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Crypto Cafe With Randi Zuckerberg
A highlight from What You Need to Know This Week (September 21stth)
"Hello, and welcome to the Crypto Cafe with Randi Zuckerberg. I'm your host, Randi. And in this cafe, we embrace newcomers and experts alike to all things at the center of tech disruption and innovation and where that meets up with art and creativity. Our recurring theme is what you need to know this week in the world of tech and creativity. And we like to do it all in 10 minutes or less. I'm delighted to be joined by two of my amazing teammates from Hug. Would love if you would check out thehug .xyz to see how we empower artists and provide tools for artists to take their practice into the next level using technology. But first, let's meet our guest contributors. First, we have Tina Lindell, marketing manager at Hug. Hi, Tina. Howdy. Hello. I'm so excited to be here again this week, Randi. I love it. I love having you back on the show. I'm also joined by Michael Liddig, who is a multidisciplinary artist himself and director of creator programming at Hug. Hi, Michael. Howdy, Randi. All right. So we before get into the topics that both of you brought to the table this week, which are fascinating topics in the world of tech and creativity, I just wanted our audience to know that I'm joined by some extreme athletes here from Hug. So Tina, maybe you could talk a little bit about your kind of epic hiking and climbing adventure in Peru. And then Michael, you can talk a little bit about our epic race that we did this weekend. So Tina, talk to me. I'm so impressed by what you did. So my fiancé is Peruvian, so we had it on our list to go to Peru and hike the Incan Trail, which was amazing. It was the hardest thing I've ever done. I was a fool. I didn't train for it. I still survived. And the way you see the world when you're kind of totally remote, there's no Wi -Fi, there's no computers, there's no TV. It's just you out in nature, hiking through different ecosystems, seeing different kinds of plants, trees, and going up so many stairs. There's more stairs than I've wished to climb again in a lifetime. But kind of you walk for four days and at the end of it, you get to the Sun Gate at the Incan Trail and you can see Machu Picchu. And there's so many things that you can do. It was absolutely incredible. Michael, you're the athlete here. You did something crazy recently, if I'm correct. Well, Randy convinced me to do something crazy, which was do a half marathon up a 5 ,000 -foot mountain, which is such a metaphor of living in the unknown, as Randy could talk about more too, which is when you think you're done with this mountain, there are more mountains ahead of you. So it was a wild, wild adventure. It took Randy and I six hours to do, but we literally, literally crawled through mud together and that will be one of my greatest memories of all time. It was, Michael, I think like crawling under barbed wire through a mud pit with you while like 50 people sang you Happy Birthday has got to be just like one of the greatest memories that I will hold on to. It was amazing. But you know what? I feel like these things show us that, you know, if an idea comes to your head, like hiking the Incan Trail or climbing a mountain and an idea comes to you that gives you butterflies in the pit of your stomach, it kind of means you have to do it. Like if something scares you and makes you a little uncomfortable. And I feel like that's at the root of where we all are at HUG also. There's a lot of things in tech and art that make all of us deeply uncomfortable and it just shows that you're on the right path. So let's get into our topics for this week. All right, so our first, dun dun dun, someone got in trouble. Tina, you wanted to talk about how the SEC came for one of the big digital art projects. So let us know what's on your mind. Yes, so someone did get in big trouble. So the SEC has charged the NFT product and web series Stoner Cats for conducting an unregistered offering of crypto asset securities. So Stoner Cats is a, or was, is a six episode series about talking house cats. It was actually founded by Mila Kunis and was set to star a bunch of celebs, including her husband, Ashton Kutcher, Jane Fonda, Seth MacFarlane, and even Gary Vee and the founder of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin. It was interesting. What the SEC is citing is back in 2021, Stoner Cats raised $8 million through NFT sales and they sold out in only 30 minutes, which is crazy. Now it's not unusual to see NFT projects promote the utility of ownership is the verbiage we're used to seeing. Where they're getting in trouble is their marketing campaign for Stoner Cats explicitly stated that owning their NFT would promise profits from secondary sales. That is not good. That is exactly why they're in hot water. Now what is interesting, and I want to talk to you guys about, is the SEC actually is citing and targeting memes shared from the Stoner Cats Twitter account as a violation. And what I think is funny is when we think of marketing, we think of TV commercials, we think of banner ads. We think of all kinds of memes. And I think that memes are a very powerful way to leverage visual language and common culture to spread a message. And that's exactly why brands and businesses and individuals need to be careful about what kind of memes they share. So what do you guys think? It's so fascinating. And you know what, honestly, I had a lawyer on the show a few months ago who was saying that you can't even use a rocket ship emoji in a press release or anything because even these visual images that we've gotten so used to using can connotate profits and success in business that you can't guarantee. So I think it is wild that we're now having to think about memes and emojis. And is that over promising things in business? But Michael, over to you. I'd love your thoughts. Yeah. I count this to be something of people were really excited about a new technology, which was the use of NFTs that you could sell them on the secondary market. And I remember when this came out, I was so excited that artists could be able to actually raise money on their projects in a more, what I thought was effective way. And so while I agree with what the SEC is doing, and I think it's good to put these guardrails on, I also think it will in some ways give us more opportunity in the future to really determine what does an NFT do, which is it provides utility, that's it, bar none, nothing else. And so it can challenge us to say, what does that utility unlock? Is it simply just art? Or is it something that unlocks something? So yeah, it's a complex thing, right? Yeah, very, very complex. And, you know, in some ways, I think it's a good thing that we're seeing more regulation in the space, because there were a lot of bad players and a lot of what kind of just blatant money grabs that were going on. On the other hand, I'm not sure that it's like the best use of anyone's time to be policing the use of memes and emojis. So hopefully we'll come to a happy medium in between these things. But Tina, thanks for bringing such a fascinating discussion topic to the table. And for our listeners out there, I'd love to hear what you think about the use of marketing materials and memes and emojis that could potentially get a company in trouble. All right, Michael, over to you. You wanted to talk a little bit about AI chatbots and how it's getting harder and harder to actually tell if you are chatting with a human or AI. Tell us more. Yeah, so talking about creativity, you know, an article just came out that AI chatbots on average showcase creativity rivaling most human participants. So that's pretty amazing, right? So we're saying now that the tools and the technology we've created on average is about the same type of creative thinking. Here's the caveat. It did not outperform the top creative thinkers. And so when I think about this, I'm thinking about how technology and tools is enhancing our creative thinking, but not taking it away. I remember like, you know, 20 years ago, when I wanted to go work on an artistic project, and I had to go to the library, wah, wah, wah. And I had to go to this thing called the image library in New York City. And I had to like go in the stacks and find all these images. Cut to five years later, I could literally Google that and Google image and find all those images super, super quick. So I'm seeing that these things become more efficient over time and challenges us to ask better questions to think in broader terms when it comes to our creative thinking. And so I think this is a good thing. Tina, your thoughts? Yeah, this is so exciting to me, because it brings me back to a quote I haven't thought about in a long time. And it's creativity is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it becomes. And we're seeing here, whether you're an individual or even an AI, the more you kind of work this creative muscle, the better and, you know, more imaginative it's going to become. So me, I'm a creative, I love to write poetry. So how do I get started writing poetry, I read a lot of poetry. And so this is exactly what these AIs are doing. They're taking in a lot of information and then creating output from that. That's exactly what humans do. So I see it as a challenge that if there's a world where AI is outperforming creativity, that tells me I should really work harder on my creativity. So I can become that top performing human that AI can't beat. Brandy? Yeah. Okay. It's so interesting because I remember, I mean, even back in college, we were studying, you know, like what happens when you are like, it was almost like can computers think that question, you know, posing that question. It's like, if you can't tell if you're having a conversation with a human or computer, does that mean that the computer is thinking? And how do you know? And I feel like now AI is raising all these same fascinating questions about just like what humanity means. And what like thought in conversation and creativity. So sorry, I'm clearly just having an existential crisis over here. I'm not really like answering either of your questions. I'm just spiraling. But it is it's both exciting and terrifying, don't you think? Oh, yeah, I think of like, Yuval No Harari's book Homo Deus, which is this ultimate potential question of are we are we going to merge with machines like this week, this week, Neuralink got permission to do human trials. Can you imagine? So people will now be able to put the Neuralink brain chip into their head. So what does this mean? Are we are we be like you said, Randy, am I having an existential crisis? Are we becoming half robot, half human? I mean, I kind of welcome our robot overlords, you know, like just bring it bring it on in our final moments together, because we have promised our listeners 10 minutes and I could talk to you guys for hours. Michael, tell us a little bit about what you're working on at hug right now and what you're excited about. And then we'll over to you, Tina. Yeah, super excited about a few things. One is a big partnership. You know, I lead education at hug. So I'm always thinking about what kind of insights can we provide artists around selling their work, getting their work out there networking. And we've been working hard as we shop around how we can educate creators around how to use this more effectively and diversify their income. So that's where my brains at a lot these days. What about you, Tina? Well, kind of piggybacking on your comment about this print shop we're launching. So we're inviting guest curators to help us pick the art that will be sold in the print shop. And today we just opened a call to look for spooky, scary, like Halloween art. To sell in October. I'm so excited. I love fall. I love Halloween. I love ghosts and scary things. And we've invited one of my favorite artists, Mumbot, to guest curate for that. She's so much fun. She has these ghost characters in her art. She originally made these characters to share with her children. And so very excited to see what kind of spooky, scary Halloween art comes her way. I am all about the spooky, scary Halloween art. So I'm going to be all over that that print shop and everything else. Thank you both so much. Tina, Michael, always a pleasure to chat with you about everything from the SEC cracking down on memes to A .I. chat bots becoming more human like to all of our extreme athletic adventures together and apart. Wonderful to chat with you both. Definitely encourage everyone to check out Thehug .xyz. Tina, Michael and the rest of the team are doing an extraordinary job bringing opportunity and resources to artists of all kinds out there. Join us next week for a brand new episode of What You Need to Know here in the Crypto Cafe with me, Randy Zuckerberg, and my incredible Hug contributors.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "gates" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"To secure any loose outdoor items to keep them from blowing around, but also be to sure to keep their electronic devices charged. VDOT also issuing a warning to Virginia residents to stay off the roads if they can, the department saying that pockets of standing water plus downed trees and power lines are all potential obstacles as they prepare for the worst. And hope for the best. Matt Kofax, WTOP news and this morning the people run who Metro remind you to look out for downed trees or flying debris in slippery conditions on roadways, and in its stations themselves. And of course Metro will get the word out if any trains or buses are disrupted by the expected weather. They're also working to prevent flooding in the system. We'll keep you updated here on WTOP. Just keep you dialed right where it is as you always do, of course. 103 .5 FM WTOP .com on and the free WTOP app. It's 306. The other big story we're following for you this morning with no deal to keep the federal government funded, at least not yet, we appear to be moving closer this weekend to a government shutdown a week. in We have what you need to know here at WTOP this morning about what may close come October 1st. The National Zoo and some of your favorite Smithsonian museums will close if there's a government shutdown. D .C. courts and services like the public defender's office will also close since those offices are funded by the federal government. IRS The is reversing its plan to stay open, saying it will partially close. And the Department of Defense is to set close this time. A deal was reached during the last government shutdown that kept this agency open. With 12 spending bills that haven't passed yet, the impending government shutdown may affect more government institutions and services than the last government shutdown in 2019. Valerie Bock, WTOP News. D .C. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton meantime wants to keep some of those agencies open, so to that end, she's introduced a bill in Congress to do just that. This is a city, we don't have anything to do with these congressional matters, and we should be treated as city a that is not involved in congressional issues that are causing the shutdown. I think we will be again. That's been the case for Republican and Democratic administrations. We see the danger here and the non -involvement of the District of Columbia, so I'm hoping that once we again will see this happen. Word is that Norton has apparently been able to negotiate exemptions each year since 2015 that kept the DC government and services from completely shutting down during past federal shutdowns, but this year the bill she introduced would cement that exemption into law. Stay tuned. Good morning. Welcome back to WTOP. Well, Pete, glad you're with us. Time now, Saturday morning, September 23rd, is 3 .08. Get a Precision AC tune -up for only $9 .00. I think it'll weather all the gates and when it breaks. Good Saturday morning to Ken Berger with us this early hour in
Milk Crates and Turntables. A Music Discussion Podcast
A highlight from Ep.118 - Rewind to 1967: The Year That Changed Music Forever
"Well here we are episode 118 I think I think I forgot to list a few this might be like episode 120 or 121 I don't know I guess that's a good thing when you do so many you lose count anyway on this episode we're gonna be talking about the year in music 1967 and as usual I have the wrecking two in the house Mark Smith and Lou Colicchio of the music relish show very interesting yeah a lot happened sit back relax it's gonna be another two and a half hour podcast but we love it enjoy the show the KLFB studio presents milk rate and turntables a music discussion podcast hosted by Scott McLean now let's talk music enjoy the show yes let's talk music thank you Amanda for that wonderful introduction as usual welcome back my friends to the show that never ends welcome to the podcast you know the name I'm not gonna say it was streaming live right now over Facebook YouTube X formerly known as Twitter twitch D live and again I always I don't know how many other things and this podcast will be heard on every podcast platform yeah yeah 1967 so it was quite a year think you're in for a little little ride tonight yeah and you know who wasn't born in night oh he was three in 1967 marksmen from the music relish show good evening I was two years from being on this earth so you weren't even really thought of no you thought of it 67 think of that think of that yeah you weren't even thought of you weren't even like a sparkle in as they say in your father's eye there might have been the beginning of a sparkle who knows so let me see I'm looking at my is my screen still fuzzy on my end but I'm not even seeing it on YouTube right now I'm seeing it's live but I just got the image of the vinyl really yeah what the hell wait wait wait wait yeah no it's on it's on I see it I see it but my screen looks fuzzy right yeah that's how I'm seeing you from my end yeah what the hell let me check something here hold on okay let's do a little in show my you know that smooth little March of colors next to you when you open up the show yeah happy it's all like gone really weird I'm looking at this right let's go back to this see what happens I'm supposed to be in 1080 and I'm looking at it right now now you're sharp you just got sharp it goes back and forth it's a strange see like hearing yourself huh I guess I don't know what do a refresh here I'm playing it right Tom Benwald says it looks good patty says it's blurry that was in the beginning and it looks like it's sharp now so it goes back and forth you're starting to get blurry again it's strange got any storms down there no this this would this will drive me crazy now this is it's not supposed to be like this come on it's like a Grateful Dead show warts and all rice we're talking about 1967 there's no digital so it was still waiting for Luda come on so you know I'm going to do I hate doing this but I'm going to do it to you buddy what's that no don't cut me I'm not cutting you I'm gonna I'm gonna hit a refresh which might take me off the screen so the show is yours for about I don't know 60 seconds let's see what happens here let's see reload I'm gonna reload it so I'm going off the screen I guess it's time to advertise the music roll show with my friend Perry and my friend Lou we discuss opera we have fun how am I now you look better look yeah yeah looks better yep and I just advertised my podcast is that the opera I'll pay you I'll give you the money later on then I lose my this is like okay here we go you look better though all right good yeah good you know me I the technical stuff drives me crazy especially you know it's not only sound it has to be oh it's this is a live stream so it has to look yeah good and you don't want to drop out in the middle of the show no like me and Lou do once in a while race right let's see is the chat working let's see now I'm not seeing any I'm not seeing any comments so let me try this well sorry for the podcast listeners but I gotta get this shit right hey it's okay I should be seeing I should be seeing comments because people have already made three comments you over here maybe they're bored and they don't want to comment anymore no it's there it should be showing up on my screen over here right we know that my boss you busting balls only Bono does that let's see public so it should be getting huh this is crazy seven minutes in and I'm here we haven't done anything yet let me see send comment test I just sent a text to message I see I see you as I see mine okay good we're good we're good let me switch over to my other account and do the same thing I just want to make sure yes just our audience is bored they don't want to comment actually this is all Lou's fault yeah yeah always the you know I would probably lost the other comments is because I rebooted so hmm all right well you know what we're gonna start without Lou right as I say that as I say that does he have what does he what do you let's get the full screen nose is that why you were late you had to clean your nose and he's back in Paris again you brown nose er I've been a bad dog my laptop and he's back in pair you left here in Paris you must have left it back in the United States I did I left on the plane how you doing Lou I'm doing alright how are you guys doing well I just had a little technical difficulty and we blamed you because you weren't here so you left me alone and I had to talk opera with myself talked opera yeah rigoletto did you talk about rigoletto this time I'm just really boring you know I'm like all right this is why this is a two and a half hour podcast some of us have to work tomorrow all right here we go let's jump right into 1967 musical events in 1967 and the year kicks off right away with a bomb a bomb on January 4th the doors release can arguably one of the greatest debut records ever arguably if you had a top 25 greatest debut that albums would have to be in the top 10 it would have to be yeah you know if you had a top 50 that would have to be in the top 10 right even if you don't like them you have to say that was so ahead of its time oh it's so different nothing out there was like the needle and all you hear it kicks I mean fucking what a way to start an album it's a heavy song it with a bossa nova beat yeah I mean that's pretty clever yeah 67 so you know bossa nova was pretty hip again John Densmore over underrated underrated underappreciated I think you are you are so correct you know never gets the the the consideration that I I don't know you can't put him in greatest of all time but could he be okay if there's a top there's a top 25 drummer top 25 drummers is he in it good question and in rock we'll just say in rock I think he could be I could see him making so I don't know if he's a universal pick but I could see him on some list I mean he's something you'd have to think about like you said like it doesn't get noticed so much you know yeah yeah or it I mean although his drumming wasn't shy I mean he's jazzy as hell I heard um writers on the storm yesterday and his adjustment playing is great in his adjustments during the shows just for that yeah yeah the unpredictability of you know how the how the song was gonna go right because they could rehearse it all they want once Morrison got into that zone well in the drama keeps the beat right yeah yeah the drummer has to stay up with that yeah and played to the clown so to speak right you know and my my problem is if some of the clowns don't have the beat you know at one point they've got to give in like I said Morrison or even Dylan they'll set the tone but they've got to be steady themselves you know it's yeah otherwise it's just erratic but you know yeah guy like Dan's more I mean I had skill I had a lot of a lot of technical ability right feel yes cool so obviously his drums always sounded good yeah on the earlier on the other records even you know three years worth of music whatever I guess I would be who produced some Jack Holtzman was the producer did a good job Jekyll or now wait so no what was it Paul Rothchild yes yes yes I'm sorry Holtzman was he on the record company yeah yeah was that it was that chrysalis or chrysalis I think or just like yes that's a lecture a lecture weren't they on chrysalis though also I thought they were yeah maybe maybe chrysalis was a subsidiary but uh yeah Jack Holtzman's son is Adam Holtzman he's a keyboardist right now he plays with here we go Stephen Wilson but he does a little blog on Facebook and he talks about growing up and he was like six years old and his father brought him to a club to see the tour Wow at six years old he just talks about like yeah it's a great little blog Wow all right and four days later on January 8th Elvis Presley turned 32 on January 14th the human be in right the human be e -i -n human being takes place in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park polo fields with spoken words from Timothy Leary Allen Ginsberg Gary Snyder in others live music was provided by Jefferson Airplane the Grateful Dead Big Brother in the holding company and Quicksilver Messenger Service speeches from Jerry Rubin and others were also given at the event although it's one band there I liked yeah Quicksilver Messenger Service who was it on January 15th 1967 who is your favorite poet of all them I know you're not asking me Arthur Rimbaud who influenced Jim Morrison good answer good answer way to bring that first opening segment rough full circle we're getting better Scott we're good now you guys get a lot of good trust me I'm getting a lot of good feedback so let's keep it at that I don't want you son ask for more money and on January 15th 1967 the Rolling Stones appear on the Ed Sullivan show at Ed Sullivan's request finish it he asked them to let's spend sing let's spend some time together is that the one there you go yeah and then he told him a really big shoe I hate to do this I mean I come back on penalty box I don't say just he beat my record okay look he just got on the show after late and these are either he's stuck he's frozen put the dog nose back on where'd it go are you throw it at the camera like your headphones on January 16th 1967 the monkeys begin work on headquarters the first album to give them complete artistic and technical control over their material and it was fucking horrible fucking horrible what were they thinking they know they were thinking the egos got too big they thought they were the music well the argument can be made that you know Mike Nesmith did write different drum yeah so he could write songs but I don't think he was a pop songwriter you know headquarters and they try to be all fucking like 60 ish and shit they weren't looking for pop were they they're trying to be like more psychedelic yeah I think so there were their channel on the Beatles with those quirky little yeah with anti -grizzelles on that I don't know some weird shit I'll tell you what though I don't care about it myself but it was surely a harpsichord on it because that's what all those records had they had to have a harpsichord and I have the book this the 100 best -selling records of the 60s the monkeys got a they've had quite a few albums on there oh they do yeah they were they were but I mean I thought it was just a condensed period of the show which it probably was but it's still I mean they've got I mean most of their albums sold really well yeah yeah ah you like the show what's it is like the show I did I still like it I still love it I love that that that's so that humor is great like dumbed down brilliantly done though humor yeah way was what they were supposed to act like that yeah you know what I mean there was no like these guys are bad actors they knew exactly how to do that they pulled it off great it was campy it was great for its time it's still great to watch now yeah I do think that banana splits were a better band yeah that's I'll give you the banana splits were a kick -ass band yeah yeah kick -ass man did you see the movie recently came out it's a horror movie with the banana splits the banana splits movie it's a horror movie yeah yeah it takes place in an amusement park and they're they're robotic and in Dyson and slicing baby Dyson and slicing I have to say oh man that's yeah okay yeah Dyson and slicing it's good it's kids again campy movie but I couldn't not watch it yeah I have to say I'm sure Fleagle is a total psychopath well I'm not gonna give you any and no no no spoilers here those was it just Dyson and slicing on January 17 1967 the daily mail newspaper reports four thousand potholes in Blackburn Lancashire and Guinness air Tara Brown is killed in a car wreck these articles inspire lyrics for a day in the life a day in the life yes on January 22nd 1967 Simon and Garfunkel give live can't give a live concert at Phil harmonic Phil harmonic call in New York City some of this concert is released on October 4th 1997 on their box set old friends but most is not released until July 2002 that's some more okay January 29th mantra rock dance the quote ultimate high of the hippie era is organized at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco featuring Janis Joplin grateful dead big brother in the holding company for three Moby grape quirky that would've been interesting that's the best man that's the best as though for they're almost like the MC five kind of I think they were just kind of but they're they're a San Francisco band and beat poet once again Allen Ginsberg shows up to do his spoken word I heard he was a member of NAMBLA I wouldn't the National Association of Marlon Brando look -alikes I heard I'd someone I remember he actually he was a sponsor of NAMBLA but anyway on January 30th 1967 the Beatles shoot a promotional film for the forthcoming single strawberry fields forever at Noel Park in Seven Oaks have you seen it I have seen it I haven't seen it in a long time it's really cool yeah yeah it's kind of dark speaking of dark on February 3rd 1967 UK record producer Joe Meek murders is it his landlady and then commits suicide by shooting himself in the head in Holloway North in London it's kind of dark didn't he produce sleepwalk yes letter Telstar some early we talked we did it bit of a genius really yeah let's see February 7th Mickey Dolan's no let me stop February 6th Mike Nesmith and Mickey Dolan's of the monkeys fly into London Dolan sees till death do us part on British TV and uses the term Randy's scouse grit from the program for the title of the monkeys next single release Randy's scouse grit not releasing it is an offensive term Britain's British census forced the title to be changed to alternate title and then the next day Mickey Dolan's meets Paul McCartney at his home in st.
The Big Take
Fresh update on "gates" discussed on The Big Take
"To get the gavel was the fact that it would only take essentially one person saying that they that he needs to vacate that position right now you've got the likes of like matt gates you've got some others in the freedom caucus the freedom caucus for our listeners who aren't aware are essentially the far right part of the republican party they want to use this as a way to extract their demands border walls tighter immigration uh... we mentioned earlier the program about funding for ukraine all those things that are dear to them then when the rest of the world is looking what's happening washington they certainly seen this show before but is there any concern about the government shutting down for some period of time does it have not had affects in the rest of the world i'm sure that if you are trying to trade this situation you can't void about thinking what sort of hedges you want to put on but i think the broader reaction europe is just a bit of a rolling it seems to be every six or nine months or so we have like a debt ceiling standoff or a government shutdown or some kind of partisan good luck but threatens to obstruct the u .s. government but the u .s. economy the state keeps rolling on the u .s. did lose its triple -a rating recently book i think that markets in general shrug that off and i don't think they're too worried about this either ben mario ross great to see you nice to see you too was thank you things worse thanks for listening to us here at the big take it's the daily podcast from bloomberg i heart radio for more shows from i heart radio visit the i heart radio app apple podcast or wherever you listen and we'd love to hear from you email us questions or comments to big take at bloomberg net the supervising producer of the big take his biggie burger lina our senior producer is catherine frederica roman yellow is our producer our associate producer is zen obsidiki hilda sia is our engineer original music was composed by leo sidrin i'm wes kasova we'll be back on monday with another the business news so we hope there is a wilder practices his act in the metaverse with forge fx's virtual training platform he says virtual welding lets me train as much as i want increasing my skills and access to opportunity through tulsa welding school zoe and other welders can use forge fx's platform to up level their expertise and answer the need for skilled workers in today's economy these are the ways skilled professionals are using the metaverse today learn at more meta .com slash metaverse impact it's football season so grab your lucky jersey put on your face paint and order lido pizzas football
Crypto Banter
A highlight from "DO NOT Buy Bitcoin Now! Here's WHY..." | Gareth Soloway
"I'm back and we're one day before the FOMC Bitcoin still at 27 ,175 now Gareth says Gareth Soloway He says that Bitcoin can get back to $30 ,000 But then he also says that even though Bitcoin can get back to 30 ,000. He wouldn't actually buy it. Listen to this Now interestingly enough, let's talk about how high can price rally right? So, I mean, let's let's talk about it So if you're someone who's saying wow, do I buy Bitcoin now? Honestly the answer is no now But he does think you can go back to to $30 ,000 So listen, what we're gonna do is we're gonna get Gareth on the show a bit later on He's gonna talk to us about what he meant when he said he thinks Bitcoin can go back to 30 ,000 level But he wouldn't actually be buying Bitcoin right now and that's ahead of the FOMC now. Remember it's a big FOMC why because we haven't heard from Jerome Powell since the 25th and 26th of July, so we haven't heard anything from Jerome Powell since the 25th and 26th of July and Remember that since the 21st and 26th of July we've had two very big inflation readings So the big question is what is Jerome Powell going to do tomorrow? Is he going to engineer a soft landing that is one thing that he could be doing or or or is he going to Fly the plane like that plane that got lost I think what we need to do is we need to spend some time talking about this because honestly Honestly, honestly, honestly I Mean, how can anyone? Lose an 80 million dollar plane even the Biden administration. Like how can you lose an 80 million dollar plane? No one can lose an 80 million dollar plane. Not even the Biden administration So this we've got a lot to talk about today. We're also gonna talk about finance We're gonna talk about finance in the SEC. They did go to court yesterday There was a little bit of FUD that came out of the court case yesterday Usually as you know, I don't really pay attention to the finance FUD But this time it's coming from the same people that warned me about Celsius and they were right So I took the side of Celsius and they were right So as I said, I don't usually pay attention to finance FUD because I think it's like usually just bat And I think there's too much finance FUD But I do think we need to talk about what came out of the hearing yesterday. So listen, I'm back We've got a huge show today one day before the FOMC. Let's go guys I Mean we have to laugh we have to laugh Not only did they lose a plane But then like to make matters worse they want us to help them Find the plane now. I mean, this is a true story They lost an 80 million dollar plane and they want us to help them find a plane That's the type of discussion that I usually have with James like I lost the soundboard James. Where's the soundboard? I lost it on the way to work. Anyway, we'll talk we'll talk about the plane later. There's a lot to talk about Listen guys, I'm back. I'm back in the studio. We've got a lot to discuss today Got a big show ahead of the the FOMC Also, I want to talk to a little bit about Asia I want to talk to you about Binance I want to talk to you about altcoins because we are getting bounces in the altcoins as you can see right here on the bubbles But it seems like it's stuff going up one day and down the next day Which means that there's no new capital coming in we know that and what that also means is that we're getting Asset money rotation between between one place or another and then also as a city later on gathers Garrett's coming on the show So we've got a lot to talk about we're a lot we're gonna be here together But let's talk about remember if you haven't yet subscribed the channel help us because one of the things that I realized in Singapore Was the bigger our channel the bigger the guests we can get on the channel the more attention they pay their pay to us And so when you guys subscribe to this channel when you like this content And we get the content out there and you subscribe to the channel That helps the channel grow that helps us bring more bigger guests onto the channel. That's why we need you I'll bring you the highest alpha per minute show in the world every single day and You will just like the content and then everything's fine. Everything works. It's a symbiotic relationship. Anyway, let's talk about Where we are right now Let's go to the charts what we can see when we look at the charts is that Bitcoin is above 27 ,200 one day before the FOMC meeting now, I heard rumors earlier That the reason why Bitcoin was actually rising is because the mount gox trustee may be forced to delay the distribution of the mount Bitcoin 2024 till that was actually written up by the blocks I heard the rumors much earlier today and then the block wrote something about it They're saying Bitcoin bounce may be due to mount gox delay rumors, but still targeting 22 ,000. That's a fan manager called QCP bitcoins price is largely due to rumors of delay that mount gox may drag their payments into 2024 that's actually exactly what I heard earlier today. So it could be that we may not be getting the mount gox Bitcoin hit in the market. Now you ask yourself. Why would that happen? So you very simply why would that would happen mount gox was hacked in 2014 this this this story took place in 2014 The liquidator like the FTX liquidator earns money on The longer this drags out the more the liquidator and it's almost like think about it like a lawyer Okay so the more this thing drags out the more money that the liquidator makes and it looks like the liquidator is going to continue to Pressure the side of the year now, let's go back to the charts because I want to show you something back on the chart So then if you remember but Kyle dupes said something very interesting. He said look when we get this death cross What will happen after the death crosses, but Bitcoin will go down But then Bitcoin will go up back to the price of where the death cross happened, which is twenty seven thousand seven hundred so so far Kyle's little I don't know if you want to call it a prediction is is actually playing out and playing out exactly like said Gary says we can actually go even to 30 ,000. I actually think that both of them are wrong I think that we may at some point soon this year this this month this year We will break that 30 ,000 everyone. I've been saying it for a while I don't know if you remember but I did say at the beginning of September when everybody was completely bearish about Bitcoin and everyone said oh September's gonna finish down because it finishes down every single September. I said no guys I think September's gonna finish up so far. I'm up five point five two percent So so far it feels to me like like like like I'm gonna look I'm gonna Get this but you must realize what's actually happening here James. What what's for lunch? Scacra doesn't talk but he's chewing here. I can hear the chewing going in my one ear and out and out over there Anyway, what we are seeing here is you need to look at the open interest on Bitcoin and what you realize is that the open? interest is just Completely tracking the price which means that price goes up open interest goes up price goes down open interest goes down That's what's going on here, which means it's just short term Ups and downs so to speak that are happening in the market and it's not real volume or real buying coming in So we still I'm still not convinced that this is the pump that's gonna take us over 30 ,000 But I am convinced that bitcoins gonna go north of 30 ,000 end of September Maybe even early October and I think shaldino shares the same the same sentiment as me because he's just opening lungs and lungs and Lungs and you should I think today you opened another long on the show. Did you guys did you guys watch Sheldon show today? scarecrows Scarecrows don't talk but the children open along yes or no scarecrows He opened us a line along. Okay, so say he did open a lot the guys got big big big kahunas I think the same thing was happening with alts when I look at the alt coins It looks like we're just getting a shift from one old coin to another old coin So yesterday roll, but was up today roll, but is down yesterday rune was up today rune is down and that's exactly what's happening There's no big moves. Let's just quickly check on the one hour time frame. No big moves. No big moves in all coins it's basically just a rotation of Many the good thing is that the fundamentals of Bitcoin and I said I don't say this likely but the fundamentals of Bitcoin have actually Never ever ever been stronger and what I mean when I say the fundamentals of Bitcoin have never been stronger So there's two parts of the fundamentals. The one part of the fundamental is the research So what does the research say? What are the fundamentals behind it? The other part of the fundamentals is something that is unique to Bitcoin and unique this asset class Which is the on -chain data because if you look at other asset classes, they don't really have on -chain data Bitcoin has on -chain data So, you know like when we say fundamentals we can actually just go to the chain and we can just say look Well, what is it? What does the chain say? What is the the data on chain say and here this is where it gets a little Bit exciting so it gets very exciting. The first thing is long -term The supply held by long -term holders up to the highest that it's ever been so you can see the percentage Supply that is held by long -term holds the Bitcoin never ever ever been higher that is Also evident here where you can see that 80 % of all Bitcoin have not moved in the last six months so what we're seeing here is long -term holders keep growing and then when they lot they hold they They hold for forever because it hasn't moved for more than six months What we also see is we see the short -term holders have been capitulated. They're out of the market. We don't see them anymore They were here. They they were good tourists and then we said bye -bye and they were just sending their money back to exchanges When I look at the unchain The unchain data right now and I said I don't say this lightly the unchain data right now looks the most positive that's ever been because the coins are sitting with the people who ain't gonna sell the Coins and when I say anchor solid coins, they holding the coins for for six months plus The sentiment is also very good. And I saw this tweet by Chris Paniski and he He shares the same sentiment that I shared in Asia He was struck by how incredible and what the buzz is that happened in a token 2049. You can see his his These guys are killing my ears Thanks guys. Thanks for thanks for destroying my eardrums. I used to have eardrums now they're gone Anyway, that's his version of what happened at token 2049, but he's been around for a while He says contrasting token 25 20 49 to the first bear market conference. I went to inside Bitcoin in April 2015 the worlds are completely different and that's true because Even though from a pricing point of view, we're in a bear market I'm gonna show you something very very very interesting about where we are in the market The other thing that's happening now, which we haven't seen in Bitcoin for for for a long time Since I got into Bitcoin people have been promising me that the institutions are coming into Bitcoin. It's always been the narrative It's like look we've got to prepare ourselves got to prepare us off Because you know what the institutions are coming in when the institutions come in The price of it coins gonna go to the moon and every time the institutions never came in They launched a Bitcoin futures and bang the the price collapsed So I've always been hearing since I got you That the institutions are coming into Bitcoin when the institutions come into Bitcoin They're gonna bring all the money with him But it's been this letdown because it like as much as I've been hearing about it The institutions just haven't come but they just didn't arrive now the institutions are undoubtedly undoubtedly undoubtedly here So we have got Citibank. They are now Unveiling their own Separate blockchain which is going to which which they're going to start piloting you got this is old news But you got the LSE looking to tokenize assets in the line the stock exchange As your as you will recall if you saw my video about token 2049 in Singapore I thought hey said big bull market he predicts and if you go watch that video see what he said But he basically how he breaks down why the bull market is gonna happen in 2024 he also breaks down that AI is gonna be the narrative that's gonna lead it and then he says, okay Well, then you need to you need to be buying file coin Then a German banking giant will be able to hold a number of crypto currencies for its clients So you can see what's going on here. You can see exactly what's going on Yeah, this industry is becoming more and more institutional Deutsche Bank one step closer to launching a digital asset custody service You've got Japanese banking giant Nomura launching a Bitcoin adoption fund for institutional investors You see what's going on here the institutionals the institutions are here are finally actually getting here but we are in a very very very unique time now because this is What Michael Saylor described when I interviewed Michael Saylor last time you'll remember it if you watch the Michael Saylor discussion This is what he said about where we are now about the unique time that we are now in In the cycle able to pick up the phone and call your broker and buy 50 million dollars worth of it Right. So we're at that stage where we know it's coming but We really haven't plugged Wall Street into the asset yet We're in this in between period which in my opinion is the best time to be it's like, you know the future No one else can act on it. If you if you have a crypto account with a crypto Exchange to buy Bitcoin right now So so you hear what he's saying he's saying if you we know they're coming they just it's like it's like it's like this Imagine a concert, you know, the concerts gonna start everyone's waiting at the door, but the gates aren't open yet You know when the gates open everyone's gonna come in and go to the car the concert you have the inside information But they can't act because the doors are still closed. That is where we are. Now. The institutions are coming in this morning I saw that blockchain capital Which is one of the original og funds in crypto, these are like, you know, these are two brothers original og og og funds in crypto raised 400 and say five hundred and eighty million dollars for two new funds now if you read where did they get their money from? most of the firm's limited partners are traditional institutional investors including University endowments So they've got five hundred and eighty dollars from all of these sovereign wealth funds and guys I mean if you were here in 2017 and you were here in 2018 and you were here in 2019 and notice it you look You know in next year or in two years time you're gonna get five hundred and eighty million dollars Given to two brothers in the United States Who have got a good track record and the money's gonna be given to them by institutional university By university endowment private foundations the writing's all over the world. All you have to do is You just have to Act because it's inevitable. It's completely completely completely inevitable And I know like a lot of you may may be sitting here and going yeah But you're not crypto is full of scams and you know, you know We spoke about keeping our customers happy and how every time we get the big names in crypto coming into our into our industry We destroy them, etc, etc You need to remember that every single technology goes through the cycle and I want to read you something which I saw earlier today which made me smile and and again affirm that I was in the right direction so Visa seemed like a disaster when it was first launched the kind of people who attack new things would have been all over it from From the Wikipedia article it says listen to it says they're talking about visa However, the program was riddled with problems as Williams who had never worked in a bank's loan department had been too earnest and trusting in His belief in the basic goodness of the bank's customers and he resigned in December 1959 22 % of the accounts were delinquent not the 4 % expected the police departments around the state were confronted by numerous incidents of of a brand new crime called credit card fraud Both politicians and journalists joined the general uproar against Bank of America and its new fangled credit card Especially when it was pointed out that the card holder agreement held customers liable for all charges even those resulting from fraud Bank of America officially lost eight point eight million dollars in on on the launch of Bank of America card But when the full cost of advertising and overheads were included the bank actually lost around 20 million dollars I mean if you change the word credit card there and you replaced it with the word blockchain you'd say hell them This is exactly what's going on here.
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Fresh update on "gates" discussed on News, Traffic and Weather
"Gate, veteran Jordan Eberle and teammates are raising the bar for the 2023 season. 24 You know, I know they do that. We all feel the disappointment, not almost getting there, we but also have to understand the work and the effort that you've got to put in to get to that spot again. So first cracking preseason game next Monday night against Calgary Flames. Preseason college football games are for over the Cougars and dogs. Time for the Pac -12. Washington State hosts Oregon State in Pullman, o 'clock 4 o Saturday. Most schools use the nationally televised contest to show they're unified trying to save or reconfigure the dismantled Pac -12 conference. 8th ranked Washington is a three touchdown home favorite against California. 730 kickoff and the Seahawks are dealing with a rash of injuries as they prepare for Sunday afternoon's home game against the 0 and 2 Carolina Panthers. Sports with Schwartz at 10 and 40 after the hour Northwest News Radio. For over 150 years one name has consistently been recognized as the Northwest leader in fine home furnishings. That name Schoenfeld. Hi, I'm Bob Schoenfeld. Schoenfeld Interiors continues that legacy offering exquisite handmade North American
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Why Frank Tran Chose a Major in Business Ethics & Corporate Responsibility
"So you majored in business ethics and corporate social responsibility. So why that major? What got you interested? I know you changed your major. And I also heard from you earlier saying you flourished in that major. You did pretty well. So how did you decide that's the major for you? How did you come to that conclusion? What makes you decide to major in business ethics and corporate social responsibility? It's a really interesting question. I think cyber security, the word answer itself, cyber security, and because we are living in the world of technology and cyber. So I think that we have to be safe and protect our information because right now almost everything is based on technology. So I think just to be safe and just to protect and keep safe and privacy. I think that's the reason why I choose to study cybersecurity and ethics. It's a really emotional and meaningful pathway and experience for me. Because I believe that we live in the world that it should be the world of honesty and truth. Because I think that what Buddhism taught me, teaches me about is about ego. It's about forgetting my ego, forgetting ego and start and learning to forgive. And that's what I learned and that's the purpose and my reason why I choose to study and read about ethics. Because I believe that in a world where which is so materialistic and we got to find ourselves, we need to find ourselves is to be honest and truthful to ourselves. Yes, I think that's my answer. And what do you think about that? You're absolutely correct. I think ethics teaches us to understand the world itself. Ethics, it's about why do we need ethics? I know because I watch a lot of movies that the mentality is no morals or inhumane. And I've met people who will see that that's a cool thing, but it's not cool. I think it's about having empathy and care and opening the gate for the heart. And because I believe, because I know my opinion is that I think because we are afraid to open our heart, then to us the world is scary. And because we live in the way that is really hard to trust and we just do our thing, we forget how happy we were or we had been.
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A highlight from Real Estate Agents: 6 Top Income Destroying, Time Wasting Mistakes
"Welcome to Real Estate Coaching Radio, starring award -winning real estate coaches and number one international bestselling authors, Tim and Julie Harris. This is the number one daily radio show for realtors looking for a no BS, authentic, real time coaching experience. What's really working in today's market, how to generate more leads, make more money and have more time for what you love in your life. And now your hosts, Tim and Julie Harris. Three, two, one and Julie Harris. We are back. And today we're going to be talking about six of the worst income wrecking mistakes agents are making in today's market. But before we get to the first point, I think you have a really great story from our friend in LA, Federico. Yes. Who is not making the deal wrecking mistakes. In fact, this story, I hope the listeners pay attention because it's going to wind a whole bunch of things together. That's right. So we're starting off by telling you the story of what happens if you don't make six of the income wrecking mistakes with this story. And then we're going to get into the weeds as far as what you need to be avoiding. That's right. Okay. So this is a text from Federico who lives and sells in Los Angeles. He says, hi, Julie. This is hot off the presses right from maybe a couple of days ago. Federico says, I just finished showing clients a new construction community while the build rep was showing us the model, a lady walked in and asked if she could listen in on the build reps presentation. She communicated that she and her husband were looking to downsize and was asking the builder how the financing would work. Okay. So let's stop just for a second. How many of you listening in Los Angeles believe that there's no new construction around? We could just start with that point, but moving forward, uh, during that conversation, I asked her what her situation was and asked if she needed the funds from the sale of her property in order to close on the one she might be looking at. That led to the build rep stating that they would only finance her if her current home was in escrow. So there's a lot to that too. Which by the way, that's probably the build rep not really knowing anything about how to, you know, sell a house using financing because the reality of it is, is the builder wasn't actually using their own money. They were using a mortgage broker and she probably still could have worked that deal, but she was looking for the easier deals of people that had no home sale contingency. That's right. And we're using kind of a lame objection handler. No, you can't do that. Exactly. Which positions our friend Federico listening. That's right. Now, when the build rep exited the room, she thanked me for helping her articulate her points. This is the walk -in potential buyer and asked if I could email her all the information for the new build to which I responded that I was the agent for the other couple in the room, but that I would be happy to help her. That led me to, led me to asking her to, uh, how soon she needed to go on the market. When she responded, uh, we are still decluttering. I don't know where to start or how it all works. I asked her where the home was and what they were asking and asked when I could stop by and see it since I may already have someone. How many of you guys would have gone for the appointment right then and there? Think about that. She answered, that sounds great. We need to declutter first. So I won't, it won't be possible until at least later next month. Let me also work on my husband as far as the new purchase goes and then we can schedule an exact date for you to come by. I got her contact information. Another mistake that agents sometimes fall into. I got her contact information and stopped the conversation since I did not want to be rude in front of my existing clients there. When I left the showing, I called this lady. There's the immediate fallback, uh, follow up. I called this lady back to continue the conversation and to schedule a tentative day and time to go look at the property. She said that she and her husband will be going on a short trip and that we can circle back after my trip. We'll only be gone for a week. During the call, she asked me what commission I would charge. By the way, people don't ask that if they're not serious, do they? Okay. She asked about my commission to which I said, that's a great question. I actually have a flexible fee. What's the best email for you so I can send you a little bit about me and my team and about how we work. That'd be the pre listing package. That way when we meet at the house, we can focus on the items that are most important to you. Also part of the script you learned in premier coaching. It's a textbook. Totally 5 ,000 % textbook. She gave me her email, thanked me for helping her while at the new construction and expressed that she was excited to have me come by their house. There you have it. Now certainly by the way, dad, on what you said with regards to the people asking about commission that quick, 99 % of the time when they ask out of the gates like that, it's because they've got another agent in their back pocket, which it probably isn't a professional agent in the sense that maybe it's somebody they just know as their neighbor or uncle Bob who basically lists the house every thousand years or something like that, who will probably do it for free. That type of question was that the agent, I'm sorry, the seller was looking for a reason to take uncle Bob out of the equation because she really liked Federico and wanted to do business with him. Most importantly though, to your point, he used the scripts that we teach these guys to use in premier coaching and that was one of the obvious scripts that we use that you learn when you're presenting the pre -listening pack and the listening presentation. All this was woven together and what we're trying to express to all of you, so hopefully you're all understanding, is there's opportunity everywhere. You just have to go where the opportunity is and quit waiting for the opportunity to come to you. Which leads us, Julie, perfectly into point number one and remember guys, these are the top six income killing mistakes that agents are making now and frankly in a lot of cases have normalized. That's right. So point number one or mistake number one, and we're also going to have some action steps how to fix these problems ASAP. Mistake number one, playing the waiting game, waiting for the market to crash, waiting for interest rates to come down, waiting for inventory. Waiting doesn't get transactions into your pipeline, nor does it help your clients and prospects to achieve their goals. You must take control of your day, your week, your month, your quarter, and your year in order to defeat the waiting game. Say this at least 10 times, if it's meant to be, it's up to me, and then take control. We're going to give you some action steps here. All right, so first action step on this mistake, accept the fact that there are zero indicators that the market's going to crash. Zero. Remove it from your head. While there are some price ranges in some markets this year where it's set to, I'm sorry, where there are some price reductions is what that should say in some markets, this year is set to close with between five and 9 % increase in home values. I wonder how many people actually know that. I mean, with all these headlines that are supposed to basically make you think there's a housing crash, do you all know that real estate in the mainland United States is increased in value by at least 5%, in some cases around 10 % year over year? So yes, despite the headlines about prices falling, home values have still increased. That's right. Now, low inventory, stable demand, lots of new construction, and rising prices are not indicators of a housing crash. Those things do not exist in a housing crash. Now, if any of that changes, you can hear about it here, we'll let you know. So it's important that we remind them that we are at, what, a 20 or 30 year low for the number of mortgages that are in any sort of distress? Yes. It's like less than 3 %? It's less than 3%, a historic low, and that includes all of the forbearances and things that happened around COVID. That's all baked in at this point. Do you remember all the people that were, you know, of course, these real estate prognosticators were trying to sell you lists on how to get into REOs and all this other stuff? How they were saying, oh, you wait until all those people on mortgage forbearance, all those COVID mortgage forbearances, those houses are all going to default. None of them defaulted, did they? You see how there are some people, guys, who only think that they can make money, only think they can help people when the market's going one particular direction. So what they do is they wait around and hope and pray that the sky falls so that they can be right. And that is, I suppose, a business model. But the reality of it is you can help people make money no matter what direction the market is going. You don't just have to wait for the direction that it's been going. For example, a lot of you, to Julie's point, were waiting around for their interest rates to lower, waiting around for the mortgage stuff to clear, become easier, inventory to increase. Stop waiting around. There's inventory everywhere. It's not just where it's like what Federico discovered. It's hidden, in essence. You have to go to where it's at. You have to go to where the market opportunity is. Stop waiting for the market opportunity to show up on your computer screen. Yes. And when you go to new construction where he went, especially in those price ranges, go where the buyers are looking. You will also find listings. That's right. OK. So again, we're back to the waiting game. So you said that. So we have to drill down. Because I always have to remind myself and you that we have people that are maybe listening to us for the first time ever. And yes, this is the number one Listen To Dilly podcast for real estate professionals in the United States. Tens of thousands of people downloading it. But for the one person that's discovered this for the first time, defining what Julie just said, if you're going to, as Federico did, go look, essentially show buyers or go to a new construction area where the new construction is, say, $800 to, say, on up, chances are the person purchasing one of those new construction homes, they're going to have a house to sell. So that means that probably realistically 90 % of the buyers, air quoting here, that are interested in new construction actually also are sellers. But how many of you think like that? How many of you think buyer or seller? You can't be both. Always assume that your buyer is actually a seller and where you focus your energy is on the listing side of things, because that's what's going to be the juggernaut to them moving forward with any, you know, like they're not going to buy anything but to sell the home most likely. So you can't, if you just focus on the buy side of the conversation, you're never going to get to where the real opportunity is on the list side. Once you have the listing, you will obviously sell that house, well, we've done studies on this, you'll sell an average of six other houses off one listing. With a buyer, you will sell a buyer a house. So open your mind to the opportunities that are all around you. Stop thinking and stop sitting around waiting for, you know, something to change. You're the change that needs to happen if you're not liking your, you know, your project, your your momentum right now into the new market. Yes. And you uncovered another mistake, which is assuming that, you know, it's just it's another buyer. I already am up to my eyeballs and buyers and there's no inventory. So why would I want another buyer? You're missing the point. Buyers bring listings and in those price ranges in the right range, you can get buyers who have a listing that are less expensive than the new construction and more expensive than the new construction downsizing. You can actually work both ends of that. Well, it's a frustrating it's frankly the wrong way to go about it. If you're trying to sell a buyer a house and try to find them the right house, the perfect house, all the rest of it, yet they have a house to sell. I'll give you a little advanced coaching here. None of them are going to emotionally commit to purchasing something unless they happen to have the cash to pay for it, which is unlikely. You know, they're not going to have the cash without the sale of their current home. So they won't emotionally commit to anything until at least their first their existing home is listed for sale, let alone in contract. So this is the type of, you know, thinking you need to adjust towards and realizing that the best opportunity is always going to be on the listing side of the business. That's right. So here's the thing back to a point or mistake. Number one, waiting around. Well, what about interest rates? Interest rates will eventually get lower, but are not likely to go below five and a half to six and a half percent, maybe even for the rest of your career. What we just went through is not the norm. So stop wishing for the old market and embrace the new market. Now, that said, there was an interesting there are some political hubbub that's floating around about the fact that, you know, different politicians are starting to lobby for the idea that there's going to be I told you about this. I heard that crazy permanent 30 year mortgages at three percent, which I mean, it sounds great, right? Even if it were four percent, it would be pretty interesting. Well, yeah, they're going to sell like 100 year bonds and finance it and the whole thing and that could stimulate something. Oh, my gosh. But it's also going to well, so let's think about this. You're going to massively increase demand. And what that's what is that going to do to the cost of real estate as well as inventory available? Right. So you might have a low interest rate, but, you know, the four hundred thousand dollar house you're interested in buying is now worth two million. So anyway, I would circle the wagons back probably to new construction if that happens. We'll see. We'll see. We'll monitor that. OK, so the weighting gain. Learn about several ways to achieve a lower rate and a lower payment. What rates are higher than a lot of people want? Refer to last week's podcast about three ways to achieve lower mortgage interest rates. Learn about what the builders are doing. Many new home loans are closing today in our times where rates are over seven. The new construction loans are closing the mid five, five and a half range right now. So take action to find out where in your market is that actually happening? All right. So mistake number two, there was a lot wrapped up in number one, number two, expecting your buyers to send you what they want to look at versus finding the right homes for them yourself. We've done so many podcasts. I know, but this is such a mistake. You know, yes, we know that buyers can find listings online. There's five million different resources. But what happens when they take them to you? Isn't it already in contract? Aren't there already multiple bids? And then you believe there's nothing and you wait for them to go discover something. It is not their job to find something. And furthermore, well, let me get in my points. I probably talked about this. So get and use the buyer presentation, which drills down on specifically what your buyer clients desire in their next home. That can be a mistake is not knowing the specifics. What is a deal maker and what's a deal killer? Are both people on the same page? If you're working with a couple, can you handle objections like I want to wait for rates to come down or prices to come down or both? We talked about that previously. Now, once you know what they need, that they are motivated and they're qualified, it is your job to find them the right home. Think out of the box. Refer to our podcast series about how to find inventory. So, for example, consider changing the type of property, single family to maybe a town home or a condo or vice versa. And the price range, in fact, sometimes going a little bit down market can actually find good alternatives, expanding the geographic search or looking at new construction. And there's a counterpoint here. I've been working on this with coaching clients, OK, which is when a buyer does send you that magic listing. I got to see that. They're really juiced up about it. And that's the only thing they sent you today. OK, so why that one versus everything else that they saw? Ask them why that one and then have two or three backup houses set up. You can always cancel showing appointments. Right. Because what if they're wrong? What if the MLS pictures didn't have the power tower in the backyard? Have another plan. You have a showing appointment. Go sell something. Does that make sense? It does, of course. But I mean, I just we could talk forever about this point because there are so many different places where they can go and look for homes that are officially for sale. But really, I was thinking if I are coaching somebody right now, this you're gearing a lot of your points towards too many buyers, basically. Yeah. And your last point, I really like because you're in essence saying, well, make make it so that the buyers are working with because there's never a true have to buy buyer. There's always want to buy buyers. In other words, there's never a buyer. There's buyers will always change their mind. That's the problem. They're always going to say, I'll wait till next year to raise the fall, wait for pigs to fly, whatever it's going to be. Whereas if you're focusing on a listing, the sellers actually have to sell usually for financial reasons or, you know, whatever it just overall right now, obviously you're going to make more money and have more leverage and freedom if you're focused on being a listing agent. So what would happen if you decided to actually become a coaching client, actually follow our system, actually build up to your magic number of listings, which for many of you is maybe five or seven listings, sometimes depending on your price point, might only be three. And the only buyers you work with are those are the sellers that want to buy something. In other words, stop working with buyers that don't actually have homes to sell. Start valuing your time more and you'll get far better results. But it's also going to force you to become a far better listing agent, far better, you know, proactively generated for the sake of listings. And you're going to get vastly better at prequalifying because you're going to be, guess what, choosing who you're going to work with. So if you're finding yourself emotionally and financially burning it at both ends, it's probably because you just don't have any standards. It's probably because you're working with just about anybody. You're willing to pay referral fees. You're buying all your buyer leads. You're not really running a business, guys, in the sake that, you know, you're going to have any kind of, frankly, security going forward. So really pivot your thinking and ask yourself, would I rather be a really amazingly strong listing agent or buyer's agent? Every single one of you want to focus on being a listing agent in a lot of ways. You have to kind of choose because the buyers will suck up all your energy and your time. Now, if you want to transition from being one to the other, go back to the fact that, you know, you need to prequalify better. You need to actually ask those buyers if they have homes to sell. Depending on the price point, you're going to discover that most of them do. And then guess what you do? You pivot and focus on the listing side of it because that's when you're going to create the leverage. Joining our premier coaching program is free. The link to join is below, along with all the notes from today's show. So just scroll below and you'll see if it's on YouTube, Spotify, Stitcher, it doesn't matter where. Scroll down their notes for today's show. Yes, Julie and I create outlines for every single podcast we do. For you. We do it so you guys can go back and you can read what we said. That way you can actually implement what we're asking and suggesting that you do. And while you're there, do join premier coaching. It costs you nothing. The link is right there below. Or you can just, frankly, go to premier coaching dot com or text the word premier to 47372. All right, Julie, let's roll up to mistake number three. Mistake number three. Yep. All right. Not having enough leads in the first place. Speaking of lead generation, if you're struggling with lead generation, it's time to get some help before it's too late. Now, more than ever, it's critical that you generate more leads than you think you need in order to do the business you need to do. To your point that no buyer ever actually has to buy. So you have to overdo your lead generation so that you can find those listing leads in particular. Well, if you want to sell, for example, if you want to sell 10 houses in the next six months or maybe it's the next 60 days or next 30 days. And normally, let's say you are you know, let's assume that you're somewhat efficient and you know, you have a ratio. Let's say, for example, if you have 10, well, let's say you have six seller leads, you know that statistically three or four of those are going to list with you in the next 30 to 60 days. You're going to need to double that in a market like this because people are there's going to be a lot of a lot of headwinds that you're not necessarily going to be able to control, mostly with lack of inventory. So you're going to have to pace out your expectations and increase the number of contacts and increase the number of leads you're working with. But it always goes back to really drilling down the leads you are working with. Otherwise, what you're going to quickly discover is that you have hundreds, if not thousands of unqualified, unmotivated, quote unquote, leads, and none of them are doing transactions with you. And why? Because you're not taking the time to go in there and prequalify them. If you're one of these agents who have falsely believed that the way to win this game is by having massive amounts of leads, I challenge you to do this. Go in, grab our seller prequalification script or our buyer prequalification script, which turns into the seller prequalification script, and call every single one of your leads. You'll discover many things. Number one, the ones you've been dripping on for a long period of time. Some of them don't even know why you're messaging them or have never even seen your messages, let alone know who you are. Number two, some of them already transacted months ago, but you didn't call them. So they didn't transact with you. Number three, you're going to find people that are actually motivated and they're waiting for you to call. You've been treating them like a buyer and sending them home buyer tips and all the rest of it through your drip campaigns. But now because you have them on the phone, they'll actually commit to working with you. You've got to stop being passive with your life, but especially with your lead generation. Well put. So that all goes back to not having enough leads in the first place. So sign up for Premier Coaching with our Harris certified coaches because they're going to start by asking some specific questions like, where did your past five transactions come from? Was it luck and hopium or did you connect with those clients through a proven system or strategy? If it was a proven system or strategy, why did you stop doing it? How many leads do you actually have in your pipeline? To your point, what your story, you were just saying, what I was thinking is a lot of agents think that they're leads, but they're just contacts. They're just people in your database. Why are you calling them leads? You don't know if they're a lead or not because you're not talking to them. Now you also might have a lead conversion issue versus a lead generation issue. That's something that the coaches drill down on. Where are you spending money to generate buyer and listing leads and what is that conversion ratio and how many contacts are you actually making daily where you're speaking with a decision -making adult about real estate? That's just the beginning of great coaching questions to drill down on why you might not have enough leads or appointments. Well, where you're spending money to generate buyer and listing leads. I mean, obviously it was assumptive, right? In other words, she's not suggesting you spend money to generate buyer and seller listing leads. Uh, but she's suggesting that you actually go in and question, frankly, uh, whether or not that money that you're spending to generate leads from those sources actually makes any sense because we know you're doing it.
Crypto Banter
Fresh update on "gates" discussed on Crypto Banter
"Robert Malone off the air The one who actually told the truth Maybe the truth Around Covid Who was it? It was YouTube And it was Facebook And now they're doing it again Look he is a character that is He speaks Energy companies that profit when there's an energy crisis Energy companies that profit when there's an energy crisis Military industrial complex that profits when there's a war Pharmaceutical companies that profit when there's a pandemic You're creating the necessity for ongoing crisis If the elites in the society Benefit from situations that are detrimental to everybody else That's what reality is going to become That's what reality has become That's such an important point Because that's almost undeniable And to say that they wouldn't do that Because they value human life and morals and ethics over profit That's never been exhibited That's not true Okay so So now Energy companies I mean after saying things like that After taking on people like Bill Gates I mean you've got to hear this Bill Gates epitomizes this trend I've got no particular thing against Bill Gates But he does represent a certain mentality I'll do what I want to do You do what I want you to do That's the Bill Gates way And today we're going to work out Who's contributing more to climate change You or Bill Gates? Let's see Bill Gates has shrugged off allegations That he's a hypocrite for climate campaigning While traveling by private jet In an interview with BBC's Amal Rajan Gates addressed the accusation by saying He offset his family's carbon footprint And contributes to solutions Oh I didn't realize that That's cool Let's have a look What do you say to the charge That if you are a climate change campaigner But you also travel around the world on a private jet You're a hypocrite Well I I buy the gold standard of Funding Climeworks To do direct air capture That far exceeds my family's carbon footprint So you know Should I stay at home and not come to Kenya And learn about farming and malaria Yeah You know how you're just making up a reason For why you should be able to Okay so he's taken on the establishment He's taken on people like Bill Gates He's done it many many times I'm going to show you one more And then I'm going to show you why this is so scary And why you need to buy Bitcoin Sure Moving on Bill Yes Out of respect for you and your show I've brought some facts Would you If you'd like You just get the fuck out of here This is not the place Probably you like facts No we do we like facts I love facts I wouldn't have mentioned it I'm English and you know that politeness is our fundamental religion Yes But they do pertain to this issue So may I say something Please please If they inconvenience you I'll stop saying them The pandemic created at least 40 new big farmer billionaires Pharmaceutical corporations like Moderna and Pfizer Made a thousand dollars of profit every second from the COVID-19 vaccine More than two-thirds of Congress receives campaign funding from pharmaceutical companies I don't want to play much more of that on the channel Because you know the next thing we're going to be the one that gets deplatformed But he's speaking facts And you know maybe you don't like the facts But that's the story Here's the story Here is a list of just a few people that I made this morning while I was driving to work And I said here is a list of just a few people that have been cancelled recently Andrew Tate was cancelled I don't know I mean he was cancelled by mainstream media He was deplatformed of Instagram He was deplatformed of TikTok and all the other ones Tristan Tate, his brother Joe Rogan was deplatformed I don't know if you remember that Donald Trump, a sitting president was deplatformed by social media All social media Russell Brand, deplatformed Dr. Robert Malone I spelt it wrong Dr.
Cloud Security Podcast by Google
A highlight from EP139 What is Chronicle? Beyond XDR and into the Next Generation of Security Operations
"Hi there, welcome to the Cloud Security Podcast by Google. Thanks for joining us today. Your host here, actually recorded in person today, are myself, Tim Peacock, the Senior Product Manager for Threat Detection here at Google Cloud, and sitting next to me, unusually, Anton Juvakin, a reformed analyst and senior staff in Google Cloud's Office of the CISO. You can find and subscribe to this podcast wherever you get your podcasts, as well as at our website, cloud .google .com slash podcast. If you enjoy our content and want it delivered to you piping hot every Monday, please do hit the subscribe button in your podcasting app of choice. You can follow the show and argue with us and the rest of the Cloud Security Podcast listeners on LinkedIn. Anton, this is a fun episode because we have a former manager of mine, the head of Chronicle, a great guy from New Jersey, and worst of all, a Mets fan, join us for a really interesting conversation about Sim and Chronicle and EDR somehow. What did you think? I thought this was great. It felt like we did briefly hover over a precipice of discussing XDR. We did. In fact, we started there. We leapt off into space to start the episode. Yes. So I think I felt like we had this moment when the whole conversation could have fallen into the chasm of, oh, no, XDR, no, no, no, not again. But ended up, we ended up in a very useful place. Moreover, I would say that Chris, oh, I did say the guest name, but again, that's fine. Yes. That's good. I extracted some of the useful lessons that led him to the XDR discussion. So it's kind of interesting that XDR was mentioned in a very positive context. Yes. I think the other maybe most interesting tidbit in this episode listeners to listen for is the conversation around process versus tooling and where Chris sees the role of vendors in that equation. And so maybe with that teaser on what I thought was a shockingly interesting insight from Chris, let's turn things over to today's guest. Today we're joined by Chris Cord, senior director here at Google Cloud. Chris, it's been a wild time for you and me working at Google together. I'm delighted to finally have you on the show after countless jibes about the show. It's fantastic. It's hard first to believe that you're here, but harder still to believe we haven't done a proper Chronicle episode yet. So here we are to do a Chronicle episode. I want to start off with an easy question. Chronicle's not XDR, right? So what is it? Right. Yeah. The great XDR debate. I mean, we started this when I first started and Anton has definitely been a good foe in the debate. You did say good, right? You did say good, right? But listen, he said foe, not foiled. There's degrees here. Exactly. Anton has never been on the same side that I've been on. Yeah. I mean, look, I've always stated that XDR to me is a use case. I don't believe that XDR is some magical category where it's going to redefine the way we're doing security operations or anything to that degree. But I do think it's reflective of people's desire to want to have their SIM platforms do more than just log collection. Sure. Right? So in my point of view, the industry evolved to be just a log collection platform. Everything else was do it yourself. You had to build all of these dashboards and your own rules on top of it. And I think the gravity that people have at least started with XDR, and it seems to have teared off now, kind of began with this notion of, can you just give me more value in this thing I'm spending so much money on? It should provide me with more actual security value, outcome -oriented value. Is that what Chronicle is then? That's what Chronicle does. Our primarily strategy is about delivering quality outcomes through detection and response, built into a scalable data platform. And I think to me XDR is a use case that Chronicle can deliver, but ultimately we're fighting against the SIM vendors on a regular basis. So it's a SIM that delivers security outcomes that produce value because it's smarter than the other SIMs. Absolutely. Okay. Easy. So that was an easy question, right? Yeah. And so I guess the second one is kind of in the same ballpark, rightly. Roughly Tim occasionally makes fun of me for only using faint praise, like, yeah, I guess it's pretty good. That's actually an okay idea. That's one of his favorite things to say. That's actually an okay idea. Yes. I've said this several times on air. But ultimately I loved Chronicle so much that I left the safety of Gartner and joined it in 2019, right? So in that sense, and I think I've posted a very like excited awesome plus blog about like, oh my God, my dream has come true. I'm at Chronicle. So, so this was 2019, this is 2023. So since you joined the team, what is your, oh my God, it's such a happy place. It's the proudest thing I've done. Like what are you the most proud of shipping? Yeah. I mean like putting aside the love fist, you're okay with it. I was going to say, aside from shipping me out of his org chart, what are you most proud of shipping me? Right. Right. But putting aside like the acquisition stuff, which we'll touch on, you know, maybe later in this conversation, I think from a pure Chronicle feature perspective, you know, I joined the team in 2021, like mid 2021. And, you know, I had this firm vision, like I talked about just now of like Sims needed to do more than just simple blog collection and aggregation and dashboarding. And so we shipped a curated detection feature in early 2022, I think Q2 2022, which basically provided out of the box detections out of the box analytics and things that were curated and managed by our own Google cloud threat Intel team. And like, I, to me, that was a seminal moment for the product. Like it moved it from really being this like data platform that was just doing log collection and doing it well because we were very scalable, but really kind of started to deliver on this vision of having an outcome oriented tool. And we've been able to build on it ever since like, and so I was super proud that we were able to get that out the door when we did. I think that was a great launch and I really liked the degree to which it made you more opinionated about the data you were ingesting. But to add to this, funny enough, and this was like a case where I think we've pretty virtually argued a little bit because when we started doing curated detections, at least on the market inside, the perception was, wait a second, everything had canned detections and every SIM going back to 1998 would say, here, customer, here's a rule, bye. They're not really curated. They're kind of canned rules and customers developed a bit of a disdainful attitude about canned rules. Do they work? Do they not work? But curated detections in our case, we stand behind them. We give them to a customer and we almost, I think of them in my mind and that's when I flipped the switch towards loving them is that they're sort of guaranteed. They're sort of like, we say, do these work? If they don't work slightly, here's how to make them work. So unlike other teams having canned detections that are kind of more like samples or like, here, you tried, but the results outcomes are in your hands. In our case, we shipped something that we stand behind. Curated means they're going to work. You hit the nail on the head. That's the magic. That is legit magic. Most other SIMs, they're delivering a set of safe searches basically that they're giving you as templates and then you have to operate over those templates and they're not actually managing the effectiveness of those detections over the course of their lifecycle. That's the big difference for us is the fact that these things are managed from an effectiveness perspective. Again, the analogy I always like to use is how the EDR market evolved and how it went from being this forensic platform where you had to do a bunch of stuff yourself and then you had to maybe grab a bunch of saved queries from the vendor to being in this place that had a lot of out -of -the -box value, like detection value, and they actually kept tuning that over time with additional cloud oversight and managed defense oversight and IR engagements and that just made those detections that much better. That's the kind of experience that we have in Chronicle, which is, I agree with you, very game -changing over traditional SIMs. What I love about that story there is, listeners, I was a political science major and the story of how it became a PM we'll talk about on the AMA episode, but what I love about that is it presents an asymmetry where Chronicle gets better at detecting bad guys across its whole pool of users and then every user benefits from that. It's unlike a traditional SIM because you keep learning and getting better. I want to shift gears and speaking about catching bad guys, you were part of Google's second largest acquisition in history. How does it feel, first of all, to be number two to an acquisition that I would bet, one pure bonus most listeners couldn't name, and then now that we're a year into it, what's been a happy surprise about all of it and what are you looking forward to still with it? What is the biggest one? There's Motorola. Oh, yeah. It was when we purchased Motorola. Got it. That was actually more than twice the size of what you purchased. I think Mandarin is the happiest story, though. It's already very clear. It's very clear at this point. I don't think there's anything wrong with the Motorola acquisition. I just think it might have been forgotten in the sands of time. Well, that's a good tidbit. I didn't even think of that one. Because you're 5X bigger than YouTube by purchase size. Exactly. Yeah, and for 5X more important, clearly. I think, to me, it shows a lot of commitment in the space. As a security practitioner joining Google, when I did, there was obviously a lot of momentum and a lot of desire to get more serious about security, but it was still a very nascent business in 2021 when I joined and, in some ways, still very nascent business now in terms of its profile in the industry. But the desire for our organization to get serious about it was real. I felt it at the time that I joined, and I think the opportunity when Mandarin came along as an acquisition opportunity, that the fact that we were able to jump on it and we had so much support going up through the leadership chain was pretty shocking to me. So I think it was a great signal that we're serious about security and that we'll continue to be serious about security and that we're willing to invest in it pretty aggressively. We also got some decent products with it as well. Apart from, obviously, the world -class IR services, we got some decent products. My personal opinion is the reputational bump that we got immediately out of the gate has been game -changing. There's been so many different opportunities that we're in now with Chronicle, maybe not even with Mandiant standalone products, but with Chronicle. But we're in those opportunities specifically because of the Mandiant acquisition. Because number one, people say, oh, Google's serious about this. Number two, they have a higher degree of trust that all those detection capabilities that we just talked about are going to be way higher fidelity because now you're pulling in all of that advanced Intel and IR engagements that Mandiant is doing, and you're feeding those into the product to create value. And then they just have great relationships with CISOs. And so I think when you combine all of those things, it's created a huge amount of momentum for us in the business. And I think the products themselves, while we're in the process of integrating a lot of those in different parts of the portfolio, they do give us a lot of interesting functionality that we wouldn't have had otherwise. In fact, even merging ASM into the SOC, into the detection response function, to me is kind of interesting because it makes SOC look kind of to the left from the incident. To me, this is kind of, I mean, from all the Mandiant products, I felt like ASM, bringing ASM into the SOC vision is kind of a strong argument that we are unique. I mean, we're not like pretty unique. We aren't that unique by doing it. I agree. I agree. I think like, you know, we're referring to that as the addition of contexts, right? And so the more context you can bring into a log event, the better off you are. And making decisions and being proactive in terms of how you determine risk and not only ASM, but also security validation with Mandiant helps bring in and introduce that context, which I agree is a very unique point of view. So to sort of briefly go on a short tangent here, of course you are a senior product leader, but some people would say that security operations success at a company connects to how mature their processes are and of course what products they use. So what's your take on kind of the balance of tools versus practices at the company if I'm building a DNR team or SOC. Or refactoring. Or refactoring one. That's right. Right. Right. That's a good point. How should I think about buying the absolute best products, but keeping the mature practices or boosting the practices, but maybe keeping the products? Like what's the best route here? Don't say both. Both is the right answer though. Well, don't tell him what the right answer is. Chris, what's your answer? You're right. I might be a little biased, but I think that the emphasis on people needing to solve problems themselves through practices is a manifestation of our inability of delivering the right level of value in SIEM in particular or security operations. Hang on. Say that again. Say what you just said. The overemphasis that we're placing on like, hey, improve your overall security processes, include your manual kind of playbooks for how you handle certain types of events or incidents. All those types of things that we overemphasize is only there because SIEM products have not delivered on the type of value that they should be creating. So they are covering holes in broken products by trying to polish practice. This is actually - It's a good answer. Kind of profound. It's better than your answer. It's not profound. It's actually kind of profound. See, that's the Slavic phrase right there. That's what we were talking about. But that's a great answer and way better than I thought. I like that a lot. And so my point of view is like, look, our promise as vendors needs to be to make the products better so that people are better at doing their job. And again, I think, not to keep using this analogy, but Endpoint did that super well. I don't think anyone would have said like, hey, once you had just data collection and Endpoint, job done because everything else is process oriented. But instead, the ball had to keep moving forward in terms of making sure that we're stopping bad guys consistently, making sure that we're doing that with higher degrees of fidelity and expertise and capability and accuracy and all those types of things kept moving that market forward. And to me, we're on the early stages of SIEM doing the same thing. So SIEM is going to go through the same transformation and reputation that we had of AV, dirty disgusting product to EDR, cool useful product. We'll have that for SIEM. I think even beyond just AB to EDR, but AB to EDR to like what I would refer to as the Endpoint protection suite or platform. Like that iteration is the way SIEM is moving, right? So I think it's going from this kind of like checkbox compliance thing to, okay, collecting a bunch of forensic data. And then now I think hopefully to this outcome oriented security focused platform. So to me that the logic is that you would want, it's not like you want to make SIEM look like AV, but you want to focus on kind of like outcomes that you get right after you deploy the product. Not deploy the product and then start your journey that takes you through 14 months of hard work to a value, but you want something that you deploy the product and you see the outcomes soon without doing any hard labor. That's the short version of that. You should be able to get value immediately. Like as soon as I start ingesting event data, especially event data from high fidelity sources, immediately I should start getting some understanding. Is there anything indicative of an active breach? Is there any behavior that's going on that I should be aware of or alerted of that might be, you know, attacker driven behavior like these kind of things should be out of the box value. And it shouldn't require hiring a team of ex NSA guys to make it work. Absolutely. It should be easy process, not crazy process. Because if it does require a team of people from the NSA, then like zero chance that most organizations are going to be able to do it. Right. The fortune five will win and everybody else will suffer. That's not a good outcome for anyone. But for a lot of SIEM products, they're still stuck in the old mentality where they give you the tool and they give you some sample content and ultimately people and then give you some good luck, you know, charms to succeed. And even large, highly visible SIEM competitors are doing that. So in essence, we are doing something different, but many of the customers seem to be stuck in the, Oh, SIEM, yeah, I got to write my own rules because canned rules are probably bad. There's a lot of work. I can't handle it. How are we changing the minds? Like if somebody is trained on certain logs or changing that wants to be a SIEM or some other products, how are we changing their minds? How are we making them actually, if you get Chronicle, you're going to get results and you wouldn't have to suffer for 12 months or for 14 months to get the results. So what is the secret to change in their minds, if it makes sense? It's probably a little too philosophical, but I think it's a good question. I wanted to ask you slightly differently, which is how do you convince people they don't need to port over and invest in porting over 18 years worth of rules written in another language? To be honest, like this is the hardest part. Like if you're going to look at tactically when we are in the middle of trying to switch out incumbent vendors, the hardest part is convincing them that maybe a one for one, like for like type comparison is not necessarily what they should be doing. And then after even we've convinced them to switch, trying not to just simply port over all the old stuff. You know, I used to work in a virtual firewall business and like there was a joke where like no one ever wanted to touch a firewall rule that was in there because it's like a game of Jenga and no one ever wanted to pull anything out because you're concerned that whole thing is going to topple over. That's kind of the way people feel like they're sim rules. They may have a thousand of them, 2000 of them. They have no idea if they're valuable, but they refuse to want to touch them because if they try to cut them down at all, they're concerned they'll miss something. And so it is extremely hard to get them to just say, let's use this opportunity to slim down the rule set. The whole vendor is trying to do analytics of that, funny enough. Like there's a whole little segment of a market when people deploy tech to kind of like go through sim rules and see if they're good, which is amazing, right? People will pay money for it to actually have the tool do that. Sounds like somebody's buying a dowsing rod to me. That doesn't sound easy. No, it's based on real quote unquote machine learning. Okay. Okay. So back to dowsing rods. This is one area where I actually think Mandiant helps a lot, right? So Mandiant has a product called security validation that can be run like in a managed version or can be run in a product driven version. But that product does help people go through breach and attack simulations with real world examples of like, look, these are 10 or 12 different attack vectors. These are different types of threat actors. These are campaigns and you can run those simulations against your environment. You can see in my tools catching them are my sim tools like alerting on me or detecting these kind of events. And so we're, the plan right now is for us to use a lot of that breach and attack simulation to showcase, okay, if you care about these parts of the MITRE ATT &CK matrix, then we'll be able to validate that the rules that we have in place with Chronicle are able to catch them. That's really cool. So that product effectively turns somebody's organization in its current state into a bit of a cyber test range for their own stuff. That's a fancy way of saying it, but like that was the old VeriDIN stack that Mandiant acquired. So I remember it from the Gartner days and it's kind of impressive in terms of what they would simulate and how deep they would integrate to the detection stack. So it's genuinely cool and it genuinely delivers that type of insight about are your detections any good or are you only pretending you're collecting and then pretending you're detecting. And then we want to keep using that over time. This goes into the context thing, like not only you want to do that at a point in time, but if we can continuously validate and then let's say we see that, okay, this portion of your environment is susceptible to ransomware or some other attack vector, we can adjust the alerting risk score associated with those events or we can highlight certain areas because the events should matter more because we know that you're susceptible to an attack. So that's kind of the context part, which Peter pointed out before, I think are things that only we're doing really versus any other event. That's really interesting. I want to switch gears one more time before we get to our traditional closing questions. We have a lot of people listening to the show who are interested in careers in security, interested in careers in security PM. You've been doing PM for security products for a long time, not to call you old. You've been called worse things by fancier people than me lately. What advice do you have for people who are thinking about security PM as a path? Well, yeah, I mean, I think security is one of those tough areas to break in from a product perspective, mostly because the domain knowledge is not super relevant to a lot of folks, meaning that it's, you know, you can put yourself in the shoes of a, of a user of a product that's very open and visible in many cases. I can imagine using the Uber app, like if you want to be, you know, a PM in maps or a PM in Gmail, it's like in that context, you're at least a user on a regular basis and it's much easier for to put your mind into it. I think security is harder, right? Because it's even a step removed from traditional it. And most people don't have that necessarily that depth of knowledge to be able to be a domain expert. Personally, I think a lot of people can get a ton of value at being tier one analysts right out of the gate. Right. And so there are so many organizations that I know that are looking for younger talent, people coming into organizations to act as tier one analysts and the amount of information that you can gather about the domain and about the problem is huge. You know, for people that are still in school, like there's a number of schools that are now focused on cybersecurity programs in school, like Carnegie Mellon has been kind of the forefront of having a cyber shop or a cyber program in school. Then absent of that, like sometimes people can just basically switch domains and just spend the time and focus and energy on learning some of the individuality of security, but just bring really good PM discipline to the, to the equation. Like I think one thing that security in general hasn't done well is we haven't been really good at actually building products with simplicity, right? And so like, under statement of the episode, other disciplines are good at that. And so if you can bring that kind of discipline into security, even as a relative novice in the domain, you might actually be better off. We might bring some beginners versus someone who's done it for years. Usually at the very end of the episode, we ask two questions. Any give the audience one tip in this case on improving security operations would assume and give us some recommended reading. And of course it's fine to say Chronicle website or whatever else. And it's not okay to say Anton's blog. And please don't say, but don't say anything about New York Mets because that's too depressing right now. Yeah. That's way too depressing. Yeah. I recommended reading. I mean like, you know, I think there's a number of SIM books out there, right? Like if you really wanted to go deeper into how SIMs operate, like I think there's one called the infosec playbook, right? Which kind of walks you through how you operate and manage a SIM or our SOC, sorry. And kind of build a security operations playbook. Yeah. There's a number of really good books about malware in general. Like I think I forget the root kid book, but it's like the root kid Bible or something like that that I read early on in my career, which is another good one. Listeners just so you know, nothing from Chris's early career is still technologically relevant. Exactly. Yeah. So that might be that. That might be that. Yeah. I think like any type of those kind of protect practitioner level books that you can read about, like how people operate in the SOC would be great starting points. And then one tip to improve security operations outcomes, maybe. In general, like as a user? Yeah. As somebody operationally responsible. Or as a director. Or as a CISO. Whatever. Yeah. I mean, whatever you're feeling. I think in most cases, people don't put enough emphasis on trying to build proactive controls in the right spots. And so like, this is an area where laziness is somewhat taken over to a certain degree. And we know that there's good best practices out there around zero trust around, you know, locking down policies and procedures more so than what we have done. And we've just been too lazy to deliver that. And so we default into a, you know, operational detection and response mode versus trying to be more proactive in terms of how we control things. And so I would say that lean in a little bit more into having the right protective controls in place from the ground up. Well, Chris, I think that's a surprisingly left -leaning answer for somebody who builds a SIM product. I really like that it was not a self -serving answer. So Chris, thank you so much for joining us today. It's my pleasure. Thank you both. And now we are at time. Thank you very much for listening, and of course for subscribing. You can find this podcast at Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever else you get your podcasts. Also, you can find us at our website cloud .withgoogle .com slash cloud security slash podcast. Please subscribe so that you don't miss episodes. You can follow us on Twitter, twitter .com slash cloud sec podcast. Your hosts are also on Twitter at Anton underscore Chiwaki and N underscore Tim Pico. Tweet at us, email us, argue with us. And if you like or hate what we hear, we can invite you to the next episode. See you on the next cloud security podcast episode. Bye.
On The Rekord
A highlight from Episode 122 - Sept. 17th, 2023 - B.A.N.S
"All right, all right, all right, all right. Welcoming you guys to another lovely episode of On The Record Podcast. I am DJ Intense, your host the most. And to the left of me, I have I am Walt. What's up, Walt? I'm about to say another word, my guy. If you guys heard earlier, you know, we were just doing some things off cameras. They're off the record. Things we don't, we're not going to bring on the record. And if we are, you're not going to get it. Unless you paid for it to Patreon. You know? Yeah, me too. That voice you hear right now, but there's no other than Ceddi said, what's up Ceddi? The infamous C -E -D. What's up people? How you doing people? I'm doing all right, I'm doing all right, man. You know, we took some time off. It was Labor Day weekend. Yeah. And then the final weekend, which is work weekend. Dude, we were work, work, work, work, work. Nonstop. Dude, I just figured they don't. Almost 90 hours of work. OT, OT. Man. One day was 20 hours of work. That's the state job. I can't wait till you quit that job. You and I both, brother. I need to make some money, but working like a slave ain't it, man? Nah. Bob Brock just said it. You think that you can get by with this hard work alone? Nah, you're fooling yourself. You're fooling yourself. Used to do that, but now you're doing that. It's a lie. It's a lie. It's a myth. All people is you do hard work, and you'll become a successor, that's all. Listen, reality is in this country, in America, you have to do a lot of grime. You gotta do a lot of collaboration. Depending on how you wanna do it, but most of the time, all those people who are billionaires and trillionaires are the ones who did the most foul -ish humanly possible to get what they're at right now in life. Listen, right now we're at over 180 days in the writer's strike and the actor's strike right now. And it could have ended this right now. This thing should have been handled already. $50 million for both unions. And now they're gonna get a loss of over $300 to $500 million because of this strike. And you have people like Drew Barrymore's punk ass. Well, she reneged on it though. She had to, because dude, she was getting the business with the WGA and the SGA. And it's separate, you know. Even... Bill Maher's bitch ass too, man, was... I didn't get the damn thing off the running. Was, oh, I don't need no writers, I'll be our show. Look, dude, your show sucks. The Seddie Swear Counter is in full effect. There you go, you have one. You can do like a ding sound from now on for my swears. I'm gonna keep it calm. I'm gonna keep it professional. Seddie the Sailor Man. I can't swish, come on. Listen, man, I'm just telling you, when Seddie get that spinach boy, man, we poppin' ice today. Oh, yeah. Little bird watch out. Now, but on some real issues, like dude, Bill Maher, the guy who said, I'm not a field n -word, I'm a house n -word, and who crapped on Stan Lee after he died and stuff, and says a bunch of other ridiculously retarded things, says he's gonna do a show. Stan Lee who? Marvel comic Stan Lee. Oh, Stan Lee, oh. That's what Bill Maher said. Yo, he be going extra heavy trying to relate to us blacks. You're a not house n -word. You're at the table, bro. You got the good chair. You got the good piece of chicken. He used to be down by the dam, but nowadays, man, it's horrible. He's just, you know, he's trying. What the legend Paul Mooney said, everybody wants to be black, so it's time to be black? Listen, you think Paul Mooney is trying to be black and competent? Hell no. I want to be in a gated community area. What's wrong with you? Like he says, everybody wants to be black. He listen to King Koon, so he know what that's about. Yeah, but Bill Maher is doing his show still, which I think it was crap with writers. It's going to be crap about writers. And then, you know, you're going to have to hire writers who are not non -union writers. We're going to be scabs. We're going to pretty much destroy their any chance of them getting actual work when the strike is done. If you get caught. Well, if you are what you say you are, then have no fear. Even if you're on YouTube and you want to get a chance of being in the industry, you can't do no reviews. No, no movie reviews, no TV show reviews, nothing. There's a strike. You doing that? You will be known and accounted for when you want to get your membership. And trust me, you don't want those problems. But my thing is, if there was already YouTubers like successful already doing movie reviews and being credible and stuff like that, that won't affect them. Is it already locked in like a partnership or whatever with certain movies? Then they could do it. As long as they get the permission from their respective union. OK. If they do something brand new, if we're coming out with The Exorcist coming out next week, they can't do no review for that at all. Oh, wow. Wah wah. Listen, I can't go into it because I want to become in that union because I want to be a voice actor. You want to sell out. I get it. So I can't speak on it at all. No, no, no. He's not selling out. No, he wants to. He wants to. No, he doesn't want to sell out. You want the Disney money. No, I want to buy in. He wants to buy in. Oh, yes. You want to buy in, you got to sell out, right? No, the license is fucking me, bro. I'm just saying. The license, the thing to get a SAG card, it's over $3 ,000 to get a SAG card. And you have to get that SAG card in order to get some work and residuals and all that stuff. That's just what it is. Listen, man, listen, Harvey Weinstein's in prison, bro. He can't get to you, my guy. He can't get to you, my guy. Listen, man, don't take that hotel meeting, bro. Am I Rose McGowan? Shoot it. It's either a Zoom call. I'm actually Judd. It's either a Zoom call or a posh Beverly Hills restaurant or a Permell Studios, wherever that super creep was out here making his rounds. But you don't got to worry about that no more. Filthy behavior. One of the girls was saying like, yeah, when I said no more hanky panky, you know. He felt a way. Yeah, you want that rolling letter to there, don't you? My guy, how could he feel a way? You've been imposing your will on these ladies for a long time. Speaking of entertainment, you had a concert this weekend, right? Yeah, yeah. I was, you know, I was like. This guy was really outside. I was like, I was like, I was like. What concert was this? I was like. Let me tell you. Go ahead, say it. I was like from the acting sheriff up north, back to back out here, you know. Yes, so for all the first time, longtime listeners, and you know, last time listening to how evidence goes, I had a couple of shows. This past Thursday, I went to an event that was sponsored by Spotify for up and coming artists. I saw three, three very, very talented artists. The main artist I went to see goes by Kamari. He's an artist that I discovered around COVID. He has a lot of like influences. He reminds me of like a Frank Ocean. He's really that, you know, artist type dude. And he put out this great, incredible album called A Brief Nirvana, which I advise everybody to check out. His name is Kamari, K -H -A -M -A -R -I. Highly recommend him. And I also saw these two other artists from the UK, St. Harrison and Elmin. That's my boy. And overall, it was a great experience, very, you know. It was at SOB, Sound of Brazil in New York City. Very intimate setting, great turnout, great energy.
Elevation with Steven Furtick
A highlight from Now Turn North
"We had a good time here. Me and 10 ,000 ladies had a good time here Friday night. We heard a word from the woman of God and put us on the right path. I told Holly I only want to preach to women after being here. I think I'm going to put a no men allowed sign at the door. There's just a receptivity and a responsiveness. So get ready for that starting 2026 Elevation Church will be man free. It's good to see you today. I have a word last week. I preached on he was the one. He was the one. Well this week there's there's a scripture and a story in John chapter 5 that the Lord brought to my mind stay standing for just a moment and I'm going to share this this story with you and then one other scripture from the Old Testament to get us ready for what God wants to speak today. Let me actually do it from my iPad so I can make sure I have the right version. In John chapter 5 verse 1 a story that may be familiar to you. The Bible says sometime later. Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. Now there is in Jerusalem near the sheep gate a pool which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades here a great number of disabled people used to lie the blind the lame the paralyzed one who was there had been an invalid for 38 years when Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time. He asked him. Do you want to get well sir the invalid replied. I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred while I'm trying to get in someone else goes down ahead of me and then Jesus said to him get up pick up your mat and walk now watch this at once the man was cured. He picked up his mat and walked thank God for miracles.
ACG - The Best Gaming Podcast
A highlight from The Best Gaming Podcast 410 Unity Failures, MK1 thoughts, Lies of P, Sony and Nintendo events and More!
"What's up everybody? This is Karrick with ACG and I'm here with Johnny and Abzi doing the best gaming podcast number 410, 410. Let's go. What's the pot? What's the pot? 420, right? Yeah. Oh my goodness gracious. Yeah. For 410. We're going to talk about Liza P, Mortal Kombat, Starfield, Baldur's Gate reviews. What else do I got here? Nintendo event, Sony event. Unity. There's a lot. Yeah, yeah, actually. It's been a crazy week, man. Oh, Final Fantasy remake. We're going to talk about that. What's it called? What's the new one called? Rebirth. Rebirth. We're going to talk about that as well. So a bunch of stuff. If you get a chance, tweet it out. Thanks for the super chats. All that kind of stuff helps the channel continue to put out videos even though this week I think I've done zero videos. Everything fell apart in my plans to do reviews, which happens gang gang. Yeah, it was. It was good. It actually gave me a little time to play and October is coming quick, man. You got a lot of work there. Yeah, a little rest time isn't so bad, right? Little time to just sort of sit back. I mean that like it. I can honestly say I wasn't incredibly disappointed. I wanted to review a couple, but there was some I'll talk about the review embargoes for some of these that were really weird and I was just like, you know I'm just going to play some games, hang out and you had some time to play some more Starfield, right? A bunch more. Yeah, a bunch more and and just we did like four voice chats and discord. We did the yesterday's events and the last couple days we've been doing huge get togethers just talking about life and generally finding out where everybody's from. It's always fun to go into discord and somebody's we just saw somebody who said they're from Australia in here, but it's like a couple days ago I did. I started asking people where they're from and it was like it was just like pick a random spot on the map and somebody was there and it was so cool to be to be like man when I was in school. I only had three kids to talk to and it was always Genesis. Yeah. Yeah, it's awesome dude. Like when we talked to Chris face a while ago. Yeah, he was from like South Africa South Africa. Yeah, it was great. Did you play for as a motorsport preview? No, I didn't get to go on the trip.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Jose Hernandez
"Welcome to The Eric Metaxas Show. Did you ever see the movie The Blob, starring Steve McQueen? The blood curdling threat of The Blob. Well, way back when, Eric had a small part in that film, but they had to cut his seed because The Blob was supposed to eat him, but he kept spitting him out. Oh, the whole thing was just a disaster. Anyway, here's the guy who's not always that easy to digest. Eric Metaxas. Hey there, folks. Welcome back. In case you didn't know, there's a film. It's called The Hill, and it's starring Dennis Quaid. I don't know what more you need to know. It's starring Dennis Quaid. It's in 1 ,500 screens across the country. That's a lot. We have the director of this film, of The Hill, with us, Jeff Celentano. Did I pronounce it close? Celentano. Celentano. Celentano. Hey, Celentano. You grew up in New Jersey, correct? I did. Okay. So that's why you got a name like Celentano. That's just, it's an Italian name. But you, I want to ask you, this is a film about, you grew up in a small town, in a small rural town in New Jersey. A lot of people don't know that those exist, but they certainly do if you know the state of New Jersey. But this is a film about someone who grew up in a rural town, small town in Texas. And his name is Ricky Hill. That's why the film is called The Hill. And again, it's starring Dennis Quaid as the father of this athlete, Ricky Hill. But I just kind of ask you right out of the gate, Jeff, how did you find your way to directing this story? Because this is a story that I had not heard until I heard about this film. Yeah. Well, none of us heard about the story. Ricky was an obscure guy who never really told many people about his story. Dennis Quaid, when I hired him to play Ricky's father, said, I just read the script. Is this true? Did this kid really do this? This is like a miracle. I said, yeah, he did the impossible. And he said, how come I've never heard of this story? And I said, well, there's so many stories out there nobody's ever heard of. And so that's why we're telling this one. It needs to be on the big screen. So my brother was in a hotel room, sorry, in a hotel lobby. And he was talking to somebody in a meeting. And he overheard Ricky next to him, the real Ricky Hill, talking about his life story and how he couldn't find a director that he liked. He had been through like 40 directors. And he never felt they had the right honesty and heart for the film. And my brother leaned over and said, excuse me, sir, once he was off the phone, this is my brother on the phone. He's your director. Talk to him. And Ricky was like, my brother's very aggressive. And Ricky talked to me. And we just bonded. And he said, you have to read my story. I'm going to send you the script tonight. I read the script. I cried my eyes out through the whole thing. I was so touched that I have said this so many times, but it's the same every time. It got in my heart and has not left even today that I had to tell this story. It was like I was on a mission. I just never gave up. And so that's how it ended up getting made. But it took 17 years to get it funded. I had been funded four times. The money fell through every time. And the last time it fell through was six years ago. Dennis had already been hired. And I thought we were going to lose Dennis. And he called me and said, listen, I love this story. It's the best story I've read in 20 years. I'm on for life. As long as you can find a time span on my schedule, I will do the film. Well, now for people who are, you know, tuning in and saying, what is the story? Tell us what is the story? Because the story is about a little boy, eight years old, who was very poor. His father decided to be a minister and a preacher and travel around the country. And they got kicked out of a couple of churches because his father was very adamant about no smoking in the church and treating the church badly. Ricky would be very poor and go out on a railroad track and hit stones all day. But he wore bag braces because he was crippled from the hip down.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 09/15/23
"I thought I was having a stroke. I think, is that me talking again? That was the previously on the Mike and Mark segment, because we got through all the important stuff, because there have been some things going on. But then I didn't really get to the part where our plane got hit by something during our sojourn in New York. What did your plane get hit by? What kind of thing hits planes these days? A bird? Bingo! Bird strike. Now, here's the good news. We were not on the plane. So what do you mean, our plane? So we're at DFW, getting ready to board for New York on Thursday afternoon last week. And then the word comes from the gate. It's never a good thing like, flight, we got a special announcement, draw near, light a fire, here we go, we got info. And it was, there would be a delay because on the way in the flight, which usually would turn around in about 45 minutes, yeah, that wasn't going to happen because there was a bird strike on the way in. And it was American. And listen, you've done a lot of travel and I have too, somewhat less, when they tell you the delay is going to be an hour and a half, you know it's going to be five. You know, you may not get out that day. Actually, the delay really wound up being about close to an hour and a half and American actually handled it very, very nicely. I'll tell you what they did, they put us on another plane, which I'm thankful for because I believe that the technicians and the workers would all get in there and make sure there's not, you know, a nest of birds in the turbine engines or so. I mean, but I was glad to be on another plane. But that gets me to question number two for my travel oracle, Mike Gallagher. You're both a travel oracle and a dog lover, right? We all love travel and dogs, correct? At the same time on the list of things we love travel. So it's a fixture now. Everybody's got, and I'm not talking about a support peacock or any of this idiocy, but actual service dogs are a common thing. And I love that when I see somebody, I know they got something going on and it just makes me feel, you know, empathy and love toward one. I sat in front of one yesterday, beautiful dog, well behaved, and a lady with special needs. You could tell she, I think she was with her daughter and that, and it was a big dog, but they were at her feet and just sleeping all through the flight and just as docile and peaceful and beautiful as can be. So here's the question I have, where do they poop? If you've got a service dog and it's like, well, it's going to be four hours. Now, some airports, DFW among them have places, I think, where you can go take the puppy when puppy has to pop a squirt. I mean, I totally get it. Lord knows if I do, it's right there. But what if a Rover has one in the chamber and I mean, we're sorry, your flight is going to be four hours. How in the world? And I've never, now that you mentioned with all the travel I do, I've never, ever heard of any kind of an accident on the plane with a service dog. Well, maybe, maybe they just have doggy bags. Would people have carry doggy bags with them? And they're able to scoop stuff up. You know, I mean, you talk about travel challenges though. My friends, Joey and Peg took three days to get back from New York to South Carolina. This is what they do. Walk. No, it was the flights were canceled because of weather on Sunday. Then they were all sold out on Monday. Then they got back on a plane Tuesday, and then it stormed again on Tuesday. They finally got in a car, tried to drive from New York to South Carolina, made it to Philly, and then were able to get on a flight from Philly into South Carolina. And that's a normal thing, though. When you say an hour and a half, believe me, tell that to Joey Hudson. It took three days. He would have killed to take an hour and a half. One of the last thing, truly last thing, because this ties into technology you talked about yesterday. We were talking about the wonderful story of the electric vehicle caravan that just was destroyed by the facts of life and Jennifer Granholm because they couldn't find a charging station, blah, blah, blah. And you talked about the Tesla experience where the, where your car knows where the charging stations are, knows how many people are at the charging station. And so that put very front of mind the notion of modern technology and how it knows where people are. Surely you've done this. That was my first experience. Again, at DFW, one of these stores, it's run by Amazon. It's called Grab and Fly, which is a very uncomfortable title where you walk, you go bloop, you scan your credit card. Then you go through a turnstile, walk in, buy, pick stuff up and walk out. And it knows what you have and hits your card. And I asked the woman, I said, how does it know that I have a magazine and a bottle of water? It just knows. And it knows where you are. It senses what you have. It senses where you are. It follows, it tells you, it tells you how long you were in the store to the second. I mean, cause, cause I just experienced my first Amazon pop -up store last week in New York. They have one right across from the hotel. You feel like you're shoplifting because you don't even walk out. You don't even have to put it. You don't even have to, or you could just carry it all out under your arms like a shoplifter. Like you're in San Francisco. It's another day in New York city. I mean, you'd walk out and then about five or 10 minutes after you leave the Amazon store, you'll get a note on your, you'll get an email and you'll get a notification on your Amazon app. Okay. You had a 33 ounce bottle of water. You had a bottle of two bag of chips. You have it. It's the craziest thing I've ever seen in my life. I totally love it. I love it until this technology is suddenly turned against us, which could happen at any moment. I'm thinking so. Now, speaking of technology, how much have you done with AI? How much have you done on air about artificial intelligence? Have you talked about it? Okay. In terms of talking about whether the answer is a little in, I can give you a 30 second summation. I'm fascinated by perfect framework because I'm fascinated by it. There are parts of it that are really cool. I think it's making students lazy cause they're getting it to write compositions for them, but you can always tell when AI has done it because it's kind of passionless and unartful. I farted around with a stupid chat GPT thing. I remember I had it write a promo for your show, which was actually pretty good and et cetera, et cetera. But the whole notion of surrendering to artificial brains, all manner of things is a little daunting to me. Now, when you asked me about it as a topic - Well, let me tell you what I'm getting to. When I bring it up - Instead of your dissertation, let me tell you why I'm asking you about it because we got a big problem on our hands. I'm going to tell you right now, and your indifference to it has been my indifference to - I'm not indifferent. No, no, no. I don't mean indifference, but I'm with you. I'm exactly the way you've been. It's like, oh, okay. It's kind of cool. Let me tell you something. It's bad, and they're holding hearings on Capitol Hill, Mark, and let me tell you how it hit us yesterday, a dose of reality that applies to what we do for a living because this is not chat GPT. This is real potential for some serious mayhem and Armageddon. Let me tell you what happened. I'm on the show yesterday, and I can see, I don't know how your setup is in your studio in Dallas, but I can see the incoming calls that Tracy is getting when they call the show. Line four lights up. It's Los Angeles. I see Tracy because we're all on camera in this setup we have, and I can see her eyes get real big. She puts the guy on hold. She says, oh my gosh, it's Bill Maher on line four. I said, Bill Maher? She goes, yeah, and I look up, and she's got Bill Maher on the screen, line four, Los Angeles. I said, it's not Bill Maher. She goes, I'm telling you, I'm talking to him. I know what he sounds like. It's Bill Maher. I say, Eric, talk to the guy. See if it's Bill Maher. And supposedly, he's calling a few select talk shows that he respects to explain why he's bringing his show back to HBO despite the writer's strike. And he is bringing his show back despite the writer's strike. That's a story. Good for him. It's a cool story because he's telling them, you know what? I got people that got to pay the bills. And here we go with 46 % pay raise, and they want to work one less day a week and 90 weeks of vacation. Oh, yeah. Other than that, they're fine. I'm going to take the labor side in a minute, but finish. Oh, please. Well, let's not get distracted with that crap. A little bit. Go ahead. A labor side. Yeah, you take the labor side. I'm going to have some love for the law workers. You go demand, Jeff Mitchell, you want a 46 % pay raise tomorrow. Give me a break. Give me a break. It's not the same thing. Don't be a pro -union. Come on, give me a break. I'm the last person to do that, but those workers were told certain things and had certain things happen and they've been screwed to a degree. But they want a 46 % pay raise. They want a 32 hour work week. They want 40 hour pay for 32 weeks of work, 32 hours of work. They want, give me a break. They're greedy. They might be entitled to something, but they ain't entitled to what they're demanding. Don't take the side. Okay, Richard, Jimmy Hoffa, knock it off. Don't squirrelly on me. Oh, golly. Focus, focus. So Bill Maher. Well, yeah, you tell him good. Be pro labor. Yeah, you'd be pro labor. So anyway, Bill Maher. So I say, Eric, get on the phone. Talk to the guy. Eric has been at this for 25 years. Yes. He is a veteran. He comes back to me, eyes bugged open. He said, Mike, I'm 95 % sure that's Bill Maher. I said the final. It was responsive. He asked it. He asked it questions and he asked the question and the guy answered. Now I say, finally, we see the number on the screen. We have caller ID. I said, what's the, what's the number? We ran it. We run a check on the number. Oh, it's, it's Bill Maher. So the guy, so I'm thinking, I think it's him. So I went on the air with him. Listen to what it sounded like. No. Okay. Listen to what? Well, listen, why not? Bill Maher's calling the show. Because you know, it's fake because I don't know it's fake. Bill flipping Maher is not going to cold call radio stations. He's going to have three, three production assistants call your people and that's how it's going to go. Okay. So listen to the exchange. Listen, listen to the exchange. We're all mystified by this. I'm going to, we're going to probably get burned on this. Uh, I got, and the problem is I got 30 seconds left in this segment. So we're all, we're all taking bets as to whether or not you are really Bill Maher. Is this Bill Maher? Yes, it is Bill Maher. Thanks for letting me come on.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from PayPal Launches Stablecoin That Could Change The World! (But There's A Catch...)
"The safest, easiest way to pay just got easier or at least has moved further into the cryptoverse. Online payment behemoth PayPal has launched its own stablecoin, becoming the latest TradFi company to make the attempt. You may remember Meta, the parent company of Facebook, trying to shove their own stablecoin down our throats and subsequently shuttering the project in early 2022. Will PayPal USD, aka PYUSD, succeed where others have failed? We're going to dive into the pros and cons. It's time to discover crypto. If you're new to the cryptoverse, you may be wondering what exactly is a stablecoin. It's a coin for horses. I'm kidding. It's all in the name, baby. A stablecoin is meant to do exactly that, maintain a stable price. Many of them are pegged to the US dollar. It's a way for investors and traders to keep their assets on the blockchain without having to deal with extreme price volatility. Well, at least that's what's supposed to happen with stables as long as they maintain their peg. If you want an example of what happens when a stablecoin loses its peg, take a look at our video on Terra UST. In case you've been living under a rock with all your cash buried in some dragon's lair, PayPal has a veritable monopoly on online payments. Founded in 1998, the company went public in 2002 and was soon taken over by eBay. Fast forward to today, the company has expanded astronomically and subsequently gobbled up would -be competitors like Venmo, Zoom and Zettle and many others. It also boasts 435 million users at time of recording. The original team is actually referred to as the PayPal Mafia. You'll recognize some familiar faces including Elon Musk, Yammer's David O. Sachs, LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman and Jawad Karim, who co -founded our own little slice of paradise, YouTube. So my question is, with Elon Musk's historic ties to PayPal, will the PayPal stablecoin become the favored cryptocurrency for X? Unseeding would -be Prince of X, doge? Leave a comment below and tell us what you think. PayPal's stablecoin release also comes a couple months after the announcement that Celsius will use it to distribute payments to its creditors, a decision that has sparked outrage and questions from Celsius's creditors. Raking in fees for millions of bankrupt Celsius isn't a great way to start your stablecoin debut. Now, PayPal has been interested in crypto for a while. They first allowed customers to buy, and hold a short list of cryptocurrencies back in 2020, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash. Then in 2022, they finally began supporting crypto withdrawals and deposits in and out of PayPal. And PYUSD is their latest attempt to make a name for themselves in the Web3 landscape. They announced its development at the beginning of 2022, but then pulled back citing regulatory issues. Was it you, Gary? But I guess their concerns are no more because there are full steam ahead with their stablecoin pursuits. Okay, enough about lost funds and heartbreak. Why would PayPal want to get into the stablecoin game in the first place? Well, it turns out stablecoins can be quite a lucrative business worth around $120 billion. PYUSD's top competitors Tether and USDC both have remarkable profits this year. Tether is projected to bring in $6 billion, while Circle, the parent company of USDC, has brought in $779 million so far this year. If PayPal can capture even a percentage of this market, they could bring in some serious bank. How do these companies do it? Well, both USDT and USDC maintain their peg by holding cash and investing in US Treasuries. And the yields of these Treasuries have soared to 5 % recently, so they're able to bring in a lot of profit and able to add to their reserves. PayPal intends to follow a similar model with the stablecoin being backed by USD bank deposits, US Treasuries and US Treasure reverse repurchase agreements held in custody by Paxos. You may recognize the name Paxos for managing the soon -to -be -deceased Binance stablecoin BUSD, which Binance has taken off the market due to SEC lawsuit. RIP. PayPal has announced that Paxos will begin issuing monthly reserve reports in September 2023, and these reports will be verified by an external and supposedly impartial accounting firm. Can we just get Kevin an Oscar? Remember, guys, having a public and verifiable proof of reserve is so important, not only for stablecoins, but also for exchanges. Make sure you do your research before you buy or send your crypto places. PYUSD is an ERC -20 token written in Solidity and running on the Ethereum blockchain. You can exchange PYUSD for fiat as well as send it to other PayPal users and buy crypto on PayPal's platform. You can also buy from PayPal's merchants, and PayPal will send PYUSD to make the purchase. There are zero fees to send this stablecoin to other PayPal users, but there are fees for buying cryptocurrencies and withdrawing PayPal USD from the platform. Currently, you can withdraw or deposit PYUSD and it's compatible with Metamask and Coinbase Wallet, soon to be supported by Venmo. A week after PayPal's stablecoin mania hit the media, Ledger, one of the top cold storage wallet solutions, announced that its users would be able to buy crypto with their PayPal accounts. Coinbase has allowed American and Canadian users to buy crypto with their PayPal accounts for a while, but recently, Coinbase partnered with PayPal to bring this option to users in Germany and the UK. This comes in handy since PayPal decided to pause crypto purchases on its own platform in the UK, citing financial regulatory shifts. With all these exchanges supporting PayPal accounts to purchase crypto, it seems like only a matter of time before Ledger and other wallets begin to support PYUSD as well. Currently, you can get your hands on some PYUSD on Coinbase, Kraken, Gate .io and Crypto .com if you don't want to buy it from the PayPal platform. Right now, we're a little less than a month into their release, so are people actually using it? Well, it seems like members of the crypto community have been a bit wary so far. The block reported that smart money is avoiding the coin and smaller investors are as well. And really, can you blame them? Most people are still traumatized from the Terra fiasco. And why would you switch your funds from Tether or USDC when they've stood the test of time? There have also been concerns about PYUSD launching on ETH and associated high fees. And there are real regulatory concerns here in the US. Congresswoman Maxine Waters, the top Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, was quick to wag the finger at PayPal and yell, Shame! Shame on you! She's mad at business as giant as PayPal would move forward with a stablecoin without federal regulatory framework. She may want to point that finger right back at herself because the Fed is at fault here twofold. One, they allowed PayPal to get this giant. And two, they can't figure out how to actually regulate the space. Probably due to our officials being older than dinosaurs. Look at this! Are you kidding me? Another issue that has some worried is that PYUSD is centralized and has a sordid history of randomly freezing people's accounts. And last year, the company threatened to fine users up to $2500 to posting misinformation. After immense backlash, PayPal retracted the statement saying it was an error. The terms and conditions of PYUSD also state, PayPal can stop supporting the stablecoin at any time without informing holders. All of this has members of the cryptoverse worrying that PayPal would arbitrarily freeze or deduct PYUSD from their accounts just like the big banks are able to do. Well, don't freeze up yourself. Hit that like button and subscribe to the channel to discover more crypto. PayPal freezing accounts is not good. We want control over our funds and the right to privacy. But just for context, Tether and USDC are centralized as well. Tether is held by an international company, and USDC boasts BlackRock, Fidelity, and Coinbase among their investors. So nothing is totally safe. And while it's great PYUSD has added the trove of stablecoin options, the space really needs more decentralized stablecoins. Okay, so now I want to mention a few reasons PYUSD makes me feel bullish for crypto in general. Anytime a TradFi company gets into crypto signals wider adoption. And PayPal could be going after a completely different retail demographic for PYUSD, which would explain the slow adoption. But the coolest thing about PayPal launching a stablecoin is the ability to pay for things IRL without taking funds off the blockchain. You can already use PYUSD to pay millions of merchants through PayPal. This kind of thing has started on a small scale elsewhere, but PayPal is going to majorly increase mass adoption. I don't think we're far away from being able to pay our rent with crypto through Venmo or PayPal. And that kind of thing makes me bullish. It gives me chills up my spine. Guys, I can hear the bull market calling. Can you hear it too? And it says, Wind Moon. That's all for me. Thanks for watching Discover Crypto! Hit that like button on your way out. And we'll see you at the top.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from What is VRA and Will It Moon? - Verasity DeepDive
"Is Veracity a dud or altcoin gem that will pop during the bull run? I'm going to take a look at its fundamentals. It's time to discover crypto. Veracity is an open ledger ecosystem bringing trust and transparency to digital advertising and payments. Never heard of it? Perfect. Because crypto winner is the best time to educate yourself and learn as much as you can so you can make sure you're ready for the next bull run. Let's kick things off with a little token overview. Veracity is currently trading a shade over four tenths of a cent and is sitting at a deep value market cap of about $42 million. This puts it deep in the pink sheets way down at number 422 on CoinGecko at the time of shooting. I've always wondered if the GeicoGecko and the CoinGeckoGecko knew each other in gecko business school. Speaking of which, make sure to check out the BitLab Academy and find the courses that are right for you so you can learn from the pros and take your crypto education to the next level. Anyway, as you can tell right off the bat, Veracity has a pretty low market cap even by most degen standards like mine. Now, I know it's a deep bear market and the market cap of all the projects in crypto are down bad right now, but any project with a market cap of less than a billion dollars, I would personally consider to be a small cap. Small cap means that there's a greater potential of returns if the project catches major adoption, but this also usually means increased risk as well. Two of the biggest things that can be a concern are trading volume and liquidity. If you take a look at which exchanges currently list Veracity, you'll see that some of the more popular ones are like Gate .io, KuCoin, OKEx, Crypto .com and Uniswap. By the way, you can sign up for a KuCoin account using our affiliate link in the description. Now, it is important to note that you won't find Veracity listed on the big boys like Coinbase or Binance just yet. It's still very early days for this project, so please do your own research and invest in trade responsibly. If you appreciate me coming at you with some clear -eyed crypto caution, go ahead and drop a like, subscribe to the channel and turn on channel notifications so you'll be around for when I finally cut loose and go full DGen DZ mode on everyone in the next bull run. Taking a look at the price history, we can see that Veracity's native ERC777 token VRA hit its all -time high in November of 2021 and peaked out about 8 .6 cents. Since then, it's been on one of them big bad bear market slides that most projects in the altcoin market have also followed. One final thing to call out about the tokenomics on this one before we dive more into the history and fundamentals, the current circulating supply is around 10 billion 305 million, and the max supply will be around 110 billion. The reason for this is that this project is holding 90 % of their supply in reserve until their platform fully launches, which makes sense, but ordinarily, a difference of max supply versus circulating supply that is that big would be a huge red flag. So keep your eyes out for things like that when you're doing your own awesome altcoin research. Okay, enough about the token price. What's Veracity all about? Veracity was founded in 2017 by entrepreneur and pensive -looking technologist RJ Mark. Veracity offers a unique patented Proof -of -View system through which it plans to solve the problems of video advertising and NFT fraud. Veracity's product lines range across multiple industries but are all built with the Proof -of -View system and the VerView's platform as their backbone. It offers a Veril wallet on its blockchain network on which the VRA token is used as the main currency for participating in the online variety and video game economy. It also offers staking rewards to users. It's a protocol and product layer platform for eSports, video entertainment and digital content management. Its products include an ad stack and the VRA reward system, which has been integrated into SDKs for YouTube, Twitch, Vimeo and all major video platforms. Okay, so what's the problem this project is solving in plain English? Well, if you ever spend any time on social media, I'm sure you've noticed that there are a ton of bot armies out there, and the interwebs are getting into all kinds of shenanigans, spamming, trolling, fishing and just generally mucking it up for all of us human beings. This is a problem for advertisers because they have no way of knowing if their ads are actually reaching real humans or if they're just serving up impressions up to the lifeless bots. It's been estimated that by 2025, advertisers' total losses due to ad fraud could shoot up to $100 billion. So it's clear this is a big problem. Veracity leverages blockchain technology and their unique consensus algorithm Proof of View to ensure every view captured on the ledger is authentic and ultimately provides stakeholders within the video ad space a trusted single source of truth for capturing verified human views in real time. Oh, and just a reminder, they filed a lot of patents to protect their tech as well. Pretty cool, right? Personally, I think things like this are the key to mass adoption. Quality projects using crypto to solve real world problems that can't be tackled without the blockchain. Veracity has two major branches of the project, the VRA token and the Vera wallet which allows users to spend VRA tokens, earn VRA rewards via staking or earn VRA by participating in activities on the network and the Vera Views platform along with everything being built on it. On November 8, 2021, Veracity announced that they would be rebranding an esports platform to Vera Esports in order to establish their vision for how their feedback cycle of watch to earn value creation should work. The cycle has four key elements. First, Vera Esports secures broadcast rights to exclusive tournaments. They offer access to streams from some of the biggest names in gaming with tournaments hosted by the likes of Valorant, Riot Games and Axie Infinity. It's also teased an upcoming NFT marketplace with both in and out of game content for its users. Next, their content is made available on the Brightcove media player with the Vera Views ad stack built in. Third, Vera View protects publishers against fake views who then come to realize it's a superior solution for preventing ad fraud across all of their content and is consequently much more profitable. Fourth and finally, Vera Views adoption is increased and Veracity's revenues are used for operating expenses and their VRA buyback program. Sounds complicated, I know, but the gist of it is by building a system that is better for viewers, advertisers, content creators and really just all the stakeholders in the system, Veracity is able to incentivize all participants and then share the value they are creating with all of the users because that's how we do it in Web3, baby. For more details on the history of what they're currently working on, I recommend checking out their roadmap. They have a very detailed roadmap that lays out every step of development they've taken along the way since launching in 2017. They have well -defined and specific goals to achieve their business cases in each market. Today, Veracity has met all of their quarterly roadmap goals, and some recent achievements include updates to the Vera Wallet, referral integrations, exchange listings, growing ad campaigns, running eSports tournaments and launching a revamped tournament site. These guys really have been busy this bear market. Okay, I think I'm going to leave it there for the time, obviously, there's a lot more to this project than what we've covered here today, and I definitely recommend taking a closer look at some of the patents they filed on things like rewarded video because as the Web3 internet of value grows and gains market adoption, there's going to be a lot of new projects like Veracity rising up to challenge the dominance of the Web2 companies as well as other Web3 rivals like Theta. None of us can predict the future, so it's impossible to say for sure what's going to happen, but Play to Earn, Watch to Earn and you name it to earn are all going to be pretty exciting crypto niches in the next bull run, so you have to subscribe to the channel. Make sure you stick around and watch what happens. Let me know down in the comments what you think of Veracity and whether or not you think that VRA token is destined for a new all -time high in the next bull run. And let me know if you have a favorite Watch to Earn platform you think we should check out as well. That's all you got from Deezy. Thanks for watching Discover Crypto. Hit that like button on your way out. We'll see you at the top. It's a colorful story. It's a one of a kind story. It's a story that spans 8 ,000 majestic acres of Blue Ridge Mountain beauty bathed in shades of orange and crimson. It's a story of four -star evenings, locally sourced cuisine and award -winning wines. 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The Podcast On Podcasting
A highlight from Ep375: Implement These 7 Things If You Don't Want To Podfade - Katy Murray
"Am a huge fan of being able to have solid takeaways when I listen to a podcast. And I know with like yours, you talk about how you help someone who wants to be on your podcast get everything in one spot. And that's awesome. It's here's one, two and three things that you can do today to be successful and to grow your business. Most hosts never achieved the results they hoped for. They're falling short on listenership and monetization, meaning their message isn't being heard and their show ends up costing them money. This podcast was created to help you grow your listenership and make money while you're at it. Get ready to take notes. Here's your host, Adam Adams. Hey podcaster, it's your host, Adam A. Adams. And today we've got Katie Murray on the podcast. We are going to be talking about her show. She's done coming up on a hundred episodes, which is awesome. And as well, she serves business owners. So her podcast is called ginger biz, the podcast with Katie, the link is already in the show notes. So go ahead and scroll down. She was a photographer on the side. She has a full -time job right now. She was also doing photography and then she lost the podcast. And now she's got a firm where she supports business owners utilizing the, her team, which is mostly VAs as I understand. Is that right, Katie? Yes, sir. Coo coo. So you help people with random things, like a few different things. One of them is Pinterest growth. So if you're listening and you're like, I want to launch a Pinterest. I want to grow a Pinterest. I don't know how to do it. I'm not sure what I'm doing. Katie does that. Her team does that. They also help with blogs, a little bit of website copy, not like building the website literally from scratch, but doing the copy to make sure that your website is reaching out to the right people. And we're going to jump in and find out her history of the last. Since let's see, it's probably been over a year, which means are you publishing more than once a week on average? Because it seems like you are. Yes. I generally do one solo episode on Tuesdays and then a guest episode on Thursdays. And have you always done it like that? Because you'd probably be over a hundred episodes already. Correct. Did you do like one for a while? Yeah. So the guest ones come and go right now. They're pretty fluent. Like we're doing good with that content, but definitely in there. It was kind of figuring out our steps. Okay. So let me ask you, and I think this would super beneficial for the listener. You started your podcast over a year ago and you've learned a couple of things along the way about podcasting even mentioned that some of the things are becoming more fluent. So where I want to start is like, Katie, if you were launching a brand new podcast with just the knowledge in your head that you've learned along the way, what are some things that you would make sure to do or do differently than the first go round? What would do now if you were launching? Yeah, great question, Adam. So I would say the first thing is kind of figure out what I wanted to do with guests straight out the gate so that I knew. And then I put a workflow in place, which has been amazing. I have an intake form. It asks every single guest the same questions and it slates me for rolling into their intros and getting them set up for the recording and getting the media out to them. And I should have been doing that from the get go before it used to be like, Hey, Adam, you want to be on my show? Cool. What do you want to talk about? And then it was just a lot of back and forth. Now I can hop in a group where I can meet somebody and say, Hey, here's a link to the landing page. It tells you all about my podcast and right on that page, you click apply to be a guest and boom, boom, boom, it's so seamless. And it literally takes me like six minutes to get a guest outline slated and ready to go with links and everything. So when they apply with your new intake form, the application to jump on the podcast, it might take them more than six minutes to put in all the information, but it takes you six minutes or less to know exactly what to do. Yeah, I would say on average, it takes people like 12 minutes to complete it. Now that's given that they know what they want to talk about. They have to have some sort of expertise because it says, what topic do you want to discuss? And what are three to five questions that I can help ask to keep the flow of the podcast going? So I have had a couple of people stumble on that. They're like, well, I don't know what to talk about. And so that's why I created the landing page to say, here's the people that I serve, here's what I do. And then they can kind of vet it themselves to see if they're a good fit. It's a little more of a hands -off approach. Okay. So you got a landing page and it says who you serve, like who is the perfect avatar? Who's the listener. And I think that's really smart. Like somebody who's launching a podcast right now, here's an issue that I see all the time. We don't, most of us don't understand who that avatar is ourselves. Even if we do, we're horrible at translating that to the guest who's coming on the show. And what that seems to do is people come on the show and their first thought is I need to self promote. I need to wiggle in a story about a client and they are thinking of a lot about themselves and they're not always thinking about who is your perfect listener. And I know that when I go on somebody else's show, I always ask like, who's listener, what are they worried about? So I can really understand that and then cater each of the answers to questions toward how to serve that person. So it's not coming across just as self -promotion. And so one thing that you've done is you've gotten that right up front. So they go to the landing page, they read about this and then they apply and it helps them to be more focused on your listener and hopefully less on themselves and what they have to promote. Is that part of it? Yeah, totally Adam. And something with that, that is beneficial, then I'm not rejecting as many people because I'm not like, Hey, Adam, unfortunately like that doesn't fit with what I want to talk about. And I think it enables people who may not be avid listeners or even listened at all to Ginger Biz. They can still step in and be an extension of me and help promote the overall message that I want to share. Let's talk about the title of the podcast and let's talk about your perfect listener. So you identify the perfect listener and I love that you put it on the landing page. Could you take a what they're going through and what you help them with? Yeah, absolutely. So I would say that my average listener is probably 30 to 35 -ish and they are zero to two years at the business or entrepreneurship, whether it's full -time or as a side hustle. And it's someone who has lots of ideas, but only has two hands and can't grow past their own knowledge base. So Ginger Biz, the podcast comes in as a pocket cheerleader and and encourager an advocate for here are tips and tricks that have worked for me. Here's what hasn't worked, but here's the solution. And just kind of putting it all together with very, very tangible things. I'm a huge fan of being able to have solid takeaways when I listen to a podcast. And I know with like yours in one of your previous episodes, you talk about how you help someone who wants to be on your podcast, get everything in one spot. And that's awesome because that's the kind of thing I want to hear. That's what Ginger Biz does. It's not these lovey -dovey stories of how we've been successful. It's here's one, two, and three things that you can do today to be successful and to grow your business. Yeah. I want to ask a question because as I look at the podcast artwork and the title, the title is simply Ginger Biz when it's just written out. And then you can see that the person in charge, the person, the host is Katie Murray. And then when you look over at the podcast artwork, it's going to be the white background. It'll say in the middle with the logo, Ginger Biz, the podcast with Katie. I'm curious if you've considered making at least a tagline because like I'm thinking about that perfect listener who's wanting to offload some stuff, wanting to start the 35, they're zero to two years in. And I'm curious if what they type in is automatically going to find you. Like if we're typing in ginger as like the reason what we're trying to listen to. So how have you thought about that? Is it, is it working? Is it not working? Are you adding anything to it? What do you think there? But it's funny you say that just before I jumped on with you, I've been in the process over the last month trying to figure out the perfect tagline because I want to introduce merchandise. And when listeners listen and rate my show, I want to randomly pick people to give merchandise, but as conceited as I may be, they don't want my face and then ginger biz with Katie on it. So I am trying to work towards picking a tagline. Most of my listeners, I think right now come through TD, targeted daily engagement. So it's not necessarily from a search engine. So that's something that I can definitely grow in. So yes, I've given it a lot of thought, but I'm super indecisive. So trying to figure out the perfect tagline is definitely a little challenging. Okay. So you mentioned something that I hadn't heard this term, these three letters before. I think you said T D E and was it targeted daily engagement? Yes, sir. So how do you do that? Like if we've got a listener who wants to grow their podcast, sounds like this is the way that you get your listeners. Is that part correct? This is how you find them. So how does the listener find listeners? How does the other podcaster find their listeners using TD? So Adam, it might be similar with how you and I ran across each other. We're in a group online and I'm interacting and I'm doing targeted daily engagement. So I'm specifically targeting who I want to either be on my show, which in this case, that was it. It was like, I was either finding a guest or wanting to be a guest. So that was the target for that day. And I do it daily because I want to continually show up in those groups or those feeds or whatever the case. I know Reddit is a very good spot to do it. So if I'm in there and I'm looking at entrepreneurial like things on Reddit and I'm interacting with those people, I make sure that the host of gingerbiz is in my bio. It's on my about me. It's all front and center. And then I just offer good insight for these people. And then they get curious, like, this girl knows what she's talking about. And then they stumble on my podcast. Now it goes back to what you said in the beginning. I'm not trying to get on this show or get in any of my areas and just sell. I'm not, Hey, come listen to gingerbiz, jump on, listen, listen, listen. Instead, I want to give them tangible takeaways. So that sparks the curiosity. So it's organic. I'm not just shoving gingerbiz down anybody's throat. So that's what I consider TD and you can do it on other platforms as well. You can do it in Facebook groups. That's probably my biggest one. And that's where I've gotten the last like 40 guests that I've had, or you can do it on Instagram or Reddit or even LinkedIn has seemed to be a pretty cool spot to start getting to know people and not to be too long -winded, but an additional point of that is. If I know Adam that I'm launching podcasts, one -on -one a course that would be perfect for your listeners. I want to go and interact with you and become a voice on your platform and get to know you. And then people will see us interacting online and that'll kind of grow it. So that's another form of TD. Cool. So you've had like 40 ish guests that came from that you've had close ish to a hundred episodes as we're recording now, and probably more when it launches, when this is being published since you're doing a couple of weeks and I'm looking at the ratings and reviews. And I wanted to find out like, if you're focused on getting that social proof, the rating and review or not. And if you are, I'm curious if you talk to guests or clients or friends or family to maybe give you that social proofing on your show. Absolutely. So after I do a guest episode, I do a couple of different things. Bear in mind that my podcast is secondary to business, although we are pivoting that so that it's more monetized and hopefully more the sole income for me. But that being said, I send a thank you, whether it's a gift or a card to each of my guests personally. And then I do ask them to drop a rating for me. And then in my newsletter, which like my email campaigns, I also request people to leave reviews. So I'm constantly asking people to leave reviews. I've done that with photography. I have over 150 reviews for KMP and I found that that's been hugely beneficial. So I am working towards that. Yes. Hey, do you still do the photography at all or did that go away? No, I still do. Definitely paired it back and maybe this gives some insight, but I'm multi -passionate entrepreneur. So I have triangle. I am a human resource profession by day. I have my podcast and branding photography to support other businesses.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from The Glory of God in Evangelism
"And this next one comes from Anthony Mathenia. He has pastored Christ Church in Radford since 2011. He was raised in West Tennessee and served as a full -time missionary in Addis Ababa. Did I say that correctly? OK, Addis Ababa. All right, in Ethiopia. Anthony now lives in Christianburg, Virginia with his wife, Hannah, and their seven children. So open your Bibles, and he is going to be speaking on the glory of God in evangelism. Good morning. I am delighted to have the opportunity to be here to take part in the service for Adam this morning, the opportunity to worship collectively with you all as well. After Christ came, was born, lived and died, was buried and rose again, during the time of his post -resurrection while here on earth, just before being ascended to the right hand of the throne of God, he said, you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. And you shall be my witnesses, both in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth. And as we read it in the book of Acts, it's you turn a page and the Holy Spirit comes down and the New Testament church as we know it is established as hearts are regenerated and lives are altered and reconciliation happens between God and man. And we see at the end of Acts chapter 2 that they were continually devoting themselves to the apostles teaching and to fellowship and to the breaking of bread and to prayer. This is what believers have done for all time. We give attention to our Bibles. There's a focus made on prayer. We are intentional with regard to Christian fellowship. And there's an effort generated to spread the message. Now, there in the early church, they were a little bit reluctant to do that. And as a result of that reluctance in God's providence, he sent hardship or persecution among them, resulting in them being scattered out. Again, it's a few pages over in Acts, but by the time we get to Acts chapter 8, there's a real scattering that has happened. And they're proclaiming the gospel as they go initially to Samaria. And then among the Ethiopian eunuchs, if you wanna open your Bible, Acts chapter 8 is where we'll be this morning. And then in Acts 10, it's Caesarea and the Gentiles and Acts 11 is Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch. And Acts 13, they're actually sent out from Antioch to the ends of the earth. And you know, the glorious truth that Jesus promised that the gates of hell would not prevail against his church, that truth still remains. We're evidence of that. The ripples of this gospel effect continue even this morning. We're evidence of that. We as local church members, lots of different churches here for the immediate context, but we are a result of the efforts of Christians banding together and forming churches, holding high the authority of the Bible, believing God in prayer, loving one another as Christ has loved us and striving to reach others with the message of the cross. That's how the gospel made its way to our ears or to our hearts. And you know what? It's a spiritual heritage that's worth following. It's a spiritual heritage that's worth continuing. You all, as a local church, you, Adam, as an individual and as an evangelist, you have an opportunity to do evangelism to the glory of God. Evangelism done to the glory of God builds the church. And it is genuine, authentic Christian worship that gives way to evangelism. Again, back to Acts chapter two, they were giving attention to the Bible. They were devoted to prayer. They were fellowshipping one with another. And that's what produced this desire for others to know. The order is crucial here. It's absolutely crucial that we understand that upon believing as individuals, we then join ourselves together as a church.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Is Biden's Age Becoming a Liability? Democrats Panic!
"The White House rips media for fixating on Biden's age. That's in the Hill. Trump is really old, too, is Frank Bruni in The New York Times. Wall Street Journalist is Biden too old to run again. And Wall Street Journal editorial, Democrats start to panic about Biden. Bret Baier is back. So, Bret, what do you think about that statement by the president in Alaska? Well, I just think that it's following that track that we've been seeing of speeches where something, something goes wrong in the speech. Something is exaggerated. He says something that's just not true. I mean, Hillary Clinton wrote and said that she flew over as New York senator and saw 9 -11 the next day. And those words, it looked like the gates of hell. You know, Senator Biden at the time was in D .C. He didn't go to 9 -11 ground zero till nine days later. So the White House is going to say he meant the nine days later trip. But when you're in Alaska and you're talking about recollections of 9 -11 and already the family's not at ground zero or one of the sites, maybe that's not the time to exaggerate. Yeah, I read the Wall Street Journal story today on they interviewed many, many people who were born exactly on the day that Joe Biden was born. And they spoke about what it's like to be 80. And some of them say, oh, it's fine. And some of them say, no, you really lose the step. And other people say you can go downhill in a hurry. I don't think this cannot be talked about, Bret, but it's also something that it is important to cushion how one discusses it. How are you handling it? Yeah, I don't think it's about the age. It's about, you know, what we're seeing about his ability to speak clearly, about his ability to even deliver teleprompter speeches. I think that the Vietnam news conference was an example of what people are seeing with their own eyes. You can say I can't keep up with him. And the White House can say he's got such energy. And then we can all see his lack of answers or I'm going to go to bed or they turn on the music and cut off the mic at the end of the news conference because they don't want them to say anything else. Those are things that people can see with their own eyes and hear with their own ears. So I don't think it's the number. I do think it's the capability. And it is clearly, clearly making Democrats very, very concerned.
The Dan Bongino Show
Christopher Wray Stays Silent on Insurrection of McCarthy's Office
"Jack squat. You know how easy it would be for the FBI to come out today if the director of the FBI Christopher Ray had any balls at all for them to come out today and say, listen, we have taken a hard against this kind of behavior. We made it clear on January 6th if asked to leave and you don't that that your right to petition the government is ended because you're now trespassing. These people engaged in that behavior. They we're were asked to leave. Therefore, we've got wanted posters out and we're going to be conducting interviews and arrests today. You know, I got to tell you, for as crazy as the FBI's reputation, how crazy fast it's gone downhill, there'd be a lot of people like, wow, maybe they're serious about this stuff. We had any statements from the FBI, but I haven't seen it. I haven't seen it. Jim and Mike, I'm dead serious. I might even mess with you. See, have you guys seen anything? If you see it, let me know. I'm not here to like trash them unnecessarily. Has there been a statement about this? The insurrection in McCarthy's seen anything. Someone should check their Twitter or something like that. They usually put out statements there. I haven't seen a damn thing. Not that I would forgive the FBI for Spygate, Impeachment Gate, Ukraine Gate, everything else that happened. But at least I'd say, all right, well, maybe they're serious about, as Kyle says, leaning into their joke of a reputation of fixing it. I haven't seen squat. Not a single statement.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Why Didn't Joe Biden Visit Any of the 9/11 Sites?
"Are Americans going to forgive and forget that Joe Biden became the first president since 9 -11 not to commemorate the anniversary of that day in any way, shape or form by being in D .C. or New York or Shanksville, Pennsylvania? Are Americans going to forgive him for that? Are you in a forgiving spirit? If not going to New York or D .C. where he lives or Shanksville, PA yesterday wasn't egregious enough, how about lying about where he was 22 years ago? Does that upset you at all? Does that bother you? Does that offend you? Apparently, it is provable that Joe Biden was nowhere near New York City the day after 9 -11. Listen to what he said in Anchorage, Alaska yesterday. Never forget, never forget, we never forget each of us, each of those precious lives stolen too soon when evil attacked. Ground zero in New York. And I remember standing there the next day and looking at the building. I felt like I was looking through the gates of hell. It looked so devastating because the way you could see where from where you could stand. It wasn't hard to apparently establish that he wasn't at Ground Zero in New York the day after the terror attacks. He was on the floor of the U .S. Senate. Man's a stone cold liar.
The Ben Shapiro Show
"gates" Discussed on The Ben Shapiro Show
"This is probably what Epstein was doing with pretty much anyone. He had these very, very lucrative relationships with some of the richest, most famous perverts on the planet. I mean, there is a reason that people are flying to and from Epstein Island where he was pretty overtly trafficking in underage girls. Mila Antonova, Russian bridge player in question, declined to comment on Gates and said she didn't know who Epstein was when they met. She said, I had no idea he was a criminal or had any ulterior motive, I just thought he was a successful businessman and wanted to help. She added, I'm disgusted with Epstein and what he did. But again, this demonstrates exactly how Epstein was operating. He met with everybody around Bill Gates, apparently. He gained access to Bill Gates. And then while he was working on this charitable fund with JP Morgan Chase, he finally met in 2013 with Gates and other Norwegian officials visiting Epstein's townhouse. Epstein told one former Gates Foundation employee that he knew these Norwegian officials and could help Gates win a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to eradicate polio, at which point Gates and Epstein met together in March in Strasbourg, France. That September, Epstein scheduled a meeting with Gates and others at his townhouse. And again, so it looks like he would make a connection with somebody and then he would dig up dirt on that person and then he would blackmail that person. And this is not the only story that has emerged about Jeffrey Epstein over the course of the last couple of months alone. It emerged a little bit earlier this month that Jeffrey Epstein helped move $270 ,000 from Noam Chomsky, the wild left linguist, and he also paid $150 ,000 to Bard College president Leon Botstein, according to the Wall Street Journal. Apparently, he had financial dealings with the two academics. He had met with them multiple times as well. Again, we still do not have the entire list of what exactly Jeffrey Epstein was doing with all these people, but the baseline assumption has to be that if you had repeated contacts with Jeffrey Epstein over the course of years, there's a good shot that you'd had dirt on you and then he was shaking you down for money. Remember, at the exact same time that he was shaking Bill Gates down for money, Bill Gates was pretty openly saying that he was not being blackmailed by Epstein. In fact, here is Bill Gates saying just that. Epstein had a way of sexually compromising people. Is that what Melinda Okay, said? so that is Bill Gates pretty much openly lying to journalists, saying I was never shaken down by Epstein. We were just the best of friends, which raises a question about everybody else who says that they were best of friends with Jeffrey Epstein and raises the further question as to just how much Epstein was being protected by people in positions of power. I mean, the answer has to be some because otherwise how could he get away with this for decades on end being a registered sex offender? Well, in just a second, we'll turn to the 2024 presidential race, but I think suffice it to say that a lot of the conspiracy theories that people have about people in positions of elite power who are working with one another or who are blackmailing one another or who are engaging in improper behavior behind closed doors and that are making themselves susceptible to blackmail by state actors, that number is pretty shocking. When the full Epstein scandal eventually breaks, which I think it probably will, when that breaks, it's going to bring down a lot of worlds. Okay, we'll get to the 2024 race in just one moment. First, I want to talk to you about Daily Wire's most trusted privacy partner and premier sponsor of this show, ExpressVPN. Using the internet without ExpressVPN, it's like checking your baggage at the airport without a lock. You think your stuff is safe, but you never know who might be going through your belongings. When you go online without ExpressVPN, ISPs can see every single website you visit. They can then legally sell that information without your consent to ad companies and tech giants who then use that data to target you. When you use ExpressVPN, internet service providers can't see your online activity at all. Your identity is completely anonymized. Your data is also encrypted for maximum protection. I love ExpressVPN because it's really easy for
Behind The Tech with Kevin Scott
"gates" Discussed on Behind The Tech with Kevin Scott
"So how much do you actually read, like what's a typical pace of reading for Bill Gates? You know, if I don't read a book in a week, then I'm really going to re look at what I was doing that week. If I'm in vacation, then I'll hope to read more like 5, 6 or 7. Of course, books are quite variable. In size, you know, over the course of the year, you know, I should be able to read close to 80 plus books, you know, I have a younger children who read even more than I do, so it's kind of like, oh, jeez. You know, I have to be, you know, which solo books am I going to read? I still read all the pinker, you know, some authors that are just so profound and have shaped my thinking. But, you know, reading is kind of relaxing. I should read more fiction when I'm I fall behind my non fiction list tends to dominate. And yet, you know, that people have suggested such good fiction stuff to me. And that's why, you know, I kind of share my reading list on Gates notes and so what's the over under, you're famous for saying that you want to read David Foster Wallace's infinite jest like over under that happening in 23? Well, if there hadn't been this darn AI advanced. I'm kidding you, but it's really true. I have allocated and with super excitement a lot more time to sitting with Microsoft product groups and saying, okay, what does this mean for security? What does it mean for office? What does it mean for our database? Because I love that type of brainstorming because new vistas are opened up. So no, it's all your fault. No infinite just this year. Excellent. Well, I appreciate you making that trade because it's been really fantastic over the past 6 months having you help us think through all of this stuff. So thank you for that and thank you for doing the podcast today, really, really appreciate it. No, it was fun, Kevin, thanks so much.
Behind The Tech with Kevin Scott
"gates" Discussed on Behind The Tech with Kevin Scott
"They weren't the only ones. There were people over in Europe doing some of these things. But they combined it with a lot of things. They put it on a network. They got a laser printer. And Charles Simone was their programming this and did a word processor that used that very graphical bitmap screen and let you do things like fonts. Stuff we take for granted now. And so I went and visited Charles at park at night and he demoed what he had done with this bravo word processor and then he printed on the laser printer document of all the things that should be done if there were cheap pervasive computers and he and I brainstormed that he updated the document printed again. And it just blew my mind and the agenda for Microsoft came out of that's like in 1979 that I'm with him and computers are still completely character mode and so that's when the commitment to do software for the Mac emerges from Steve Jobs having a similar experience with bob belleville at Xerox Parc. And park built a Xerox built a very expensive machine called the star that they only sold a few thousand of because people didn't think of word processing as something you would pay. You had to come in really at the low end. So PCs with first character moment later graphics were processing, so I hired Charles Charles help do word and excel in many of our great things. And eventually, you know, 15 years after Charles had showed me his thinking and we brainstormed, we largely achieved through Windows and office on both Windows and Mac. We'd largely achieved that piece of paper, but so I told the group that that was the other demo that had kind of blown my mind and made me think okay, what can be achieved in the next 5 to ten years, we should be more ambitious taking advantage of this breakthrough, even with the imperfections that, you know, we're going to reduce over time. Yeah. It was really powerful and motivating anecdote that you shared. So maybe one last thing here before we, before we go, or maybe two more things. So what do you think are the big grand challenges that we ought to be thinking about over the next 5 to ten year period? So like in a sense like this, I actually have this piece of paper that Charles wrote. It's like here by my desk frame because I think it was one of the more unbelievable predictions of a technology cycle that anybody's ever written and I don't know why everybody doesn't know about the existence of this thing. It's just unbelievable. But so as you sort of think about what lies ahead of us over the next 5 to ten years, what's your challenge, not just a Microsoft, but to everybody in the world who's going to be thinking about this?
Behind The Tech with Kevin Scott
"gates" Discussed on Behind The Tech with Kevin Scott
"And so there's going to be a lot of tasks where there's just huge increased productivity, including a lot of documents, payables, accounts receivables. Just take the health system alone. There's a lot of documents that now software will be able to characterize them very effectively. Yeah. So one of the other things that I wanted to chat with you about, you have this really unique perspective in your involvement in several of the big inflection points and technology. So for two of these inflections, like you were either one of the primary architects of the inflection itself or one of the big leaders. So we wouldn't have the PC personal computing ecosystem without you and like you played like a really substantial role in getting the Internet available to everybody and making it a ubiquitous technology that everyone can benefit from. To me, this feels like another one of those moments where a lot of things are going to change. And I wonder what your advice might be to people who are thinking about like, oh, I have this new technology that's amazing that I can now use. How should they be thinking about how to use it? How should they be thinking about the urgency with which they are pursuing these new ideas? And how does that relate to how you thought about things in the PC era and the Internet era? Yeah, so the industry starts really small in a where computers aren't personal and then through the microprocessor and a bunch of companies, we get the personal computer, IBM, Apple, and Microsoft got to be very involved in the software, even the basic interpreter on the Apple two, very obscure fact was something that I did for Apple, and that idea that, wow, this is a tool that at least for editing documents that you have to do all the writing. That was pretty amazing. And then connecting those up over the Internet was amazing. And then moving the computation into the mobile phone was absolutely amazing. So once you get the PC, the Internet, the software industry and the mobile phone, the digital worlds is changing huge, huge parts of our activities. I was just in India seeing this did how they do payments digitally, even for government programs. It's an amazing application of that. That world to help people who never would have bank accounts because the fees are just too high.
Behind The Tech with Kevin Scott
"gates" Discussed on Behind The Tech with Kevin Scott
"Behind the tech. We'll talk with some of the people who have made our modern tech world possible and understand what motivated them to create what they did. So join me to maybe learn a little bit about the history of computing and get a few behind the scenes insights into what's happening today. Stick around. Hi, welcome to behind the tech. We have a great episode for you today with a really special guest. Bill Gates, who needs no introduction given the unbelievable impact that he's had on the world of technology in the world at large over the past several decades, has been working very closely with the teams at Microsoft and OpenAI over the past handful of months, helping us think through what the amazing revolution that we're experiencing right now in AI means for OpenAI Microsoft, all of our stakeholders and for the world at large. I've learned so much from my conversations that I've had with Bill over these past months that I thought it might be a great thing to share just a tiny little glimpse of those conversations with all of you listeners today. So with that, let's introduce Bill and get a
Mornings With Gail - 1310 KFKA
"gates" Discussed on Mornings With Gail - 1310 KFKA
"And what booming colorado town do you think matthew daily was talking about why none other than greeley colorado rounded up all the usual suspects all the typical naysayers when it comes to all the projects particularly terry ranch in greeley but i found it fascinating because i always thought that reporting was supposed to be unbiased and that i know those days her long gone right. I mean But let me hang onto that illusion that we can make a return to some semblance of Unbiased impartial reporting. Well not so in this associated press piece by matthew daily because he brought in all of the naysayers and all of those folks saying that Oh this terry ranch product. Oh there's too many unforeseen variables. There's too many things that could go wrong. Bon wine is as i've said in the past people are coming. It's not like if you build it. They will come. no they're coming. We're seeing a population. Explosion in northern colorado and water is part and parcel of that equation. I mean i'm stating the obvious here but once again was rather disappointed in this lengthy piece. I'll try to post this up on my facebook page At mornings gail if you haven't seen it and be interested in your takeaways from it as well because it is exceedingly one sided and it's very negative. What do i do. I reach out to a job. Staling jeff's taylor of course is the pin. We've had him on the show. Many many times says he is fighting those water battles glade reservoir or chimney hollow but asked him to this reporter even reach out to you and ask you to You know make some comments or did he have any. You know just probing questions to ask you about water law which by the way water law exceedingly complicated and i said. Wait a few ticks and there it is. There's that return email from jeff. Stella peo- northern water basically saying nope didn't hear a peep from this guy and in fact he can't wind up this article and he reached out to the reporter. Saying hey you know which you have to balance out this piece. Would you be interested in what northern water is doing despite all of the caterwauling and all of the controversy that seems to surround the these various projects. Would you like me to provide some information to you. What did he get back crickets. Absolute crickets but want to pick up on that thread with our with as a result of our conversation. This morning with greeley meisinger. John gates. Because i asked him that specific question. When it comes to okay the petitions are in signatures. Being counted and that count is expected to come out today Whether they have enough signatures or not. I have every reason to believe that they do but is changing our.
I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast
"gates" Discussed on I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast
"Guests for the movie. wasn't it. i said eleven. Okay sincere close. If you're talking about the book still way less than i expected. I thought there were more dinosaurs in the book than there. actually were. they were in the background. What do you mean like you were saying the vials and oh true the mentioning him but they were interacting with them. Yeah that's true so there were a lot more dire names. I think you could almost double it if you include dinosaur names on vials and museums and stuff that they went to in the book but the book is actually missing two that are in the movie. It's missing gala mimas. We talked about that with jack. Horner and phil tippett. Both i think and how they wanted to include something fast running and show that sort of ostrich likeness of the dinosaur of the dinosaur and the flocking in all that. Yeah it was great. It was a very good decision to include that and then the movie swapped in bracket source for your favorite potus which was originally in the book. I think that was also a good idea. Because that more upright posture of brackets auras. Traffic titan does play a lot better onscreen but in total of those twelve. Five of them are from the jurassic. And that's being charitable and six of them are from the cretaceous so it should still be technically if your accounting living dinosaurs cretaceous park but its way closer to being jurassic park. There's a lot more jurassic stuff happening. And in case you're curious there's the one from the triassic procam snapface then five from the drastic. The four that are missing are stegosaurus. A potus and dry sorus. And i'm giving them the benefit of the doubt there because they refer to it as a dry sore. And i'm assuming it's dry sorace. If it's some other driest or it could be from the cretaceous because they span the jurassic cretaceous boundary and also off nelia thrown in a unusual one there The cretaceous there are six dinosaurs. Missing y'all minus. Oh also missing pariser office others to missing from the cretaceous which are in the movie but not in the book but there are three in the book that aren't in the movie so there's the hip salafi dont also known as hip sees. Everybody talks about copies. Nobody ever talks about the hippies so really weird bounds weird. Sounds like hippies. But it's also just hips. A is a strange name. But i mean saying hip salafi. Dance is kind of awkward so i could see why they went with. Abc's also maya sora not too surprising since they were originally supposed to be in the egg mountain area. Where maya sores from. It's kind of weird. That they didn't include that in the movie since supposedly that was where they were getting a lot of stuff from also micro sarus which is a weird choice because that is a wasp they probably mean micro ceratops which is not a wasp that the time. It had been corrected yet. But saying that like there's a scene where they're trying to scare off or make a group of micro sarah 'tis scatter if it was wasps wouldn't work so well so yeah. It's probably microsoft tops. So in general both of them more cretaceous dinosaurs and drastic dinosaurs showed probably be called cretaceous park but the book is a little bit closer than the movie as however in both the movie and the book. The focus is almost completely on t. rex and raptors. Which are both from the cretaceous with the exception of in the book. They also talk a lot about pro komsic nafta's which is from the triassic. Hey go you average two together jurassic to really just be called mesozoic park or like dinosaur park but i think jurassic park had a better ring to it so they went with that so in the end i was actually expecting. There'd be more dinosaurs from the jurassic in the book than there were from the cretaceous but it turned out by a narrow margin. They're still more dinosaurs from the cretaceous than the drastic. And if we added you a-plus effortless in whatever version that has then it would just swing it even farther to the cretaceous. Or if the dry zora's was not address ores and some other drive or from the cretaceous. Then you've really skewed it. Even farther to cretaceous jurassic park rolls off the tongue. Better than cretaceous park or if we're just so used to saying jurassic park at this point that's a good point because what i'm thinking about the journal cretaceous research. I think that's like a fantastic title. Because i've been reading it for six or seven years now whereas if there was a journal called jurassic research which there might be weird to me because i'm always reading cretaceous research so yeah i think you're right. It's probably more familiarity than the actual value of jurassic versus cretaceous. Cretaceous really the most exciting period. It's when all like all the kyla sewers evolved all the big titanic hours. It doesn't have a potus but most of the really amazing wacky dinosaurs during the cretaceous. It's not bad or you go with the triassic or the permian or something even weirder early. Evolution gets on against brontosaurus in a popular. So i don't.
RAGE Works Network-All Shows
"gates" Discussed on RAGE Works Network-All Shows
"Now return to truk untold all right so gates. I got a few star trek questions for you. Because of course we can't go this deep without talking track and so one of the ones on an because again i mentioned i've been watching and of course i started episode one season one all the way through and i. It's quite undertaking. Wow and skin of evil which is episode where tasha yar essentially leaves the show. Now we know chronologically in filming order denise had to go but wouldn't have noticed when i watched. That episode was after tasha yar has been brought back to sick bay and dr crushers checking her out crusher browns her dead and it stood out to me because it felt very visible and very real as opposed to the other times that you said that we're you know obviously it feels real but this time it felt different and i'm wondering if like if that was in any way related to things that are going on behind the scenes with eastern the show and maybe your feelings as well about ultimately leaving the show that net following season was such especially real from that scene for you know i think it was because the character was part of the crew. You know i mean if it had been data or if it had been one or deanna troi. I would've felt the same way. I think it was literally there. It wasn't a deeper level. I think that's something that as as people watch it. They might add that level on. But at the time no and i thought why couldn't she have brought her back. I kept thinking you know. But that's more because it was you know it was a crew member and that was the first time that it happened I don't you know. I i mean i was sad to see her go but i totally understood her going and it had nothing to do. I had no idea Bein had much more to do with one producer who we sparred and He i think he sort of said either she goes her. I go and so. I was not picked up and then it just didn't work out and so then he left and I i was asked back interesting. okay. I've always been curious about that like i was wondering if maybe you never commiserated together about all. The promises are having now too bad. Maybe we were starting our own series and we always going to be now. That's too bad we should have done that because you know later. I directed her on stage. She we had so much fun working together. It was great. It was one of my favorite shows. I love it. And i gotta ask you a question about. Data's everybody in the world's probably asking me about this And you know we haven't even talked too much about your dance Mentioned of acting background. We talk a ton about dancing. But yeah i'd love to hear about you working brent spiner and getting him to follow your crazy moves. Did he have a background dance before that. No he doesn't some. Maybe you know in college or something and he could do a sauce. Shoot the the time step and we worked on some other stuff. But no basically we've rehearsed it and And then i cast someone as his stunt double because His dance double not stunt double and that guy was really really good. He was a superb tap dancer and then they probably speeded up the cameras. Well as is my recollection. So he's not only dancing incredibly fast when he does his hair wet. But i i loved coming up with that sequence. I came up with lot of the little details. That are in the sequence in even a couple of funny lines that i got approved. They you know they wrote the basic premise and stuff. But that was so much fun. Yeah that i wish. I could have done that endlessly that kind of thing where you get to create something but then i would not be the genius that they were. When they wrote all these scientific episodes andino philosophical. I mean they they brandon. And ron and michael piller and rick berman a mean. There was some incredible scripts. Doctor crusher gets leave sick bay too often really leadership too often but I've noticed that on occasion she does. I've felt like there's been some dance moves in things like i was just watching an episode. I'm going to be super nerdy here. I was just watching the episode attached. And i noticed where you basically walk up onto the transporter patty basically like a the exact terms that you kind of like did a cross your legs into second position or something. It felt very very elegant. I know right. it's the super duper nerdy. Something i love it. it's so funny. Did your dancing ever dictate any of your mobility on screen. You know you are who you are because of the way you move and so when that's always when i do a character especially if it's a character that's not close to me that's the most fun thing is. What are the shoes like. How do you have to walk. And what's the wait. Where's ago i level that So yes i would assume that people on the ship needed to keep in shape and be agile I would say crusher. I did a lot of away teams. Actually i maybe didn't do as much as some like reicher but i did you. Kyra i remember. Because i always had to carry for several years. That stupid medical kit that would open and everything would fall out. I mean they should have talked to louis vitton because there was no class it was just it would stay closed because they wanted us to open very quickly when i put it down. But meanwhile if something happened and it just came off your hand that was you know a three minute. Pick up in the sand on planet. Hell you know. I love that now. I saw a tweet. You actually just posted very recently about an episode the host and that was in relation to an article just shut up star trek com called growing up female and queer with star trek right and it just kind of recapped it up real quick that up so that ends with doctor crusher telling the female host of don and i quote perhaps it's a human failing but we're not accustomed these changes and that's meaning how you kinda fell in love with the male host but then when odom became the female something changed for you and you just address this in a tweet thirty three years later so it'll be just tell us what you said and your thoughts on this episode. Well i'm i'm somebody who is very inclusive gender wise so i mean i m myself. I'm heterosexual but i'm very you know. Gender is something. that's just fantastic. That can be so many different things for different people. I felt when i played it. Because i certainly you know. In my twenties. I had a lot of friends who were gay and lesbian and I had taught Shops for theatre groups that were a group of Gay women so i did not wanna play it that it had anything to do with her being a woman that to me what it was is i i had this one male that that's the person i felt fell in love with. I didn't know that it was this host thing. When i fell in love with him so she's already gone through that then very quickly. He's going to die. So you have to put it in something. So i can justify if i put it in You know she didn't know what person you could put it into. I mean what if they'd put it into a child. That would have been a really different episode. So i think it could have been put in. Troy could have been put in Ogawa whatever i i think the first time it gets put in someone else it it was. She was still so in love that she felt it and it was like. Oh you're not dead i. I'm so glad this this. This.
RAGE Works Network-All Shows
"gates" Discussed on RAGE Works Network-All Shows
"And welcome back to trek untold. The star trek podcast. That goes beyond stars. I'm your host matthew kaplowitz this podcast has always been about learning the. Who's who when it comes to star trek for the past year. We've met with characters star performers writers makeup artists and many many more to take the deepest of deep dives into their origins learn about how their profession works and here all of their amazing stories. I think it's a pretty unique sector of star trek podcast world and one that i'm very happy to be a part of but as it turns out i'm no longer alone in that area and you might be familiar with my new competition today on trek untold. We're speaking with the one only gates mcfadden. You probably know her. From six seasons of star trek the next generation and all the movies and starting on may twelve. She hosts a brand new. Podcast called gates mcfadden investigates. Who do you think you are. This podcast is the debut show from the cell cast studios which is an offshoot of the nacelle company. Who you may already know from their netflix series. The toys that made us in the movies that made us as all cw series discontinued and their upcoming history. Channel docu series. All about star trek. The a company always puts out topnotch content and now with gates on board for their first. Ever podcast you know it's gonna be good and of course it's pretty obvious than a cell company are star trek fans because it's in their name so it goes without saying that this new podcast will have gates interviewing many of her tng alumni with debut featuring a one chat with jonathan frakes. Now you heard frakes before on this show but you've never heard him talking an hour uninterrupted with his co star. They share a bond which travels across the entire. Tng family that no other hosts could have with their guests unless they went through something like that. I got to hear some tips in the show and it's very fascinating and very personal two. It's pretty surprising. What kind of stories they get the tell on the show so in this episode of trek untold. I do my best to replicate the experience of gates fan domesticates and what you might hear on her show. But you know i take my word for it outweight. Now that's that's lavar burton zayn. It's different podcast either way. Stay tuned for our next with gates mcfadden but before we jump into our interview. I want to ask you are you following. Trek untold on social media. It's the best way to keep up to date and who's going to be the next guest on trek untold and learn all about the other cool things that are happening here so if you're on instagram. Facebook or twitter go ahead and look up trek untold. All one word and give us a follow in a like if you like to help support the show monetarily. Go ahead and check out t spring dot com slash stores slash trick untold. The check out some of the nice. We have available. This includes t shirts mugs phone cases sweatshirts stickers and a whole bunch more so go ahead and check out t spring dot com slash stores slash trek on told you can also support our show by visiting patriot dot com slash trek untold. If you become a paid subscriber to trek until you'll get first access to the show and a chance to ask our guests questions on future episodes but most of all please subscribe to the show wherever you're listening to or watching it and if you've already done that please also lever review and a rating if you can leaving ratings interviews helps increase the visibility of podcasts on platforms like i tunes and other places like it. It shows that you're listening to that. You like and other people who are interested in the same subject probably like it too. It helps us grow. It helps us get better guests and helps us keep bringing this amazing trek untold. Show to you. If you're already following us or supported us in any other way thank you of course for being a part of the trek untold family. There's a lotta star trek podcast out there and we're very grateful that you chose us to listen to. I'd also like a quick shout out to our friends at triple fiction productions who makes them great three d. printed star trek inspire toys and replicas for fans of all ages and toys of all sizes. But you'll hear more about them a little later on in the show now without further ado. Let's beam up this week's guest computer access interview file hello and welcome back to trek untold and now joining us the other side of the screen. I don't think she needs any introduction of already. Give her like a five minute one before the show began as you folks can see. Today we are speaking with the lovely gates mcfadden gates. How are you today. i'll i'm great. How are you. i'm doing great. It's so wonderful to talk with you. Today we posted about this on our social media and we got such a huge response So many questions about the u. And i've got a ton of things to we're going to be digging deepfakes. That's what we do on trek untold. Ooh okay digging deep. I'm ready okay. So let's actually jump in. I on talk about the real reason that you're here. And that's because you've got a podcast coming out You've got gates. Mcfadden investigates which is debut may twelfth. so Yeah when was this idea for a podcast firstborn. Well you know it's funny. It was I'm trying to remember actually the date when it happened. I think it was maybe in march or april of the pandemic And i had just gotten back from a cruise. I actually had but was i didn't have a serious case. Thankfully and i got a call from brian. Volk weiss who is the ceo of nasal and he was so lovely and funny. And i'd never had sort of a ceo. Be like he was. He was just so down to earth. He's just a terrific guy. I really like him And he said you know gates I've been a big fan. And i just think you would be great doing a podcast and i'm like hello. What and he. He was very persistent. And i said. I said what my thinking initially thought that i would talk about track and i said listen. You don't know you don't know my friends and the cast and all that nobody's going to want to sit there and talk about star trek with me. We do it all time with everyone else. I said no no. They're all going to say no and i. Don't you know the people. I do podcasts. With no it much better than i do. And so i said no. I really can't and he could be anything you want. You can have anywhere on you want. I went and then he came back like sometime later and said no. I really do want you to think about this do it. And i said i just really don't know what i would do. And you know he said no. Just be you and just do this. And i'm like i don't know brian. Thanks but no. And and then he's called me back again and he says no. No you've got to keep thinking about. This is so this is the third time. And this is the guys drew so the only other thing in my life the came back to me with three requests was star trek gene roddenberry on the after i turned it down twice came back the third time and called me from his jacuzzi and said. Hey listen i think you ought to rethink this. I think you really should do star. Trek and i mean duh. What a dummy. What was wrong with me. That i didn't get this so i thought I should listen to this. Brian volk by wise and. So i actually. The truth is i went to my good friend's house and we were on the porch with our masks because we were we. Were really good about this..
Understand the God Who Speaks
"gates" Discussed on Understand the God Who Speaks
"Their own ground. And what a beading was offer us all boroughs. Kate does that make sense. Lost one. yeah you also talked up up always of because it sits on a mountain it sits on actually Does not a tall mountain but he'll.
Understand the God Who Speaks
"gates" Discussed on Understand the God Who Speaks
"And the word rock here is the word petra at as you learn as you learn to bendigo. That word is translated.
Understand the God Who Speaks
"gates" Discussed on Understand the God Who Speaks
"My god my god. Why have you forsaken me now. What are the bulls obation in order to understand that we have to go to amos the four chapter verses one through twelve or so and we're going to go back to psalm sixty a minute so let's turn to amos four verses one through four okay if you don't know where this look in your table contents fillet make and find it. I'm gonna give you second to find it nine slots one thousand one hundred fifty five run at the no. No no no that no. That's not true. We're back to learn through the what the council are amos four verses one through four here this word you cows of bachchan who are on the mountain of samaria. Now word here now. This who oppressed the four. Who pressed the poor. Now that were oppressed is the hebrew word. I lean and guess where we find that word. We find that in psalms eighty two versus three and four and the next were also is found in psalm eighty two versus three and four. Who crush the needy each. That's at epi. Oh knee or hebrew word. Bill means and is bounded psalm. Eighty two people member what psalm. Eighty two was about the l. o. Heen how the aloe he had. God had judged the elohim for bit rulli unjustly in all these nations k. So those two words are pied back. They'll go back to some eighty two who say to your husband's bring now that we may drinks the lord god has sworn by his holiness behold. The days are coming up on. You'd when they will take you away with meat hooks and the last of you with bishops you will go through breaches in the walls. Each one straight for her. And you will be tasked who harmon. This is now herman. In the in the new testament declares the lord interbay told and transgressed in illgal multiply. Transgression bring your sacrifices day. Your ties every day every morning and then every day now. What are the cows of patients. Well these were these. Were actually author set up on this. Very claes that jared bowen himself at setup the the authors and sacrificed to the gods we read that districted. I teams game. The twelve chapter and these cows obation were idols. But they represented gamons okay. They represented demons and this is tied to the cross. You find this in the crawl when he cries out my god my god. What have south sekine me. He is saying this. God is said this is why recited you demons have come in their backs. They're about to do the worst oh you. It wasn't the sins of the world that made him turn away. It was the name as he had to allow it to happen because he had to endure the across. That was a terrible thing for god due to his son but he did not knowing what it will do us. Does all this make sense. So now we get back. I want you to go to saab sixty eight song. Sixty a verses fifteen through eighteen. It says it's a mountain of god is the mountain of bachchan. Okay amount is the mountain of vacation. Why do you look within. V mountains with many fees at the mount which god has desire or is a boat surely the lord will dwell there forever the chariots of god or myriad upon thousands the lord is among them as at sinai in molinos dow has descended on high now has led captive nightcap. That comes you find that Quoted by paul in patients or versus. Eight nine down history see gifts among men even among the rebellious also that the lord god well there now some of your translations may have the malpur mont. The all had that. That's a psalm. Sixty eight versus fifteen through eighteen. This is speaking about mount her mind and notice. There's two there's three things going on here. The mountain of god originally was mount. Her mom and something happened that boo. God come out sinai because when we come into the exodus account what happens. They go to mount sinai where they received the ten commandments. Now why did god mood to mount sinai ifs because these lesser gods these evil gods. They've taken over the mountain and had polluted the land and this is going to carry over into the do tests but especially when we start talking about mark nine a in bursts thirty six when he when after six days after this convection read such a rehabilit- he goes to a high mountain in that mountain is mount herrmann. And i hope you'll be see a picture of all these lesser gods. This is about to become a battle. Start neccessary of bill by day. So now let's go by the way god will take back merck. Mount her mom. That's the promise in this in sixty eight chapter of above sixty chapter songs. Okay i lost anyone. Nobody okay. God had mount. Her mind was his first home. He was run off by these gods by these lesser gods. They looted the land so he laughed and any went to mount sinai but he will take it back he will take it back and guess where he takes it back. The transfiguration guy. Now let's go. Let's go back to our original bursts in matthew sixteen chapter versus sixteen and seventeen. Now this becomes important. The word peter is the greek word patch. Ross it is a masculine now..
Pantheon
"gates" Discussed on Pantheon
"Versions of what we would recognize his bagpipes date back to the first century. Bc in egypt and precursors far back as four thousand bc traditionally. They were made from whole animal skins which were turned inside out with the pipes being stuffed into the leg neck holes those pipes which were called tibia or just hollowed out leg bones. Thankfully no part of the animals wasted the scots even turn the animal runoff into a culinary. Bounty that is haggas. The bagpipes of food. It was the romans who brought the bagpipes to scotland. Over two thousand years ago the romans used bagpipes alarm clocks to announce the slaves that the work had begun in nero of roman leaders was playing the bagpipes. Not the fiddle as he watched rome. Burn on the way to bringing pipes to scotland. The romans spread them throughout europe africa. Asian like they were hot pipe. std's versions of the bagpipe. Include bogaert gator. Italy's am pug nina rushes. Linka germany's bach. North africa's sucre india's mouchak francis corner moose and canada's getty lee the scottish great highland bagpipes as what we most identify as the archetypal bagpipe with a bag of blowpipe. A chanter to play the melody in three drone pipes tenor one base wants. the bagpipe. made it to scotland. No one is quite sure how became such the treasured national instrument that it is. Today it certainly had appealed both low and high bornes traveling minstrels performing feast in fares while pipes were used as an honorific device in the clan system to demonstrate power important. It was in fifteen forty nine at the battle of pinkie clue when the bagpipes cemented their place as scottish weapon of destruction the bagpipes booming moans replaced puny trumpet calls as beard up to ten miles away to rally troops even over the usual battle roar since then bagpipes for the most beloved musical divisive the scots and irrevocably linked with their abnormal sense of decorum only rivaled by their pete infested liquor their piercing fabric choices and log that was once mistaken for a dinosaur. The bagpipes are perhaps the least emotional instrument in the world. That is unless you're the sort that gets amped up listening to the dial up modem tone. Pipes are typically reserved for the most formal of occasions like weddings funerals. Coronations battles and toyota. Don's making it a fairly hard sell. In the realm of popular music very view babies have been made to three piper rendition of amazing grace and the ones that were conceived. Well they didn't turn out so great looking at you. Dahmer classical musicians scoffed at the notion of including the dole quavering folk instruments in their works of great art. Though mozart's dad leopold did have a song called peasants wedding that included apart for the pipes and the hurt gertie basically the eighteenth century chicken dance modern classical composers like sir peter maxwell davies shaun davey and the satirical pd q. Bach have shoehorned in the bagpipes but for the most part bagpipes are left alone on their island of dissonance. So with the high grounds and lowlands of music cut off. It would take an exceptionally brave man to tear down the strongly fortified gates of sensibility to allow the waves of deafening drones to breach popular music. Time to talk about the elephant in the room or is that what we've been doing the whole time. The most prominent bagpipe est popular music through the twentieth century. That's saying quite a bit is easily rufus harley harley started playing jazz fairly early age twelve growing up in philadelphia where he spent most of his life he played tenor sax. Some pretty solid player but being pretty solid tenor sax player. In the late fifties and early sixties wasn't nearly good enough harley saw and heard sax players like dexter gordon sonny rollins john coltrane sonny state. And i'm sure plenty of others. Needless to say shirt talent of these group of musicians made harleys playing sound lackluster. He started looking for a new instrument to play in the early sixties. But nothing was really calling to him. It says if he needed a very specific noise to reach him near the end of nineteen. Sixty three harley. Most americans watched the funeral of john kennedy. Tv the thing that struck harley in the head during that procession was the playing of the black watch bagpipe band. The black watch had been on tour in the us played the white house only a few days before the kennedy assassination. The two events are unrelated. Probably for the funeral. Jackie kennedy asked the black watch back to play from the white house to the cathedral of saint matthew. The apostle nine members of the black watch performed four songs. The black watch had been one of the infantry troops mentioned earlier formed an eighteen eighty one they served and fought in dozens of battles around the world. They were also soldiers and not just bagpipers though you might call them. Natural born killers harley was entranced in started telling his friends all about his dream of using the bagpipes to play jazz music. A friend spots bagpipes in the window of a pawnshop and told rufus all about it they were a hundred and twenty dollars harley ran to the pawnshop scooped up the pipes spending his mortgage money on them. In a later interview harley recalled the pawnbroker thought it was crazy. In fact every musician in philadelphia thought it was crazy over the next six months hardly practiced and found a way to modify the sound of the bagpipe so that it could fit within jazz backdrop record. Daniel goldmark explained in his essay slightly left of center that harley tuned his drones the pipes that produce harmonizing notes to be flat a switch from the instruments. More common tuning so that he'd be able to play with other jazz musicians. The bagpipe chanter also presented a problem. This pipe played with two hands provides the melody but it only plays nine notes saxophone. Played by any of the giants at that time played thirty notes and a trumpet. Forty hardly wanted to accomplish that same effect with just the nine once. He felt like he'd been able to accomplish that. He made attempts to get gigs. He was twenty seven. No one had heard of him and he would walk from club to club selling himself as jazz. Bagpiper people thought. It was all a gimmick club. Owners told him to era phone home. It was in nineteen sixty five that joel dorn in atlantic. Anr guy heard harley and thought he'd be worth bringing into atlantic for an album during had been affiliate dj but was hired on by atlantic in nineteen sixty four. When he signed he were law suggests flutist during produce. The first record by laws and thought harley would make a great follow up. Guess he had type doran continued to have an amazing career producing albums by roland. Kirk yusef lateef. Gary burton max roach and most famously. Roberta flack during recalled in two thousand eight interview. When asked about the first rufus harley album the bagpipe record took off. Now i took off. I mean it sold five six thousand copies but for jazz album by unknown artists who won who played. Bagpipes was a big deal. Introducing the bagpipes of jazz instrument at the time wasn't such a crazy idea. It was around the same time the jazz albums rabin produced by harpist. Dorothy ashby and saxophonists yusef lateef. Who was experimenting with. Asian and.
A Biography Podcast - Life Histories of Successful People
"gates" Discussed on A Biography Podcast - Life Histories of Successful People
"Listen to the stories of men and women who transformed their lives using pure passion and cheer hard will to become the pioneers in their field and change the course of history. This is wizard ruse biography. Podcast the podcast. That helps you learn the real truth about successful. Personalities subscribe now to get access to future episodes by the late nineteen nineties. Microsoft had a solid line of products like windows. Office and internet explorer moreover. Thanks to the monopoly. It'd created microsoft was able to dominate the software market so throughout the nineteen nineties microsoft shares continued to soar as a result bill gates who owned a lot of these shares became extremely rich so in nineteen ninety five when he was just thirty nine years. Old bill gates became the richest person in the world has net worth at that. Time was twelve point. Nine billion dollars. When microsoft launched windows bill gates envisioned a world where every house owned a computer and that computer ran on windows in one thousand nine hundred nine he came close to realizing the latter part of his dream by nineteen ninety nine. Almost ninety percent of the world's desktop computers were running on windows that year microsoft made nineteen point seven billion dollars in sales and gates net worth increased to ninety billion dollars but bill gates is not the only one who profited from microsoft success in the nineteen eighties and nineteen ninety s. Many employees accepted microsoft stocks as a part of the payment for their sixty hour workweeks so by nineteen ninety-six when microsoft stocks increased more than one hundred. Fold within ten years. They became rich to the ccording. To richard s conway junior and economist from seattle. Who microsoft hired to study the impact it had on washington state. There could have been ten thousand millionaires and three billionaires among microsoft employees by the year. Two thousand these figures only increased one year later when microsoft launched the original xbox gaming system and entered the gaming industry after making microsoft a global leader in software creation in two thousand bill gates stepped down from his position of ceo. His harvard friend. Steve balmer succeeded him as microsoft ceo. Bill gates then took the role of a chief software architect and worked in microsoft until two thousand eight in two thousand eight. He quit his full time job but microsoft but retained position as the board chairman in twenty fourteen. He stepped down from that position too but retain the position as a board member after that he started working as a technology advisor. Even though bill gates might have earned a reputation as a rude boss and a fierce competitor. There is another side to him as well. He is also one of the biggest philanthropists of the twenty first century bill gates and his wife melinda gates have contributed a lot of money for charitable causes. Nine thousand nine hundred seven three year old. Melinda and french joined microsoft as a product manager. Three weeks after joining. She went to new york for work there. At a dinner event she met thirty two year old bill gates who sat next to her after dinner. Bill asked her to go dancing with him and his friends however she had already made plans with her friends so she turned him down. After a few months they met at microsoft's parking lot. Bill struck up a conversation with her and asked her to go on a date with him after two weeks however his tendency to plan everything far ahead of time turned her off since he didn't even know what she would be doing after two weeks so she turned him down once again citing that he wasn't spontaneous enough for her so trying to be spontaneous. Bill called her after one hour and asked her for a date again. This time she agreed. It was one of the many dates. They would go on before starting a relationship the year into their relationship. Both of them found out that they love each other so melinda wanted to get married to him but bill wasn't ready to commit yet moreover he didn't know if he could run a family and a business at the same time so he made a list of pros and cons of marrying melinda and eventually ended up marrying her in nineteen ninety four when he found that the pros outweigh the cons. Bill and melinda gates have three children the nine hundred and ninety four the couple along with bill gates. Father established the william h gates foundation. The goal of the charity was to promote global health and improved pacific northwest community. Two years later their first child a daughter was born so melinda resigned from microsoft to spend time with her daughter and focus on charity one year. Later in nineteen ninety-seven. They founded the gates library foundation. The charity donated computer hardware and software to public libraries to help them get access to the internet so that low income communities in north america can access the internet eventually it was named the gates learning foundation then two thousand. These charities were merged and the bill and melinda gates foundation was established. That's priorities were to improve global health global education and a global development in two thousand six. Warren buffett pledged his company. Berkshire hathaway stock worth three billion dollars to the foundation. Then two thousand eight. Bill gates quit his full time job. But microsoft has a chief software architect to focus on the bill and melinda gates foundation as of twenty nineteen the bill and melinda gates. Foundation is the largest nonprofit organization in the world with assets worth fifty point seven billion dollars every year it donates one billion dollars for important causes today. The foundation focuses on a radical hunger and poverty. It funds research is that try to produce. Rice enriched with nutrients it provides grants to organizations that research issues which affect developing countries like sanitation hygiene water problems et cetera. The bill and melinda gates foundation fights to reduce death rates and inequalities in health in developing countries by focusing on improving nutrition health of mothers and newborn babies health of children vaccine delivery and emergency response for diseases that cause widespread death in developing countries. The charity funds projects that research on improving health and medical facilities in developing countries. It works with governments to raise public awareness of its work and advocates tobacco control to people that strives to reduce homeless families. The foundation has also funded the tuition fees of twenty thousand college students and installed forty seven thousand computers in eleven thousand libraries across the usa. Fact you probably didn't know. Even though bill gates and microsoft have become synonymous today. the company wouldn't be what it is today. If not for paul allen it was allen who wrote most of microsoft's first program. According to veterans he also played a very big role in microsoft's big successes like dos windows and word. even the company's name microsoft was actually allen's idea by the year two thousand seven bill gates his wife melinda gates became the second most generous philanthropists in america in two thousand seven bill and melinda plan to donate ninety five percent of their wealth to charity. Eventually ten years later they announced that they would leave ten million dollars to each of their three children.
A Biography Podcast - Life Histories of Successful People
"gates" Discussed on A Biography Podcast - Life Histories of Successful People
"While retaining its copyright now that they started making money by writing software. Bill quit college and along with allen founded microsoft in nineteen seventy five microsoft started becoming famous and writing programs for other companies. Few years later they made ibm an operating system called dos. An operating system is an interface that lets the user communicate with the computers hardware even if the user doesn't no machine language the only language known to computers hardware once ibm purchase. Dos from microsoft. Other companies also came to microsoft and purchase dos thus dos became the standard operating system. At that time dos however only had a command line interface and no graphical interface to work with. There was no concept of a mouse. Users used a keyboard to type in commands. That opened her edited files. Once dos became famous apple came to microsoft and asked them to create excel word and version of basic for their macintosh computers. When bill gates went to apple to demonstrate these software he noticed a graphical user interface of macintosh which was driven by a mouse. It was more user friendly than dos. Bill gates immediately realized that microsoft would be or advocated if it didn't create a graphical user interface of its own so bill gates announced that microsoft was working on an operating system with a graphical user interface similar to macintosh's graphical user interface. He called this new operating system windows. Due to bill gates announcement dos users. Waited for windows rather than purchasing macintosh computers to experience. The new graphical user interface when microsoft eventually launched windows it was slow and cumbersome but the second version of windows was much better however it was similar to macintosh's graphical user interface so apple sued windows for stealing its graphics however the case was decided in favor of microsoft then the nineteen nineties. A company called netscape launched an internet browser called navigator. It became quickly famous because of its graphical interface and the ability of independent developers to add additional functionalities as plug ins this made. Many users believe that netscape navigator had the potential to replace windows so to keep its ship from sinking. Microsoft launched a campaign to destroy navigator. I it launched. Its own browser. Called internet explorer by purchasing an old version of code written by netscape's founders. Then it pressurized computer makers to install internet explorer in their computers instead of navigator as a result netscape's business was destroyed and internet. Explorer started to become famous but scape was not the only company that suffered at microsoft's hands many other companies including ibm intel and apple suffered because of microsoft microsoft's use of its monopoly in.
A Biography Podcast - Life Histories of Successful People
"gates" Discussed on A Biography Podcast - Life Histories of Successful People
"Such informative episodes for just two dollars per month. you can get early. Access to all our episodes. The short summary of last week's episode bill gates was born in seattle washington on october. Twenty eighth nineteen fifty five. The name he was given at birth was william henry gates. Three bill gates is actually the short form of william henry gates. Three bill gates. Father was a successful lawyer and his mother was a teacher as a child. Bill gates had disruptive behavior questioning his parents decisions and refusing to obey them so his parents took him to a psychologist heating to his advice. Bill eventually stop questioning his parents decisions. This improved his relationship with his parents and they started supporting his interest in computers since childhood bill gates was interested in computers when he was in eighth grade. Bill got an opportunity to use a computer for the first time. He immediately developed a liking to it so he and his friend. Alan started skipping classes to go to the computer room and learn programming. They both then wrote several programs that run on computers when he was seventeen years old. Bill and alan developed a traffic program. That was extremely useful so they sold it to the government and made twenty thousand dollars now. They realized how lucrative programming could be so they wanted to quit school and start a software company. How ever bills parents did not permit him to quit school instead. They forced him to join harvard to study law. Two years after bill joined harvard. Allen showed bill and advertisement showing new microcomputer called alter eighty eight hundred those days. The most common computers were mainframe computers which occupied an entire room. The personal computers that we use today were so small. In comparison to these mainframe computers so when they were invented personal. Computers were named microcomputers bill and allen modified an existing programming language called basic. That runs only on mainframe computers so that it could run on microcomputers. Then they sold it to the company selling alter eighty eight hundred for three thousand dollars while retaining its copyright now that they started making money by writing software. Bill quit college and along with allen founded microsoft in nineteen seventy five microsoft started becoming famous and writing programs for other companies. So i've em came to microsoft looking for an operating system for their new microcomputer. An operating system is an interface that lets the user communicate with the computers hardware even if the user doesn't no machine language the only language known to computers hardware. Bill immediately said that he has an operating system for ibm even though he didn't have one then he quickly bought an operating system from another programmer in seattle. For fifty thousand dollars. Then hearing named it to dos and sold it to ibm retaining its copyright once ibm purchased. Dos from microsoft. Other companies also came to microsoft and purchase dos thus dos became the standard operating system. At that time dos however only had a command line interface and no graphical interface to work with. There was no concept of a mouse. Users used a keyboard to type in commands. That opened her edited files.
A Biography Podcast - Life Histories of Successful People
"gates" Discussed on A Biography Podcast - Life Histories of Successful People
"See it. However alan bill hadn't actually written any code. They just wanted to see if the company would be interested in purchasing a version of basic for microcomputers. So when the president of its asked to see the code they started working day and night to write the code but they didn't have an altar eighty eight hundred to test their code on hence they simulated it on other computers in harvard's computer lab. Bill started working very hard to finish the code. He would code the entire day in harvard's computer lab sleep at the computer. Wake up the next day and pick up programming at the exact place where he left off the previous day for working several days like this. They developed a newer version of basic. However they still did not know if it would work on alter but despite their doubts about their new software. Allen flew to albuquerque and new mexico to show it commits to his surprise when he tested on an altar. Eighty eight hundred. The software worked perfectly so they sold it to midst for three thousand dollars while retaining. Its copyright now. Alan and bill knew that programming for microcomputers had a bright future. So alan persuaded bill to drop out of college together. They moved to albuquerque and established microsoft in nineteen seventy five the name which was the short form of microcomputer software initially had a hyphen between micro and soft but the hyphen was removed later mitts. The company allen and bill wrote code for was soon acquired by a bigger company but that did not stop at and bill from writing software. They continued writing software for other startups. Like apple tandy corporation and commodore in nineteen seventy nine. They moved to seattle soon. Microsoft started to become famous for its computer software. So ibm the largest computer maker at that. Time came knocking microsoft's stores. They wanted to know if bill had an operating system that they could use for their first microcomputer the ibm pc. An operating system acts is an interface between the user and the computers hardware by managing both the hardware and the software. It lets the user communicate with the computer even if he or. She doesn't know the computers language when ibm asked bill if he had an operating system for their microcomputer. Bill immediately answered that he had one. But the truth is he didn't have any functioning operating system so he quickly bought an operating system from another person in seattle for fifty thousand dollars. Then he developed it into ms dos. Which stands for disk operating system using dos users could navigate open and edit files on their computer through a command line. Instead of a graphical user interface like windows microsoft then sold dos to ibm microsoft however retained the right to license. The software to other companies after all writing software costs time effort and money and bill gates. That people should pay to use the software then till then customers either rode their own software or the software came pre installed with the hardware so ibm thought people would only pay for the hardware and never pay for the software. Therefore they didn't have a problem with microsoft selling ms dos to other companies however just like bill had anticipated other companies like compaq also purchased. Ms dos like ibm. They decided that purchasing an existing operating system like ms dos would be cheaper than creating their own operating system so ms dos became the standard operating system for the computers of that era as a result. Microsoft sales rose from seven point. Five million dollars in nineteen eighty two sixteen million dollars in nineteen eighty-one thus by nineteen eighty-one microsoft had become a familiar name across the usa. If not the entire world however two years later when the company was making huge profits allen the man who played a vital role in microsoft's formation and success left the company. But why would he leave the company when it was making so much profit after all the things he had done to make it grow then. Nineteen eighty-two allen was diagnosed with hodgkin's lymphoma a type of uncommon cancer that develops in the lymphatic system thus naturally his productivity in the company reduced but bill got frustrated at his lack of productivity so bill and his new lieutenant plotted to reduce allen's ownership stake in the company doing stock options to themselves and other shareholders however fortunately allen overheard them talk so disheartened. He left microsoft year later. After alan left the company microsoft became a multinational company establishing offices in great britain and japan by nineteen eighty-three almost thirty percent of all computers in the world. Were running it software. Then the late nineteen seventies when microsoft was slowly rising to fame. Bill gates met steve jobs. Just like bill gates steve. Jobs was also a young man with high aspirations just one year. After bill and allen founded microsoft stephen. His friend was founded apple. The meeting between these two young men would later become a historical incident that hastened the course at which the world was advancing. How did the meeting between these. Two young men changed the field of personal computers. And how did it affect the world. Find out in the next episode of our biography. Podcast if you like this episode and learn something from it please subscribe to our podcast and give us a five star rating in your favorite podcast app. It will cost nothing for you but help us a lot. Motivating us to continue making awesome episodes. If you have a suggestion for us please send us a tweet. You will find our twitter link in the episode description..