going to defend an FBI that is inwardly at war against the citizens. In addition, we're not going to defend a kleptocracy and an oligarchy running the entire country. And so Ken Buck says well this erodes trust on our institutions. Well it's our fault, Ken Buck? It's not the fault of the FBI who illegally spied on Donald Trump. The Durham report, which was lackluster in its enforcement, not a single person went to jail, but the report itself did show that the FBI broke regulation after regulation and protocol. I remember when some people were so excited when the Durham report came out, these kind of normy Republicans like oh this is really going to teach the FBI a lesson. Has anybody even mentioned the Durham report in the last six months? We were pretty down on the Durham report when it came out. Indictments are coming, we were told. No, they get away with it. They always get away with it because of people like Ken Buck. Because Ken Buck says that if you dare question the administrative state, the FBI, the Department of Justice, then you're just paranoid. Yeah, you're a paranoid person. Ken opposition candidate and a former president is facing 700 years in federal prison. Perfectly fine. And it's your fault because you're deteriorating trust. He says we have to stop perpetuating a lie about the 2020 election as if we didn't have the Hunter Biden laptop story suppressed and that significantly moved people's opinions in the key battleground states, as if we did not have mass mail-in balloting in the Center for Technology of Civic Life and Mark Zuckerberg pumping in 400 million dollars in Zuckerberg's illegally administered, the relaxing of signature verification standards, the delayed counting in Fulton County and Cobb County. Perfectly fine. Nothing to see here according to Ken Buck.
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"fraud" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"Now mind you, this was two years ago. This is well before a lot of the Tucker Carlson tapes, before we saw that the QAnon shaman was getting, you know, guided tours. Jacob Chansley was getting guided tours of the U.S. Senate and I said, I don't appreciate some of the language you're using. You're playing into the left. Why don't you talk about the, you know, the murder of Ashley Babbitt, all that sort of stuff and I sensed an attitude from Ken Buck in that conversation that was completely different from the Ken Buck that I knew years before which was a fighter, someone that was representing his voters, was going to D.C. and I saw a softening. Now mind you, the way the left works is that once they smell blood in the water, they pounce. This is what they did with Adam Kinzinger. This is what they've done with Paul Ryan. This is what they do with any moderate Republican that starts to waver, starts to buckle in the knees, starts to all of a sudden want to be liked. The left goes all in and Ken Buck was a perfect candidate. He was getting older. He just wanted to be liked. He wanted to be accepted to the parties and so Ken Buck all of a sudden started to do very strange things. For example, recently, remember, we're trying to talk about impeaching Joe Biden and Ken Buck says, well, there's no evidence of that. What? You're a Freedom Caucus member. There's no evidence of impeaching the traitor, Joe Biden. Ken Buck recently came out and said that there's no problem with mail-in ballots. His home state of Colorado has been obliterated and ruined because of mass mail-in balloting. Ken Buck went from a Freedom Caucus fiscal hawk to a leading member of the Vichy French. Play cut 83. I have no problem with mail-in ballots. I don't have a problem with the Colorado system. I don't see widespread fraud and I think it's appropriate to have mail-in ballots, but it's really a state by state, county by county issue. Yeah, look, I think that the president has been hurt by the investigation, the wrongful investigation, the fraudulent investigation run by the upper echelon of the FBI and I think that makes this president somewhat paranoid about a free and fair election. He's calling Trump paranoid about a free and fair election. How does this happen? Look, a fact of life is that as some men age, they lose their fight.