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Capstone Conversation
Capstone's Jared Asch Talks Contra Costa County Innovation With Ken Carlson
"Let's talk about how the county can innovate. You mentioned innovation as part of this plan, and you're definitely somebody who believes in innovation in government. What are some things that you've been and you've seen in the last year that you would like to help Contra Costa become a leader in versus a laggard? We've got a lot going on, you know, and it's been a rough, I don't want to say rough year. It's been a busy year with everything that we've been doing with Measure Act, everything we're doing on the general plan, climate action plan. It's definitely resource intensive, mostly staff. They are day in, day out grinding and gathering the information to put out the work product and the vision. So technology would be next for me and we're kind of we're moving that way slowly, but for whatever reason, and I know there's plans in the works and there's already changes coming on different departments websites, but we need to build housing and we need to make some changes in our housing. So I would love and I know DCD, our Department of Conservation and Development, basically our planning department are working on making that a better process, streamlining that process. And it already has. It used to be you had to go in person and you had to go through all these different steps. Now, technology has allowed us to put that online. I just want to see that become much more efficient, much more timely. That seems to be one of the big complaints I get is I've submitted my plans and then they're kicked back and then I've sent them back. How do you make that process smoother, easier? There are definitely professionals out there, but for the mom and pops or the small business owner, going through that permitting process, small restaurant, going through the health department, the fire department, DCD and all these different agencies to get a permit to open a small restaurant can be daunting. And take six months to a year. Should it take that long? Not if we're educating people or we're providing them the resources. So I think there's some investment in our technology that we can do as a county to make our interactions with the public much smoother, much more efficient. It's kind of a priority of mine, especially in the planning department. were If there about 12 episodes into this podcast now, and I think that is the one theme that comes up is how to, well, two themes within that, right? One is time to permit a business and get them through the process, which, and what maybe at PG &E on next year and central sanitation is talking about how long it takes them to do this stuff too. But time to open a business, right? We talk about that as number one. And number two is the sort of like the concierge concept of government, right? How do you just walk somebody through the government process? Because even if you have a great website, the process itself is still, whether you're replacing your HVAC or getting a liquor license, well, that's the state, but it's a complicated process for people to figure out. Yeah. We were talking about was we've created navigators. So we're still hiring them up, but in district one and district four, we have navigators for, and they're in our school. So mine is at Oak Grove Middle School, just rolling out. But the idea is being those that are in need of services and support, how do they navigate the system? And that's really, quite often you'll find that it's such an overwhelming and challenging process. They just don't engage, right? So now we have a navigator who can help connect you, not only just to the county services, things like CalFresh or Medigal or health services, whatever it might be, it actually connects you with our nonprofit partners out in the community, legal services, all these different things. So the concierge, right? Instead of having to open the roadmap and try and figure out this roadmap, you've got somebody to help you point you in the right direction. Yeah. And when it comes to the permitting process on some of these, having that navigator might be the way to go. Somebody who's like, yes, I've got your plans in front of me, but I've got 30 plans in front of me. How does, how do I take the time, push all 29 aside so I can take the time to walk you through, not only do you have my processes here in planning, but you've got to get with environmental health, you've got to get with fire. So having that navigator might be the solution to some of those challenges.
The Aloönæ Show
A highlight from S14 E01: Justin's Journey: Artist to Agricultural Inspector
"Hello, welcome to the Elone Show. I'm your host, John Mayelone. In this episode, don't have regulars because reasons, sadly. As for our guest, he's from Florida, currently in Vero Beach, maybe in the same state, and he is an agricultural inspector. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Justin MacSweeney. Hi, Peter. Hello, audience. Nice. So, how's life? Oh, how is life? Hmm. Yeah, life is good. From my narrow perspective, just me, it's good. All right, then. Very good. Have you been up too much recently? That, unfortunately, I haven't had anything really spectacular happen recently. Just more the mundane patterns of going to work and doing the odd stuff that I do when I'm not working. Ah, okay. So, what is it you mainly do for a living? Okay, well, you mentioned I'm an agricultural inspector, and this is a recent change for me. I had owned a business prior to that, and I happen to be a plant geek, so I answered an ad for somebody to go and do agricultural inspecting. And so, it's a program within the Department of Agriculture in the state of Florida that goes out into citrus groves and looks for diseases and the vectors of those diseases. So, that really scratches the plant geek itch in me. And as a bonus, when I'm out in those properties in the groves, there are ancillary systems of what they would call hammocks or marsh communities or prairies or things like that. So, I get to go wander around and have ADD moments out in those fields. So, that's fulfilling, at least to me. Probably not to anybody else, but at least to me. Okay, that's nice. How long have you been doing that for? Just five months. I started in May. Alright then. And what have you done before that? Prior to that, in terms of business or occupation, I had a landscape business. And I worked with doing landscape maintenance and a little bit of design and install, and it was my business. So, I kind of, not necessarily my own boss because I had about 40 to 45 customers and they were my boss, but I could fire myself from somebody if I didn't get along with them or things weren't going well or working out. So, yeah, it was kind of nice. But again, that speaks to my interest in plants, botany, horticulture, things like that. I was able to scratch that itch through there. Nice, nice. What inspired you to be so fascinated with plants and such? Is this an adult show or do we have children on board? There's a much older audience mainly listening. Alright.
How I Got Here with Dave Fiore
A highlight from Episode 55: Warren Cave
"So when I started Chi -town and the Chi -town boys in the middle 80s, 86, 87, 88, we had a motto, we gonna get high and rob till the day we die. We gonna not live to be 25, either we gonna kill somebody or they gonna kill us in the street. So now I'm over 25, but I hadn't really changed. So when I went to AA, when I was sober, I saw better days that I could have. But the more I got high, it was like, whoa. The only good part about me being high is when my friends would say, man don't come out here praying and crying. From Fiore Communications, it's How I Got Here, a show of inspiring stories from Tallahassee area leaders, business owners, and neighbors. All the challenges, opportunities, inspirations, the twists and turns of life that led them to where they are today. Everyone has a story worth telling, and I am really grateful that we get to bring a few of them to you. I truly have been changed by my conversations with these amazing people, and I'm confident you will be too. I'm Dave Fiore, and in this episode, I speak with Warren Cave, the founder of the Clean Start Initiative, a nonprofit ministry to help those previously incarcerated and their families. Warren grew up in Coral Gables as one of 13 children and was an outstanding student and basketball player, in spite of the fact that he would often be drunk and high before the first school bell even rang. He spent four years in the 10th grade with more time on the streets of Coconut Grove robbing tourists than in the classroom. That led to repeated trips to jail and eventually prison as an addict who didn't expect to live past the age of 25. Warren's life took a dramatic turn when he heard from God in the back of a police car and began to turn things around. And while his journey has not been without setbacks, he has dedicated his life to helping others, especially the homeless and those struggling with drugs and alcohol. He and his wife Yolanda met at the fun station playing basketball for some Popeyes chicken, a game he lost. They have five children in their family and are grateful to be making a difference together. We started our conversation talking about growing up in a rather unusual home environment. I went to predominantly white school, which was Coral Gables Senior High. I was raised around a bunch of, we were like, not really poor, but my dad had so much money that I thought we were rich. So I came up in that environment, never suffered, never had the big, never thought, never seen lights out. We fed a lot of people through my family. It was a lot of drinking and drugging was normal for lifestyle and that's, I will tell you later, the first time I ever had a drink of hard alcohol or whiskey. I don't think I was eight years old. So within your family or within the community? In my house. Okay.
Thinking Crypto News & Interviews
A highlight from GARY GENSLER ATTACKS STONER CATS NFTS & RIPPLE XRP WILL FIGHT SEC, HEDERA HBAR STABLECOIN STUDIO!
"Welcome back to the Thinking Crypto Podcast, your home for cryptocurrency news and interviews. If you are new here, please hit that subscribe button as well as the thumbs up button and leave a comment below. If you're listening on a podcast platform such as Spotify, Apple or Google, please leave a five star rating and review. It supports the podcast and it doesn't cost you anything. Well, folks, I want to start off with the SEC versus NFTs. Stoner Cats agrees to pay a one million dollar fine to settle SEC charges. The Hollywood superstar backed Stoner Cats NFTs has neither admitted nor denied the SEC's allegation that it issued an unregistered security. So once again, folks, we see regulation by enforcement by scumbag regulator Gary Gensler. They're not putting out the clear rules of the road. And we even have two commissioners that dissented from this enforcement action. So we see even folks within the SEC don't agree. But we know Gary Gensler has been running around with a false narrative saying everything in the crypto industry is a security and that it's breaking securities laws. But of course, he's not providing any guidance. And we saw even members of Congress question him. Tell us what is it, which crypto coins and tokens are securities? Is Ethereum a security? Is XRP is a security? He can't answer. Right. So we are dealing with nonsense. And, you know, the challenging part here is that he takes these settlements here because these companies don't have the capital to fight the government, to fight the SEC. You saw Ripple. It's they spent one hundred million dollars to fight the SEC. So many of these companies don't have that type of capital. So they settle just to get the SEC off their back. But unfortunately, you know, Gary adds this to his wins list. Now, the good thing is that Stoner Cats is not some major brand, you know, well -known. The defeat that the SEC took with Grayscale and Ripple and I think soon Coinbase, those are big names and well -known. So they carry more weight when, you know, Gary takes the loss. So let me give you the details here, guys. The U .S. Securities and Exchange has charged and settled with NFT issuer Stoner Cats, too, for allegedly offering an unregistered security. Without denying or admitting to the SEC's allegations, Stoner Cats, too, has agreed to cease and desist from offering the NFTs and pay a one million dollar fine. Stoner Cats, too, also agreed to destroy all NFTs in its possession and issue a notice of order on its website and social media channels, the SEC said. Now Stoner Cats, if you're wondering who is the Hollywood backers, it was issued by actors Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis. They released 10 ,000 NFTs in a highly anticipated drop in July 2021. The drop raised eight million dollars. Now, folks, you see how ridiculous this is, you know? So what does that make any artwork that's put out there on the Web, right? Let's say it's not in NFT format. Let's say it's baseball cards or sports cards. This is just ridiculous. The SEC is completely overreaching here. And don't get me wrong, they have a job to do to monitor these NFT prices and crypto projects because there are bad actors. But clearly they're going after the good actors and they're leaving many bad actors to do their thing. So this really sucks. Now, SEC Commissioners Hester Peirce and Mark Ueda issued a dissenting opinion Wednesday arguing the Howey test cannot be met. So clearly, clearly the SEC is divided here and we know the entire industry and even members of Congress are not on board with this nonsense. But Congress has to act. The onus is on them to get the rules in place because Gary is just going to continue his nonsense and he's trying to get that Treasury job. So he's just trying to rack up wins here to say, see, look at all the enforcement actions I took. Look at all the capital I got. And he won't give the details to say, hey, these guys were just trying to issue NFTs. He'll say, you know, they're scammers, they're hucksters, they're doing all kinds of bad activity. Right. So that's his narrative. So we got to fight, folks. And this is why we use social media to our advantage, contact your representatives and much more. Here's what Mark Ueda had to say. Analyzing investment contracts in this way carries implications for creators of all kinds. We're to apply these securities laws to physical collectibles in the same way we applied them to NFTs. Artist creativity would wither in the shadow of legal ambiguity. Mark summed it up really well there. This is really, really insane what the SEC is doing. And we got to keep fighting, folks. But scumbag regulator Gary Gensler continues. Now, interestingly enough, yesterday, some folks from Ripple were interviewed by CNBC. And here's the headline from CNBC. Ripple says it will fight the SEC lawsuit all the way through. Ripple said it plans to fight the ongoing lawsuit with the U .S. Securities Exchange Commission all the way through its president, Monica Long, told CNBC. Ripple is among the crypto companies such as Binance and Coinbase, which are being sued by the SEC for violating laws. So Ripple is going to continue fighting. You guys know there's going to be even the proper party at the end of the month of September. And I'm looking forward to that in New York City. I will be attending. I know some people are down on it because the prices are down. But look, if you have to understand the market cycles, right, what's playing out, everything's down. Bitcoin is down. Even a large, large part of the markets out there because of the macroeconomic factors of inflation, rate hikes and much more. So I'm glad to see that Ripple is going to continue fighting and I'm sure they're going to push for some sort of settlement. And we know the SEC is trying to appeal, but, you know, Ripple took the bigger slice of the pie from a victory standpoint where XRP token was intrinsically stated as not being a security. And I think the judge got it right there. It goes back to how we test the orange groves and the oranges that we get at our supermarket or orange trees in general are not securities by themselves, but rather it's the packaging. So that's the key. So the tokens themselves, not securities is just how are they being packaged? And don't get me wrong, NFTs could be, and I say could be in certain circumstances, securities, right? If they're packaged in a certain way. But we know if you just simply issue artwork and NFTs on the blockchain, that does not make them intrinsically a security. But Gary Gensler, we know he doesn't. He's trying to muddy the waters and cause confusion and just saying everything that's issued is a security. We know it's nonsense. Now, moving ahead, Flare, many of you hold the Flare tokens. If you're an XRP holder who participated in the Flare snapshot, you got a distribution of your Flare tokens. You continue to get that. I personally am doing that and I delegate my Flare tokens and I'm earning rewards. I'm doing the same thing for Songbird. You can of course invest in the Flare token if you want. Well, Flare is going to be moving to a staking model and they provided an update here saying we will soon enter phase two of three in Flare's transition to a staking model, opening new opportunities to delegate stake to validators and earn rewards. The date when staking can commence will be announced in the coming weeks. So if you're a Flare token holder, this is great news and I'm looking forward to this. If I can stake and earn more rewards, that'll be great. And you know, I'm not selling any of the earnings I get from delegation because we're in a bear market. I am just delegating, earning more tokens, and then when the bull market comes, I will be looking to take profits as the prices rise. Now speaking of prices rising and selling, a great platform to do so is on Uphold, which is a great platform. I've been using them since 2018. They're one of my go -to exchanges. They have 10 plus million users, 250 plus cryptocurrencies, and they're available in 150 countries. You can also trade precious metals and equities and 37 national currencies. So that's different Fiat currencies, and you can swap easily between precious metals, cryptocurrencies, and these different 37 national currencies. So if you'd like to learn more about Uphold, please visit the link in the description. All right, folks, we got some very big Hedera HBAR news. So recently I interviewed Leemon Beard, who's one of the co -founders of Hedera. They're doing great things. I think this is going to be one of the blockchain projects that can really come out of this speculative crypto bubble and be one of the winners, right? If you look at the speculative bubble of the dot -com boom, you had your Googles, your Ebays, your Amazons, and a few others that came out that did really well. I think Hedera is one of them. And part of their governing council includes Google, Dell, IBM, Boeing, some of the biggest names. And just recently, Hyundai and Kia started building on the Hedera network. So huge news. So they tweeted out, we're excited to announce the Hedera stablecoin studio, the all -in -one stablecoin configuration issuance and management toolkit tailored for Web3 platforms, institutional issuers, enterprises, and payment providers alike. By leveraging Hedera, the network, and in collaboration with our partners, the stablecoin studio delivers a highly performant, seamless, and end -to -end stablecoin solution with proof of reserve, dedicated custodians, and network native KYC slash AML flagging. So this is pretty big. They said with Hedera, predictable fees, high programmability, and robust network of ecosystem partners, stablecoin issuance and management have never been simpler. Everything you need to build and configure stablecoins with ease. So this is a really great feature. Obviously, stablecoins are going to be a big part of the token economy and the ability to have your blockchain utilized for tokenization, whether it be CBDCs, stablecoins, NFTs, tokenization of real -world assets, and much more is going to be key to adoption because that's the future. So Hedera is ahead of the curve in many ways. And if you haven't seen my interview with Lehman Abir, be sure to check it out because we talk about the Hyundai -Kia situation. We talk about Xinhan Bank with their stablecoin on the Hedera blockchain being used to improve cross -border payments. So it's really, really big things happening here. I'm very bullish on HBAR. Now moving ahead, Coinbase, to integrate the Bitcoin Lightning Network in a bid to drive adoption, Coinbase CEO labeled Bitcoin the most important asset Tuesday following an announcement his company would integrate Lightning. Now Coinbase is a little bit late to the game here. There have been other exchanges like OKEx that integrated the Lightning Network. But more and more, I think, platforms are going to leverage the Lightning Network to help boost Bitcoin's ability to scale. Look, I don't think the Lightning Network is even there yet. We know the folks at Lightspark are trying to do something, Jack Mahler's strike, but it's not there. Look, Bitcoin is a great store of value, great hard money, great digital goal. I view it from that standpoint. And that's why I hold it in my portfolio. It has made me money. But for payments, not great. Not great at all. Now there could be great improvements to the Lightning Network where it gets global adoption and people start using it. But we are far from that. And we'll have to see what guys like Jack Dorsey's Cash App, David Marcus's Lightspark, Jack Mahler's strike, and these guys do because they've done it in small increments and small markets. But there's no major global adoption here where people are like, I'm going to go spend some sats. Don't get me wrong, it may be happening in, once again, small scenarios in El Salvador. But what about the rest of the world? People are opting more for stablecoins. So this is something that the folks who are building the Lightning Network have to figure out how to scale this thing and make it easy for people to onboard. So Coinbase looking to make a push here and get more adoption around Bitcoin, and it certainly makes sense. Bitcoin is definitely the brand that's well known. A lot of people come into the market via the Bitcoin asset, and then they usually go to altcoins after that. Now speaking of altcoins, Vitalik Buterin was speaking at Permissionless, the crypto conference in Austin. It's actually held by Blockworks. And he talked a bit about what's in the future for Ethereum. Now, some people listening to this may be very upset at Vitalik, Joe Lubin, Bill Hinman and so forth. And that's fine. You know, I understand I'm not the biggest fans of these folks as well. I do respect Vitalik as a coder and what he has built. I think folks can't ignore that. He did build a great platform. First mover advantage, the EVM is used by many other different blockchains. And there's been a lot of building on Ethereum. You can't deny that regardless if you hate it or you don't hold it. The facts are there from DeFi to NFTs and much more. And a lot of smart contract tech is being used and built around Ethereum. And he made some interesting statements as to what Ethereum is going to target next. So he said DeFi is cool. NFTs are a new primitive, but an extension of something that has a history and using crypto for payments is good, but also familiar. These are individual pieces that are designed to fit it into an ecosystem that's otherwise the same as before, Buterin said. He said what he's excited about is decentralized social, repeatedly name dropping Faircaster, a Twitter like protocol on the OP mainnet with a companion warp cast mobile app that is currently invite only alpha release. Along with Lens developed by Aave founder Stani Kulichov and running on Polygon's proof of stake chain, Faircaster and similar social experiences are using crypto tools to complete with centralized platforms. Let's see how far we can push things in that direction, Buterin said. But where I see the longer term feature here is it really can plug into all the other stuff that we've been doing as a space. So it sounds like he's trying to build like some sort of decentralized social platform that will include the tokenization, the entities, the DeFi and so forth. That makes sense. And as we head into Web3, just as people transition from Web1 to Web2 and even earlier versions of Web2 social platforms like Myspace and Friendster to eventually Facebook, Twitter and so on, we're going to see a transition from the Web2 social platforms into Web3 social platforms, especially as they become more easy to onboard and use. And there's a layer of rewards of tokens. And if people can legitimately earn tokens and get paid for their activity and it's on the block chain, it's verifiable, it's hard to hack and things like that. They will come folks. They will come. People will come, especially as data breaches continue with social platforms mainstream and other platforms as well. So interesting statements here from Vitalik. And I think we want to watch this closely because look, like I said, Ethereum has the adoption, has a lot of developers, has a lot of capital behind a lot of resources. So if there's any token that comes with these social platforms, I'm going to be looking into that and be looking into these platforms and seeing how I can capitalize on it to make a nice return. Well, folks, that's the news. Let me know what you think. Leave your thoughts and comments below. Hit the thumbs up button. Hit the five star rating on the podcast platforms. Don't forget to check out the merchandise store. Link will be in the description where you can buy the podcast branded gear as well as fire Gary Gensler T -shirts and hats and much more. Thank you for your support. And I'll talk to you all later. Bye bye.
Thinking Crypto News & Interviews
A highlight from GARY GENSLER CALLS ALL CRYPTO SECURITIES AHEAD OF CONGRESS HEARING & SEC RIPPLE XRP APPEAL
"Welcome back to the Thinking Crypto podcast, your home for cryptocurrency news and interviews. If you are new here, please hit that subscribe button as well as the thumbs up button and leave a comment below. If you're listening on a podcast platform such as Spotify, Apple or Google, please leave a five star rating and review. It supports the podcast and it doesn't cost you anything. Well, folks, I want to start with news around scumbag regulator Gary Gensler. Tomorrow, SEC Chair Gary Gensler will be testifying before the U .S. Senate Banking Committee. And there will be two hearings this month that he's going to be appearing at. And tomorrow is the first. At the end of the month, he'll be testifying before the House Financial Services Committee. I think that's the one that's going to have the most fireworks the last time. It certainly did. Gary got a lot of grilling from Patrick McHenry and a whole bunch of other folks. So I can't wait for that one. So we'll see if he gets any pushback tomorrow. But ahead of his testimony tomorrow, he released a letter. And of course, he's reiterating the same old bullshit about how all crypto tokens are securities. And here's one of his quotes. Given this industry's wide ranging noncompliance with the securities laws, it's not surprising that we've seen many problems in these markets. Now here's what Taylor Barr of the Digital Chamber of Commerce had to say regarding those statements from Gary. Without clear rules of the road and notable regulatory gaps, it's not noncompliance. It's navigating uncharted waters. Yeah, I think we've seen this time and time again. Gary continues these false narratives. We know the market does not have clarity. We're seeing the judges and the courts. The judges are also like, what is the SEC calling a security? You can't even say which ones are security and which ones are not right. They're just the SEC is just throwing anything at the wall right now. And Gary continues lying. This is why we have to keep fighting folks. And we have to tweet. We have to use social media to our advantage. We have to make content. We have to contact our representatives. Now, Mike Selig, who is a crypto and a fin regulation lawyer at Wilkie Farr. He tweeted out some items regarding Gensler's letter. Chair Gensler says the vast majority of crypto tokens meet the investment contract tests. Now, former chair Clayton said every ICO is I've seen is a security. This is similar rhetoric, but different meaning. Unlike Clayton, Gensler says tokens themselves are securities. Judge Torres disagreed. So we know the Ripple ruling was certainly important for case law, highlighting Gary's lies and his false narratives. And even goes back to the Howie case where I've interviewed Hester Peirce, SEC commissioner, where she said she's trying to tell the folks there not to focus on the asset, but rather how it's packaged. So in the case of Howie, it wasn't the oranges, right? It wasn't the trees and the orange groves and all of that. It was rather his investment scheme, because if it was the fruit and the trees, that means every orange tree today is a security. All the oranges in the supermarket and that you have at your house is a security, which is nonsense, obviously, right? Because these tokens, folks, they exist on decentralized blockchains and they are distributed globally. They're outside the United States as well. Right. And you can't get the same rights as stocks. If you hold a token, you don't have voting rights in the sense of having equity and shares of the company and things like that. So it's not a security, but rather how it's packaged. That's the key. That's the differentiator. But Gary Gensler continues his lies. So we got to fight. Let's see how this hearing goes tomorrow. And if he gets pushed any type of pushback, I'm hearing a lot of Democrats and as well as Republicans, of course, are not happy with Gary with how he's doing things with the crypto market. Obviously, him taking a big loss with Grayscale and Ripple is significant. And I hope Coinbase mops the floor with this clown Gensler. And then I hope he gets he gets forced to resign. Now, the SEC is, of course, trying to file an appeal with the Ripple ruling. And here, attorney Frederick Foley shared some thoughts about that. He said, XRP community, SEC made decent arguments and Ripple countered them. Well, certifying the appeal is a discretionary standard. Judge Torres can do whatever she wants if she determines the three statutory conditions are met and there is enough wiggle room for her to certify, he says. But as I predicted earlier, I still say the likely outcome is she does not certified mainly because of the prejudice to the humans involved. Brad Garlinghouse and Chris Larson, without the claims against them, I would have to say 100 percent chance she certifies. Lastly, this case has a political element. So if that is a factor for Judge Torres, I don't think it is, but it's not without reason to think the opposite. She can avoid that issue by certifying and putting the onus on the second circuit as the court can simply deny the request. So we'll see. I don't think the SEC has any chance here. You know, once again, they can go ahead and file the appeal. Nothing wrong with that. But will they actually get it through and get something done? I don't think so. I think Gary Gensler has lost the narrative. Optics look very bad for him. And I can't wait to see what the ruling will be with the Coinbase situation. And I think another loss will be really bad for Gary Gensler. Now, a quick word from our sponsor, and that is Uphold, which makes crypto investing easy. I've been using Uphold since 2018, so I can certainly vouch for this platform. They have 10 plus million users, 250 plus crypto currencies, and they're available in 150 countries. You can also trade precious metals and equities on this platform, as well as 37 national currencies. You can swap between different currencies with precious metals and crypto currencies. It's pretty unique. So if you'd like to learn more about Uphold, please visit the link in the description. All right, folks. Now, with Ripple acquiring Fortress, which is the custodian, and this was a big move by Ripple, of course. Well, some details are coming out that Swan Bitcoin's custodian was Fortress and that Fortress was hacked, apparently. And some customer funds were lost and Ripple in their acquisition had to step in to cover the customer losses. This is wild. Now, you may say, who cares? Well, Swan Bitcoin is run by a bunch of Bitcoin maxis. Max Kaiser supports it. The other guy, Corey, I forgot his last name, but these guys are toxic. I mean, they're going around calling everything a shitcoin. They're attacking other coins. They're always, you know, just doing nonsense. It's like their M .O., right? That's the persona they've taken over. But a lot of people recognize it. They're just just toxic, man. Just disgusting people. And lo and behold, the irony, folks, that Ripple came and bailed them out. Right. And apparently this was confirmed because Mike Belshi, who was who is the CEO of BitGo, who I've had on the podcast many times, he confirmed some of this and that the folks at Fortress Trust have not been clear about the lost funds and things that have been happening. And it's spilling over to BitGo because BitGo's clients are calling and saying, hey, what's going on here? Right. What's with the breach and all that jazz? So it's a mess right now. So it's pretty incredible that these Bitcoin maxis got bailed out by Ripple.
The Garden Question
A highlight from 125 - Cultivating History: Exploring George Washington's Mount Vernon Garden - Dean Norton
"The Garden Question is a podcast for people that love designing, building, and growing smarter gardens that work. Listen in as we talk with successful garden designers, builders, and growers, discovering their stories along with how they think, work, and grow. This is your next step in creating a beautiful, year -round, environmentally connected, low -maintenance, and healthy, thriving outdoor space. It doesn't matter if you're a beginner or an expert, there will always be something inspiring when you listen to The Garden Question podcast. Hello, I'm your host, Craig McManus. Dean Norton fell in love with the Mount Vernon Estate Gardens 53 years ago and never left. After receiving a degree in horticulture from Clemson University, he began his career as the estate's boxwood gardener. The historical gardens of the first president of the United States, George Washington, became his responsibility in 1980. His promotion to horticulturalists allowed him to apply the latest plant science and horticultural management techniques for historical gardens. Dean has devoted considerable time to researching 18th century gardens and gardening practices. He has received awards for conservation from the DAR and the Garden Club of America, as well as the Garden Club of America's Elizabeth Craig Weaver Proctor National Medal. He is an honorary member of the Garden Club of Virginia and the Garden Club of Providence. He has been awarded an honorary doctorate from Washington College, serves on several historic property boards, and lectures nationally and internationally. This is Episode 125, Cultivating History, Exploring George Washington's Mount Vernon Garden, with Dean Norton, an encore presentation and remix of Episode 64. Dean, why did General George Washington, the first president of the United States, garden? Well, he really gardened for necessity. The earliest gardens were called gardens of necessity for health and survival. Of course, the most important plant to be planted within a garden were vegetables, something that you were going to have at the dinner table to eat. Vegetables were huge to him. Even during the Revolutionary War, he wanted to make sure that his troops were getting as many vegetables as they could whenever possible. I would not actually call him a gardener per se, but for a year and a half, he became a designer. He totally redid his country seat from a very simplistic design to one following naturalistic design principles. Then that landscape were four very fine gardens that he oversaw. What story does the Mount Vernon Garden tell? Tell us the story of a man that wanted his gardening world to be complete, I would say. He had a very small botanic garden, which he fondly called his little garden. When he was here on site, he was typically doing that work himself on his knees, planting seed and seedling saplings. He kept such good records in that little tiny garden that we were able to recreate that quite nicely. His earliest gardens were a fruit and nut garden and a kitchen garden, but when he changed his design, the kitchen garden remained as it is. The fruit and nut garden became a pleasure garden with vegetables in there as well, which is kind of an interesting combination. He had a vineyard for a while, but the grapes failed, and that became a fruit garden and nursery. The nursery was for plants that he could grow to plant on other areas of the estate and also to grow things just for collection of seed. What is today's mission for the garden? Today's mission for the garden is interpretation. We are trying to share with our visitors what life was like in the 18th century, why these gardens were important. Certainly after 1785, the gardens took on a new role, which was for people to come when he had created here at Mount Vernon. The story of gardeners themselves, the gardeners that Washington hired through the Articles of Indenture, also the enslaved gardeners that worked with the professional gardener to cultivate till to harvest. It's a great story. It's one that we thoroughly enjoy telling. Gardening really hasn't changed much from the 18th century, so the more we're out there digging in the earth, we think of those gardeners from the past. Today's visitors, how do they respond? I'll tell you what, when they come through the gates and they get to the Bowling Green Gate and see the house for the first time, that's exactly what they were expecting to see, this beautiful house that Washington lived in. But then the further they go into the landscape, they're really totally blown away by the amount of landscape and gardens that Washington had. They weren't expecting that at all. I think the gardens are well received, and I think that the stories we tell throughout the estate in so many different areas are certainly appreciated by our visitors. The garden's been there for about two and a half centuries. You've told us that there's four gardens that make up the Mount Vernon Garden. Could we walk through each one of those and you tell us about them? Sure. The panic garden is a simple garden, very small. It was intended to plant things that Washington was not familiar with, although sometimes other things that he knew quite well ended up in there as well. He received 500 Chinese seed, which he planted in one of the beds. None of them came up. So actually, we could show one of the beds with nothing but bare dirt and we would be exactly correct. That was his playground, and he truly loved getting plants he wasn't familiar with and planting them in there, and he did most of the work in there himself. There was an area that he started a vineyard, hoping to get some grapes for making wine, but that failed. That four -acre area became a fruit garden and nursery. Washington kept such good records that the fruit trees are planted exactly as he describes in that particular enclosure. Part of it is a nursery as well, where he grew trees and shrubs, also some other grasses and things just for the collection of seed. The kitchen garden was the first garden laid out in 1760, and that has been cultivated as a kitchen garden since 1760. It's never changed in its purpose, which is the only garden like that on the estate. Both the kitchen garden and fruit nut garden were an acre in size, so that's a significant garden. The nut garden changed from a garden of necessity to a pleasure garden, and that was meant to be the aha moment. When people were strolling around the Bowling Green, they could look through that gate, they saw a beautiful conservatory. The idea was to walk in there and just enjoy the beauty of the flowers, and those flowers were there for their enjoyment and not for their use. I think his gardening world was quite complete. You said the conservatory, would that be the greenhouse? That's correct. It had a greenhouse that he copied from a lovely property called Mount Clare, just to the north of Baltimore. The owner was Margaret Carroll. He asked for permission for some information, and she was thrilled and gave him all that he needed, even his first plants for his collection, to get his greenhouse started. I started studying that greenhouse in pictures. When I think greenhouse, I think a glass top or a plastic top or something like that, and this was constructed quite different. Could you tell us about how it was constructed and it was heated? The greenhouses in the 18th century typically just had glass panes on the south side, this was southern exposure. Also typically they were triple home windows, so you could open top and bottom to allow for good air circulation. This was quite modern, very good. It had a vaulted ceiling, so hot air didn't get trapped up at the corners. It had a wood door on the west side of the structure to keep afternoon sun from coming in. It was too hot. A glass door on the east side to allow morning sun in. It had shutters that closed very tight, so in the wintertime when you got whatever heat you could get from the solar energy, you could close those shutters and retain the heat overnight. It was heated by a stove room on the opposite side of the structure. The fire pit was quite low, and that hot air and smoke would go underneath the slate floor in the greenhouse and then rise up along the back wall and out the chimney. It was very efficient. It housed the semi -tropical plants and citrus trees in the winter. Not for them to continue to fruit, so he had lemons and limes and all that. Just to keep them alive in the wintertime. In all these gardens, he's combining beauty with necessity. How did he accomplish that? The one garden that really does that beautifully is the upper garden, or pleasure garden. He wanted a pleasure garden. He wanted the aha moment when someone walked into there. It's a 10 -foot -wide path, edged in boxwood with this greenhouse at the end. He was concerned, though, in that he didn't want to lose a lot of space to the growth of vegetables, which were still the most important plant that he grew on the property. 18th century horticulture said, look, George, you can do both. Plant your vegetables and then surround them with a border of flowers. The border could be three feet, five feet, whatever you so decide. It's the border that's actually the pleasure garden. So you're really not losing that much space to growing vegetables. How did Washington change his gardens to enhance Mount Vernon's natural beauty? He adopted the naturalistic style. There are four key elements of that. The curve line is nature's gift, management of surprises, random planting, and hidden barriers. If you can do those four things, you're well on your way to a wonderful naturalistic design. The management of surprises, the curve line helps you with that. Around each bend, you can do something different. The book that he's learning all these techniques from was written by a gentleman named Batty Langley. He wrote the book in 1728 called New Principles of Gardening. Washington purchased it in 1759. Langley goes in, he says, once you've seen one quarter of your garden, you should not have seen it all. There's nothing more shocking and stiff than a regular garden. He said every garden must have good shade. If you have to walk more than 20 paces in full sun, your walk is not worth it. Washington really took all these thoughts and comments to heart and made sure he put trees on either side of his serpentine avenues. Around each bend, he added shrubberies in wilderness areas and groves. It really was a complete landscape, and it was all just trying to stay within the qualifications or the requirements of a naturalistic garden. There are many historical events that took place away from Mount Vernon. For long periods of time, Washington was gone. How did he stay in touch with his garden and its growing? Much to his demise, much to our benefit, Washington, during the 45 years he lived here at Mount Vernon, he was away for 16 years, only visiting his house a couple times during all that time. When he is away, he's communicating with the land manager with lengthy letters, three, four, five pages long, giving him instructions to do this, make sure that is done, have you planted this, I want to try to do this next. We have that exchange of letters. Gives us a tremendous advantage in being able to represent Mount Vernon as accurately as we do in today's world. You should be considered the current garden overseer, but there's been many that have come before you. Have you got any good overseer stories about your predecessors? Yeah, there's some. I'm number 37. I don't know if that number is exactly correct, but I'm honored to be the current gardener, whatever number I am. They were all pretty competent in their practices. Washington called one clever because he was so good at grafting trees. Probably one of the cutest ones is when Washington's trying to hire a gardener. He's writing to his land manager saying that the gardener should not have any children, but if he does, only one, but certainly no more than two. He just keeps going on and on, giving almost any option possible for the gardener. He was always looking for the Scottish gardener because they were some of the best. I'm thrilled to be following in the footsteps of so many great gardeners. I hope that I'm continuing their tradition of maintaining a beautiful Mount Vernon. Tell us about the people that worked in the gardens during Washington's time. He hired gardeners under the Articles of Indenture, so they would come over, he would pay their way, and they would have to work that to pay Washington back. Some of them stayed for many years. There was a German gardener named John Christian Eller who was here for a number of years. They had a bit of a falling out, but apparently after Washington passed away, he actually returned because there is something in the notes about a German gardener saying that he used to work here. There is one from Holland, England, and then of course you had your Scottish gardener at the very end of his life, which Washington said that he was dedicated, sober, passionate about his work, and that in short, he's the best hired servant I've ever had. What makes it even better is that he says he has never been happier. I think that's really wonderful, and it certainly rings true for me. For being here at Mount Vernon as long as I have, my life here as a gardener has been a very happy experience. What did the garden go through between Washington's death and until the time it was bought by its current owners? It started to fall and disappear rapidly. Visitors' accounts have been occurring since Washington lived here. People visiting, and they write in their diaries or letters to friends, which is tremendously valuable to us, for that is our Polaroid to the past. Washington died in 1799, and visitors in 1801, 1802 are saying that it's deteriorating, it doesn't look anything like it did during Washington's time, so things just started to fall apart a little bit. You didn't have the money, you didn't have the dedication maybe to do as well. Not to say that work wasn't being done and things weren't being cleaned up as best as possible, but definitely it was noticeable to visitors that it was in a bit of disarray. When the Ladies Association purchased the property in 1858, things started to change, of course, quickly. And of course, Mount Vernon is in their hands today, it's a beautiful, beautiful site. Did they buy it from the family? They bought it from John Augustine Washington, the fourth Washington that owned the property before it was sold to the ladies. It cost them $200 ,000, and with that they received 200 acres, where others said you should take everything down but the mansion, because that's all that's important. They made the decision that they wanted to keep everything that was there during Washington's time, which was absolutely the right thing to do. We have all the outbuildings. It's an amazing opportunity for visitors to come to see an estate, a plantation, as it was during the time of the owner. Are there new discoveries being made through modern archaeology and research, or do you feel like you've re -established everything there? No, there are new discoveries all the time. It's amazing. Archaeology, the science, is becoming more and more exact all the time, with radar and LiDAR flyovers and just all these wonderful techniques that they now have. We're still finding letters that we didn't have before. Eventually we may find the plan that Washington did for the Bowling Green. We have the plan's key that is in his hand, but we don't have the actual plan itself. You can never write the final chapter in this adventure that we're in here from Washington's time till now. We try to represent things as accurately as we can, but we may find a new letter or something that will totally alter our interpretation of what we were using or going on to create an area that we thought was accurate, but new information may change that, and we will go back and make those changes so that it's historically accurate. Where did Washington acquire his plants? Initially, the landscape was completed by nothing but trees and shrubs that he found in his wildernesses surrounding Mount Vernon. So it's certainly a native landscape, and he identified these plants in the wintertime by structure and bud and had them dug and brought back. He did say that he was looking for exotics. He loved plants of all sorts. Now, we don't know if an exotic to him was Mexico or South Carolina, but what we do know is he said he wanted plants outside of his geographic area. People sent him gifts of plants often. Also he ordered from three of the principal nurseries of the time, John Bartram in Philadelphia, William Hamilton in New York, and Prince on Long Island. He ordered a lot of these plants and that he was experimenting with and putting within his landscape. I heard a story about a Franklin tree. Was that ever a part of the estate? The Franklinia, I think it was actually ordered from Philadelphia, and we've tried to grow them any number of times. We can't get them to survive. They're very finicky. They need to be in a spot they're really happy with, and so far we haven't found that spot on the estate, unfortunately. What's the significance of the Bond Plan? A gentleman named Samuel Vaughan visited Mount Vernon in 1784, I think it was, or 83. He was a landscape designer. He did a good bit of work up in the Philadelphia area, actually did some work around Independence Hall. He came and visited Mount Vernon, and in his sketchbook drew the plan of the estate, and then went back to Philadelphia. We drew a beautiful big plan that was very, very accurate. Washington said that you've drawn my estate accurately except that you've enclosed the view with trees, and so the only problem that Washington states is when looking from the house down the Bowling Green, down a vista to the forest beyond, there were two willow mounds that were planted on the Bowling Green. They weren't meant to act as punctuation points. No planting would occur within that, so you had a wide open view to the west. Whatever reason, Vaughan decided to draw trees all in there. In Washington's eye, it was all correct except for that. So it's a beautiful plan, archaeologists have used it, and all the buildings that he shows on that plan are where they find them when they dig in the soil. So he was recording the existence and not proposing new things. There's been some debate about that because Vaughan was a designer, and some say, well, how do we know that this is something Washington had, or was Vaughan drawing what he thought it should be? The written account seemed to support what Vaughan was drawing was accurate. So it's all about interpretation. We could look at two passages somewhere and interpret it both totally differently. I think the Vaughan plan is amazing. I think it's as accurate as we can possibly get. You've mentioned the Bowling Green a couple of times. What grass did they use in the Bowling Green? Their grass was called goosegrass or speargrass. They also had rye, and it's even bluegrass. It was a very coarse grass. Coarse grass was kind of important, actually, because they mowed it with the English sigh, and a very fine -bladed grass would be very difficult to cut with that implement, whereas the wider -bladed grass, they could cut quite nicely if they had a good sharp edge on their sigh, and the sickle, of course, would have been the weed eater. The Bowling Green was meant for games and entertaining and would have been mowed on a regular basis, rigged, rolled, and mowed right up until you may have a drought or something where the grass would stop growing, just like we have in an experience today. What variety do you grow there now? Weeds. It's just, I'm serious. It looks great from a distance, but if you walk up on it, it's just clover and creeping Charlie, and if it's green, I'm fine. We don't want to use chemicals on the lawn. We have a lot of visitors, a lot of children running around, so it's just as natural as possible. We overseed and everything, but no, just don't look too closely. Well, that'd be more accurate to the period, I guess. You know, I don't know. It'd be interesting to see the grass back then. It was maintained in a way that it was intended for them to bowl. They had lots of games with the hoops and other things, so it was used a great deal as a green for entertaining. How do you cut it now? Oh, we have John Deere's to go 13 miles an hour. It's pretty nice. You know, front deck mowers, it's great. Is that a reel? No, my goodness, no. Years ago when I started, our only riding mower was a Toro reel. Now, nothing against Toro, okay, but that thing never worked. Poor man that was operating, he was a World War II vet, and he was always in the shop just standing here waiting for his mower to work. So no, it's not a reel. My dad had a reel mower, and he was always working on it too. My dad's way to fix anything was with a screwdriver, not to actually tighten any screws. He would just beat on it. He was so upset. You've got the serpentine pass. What materials did they use? It was a combination of gravel and clay, pea gravel, smaller grade gravel, and it was cobblestone up around the circle in front of the mansion. Washington said if he could find any alternative form of paving, he would certainly use it because gravel roads were constant maintenance of raking, rolling, adding new gravel to keep them from being muddy all the time. That's exactly what was used in the gardens as well, was a gravel type path. Is that gravel mine from the Potomac? Washington talks about a gravel pit. It would seem as if they got a lot of it from the Potomac, and they would have sifted it to get the right size stone that they wanted. I think there were a couple sources, but not real clear on it. What kind of staff does it take to maintain all this? In horticulture, my responsibility has to do with anything that deals with chlorophyll and manure. The gardeners, just like in the 18th century, they said a garden an acre in size will require one full -time gardener, and so every principal garden we have is one full -time gardener working in that spot. Then we have a swing gardener that does all the smaller gardens and helps in the other gardens as well. We have a landscape gardener that takes care of all the non -exhibition areas. It's truly bare bones. We have some summertime help, college students, some high school. College students love it. We give them as much opportunity to learn whatever they want if they want to work in the greenhouse or use equipment. It's a really great program that we have for that. Then we have our livestock crew. We have five full -time livestock employees that maintain the genetic line of three very rare breeds, and those animals are here for interpretation as well. One thing I just want to share is that Mount Vernon is a very special place. People come and they don't leave real quickly. I've got almost 53 years. Our five livestock staff combined have 92 years of service here at Mount Vernon. It's just truly amazing. Wow. What type of livestock? We have a milking red devon, beautiful reddish -brown cow, aussebal island hogs, hog island sheep, and a Narragansett turkey. So all these are on exhibition at our Pioneer Farmers site, which is a site that we created in the 1990s down near the river. That's a site where we interpret Washington the farmer. That's the livestock's playground. They get to take the animals down there, the oxen, the horses, and work the fields. So it's really very exciting. It helps bring the estate to life. Are you taking the manures and the straw and things like that and using it in compost, or how does that all work? 100 percent. That's all we use. We have huge piles that we are able to windrow with using a manure spreader. We always have these windrows, just these lines of the material that is whipped around by the manure spreader. The row is about maybe eight feet wide, ten feet wide, and it's about six feet high. The oldest windrow is used as the fertilizer used in the gardens. And once that's gone, we windrow the next row over to aerate it again. We just always have a source of compost that we can use in the gardens, and it just works out beautifully for us. How long does it typically age? It doesn't take long, really. We have a pile that's been here for so long that even stuff that is not that old, maybe three months or so, when you mix it up with the other, it turns out very, very well. In the 18th century, Washington would take manure from the stables and just put them in a dung repository for a fortnight or two. You're only talking two or four weeks, and then they thought it was readily available for the gardens. So it was much more rapid for them than it is for us. Are there any special approaches that you take to maintaining a historical garden? The approach to maintaining a historic garden really is visual. We want them to see a garden that is planted in the manner that would have been in the 18th century. We want them to see what an 18th century garden looked like. As far as our actual practices, it is really no different than what would have been going on in the 18th century. Our tools may be a little sturdier, a little nicer, rakes, shovels, soil life, and everyone has one of those on their bill. You can do anything with those. As far as planting, we're definitely concerned about height derangement more than color coordination. We want to make sure the plants we plant are appropriate to the 18th century. Paths, the box which should be trimmed, are very short. They were never intended to be a backdrop for perennials, just as a border. That's the main thing. We want it to look right. The way we take care of it, that hasn't changed for 250 years. What are your biggest challenges with the garden? People, compaction, really the damage that comes from, especially kids, I used to share that the worst pest we can have is a child that's been on a bus for five hours from somewhere, gets here and the chaperones go, go, go, and they just start running. Back when we had big boxwood, they would just go and run and jump in and break a branch of a 150 year old boxwood within 10 seconds and that's hard to control with any kind of spray or whatever. But I developed to have a hard trap that was a bit larger. I found out I put an iPad or something in there, I could catch five or six at a time and I would let them off at the West Gate. The chaperones would eventually find them, but at least we got them out of the garden.
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A highlight from Eleanor Terrett Talks SEC Ripple XRP Ruling, SEC Coinbase & Grayscale, BlackRock Bitcoin ETF & US Crypto Regulations
"Hey everybody, I've got Ellie Teret with me, journalist and producer at Fox Business. Ellie, you and I spoke, boy, what was it, like a year ago? I was trying to figure out when it was, I think over a year. Over a year, right? And I want to say first, thank you for all the great reporting and journalism you've done a lot, so thank you. And of course, highlighting, you know, this story around crypto and the Ripple lawsuit because no mainstream media was covering it until you guys did. So I want to start by just saying thank you. Oh, well, thank you. And yeah, it's been a journey, hasn't it? I think everyone's been on it together. And the recent ruling kind of brought everything to a head and there's still definitely more to go and we'll discuss what's coming up. But yeah, it's been a crazy two years. And you guys, you've been covering it, I guess, longer than I have because I got in really, I think it was November 21 when I wrote that, the 10 ,000 word opus, we called it, on everything that went into bringing the lawsuit and all the key players. So from what you first entered into the market and in covering, you know, the crypto industry and the Ripple lawsuit, and then seeing how things have progressed and so many folks getting involved, so many stakeholders in the industry, and then the judge makes that ruling, what was your initial thoughts? Like, whoa, you know, what was, Yeah, I thought it was a pleasant surprise for the industry. I think a lot of people had speculated what we might see from the judge, especially legal minds. We've got great lawyers like John Deaton and Jeremy Hogan who have seen cases like this before and seen judges make similar decisions, not in the digital asset industry necessarily, but they had a good idea of what she was going to come out with. And I think at the end of the day, it was a pleasant surprise for the industry because there was some of that much needed clarity that was given around the digital token XRP, right? The judge said XRP in and of itself is not a security. The way in which it's transacted would either make it a security or not. So I think that was the outcome that everybody was hoping for and it's given some clarity and also some much needed comfort to companies, I'd say like Coinbase and other exchanges that the SEC has been targeting for selling these unregistered securities, right? Because now we get to look at the transaction. And we're honing in on what exactly those, I guess, contracts were. So there was an investment contract when they sold to hedge funds and to institutional investors. And I think there's some more to dive into there, but it was definitely a good surprise. I think Ripple, in this regulatory environment we're in, I think a lot of people were surprised that Ripple could pull a win of any kind, even a small one, right? I think there was kind of consensus that Ripple might be on the losing end here because the SEC has become so powerful. And also the judge is a Democrat appointed judge, right? So Obama appointed her and I think there was some concern that she might vote, but she might rule on a political line and we've seen the Republicans sort of take the lead. We've seen some Democrats get on board and we'll talk about that in a little bit, but it's been mostly a Republican led effort in the crypto space so far. So I think some people were concerned that she might vote politically, rule politically, and she didn't. She ruled by the law. She applied the Howey test, which is exactly what the SEC required of her or asked her to do, right? Applied the Howey test to digital assets and she made a ruling that made sense. I thought it made total sense. Right. It goes back to the simple principles behind the Howey test of, Ellie, the oranges in your supermarket are not securities. Every orange grove in Florida is not a security, but rather it's how Howey packaged it. He said, my orange groves are special and come invest in it and you get a return. So it's not inherently the orange groves or the oranges. So the ruling was just spot on in my opinion. And really gave investors, retail investors, some much needed relief, right? Because their investments were locked up. Nobody could trade XRP on exchanges for years. And then all of a sudden you've got Coinbase, you've got Kraken, you've got Binance US relisting this token that everybody has been waiting for for about two or three years. I think that's really dented the SEC's argument in terms of everything is a security. It's kind of got, the SEC's kind of got egg on its face now, right? With these exchanges relisting, they kind of look, let's say a little dumb.
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A highlight from Altcoins Set For INSANE Pump If This Happens! (SEC Will Lose Again)
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All right, Senator Lummis is backing Coinbase against the SEC. Just more arrows going against Gary Gensler here. She's a prominent advocate for cryptocurrency. She filed an amicus brief on the 11th to support the Coinbase exchange against the SEC's lawsuit there. She maintained that the responsibility for regulations lies with Congress, not the SEC. Here's her quote, I believe. Now this might be a Coinbase's quote. The transaction over Coinbase's platform and Prime are not and do not involve contractual undertakings to deliver for future value, reflecting the income profits or assets of a business. They're commodity sales, with the obligations of both sides to charge entirely the moment the token is delivered in exchange for payment, AKA talking about the Orange Grove case where the SEC says everything's a commodity depending on are you working towards its profit? Hey, then it's not a commodity, it's now a security. I think they're pretty clear. But yeah, now we have a lawyer, I mean, I'm sorry, we have a senator coming in filing an amicus brief on behalf of Coinbase against a governmental agency. I would say, call me crazy, I would say that's pretty bullish, pretty bullish for the court case there. So I'm rooting for Coinbase. So I think we're all rooting for Coinbase. All those coins, they got beat down pretty hard. I have a big bag of a lot of those coins. I think there's a little opportunity there. If you think Coinbase is gonna win against the SEC, I do, but you know, I'm not a lawyer. I mean, they have the backing of Larry Fink and BlackRock. So it's hard to bet against Coinbase. Yeah, do you wanna bet against BlackRock? Yeah. I probably don't. One more thing on the SEC here. Law expert says the brief filed by six law scholars absolutely shreds the SEC's theory, you know, where they go over what is an investment contract and whether it requires contractual undertaking, contradicting the SEC. Here we have someone with the same length of neck as Deasy there. So he said the amicus brief filed by the law scholars is devastating for the SEC. Murphy noted that the amicus brief absolutely shreds their investment contract theory. So this was followed by law professors and scholars who were experts in security laws and related fields and probably have a big bag of Bitcoin. They include UCLA, Boston University, Fordham Law University, University of Chicago and Yale Law School professors. They noted that after the Howey decision, there's a common thread in how investment contracts were defined. The thread was that investor must be promised by virtue of his or her investment and ongoing contractual interest in the income, profits or assets of the enterprise. When you have a token, you do not have those things. So good, good news for the SEC. No, sorry, for Coinbase. We're rooting, rooting for Brian Armstrong, rooting for the bald brother, the bald deployer there. I'm rooting, I think I feel pretty good about it though. How about you? Yeah, I understand that. I was a little worried before the tight relationship with BlackRock, I'm gonna be honest, but I just don't see Larry Fing and BlackRock being defeated here. I have a question for you. There's some coins, there's ADA was on there, Filecoin, Polygon, I think about 48 coins listed in the SEC versus Coinbase lawsuit. Coinbase wins, what happens to those 48 currencies? Well, it's gonna be interesting to see does the SEC try to go after everyone individually the way they went after Ripple and XRP? I don't think they can and Gary's even kind of alluded to, they're gonna pause new lawsuits with crypto, they're gonna go after AI. So I don't think it's gonna happen, but at the same time, I don't think there's a winning strategy for any of those things, especially with the XRP decision. Then if they lose to Coinbase and Ripple, what's the precedence to go after any coin individually that it'll be obliterated? Yeah, Sand is one of the tokens, I see someone talking about Sand as well. We're not gonna get 100 % pump is my opinion here. So when we had the XRP news with the SEC, all the crypto attention was on one coin. Now when we have a Coinbase win over SEC, I'm saying win, all the attention will be on 48 coins. And so I don't think all the dollars are gonna flow into those, not everyone's picking one coin and not everyone's gonna invest in all 48 coins. So maybe 20 % pumps, I'm gonna throw out a number here. The best time to get a great deal on a Jeep SUV is now during the summer of Jeep event. Visit jeep .com or your local Jeep brand dealer to find the perfect Jeep SUV for you. Now get 15 % below NSRP for an average of 6 ,300 under NSRP on the purchase of a 2023 Jeep Cherokee Altitude Lux. 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The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from XRP News: SEC Fight Continues!
"It's all going to zero. Sell everything. Alright, let's talk a little XRP. The main story here is the SEC appeal with XRP. There's a lot of moving parts. There's a lot of legal mumbo jumbo. We're going to try to sift through the noise and give you the real breakdown here. SEC seeks to file an appeal against XRP crypto case ruling. Here we have Gary Gensler looking at your tax records. The SEC has just announced plans to seek an interlocutory appeal against this July 13 court decision that Ripple Labs token is not a security when sold at crypto exchanges sold to retail. So we had one favorable ruling, one unfavorable ruling. They're obviously, they're appealing the one that they didn't like. So SEC said, hey, we don't like it when XRP isn't selling things as securities. They're fine. They didn't want to appeal, of course, anything working in their favor, but XRP is not looking good as far as the appeal goes. Well, let's talk about the grounds for appeal here. The SEC revealed that the appeal would be based on several grounds, including secret legal clarification on the evidence for differences of opinions. The attorney used judge Taurus or urge judge source to consider the impact an appeal will have on other lawsuits the commission is pursuing, especially in cases like SEC versus Coinbase, also probably SEC versus Binance US. The SEC wants the court to order a stay of proceedings during the upcoming appellate review. So they're saying, hey, you know how you ruled against us. Hey, we're, we're also like fighting all these other crypto companies. That's not a good look for us. I don't think the re the judge is really going to care about that though. The stance on cryptocurrency, the SEC views digital assets, such as cryptocurrencies as securities and has always claimed regulatory authority. The commission has seared over 100 enforcement actions against companies and ball crypto, where many culminated in alternative dispute resolution agreements, such as settling. They are known for settling. They're not known for taking something all the way to jury. If it does go to jury, this is my understanding, according to John Dean jury, if it goes to jury, we have second quarter of next year. Yes. Yeah. So we gearing up right around the having, I could see some bullish action if they do push it back that far. But the big takeaway here is ultimately that has a lot more to do with the SEC versus ripple, not the SEC versus XRP. There's not a lot they can do to suppress XRP at this time. They're not appealing. They can't appeal against the ruling by judge Torres that XRP is not a security. So anyone who's freaking out, wondering, Hey, is this, is this going to lead towards XRP getting overruled? That's not happening yet. I mean, that's obviously what Gary wants, but he has to stay within his legal framework. And that's not his option. We were saying this months ago, there's going to be a lot of back and forth with the football here. You know, we've started in 2020 in December and, you know, there's always like this huge decision landmark is going to be three months from now. And then it happens three months and it's like, Oh yeah, there's an appeal process. Yeah. And then there's like, Oh yeah, but now it's about to end and be like, Oh yeah, well now there's like an appellate court appeal process. Okay. So are there, are we done? No, no, no. There's one above that. And then it goes to Supreme court. There's always going to be a, you know, they're always going to kick the ball. All right. I just think the good news, I think the biggest takeaway here is this, what just happened should have no effect on stopping XRP from rallying this bull market. It might just delay Ripple's ability to go public and start getting all that stuff. They just got to clear all this stuff up first. That's the big takeaway here. XRP is safe. Yeah. Well, I think big institutions, they want more of a slam dunk win. And I don't think we have the slam dunk win yet. All right. Expressing here, we're going to talk about Deaton here, expressing his excitement about XRP being removed from the latest list of sec securities on coin gecko. Dean tweeted today, not on the list XRP. Deaton compared this development to how it began three years ago when the sec claimed that ripple sold over 14 .6 billion units of digital asset security. So there's the coin gecko list. We actually pulled it up early in the show. So it was no longer on there. There are still are some tokens on the list. BNB, Cardano, Solana, Tron, polygon, a ton coin, BUSD, Adam file coin, ICP, near algo sand, actually infinity mana or decentralized flow chilies. And it's not bit torrent. Is it? No, it is bit torn, not bit token bit torrent as well. So ripple CTO responded positively to this admission saying not on the list. Orange groves, live, live beavers, warehouse receipts for whiskey casks and XRP is a humorous reference to some of the other items sec has once tried to bring under its regulatory control, just like they want to stop Ethereum. They also try to stop live beavers and whiskey casks, man, and they always just go too far, don't they? Here we have Jeremy Hogan, breaking down Eleanor Terrence. She was on the show before. Yeah. ATB as well. Taurus says the court will seek to schedule a jury trial and the second calendar quarter of 2024. So April, May, June, 2024. They order both parties to submit blackout dates for trial by Wednesday, August 23rd. So Jeremy Hogan breaking it down. Individual defendants trial will begin around May 2024. That means final judgment in the case won't be entered until 2024. late summer At the earliest, any appeal would go well into 2025. The gloves on the other hand now delays are good for XRP and ripple. Would you agree that delays are good? Well, I mean, yeah, good. I don't know if I'd say good, but it's not detrimental. I think John Deaton made it really clear. They expected this. You said it. We expected this. No one's surprised by anything. And ultimately, again, this is more like a last ditch effort by SCC because they've lost and they know it. And they just don't like to wave the white flag because they want to try to still go after these other companies and coins. This is their only option. They had to do something in their eyes. Ripple prepares response as SCC asked for appeal permission. I think that's Deaton right there thinking of civil war battles. No, this is a chief legal officer. Stuart outer already, I think I'm saying it right, has responded to the recent announcement by the SCC regarding its intention to appeal judge towards his partial judgment that favored ripple. He asserts that SCC does not have the authority to launch an appeal to do so they're seeking the court's permission to proceed with what is known as this interlocutory appeal. Conversely, rebel plans to present its counter to the court filing in the coming week, a tweet from him elaborates on the matter saying SCC does not have the right to appeal just yet, which is why they're asking permission to file. Ripple will file his response within the court next week. Stay tuned. So it looks like this is not a normal thing that they filed this interlocutory appeal. And so they're asking for permission, and then they'll be granted permission or not and whether or not they can then file this appeal. And then ripple will have a their day in court as they get to appeal the appeal. And then here we go, you know, this topsy turvy thing for the next, I guess another six months, it looks like at this point, again, it's just a kick the can further down the road keep delaying because you don't want you want to waste taxpayer money and not admit defeat is what Gary's thinking right now. All right, stop spreading FUD. I don't think we don't know which part yet. Not yet. It's all going to zero sell everything. There you go. There you go. There's your fun. All right. I'm watching the chart. It's dropping the minute chart. It's down. All right, back to the SEC here. The SEC's pursuit of this appeal in the ripple case marks a pivotal juncture in the ongoing debate over XRP's classification. As regulatory continues, clarity continues to shape the crypto landscape. This case could potentially set a precedent for how other digital assets navigate their legal standing. That's why there's a lot riding on this. And that's why the SEC is fighting it so hard. They're saying, hey, this ruling is going to be used for other cryptocurrencies. So we can't have anything favorable for a crypto protocol has to be all negative. You got to be team SEC judge, come on. We got to fight these coins and prevent them from launching. That was Brad Garlinghouse. Thank you.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from THE HASH: SEC to Challenge XRP Ruling in Case Against Ripple; FTX Claps Back at Creditors
"Hey there. Welcome to Coindesk TV. Welcome to The Hash. It's the best show on Coindesk TV in my humble opinion. I'm Zach Seward. We're joined by Jen Senassi, Will Foxley. They both agree. Best show. Good stuff. That's a fighting word, Zach. What are you talking about? What are you talking about? Is that a compliment or a diss for me? It's a compliment. All of them. We're this, all of us together. We bring so much. You know, Jen, you have multiple shows. I'm not throwing shade at the other show, but this show. Sorry, Lawrence. This is what it's really all about. I have to agree. There you go. Love that. All right. It's pretty good. Enough hemming and hawing. My bad, folks. Let's get to the stories of the day. Will, lead us off. What's up? Okay. Let's go to FTX land and talk about bigger problems. This is a tough one. Creditors and debtors are fighting it out after a draft reorganization plan was filed by John J. Ray III, the new CEO of FTX and the FTX estate. Of course, they're going through this chapter 11 process, which is going to be drawn out for quite some time. They've been at it for well over six months at this point, and they've been racking up a lot of fees. The creditors here are not super happy with the handling of a lot of different aspects of the estate. For one point, they even issued that, Hey, why is the treasury not being put into UST bills so we can earn a yield on top of all the money that is waiting to be distributed to FTX creditors? The estate has some thoughts about that. There's some back and forth here. At the end of the day, I think it's just two groups arguing over a vast sum of money that is owed from one party to another. This is a story as old as time itself, right? Like chapter 11 back and forth. Jen, I got to throw it to you. What's your take on this one? I'm imagining when I read the story, I imagined FTX's new management, like in suits, you know, all the lawyers that are making all that money that we spoke about way back when trying to talk to like a bunch of degents who won't turn their zoom cameras on and just getting absolutely frustrated. There are some real great nuggets in here if you read the footnotes and the whole thing, but I think it makes sense. Like FTX's management needs to be conservative. They need to look at this whole thing holistically. I think this is one group, it's the group of unsecured creditors who are saying, no, you need to do X, Y, and Z. I think they were suggesting putting some of the money into long -term crypto holdings. They're talking about US treasury bonds. And, you know, I think that's a little bit risky when you're looking at getting as much money as possible back to all of the people who are owed money in this. There's a lot to dive into here, but Zach, I want to get you in first before we dive down that rabbit hole. I do like the part where it's just like, we're going to put it all on red and we are going to weight it back in one spin, baby, let's do this thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like that meme. It's like that, I don't know, I forget which movie it is, but the Las Vegas meme where everyone's like gathered around the craps table, like various disfigured injuries, and you often see various sort of crypto figureheads placed into that meme. And you can imagine the degens on the creditors side being like, yes, we can do it this way. But really, it's just a tug of war between two parties seeking to establish power over these proceedings, right? I think this is very much in response. This is kind of John J. Ray kind of clapping back and saying, hey, creditors like pipe down. I know you said this thing where you want control over who's making these decisions. I think that was the previous week that the creditors committee came out and cast a little shade on how the estate is handling things. And hey, J. J. Ray the third is going to clap back. If we know anything, this man does not mess around. We've seen this guy come out firing time and time again. He's ready to roll sleeves and put the fisticuffs up on this one. So interesting to see, again, the war of where it's escalating between these parties who see different priorities and how this should be handled. And this is some tension sort of spilling out into the public sphere. Will, what do you think? Three bits and pieces here. Maybe it's context. Maybe it's just kind of fun facts. I just want to bring up one. There's this debate over should FTX reboot FTX 2 .0. As it were, John J. Ray the third and the FTX estate has hinted at it and maybe even like suggested that they might move forward with it. Certainly a lot of creditors and debtors who want this to occur because they think this is possibly the only way for them to see more of their money, typically in chapter 11, and we see like maybe like 11 cents on the dollar get paid out. Eventually, I mean, Gox Celsius, there's so many different stories in the past where we haven't really seen the money go back completely. Another few thoughts on this is one, the debtors have issued in this note, a complaint that they have not met with the estate at all. And it seems to be some frustration there because the FTX estate is spending so much, like millions of dollars, like the hourly cost for these things is incredible. Yet they're unwilling to meet with the debtors in this situation, which strikes me as a little bit odd, but maybe they just don't want to deal with it. And I suppose if I was in their situation, making a lot of money, I wouldn't answer the phone either. I don't know. Jen, I have to add this to Tidbit and they are, I guess, looking for solutions if we want to get the unsecured creditors some points here. They the reason that they were suggesting that FTX look into short term treasuries was to help offset that 330 million dollar legal fee bill that we spoke about on the show, I think it was months ago now. So they are coming with solutions. You got to give them some credit there. Zach, I'm going to hand it off to you for last words. This story will never die. This is the story that will never die. Maybe we can talk about it 10 years from now, if we're lucky. Oh, wow. It's kind of like all the other FTX stories too, right? Whether it's like got new information about Allison or Sam or whatever, it's like two different tracks for the same story. Yeah, you got to have, you know, like the, you got the A storyline and the B storyline. You got the suits sparring over various procedural updates. And then you, you got the juice over here. You got the, you got the Machiavellian and you got the personal drama, you got all sorts of stuff, all sorts of stuff. Maybe, maybe when Netflix finally makes the documentary, they'll use a clip from the hash. That is my dream. We have been in a book about this. Yes. Shout out to Brady Dale. Now Avaxios, go get that book. All right. That's it. We're going to change gears. We are going to go to an update on the Ripple case. Now, last month there was a big judgment from a federal judge saying that certain sales of XRP satisfied securities transactions. Others did not. And now the SEC is appealing or is asking for permission to appeal that judgment a in major case that has been closely watched in the crypto world. When this judgment was first issued by federal judge Annalisa Torres, who was seen as a partial victory for Ripple and a partial victory for the industry writ large. So clearly, the SEC is advancing its case that maybe those programmatic sales also qualify as securities transactions and they're asking for a certain type of appeal on the matter. Jen, I'm going to throw it to you. Everyone was super duper bullish about this decision from Judge Torres, and now they may have to take it back to appeal. How does that sort of change our understanding of what happened here? This is another story that just will keep going on, I think, until the end of time. It feels like we've been following the Ripple case. It did feel like there was like a moment where this entire industry took a breath and thought, wow, this this is a small win for us. It's a small win. It gives us a little bit of clarity, a little bit of direction. We, of course, have seen since then Coinbase has referenced this partial win in some of their filings against the SEC. And now I just feel down in the dumps again. Of course, there's still a trial pending here. And now we have the SEC filing this appeal, which I think everyone expected. The SEC said that they were going to file the appeal. The part that I'm going to watch and that I think is kind of interesting is Judge Torres said Ripple did not break the law when the XRP token was sold on public exchanges because purchasers had no reasonable expectation of profit based on Ripple's efforts. I just wonder if we're going to see Ripple's efforts come to light here compared to the price of the XRP token. Ripple has made a lot of announcements about acquisitions, new projects, new products, and if that is going to be some swaying information in this case, because I think that it's not a far cry to draw a parallel between Ripple's new project and the price of the XRP token, even though Ripple has definitely distanced themselves from that narrative. Will, what do you think? Yeah, classic Ripple. It's not our token. We just found it out there. I don't know. It was in the wild somehow. Going back to like the lawsuit here in the case between SEC and Ripple Labs, the programmatic selling part that Zach brought up, this is the thing that confused a lot of people, and there was definitely a lot of lawyer opinions on this, including some op -eds I've written on Coindesk, so definitely go check those out for an expert's opinion. From a layman's opinion, just looking at this, it seemed a little odd that you could have this broken up into two different tranches, right, where we could sell to VCs, we could sell to banks, we could sell to institutions, and that's not okay. But if we sell it onto an exchange where there's just retail clients and they're not really having an investment contract, they're just purchasing, I guess, like a commodity in this case or something like that, then it's okay. And it just didn't make sense to a lot of people when they first saw this. I only saw a few lawyers who were looking at that and were like, oh, yeah, that checks out. I think it also, if it stands, sort of cuts at the heart of how a lot of crypto lab companies or foundations do their sales of assets when they create them, or quote unquote assets. Oftentimes we see private rounds where initially there's like a premium uncreated, and then they divvy up that pre -mine to investors, to insiders, to the foundation, to the early team, and then they do a huge sale to the retail, either through like an airdrop or listing an exchange elsewhere later on. So let's take a world coin, for example, they did this, right, where they gave some to early investors, they gave some to the team, and then they gave a ton to market makers to be able to keep the price of the token pretty steady. And under this ruling from this judge, a lot of that would be broken, right? Like, would you be able to give a token to market makers to even loan it out so you could have a price? I don't know if you can do that anymore under this. It seems like you could only really sell it to retail. That seems odd to me, it seems like it's going to change. And I don't think it's a surprise to anyone to see the SEC go against this, or at least try to challenge it. The outcomes from it could have huge repercussions for how everyone is looking at the token market. Zach? Yeah, my understanding is that a lot of these sales sort of date back before established best practices were set up right for a lot of these token distributions, right. So this is this is from an era in which a lot of the regulatory kosher practices were being embraced. So I think a lot of this space has evolved. And I think there is a question as to whether or not this will impact sort of the current understanding of how tokens get distributed to early investors. I think the SEC had to appeal this one because, Will, as you mentioned, it really undercuts Gary Gensler's argument that almost everything except for Bitcoin basically is a digital asset security. Now, I mean, I think my understanding of the ruling was that it's not really the securities, it's not really the assets themselves, it's which type of transactions they're involved in. And that was sort of the fine line that Judge Torres was trying to distinguish here, right? You know, similarly to how in the Howey test, it stemmed over an orange grove in Florida, right? The oranges themselves aren't necessarily securities, but if they are involved in a securities transaction, then they meet certain requirements in terms of disclosure and other things that need to happen, right? So the understanding, at least on the industry side, was, hey, the assets are just like the oranges. They aren't inherently securities, but if they're in a securities transaction, then certain rules will apply. And that's what Judge Torres was trying to articulate, whereas Gary Gensler has been trying to say, these things are securities, they look like a security, they walk like a security, they quack like a duck, I don't know what I'm saying anymore. But he was saying that that is always the case with these things, that they are by nature of their existence are our securities. Whereas the judge is saying, no, no, we need to look at the specifics of the transactions in which they're involved. So a lot of people, I think, within the industry specifically saw that as a pretty reasonable explanation of how it can be both at the same time, a security and not a security. And now I think the SEC is at least taking another shot at advancing their case here, such that other claims relating to other assets can be supported. But yeah, I mean, this is I think, I think a lot of lawyers, this was definitely the thing where a lot of lawyers on crypto Twitter were sort of placing their bets in terms of what would happen. Some were more cautious that an appeal would would occur. Others were indicating that there would likely not be an appeal here. Now we see with this particular type of appeal that the SEC is going to have this one looked at again, under video review, but who knows? There's a new social marketplace on the block and it's called Calixi. The platform hopes to empower content creators to build personal economies and interact directly with their fans. Joining us now to discuss is Calixi CEO and co -founder Solos Sisay and co -founder and NBA star Spencer Dinwiddie. Good afternoon to you both or good morning. I don't know where everyone is. Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening. Good morning. All right. Let's let's talk about the launch of this. It's been in beta for a while. 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Thinking Crypto News & Interviews
A highlight from SEC GARY GENSLER APPEALS RIPPLE XRP RULING! COINBASE BASE & MAXINE WATERS STABLECOIN REGULATION
"Welcome back to the Thinking Crypto Podcast, your home for cryptocurrency news and interviews. If you are new here, please hit that subscribe button as well as the thumbs up button and leave a comment below. If you're listening on a podcast platform such as Spotify, Apple or Google, please leave a five star rating and review. It supports the podcast and it doesn't cost you anything. Well, folks, we got some very big news and the SEC versus Ripple lawsuit. So the SEC is looking to appeal some of the decisions from Judge Torres. Here James K. Filan or attorney James K. Filan, I should say, tweeted out the following SEC files letter outlining its basis for filing a motion for leave to file an interlocutory appeal regarding programmatic offers and sales to XRP buyers over trading platforms and Ripple's other distributions. He says the SEC seeking a stay of all proceedings pending appeal is not unexpected. So James actually spoke about this back in December 21st, 2022. And I think we all know the SEC was going to appeal, right? Because on one hand, even if they don't win the appeal, they want to do it from an optics standpoint. So they don't look weak because if they just took their loss and ran with it, the entire industry right now is really emboldened and feeling confident that they're going to be able to beat the SEC and the wins have been taken out of Gary Gensler's sales. Even Congress, members of Congress who have crypto bills like Patrick McHenry, Cynthia Lummis and these folks have been using this ruling to say, hey, we got to get crypto regulations pushed through, support my bill, right? We've seen those statements. So not surprised by this. Now something we need to keep in mind is that, look, as of right now, the law based on the ruling is that XRP intrinsically is not a security, secondary market sales are not a security. That's the law. What you're probably going to see tomorrow and over the next few days, a lot of fun. Ripples will be defeated. The SEC is coming back for XRP to make it a security, right? People are going to say a lot of negative things just expected, right? Could it click bait headlines? But this is where you leave your emotions to the side and you think about this logically. Now we have to see how things play out. I don't think the SEC has a strong case here. I think this is more for optics, but I could be wrong. But if we're looking at the possibilities or the percentages that are probabilities, I should say, of what scenario is to play out, I don't think the SEC has a strong case here. I think this ruling stands. Now here's Stuart Alder Roddy of Ripple. He's the chief legal officer. He tweeted out about this news. He said the SEC does not have the right to appeal just yet, which is why they are asking for permission to file an interlocutory appeal. Ripple will file its response with the court next week. Stay tuned. So of course, Ripple is going to push back on this, right? So this is not a done deal that they can just appeal. Like he said, they don't have the right to, but they're going to ask for permission to appeal. So that's an important factor there. Here attorney Jeremy Hogan said, and the SEC continues to make questionable decisions requesting an interlocutory appeal. Note that it is not appealing whether XRP itself is a security, just its losses on the programmatic and individual sales issues. So interesting thoughts here. Now one of the folks replied to Jeremy's tweet and said the Torres ruling on XRP programmatic sales is what led to XRP being a non -security and crypto exchanges relisting XRP, is in challenging programmatic sales, the functional equivalent of challenging the non -security status of XRP. That's a great question. Jeremy said two separate issues, XRP is not a security period, but if the SEC wins the appeal on sales, then Ripple couldn't use exchanges to facilitate sales. And the big question would exchanges keep XRP listed? He said, I think yes, as long as they can verify sales are not being made by Ripple. So to recap, the SEC is not appealing that XRP itself intrinsically is not a security. I think they would absolutely lose that, right? Because it goes back to the orange groves and oranges themselves were not securities in the Howey test. It was the packaging, how Howey put together that investment scheme, but they are going after those exchange sales. And I don't think they're going to win it, but they have the right to appeal. Well, I should say they can appeal, but they have to ask for permission as Stuart said. So let's see where things go. Ellie Tourette of Fox Business, she said the following, from everything I've learned about interlocutory appeals from brilliant legal minds in this space, they are notoriously tricky to get approved. The SEC will need to get blessings from both Judge Torres and the Second Circuit in order to do for this to be granted.
Tech Path Crypto
A highlight from 1192. Gensler Asked To Delist All Crypto From Coinbase
"All right. So welcome in today. We're going to dive into, I think, a topic you guys see a lot here on our show, and that is talking about Mr. Gensler, the chair of the SEC, and his now new potential pressure on Coinbase. But is there something else going on? So we're going to break that down for you. I think we have an interesting show for you lined up today. My name is Paul Barron. Welcome back into Tech Path. Before we get started thanking our sponsor, and that is iTrustCapita, if you guys are looking at long -term holding, check over onto iTrustCapita. Did you know that they were one of the first that relisted XRP? And of course, you can actually put XRP in your long -term IRA, your crypto IRA. So check it out. If you're looking at gold, silver, any altcoins you can imagine, all of that can be managed within the app. And the cool thing, no monthly fees. You just pay for your active trades. That's the way it works. Whether you have a current existing IRA, or maybe you want to start one, all of that can happen over on iTrustCapita. Just check it out. Just click the link down below. It does help the channel out. All right, so let's get into a couple topics here. I want to play this video right here by Stuart Alderati. This is a good one. Listen in. What do digital assets have to do with orange groves, barrels filled with whiskey, pay phones? Who remembers those? And beavers? Well, it turns out a lot. None of those things, standing alone, are securities. But any one of them can be packaged into a contract for an investment that may be a security. Let me break this down a bit. The law lists a bunch of things that are securities. That list includes things you ordinarily think of, like a share of stock. Why is a share of stock always a security? If you own a share of stock in, let's say, Apple, Apple owes you a fiduciary duty, and you can hold Apple accountable if they don't fulfill those obligations. That's true no matter how you bought the stock or who sold it to you. But the law also includes something called an investment contract. One thing I'm getting at here with this one is the fact that Stuart Alderati, obviously the legal counsel for Ripple in that case, and really what's happening here, is he's trolling Gensler. These kinds of videos that he was just doing are almost carbon copies of what Gary Gensler is doing when he's explaining crypto scams to investors. And I think that's the that counter XRP and Ripple are about to do. Now, the question is whether or not Coinbase is also pulling a little bit of this. So here's the story. Coinbase CEO says SEC told it to delist everything but Bitcoin. And this actually happened earlier in the month. The reason that I think it's interesting that it's coming back is I think this is something that Coinbase is actually re -energizing back into the market to show just how ludicrous and how crazy the SEC has become, especially now on losing to a certain extent the case against Ripple. At the time, the SEC reportedly said it believes every asset other than Bitcoin is a security set Armstrong. We said, how are you coming to that conclusion? Because that's not our interpretation of the law. Obviously, neither is it of the interpretation of the courts, which is the biggest issue here. Of course, within that, you've got metal lawmen. Why is the Supreme Court as a major questions doctrine? This is political appointees of executive branch agencies do not have authority to eradicate an entire industry, which is what he's talking about under what they call the MQD. Congress gets to decide the big policy questions like how crypto will be regulated. This isn't meaning basically what metal lawmen is talking about there. It's not up to Gensler. It's really up to our lawmakers. And all of that is usually done through the court system. That has already spoken. And of course, this is all now starting to play into the hands, I think, to where finally Coinbase may be on the offensive here, meaning they're injecting this back into the populace. If you look at the video that was done on this, this was actually the video by The Wall Street Journal quite a bit ago. Listen to what they said. And you know, fast forward, you know, a year later, we started to hear some conflicting statements from the SEC, the CFTC. Generally, when we hear updated information from regulators, we go in and we talk to them, we say, great, if the rules have changed, how can we adjust? And, you know, an example of that was they said XRP we think might be a security. We said, OK, we want to act in good faith. We'll delist it. We don't know if it's a security or not. And that court case is still playing out. But, you know, we want to be collaborative and work with regulators. And then something shifted about a year ago. A totally different tone started to happen. And we kind of got this information from the SEC that, well, actually, we think everything other than Bitcoin is a security. And we kind of said to ourselves, well, that's not our understanding of the law. You know, how are you coming to this conclusion? And we were sort of met with silence, right? We did a series of meetings with them, probably 30 meetings over the last 12 months, where they asked us every question under the sun. We told kind of them everything we could about our business. But we didn't really get clarity from them about how we could come in and register, which assets they had a concern with, why there's contradictory statements between them. All right. So this was the video that was done by The Wall Street Journal, that interview with Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase. If you're brand new to our channel, maybe you're brand new to crypto. What's happened here is Coinbase got a Wells notice basically from the SEC saying, hey, wait a minute, you know, you're selling unregistered securities. You said maybe it's all things that you're selling. So essentially they kind of told Coinbase to just stop doing business. In essence, after they had approved an IPO, if you know what an IPO is, that's a publicly listed company now that has investors in the stock, which is coin. So if you're trying to protect investors in a scenario that you've already approved the IPO in which they showed you the business model and explained what they do, and now coming back in on this, it really does make as though there is a hidden agenda, I believe here obviously with Gary Gensler. The interesting thing is that this resurfaced. This video, this topic resurfaced back into the narrative. I think it is Coinbase putting a lot more political pressure on Mr. Gensler. And this, I think, comes at a very interesting time because we are also moving in to where we're getting some regulatory framework that's going to the House floor. A lot of policymakers, lawmakers are in the midst of doing a lot of interviews, requests for information, all these sorts of things that they're essentially going to go to the floor of the House with to possibly send a crypto regulation through the House and into the Senate. So a lot playing out very interestingly. This, of course, was from Woo Blockchain. It says, US SEC asked Coinbase to halt trading on all cryptocurrencies other than Bitcoin prior to suing the exchange, about more than 200 tokens it offers. So again, back to my point of that it is a scenario where the SEC pretty much just said, okay, you're a publicly traded company and we're going to just lock you down and tell you can't do business anymore, even after we've approved you and essentially set you up to go out and get investors on the New York Stock Exchange and go out and sell a token called coin, which is a registered security. Further in this, SEC warns accountants. This is interesting. Now the SEC is saying, hey, wait a minute, accountants don't partake in any mislabeled audits for crypto exchanges. So now they're telling the finance community to not do business with these organizations, these exchanges. And in the article, this is very interesting because this is quite a bit of overreach. US Securities Exchange says, issued a warning to accountants this week, cautioning them not to partake in misrepresented audits. Crypto exchanges and other digital asset companies have been tapping into accounting firms for review of their business and then passing those partial reviews off as audits. As accounting firms increasingly engage in sort of non -audit work, risk misleading suggested that alternative non -audit arrangements with parity even more precise than the financial statement audits. Such suggested are false. Non -audit arrangements are neither rigorous nor comprehensive as financial statements. Here's my question. If you're investing in anything, now most of the time if you're going into a private business, an audit is worth it from a third party. You're going into companies that are just saying, hey, here's from our accounting company, here's our current P &L, which have been audited. Those are not big claims that I think a lot of people would look at and say, I'm going to invest in that because it has audited P &Ls. This is the thing that I think and I find a huge overreach by the SEC. And in fact, the SEC commissioners find that it's an overreach as well. Here's Hester Pierce criticizing the SEC's warning to accounting firms to work with crypto. Again, this is where it gets really interesting that the SEC has so much infighting and so much disagreement within the commissioners. Now this only tells me one thing. This is a political landscape now in full force. It is no longer enforcement by litigation now or even just by issuing Wells notices, etc. This is now, I think, a true political landscape. Within this article, it says certain crypto asset trading platforms with other crypto industry have marketed to investors or retention of third parties, sometimes accounting firms to perform some part of a review of certain parts of their business, often presented and purported as audits. This is kind of where they were going. This was very similar to this previous article that we talked about. The point is that I think that they're getting into this and this is where she's talking about this. Crypto platforms and their account should be clear about what proof of reserves is and isn't with customers and should understand the limitations. Why would you want to discourage good faith efforts to provide more transparency? So what they're simply saying is these kinds of financial things are third party. These are accountants going in looking at the books and, yes, this is good. Where it gets interesting is if you could say, give me proof of reserves. Now you've got something that's a huge transparent opportunity and anybody that gives you real proof of the reserve is a good guy because they're clearly saying, hey, we're fine with it. This is all of our Bitcoin that's backed up all of our customers' Bitcoin. You get into commingling funds, those kind of things that are really the problem that most of these issues have faced. And when you think about this and you look at back at what happened with just FTX, had Gensler been this aggressive with FTX, imagine the amount of investors he would have saved. That's right. That's the SEC's job is to save investors. So just by being able to, if they had just filed a notice, if they went and said, hey, we're going to go in and prosecute, you know, Sam Bankman Free, if we're going to go in and start to question these kinds of practices, even though they're not a U .S.-based country, but they're doing business in the United States, obviously with the FTX -US platform. That never happened. So why is it that that who, of course, we already know the, you know, the run behind what SPF and Gensler had in terms of potentially political ploys, that is a scenario that I think will continue to haunt Gensler overall. There was, of course, mental lawman coming in. This was a three -judge panel of D .C. Circuit. Just invalidated an SEC order on grounds it was an arbitrary and capricious. This is again more of this situation where, though, and this actually came in from Eric Bakunas last week that we were noticing, but the point is this arbitrary and capricious. This language has been looked at and this is all referencing the treatment of spikes, which was a futures trade that kind of played into this. And the scenario that I think is showing up now is there seems to be a pattern coming into this around the SEC, and that is that the courts are not agreeing with the process in which they're doing this, and nor do they think they have a good position from a legal standpoint. So again, obviously, that was why we saw the play out there with Judge Torres with the Ripple case.
Home Gadget Geeks
A highlight from Randy Walker with WordPress Updates, Tips and Tricks for 2023 HGG580
"This is the Average Guy Network and you have found Home Gadget Geek Show No. 850 with guest Randy Walker, recorded on August 3, 2023. Here on Home Gadget Geeks, we cover all the favorite tech gadgets that find no meaning to your home. News, reviews, product updates and conversation all for the Average Tech Guy. I'm your host, Jim Kallsen, broadcasting live from the Average studios Guy .TV here in a sweltering, super hot, high humidity. It's the worst part of the summer here in Bellevue, Nebraska. And of course, we post the show with World Class Show. And that's why we have a few out there at theaverageguy .tv. Big thanks to Christian Johnson. He'll, he'll be important again a little bit later in the conversation. But big thanks to Christian, who joined us last week. And if you haven't caught up on that, it's good to catch up with Christian. He's got a lot of great information. Of course, we talked a little bit about Maple Grove Partners as well. Check that out. It's a long show. I know that. But we're just catching up with Christian, and that's, I just go as long as I want when I want to do it that way. So check it out, 875 .79 with Christian. And big thanks to him. Big thanks to our Patreon subscribers as well. If you're finding value with the podcast and you want to get back, you can do it through our Patreon team. Check out the page, theaverageguy .tv slash Patreon. Randy Walker is back. Randy was on, I want to say in the spring, I think, right? Or, somewhere around there, yeah, February, March, maybe? Yeah, spring timeframe. We talked a little bit about bourbons and drinking and some other stuff. But you're a WordPress guy. We're going to talk about, well, first of all, welcome back. Great to have you. Thank you. Glad to be back. Anything new and exciting in between the last time you were here and now? Oh, boy. Not that I can think of. I don't lead the most exciting life usually, but... Any gadgets? Have you picked up any gadgets? Did you take advantage of Prime Day? I didn't get anything for Prime Day. I was, I didn't see anything I wanted, except for, I should have got a solid state drive. One of the Samsung solid state drives were two terabytes for a hundred bucks. Wait till Black Friday. They'll be back. But my, my time machine backup drive died already in the process of dying. So it would have been perfect to switch over to SSD. But I have recently picked up a zoom mic track M2. That is their 32 bit float handheld recorder. Oh, nice. Mic track M2? Now why'd you pick it up? So one of the podcasts I'm involved with, Daily Detroit, I do some field work. So this is good to just have on hand for interviews and things like that out in the field. I think I got a picture of this. Let's bring it up. Official product page two. I think this is it. Is this the right one? That is it. Yeah. Yeah. 200 bucks. It's on sale actually. Which is weird because it just came out. I got it for $150. Oh, nice. Nice. During the, was this during the Prime, seemed like everybody runs sales now during Prime Days. No, I've had this for a couple of months now. Um, they released this back in November, but then pulled it, some reviews were having some issues with EM interference. So they did a recall and relaunched it in March. I think I want to say I picked it up in May for $150. Mostly vocals of that year? Yeah. This is totally for interviews out in the field, sticking like fun in somebody's face and having them tell me about their business or product or yeah. Back and forth on kind of thing. And how's that work? Is it working out pretty well that way? It has worked out pretty well. We recorded an episode out on a soccer field post -match, um, analysis wrap up. Um, just the host and the sports guy passing the microphone back and forth. Yeah. Sounds great. Um, 32 bit flows. You don't have to set levels on it or anything. You just turn it on, push record and you're good to go. And then I'm assuming, uh, it doesn't have a chip or a card that comes with it? Yeah, it takes a micro SD card. Could, could you plug it in and just pull the, pull the data off the mic or do you have to? I believe it also has a USB mode as well, but we were out in the field. I pulled, pulled it out, um, pulled the chip out, stuck it into a SD card reader for my adapter because it's a micro SD card. Stuck it into an adapter, which then I stuck into a little micro SD to lightning adapter into my phone and pulled it off my phone that way, right away. So I got to get it to the, yeah, I just feel like those, that kind of memories, like communion wafers. Yeah, they are quite small. Just waiting for it to fall apart in your hands. And you're like, ah, like, you know, this thing is, I would prefer it plug in, you know, you, you plug it in and plug it in and download it that way. Do you have to interview a guy that's wearing a beanie cap in the middle of the summer that, you know, to be cool on this thing or anybody can do it, right? Anybody can do it. I mean, the picture there, you've got up Ming Chen, he's a pretty cool guy. Yeah, yeah. I hung out with him a few times. The with guy the, with the beanie cap, it always cracks me up that I see, I see some, some cool guys wearing those in the summer. And you're like, OK, I get it. It's fine. Anything, so good, good purchase. And, and would you pick up a second one to have as a backup? It's working well. The only thing I don't like about it is the windscreen that comes with it is horrible. I had some extra clown noses laying around. So I just stuck one of those on top. But yeah, it's a solid device. And as met her needs so far. The picture I'm showing right now is, you know, they got it at a table. It's in between two, two. Does that work pretty well? I mean, we don't often, Dave Jackson and I, you know, we do this Saturday morning show called Ask Podcast Coach. And I'm not a big fan of one mic and two people. But does this, does this work OK? It does have stereo mode. So this, the way it's set up probably works OK. But I definitely, for swapping back and forth, I put it in mono mode for interviewing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We used to, I used to do a lot of this kind of stuff on the road. Go out and, and, you know, do conferences. I'd set up a, I'd go out and set up a board and two mics and two, two arms and just, it was easier that way. It was also quieter, a little quieter when you had a noisy conference space. We were always in the hallway. We wanted it that way. We wanted people moving around behind the scenes. Yeah, exactly. It gives a little ambiance. I do have the Zoom PodTrak P4 with some tabletop microphones and stands and those things for a more formal sit -down interview. But this definitely is good for a quick stop.
Tech Path Crypto
A highlight from 1190. Gensler Asked To Delist All Crypto From Coinbase
"All right. So welcome in today. We're going to dive into, I think, a topic you guys see a lot here on our show, and that is talking about Mr. Gensler, the chair of the SEC, and his now new potential pressure on Coinbase. But is there something else going on? So we're going to break that down for you. I think we have an interesting show for you lined up today. My name is Paul Barron. Welcome back into Tech Path. Before we get started thanking our sponsor, and that is iTrustCapita, if you guys are looking at long -term holding, check over onto iTrustCapita. Did you know that they were one of the first that relisted XRP? And of course, you can actually put XRP in your long -term IRA, your crypto IRA. So check it out. If you're looking at gold, silver, any altcoins you can imagine, all of that can be managed within the app. And the cool thing, no monthly fees. You just pay for your active trades. That's the way it works. Whether you have a current existing IRA, or maybe you want to start one, all of that can happen over on iTrustCapita. Just check it out. Just click the link down below. It does help the channel out. All right, so let's get into a couple topics here. I want to play this video right here by Stuart Alderati. This is a good one. Listen in. What do digital assets have to do with orange groves, barrels filled with whiskey, pay phones? Who remembers those? And beavers? Well, it turns out a lot. None of those things, standing alone, are securities. But any one of them can be packaged into a contract for an investment that may be a security. Let me break this down a bit. The law lists a bunch of things that are securities. That list includes things you ordinarily think of, like a share of stock. Why is a share of stock always a security? If you own a share of stock in, let's say, Apple, Apple owes you a fiduciary duty, and you can hold Apple accountable if they don't fulfill those obligations. That's true no matter how you bought the stock or who sold it to you. But the law also includes something called an investment contract. One thing I'm getting at here with this one is the fact that Stuart Alderati, obviously the legal counsel for Ripple in that case, and really what's happening here, is he's trolling Gensler. These kinds of videos that he was just doing are almost carbon copies of what Gary Gensler is doing when he's explaining crypto scams to investors. And I think that's the that counter XRP and Ripple are about to do. Now, the question is whether or not Coinbase is also pulling a little bit of this. So here's the story. Coinbase CEO says SEC told it to delist everything but Bitcoin. And this actually happened earlier in the month. The reason that I think it's interesting that it's coming back is I think this is something that Coinbase is actually re -energizing back into the market to show just how ludicrous and how crazy the SEC has become, especially now on losing to a certain extent the case against Ripple. At the time, the SEC reportedly said it believes every asset other than Bitcoin is a security set Armstrong. We said, how are you coming to that conclusion? Because that's not our interpretation of the law. Obviously, neither is it of the interpretation of the courts, which is the biggest issue here. Of course, within that, you've got metal lawmen. Why is the Supreme Court as a major questions doctrine? This is political appointees of executive branch agencies do not have authority to eradicate an entire industry, which is what he's talking about under what they call the MQD. Congress gets to decide the big policy questions like how crypto will be regulated. This isn't meaning basically what metal lawmen is talking about there. It's not up to Gensler. It's really up to our lawmakers. And all of that is usually done through the court system. That has already spoken. And of course, this is all now starting to play into the hands, I think, to where finally Coinbase may be on the offensive here, meaning they're injecting this back into the populace. If you look at the video that was done on this, this was actually the video by The Wall Street Journal quite a bit ago. Listen to what they said. And you know, fast forward, you know, a year later, we started to hear some conflicting statements from the SEC, the CFTC. Generally, when we hear updated information from regulators, we go in and we talk to them, we say, great, if the rules have changed, how can we adjust? And, you know, an example of that was they said XRP we think might be a security. We said, OK, we want to act in good faith. We'll delist it. We don't know if it's a security or not. And that court case is still playing out. But, you know, we want to be collaborative and work with regulators. And then something shifted about a year ago. A totally different tone started to happen. And we kind of got this information from the SEC that, well, actually, we think everything other than Bitcoin is a security. And we kind of said to ourselves, well, that's not our understanding of the law. You know, how are you coming to this conclusion? And we were sort of met with silence, right? We did a series of meetings with them, probably 30 meetings over the last 12 months, where they asked us every question under the sun. We told kind of them everything we could about our business. But we didn't really get clarity from them about how we could come in and register, which assets they had a concern with, why there's contradictory statements between them. All right. So this was the video that was done by The Wall Street Journal, that interview with Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase. If you're brand new to our channel, maybe you're brand new to crypto. What's happened here is Coinbase got a Wells notice basically from the SEC saying, hey, wait a minute, you know, you're selling unregistered securities. You said maybe it's all things that you're selling. So essentially they kind of told Coinbase to just stop doing business. In essence, after they had approved an IPO, if you know what an IPO is, that's a publicly listed company now that has investors in the stock, which is coin. So if you're trying to protect investors in a scenario that you've already approved the IPO in which they showed you the business model and explained what they do, and now coming back in on this, it really does make as though there is a hidden agenda, I believe here obviously with Gary Gensler. The interesting thing is that this resurfaced. This video, this topic resurfaced back into the narrative. I think it is Coinbase putting a lot more political pressure on Mr. Gensler. And this, I think, comes at a very interesting time because we are also moving in to where we're getting some regulatory framework that's going to the House floor. A lot of policymakers, lawmakers are in the midst of doing a lot of interviews, requests for information, all these sorts of things that they're essentially going to go to the floor of the House with to possibly send a crypto regulation through the House and into the Senate. So a lot playing out very interestingly. This, of course, was from Woo Blockchain. It says, US SEC asked Coinbase to halt trading on all cryptocurrencies other than Bitcoin prior to suing the exchange, about more than 200 tokens it offers. So again, back to my point of that it is a scenario where the SEC pretty much just said, okay, you're a publicly traded company and we're going to just lock you down and tell you can't do business anymore, even after we've approved you and essentially set you up to go out and get investors on the New York Stock Exchange and go out and sell a token called coin, which is a registered security. Further in this, SEC warns accountants. This is interesting. Now the SEC is saying, hey, wait a minute, accountants don't partake in any mislabeled audits for crypto exchanges. So now they're telling the finance community to not do business with these organizations, these exchanges. And in the article, this is very interesting because this is quite a bit of overreach. US Securities Exchange says, issued a warning to accountants this week, cautioning them not to partake in misrepresented audits. Crypto exchanges and other digital asset companies have been tapping into accounting firms for review of their business and then passing those partial reviews off as audits. As accounting firms increasingly engage in sort of non -audit work, risk misleading suggested that alternative non -audit arrangements with parity even more precise than the financial statement audits. Such suggested are false. Non -audit arrangements are neither rigorous nor comprehensive as financial statements. Here's my question. If you're investing in anything, now most of the time if you're going into a private business, an audit is worth it from a third party. You're going into companies that are just saying, hey, here's from our accounting company, here's our current P &L, which have been audited. Those are not big claims that I think a lot of people would look at and say, I'm going to invest in that because it has audited P &Ls. This is the thing that I think and I find a huge overreach by the SEC. And in fact, the SEC commissioners find that it's an overreach as well. Here's Hester Pierce criticizing the SEC's warning to accounting firms to work with crypto. Again, this is where it gets really interesting that the SEC has so much infighting and so much disagreement within the commissioners. Now this only tells me one thing. This is a political landscape now in full force. It is no longer enforcement by litigation now or even just by issuing Wells notices, etc. This is now, I think, a true political landscape. Within this article, it says certain crypto asset trading platforms with other crypto industry have marketed to investors or retention of third parties, sometimes accounting firms to perform some part of a review of certain parts of their business, often presented and purported as audits. This is kind of where they were going. This was very similar to this previous article that we talked about. The point is that I think that they're getting into this and this is where she's talking about this. Crypto platforms and their account should be clear about what proof of reserves is and isn't with customers and should understand the limitations. Why would you want to discourage good faith efforts to provide more transparency? So what they're simply saying is these kinds of financial things are third party. These are accountants going in looking at the books and, yes, this is good. Where it gets interesting is if you could say, give me proof of reserves. Now you've got something that's a huge transparent opportunity and anybody that gives you real proof of the reserve is a good guy because they're clearly saying, hey, we're fine with it. This is all of our Bitcoin that's backed up all of our customers' Bitcoin. You get into commingling funds, those kind of things that are really the problem that most of these issues have faced. And when you think about this and you look at back at what happened with just FTX, had Gensler been this aggressive with FTX, imagine the amount of investors he would have saved. That's right. That's the SEC's job is to save investors. So just by being able to, if they had just filed a notice, if they went and said, hey, we're going to go in and prosecute, you know, Sam Bankman Free, if we're going to go in and start to question these kinds of practices, even though they're not a U .S.-based country, but they're doing business in the United States, obviously with the FTX -US platform. That never happened. So why is it that that who, of course, we already know the, you know, the run behind what SPF and Gensler had in terms of potentially political ploys, that is a scenario that I think will continue to haunt Gensler overall. There was, of course, mental lawman coming in. This was a three -judge panel of D .C. Circuit. Just invalidated an SEC order on grounds it was an arbitrary and capricious. This is again more of this situation where, though, and this actually came in from Eric Bakunas last week that we were noticing, but the point is this arbitrary and capricious. This language has been looked at and this is all referencing the treatment of spikes, which was a futures trade that kind of played into this. And the scenario that I think is showing up now is there seems to be a pattern coming into this around the SEC, and that is that the courts are not agreeing with the process in which they're doing this, and nor do they think they have a good position from a legal standpoint. So again, obviously, that was why we saw the play out there with Judge Torres with the Ripple case.
Tech Path Crypto
A highlight from 1190. Gensler Asked To Delist All Crypto From Coinbase
"All right. So welcome in today. We're going to dive into, I think, a topic you guys see a lot here on our show, and that is talking about Mr. Gensler, the chair of the SEC, and his now new potential pressure on Coinbase. But is there something else going on? So we're going to break that down for you. I think we have an interesting show for you lined up today. My name is Paul Barron. Welcome back into Tech Path. Before we get started thanking our sponsor, and that is iTrustCapita, if you guys are looking at long -term holding, check over onto iTrustCapita. Did you know that they were one of the first that relisted XRP? And of course, you can actually put XRP in your long -term IRA, your crypto IRA. So check it out. If you're looking at gold, silver, any altcoins you can imagine, all of that can be managed within the app. And the cool thing, no monthly fees. You just pay for your active trades. That's the way it works. Whether you have a current existing IRA, or maybe you want to start one, all of that can happen over on iTrustCapita. Just check it out. Just click the link down below. It does help the channel out. All right, so let's get into a couple topics here. I want to play this video right here by Stuart Alderati. This is a good one. Listen in. What do digital assets have to do with orange groves, barrels filled with whiskey, pay phones? Who remembers those? And beavers? Well, it turns out a lot. None of those things, standing alone, are securities. But any one of them can be packaged into a contract for an investment that may be a security. Let me break this down a bit. The law lists a bunch of things that are securities. That list includes things you ordinarily think of, like a share of stock. Why is a share of stock always a security? If you own a share of stock in, let's say, Apple, Apple owes you a fiduciary duty, and you can hold Apple accountable if they don't fulfill those obligations. That's true no matter how you bought the stock or who sold it to you. But the law also includes something called an investment contract. One thing I'm getting at here with this one is the fact that Stuart Alderati, obviously the legal counsel for Ripple in that case, and really what's happening here, is he's trolling Gensler. These kinds of videos that he was just doing are almost carbon copies of what Gary Gensler is doing when he's explaining crypto scams to investors. And I think that's the that counter XRP and Ripple are about to do. Now, the question is whether or not Coinbase is also pulling a little bit of this. So here's the story. Coinbase CEO says SEC told it to delist everything but Bitcoin. And this actually happened earlier in the month. The reason that I think it's interesting that it's coming back is I think this is something that Coinbase is actually re -energizing back into the market to show just how ludicrous and how crazy the SEC has become, especially now on losing to a certain extent the case against Ripple. At the time, the SEC reportedly said it believes every asset other than Bitcoin is a security set Armstrong. We said, how are you coming to that conclusion? Because that's not our interpretation of the law. Obviously, neither is it of the interpretation of the courts, which is the biggest issue here. Of course, within that, you've got metal lawmen. Why is the Supreme Court as a major questions doctrine? This is political appointees of executive branch agencies do not have authority to eradicate an entire industry, which is what he's talking about under what they call the MQD. Congress gets to decide the big policy questions like how crypto will be regulated. This isn't meaning basically what metal lawmen is talking about there. It's not up to Gensler. It's really up to our lawmakers. And all of that is usually done through the court system. That has already spoken. And of course, this is all now starting to play into the hands, I think, to where finally Coinbase may be on the offensive here, meaning they're injecting this back into the populace. If you look at the video that was done on this, this was actually the video by The Wall Street Journal quite a bit ago. Listen to what they said. And you know, fast forward, you know, a year later, we started to hear some conflicting statements from the SEC, the CFTC. Generally, when we hear updated information from regulators, we go in and we talk to them, we say, great, if the rules have changed, how can we adjust? And, you know, an example of that was they said XRP we think might be a security. We said, OK, we want to act in good faith. We'll delist it. We don't know if it's a security or not. And that court case is still playing out. But, you know, we want to be collaborative and work with regulators. And then something shifted about a year ago. A totally different tone started to happen. And we kind of got this information from the SEC that, well, actually, we think everything other than Bitcoin is a security. And we kind of said to ourselves, well, that's not our understanding of the law. You know, how are you coming to this conclusion? And we were sort of met with silence, right? We did a series of meetings with them, probably 30 meetings over the last 12 months, where they asked us every question under the sun. We told kind of them everything we could about our business. But we didn't really get clarity from them about how we could come in and register, which assets they had a concern with, why there's contradictory statements between them. All right. So this was the video that was done by The Wall Street Journal, that interview with Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase. If you're brand new to our channel, maybe you're brand new to crypto. What's happened here is Coinbase got a Wells notice basically from the SEC saying, hey, wait a minute, you know, you're selling unregistered securities. You said maybe it's all things that you're selling. So essentially they kind of told Coinbase to just stop doing business. In essence, after they had approved an IPO, if you know what an IPO is, that's a publicly listed company now that has investors in the stock, which is coin. So if you're trying to protect investors in a scenario that you've already approved the IPO in which they showed you the business model and explained what they do, and now coming back in on this, it really does make as though there is a hidden agenda, I believe here obviously with Gary Gensler. The interesting thing is that this resurfaced. This video, this topic resurfaced back into the narrative. I think it is Coinbase putting a lot more political pressure on Mr. Gensler. And this, I think, comes at a very interesting time because we are also moving in to where we're getting some regulatory framework that's going to the House floor. A lot of policymakers, lawmakers are in the midst of doing a lot of interviews, requests for information, all these sorts of things that they're essentially going to go to the floor of the House with to possibly send a crypto regulation through the House and into the Senate. So a lot playing out very interestingly. This, of course, was from Woo Blockchain. It says, US SEC asked Coinbase to halt trading on all cryptocurrencies other than Bitcoin prior to suing the exchange, about more than 200 tokens it offers. So again, back to my point of that it is a scenario where the SEC pretty much just said, okay, you're a publicly traded company and we're going to just lock you down and tell you can't do business anymore, even after we've approved you and essentially set you up to go out and get investors on the New York Stock Exchange and go out and sell a token called coin, which is a registered security. Further in this, SEC warns accountants. This is interesting. Now the SEC is saying, hey, wait a minute, accountants don't partake in any mislabeled audits for crypto exchanges. So now they're telling the finance community to not do business with these organizations, these exchanges. And in the article, this is very interesting because this is quite a bit of overreach. US Securities Exchange says, issued a warning to accountants this week, cautioning them not to partake in misrepresented audits. Crypto exchanges and other digital asset companies have been tapping into accounting firms for review of their business and then passing those partial reviews off as audits. As accounting firms increasingly engage in sort of non -audit work, risk misleading suggested that alternative non -audit arrangements with parity even more precise than the financial statement audits. Such suggested are false. Non -audit arrangements are neither rigorous nor comprehensive as financial statements. Here's my question. If you're investing in anything, now most of the time if you're going into a private business, an audit is worth it from a third party. You're going into companies that are just saying, hey, here's from our accounting company, here's our current P &L, which have been audited. Those are not big claims that I think a lot of people would look at and say, I'm going to invest in that because it has audited P &Ls. This is the thing that I think and I find a huge overreach by the SEC. And in fact, the SEC commissioners find that it's an overreach as well. Here's Hester Pierce criticizing the SEC's warning to accounting firms to work with crypto. Again, this is where it gets really interesting that the SEC has so much infighting and so much disagreement within the commissioners. Now this only tells me one thing. This is a political landscape now in full force. It is no longer enforcement by litigation now or even just by issuing Wells notices, etc. This is now, I think, a true political landscape. Within this article, it says certain crypto asset trading platforms with other crypto industry have marketed to investors or retention of third parties, sometimes accounting firms to perform some part of a review of certain parts of their business, often presented and purported as audits. This is kind of where they were going. This was very similar to this previous article that we talked about. The point is that I think that they're getting into this and this is where she's talking about this. Crypto platforms and their account should be clear about what proof of reserves is and isn't with customers and should understand the limitations. Why would you want to discourage good faith efforts to provide more transparency? So what they're simply saying is these kinds of financial things are third party. These are accountants going in looking at the books and, yes, this is good. Where it gets interesting is if you could say, give me proof of reserves. Now you've got something that's a huge transparent opportunity and anybody that gives you real proof of the reserve is a good guy because they're clearly saying, hey, we're fine with it. This is all of our Bitcoin that's backed up all of our customers' Bitcoin. You get into commingling funds, those kind of things that are really the problem that most of these issues have faced. And when you think about this and you look at back at what happened with just FTX, had Gensler been this aggressive with FTX, imagine the amount of investors he would have saved. That's right. That's the SEC's job is to save investors. So just by being able to, if they had just filed a notice, if they went and said, hey, we're going to go in and prosecute, you know, Sam Bankman Free, if we're going to go in and start to question these kinds of practices, even though they're not a U .S.-based country, but they're doing business in the United States, obviously with the FTX -US platform. That never happened. So why is it that that who, of course, we already know the, you know, the run behind what SPF and Gensler had in terms of potentially political ploys, that is a scenario that I think will continue to haunt Gensler overall. There was, of course, mental lawman coming in. This was a three -judge panel of D .C. Circuit. Just invalidated an SEC order on grounds it was an arbitrary and capricious. This is again more of this situation where, though, and this actually came in from Eric Bakunas last week that we were noticing, but the point is this arbitrary and capricious. This language has been looked at and this is all referencing the treatment of spikes, which was a futures trade that kind of played into this. And the scenario that I think is showing up now is there seems to be a pattern coming into this around the SEC, and that is that the courts are not agreeing with the process in which they're doing this, and nor do they think they have a good position from a legal standpoint. So again, obviously, that was why we saw the play out there with Judge Torres with the Ripple case.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Ch Ahn (Encore)
"Welcome to the Eric Metaxas show. They say it's a thin line between love and hate. But we're working every day to thicken that line, or at least make it a double or triple line. But now here's your line jumping host, Eric Metaxas. I have a very special guest today. As you know, on Miracle Mondays, we try to have someone on who believes in miracles, who's maybe experienced some miracles, whose life itself is a miracle. Today, I am thrilled to have in the studio with me, all the way from Pasadena, California, Che Ahn. How do I describe Che Ahn? He's the founder and president of Harvest International Ministry, a worldwide apostolic network of churches in over 60 nations. My goodness, he's also the international chancellor of Wagner University. He's received his master's and doctorate in ministry from Fuller Theological Seminary. He's written many books. He's been married for 40 years to his wife, Sue. They have four adult children, six grandchildren. I think that says it all. Che Ahn, welcome to the program. Well, thank you. What an honor to be on your show. Listen, it's my honor to have you. I've known you for many, many years. You haven't known of me, but I've known of your ministries. What was the one with fire in the title? I can't remember. It was Teen Mania, or what was it? It was something you did here in New York, like 12 or 13 years ago. Well, we did the Call New York. That's what it was. The Call New York. It was the Call New York. Yeah, 2001. That's, you know what? 2001? Yeah, after 9 -11. That is 18 years ago. Yeah, and it's interesting because initially when we came to mobilize the pastors, actually they were very, very rude. They said, we don't need the Call to come in. And then after 9 -11 hit, they said, we need to gather together and have a solemn assembly. We need to come together and repent of our sins. And before we knew it, over 100 ,000 people showed up in Flushing Meadow. The fact that that is 18 years ago completely blows my mind. Yeah, it's been a long time. Because I spoke briefly, I was on the stage, and I remember being amazed at the crowd. It was a huge crowd. Right. And I grew up in Flushing Meadow. I mean, I grew up a couple of miles from there, and we would, as a kid growing up in Queens, New York, I would hang out there. And so to see thousands and thousands of people, then that's when I met you. But for folks who know nothing about you, what is your story? How long have you been, by the way, in Pasadena? Well, I moved in 1984, but I grew up in Washington, D .C., in Montgomery County, Maryland. So this is out of D .C. My father was the first Korean Southern Baptist pastor in North America, so he immigrated in 1958. From Korea. From Korea, South Korea. There was no Korean Southern Baptist church in the United States. He was the first one, and so they wanted him at the nation's capital. There was a handful of Korean students who were studying at Georgetown, George Washington, Catholic University, to help rebuild Korea after the Korean War, which ended in 1953. Actually, it was a ceasefire that took place. And so they wanted the Korean government, wanted the top students to learn public policy, how to do government, and to rebuild Korea. And so there were around 200 students in Washington, D .C., but they wanted a Baptist pastor. There was a Presbyterian church, there was a Methodist, but not a Southern Baptist. And it was like my dad won the lotto. He applied and got the job because it was so hard to immigrate. I mean, it's hard now, but back in 1958 to immigrate to the United States, it was almost impossible because the U .S. government realized there was no Korean Southern Baptist church. So you were born here? No, here's the problem. We had a visa problem. So my sister, my mother, and I, we were separated from my dad for three years. And so finally, after three years, during my formative year or so, almost when I was five, then we got the visa to come to the United States. And so, to say the least, when I saw my dad, I couldn't recognize him because, you know, I was just two years old when he left. People have no idea what others go through. I mean, when you describe that and how many people want to come to America. But I mean, the idea that your father is a Southern Baptist preacher in America. Well, he passed away, but he was a pioneer. No, no, I mean, but in those days that he's from Korea. Right. And so you were raised in the faith, in the Christian faith. Well, I was, but I rejected Christianity very early on because of two things, you know. There was no kids in my Sunday school. It was just students, college students. And so there was no families. There was no other kids my age. And then I went to an elementary school, Forest Grove Elementary School. And my sister and I were the only two people of color in an all -white elementary school. And now, if you go to that school, it's very, very diverse. But back in those days, it wasn't until the fifth grade I remember someone of color coming in. And so there were no other Asians, no African -Americans, no Hispanic. And so we stood out. And so I got in fights all the time because people were calling me chink, even though I'm not Chinese. That's a drug term for Chinese and Jap, even though I wasn't Japanese. You know, by the way, I have a little joke. I say you could tell the difference between a Chinese, Japanese, and a Korean. If you see a rich -looking Asian, they're Chinese. A smart -looking Asian, they're Japanese. But if you see a handsome -looking Asian, he's Korean. Ha! Ha! Take that. Yeah, so anyway, but I got in fights all the time. And I wanted to be so accepted. Plus, my parents were working day and night just to survive in America. And so as a result of that, my craving for acceptance and to be popular led me into the whole hippie drug culture of the late 60s and early 70s. I joke I may have been the first Korean hippie in North America because I never met anyone. I stopped cutting my hair for three and a half years. And my dad is freaking out. He doesn't know what's going on. And by the time I'm 15, I'm doing everything under the sun. Heavy drug user, cocaine, heroin, LSD. And then by the time I'm 17, I'm pushing drugs to support my habit. And so I was totally out of control. But one thing my parents did was pray for me. And I really want to encourage people not to stop praying no matter how bad it looks. Because the Bible says in Acts 16 31, believe on the Lord Jesus and you and your family will be saved. And so my parents prayed me into the Kingdom. And so I'm here by the grace of God. I got radically saved at a Deep Purple concert. So that gives you a little clue where I was at. Wait a minute. You got saved at a Deep Purple concert? Yeah, in May 1973. They were just touring with Smoke on the Water, a new song that came out in 1972. And they were touring in 1973. And it was at the Baltimore Civic Center. I made a concert, 15 ,000 tickets sold out in two hours. They were the number one band in America at that time. And during the intermission I had an encounter with God where the Lord spoke to me for the first time. I'm not talking about audibly in the small still voice. Because I was having this for two weeks, this visitation from the Lord Jesus. Without anyone witnessing to me. That's why I'm saying the power of... Now when you say that because people are listening and I'm really one of them. Like you're thinking, what do you mean by that? I mean here you are, you know, you're a teenager, right? Right. You are big time into drugs and you're selling drugs. You go to a Deep Purple concert. Now you say that for two weeks up to that, God had been somehow communicating with you or visiting you. What do you mean specifically? Okay, so two weeks before I'm at my friend Sal's. We're at a party. Just guys bonging on marijuana and smoking and drinking beer. Nothing heavy. It wasn't like we were tripping on acid or anything. But I was just bored because I was just doing that every day. It was just so monotonous. You know, day in, day out, just getting high. So I went to another room and I was into Zen Buddhism at that time. Just experimenting with Eastern religion. So I went to the room just to go through my chant and after saying the stupid chant, I was saying it incessantly for almost a year. And finally I just said, you know what, this is the stupidest thing I've ever done. I said that to myself. I got nothing out of it, Eric. And you just said, duh. Yeah, right. No, but this is how he said that. So I said God, I said this audibly by the way, no one was in the room. I said, God, I don't even know if you exist, but if you do exist, if my parents, what they told me is true, that there's a heaven and a hell. Well, I don't want to go to hell if there is a hell, but I don't know. So reveal yourself to me. So I was expecting him to show me if he does exist in the days ahead. But as soon as I prayed that right there in the party, the presence of God came all over me and I started to weep because I felt so much love and peace about me. Alone in the room. Alone in my room. And I was sobbing and I knew, I knew it was Jesus. I just knew because I just prayed if what my parents told me as a Christian pastor, if Jesus is the way, if there is a heaven and a hell. And so I thought I was having some kind of emotional breakdown, but it lasted for three days. Every day that presence came on me and I would just start weeping. And I said, what is going on? No one witnessed to me. Are you kidding? Now hold on because we're going to go to a break. Jay on is my guest. It's Miracle Monday. I love these kind of stories. We'll be right back with the rest of the story. And there's plenty more. It's the air from Texas show.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Professor Paul Kengor Talks Ronald Reagan and Johnny Carson
"Delighted to have with us from grove city college. The relatively new editor of the American spectator, professor Paul kango. Welcome back to America first. Hey, thanks, Seb, and that Reagan appearance on Johnny Carson. I would really commend that to people if they could track it down and watch the whole thing. It's very, very good. And it's pre presidential years. It's in the 1970s. And I don't know how many people know this. I mean, I know this because of my research on Reagan, but Johnny Carson was a Reagan supporter. In fact, yeah, I've seen a number of letters at the Reagan library between Carson and Reagan and in fact, one of them, Reagan is directly thanking Carson, Carson and his wife. I think her name was Joanne, maybe. Thanking them for a campaign contribution. So they had been, yeah, Carson was a Republican and a Reagan supporter. And so were a lot of his major guests via Bob Hope, for example, Bing Crosby, Jimmy Stewart. And in those days, Hollywood was, I'd say much more balanced, although actually I think it's probably more balanced today than people realize it's just that the conservatives there today are terrified to speak up because liberals today are so brutal that they will destroy you if you come out as a Republican.
Talk Is Jericho
"grove" Discussed on Talk Is Jericho
"If there's some alien remainder from the pyramid days that they're keeping under there and he's 9 million years old and he's saying, you know, I need this and this and this and they're all bowing and answering to it. Maybe they're visiting with visions from Al gods and all of these kinds of things. I mean, I can only guess, but the world is so full of weird, crazy stuff that just knowing that this does exist the way it is, makes you wonder. I mean, you keep asking me, what about you? Do you have any thoughts? What are you thinking? What strikes you? Well, once again, it's a very strange and when you get into politics and like you mentioned that the FDR, things a great example and Epstein and all that stuff. And I remember when I was like 19 years old or so I took a bus downtown to see the jets game and Winnipeg and the bus driver pick even though the bus was closed. He was just doing the run back to the terminal run past The Rain and just jump on and take you. And we started talking and this guy was kind of an interesting guy who was claiming that if you're a shriner, which is a really big thing in Canada, the shrine circus was a big deal that when you got into the shriners and after, you know, you move up the levels and when you get to the last level with the golden fez, that's when you realize that this is all what he was claiming he was a satanic cult. But you don't know it until you get high up the ladder. It kind of Scientology is kind of like that too. You don't really know what the real story of it is until you get too far in by then you're totally all in type thing. So to me, on the outskirts, it just seems like kind of a weird thing kind of creepy. Is it really that bad? Well, not really, but if you get involved in it and suddenly you become one of the older statesmen, maybe those guys are knowing what's really going on over there as we saw Alex Jones with that one cat you were talking about that was the adviser to the president. That guy was hiding something about the grove. No doubt about it. I think so. So he could be one of the midnight screamer raid, guys. But the thing you mentioned about Scientology, they also prime you as you're going along to start to, like, if you've ever had past life regression therapy where they ask you to talk about, okay, picture yourself years ago, so it's almost like they're encouraging you to lie to them. And in Scientology, they do that about these otherworldly things your theme is done. And once you've paid $400,000 or whatever, then they give you the real information about xenu, the galactic warrior and the volcanos and all this. Well, masons have an era of secrecy around them as well, similar to what you've been talking about. And the Pope, there's so much secrecy about what goes on with the Pope. How about the fact that Pope just died? They got anybody who was sick. How many popes have died in our lifetime, like ten? Those popes are always dying. Yeah, and just the whole ceremony itself, and what is determined in the smoke coming up, and there's some really creepy rabbit hole stuff you can go down with that, but that's an example when you get to the tippy top of these people, I wonder if there's some truth that they know about that the average person doesn't. And maybe it's because they think we couldn't understand or we couldn't whatever it is. I don't think that there's nothing. The world's pretty complex and there's a lot of really weird stuff that doesn't add up. Like I said, it's very interesting stuff here, both in facts and in figures, conspiracy is the sort of stuff. Any final thoughts on the bohemian grove, Tim? I think that it sounds like a blast. I think you're somebody is successful enough. And selling out Carnegie Hall, put up with a couple of bullies and you have your fun by the Lake. I think it sounds like a blast. I would love to go. I've been around enough weird, rich people with the game. You know what, dude? I take it back. You know what? I would hate to go there and be sleeping in my cabin and then at two in the morning. I'm grabbed and drug off to some kind of weird ceremony, you know? That's my point. And you don't even know about it until you've been there plenty of times. So it's intriguing enough. And if you do, you know, if you do your due diligence on this, it is something that anytime you hear the words secret society, secret tells that not everything's above board there, you know? Yeah? Well, you can certainly, if somebody wants to go down the rabbit hole, there's a documentaries and podcasts and all kinds of stuff you can explore. All I can do is my job as roaming reporter for the Chris Jericho podcast is to do my research and talk to my witnesses, get the information, bring it here, to share it with you, and that's the best that I can do. Well, you did a great job today, Tim, and I'm sure there'll be other creepy subjects that we can delve into in the future for sure. Sorry, can I plug my movie? Of course, of course. I made a movie. It's a comedy. You can find me on nudist humorous dot com or the noodles dot com and it is funny and silly and wacky and body positive and a blast. Please go check that out. What's it called? It's called the noodles of noon. You can find a run to Vader as you can find all over the place. My next movie helps coming for you is coming out. It's about a disabled bounty hunter, it's a freaking blast. I really love it. But the noodles are the one that needs to get some love because it's harder to get something that's full of nakedness out there into the world. Whether you're making this peeing, everyone's peeing everywhere. No stomach's being exactly. All right, dude, thanks, man. We'll talk to you next time around. All right.
Talk Is Jericho
"grove" Discussed on Talk Is Jericho
"So he saw it kind of like hazing from a fraternity. And in one particular instance, Paul Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi's husband, was the one that he saw making fun of him because they passed out cigars. Some kind of high end cigars. Probably with the same seasoning as the steak. And so he put it in his mouth and he tried to light it and he wasn't able to light it properly or take the right puff. And so they started making all these gay jokes about it. We thought you'd be able to give up blow jobs and we thought you'd be better at that and so they were really hammering him about it. It was like a bunch of frat of evil jerks and the guys being hazed and so and then he got so embarrassed he walked out. He walked out of the room to go be alone. And he thought that was really sad and when he asked about it, somebody told him that that same guy, like he was new to the club, he had just gotten in the year before. And supposedly the story was that the year before when he came there, he didn't fit in either. And most of the time he talked to the help. He talked to the people who were, you know, cleaning and serving food. So he never quite fit in with the rich people and the cool kids. Imagine that can sell out overnight Carnegie Hall. And then you got Nancy Pelosi's husband making fun of you not being able to smoke a cigar. Lots of ways to go with this. Let's go back to this worshiping of the owl God. I find that to be very strange and especially we've mentioned a few times the quote that John rich's friend said that it's thought a big deal. Why are they worshiping in Al God? Is that some sort of a satanic idol being used here? Is this a secret society for satanists that you don't find out about until you're too far down the rabbit hole? Potentially, that could be the between one and four in the morning. So that's once you've been debaucherous drinking and pissing in arguing and all this kind of stuff. Anything satanic, anything evil, anything ritualistic, anything cannibalism, anything. Sexual debauchery would happen between that time from one to four in the morning. And he, the guy who worked there has things to say about that too. So he was talking about as far as racism goes. It was limited because they were starting to let more black members in and a few Jewish, mostly it was humor at women's expense or Mexican Hispanics. He saw cockroaches with Puerto Rican flags painted on their backs and they were doing like some games or races with those and then they were making jokes about Hispanics. They were whispers of prostitution rings like arrests in the area being covered up, but within the grove, he didn't see that specifically. There's something else here, but so he saw a former speaker of energy for the United States. Give a speech about a war in Iraq, and then he opened it up to anybody who was there. Anybody who was there at the speech to give him ideas. And so he was standing in the back with the workers and he said he was invisible just watching and he was thinking how weird that was, that this is like a real issue with real world consequences and he's just like yeah anybody got any ideas. You would never see that. Because at that time people were talking about oil and the Bush administration and all this. And here he is just openly like, yeah, so what do you guys think? What should we do about this? Right. Really struck out as super weird to him. And it made him refer back to how everybody brags about the Manhattan Project. So while they're saying like nobody talks about business, he literally saw this guy who's in charge of energy saying anybody got any ideas and why wouldn't he take their ideas back to the actual job. It's very clicky, groups of men traveling in packs. He said Clint Eastwood would sit with the same people. He saw Carl rove cussing and pissing on a tree. He ordered lobster for breakfast. There was weird stuff. It was a real boys club. And here's the weirdest thing from him. He said, late at night, he heard screams coming from deep in the Woods. And he heard a lot of hushed rumors about Asian boys being kept underground. So that's the second person who said this. What he heard was that they were tunnels being used between one and 4 a.m. every night. He said, I feel like there's something really weird going on. They do weird shit and based on what we know, imagine what we don't know. Well, I mean, that's the thing. It seems like there's a lot we don't know about this. And I can break down, there's a growth stage, a field circle, campfire circle, lecture halls, a lot of outdoor areas for events, the out shrine by the Lake, 2000 seat amphitheater. I mean, they've put time steely Dan has played there. Zach Brown band. There's a whole bunch of stuff. You can actually play gigs at the grove. If you're a member or invited as a guest, I guess. Plus, since it's there year round, off season, maybe they do other events because again, if there's they can limit how far in you go. I mean, so that's it from my three people who have actually been there. Oh, I did want to mention if you're familiar with the TV show household cards? Yes. So there was an episode. And they specifically went into alluding to bohemian grove stuff about a secret cult and they did reenactments and all of this, but within the fictional world and they called it instead of bohemian grove, they called its chapter 60 is the episode. They called it elysian fields, they said men were only allowed in by invitation only in the trees. They get to eat together and pee together. And their quote, remember the other one was about, you know, not weaving a spell with a quote on the TV show for elysian fields was buzzing bees do not sting here. So much emphasis on the peeing. Yes. It went to court. They literally had a court case over it and that was the reason why they justified not allowing women to be there because they needed to be open to be able to pee freely openly. We are moving in a new direction, moving forward and moving beyond smoking. We are Altria and our companies
Talk Is Jericho
"grove" Discussed on Talk Is Jericho
"He says, we don't run around naked in the Woods, like those bohemian grove folks. Now what's interesting is a few years later, he ended up getting so successful that he joined the bohemian grove. And when he was at a political event, Alex Jones, who is a little wonky doo, but sometimes, you know, truth is truth, no matter who says it, he approached him. And confronted him with having made those earlier statements now that he was a member. David gergen said this. I'm a happy member of the bohemian grove. It's inappropriate to talk more. And so Alex Jones pressed him about a ritual that they do at the bohemian grove, which we'll get into called the cremation of care, which is burning an effigy to a giant algon. And this isn't theory. This is real. There's video footage and pictures of those pictures of it, yeah. Yes. So when he asked him about the cremation of care, ceremony, David gergen, again, an adviser to president, said, frankly, that's something I don't need to talk to you about. And Alex Jones, at that point, noticing that he was getting hot about it, asked if he ever participated in it. And he said, oh no, at first he said that he was the one who broke him. He's like, I'm the one who took the footage there. And gergen said, well, I disrespect you for that. You violated the understandings. So do you understand things, you know? And so then he asked him, did he ever participate in the cremation of care? And this is what he said. It's none of your damn business. He didn't say it doesn't happen. He didn't say, I don't know what you're talking about. He acknowledged it happens. It's going on. And then when asked if he participated, it's none of your damn business. And shortly after that, he ended up resigning from a bunch of political organizations. And I've seen that video, and if you watch it, the guy's getting legit mad and like you said, the weird thing is he's not going like, oh, bah humbug or he's more like, you know, how did you know about this? You said something about it? Well, that's disrespectful. And Alex Jones is like, he's like, filmed this guy. This is great stuff. The guy's just falling right into the trap here. Exactly. And he just couldn't help himself. He had to say a little, you could tell he wanted to say more than he did. And so this is like a cold open. They just want to get a couple in there before we get into the facts. The last one, you and I was texting about the other day. John rich from big and rich, the country music band. John rich hosted this on truth social. His words, him saying it, and I know you know John. So one famous country singer wouldn't stop asking. So I asked him, hey, and he's referring to going to bohemian group. He said, hey, if I go, can I wear the druid outfit and burn the human effigy at the feet of moloch? And he said, oh man, that's just an old tradition. It doesn't mean anything serious. I replied, there's no such thing as pretending to worship Satan. And I haven't heard from him since. This shit is real. I mean, like you mentioned, that's kind of setting the tone here. And once again, John rich, no nonsense type of guy. All of these people, Alex Jones, you know, that they're finding something very fishy and strange here. And if you go on to Wikipedia to look up bohemian grove, it talks about it. Like it's completely straight and, you know, a club, a gentleman's club. You know, not a gentleman's club where the strippers, although I'm sure there's plenty of girls on it, but it's a gentleman's club and that no women are allowed. It's an old school society. What they do not mention is any of the stuff about the Bernie effigies, the owl gods all that other thing. That's kind of more behind the scenes. Well, officially, here's what they say. When you look up, what is the bohemian growth? Because obviously they have to say something, all these people are going to. They say that bohemian club and elite invitation only social club founded in San Francisco in 1872 by a group of male artists, writers, actors, lawyers and journalists, all of means and interested in arts and culture since its founding, the club has expanded to include politicians and affluent businessmen. The club is known especially for its annual summer retreat at what is known as bohemian grove in the redwood forest of California's Sonoma country. An event that continued in the 21st century, notable members have been Clint Eastwood and your Kissinger, Walter Cronkite, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. I mean, on and on and on, Mark Twain, Jack London. The point is, so we're lancaran. It works. It exists. It is a thing people go to, they experience. And so what I'm going to do is I'm going to get into the facts of all of this right now. Very specifically, no more pontif, right. And these are the actual facts. Right. Now that we've creeped open the door. So here's the deal. It owns over 2700 acres of property. And it opens with. So all of these rich elite people all over the world, when it started in the very beginning, it was artists, but artists are broke. So they reached out to people who had a wealth and means to help support their art. And that's where it began in the very beginning. But a lot of rich people saw this as a very, very rich and powerful people. So this is an example, an excuse to cut loose and be free to do things such as a bohemian, where they're not going to be held accountable for what they're doing. And this can't be more shown as an example than with the cremation of care ceremony. So the deal is the very first night to kick off this two week extravaganza of rich powerful, mostly white men. It is called the cremation of care and there are druids. Think of the undertaker in red outfits that carry a wooden coffin with an effigy of a child, which they refer to as care. So that is meant to be all the love and appreciation and involvement that you have that the members have in the world. And they are going to set it on fire while they have things being announced and spoken, which do you know who does the voice? Who? Walter Cronkite. Of course. Walter trunk height recorded the voice that plays for all of this. And it is for, you know, two weeks of merrymaking, a giant owl, God statue, which is for mullock, mullock, the Al God. And he means knowledge of all things. So what they're doing is they're burning any sort of attachments to this world in the pursuit of we want to know what the truth is. What everything that's really going on. And so only we are allowed to know the knowledge of this. That's at the top of the pyramid. And so this is on the first night and this is in public with all when I say public. I mean, the people who are allowed into the event. And I say that because there have been at least two people who have snuck in. One who wrote an article for spy magazine, very detailed about him getting in there. And then Alex Jones. And I'll go into a little bit of both of their situations as we go through all of this. But I just want to make it clear. So it's called the cremation of care. Sacrificing an effigy child wicker character to the God mullock. The people around addressing druid outfits, they scream things like midsummer census free and beauty as eternal for beauty has everlasting. It's a giant like we're talking 40 feet plus Al God statue, super creepy, opening night, they
Talk Is Jericho
"grove" Discussed on Talk Is Jericho
"The pot of thunder and rock and roll and let's go. It's time. For the much anticipated Duff mckagan joke. Of the week. Chris Jericho, hope everybody's doing well. Listen, my wife says I don't understand boundaries. At least that's what it said in her secret diary. Thank you very much. Goodbye. Delivering the laughs like he does every single Friday. And Guns N' Roses getting ready to hit the road again. They just announced a huge summer tour. They're starting off in Abu Dhabi, June 1st, head to Europe a week later, then hit North America, starting August 5th, dates and ticket info at Guns N' Roses dot com. And guess what? Fozzie's hitting the road again as well. We had a March 23rd kicking things off and Bloomington Illinois at the castle theater. We've got tickets left for that one. We're already sold out in Columbus and Flint and we're probably going to go clean in Pittsburgh as well. Tickets going fast, all the markets, thanks to everybody who's coming to the show. And if you want to come join us, fazi rock dot com is all the ticket information and VIP information. Lots of the VIPs are sold out as well. But go check it out and come join us. And Chris Jericho's rocking resting ranger had seen 95% sold up, but there are still some cabins available, go to Chris Jericho cruise dot com. All we've announced is Paul white as the guest of honor, which is huge. It's giant, a lot more talent announcements coming. So come join us for the vacation of a lifetime. Chris Jericho Cruz dot com. We're going to sell it within the week. So please come join us. Today, Tim chismar from the game returns to talk as Jericho with a story almost as crazy as his last one. If you haven't heard the game podcast episode, go back and listen to that when it's bonkers. But the bonkers and this continues is that a word bonkers in this. Tim's talking about another kind of conspiracy secret society of sorts called the bohemian club that exists at bohemian grove in the redwoods just north of San Francisco where I am right now. It's a male only invitation only elite club that throws a huge two week long summer event for its rich, powerful and mostly white members. And those members are famous actors, musicians, artists, businessmen, and politicians wait to hear some of the names. The bohemian club is filled with crazy rituals that dress like druids and worship of 40 foot owl God that's voiced by Walter drunk. I'm not making this up. And that's the ritual, the creation of care that Alex Jones filmed when he infiltrated bohemian grove in 2000. Journalist Philip Weiss from spy magazine also snuck into bohemian grove back in 1989, wrote a big expose piece on the club. And its activities and its location, Tim talked to three people who worked at bohemian grove and shares what they told him about their experiences. It's crazy. Lots of firsthand accounts and a lot of info about it. And that's what Tim chismar breaks down. What we know about the bohemian club and the bohemian grove from its start in history at some of its famous members to some of the stuff that goes on during that two week festivity in the forest, but is bohemian grove just a summer camp for powerful rich men or is it something else more sinister and nefarious going on there? We're going to find out with Tim chismar and bohemian grove right here right now on talk is Jericho. All right, so a few months ago, we had Tim chismar, come on to talk about the game, which was a crazy
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
Kodak Black and 3 Others Shot at Los Angeles Super Bowl Party
"Think today's show can be called maniacal Monday. Today's from an ankle Monday. There were things there were some excessive enthusiasm going on, some examples of excessive enthusiasm. Things that happened to the point of insanity, leading up to the Super Bowl, including a shootout in the Beverly grove section of Los Angeles Kodak black. I couldn't tell you one of his songs, I'm sure if I heard that I'd say, oh, I know this song. Don't know the guy, but I know him, but a bunch of rappers named will were shot, no one died, but, you know, they drew guns at a nightclub where Leonardo DiCaprio was and a bunch of famous people are strolling it out. It's Super Bowl weekend in LA boy. I mean, you talk about possible gang violence between the crypts and the Bloods. You talk about all the nightclubs and restaurants and let's not forget the prostitutes. Oh boy, the escorts and prostitutes this weekend in LA just past weekend made out like bandits.
The Grove Podcast
"grove" Discussed on The Grove Podcast
"Got this and this yeah and i think you know there's a reason that god talked in the old testament even about daily bread and you know we we know the story and the man came and people were provided for and it came in the morning in the night and it wouldn't you couldn't keep it because it was spoil so we can rehearse recite the story that we seem to not be able to embrace the idea and the ideas. What's so powerful is that you don't store up. You need for future life. You actually embrace. The current moment with his provision and his concept of daily bread is game changing. Because it's like man. If i don't have a living vibrant relationship with him right now. I'm really not going to have what i need and didn't get it yesterday and i won't have it for tomorrow. So a better be depending on him now in he he. What's amazing of somebody like me. Who is ahead of you guys can say. I've never had him not come through. So if i can't tell you a lot of things about how it's all gonna work out and who's all going to be in the story and how they're all gonna play their roles what it's gonna look like but i can tell you this that i figured out in life that i can't store it up and i was desperate for him daily and you know what he's never failed me yet. So maybe if there's anything that i could give you courage in today is that he won't feel you either. I love that. Part of our story is a story of grief. And i wasn't president and your lives. I'm when you guys walked through linda's death and just the onslaught grief in that moment and even in the years going forward from that moment. And i certainly have been some of those with you but i do often say and let me ask you because i don't know if you find this to be true but i find that some of the most profound and deepest friendships that i have are people who've walked through significant grief. They're not the people who everything seems to have gone. Okay for they actually are the people who have not known if they would make it. What do you think about that is that true. Is that real. Is there something that god is doing in you. That feels more approachable because of what you've walked through I think that's also true of you a libya. I feel like when people are in crazy grief like when leno into heaven. There wasn't really anywhere else for me to go. Except for god like i was seven years old and i barely understood what was happening. I didn't really know what was going on or like the nice to heaven. I didn't really know what it meant is knew that she wasn't there anymore. And now it's like that was insanely hard and over the years. It's like it's been hard to accept the fact that i just like that. She's just not here anymore. And that. I won't see her until i go to heaven too so embracing the fact that the only way oversee harrigan is to love god and to know that he's got her to i think just like remembering he's the way to everlasting life. Not he's soil. See here when i'm in heaven. I think about that moment a lot. I think about when we stand there and and she's Face to face with us and us with her and how she was probably cheering us on through Maybe even in some ways more challenged than she experienced in young wife and she's looking at us growing up and trying to be the people of god. And i really broken environment right. And she's she she she's a piece of that and a part of that and now you feel that in your life that she is championing you guys today toward forever and that heaven is real and it's worth living for and feel that like when i'm around you guys that you feel that but i also know that when we see her that we're gonna feel so relieved and particularly you guys that she has been held by jesus the whole time. Yeah and that. That's where she's been you know when we can't see her older that she's being held. Yeah just talk about that moment for a second. What do you imagine when you think about it. it's wild imagining legna. She she'd be fourteen returning. He'd be turning fourteen this year. So there's so much like unknown about what she would be like right now at. Yeah i just wanna know so. It's like it's more joy and just like one wonder. I guess because. I just want to know what it'd be like. So imagining her. In heaven lek always happy not having her allergies or anything or just being able to be like who wants to be there and like just being free i dunno. It's it's beautiful it at ted. Think of her and that environment just it brings a smile fade. Yeah it does. It really makes me think wow. I can't wait to be there. And i obviously want to be faithful here but man that's going to be a good day as well. It's amazing it was really sweet. When live was think it was pretty soon after lenny went to heaven but i remember you saying i just wish i could facetime on. Yeah right now and like see where she is what she's doing and i just even sweet like childlike wonder then. Obviously we've always had that in even as like for daisy and clover and lennox who i mean daisy was to clover was one in lennox wasn't even born yet. So there's that grief that they're experiencing on the back end of not having gotten to know her so there's a lot of that conversation of what do you think is doing in heaven right now but even recently i feel like with olivia especially is she's five years older than daisy. And so there's just that void like all the time. And i think like olympia has friends who are sisters and like the closeness of them like there's always that thought of some what would be low it be like with legna here and the friendship that we'd have like and so i think that's also the grief upon grief where it's like. It's just grief in a new road and it's like we experienced extreme heartache. Then but those moments still kind of pop up where it's like. We were on a trip recently and leave. I was just like man. I really miss legna right now. and like. We haven't seen her in almost nine years but her void is still so much there. And i hope that feeling never goes away but i think going back to your question. Originally as i feel like that does allow us to think more compassionately towards people and like you said some of our dearest. Most of our dearest friends have gone through hell and have gone through horrible things. And i think it really bonds us together when we've experienced such a horrible thing because we know like god walked us through god's with us where we have that like that bond of pain but then i think in relating to other people and in like olivia. She has a depth and a wisdom and a compassion..
The Coachable Podcast
"grove" Discussed on The Coachable Podcast
"Previous marriage. And my met my partnership. When i was twenty and so and he was as the same age as soon married but really interesting to begin to look at the patterns. Because you start to see that there's just so much To this world into this experience. Yeah well this has been a really powerful conversation. I honor and thank you for your time and your wisdom and is there any any piece of advice you or word of wisdom you wanna leave people with when it comes to just cultivating greater love in their live in. Whatever way that that comes in. Yeah i mean. I think all of this conversation has spoken to the the invitation to get to know yourself know the nuances of who you are that magic that lives in the spaces. You don't wanna look at the if because that's where it is you know is is is in the things we don't wanna see but they're they're saying but if i see them i'm not going to be enough and i remember hearing congress jia spiritual teacher say is be not enough his light yourself be not enough. Let out a big sigh. Because you're not you'll never be enough for the identity in the creation of the expectations that you hold in. I loved that advice. 'cause it just i think collectively all of us can just go. I'm not perfect. Yes thank fucking god 'cause like now. Our own imperfections embraced invite other people to do the same in in that really just frees us to relate in in such a different way because we start to see our partners imperfections with compassion. Grace to and so. That's all i got mad. It's a lot so so good. Thank you so much to to chew on and Yes so happy to have you. We'll have you back and the gist honor. You and all your work if you guys I'm sure all of melissa volleyer already. But how could they get in touch with you. Stay connected with you and learn more about about your work. If they they don't know yes thank you. I thank you for having me thank you for exchanging time for this conversation. It means a lot that that you trust me with the people who listen to this To you the listener. Thank you as well If you feel palm in some way pull to check out my work more you can go to create the love on instagram. Actually pretty much everywhere. Except for not a talker. And then the other i also podcast called the mark. Gross podcast and Thank you. I just so appreciate you having me on. I hope you love this episode and it was helpful for you if you did enjoy it. Please spread the love with your friends. Text them call them posted all over social media. Whatever you do just make sure you tack me coach gordon and create the love so that we can all keep getting better together..
The Coachable Podcast
"grove" Discussed on The Coachable Podcast
"Don't trust.
The Coachable Podcast
"grove" Discussed on The Coachable Podcast
"House. Who is here to give us some no bullshit relationship advice. How can we learn how to do. Relationships better people. 'cause you know and i know we all use some help okay. I've been married for over a year. Now it's the hardest thing i've ever done in my life i get to learn and look my wounding and my mirror and my stuff every single day. It's always tearing back at me. And that is what i- relationships do they reflect back to us so much about our own internal worlds that we are avoiding that we are running from that. We are unconscious that are even there and mark is so good at pulling back the curtain making it fun bringing the fun back into the relationships. Not just all serious are you committed. are you not. Can we have some fun people. I know i need some more fun of my life. Mark is somebody. I have been following for years now and he is everywhere online. He is great the love on instagram. He's got the create. The love podcast. He has so much wisdom to offer. And here's what i'll say with over almost a million followers. This guy is so down to earth. He is so easy to talk to and hope you hear that in our conversation we were able to sit back chat like we'd known each other for years and that's how it felt and i so respect his work i respect what he shares and does in the world and i am all about folks that are committed to our own healing and and growth and evolution as humans and are willing to learn how to do something better and say hey man i messed up this time. I got it wrong and i want to try again. I want to keep getting better day after day. And that's mark and he helps us do this on this show today. So this is one that you're going to want to star you're to want to share it you're gonna wanna come back again and again and again. Because they're so much unpacking the show. Okay i'm not gonna make you wait any longer. I know you're dying to hear it. Let's jump into the episode. Enjoy guys. Mr markgraaf's well i i wanna appre appreciate you and thank you for taking time to to this conversation i am too. I you know your your work has deeply deeply impacted me and my life and I think i resonate connect with you because you are. You're a truth seeker. Truth teller and that's kind of my one of my biggest values in life. And if not the one thing that that i seek to do and is most important and meaningful to me and the work that i do i i see that and i feel that from you in in your work and so you know this show is all about bringing those people together and Magnifying those voices. And so today. I kind of you know. Just wanna have an open discussion abou about love and relationships and all of what comes along with that and You know i'm curious for you like this being your work that you do all day every day. What is it that like. How would you define the purpose of relationships. What do you think all this is. Why do we have to like be in community being connection. What's the purpose of all of us. And why are we in these containers of all different types. Or i Thank you so much for having me. Thank you for your dedication to the mission of truth. Which i think can be. You know sometimes a really abstract thing. I think it's often abstract. And you know. I think what's not abstract and not even subjective but rather just true Is that on a very fundamental biological level. We need each other. You know and i think. There's a lot of response to relational dynamics that we've inherited through whatever means you might think In our certainly real like the relational structures of the patriarchy looking at ads from the nineteen fifties. You know we're all inheritors of that relationship structure and so there's also been a a large serve rebellion or backlash or pivot to this other end of like. I don't need anybody. I don't need you and i think that's because we equate need with loss of self or Connection or relationship with actually being a space of self abandonment and espace of not feeling safe for nurtured or okay to self express. And that's so real as you can't negate people experience of that and observing. Their parents experience that in their grandparents. And especially depending on where you come from around the world. A lot of that still exists. You know we're in sort of a repurposing or reframing. Were imagining what relationship can be and we used to get all our needs met from a village and now we seek all that from relationship. Has esther burrell's talks about and yet we don't have the skill set to really nurture and expand love within the relationship container because we didn't inherit relationship containers that were structured on love. And so we need them because on a very biological level being unhealthy relationships heels it. It nurtures us If you look at the harvard wellbeing study which is the longest running study on happiness and well-being. I is now looking at second and third generations of that study and it shows that your health at age eighty is great most predicted by. Not your blood pressure not your classroom and none of those things that we would imagine but by the quality of your relationships at age fifty and in some ways really and they didn't have to be romantic. Its relationships of all kinds in so in some ways being in healthy relationship actually made hard as less hard it protected from cognitive decline In and so there's the real biological part and i think the more important. Maybe we might see it as like a spiritual or a purposeful intention of relationship is that it literally magnifies everything. We're not good at so. So it is an invitation to the highest most wise most expanded version of our selves him. We might say our souls greatest expression And and so to meet that or to receive that you must turn towards the challenges relationship with humility and curiosity which of course usually means grief sadness anger rage and and shame in. Can we hold all of that and recognize that. It informs us rather than his there. A in a punitive way And can we hold all that anger as you look up your family. Drain your anurag. One taught me how to communicate. And now what my partner most needs from me is that skill To both be enraged and to use that grief that rage to actually curious and expand our capacity in our skill set. 'cause it's it's a skill it's not reserved It's not a privilege it's now it's literally an opportunity. I'd say that the one advantage that people can have is if a previous generation started doing this work.
The Grove Podcast
"grove" Discussed on The Grove Podcast
"And do something scary and do something. That's going to cost her family time and do these things. And then god's not going well forgot. She's got these four kids. Now what should we do. You know. I really believe that when god is saying. Hey i really jamie trust me with your time. Trust me with your influence. Trust me with that. You're gonna leave and you're going to travel and you're going to go speak. Trust your kids with me. Because i didn't forget you had kids when i gave you this calling and i think that's something as parents that we have to really remember. Is that the calling. That god's put on my life and on errands life men in-includes our whole family. Everyone's involved in what i do. Which is why you know. I travel even more now than my husband does. And it and it was switched years ago. And i tell my kids all the time guys. Listen obviously i'm gonna leave to do things with your dad because listen we leave town without them often for our marriage our sanity. But i say when i married before you got here exactly exactly but i tell them when i travel for work. Here's why i go. I go because i want people to know. Jesus whatever i'm doing. Yeah that's what i do. And so i just think that that's one of the things we're doing is using is to teach our kids even if our family looks different than some of my other friends families and they're not traveling and doing what we're doing everything we do is so people know. Jesus i hope my kids know and believe that when they leave my house. Yes that's beautiful so We're gonna talk for a second. I really didn't know we're gonna talk this much about family. But i'm loving every second of it. I think it's so helpful for all the parents that are trying to figure out how to manage calling gifting in combination with parenting and how that looks in their life. I feel like you made a choice at some point. And you talked about this a little bit when you came alive. Jesus but between balancing your life putting everything in its proper place at hamilton all be balanced and leveraging your life just deciding i have one life to live and i'm gonna give it to god and we're gonna live like that. Yeah where did that happen. And how do you continue to make those kind of choices. Well i mean to be honest shelia cab still tried to. I think through this conversation. More than i think people would realize actually Even with my. And i were on a date on monday night. And i i literally sat out loud to him. I sometimes wonder if. I'm doing the right thing so like this is not worth a conversation that i had once. This is the conversation that i'm having all the freaking time of life. God is this where you want me. am i missing. Something do you want me to spend less time at work and more time at home. Do you want me to spend more time at home unless i'm at work. I'm having this conversation all the time. And i think You know years and years. And years ago i did kind of make this decision of we do only have we get one chance at life one chance. That's it and i think. I don't know if you feel this way but i suspect you. Might you know the older that i've gotten the more. I've seen people around me that i thought would make it to the end fall. The more i've seen people around me. Yep sadly the more. I've seen people around me suffer the more i've seen people around me. lose Loved ones and has just all made me go. Life is so short and god. Whatever you want from me. I'm gonna give it to you and That sounds so like pep talk. Easy and like jesus lover like just go out and i'm just gonna give you everything it's so true. It is literally so so true. That i don't want to get to the end and feel like i did it. Do the best and i remember when i was working on a project a couple years ago. I would imagine myself at eighty and i thought when i'm eighty. That's that's how long i get if i'm eighty. What do i want to look back on my life and see and what that did for me is it said well. I don't want to figure that out when i'm eighty. I want to accomplish that before. I'm there if i've got forty thirty seven more years on this earth and when i get to i wanna look back. I need to say what are the steps. I need to do today to make sure i fulfil that at eighty and again i mean i say all of this with the caveat of god is in control in. I have no idea what my life holds today or tomorrow. But i do know that when i get to eighty i want to look back and say man. I gave everything i had to the gospel. Everything and not not everything. I had to my kids not everything. I had to my marriage because those are all things. I work my butt off for those things but literally at eighty. I gave everything. I had for the gospel. That's that's the end of the story that's ended jamie. Yeah i'm proud of you for that. Thanks i really am amazed just watching your life and it's so beautiful to us. He was just thinking that you've recorded. I think like three hundred episodes of podcasts. Change on a lot a lot. What in the world. You and aaron have just started a new thing where you're doing something together on youtube Tell me about that what he talking about. What are you interviewing people for. What are you. What do you find yourself learning through that. Well we are. Do we have air. Have a podcast called on the other side and the whole premise of this was man so many people all of us in this world. We have these moments that are that are profound. Some of them are profound in a positive way in some of them are profound in a negative way. But we're all different on the other side because of them. And i mean you and i could sit here and come up with ten to fifteen moments in our life that we're different because of those and so we wanted to talk with people about what that looks like to be on the other side of something and you know it's funny because we did three interviews yesterday and and One of the interviews. They wanna an amazing contests on tv one of them. They were part of the oklahoma city bombing and one of them is now a quadriplegic football accident. So we're talking about three major things and the two that were negative. They both said on the on the other side of that they said man. I have to choose every day to believe that. I the the the responsibility for that act that i didn't have that i wasn't a part of it wasn't my choice but i have to choose every day to be different on the other side of it and i thought man what an important and profound thing to think is it every single day. We have choices that we get to make about our life. And how are we going to choose to live with what we have what we've been given and it's not a matter of like well. This is just my lot in life for. This is what god gave me but to actually believe like what romans five says that we are the though sufferings in our life they're doing something to produce something as you know they're producer hope they're producing endurance. Like that's what these stories are about. And so i love telling stories. I love sharing stories. Because i think when you hear someone else's story even if you even when i listened to that woman yesterday talk about surviving the oklahoma city bombing. I've never been a part about. Yeah i've never been in a bombing. I've never survived something like that. But there are parts of her story. That i was like i know what that feels like and so i think that god unites together with our stories and he can teach us things through it. So that's the podcast that we're working on. Yeah i love that. You're doing that. And i feel like it is going to be so helpful for people to not just hear the stories of people that they're familiar with. Think about people that are outside their familiarity Like oh my gosh. I remember when the oklahoma city bombing happened. And i was marked by it. But i didn't really know anybody that was in it. And they hear someone who survived that talkradio felt like what that experience was like and what they've seen overcomes in their life since that like. Yeah that is so inspiring to me. So i love that. You guys are doing that. You've done a bunch of stuff. I mean i had a chance a longtime ago to write afford to your book you've read. You've written a book since that talking about becoming yourself and using your own story and not being maybe so Competitive in other people's stories are more important than your own. How did you start owning your own story and as you interview all these three hundred people and do these podcast with aaron. How do you let other people story inspire your story but not fill like well..
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