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A highlight from The Ministry of Evangelism
"Welcome to the Heart for God podcast. With many years of experience pastoring and helping to start churches, Dr. Jim Townsley has some practical and biblical advice that can be a great help to you and your ministry. On this podcast, Dr. Townsley and other guests with special expertise cover a variety of topics. His goal is to help you lead your church to be a healthy, strong, and balanced ministry, and for your family to be happy, healthy, and living for the Lord. Welcome to the podcast today. I'm glad that you joined us. I have with me here Brother Matt Barber, and he is an evangelist. He's been at our church since Sunday. This is now Wednesday, so he's had several opportunities to speak to us and preach the Word of God. Matt, it's good to have you with us this morning. Good to be here. It's a pleasure. So I want you to just say a little bit about your background, who you are, your family, what God has called you to do, and where you were before. Well, I was raised in a pastor's home. I had great opportunities to hear the gospel. I got saved as a child. When I was 16, the Lord finally got a hold of my heart, and I surrendered to him, and that's when I felt called to preach. I went on to Bible college. I went to Baptist College of Ministry up in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, back in the early days of the college there, and that's where I met my wife. So a lot of good things happened in those days. And then our first ministry was in Woodridge, Illinois, where I went there as an assistant pastor. So that's in the Chicago area? Yep, that's right, southwest suburbs of Chicago. And within six months, I found myself the pastor of the church, and we stayed there for 13 years. And you have family? Yes, sir. Yep. So my wife, Chelsea, and then we have five children, and so the Lord's blessed us richly. And the years at Woodridge were wonderful. We learned a lot. The church grew. It had been through a lot, and we were kind of in a re -establishing, rebuilding phase at the church. And then in 2018 and 2019, I began to feel the Lord stirring my heart towards evangelism, and that's where I felt called originally. And by 2021, the Lord finally gave us the green light, and we stepped out by faith. And so we've been traveling full -time now the last two years. So stepping out by faith is no small exaggeration, because for an evangelist, to get started, people don't know you, they don't know your name. So how does that all come about? How do you end up getting meetings? Well, that's a good question. When I first announced it to our church, they were shocked that we were moving on, but I felt that the church was ready for another hand at the till, so to speak. The church was established, and I guess they thought that I was going out into evangelism by popular demand, and that was not the case. I didn't have anything on the schedule, and I was just trusting the Lord. I expected to be working full -time or part -time as we got meetings lined up, but God and His mercy just allowed the meetings to come in. And they didn't come in all at once, but the Lord stayed ahead of us by three or four weeks or a month or two, and He just filled up our year. We found ourselves traveling two or three weeks a month, plus Sundays and Wednesdays here and there, different places that first year. This second year has been a lot more busy. We spent the whole summer just packed all the way through. We're out west and got to see some beautiful country. But the best thing is we've been seeing God's blessing and seeing God just confirm the step of faith with meetings and with fruit. Dr. Darrell Bock So you're traveling with your family. So you've got a pole -behind trailer, and you've got seven people in that thing. How do you live in that? David Jones Well, you know, the Lord already provided the Ford Excursion. That's right. It's a 2002 Excursion. It's the gas kind, the gas guzzler, but we already had the Excursion, and when the Lord was stirring us up to go, of course, the first question is, can we do this? And the first thought is, no, we can't do this. This is impossible. But then we began to look into it, and we found some pole -behind travel trailer options that would work for our family. In fact, we only found one option big enough that I could actually haul with our truck. And so it's got several slide -outs, and it has a lot of roomy space for the kids to sleep. I say roomy in relative terms, but it works for us. It's tight, but we've been doing fine the last couple of years. Dr. Darrell Bock So you've been a pastor. Now you're traveling as an evangelist. There's got to be a pretty good perspective you have. What is the difference in what are some of the things that people might be interested in, the difference between being a pastor and being on the road as an evangelist? David Jones Well, there's some stark differences, and I guess just going back to the root of it is there are two different gifts in the Bible. We have them listed in Ephesians, Chapter 4. Of course, you have the foundational gifts of the apostles and prophets. Those are no more because the foundation has been laid. But then it goes on to mention evangelists and then pastors and teachers, and I think pastor -teacher is kind of the one idea of pastoring and teaching a flock. So what is the evangelist? Well, if you think about it in the order of events, before you have a church, you have to have gospel preaching so people can be saved so you can have a church, right? So evangelist, an the word evangelist comes from the word evangel or gospel. So an evangelist preaches the gospel, but all of us do that, right? But it's a special gifting that focuses on the gospel. So as an evangelist, I think God gives a special desire, burden, boldness, or even I think also clarity in preaching the gospel so that people can understand. And that's not something to boast of, it's just something that God begins to reveal what your strengths are, what his giftings are. So evangelism is a pioneering gift. Oftentimes evangelists will plant churches, but that's not always the case. My older brother Nathan is a pastor. He planted a church. He would not call himself an evangelist, but he planted a church. So God can use different gifts for different things. I was an evangelist, but I was pastoring for 13 years. But the whole time, I knew I was an evangelist who was trying really hard to be a pastor. It's hard to explain that, but I knew that. But I'm thankful for that background so I could understand the ins and outs of being a pastor and how a church works. But an evangelist is a pioneering gift. You lay the foundation. But an evangelist can also be a restorative gift. I think of Paul. Obviously Paul was an apostle, but if you look at the way he traveled, he was trailblazing. And that's not something just an apostle can do. There were others who did that. In fact, when Paul and Barnabas split up, Barnabas took Mark, and he went off in a different direction doing the same thing that Paul was doing. So there were many who were traveling around in an itinerant way, preaching and laying new foundations through church planting. But then Paul continuously came back and had a desire to circle back and establish and strengthen the churches that he had been a part of. Well, that's itinerant work. I think in America we see a lot of the typical evangelist who travels itinerantly, preaches revival meetings. But that's not unfounded. There's a basis for that in Scripture. I just think the evangelist is more than a revival man. An evangelist can plant churches. An evangelist can go to the mission field. But I think there is a desire in evangelists to not only plant or lay a foundation, but then to be used of God to establish or to even bring an outside perspective that can help a church. And the pastor is there day in, day out. God uses that outside perspective and that special outside gifting to complement the pastor and to help the church grow. Dr. Darrell Bock So what would you say your goal is? As you go from church to church, what is your purpose and goal? What do you feel you want to accomplish by doing that? Dr. Mark Bock Well, a lot of evangelists focus on the word revival, and that's a good word. It's actually more of an Old Testament word, although we see the concept in the New Testament as well. But basically the way I look at it is churches need to thrive and new churches need to be started. My role in that would be to preach the gospel so folks can be saved. But then if I'm going back through established churches, then my goal is to see churches restored, revived to a place where they can grow again. And obviously individuals in that church being, to use another word, quickened. David talked about that. He says, quicken thou me according to thy word. And I think the evangelist can be used of the Lord to have God's power to open eyes, to quicken, to revitalize a church so they can grow. Not that he brings revival with him. Not that he has anything better than the pastor has. But it's a different gifting that complements the work of the pastor. Dr. Darrell Bock So a different train of thought here. From the perspective of a pastor, having an evangelist come into your church, how can a pastor best prepare to have an evangelist come, and how can he take care of him while he is there? Well, I mean, going back to Ephesians 4, they're called the gifts of the Holy Spirit to the church, right? So the pastor, I think people see that clearly, the pastor is a gift to a church. If you have a pastor, you have a gift. God has gifted and blessed your church. But I think sometimes pastors forget that the evangelist is also a gift to the church. And there are many pastors now who aren't having evangelists for various reasons. And I would say they're robbing their church from a gift that God wants to give them. Not because the evangelist is so special, because it's a gift God designed for the health of the church. So knowing, seeing it as a gift that God has established, make room for it, you know, promote it.
Coin Stories with Natalie Brunell
Fresh update on "health health" discussed on Coin Stories with Natalie Brunell
"There's a couple we actually met at the Canadian Bitcoin Conference here in Toronto back in June. So it's one of those, you know, silver lining things where it's like it was really rough at the time. But looking back, it's just been a great experience. And like I said, we've met people we probably wouldn't have met prior to that or other than that if this didn't happen. So, yeah, we're happy to support the truckers. Yeah, and connecting on similar values. Are you willing to share why you lost your jobs? And was that part of the reason why you also wanted to move? It's time for a quick break to hear these messages from my partners. First up, Bitcoin Amsterdam. The biggest Bitcoin conference in Europe is just around the corner. The second annual event will held October 12th and 13th and bring together speakers from around the world, including the one and only Edward Snowden, Stella Assange, Balaji, Eva Vlardinger broke and so many more. Get your tickets with a 10% discount using code HODL. And don't forget to get your early bird pass to Bitcoin Nashville 2024. You're going to get the best price right now. And again, use code HODL for that discount. I'll see you there. Next up, Fold. Fold is the best Bitcoin rewards debit card and shopping app in the world. You can earn Bitcoin on everything you purchase from Amazon to groceries to your Bitcoin conference ticket with Fold's Bitcoin cashback debit card. And you can play to win free satoshis or even a whole Bitcoin by spinning the rewards wheel. Head to foldapp.com slash Natalie and you'll get 10,000 satoshis when you sign up for spin or spin plus and spend at least $20 on the card. All right, back to the show. Yeah, so, you know, we worked for the government and there was mandates obviously back in 2021, early 2022. And, you know, we made personal choices that were just that personal and we didn't feel we had to disclose anything or do anything that, you know, was against our beliefs. So once that happened, you know, it took necessary steps to fight back against that. And here we are in Bitcoin Island. So, yeah, like I said, it all worked out. It is really interesting. I was watching a documentary the other night. It was with Milton Friedman and he talked about how if you don't have economic freedom, you can't have personal freedom. And we see more and more those freedoms being eroded all over the world, including in the places that we consider to be the most democratic. So what about the Philippines? What is it like there? And how did this Bitcoin Island spring up? Are people literally just creating a circular economy like in El Salvador? I've been to Bitcoin Beach in El Salvador, so I'm trying to, you know, kind of compare it to that. Are people using their Bitcoin wallets and spending locally? Yeah, for sure. So the story of that is basically there's a gentleman, now I'm not affiliated with this company that I'm mentioning, just supporting from the background, obviously, but not affiliated with them. So there's a young gentleman whose wife is Filipino and he's from Seattle, I believe, and he came last year to visit his wife and his family. And he realized how hard it was, Natalie, to exchange money on the island. And so what he did is his background is a software engineer, so he created a Lightning wallet just for himself, actually, just to help navigate and spend money on the island because the main sort of technology that they use, foreigners are not able to access that technology because they're not from here. It was hard for him to exchange money, so he created this wallet just for himself to utilize while he was here on the island. And from there, it sort of blossomed. So he started talking to people, they started talking to local businesses, and like I said, they actually have a brick and mortar store now, sort of right at the main entrance when you get into the island. And they have folks there where you can walk in and, you know, help look for information. And they make their way around the island, like I said, trying to onboard more people. So we've been like, really keeping our eye out for the Bitcoin accepted here signs that are in all the storefronts. So we've seen a bunch of them already. And I find that the ones we've spoken to, they still don't really, really understand it. They've just seen the magic work. And I think that's enough for them at this time. But I think there's still more education that needs to be done, obviously, because to them, it's just another QR code that they can use and accept the money right now. So like anything else in life, Natalie, I think it's just more education that's required. But like I said, 256 merchants, 260 merchants. So they've done a fabulous job in a short period of time, actually. Wow. No, that's amazing. And it does remind me of my visit to El Salvador, because the merchants I met there, it was no big deal. They were all using it, very, very comfortable with it. But in terms of that deeper knowledge of really saving for the future, a lot of the people that I met, they never saved. Really, they were living what we would consider paycheck to paycheck. Some of them were taking out loans, even at high interest rates in order to purchase the things that they were going to sell. And so there was no concept really of planning for the future and being able to save. Plus, a lot of them see Bitcoin as very, very volatile. But can you share anything about, I mean, are the people in Philippines and on this island, are they now thinking more about the future? Are they thinking about actually not spending all of their Bitcoin, but actually putting some away, even though the price does fluctuate very, very aggressively? Yeah, great question. So similar to El Salvador, the Philippines is considered a third world country, right? So the lack of education is there. But actually, they have a lot of people sort of, they brought it actually into one of the main universities in Manila now, a Bitcoin course, actually. So they're actually teaching the course in one of the main universities here, which is a big step forward. And, you know, my wife, she's told me, you know, back in the 80s, what happened with the Philippines, how the corrupt government at that time, sort of, you know, back in the mid 80s, Natalie, I believe the Filipino peso in the US dollar was sort of even. After that, it slowly started to go away. Now, I think it's to the US things like 55 to one. So all those families who sort of are saving in fiat and cash all those years for their kids to go to school, helped leave the country to, you know, send money back home and support their families overnight, it got wiped out. Right. So I think that's a similar sort of theme to some of these countries that are kind of ruled by these tyrants, right, is that they just wipe this completely. So this new technology that's being explained is that, you know, it's a deflationary asset, it's a digital asset, nobody can confiscate it, as we discussed with the trucker convoy. So I think once they're trying to really drill that point home, and once now that's in the in the university, in the classes, and they're teaching that, I think that's really big. So the progression is happening. Again, you always hear about, you know, it's kind of like the internet in the early 90s. And it's true, it's just a, it's just a matter of the people getting more familiar with it, using it. And as you know, Natalie, it's really just, you know, you ask them just to download the wallet, you send them like, you know, a couple hundred sats or whatever, just to show them how easy it is, you explain to them that it's their money, nobody can take it from them now. Zip it anywhere in the world and kind of start with that. And they seem to be on board. So yeah, it's amazing when you, there's a necessity for them to learn. So no matter how difficult it is, per se, they're going to learn, because it almost is life and death for them, right? So when you're kind of backs against the wall in that aspect, they're going to learn the technology real quick. So yeah, it's a lot of progress here. Yeah, for sure. I've always been a big believer that if you have a pain point, a financial pain point, you're going to appreciate Bitcoin much faster. And you did with the remittances. A lot of people, for me, I think it was my backstory with the great financial crisis. If you have a reason why you haven't trusted money, or you feel like that system has taken advantage of you, you're probably going to pay attention to Bitcoin faster than others, which is great, because it's happening all over the world, because so many of us have been on the other side of that system and being taken advantage. One thing I wanted to talk to you about is orange-pilling your friends, because that's what a lot of us are trying to do, sometimes more successfully than other times. What has worked for you, and where are people kind of, you know, maybe still not understanding, and you have trouble pushing that door down? Yeah, I get real passionate when I speak about Bitcoin. My father's Italian, so I have that sort of little spark in me to really get into it. So, okay, I really just start with, you know, just talking kind of about money and what money is to them, what they think it is. And like I said, they've really never taught us that in school, right? There's the old adage that I think Robert Kiyosaki always talks about, which is, you know, you get a good education, go to school, get a good job, you know, you pay taxes, and you kind of die type thing, right? So, that's how I kind of start with it. Then I same thing, I just kind of, you know, explain that to them, explain how it's a deflationary asset, store of value. We get into the halving cycles, not obviously in the first conversation we have with them, but then, you know, download a wallet, you know, send them a couple sats, explain to them like that. So, and I think, you know, we kind of live in a privileged society, right? So, as I just mentioned a few minutes ago, it's not really out of necessity for them. They can still go to a bank, open a bank account. You know, here in the Philippines, there's 60% of the people, Natalie, who are unbanked still. So, you know, they're making like $11 a day, some people, or a day, $11 a day, you know? So, when you kind of explain to them that they can keep this money, and this won't get deflated, like if they keep holding fiat or cash, that's a big thing. So, the back home, I wouldn't say it's a little more difficult, although I guess it really is, because again, out of necessity, they haven't, as you were saying a few minutes ago, they haven't put their hand on the stove and got burned yet. Yeah. Right? So, once you do that, and it affects you directly, then you kind of pivot your mindset and say, wait a sec, something's not right. And I think that takes a little longer for folks, and it's not really a fault of their own. Like I said, we're kind of in a privileged society, you know, North America, where you can go to the bank and take out money, and you can open up an account, and you can get a mortgage if you want, and these types of things. So, here in the Philippines, you can't do that. So, we're trying, you know, we've onboarded like dozens of folks back home onto Bitcoin, and got them set up with wallets and cold storage, and explained the importance of cold storage, right? So, you know, getting Bitcoin onto, buying Bitcoin is one thing, but then immediately, as you know, we get it to cold storage right away. So, we've had some success, and we're still pushing forward with that. So, I'd say it's been pretty good so far. It's time for another quick break to hear these messages from my partners. Next up, Coinkite, which offers everything you need to safely take custody of your Bitcoin. Coinkite produces the cold card wallet, which is the cold storage device I use for safekeeping my Bitcoin. You can verify the source code. It's ultra secure, and it's easy to use, even if you're a beginner. Head to their website in my show notes to find all of their custody products, and you'll get a 5% discount with my link. Become your own bank with Bitcoin and Coinkite. Next up, I want to share with you about crowd health. Health insurance costs are sky high today, and you send your money every month to a fiat corporation, only to never see that money again, even if you don't get sick. But if you do need care, you end up having to pay even more out pocket. But luckily, there's an alternative, and it's all about community. CrowdHealth brings together Bitcoiners who crowdfund each other's healthcare. So, how it works is when you need a doctor or hospital visit, CrowdHealth negotiates down the medical bill lower than what insurance would be, and the community helps you cover the costs. You get to save the money you would have sent to an insurance company, and hey, why not put it into Bitcoin? To sign up, head to join crowdhealth.com slash Natalie. All right, next up, I'm excited to share that I am an advisor for the Orange Pill app. If you haven't downloaded this app yet, then you're missing out on connecting with Bitcoiners in your area. The Orange Pill app is focused on building the social layer for Bitcoin and helping create opportunities for in-person connections and community building. Come join us and use the referral link in my show notes to start connecting today. But we're still pushing forward with that, so I'd say it's been pretty good so far. Yeah, I mean, you bring up a great point. One of the best ways is just have someone download the wallet and send them satoshis and talk about the fact that there was no bank in the middle, there was no third party, you didn't have to wait weeks for settlement, and there you go, you have the money. So with your wife, I mean, she immigrated from the Philippines to Canada, right? So in addition to the remittance side of it, does she have her own personal story of just witnessing, you know, maybe her family going through a fiat crisis that led her to also believe in Bitcoin when you shared it with her? Yeah, I mean, if you talk to her, she'll tell you that she Orange Pilled me, and that kind of is correct in a sense where she kind of brought the idea from her eldest brother. As I mentioned, they're computer engineers, so they kind of understood it from a different standpoint than I did. I didn't know anything about that, right? I just know, like I said, we could send it, zip it, quick it, and that's kind of the angle I come at when I talk to people. So as far as her family sort of feeling the effects of what we discussed earlier, yeah, I think for the most part, the whole country did, right? So like I said before, you know, we'd have to send it and her mom would have to travel to one of these places to get the remittance, but it would take a few days, they take, you know, whatever percentage of it as well. So I mean, they're all sharp people. So it was a no brainer for all of them. It's like, I don't have to leave my house and get it. I can just accept it on a wallet, convert it to pesos via a lightning wallet or through, I mean, so to them, it was just all on board. And again, they didn't necessarily have to understand all the underlying technology of this technology. They just knew, like I said, they can get it quickly, easy, safely, nobody can take it from them. So yeah, they were all in when they heard about it. Right. Well, you know, it's interesting because a lot of us, you know, when people are scared about the technical components of Bitcoin, I wouldn't be able to tell you how the heck they make this thing work, right? It feels like magic in so many ways to me still. But I think a lot of people in the future will use Bitcoin even if they don't go down to the sand like so many of us did to actually study how mining works and the difficulty adjustment and all that. Well, Mark, it's been awesome to talk to you. I'm wishing you all the best on Bitcoin Island. Is there anything else you want to share with the audience today? Honestly, Natalie, I just want to thank you for the time today. Like I've told you kind of in the private chat while we're setting this up, I appreciate what you do. You know, we've been a fan since we saw you, I think, in Miami 2021, maybe. That's kind of when I joined Twitter and X, I guess, was around that time. So that's when I started following the different people in Bitcoin and whatnot. So just thanks for your time today. And yeah, just, you know, keep stacking sets, everybody. It's still super early. You know, I saw Michael Saylor just bought a bunch of more Bitcoin yesterday. So if you still want to get some, we better hurry up because he's going to scoop it all up right now. So just hopefully we can continue pushing the good word forward of Bitcoin. What it'll do for humanity, the type of help it can provide to a lot of people, people in El Salvador, the Philippines, all over the world, etc. So yeah, keep stacking sets. And thanks again for having me. I love it. Yes, the Philippines needs Bitcoin, the world does. And we need a front run, those institutions and CEOs. So thank you so much, Mark. And I'll put your X handle in the show notes. And I'm sure a lot of people will want to connect with you after this. So see you soon.Appreciate you, Natalie. Thank you. All right. And finally, this show is also brought to you by I Trust Capital. I Trust lets you invest in Bitcoin for your retirement with the tax benefits of an IRA. And here are some important things to know. I Trust does not lend against client assets, and the accounts are FDIC insured up to $250,000. So if you're doing retirement planning and thinking about adding Bitcoin to your portfolio, you can sign up at itrust.capital slash nataliebrunel. Thanks so much for listening to this episode of Coin Stories. I'd love to connect with you if you have questions or guest requests, so feel free to get in touch on Twitter at Nat Brunel or Instagram at Natalie Brunel. Take care till next time.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Kevin McCullough
"Welcome to the Eric Mataxas Show. Do you like your gravy thick and rich and loaded with creamy mushrooms? If no one was looking, would you chug the whole gravy boat? Chug! Chug! Chug! Chug! Stay tuned. Here comes Mr. Chug -a -Lug himself, Eric Mataxas. Hey folks, welcome to the program. If you're like me, last night you were able to watch the debate and you deliberately skipped it for your mental health. That's just where I am in life right now. I caught parts of it which made me wince and cringe, sometimes wince and cringe. I never wept, but you know what, it's probably better for me to find out what my guest thought. He may have watched the debate. My friend, Kevin McCullough, we call you votes tridamus because you are a prognosticator, a seer, a prophet politically speaking. Kevin McCullough of that Kevin show, how are you? I'm well and I can see some things very clearly today. There should be no more debates. These exercises in futility, and that's what they've turned into, are becoming embarrassing to the cause of what this election should be about. And last night, it's just hard to put into words how bad this debate was, from its execution to the policies, to the answers. It was just nothing good about it. Some people in my audience care about this. I'm in Irvine, California. I'm in a hotel room you people can see. I'm speaking today, so today's Thursday in Costa Mesa. So if anybody wants to come and hold my hand and hug me about the sadness of the debate, or just talk to me or get book signed or whatever I'm going to be tonight in Costa Mesa, you go to my website, ericmataxas .com, and you can see me and talk to me and hang out and whatever tonight in Costa Mesa. This is Thursday, folks. And tomorrow, there's a prayer breakfast here in Irvine that I'm speaking at. But the reason I bring this up, Kevin, is because I rarely have time to turn on the TV. And last night, I realized, oh, I'm pretty wiped out. Let me turn on the TV. Let me just look at the debate just to see. I literally really couldn't bear to watch it. So as someone who watched it, I'm talking to you. Am I being cruel or unfair? Because it was unfair. What little I saw was genuinely unbearable. No, as I was saying just a second ago, from the way it was structured, to the execution, to the answers to the substance, the format's wild and out of control. There's not really a possibility of getting very deep on any one of the single questions. And I think a lot of the questions that are being asked are not the right ones. And so as I've watched, and I didn't watch all of last night's debate in real time, I caught up on a bunch of it after the fact. But as I've sat through both of them now, it is easy for me to ascertain that no one in this field on that stage last night is serious about becoming president. And they're not biting into the enormous lead that the former president has only built on since the first debate occurred. The first debate, they had 11 million viewers put to put that in perspective, Eric, in 2015. For the first debate, they had more than 15 million viewers in 2020. For the first debate, they had about 18 million viewers. You're talking about a diminishing return a, a much less interested Republican base watching these, and they're not they're not going anywhere. And in the meantime, it's putting even with some of our better idea people on display as amateurs, even with Doug Burgum on the stage, hard to believe. Yeah. That would be like a rematch between Evander Holyfield and Mike Tyson. You're telling me people, Lisa Hutchinson was not able to be on the stage this time, as far as we know. Yeah, I think he took a, he took a face shot in the early rounds, and he was in his dressing room. Honestly, the thing there, what I said on Twitter this morning, was that they acted like it was 1985. We are living in a time in America, where most people see, we are in freefall, hell has been unleashed. Things have gotten so bad on so many fronts that it is, if you don't believe in God, which I do, and I trust in him, but if it weren't for that, I'd be scared to death. What is happening in this country? And they acted like it's 1985. And we're gonna, we're gonna have this conversation. And I thought, this is this is bad. I mean, the way the the deep state has been weaponized to go after Donald Trump, for example, I don't care if you're running against Trump, if you like Trump, but if that doesn't strike you as, as fundamentally un -American and sick as anything, as though, you know, we were being bombed by China, it's pretty bad. They seem not to be concerned. Well, they're responding to questions that have been supposedly thoughtfully put together by the moderators that are doing the debate. And Ron DeSantis did a little bit more of this last night, all of them to have done more of this, where he actually came with a little bit of an agenda to give little speeches every time that he was given the opportunity to speak. And he got more things out on the record than what he was asked about. But that should be the strategy of every candidate going into every debate. That should be the strategy of every thinker going on every media outlet that you can. Sometimes, Eric, it's better for me to go on Fox or Newsmax or somewhere and have something that I'm more intent on saying that what they want to ask me about. And if you're, if you're running for president in times of crisis, and I don't, I don't view the period that we're in right now as a peaceful time. We're not actively at war with anybody, but we are actively at war with evil on, on almost every front. So we need, there needs to be an urgency. There needs to be a sense of, we cannot phone it in and do it like we've done it in the past, especially knowing that we are going to run up against probably illicit, illegal, cheating schemes, trying to keep the election from actually being determined by the people that have the right to determine it. And before people criticize me for that, we've replaced the population of the bottom eight states in just illegal entries into the country over the last three years. Well, let's do that in a minute, because you wrote an article at townhall .com. That is one of the stunning nightmares that they acted like not, not really a big problem. But what you just said about cheating, I think most Americans know the Democrats cheat at elections. How is that not the most important thing to discuss when you're talking about a presidential election? Are you and I imagining, are millions and millions and millions and millions of Democrats actually cheat? Now they've done it for decades, but now we know that they have turned it into a science. They are at war with we, the people, they don't actually care about winning in a fair way. They just care about winning. How is that not unbelievably important and something that has to be discussed? But the Fox hosts and the Latina from Univision, which is another bizarre thing, they seem to act like January 6 was Trump supporters being violent. They seem to act like the election was fair. Biden won. What world are they living in? All of them. I don't know what to say. And obviously, I think Vivek and Ron DeSantis, they're the only two candidates that I can take seriously. I've got problems with them a little bit. But the whole thing was like, they were all play acting like we're living in a different America than the one most of us are living in. Well, I will hold one exception out to what you just said. And I believe that Nikki Haley had a sense of urgency about her last night. And she did in the first debate as well. And I think that's why she's now out polling DeSantis in several polls, is that people are beginning to understand that as a former governor, she probably has a shot at the VP pick. I don't think the VP pick is going to come out of this group. But if Trump did want one that I'm seeing kind of be serious on the issues that are the most pressing, she's the one that kind of gets the vote in terms of... I think of her as deep state, neo -con, next. All right. That's fine. I'm just saying in terms of her performance thus far. We've got you our wonderfully. I'm so glad that we do. We'll be right back. With the overturn of Roe v. Wade, lots of companies are coming out saying they'll pay for employee abortion travel and expenses. Most of you have heard about some of these companies. 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Animal Radio
A highlight from 1243. Should You Trust Pet DNA Tests?
"Celebrating the connection with our pets, this is Animal Radio featuring your dream team, veterinarian Dr. Debbie White and groomer, Joey Vellani. And here are your hosts, Hal Abrams and Judy Francis. Do you know what kind of pet you have? Well, certainly if it's a cat or dog, you probably know the difference. But do you know what kind of breed? Is it a mutt? What is making up the DNA of your dog or your cat? And do you care? A lot of people do. There's about 10 different tests on the market right now where you can send in saliva or cheek spittle, I guess? Yeah, cheek swab. It's actually the epithelial. So it's the cells that you're getting off the cheek, not necessarily the spit. Epithelial? Is that what you said there? I learned so much from you. And they'll tell you if it's what kind of breed it is or if it's made up of several different breeds. You did this, Judy. I think your results came back like lion and elephant. They weren't even dogs. It was so bizarre. She's full grown now. She weighs nine pounds. And it came back all these St. Bernard's, German Shepherds, Belgian Malinois. I thought, really? So that was a cheek swab. And then when I did the blood... Oh, you did a blood test too? I did a blood. It came back Jack Russell, miniature pincher and Maltese. And are you going with that? Oh, definitely. She's definitely Jack Russell. It came out 50 % Jack Russell. And that's what she is. Now, why did you want to know this information? Well, first of all, I didn't want a Jack Russell because I did my research and I know how hyper they are. And I'm not that hyper person. I want a more laid back dog. And so I did my research and got her from a rescue when she was eight weeks old. They said she was a Chihuahua, but there was no Chihuahua in this girl. And I questioned that as she got a little bit older. And I thought, okay, I got to find out. And I wanted to know what she was because people ask, people look at her, and everybody had their guesses. And it's like, I don't know. And I wanted to know what my dog was. But would it be safe to say you didn't want a Jack Russell, but you love your dog? Oh, I would not trade her for the world. I'll keep that little 50 % Jack. So the blood test really made little difference in anything, really, except telling people. Just what it was. It was kind of like bragging rights to know what my dog is and be able to say when people ask. That's basically why I did it. But then again, still, at least I know if there's anything I should look at, you know, with the breeds that she may be predisposed to down the line. You mean like a sickness or a disease? Health? Yeah. If she starts doing something or something happens and I can say, well, that's typical of this breed. So what kind of diseases and sicknesses are typical of, what did you say? Was it Jack Russell? Jack Russell, 50%. And a Min Pin? Well, we can see a lot of things with knees, so we can see patellar luxations. She's had two knee surgeries, two back legs. But that also fits with a lot of other small breeds. But, you know, there can be some host of skin diseases, allergies that we may not have like a specific test for. You know, but there are some conditions in some breeds, like say golden retrievers have a genetic linked with seizures. So if you had a yellow large breed dog and you didn't know what it was and it started developing seizures. And if I knew this dog was a golden retriever, I'd say, wow, you know, sometimes golden retrievers can be very challenging to manage with seizures. And we really have to use every means at our disposal to try to get those seizures under control. So it wouldn't change necessarily, you know, would I treat or not treat, but it might make us say, okay, our expectations are this is going to be a more challenging patient to try to manage. So that's one example. But there's a whole tons of things, you know, cataracts are inherited, heart diseases with certain breeds can be inherited, and kidney problems with cats. There's a type of polycystic kidney disease, a kidney disease in Himalayans and Persian type cats that can cause different problems. So, you know, there's all sorts of things that there are genetic tests for. It doesn't mean your dog or cat will get them. It just may mean they have some genetic tendency or genetic marker for that. So I see these online tests and but you do it in your office there? Do veterinarians offer these tests? Yeah, I mean, not everyone is going to do that. But we we do like that. And it's one is it's kind of the ooh, cool factor, you know, so you can, you know, have a party and people will ask and you can actually have some answer that sounds, you know, like you didn't just make this up. That's one important thing. But I do think it can help guide some decisions on awareness and potentially your pet's health down the road. So I wouldn't say it will make me do something different for a patient as far as putting them to sleep. But I do think it's important information to be armed with to know what you need to worry about to watch for in your pet's life. I agree. And if you can't afford it and somebody asks what kind of dog you have, say snuffle up against it really will throw the middle. It'll be different. So we're going to talk to a lady today, a doctor, Dr. Lisa Moses. She practices pain and palliative care at the Angel Animal Medical Center in Boston. And she says you may not want to bet the farm when you do one of these tests, as sometimes the information may not be accurate. And I wanted to find out about this. How important is it? Are people making decisions with bad information? So we'll have her on the show in just a few minutes to talk about that. Also today, we're going to be talking to the folks over at Smoke Alarm Monitoring. What's this guy's name? It's spelled really weird. Z -S -O -L -T. Zolt. Is that Hungarian? What is that? Sounds like it could be. He says our pets are starting fires. He sells smoke alarms for a living. And he says that our pets are actually, while they're unattended, starting fires in our house. See, I hide the matches. You do? Little delinquents. Oh my goodness. Yes. What do you expect? But first, your calls toll free from the free animal radio app for iPhone and Android. Let's go to Gary. Hey, Gary. How are you? I'm very good, sir. How are you? Very good. Where are you calling from today? You have kind of that southern twang. North Carolina. North Carolina. How is North Carolina today? It's kind of warm. It's not unbearably hot, but it's a warm day. What's going on with the animals? I have the whole team here for you. Okay. Well, I've been listening to your program lately over the last several weeks and was interested in the discussion that I've heard about yeast infections, skin conditions, and the treatments. And then also, there was also somewhat of a separate discussion about the use of human products on animals and how effective they can be, or harmful, or whatever the case may be. And I wanted to tell you about my little guy. I'll give you a little background on him, a little of the tale of the tape. He's approximately eight years old, as far as we know. He's a Yorkie mix, he's a small guy, just a shade under eight pounds, and I found him abandoned out in the country. And he was in pretty bad shape. He was missing hair and had a lot of parasites and skin infections, yeast, and all that. And we've been battling it for nearly three years now, but he's made much improvement, just great improvement. I kind of took it upon myself to use a product that's designed for human females, actually, who might have that kind of affliction, and rubbed it liberally on the elephant skin areas of my dog. And after doing that for three or four days in a row, it really seemed to help clear it up. What do you think of that, Doc? Well, we have to be precise when we talk about different products, because there's some products that actually can have harmful ingredients in them, and some won't hurt, and actually have active ingredients that might be appropriate. So I'm going to back up, because when we talk about elephant skin, and kind of that thickened skin, like for anybody who's not seen this in dogs, it typically is when their skin gets real thick, leathery, they lose the hair in the area, and it actually, from a distance, looks like elephant skin. And that's a combination of what we call hyperpigmentation, so the skin turns dark, and lichenification, which is where the skin becomes thick, and there's extra layers, if you will, that kind of are put on top of the skin. Those things happen from a couple possibilities, and we can see it with allergies, but really with things like yeast and bacterial infections. So it sounds like you're certainly barking up the right tree there, but the cautions I have with some of the female yeast products that are used for vaginal yeast infections, there are some that actually contain anesthetics. A vagus cell, for example, contains an ingredient called benzocaine. And this can be highly - Well, that's actually what I used. I used the generic, but yeah, you're on the right tree there. Okay. Yeah, so actually, benzocaine can cause toxicities in both dogs and cats. So just licking it off their skin, it can actually be toxic to the red blood cells, causes what we call hemoglobinemia. So if it contains that ingredient, I would say, put it back on the shelf and save it for your wife in the household. But there are certainly, say, athlete's foot creams that contain chlorotrimazole, which is an antifungal. In that, we've used that on surface yeast infections. But the reality is, if we've got that kind of change in the skin, most of those pets actually need kind of a two -pronged approach. So the topicals only get you so far, and they really need to be on some kind of oral or systemic therapy. So most of the pets that I have with that kind of skin can take a course of maybe three months to get them improved, controlling the itch, controlling the infection. If they've got yeast or bacteria, then we put them on either an antibiotic or an oral yeast form, like ketoconazole, per se.
The Café Bitcoin Podcast
A highlight from Monetizing Wasted Energy + Bitcoin Mining with Giga Energy - September 28th, 2023
"Hello, and welcome to the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast brought to you by Swan Bitcoin, the best way to buy and learn about Bitcoin. I'm your host, Alex Danson, and we're excited to announce that we're bringing the Cafe Bitcoin Conversations Twitter Spaces to you on this show, the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast, Monday through Friday every week. Join us as we speak to guests like Michael Saylor, Len Alden, Corey Clifston, Greg Foss, Tomer Strohle, and many others in the Bitcoin space. Also, be sure to hit that subscribe button. Make sure you get notifications when we launch a new episode. You can join us live on Twitter Spaces Monday through Friday, starting at 7 a .m. Pacific and 10 a .m. Eastern every morning to become part of the conversation yourself. Thanks again. We look forward to bringing you the best Bitcoin content daily here on the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast. All right, all right. Good morning to all of you Cafe Bitcoiners. Good morning, Don Bay. Morning, Peter. Morning, Terrence. Welcome back, Tomer Strohle. How are you? Morning to Jacob. Hey, good morning. Took me a second to get the mic off, slow reflexes, got to exercise and back up. What did I miss? I really tried to tune out for like a solid 12 days. Absolutely nothing, Tomer. The price didn't change. And I guess no ETFs were approved and no charges were laid against anybody. And so it's just picked a good two week window to take a vacation, I suppose. Yeah, it's been much sideways crabbing. And, you know, everything that goes along with sideways crabbing. So I've been actually trying to tune out too. Like when I'm not doing the show, I try not to look at Twitter at all. So like my Twitter time is basically doing Cafe Bitcoin now. Well, and like prior to. Prior to Cafe Bitcoin, we also do show prep, which kind of gets me caught up, I hope, a little bit. Yeah, I wish there was an easier way to curate Twitter from all the truly psychotic stuff that's on it, because when I was away, I noticed myself relaxing. And then you come back to Twitter and every tweet seems to be. Some deeply concerning insinuation about something or other. So it just it's really it's really tough to take the constant barrage of the Twitter zeitgeist, which is it may be accurate in many regards, but it's also very impactful on your mental health. Yeah, your mental, spiritual health, emotional health, all that stuff. I wonder, like how much of it is actually encouraged, exacerbated, incentivized by the algorithms and social media? Like if you go and you watch certain interviews with like Ph .D. behavioral scientists who have done interviews with like one of the one I'm thinking of was. I think it was the chief engineer of Facebook who designed the algorithm and they literally said that we tune this thing to show people things that are going to make them upset. And the reason why is this has the highest level of stickiness, meaning like it gets the eyeballs looking at it, it gets people staying on, it holds people's attention. And we're living in the attention economy. Whoever is able to keep people's attention longest wins, so to speak. And it's essentially like constantly feeding people really dysfunctional stuff. It's like Jerry Springer 24 -7. Yeah, there's a couple of really good TED talks about this. And it's interesting now that AI is in the zeitgeist, everybody is focusing on AI, but AI algorithms, not ones that were writing perfectly grammatically correct English text for you or drawing images, but selecting what content to put in front of you have been around for a long time. And this is like the YouTube algorithm, the Facebook algorithm and the Twitter algorithm. And what's interesting about these TED talks that discuss this issue is they point out how you simply optimize for engagement. You tell the AI algorithm, learn what maximizes engagement and put that in front of people to continue to maximize engagement. The AI has no actual understanding of what content is in there, but what emerges is it is exactly, as you said, content that is radicalizing, emotionally aggravating, terrifying. If you're in terror, you keep coming back to the thing to see, is my terror justified? Has the next domino fallen in this disaster scenario that I'm coming? If everything's hunky dory, you don't have to go back and check. But if you're constantly in a state of fear, you are. And that's what ends up being game theoretically or algorithmically what these things put in front of people. So there's one really good scientist who says, you know, if you start to look at vegetarian dishes, it will turn you into a radical vegan by doing these things. Or if you start to look at meat dishes, it'll turn you into a radical carnivore. But it'll just continue to radicalize the content by finding something that's more extreme until it gets to the most extreme thing that it can to keep you on there. And I think that, and again, the AI algorithm isn't conscious. It doesn't know what's going on. It just knows what works and what works happens to be the stuff that is filling and fueling you with terror. And I don't think that there's a solution for that right now. The best solution is some solution that where your attention isn't the business model of the of the entity you're interacting with because you're dealing with something that has artificial and no sense of morality and no sense of understanding even what it means to suffer as a human being to be a human being. So it just does its thing. It's just a machine that does its thing. And the second that you engage with it, you're participating in something that doesn't understand anything about you other than it understands its world, that it's trying to maximize its engagement with these entities on the other end of it. Yeah, and I think we need to ask the question, like, what are the second and third order effects on human culture from this? Like, if you think about it, people are constantly staring at their phones like they're just sucked into them and they're being essentially programmed all day every day. The question is, with what? And, you know, you're starting to see this shift in the in the culture. Like I call, you know, I've talked about this kind of stuff a lot, probably to the point where many people are tired of me talking about it maybe. But like cluster B personality disorder type stuff is it's becoming super common. The behaviors are starting to become super common. Like you at least that's what you see all the time on social media. Like how many people are actually out there that are like this? I don't know what the percentage of the population is, but it seems like that's all you see on social media anymore is these cluster B disordered behaviors. And it's it's really mind blowing. And I wonder, can you take a normal person and expose them to those behaviors? Because that's what's getting the engagement. That's what they're being fed. That's what they're being programmed with. You take a normal person, expose them to those behaviors continuously over and over and over again. Will it turn somebody into somebody who behaves like that? I don't know, man. It's pretty freaky thing to me. And it concerns me a lot because you're starting to see the rise of this.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 09/28/23
"Stay tuned for a free health tip brought to you by Peloton. Whether you're doing a dance to your favorite artist in the office parking lot or being guided into warrior one in the break room before your shift. Whether you're running on your Peloton tread at your mom's house while she watches the baby or counting your breaths on the subway. Peloton is for all of us wherever we are whenever we need it. Download the free Peloton app today. Peloton app available through free tier or paid subscription starting at $12 .99 per month. Embrace the power of daily walks for improved health and well -being. Walking is a simple yet effective form of exercise that offers a wide range of health benefits. Whether you stroll through the park, walk around your neighborhood or take a brisk walk during your lunch break. There are a lot of health benefits to getting in your daily walks. Next time you may be craving that afternoon cup of coffee, try a Peloton walk outside to go grab your coffee. The Peloton app offers structured walking experiences regardless of your environment. So get out and enjoy that fresh air with the help of Peloton. Birthday 85 years old today. So a little stand by me. It was a joy. First of all, you did great. I was just saying the news channel product last night was fun and it was great to hook up from the house and just join you in the immediate aftermath. We've slept on it now. Do you feel any differently? I may resent it even more now than I did last night. What a colossal waste of time. Not for Donald Trump. The winner was Donald Trump. That's just it. I mean, and you said it earlier. He's he's a genius once again in his decision to stay away. And I've been thinking a lot about DeSantis's decision to go after Trump on this issue. I would think, you know, Governor DeSantis, if he has any chance at all, has to win over Trump supporters. Correct. How do you win over Trump supporters by trashing the guy who made the brilliant decision to stay away from that train wreck last night? And it was a train wreck. How many times in your career, Mark, have you decided to do something that you just wish like heck you could take back? I mean, I don't know. Maybe. Oh, I could. I could just start with Monday. You know, I mean, if you're Dana Perino, you're going to spend the rest of your career asking yourself, why did I think the survivor question was going to go over? Well, so stupid. So stupid. And that couldn't have been couldn't have been her. That's got to be some staffer, even some executive or some consultant who said, hey, let's lighten the mood or do something kind of fun. And sometimes I'm actually OK with the moment that sort of humanizes them. I mean, like in a one on one debate or maybe when there's just two or three people left or to say, look, you guys are up there to sort of knock each other around. Tell me one really good, praiseworthy thing about each other, you know, about you, about your opponent. And that's kind of neat. And it sort of cuts. But this was so unbelievably stupid. And and there were a lot of cringe moments. I mean, poor Mike Pence. I've slept with the school teacher for 38 years. And everybody kind of groaned. And Chris Christie, oh, you're not Donald Trump. You're Donald Duck. Somebody wrote that for him and he thought it would go well. Or maybe it was his. Once again, I don't know whose idea it was, but it was terrible. And let's go back to programing decisions. The Univision lady, are you serious? I want to be as careful as I've ever been for anything. Univision, God bless them. Great. Univision, whatever Hispanic news media. Great. And I bet she's great on it. I bet she's wonderful.
The Podcast On Podcasting
A highlight from Ep383: Best Morning Habits Podcasters Should Practice - Ahna Fulmer
"Podcasting would be a good option. And interestingly, it combined a skill that I didn't realize I'd been honing, which was interviewing an interesting element of interviewing as well as podcasting. This goes into the next question, but what makes a successful one? And it is learning the art of asking better questions. Most hosts never achieved the results they hoped for. They're falling short on listenership and monetization, meaning their message isn't to help you grow your listenership and make money while you're at it. Get ready to take notes. Here's your host, Adam Adams. Hey, podcaster. It's your host, Adam Adams. And we're with Ana Fomer today, who is a client and a friend and somebody that inspires me. And I think you'll also find yourself a little bit inspired at the end of the podcast. She's got a show, obviously, or else how could we help her? And it is called, I said it wrong earlier. I said, I don't know what I said, but it was not right. It's imperfectly empowered, imperfectly empowered. I love it. And you also are doing something new in your business. It's kind of recent and it's about waking up early and having a morning routine. I think I would like to hear a little bit about, and maybe the listener would, what's important about a morning routine and why did you pick those two things? Yeah, I think one of the first things that's important to clarify is that waking up early is not natural for about 50 % of the population. And I happen to be one of those 50%. And I was, it was about four or five years ago in 2018, I was a busy working mom. I had three kids. My youngest was one and I was a dual certified nurse practitioner working in emergency medicine at the time. I was also the assistant medical director for two stroke programs that I helped create from the ground up. On top of that, we were renovating houses. We were in our second fixer upper at that time. That was like a side hustle for my husband and I. And on top of that, I had just started a home DIY decor blog just for fun because I didn't have enough going on. But it was at that point that a lot of us reach as moms where I desperately needed time for me. I was sick of waking up every morning, rushed and feeling like I was starting stressed and behind before I even got going for the day. And so I decided I was going to start an early morning routine because it was the only time I could find quiet. So I hustled to make this happen. And I fought this news button for about two years and really reprogrammed my biology to fall in love with the early morning quiet. And I fell in love with it so much and realized how many other women desperately want the same thing. But when it's not natural, it's incredibly difficult. And there's no program out there teaching you how to become an early morning person ultimately. So as a health and fitness coach, I ended up leaving bedside medicine and my online presence as a blogger actually turned into a virtual health and fitness professional, which is really neat. Now I help people prevent disease instead of treat disease, which is exciting. But what happened is I realized there was this gap for many of us as women in the health and fitness space because we go hard for six weeks and we transform our life for six weeks. But it's sort of like a bandaid on a gaping wound because we haven't created a habit of life change. And not that that six weeks wasn't important, but what we need is we need another program to partner with those fitness and nutrition programs who are able to also teach people how to create a habit to help sustain and offload some of the stress during our day so that we can really focus on nutritional changes, which is a full -time job for any of you. Adam, you've certainly undergone a lot of health transformation. You know, I mean, tracking macros in and of itself is like a full -time job. So the bottom line is we are in the process of creating this premier virtual program for busy women to learn how to become an early morning riser, establish a routine they can sustain that starts with being not doing. We don't get up earlier to hustle harder and do more. We're trying to press pause and actually be still and renew our hearts and minds in the calm of the quiet. And then we get a time efficient, effective workout done before our kids wake up. So that is early morning habit. If that's not cool enough, we are also an adoption fundraising program. My passion is to help women really manifest the sense that you are worth investing in because you have the power to impact the world because you've been made in the image of God and that alone makes you enough finding your value, not in what you say or do, but in the God that created you and really tapping into that to manifest this idea that you have the power to change the world. The small choices that you make for yourself have a massive impact. So when women successfully complete the program on the app, my company gives them back a significant portion of the money they paid for the program to give forward to an enrolled and adopting mom. Who's raising funds through life song for orphans. We are also adopting. So this is another heartbeat of mine. So anyways, there's a lot going on behind the scenes over here, but early morning habit, we're ready to change women's lives and bring more children home to their forever families. I like it. I have a question on the 50%. You mentioned that there's about half of us who it's not natural for us to wake up early. It's not normal. It shouldn't be normal maybe for us to wake up early. It's not our in our body, but that we can fix it. Is that part's true, right? And you fixed it. I'm living proof of that. Yes. What I'm curious about is who is your 50 % that it's not natural for or is it anybody? It's absolutely anybody. And to be clear in early morning routine is beneficial, whether you are a man or a woman, it's just my avatar specifically for this program. We are really honing in on busy women. And what I have found is it tends to be moms who recognize the need for an early morning routine. And this would have been true of me as well. It wasn't until I had kids. I mean, we think we're busy before kids. And then you have kids and suddenly you realize your time is no longer your own. And so you have to create time. And as there's only 24 hours in a day for most of us women as moms that tends to be before our kids wake up, if we want to maintain our sanity, not to mention our health. So my perfect avatar for early morning habit is really busy women. And a familiar business adage is you are best positioned to serve the person you once were. And so for me, that is I think I'm quoting Rory Vaden. He might have been quoting somebody else I don't even know. But for me, that was the busy Christian mom who wanted to start her day grounded in the truth of God's word, and then wanted to pound out a workout. But I knew I needed to start being still because I was constantly surrounded by chaos and noise of society, my own family, the own expectations I put on myself. So busy Christian moms is the very hyper -targeted audience, but it's really, it's just busy women. Any busy woman benefits from this, whether you're an early morning riser by nature or not, to answer that part. Okay, perfect. I was going to ask again, but no, perfect. So in the two big parts are reading the scripture and getting a workout in. So I've got this friend, he wrote a book about early morning, Hal Elrod. He's got this thing called Savers, and I think that must be like six things to do in the morning. Why do you pick those two? And is there anything else that you might think of adding on to it? It's a great question. And it's an interesting dynamic that a man would create six things to do, and a woman is going to create two. And I'll tell you why I think that's an important thing to highlight is one of the issues we frequently face as women is simply that it's the to -do list. We are constantly exhausted by our to -do lists, and we also feel the pressure in our society, as well as from ourselves, to do more, to hustle harder, and ultimately to be more. We think that we need to prove ourselves and our home or outside of our homes in order to reach a standard of success, however we're defining that. Our family is well put together and our kids are thriving. Maybe that's our definition. Maybe it's financial. Maybe it's the professional goals. But the problem is we are constantly moving, and the reality is, scientifically speaking, socially speaking, all five elements of our health, there are ways to prove that one of the best things we can do ourselves is to actually be still, practice the art of being still. So when we teach our community how to start their day being, not doing, we are specifically honing in on three things. Truth, or God's word, prayer, some people might practice meditation, and then gratitude. And there is a scientifically proven concept called emotionally intelligent gratitude practice, and that is what we teach our community how to implement. Whether you are somebody who prays or doesn't, emotionally intelligent gratitude can change every single aspect of your health and ultimately your life. So between that and a workout, I want women to be able to create a habit they can sustain, and if you go much beyond two things in the morning, I'm already peaced out because I'm looking at my to -do list, and I need it simple and sustainable. I love the simply part. I have a question, emotionally intelligent gratitude. In 2018, it was December of 18, I was overstressed, overworked, trying to do too much, and wasn't making all the best choices, wasn't working out enough, and that's where the health journey that you mentioned earlier came, but it was more like a life journey. There was a lot that changed, not snapping at the kids as much. But it started with something called gratitude. Now I didn't have you in my corner at that time, so I didn't know what emotionally intelligent gratitude was. What I would do is, when I'd wake up, I would try to express some gratitude before I got out of bed. When I went to bed, I tried to close my eyes and express some gratitude before I slept, and almost any time that I got overstressed, things were just compounding on me, and I wasn't sure what to do, and I was thinking about how stressful it was. I was thinking about how bad it was. Then I would have to re -hone during the day a few times and just, I guess, talk about my many blessings, because all of us have so many blessings. We just got to think about them, like the relationship with our kids, the relationship with our sweetheart, the air that we have to breathe, the roof over our heads, etc. So I would, when it was hardest to feel gratitude in my busiest of times, I would also just take a moment to try to close my eyes or even open them and think about what I'm grateful for. It ended up making a humongous impact on who I am as a person, and I still try to do it. Not as much, to be honest. I wish I did. I should. I should definitely get back to doing it more often every morning, every night, and any time I'm stressed. But I don't know what emotionally intelligent gratitude would mean if I was even close to it or not. What would you say to a listener who heard that and doesn't know what it means? Yeah, so I should also clarify emotionally intelligent gratitude practice is a concept that I have created, so this is proprietary to my program, but why I have clarified something, and I've taken gratitude practice and, one, infused a lot more science into the actual practice, so there's more intention to it, but one of the concerns with gratitude practice that I see for a lot of us is that it starts to border on good vibes only, and anyone who's listened to my podcast knows I am not a fan of that concept. The good vibes only concept is detrimental because what it is subconsciously telling us to do is to keep hustling harder and ignoring the stress, ignoring the fact that we're an absolute mess, ignoring the fact that our family is not perfect, that we actually feel terrible, we're anxious, we're stressed, so good vibes only is almost this concept of just ignore the bad, we're only going to focus on the good, and that's not true for everyone practicing gratitude, but it is very, very easy to start to lean to that corner of gratitude as though it is simply only focusing on the good in our life because, if we're honest, we are terrified of acknowledging the fact that we're actually a hot mess. Clearly not the corner I stand in as my podcast is quite literally titled Imperfectly Empowered, I'm all about the concept of embracing the mess, so where we incorporate emotionally intelligent gratitude practice is that in the actual practice of gratitude, before we are even diving into the very specific things that we are grateful for, we are first improving our emotional intelligence. Intellectual intelligence, we're familiar with IQs. It is something that, for the most part, cannot be developed. You have a naturally given IQ. Obviously, circumstances can depress somebody's ability to fully live out or up to that IQ potential, but typically speaking, it does not change. Emotional intelligence is something that can be grown, developed, and worked on, and it has three components. It is number one, being able to identify emotions, and this is where something as simple as an emotions wheel comes in. If you have a kid who struggles with behavioral issues or emotions, I have one of those kids, these emotion wheels come into play because you see like the little happy, do you feel happy, do you feel sad, or there's like these wheels that I like that have all kinds of emotions described on them, which is really helpful because half the time we don't even know how to put the words to what we feel. You're like, I don't know, sad, or it might be more specific than that. So number one, emotional intelligence includes being able to identify what you're feeling, but number two is being able to communicate what you're feeling, which is an entirely different concept. So number one, being able to identify, number two, being able to then communicate that, which is called emotional literacy, and then number three, this is truly where gratitude comes into play, being able to convert uncomfortable emotions, the emotions that we try to suppress and ignore and push down, being able to embrace them, and then convert them into a positive or more comfortable experience. That is the most difficult part of emotional intelligence. But it is also where gratitude comes in. Because what it's saying is basically it's me sitting at the restaurant and feeling really frustrated because my kids have effectively turned the table into a playground.
Dr. Jockers Functional Nutrition
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The Mason Minute
Captured (MM #4572)
"I don't know if you encountered this in your life, but it's weird to see your name splayed across headlines on the internet and then later see the word captured. I don't know if you've been paying attention to the news, but Kevin Mason was an escaped convict out of Marion County, Indiana. Indianapolis had accidentally been let out of jail when he shouldn't have been and ended up being captured in Minneapolis two weeks later. Now, of course, I get Google alerts for my name, and so for the last two weeks, hundreds upon hundreds of alerts with news stories worldwide about the escaped Kevin Mason. Yesterday, as I was heading out of work, I saw the news popping my Google alert, Kevin Mason captured, and I kind of smiled and I kind of chuckled, and it's kind of strange to see your name, even though it's not you, it has nothing to do with you, in terms of a news story. I've got a pretty common name. I mean, Kevin Mason isn't the most common name in the world, but fairly common enough, but it's not like anybody confused the two of us, but it was kind of weird when I looked for Google alerts for the Mason Minute podcast or for my Road Warrior videos or whatever it might be. There weren't on the last two weeks, because Kevin Mason, the escaped convict, was the one in the news.
Stuff You Should Know
A highlight from Revenge: Bitter, Not Sweet
"Hello everybody, the Xfinity 10G network was made for streaming giving you an incredible viewing experience now You can stream all of your favorite live sports shows and movies with way less buffering freezing and lagging Thanks to the next generation Xfinity 10G network You get a reliable connection so you can sit back relax and enjoy your favorite entertainment Get way more into what you're into when you stream on the Xfinity 10G network learn more at Xfinity .com Xfinity 10G Following in your parents footsteps is never easy, especially when mom or dad happen to be superstar athletes What kind of lessons do Hall of Famers like oh I don't know NBA legend Tim Hardaway and NFL icon Kurt Warner impart on their kids as they chase professional sports stardom How do they teach them the importance of prioritizing health and how to overcome adversity? Well, you can join heart of the game as they explore these questions and more with some of the greatest families in sports Listen to heart of the game on the I heart radio app Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts Hey everybody get this we have a mind -bending announcement to make the stuff You should know episode on vinyl is now on vinyl. You can learn about records by listening to a record It's possibly the first time a podcast episode has ever been put to wax and we did it along with our friends at born Losers records It comes in three awesome colors black white and a super cool splatter core and you can order it for pre -sale now at Syskvinyl .com Records will ship on October 20th just in time for Halloween whatever that means So go to syskvinyl .com right now to get this super duper limited edition super cool stuff You should know thing a record on records Welcome to stuff. You should know a production of I heart radio Hey and welcome to the podcast I'm Josh and there's Chuck and Jerry's here too and this is stuff you should know the podcast about revenge We've done an episode on it was like a top 10 on cases legendary cases of revenge Oh, yeah, I remember that but we didn't talk much about Revenge itself and I feel it was high time. We've been dancing around it for decades now And here we are I Thought this is a great idea. So kudos to you because it Dave helped us out with this one and it's a lot of like science and studies have Sort of and I'm not gonna spoil anything but have sort of About revenge and what it means for the person getting the revenge. Yeah, I think most people How we feel about revenge it's from watching movies and it's like deeply satisfying to watch the Bad guy who deserves revenge get get their comeuppance right sure is or even be killed Just like yes that guy deserved that kind of thing. But in reality carrying out acts of revenge or They just it's not like the movies I guess is what I'm trying to say and yet there's a lot of evidence of revenge in real life so much so that the New York Police Department came out with a study in 2012 and Found out that 42 % of the homicides in New York were motivated by revenge man, so and that actually kind of underscores like a problem with revenge is That when you enact vengeance on somebody and you leave them alive almost Invariably that person feels like you overdid What in response to what they they did it was disproportionate. So now they have to strike back again And it can go back and forth until somebody dies or else somebody can die right away is the first act of revenge But the the point of the whole thing is is that once you do carry out revenge no matter if it's petty exciting somebody up for spam or Killing somebody in response to whatever Slight like road rage. They cut you off in in traffic. You don't feel good afterward You actually feel worse and that's the underlying point of this entire episode Yeah, you know my my favorite petty I don't do it, but my favorite petty revenge to witnesses It's pin and it's so dumb Everyone just settle down is on a highway when someone Is on an expressway and they clean their windows and it gets all over the car behind them Yeah, I see people all the time race in front of that person and do the same thing. Oh my god, really? Yeah, that is Petty that is Tom Petty. That's not Tom Petty because somebody was great That's just petty and I also wanted to say to you talked about Revenge coming back harder or whatever Emily has her own personal Saying like when we're messing around and I like I will do something to her Or I'll say something kind of mean as a joke. She'll she'll eviscerate me if it is and she calls it coming back double She goes I come back double. Oh boy I was one of those people that Think she gets pushed in the corner and is and man she comes out hard So it's it's a good trait and it can and one to be wary of at the same time Yes, I'm suddenly way more wary of Emily than I was before luckily I stayed on her good side You wouldn't come at Emily. Anyway, you're smart. No, so There's a lot of questions revolving around revenge if if the if we know for a fact It feels good to think about but then feels bad to do. Mm -hmm Despite the fact that when we're thinking about it, we're like this is going to feel good It's not the act of thinking about it. That feels good It's fantasizing about how good it's gonna feel to get that person back And set the universe right again to do all sorts of things that revenge allegedly does and it turns out When you carry out an act of revenge you are playing the chump to evolution and on behalf of society as a whole and That's kind of like the whole basis of a revenge. There's a Extensively in the animal kingdom and it really collides with the the modern evolved humans That live in these complex societies. We've formed today When you get those two things together an interesting podcast comes out. That's right what you're talking about the animal kingdom is also called retaliatory aggression and that is the idea that So let's say a lion mama goes out and kills an animal To leave for her little cubs to eat Another animal is like oh, you know Let me see if I could sneak in there eat some of that too The mama lion doesn't just scare this thing off to preserve that meat for the kids The mama lion goes and hunts down and kills that animal. Yes, that's good. They come back double Emily style Right. I mean like the the problem solved the hyena has been chased away But to leave your kids and go find it and kill it. That's that is Seems only retaliatory aggressive. Yeah, and this next one too. I'm gonna mention These are interesting because it made me sort of question the idea of revenge versus punishment Right because I think those are different things. Yeah, the rhesus monkey We've talked a lot about their vocalizations like they're all about the group or they should be at least and like when they find food Let's say they will tell everyone. Hey, I found food But if a rhesus monkey is ever like, you know I'm gonna have a little bit of this first before I call out and if they find that out There's a punishment for that rhesus monkey. I don't think they kill it But there is a punishment and this is the idea that these retaliatory aggressions are Deterrence it's like a punishment for everyone to see to prevent future transgressions like hey, did you hyena see that? Did you other rhesus monkey see that? So that you know would be an advantageous thing Evolutionarily speaking so that gene gets passed on Yeah Because the more the more you're prone to do that the the likelier you are to not have food stolen from you for your kids The likelier it is for your kids to survive and and your lineage to survive. So it makes sense Evolutionarily speaking this retaliatory aggression does at least right? Yeah, which I would still argue is punishment more than revenge. I Absolutely, I think you're absolutely right and there's a there's a story a couple of stories of Tigers actually engaging in what can only be described as revenge and it's very much up in the air whether what we're witnessing is actual revenge, but like you know, like there was a very famous story out of Russia where like a poacher not only shot a But also took some of their kill and that the tiger tracked the guy down found his his little lodging destroyed everything you could find in lodging and then waited outside for the hunter to come back and then kill them and that the Tiger managed to hold this idea in his head Or I think it was a her her head for up to maybe 24 hours after the the hunter shot her There's a there's a couple of stories out there that seem to pertain to Tigers Specifically that it's almost like it does contain an emotional component to it, but for the most part Yes, it's it's solving in a problem and then maybe preventing future problems among the animals Yeah, you know one of my favorite sayings is revenge is a meal best served cold Yeah, I don't know why cuz I'm not a revenge guy really, but I just I think that it's just such a great saying I just like it, you know, there's something about like oh, no, no The real revenge is like when you wait around for a while Oh, yeah, and then when you would might not be suspected you come back and take that revenge Yeah, because if you just immediately do it in response, you're a hothead and a dummy anybody can do that But just sit there and really stew on it and figure out the best way to really get back at the person that takes intellect Yeah, I agree and a little bit of craziness.
The Garden Question
A highlight from 129 - Gardeners Never Retire: Overcoming Challenges in Your Senior Years - Duane Pancoast
"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. In this episode, we talk about adapting to various gardening challenges. We explore making tough decisions in gardening throughout the latter seasons of life. Also, having the best attitude toward tough decisions. Mobility restrictions began taking a toll on 84 -year -old Dwayne Pankost. His gardening abilities were changing, but not his knowledge. He began sharing his and other senior gardener's experiences in his blog, The Geriatric Gardener, in February of 2017. After posting bi -monthly adaptive gardening stories, Dwayne decided to compile the best of his post into a self -published book, The Geriatric Gardener. Dwayne feels having the garden information at your fingertips is a benefit for every senior gardener. Dwayne continues to work in the family marketing communication business, which he started in 1985. The firm serves tree, landscape, and lawn care businesses. This has been episode 129, Gardeners Never Retire, Overcoming the Challenges in Your Senior Years, with Dwayne Pankost. Dwayne, why did you decide not to give up on gardening? I didn't really decide to give up on gardening. Old Edge crept up on me. One day when I couldn't get up from kneeling, I decided I was going to have to garden a bit differently. I thus started my second career preaching about adaptive gardening. What is it about gardening that keeps you wanting to go with it, no matter what age you are? I like plants, and plants seem to like me. When I could no longer do outside work, I was fortunate enough to have a mature, mostly woody plant landscape at my home, which I was able to hire out the maintenance work. So, I've concentrated on indoor gardening, especially tillandsia air plants, because they're fun, they're curious, they're easy to maintain. I have about 30 of them, and another 30 of regular soil and pot plants. Would you explain what adaptive gardening is, and how it differs from traditional gardening practices? Sure. Adaptive gardening is simply adapting your garden and your gardening to your changing physical conditions. If your knees hurt, you have to find a way to garden without kneeling, with raised beds, containers. I'm particularly fond of elevated beds, because I like to garden sitting down, and there's a place to put your legs underneath elevated beds. How does adaptive gardening contribute to the well -being and mental health of individuals facing physical limitations or health challenges? As you grow older, your knees wear out, your back wears out, your shoulders wear out, and Adaptive gardening is simply finding ways in which you can continue gardening with minimum pain, minimum disturbance to your health. It may start with just a pair of strap -on knee pads, and then it may go to getting one of these kneelers that you tip it over and it becomes a seat, or one of the other gardening seats that are available online or at some garden stores and home centers, and then going to raise beds, elevated beds and containers, eventually, perhaps concentrating on your indoor gardening. Do you find that it keeps promoting an independent spirit and self -sufficiency by continuing to garden? Oh, it sure does. Some people retire and all they do is sit in front of the television, and they're dead in six months. I'll be 85 in November, so I figure I can thank gardening for some of that longevity because it keeps me busy. I can get up in the morning, and I know I've got something productive to do. How I do it or how anybody does it is adapting is a matter of time management, only working blocks that are comfortable for you, maybe 20 minutes or maybe a half hour, and then take a rest break. If you're working outside, go into a shady spot. I used to go into my garage and sit and watch people walk their dogs up and down the street. Well, while you're there, always have a cooler of nice cold water and drink plenty of it because staying hydrated is very important to your well -being. Dehydration is one of the major causes of falls because people can get lightheaded and their balance goes crazy when they are dehydrated. Falling is one of the things you don't want to do out in the garden. I didn't realize that. I didn't know that dehydration led to dizziness. A doctor told me that I could always tell when I was dehydrated because my balance went wonky. I drank enough water and an hour or so, it was back to normal. Would you tell us about some of the decisions you had to make in your latter years? You said you're 85, but what are some of the decisions you faced going through that time period? First of all was downsizing and this can be a trauma for some people. I thought it was going to be for my late wife because she liked our house and I didn't like our house because it was a money pit from the day we moved in. It was a half -acre lot with a two -story colonial on it. It was great for raising our four sons because they had plenty of grass to play ball and do kid stuff. When walking the stairs became difficult for both of us, she was the one who decided, I think we ought to downsize. So we built a house that is about the same size as a two -story, but one story on a quarter -acre lot. One of the things I tell people, if you're going to downsize, bring something from your old garden with you. Dig up some plants that you especially liked in your old garden that may have a story. That goes with it or something with the family. I happened to bring a ginkgo tree. It was about four or five inches caliper and 15 or 20 feet tall. I didn't just dig it up and put it in the back seat of the car and bring it over. I had a client who had a big tree spade and he moved it for me. Downsizing is the first decision. I used to do my grass. I timed it, not by the clock. I did the back and one side, and then I would sit down and rest for 20 minutes or so, drink a bottle of water. Then I'd go out and do the front and the other side, and then sit down for a while before I'd go on to the next gardening job. I was convinced at a certain point that I ought to hire a lawn cutting service, which I did. When I found that I couldn't get up from a kneeling position, that's when I hired the lawn care service to also do things like weeding and trimming my shrubs. I have a tree and landscape client. He does stuff like the heavy pruning, any tree climbing, because he has a pre -care division. It wasn't a matter of whether I was going to quit gardening or not quit gardening. It was a matter of how I was going to do the gardening and still have a relatively painless life. This was at the old house. No, the new house. You were cutting the grass at your new house? Yeah. Oh, okay. Well, you talked about the pain. What do you suggest to continue gardening when your knees do start causing you trouble? I suggest, first of all, anybody of any age, go get a pair of strap -on knee pads. A lot of gardeners get the cheapest ones, and they complain that the strap goes around the bend of the knee, go to the next quality up, and it'll have a strap that goes above the knee bend and another strap that goes below it. Look into one of these kneelers or combination kneeler bench or something to sit on. If you're younger, use the knee pads to help prevent or put off the knee problems. Knees, for some reason, they just calcify. You get arthritis. I asked my orthopedic doctor, what causes it? He said, wear it out. I said to him, maybe it's too much genuflecting in church. And without missing a beat, he said, well, come on over to the Episcopal Church. We don't do that.
Lets Be Frank Podcast - Men's Mental Health
A highlight from Jason Klietz - Accountability Nation
"Welcome to Let's Be Frank, the men's mental health podcast. Join us as we break the stigma, embrace vulnerability and prioritise mental health in men. Together, let's use your voice. Welcome back to a brand new episode of Let's Be Frank, the home of men's mental health. We have myself, Jack Howard, Mr Ryan Smith and another incredible guest in Jason from Account Deadly Nation. Jason is a motivational speaker and he has used his journey of obesity to help and inspire others, which has been absolutely amazing in what he's doing. So, like always, we're going to jump in and see how Ryan is on being a new dad, first of all, and then we'll get to hear from the amazing Jason. Ryan, how you doing, mate? What's going on, mate? I'm good. I'm good. I've had only all day today, so I've been swimming, but this time I didn't get in the pool for, you know, if it's the first time on a Sunday, I've not got in the pool with him. Well, I've got in with him, so yeah, the poolside view and it was a little bit different, but you know what? It's going good. It's going good. So I won't say it's easy to adjust to, you know, but it's it's been an incredible journey. I mean, we're coming up to about four months now, so. Yeah, it's gone like wow. So, yeah, no, I'm good, man. I'm excited for tonight. I've been following this guy on Twitter a bit and I must say, you know, with what he posts and what he shares, this is going to be an inspirational story. So, yeah, the kind of the floor is yours, so to speak, Jason. So, Jason, who are you? Well, I'm Jason and I run Accountability Nation. It's mostly based on my fitness journey as well as the things, the life lessons I'm learning along the way in my fitness journey. And it's my journey towards self -accountability. And the goal is to share my story and hope to inspire others to make changes in their life to gain self -accountability. That's that's my main mission is to help others. With your journey, where did it all start for you? Where did your journey originate from? So it originated in 2011, January of that year, I had a blood clot block my brain stem and I effectively collapsed and died on the kitchen floor. I was 538 pounds at that time and I was in a bad place mentally, was in a bad place physically. And that day, losing my life for a temporary few minutes really, really woke me up to the possibilities of making changes. I would say it really it was an up and down journey for a number of years, up until the end of 2018, when I really started to get serious about my health. And the long comes 2020 and the world shuts down the pandemic, the whole thing, and it was mentally crushing to me. And it took me about two years to really decide that, you know, all the progress that I had made from the 538 pounds down to 376, I was starting to lose that. And in April of 2022, I'm like, that's enough. And I went back to the gym, I was 424 pounds at that time. I'm currently weighing in at 350. So what ultimately happened is that day I posted my day one going back to the gym photo on Twitter, and it went viral. And in a matter of 10 days, I went from a couple hundred followers to around 11 ,000 followers.
Daily Crypto Report
A highlight from "Shanghai makes moves to boost blockchain adoption." Sep 27, 2023
"It's 8 a .m. Eastern, September the 27th, and this is your Daily Crypto Report. Bitcoin is up slightly at $26 ,789, ETH is up slightly at $1 ,626, and Binance Coin is down slightly at $215. The second intermediate people's court in Shanghai recently has called Bitcoin a unique and non -replicable asset. This move represents a shift from China's typically strict anti -crypto policy, providing Bitcoin with a newfound layer of legitimacy. Despite a nationwide crypto ban in China, the court's ruling indirectly acknowledges the financial nature of digital currencies. It delves into the complexities of Bitcoin's legal status, emphasizing its monetary and property attributes. The ruling came just before the Shanghai municipal government unveiled an action plan to boost blockchain development in the city by 2025. The plan aims to achieve breakthroughs in blockchain system security, cryptographic algorithms, smart contracts, and more. These advancements will support the municipal blockchain basic service platform and various sectors like government affairs, cross -border trade, finance, metaverse, and data circulation. The plan emphasizes talent development in the blockchain industry, encouraging institutes and companies to hire blockchain professionals and nurture young talents. This initiative aligns with China's ongoing focus on blockchain technology despite banning crypto transactions in 2021. While Binance is selling its entire Russian business to ComX as part of its exit from the market due to compliance concerns, Binance's chief compliance officer stated that operating in Russia no longer aligns with the exchange's compliance strategy. ComX, a recently launched crypto exchange, will take over Binance's Russia operations. Binance's exit from Russia includes the discontinuation of all exchange services and business lines in the country. Unlike some international companies in Russia, Binance will not retain any ongoing revenue split or an option to repurchase shares in the business. More on Binance, the firm has reopened its crypto exchange platform for registration and access in Belgium three months after the country's financial regulator ordered it to cease operations. Now to continue using Binance, Belgian users must accept Binance Poland's terms of use and resubmit KYC verification per Polish regulatory requirements. The move follows Binance's regulatory challenges in various European countries, including France, where it's reportedly under investigation for money laundering. And finally, Sam Bankman -Fried won't be able to tell the jury about his pretrial detention in jail, among other factors. During his upcoming trial, a district court judge ruled on what can be discussed during the trial. SBF can't bring up his family background, health, age, or the fact that he's been in jail awaiting trial. The trial itself will focus narrowly on the specific allegations against him, avoiding hot -button topics related to FTX's bankruptcy and his prior good acts. However, evidence of his alleged illegal campaign finance scheme will be allowed as it's directly related to the charged offenses. He has, though, been granted the ability to ask Department of Justice witnesses about the recreational drug use, provided his lawyers notify the court in advance. Additionally, the prosecution can introduce evidence related to FTX's bankruptcy during the trial. The trial will also delve into the FTT token and whether it was manipulated by other FTX insiders. SBF's lawyers are still attempting to secure his release from jail, where he has been held since August. The trial is set to begin in early October. Well, that's all for us today. Visit us at dailycryptoreport .io for sources and links. And listen to us, everyone else you podcast under Daily Crypto Report. you We'll see then. It's pretty eerie, you know, you're in a place that no human's ever been before. This is Armchair Explorer, where the world's greatest adventurers tell their best stories from the road. And four of us were swept down the side of the mountain, and then I knew there was no way out of this thing. From the heart pounding to the inspiring and the downright insane. Find Armchair Explorer, a part of APT Podcast Studios, wherever you get your podcasts. Go and find what it is in the world that matches that wildness in yourself.
Flight of ideas
Are You Working With a Psychopath? Tips for Sanity & Success
"Psychopaths are individuals who lack empathy and remorse and who often engage in manipulative and deceitful behavior. They can be difficult to work with, as they may try to undermine your work, sabotage your relationships, or even steal your ideas. Psychopaths are estimated to make up around 1 % of the general population. This means that there are likely to be at least a few psychopathic they tend to exhibit behaviors that make them difficult to work with. Here are some tips for dealing with psychopathic co -workers healthily and productively. Recognize the signs. Understanding the characteristics of a psychopath is crucial for identifying potential individuals at work. Traits such as lack of empathy, manipulation, charm, and a tendency to exploit others may indicate psychopathic behavior. Maintain professionalism. When dealing with a psychopath, it's essential to remain professional and composed. Avoid engaging in power struggles or confrontations, as this can escalate the situation. Instead, focus on your own performance and maintaining a positive work environment. Don't trust them. Psychopaths are experts at manipulation and often try to gain your trust to get what they want. Don't be fooled by their charm or their promises. Remember that they are only interested in themselves and will not hesitate to betray you if it suits their needs. Set boundaries. Establish clear boundaries to protect yourself from manipulation or exploitation. Clearly communicate what is acceptable and what isn't in terms of behavior and workload. By setting boundaries, you establish limits that psychopaths will find harder to breach. Document everything. Record any interactions or incidents involving the psychopath. This documentation can serve as evidence if you need to report their behavior to HR or higher management. Be sure to include dates, times, and specific details to support your claims. Seek support. Dealing with a psychopath can be isolating, so it's important to seek support from trusted colleagues, friends, or family members. Share your experiences and concerns with those you trust, as they can provide valuable advice and empathy. Focus on self -care. Psychopathic behavior can affect your mental and emotional well -being. Prioritize self -care activities such as exercise, meditation, hobbies, or spending time with loved ones. Taking care of yourself outside work will help you maintain resilience and cope with workplace stress. Seek professional help. In extreme cases where you experience severe emotional distress or feel unsafe, consider seeking professional help from therapists or counselors specializing in workplace issues. They can provide guidance and support tailored to your specific situation. Conclusion. Dealing with psychopaths at work requires a combination of self -awareness, boundary setting, and seeking support when needed. By recognizing the signs, maintaining professionalism, and caring for your well -being, you can successfully navigate these challenging situations while protecting yourself from potential harm. Remember, you can control your reactions and maintain your mental health in the face of workplace psychopathy.
The Mason Minute
Loud Mufflers (MM #4571)
"We now live in a world where most cars don't make a sound. I guess I shouldn't say most cars, but now thanks to electric vehicles, hybrid vehicles, they don't make a sound when they're driving down the road. Now when I was 16 years old and I owned a Volkswagen Beetle, I wanted my car to make noise. So I got some new muffler system, or I think it was actually a header on the back of it, and it made some noise. I could even make it backfire, shoot flames out the back end, it was kind of cool, when I was 16. One thing I've noticed about Nashville, now it's not a lot of people, but it's more than it should be, drive around in vehicles that make way too much noise. They've done everything they can to make more noise out of their car, to make it sound cool. Now again, it's one thing when you're a kid, it's one thing when you're under 21, and that's how you express yourself. But I've seen more adults, males and females, driving down the road in just normal cars, all making noise. And I'm not even talking about trucks right now, because all the trucks around here, especially the diesels, way too much noise. You've got to turn your radio up just to hear yourself. I don't want a car to make a sound. Maybe an electric vehicle is the way to go.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from SBF TRIAL: Inside Sam Bankman-Fried's Trial Defense Episode 2
"The most important thing is, you know, just because a lawyer tells you something is okay, that's not a defense. Geez, he said it. He seemed to think everything was okay. Yeah. That's not an advice of counsel defense that negates criminal intent, that's an excuse. In part two of our series digging into SPF's defense, we dissect Sam Bankman -freed's claims that his lawyers played a larger role in FTX's collapse than he did. It might sound like a stretch, but there is legal precedent behind it. SPF also says he was pressured by counsel into turning FTX over to their hand -picked successor. In this episode, we sit down with Mark Litt, the prosecutor who took down Bernie Madoff, Travis Kling, a fund manager who still has millions of dollars tied up in FTX, and Mr. Purple, a pseudonymous crypto investor and fellow FTX victim, to see if there's any legitimacy to SPF's claims that lawyers who were there for FTX's rise are now primed to rake in hundreds of millions of dollars in legal fees. Money that SPF says should be used to pay back depositors. I'm Zach Ousman, you're listening to the SPF Defense Podcast, a coinage investigation. SPF's position is that FTX would have made it through the crisis if not for his lawyers, which conspired to steal the company out from under him, cover up their role in its operation, and siphon hundreds of millions of dollars in legal fees from the bankrupt estate. SPF even names one lawyer in particular, Ryan Miller, who joined FTX US from the law firm's Sullivan and Cromwell, and planned on returning there after his time at the exchange, according to an affidavit from FTX's top lawyer. SPF says Miller conspired to hand the company over to Solcrom and their chosen agent, John J. Ray III, who also handled Enron's bankruptcy. And whether you come to believe Sam's claims or not, Solcrom and Ray clearly won. If FTX's bankruptcy process takes the two years like Enron's did, it's on track to cost over $800 million. And Solcrom's relationship has already been called out by more than just Sam. It's even been raised as an issue by senators and 18 state regulators. But could SPF be right about Ryan Miller and Solcrom's nefarious motives? And even if they did do some evil lawyer shit, will it be enough to get SPF off the hook? To fully understand this defense strategy, it helps to start with SPF's story behind his attempt to plug the now notorious multi -billion dollar hole at FTX back in November's collapse. As the story goes, he was preparing to handle the liquidity crisis by courting Nomura, Japan's largest investment group, and the crypto company Tron, who had pledged billions of dollars in liquidity to FTX, while other investors were still deliberating. SPF had said he planned on giving away most of his equity in the company, and therefore most of his wealth, in an attempt to make customers of FTX International whole. SPF has always maintained that FTX US remained completely solvent right up to the end. But SPF says his rescue plan failed because Ryan Miller and Solcrom agents at his company, including Tim Wilson, another FTX lawyer with a past at Solcrom, pressed him repeatedly to sign the company's over to John Ray in bankruptcy, and even implied that if he refused, they could have him arrested and quote, change control in order to authorize a proper insolvency process. SPF said he changed his mind within 10 minutes of signing, but it was already too late. And he says his lawyers reneged on their promises to let him select a board share, blocking him out of his accounts and refusing to communicate further. As soon as John Ray was installed, he chose Sullivan and Cromwell as FTX's primary counsel. To be fair, SPF actually has a point when it comes to the sketchiness of that process. Even outside legal observers have taken issue with Solcrom being tapped as the firm to manage FTX's bankruptcy. In fact, a bipartisan group of two Republican and two Democratic senators, including Elizabeth Warren, sent a letter to the judge overseeing the case, urging him to appoint an independent examiner rather than Solcrom, which worked with FTX and Alameda before the collapse, bringing in $8 .5 million in legal fees. The senators argued, quote, given their longstanding legal work for FTX, they may well bear a measure of responsibility for the damage wrecked on the company's victims. Regulators from 18 states echoed that issue, saying appointing an independent examiner wasn't just right, it was also legally required. But back in February, the judge in the case threw out those requests, saying it would cost too much money, though we should note FTX's lawyers also charged the bankruptcy estate $21 ,000 over 20 days just for meals, which apparently isn't too much to spend. And if you ask the victims in FTX's collapse, this is all pretty important, considering it's their deposits and claims at stake. And if their money is being drained in broad daylight by a law firm who also helped FTX pre -collapse, that might not sit any better than Sam spending it. We talked to Travis Kling, who lost his crypto investment fund in FTX's collapse, and asked him to weigh in. If you ask me at the very beginning, do you think this is going to be one of the most expensive bankruptcies in U .S. history, I would say yes. Yes. You know, it's enormous. There's a ton of fraud, and it's magic internet money. Trying to kind of Monday morning quarterback this and say, oh, Sam would have been better off not filing for bankruptcy. That's not something that I feel very strongly about. And Solkrom's outrageous fees aren't the only reason for concern. SPF also claims Solkrom gave a clean bill of health to Alameda's trading accounts on FTX in a report with the CFTC just months before the collapse. Furthermore, in his affidavit, Dan Friedberg, who was both FTX's chief compliance officer and Alameda's general counsel until he stepped down following the crisis, says Miller only included FTX U .S. in the bankruptcy proceedings precisely because Miller knew it had the funds to pay Solkrom for its work, which backs up what SPF said about how FTX U .S. was never insolvent. So this may be a case of the fox guarding the henhouse. Solkrom denies any of this, of course. The firm's top bankruptcy lawyer, Andrew Dietrich, who told other lawyers FTX was rock solid in an email just days before the bankruptcy, said he only spoke with SPF twice. The FTX debtors also countersued Friedberg to seek damages, alleging he breached his fiduciary duties. We can't say much more beyond that because Solkrom never got back to us when we asked for a comment. But one thing is clear, what guidance Sam's lawyers gave him, and particularly what they knew about the business, will become integral to SPF's defense at trial. Even if you asked Ryan Miller before the collapse, the laws are pretty simple for any business, crypto or otherwise. Here he is explaining that concept at an MIT Bitcoin meetup in July 2022. Don't do fraud, don't lie, don't release materially incomplete statements. That then creates a basis for liability, liability from a criminal authority, be it a Department of Justice or liability in a civil context. Yet according to Caroline Allison's guilty plea, they had trouble following even those rules. In her sworn testimony, she said, quote, I agreed with Mr. Bankman, Fried and others to provide materially misleading financial statements to Alameda's lenders. Could Miller or any of SPF's lawyers, for that matter, be one of those others? Sam's other allegation that Miller contacted the DOJ to turn over documents that led to his indictment days before SPF linked, which controlled the company, makes Miller start to look even sketchier. But even if Solkrom really does have a true conflict of interest, could SPF really use their role in everything that happened to get an acquittal? Given that I'm not a lawyer, we pose that defense to Mark Litt, the prosecutor who took down Bernie Madoff. Can a lawyer be a criminal? Sure. Yeah. Can a lawyer be part of a criminal enterprise? Yes. Do they often go down? I don't know a lot of reputable lawyers who are going to bless lying to investors, lying to banks, intermingling funds, lying to auditors. If he happened to find one who knew all that was going on and blessed it, then maybe as a defense. But I tend to doubt it. You can't think of it as, well, oh, well, you know, Sullivan and Cromwell was involved or a former Sullivan and Cromwell lawyer was involved and, geez, he said he seemed to think everything was okay. That's not an advice of counsel defense that negates criminal intent. That's an excuse masquerading as an advice of counsel defense. Advice of counsel defense is very specific and narrow. You need competent counsel and they'll stipulate that any lawyer at Sullivan and Cromwell is competent in the subject area that they're being asked about. Second, every material fact has to be disclosed to them. Third, you have to seek their legal opinion on a subject. And fourth, you have to follow the advice. So if the defense can make out those elements, I would think they'd be able to present the defense and it might have a shot of winning. So Sol Cromwell might not be saints, but as we covered last time in episode one, SPF isn't exactly facing a trial over FTX's collapse. He's charged with a lot of things that led up to FTX's collapse. Arguably, what's alleged to have happened post -collapse matters more for FTX's victims. And if you ask them, the reviews are mixed on exactly what's played out thus far. If I'm going to judge Sullivan and Cromwell and John J. Wray from my purview of being someone who's seen these things in bankruptcy, I would give them a very low grade because you can say, oh, this is crypto, it's difficult, but it's not that difficult. And sometimes the devil you know is better than the one you don't. I will say that these debtors are extremely bad in my professional experience. That was Mr. Purple, a pseudonymous crypto investor who has experience following bankruptcy proceedings. For former FTX customers like him, Sam's spat with Sol Cromwell matters very little, as long as the firm can help achieve a meaningful recovery of their funds. And despite the fact that legal fees are stacking up, the bidding market for FTX customer claims is showing a growing hope they might not be stuck with pennies on the dollar. Another way to frame it is, you know, there's a claims market for FTX claims, trade claims, trade actively. There's a little niche of traditional finance that all they do is go around to different bankruptcies in all industries and they buy claims. This is this is a, you know, a subsector of of investing. And this is a huge bankruptcy. So this has been a very big liquid market. Right. And the first, you know, we're a very big creditor in this. So, you know, I'm in active conversations in this claims market. First, first bid we saw was in Thanksgiving and it was like six cents. That was the first bid. Six cents on the dollar, six cents on the dollar. And now now it's like 40 cents. And so it's gone from six to 40 cents. So then I'm like, OK, well, that feels quite good. Yeah. And OK, these guys are charging a load of money for that, but they have taken us from six cents to 40 cents. With both FTX's bankruptcy case and SPF's criminal case unfolding in real time, one may very well impact the other. We filed a Freedom of Information Act request for the CFTC to share the report. Sam says Solkrom filed to support that FTX's structure was above board. The agency denied our request, saying it's unable to share documents that, quote, could interfere with the conduct of federal agency law enforcement activities. And of course, as long as Solkrom selected John Ray is running the show at FTX, it's unexpected anything comes out to support SPF's case. FTX, too, didn't get back for comment. So unless SPF has direct evidence of lawyers being aware of FTX's shaky financials and helping for years to cover it up, it's hard to judge SPF's advice of counsel defense or the idea that he thought he was in the clear leading up to the collapse just because his lawyers said it was fine. As Litt said, that sounds more like an excuse than a defense. As a community owned Web3 media outlet, Coinage will be breaking down everything we've learned together through this series and curating still unanswered questions at Coinage .Media. I'm Zach Guzman. This was the second part of Coinage's investigative series covering SPF's defense. Stay tuned for episode three, where we'll explore another pillar. Of SPF's defense. You've been listening to the SPF Defense on the Coindesk Podcast Network. Follow the Coindesk Podcast Network to get all the Coindesk shows in one place and head over to Coindesk .com for all the Sam Bankman freed coverage. Thanks for listening.
Capstone Conversation
Pinole Councilwoman and Mayor, Norma Martinez-Rubin, Describes Governing a Small City
"Hi, I'm Jared Ash with the Capstone Conversation. I'm here with Councilwoman Norma Martinez -Rubin from the city of Pinole in Contra Costa County. We appreciate you being here today. As part of your everyday job, you're a principal at Evaluation Focus Consulting, where you focus helping mission -driven foundations, nonprofits, and government agencies and public health. So that's an exciting background to be here. What else can you tell us about yourself, Norma? Thanks, Jared. Thanks for having me be part of this. I can tell you that my adopted hometown of Pinole is this wonderful little city, relatively small compared to the other 19 cities in Contra Costa County. It's bisected by I -80, which has national fame. And for those of us who are local, it is both a blessing and whatever the opposite of that is, given the multitude of vehicles for many different reasons, recreation, transportation, transport of goods, etc., on a daily basis that we get to live with. Part of my personal history is having come to the city of Pinole via Los Angeles, where I grew up, it was weird, and having the experience of living in a more urban area relative to one which has these beautiful natural amenities just within a walking distance of where I live. We're surrounded by hillsides, we're surrounded by or adjacent to the San Pablo Bay, which in my mind counters the effects of an interstate that bisects the city and divides the city, and the way our residents view issues that come before us on city council. Interesting. Let's talk a little bit about that small town, but in a big metro area. From a governing standpoint, what would you say are some of the constraints and some of the advantages compared to other towns being a smaller city? As a smaller city, we're a full -service city, so we provide and we respond, we're responsive to provide services that are essential as the local governments grow. We have our own police department, we have parks and regulations, we address land use issues, keeping in mind the topography of Pinole, and most recently we have joined with our county's fire districts to serve our city in its small size. We have a different terrain, the north side or the south side part of Pinole adjacent to San Pablo Bay is the older part of town. We were incorporated in 1903, but as history goes, in the 1950s when I -80 was constructed, it divided the city and then we started seeing more of the tract homes built on what was formerly agricultural land. So in the Pinole Valley, which is south of I -80 in our town, we have people who are surrounded by hillsides, beautiful hillsides, but as valleys go, also face the risk of possible fires because many of the homes were built alongside that range for just open space. So the constraints in a small city is that urban planning back in the day when some of the older cities in Contra Costa County were designed and built may not have considered the growth that would occur over time and the needs that people had over time given the shift in demography or population figures. In my background as a public health practitioner, population shifts are something that we've observed and have been somewhat ready for. However, we also have a history in local government and more broadly state and federal that the response to these population shifts isn't always as quickly as we see the shifts occur.
Crypto Altruism Podcast
A highlight from Episode 122 - Sweat Economy - Building The Economy of Movement with Web3
"Whole industries are born when you can break a trade -off that is considered standard. In our world, the trade -off is if you want to be healthy, if you want to be active, you got to pay. You got to buy a kit, you got to get your membership, you got to do all of these things. How can you be physically active if you're not paying? Actually, because it's beneficial to you and to a lot of people, we believe that you should be paid for it because it is incredibly valuable. Welcome to the Crypto Altruism podcast, the podcast dedicated to elevating the stories of those using Web3 for good. I'm your host Drew Simon from CryptoAltruism .org. Now, before we get started, a quick disclaimer. While we may discuss specific Web3 projects or cryptocurrencies on this podcast, please do not take any of this as investment advice, and please make sure to do your own research on investment opportunities or any opportunity, including its legality. And now, let's get on to the show. Welcome and thanks so much for joining. Whole industries are born when you can break a trade -off that's considered standard. I think that bears repeating and I can't think of a better example of this than Move to Earn. For too long, exercise has seemed like more of a chore for many and a very expensive chore at that, with the pricey gym memberships, expensive equipment, you name it. With the advent of blockchain, however, there is a unique opportunity to disrupt this and transform exercise from a chore into a rewarding and income -generating activity. To dive into this, I'm excited to welcome Oleg Fomenko, co -founder of Sweat Economy, an OG in the Move to Earn space with a mission to reward movement to inspire a healthier and wealthier planet. We discuss how Web3 tools can incentivize healthy actions, the evolution of Move to Earn, onboarding hundreds of millions of users to Web3, and much more. So without further ado, please join me in welcoming Oleg to the Crypto Altruism podcast. Okay, Oleg, thank you so much for being here today on the Crypto Altruism podcast. Such a pleasure to have you. Thank you very much, Drew, for having me. Very nice to meet you, Drew. Thank you very much for having me. So excited to have you. I had mentioned this before we got on the call that I've been following it for quite a while, and I'm really fascinated by this whole Move to Earn movement that's going on and how Web3 tools can really change how we get people to be excited about wellness and making healthy life choices. So before we get there, I want to learn about your aha moment that got you excited about Crypto and Web3 in the beginning. I learned about Bitcoin in 2011 from a childhood friend who described what it was, and that definitely perked my interest. Stupid as I was, well, stupid as I am, I got really, really hooked on technology. And I read an awful lot about how it works, the white paper, the Byzantine generals problem, and just basically as much background as I could. In 2011, there wasn't an awful lot. Then I have installed BT Guild. That was the first sort of pool mining software on my old laptop and put it in the corner, and it was sort of chugging along there for about a month, and they mined a few satoshis. Well, actually quite a few satoshis, but because the price was like 20 cents, it wasn't even covering the electricity that I burned on it. And I just threw away a laptop's hard drive for quite a bit right now these days. So I got hooked on tech, and despite the low prices, I actually didn't buy an awful lot of Bitcoin back then. And I had a very interesting sort of music streaming startup back then, and I was trying to figure out how we can do something in crypto, but at best we could just accept Bitcoin payment, which was cumbersome, slow and not terribly interesting, and just handful of people even knew what it was. So opportunity represented itself in 2014 when I started talking to my co -founders about the problem of why are people not as active as they want to be? How come that I used to run some crazy distances and climbing some of the highest mountains in the world, and all of a sudden I couldn't even complete 5k. And, you know, kind of one conversation after another, we very quickly realized that the reason why 100 % of people want to be more active, but they can't, is because nature didn't build us to be active. Nature built us to survive, which means preserving calories rather than spending them. And nature was so serious about it that it gave us this behavioral feature that helped us surviving back then, but right now it's probably a behavioral bug that prevents us from being able to burn those calories called present bias that stops us from, you know, kind of moving and forces us to sit, unless there is a mammoth on the horizon that, you know, that we need to run and kill, or there is something about to make us into food and then we need to run away. And we realized that there is only one solution to present bias, instant gratification. So we kind of went, ooh, so can we actually create instant gratification for every step you take? And that's the story of Sweatcoin. As the name would suggest, we were thinking about building it on blockchain back then, but forking Bitcoin was slow, cumbersome and expensive. Building on Ethereum, we discussed with Vitalik in 2015. We met with him in London. That wasn't really an option because it was just too early. It was a research grade code back then. And we launched in 2016 centralized. And we thought, you know what, give us six months, maybe 12 months, there will be some wonderful blockchain that, you know, we're going to migrate onto. Little did we know that it would take until 2021 for blockchain to get fast enough and robust enough to be able to hold our scale. So, you know, we looked every year and we analyzed everything that was sort of popping up. And until 2021, the answer was consistently, no, we were processing more transactions per second than theoretical throughput of any chain. And in 2021, all of a sudden there was this explosion, there was Algorand, Solana, Polygon, Avalanche, BNB, well, BC back then, and Flow and Celo and, you know, kind of all of a sudden it just sort of, there was a rush of these new technologies. And we got really excited and put a team on this and analyzed more than a dozen different chains. And sort on of after spending, I think, four or five months, we made a decision that we want to build on near. And yeah, the rest is history. We launched last September and it's going incredibly well, incredibly well. I'm sure that we're going to have an opportunity to talk about some of the numbers and metrics and, you know, sort of, yeah, totally. Definitely. I mean, you've had quite many, many, many achievements and it's really grown at an incredible pace and the amount of people that you have engaging with this platform now every day. And, you know, it's good that you really took that time to kind of like, you know, think and make sure that you had the right blockchain, the right timing. And it sounds like you made a good choice there with Near. And sustainable business model as well and token economics. Yeah, for sure, for sure, which is great. And so you talked a little bit at a higher level about sweat economy, but do you mind giving an overview to our listeners of, you know, what it is, what the mission is of your organization? Sure. The mission of the regional sweat coin and that's what economy is to make the world more physically active. And, you know, it seems like it's sort of a tree -hogging mission. And the reality is it couldn't be further away from truth because we actually realized that physical activity has tangible financial value. When I say that your physical duty has value, everyone nods, like you just did right now. But if I ask how valuable it is, people kind of go, could you reframe the question? Could you use different words? I'm like, no, I don't have to. Typically, if something is valuable, it has value attached to it. And here we have something valuable, but we cannot attach any number to it. Maybe there is an opportunity there. And then we started thinking there is an interesting economy that draws parallel with physical activity. It's attention economy by some estimates attention economy now is about $7 trillion business, all the Googles, Facebooks, everything advertising related sits in there and actually quite a lot more. And the interesting parallel between physical activity and attention is that like attention, physical activity is valuable to you. You know, when you pay attention, something starts, you know, you can engage with something, you can get new idea, you can meet somebody, you can, you know, potentially entering some sort of a conversation transaction and purchase something. Very similarly, physical activity is a better physical state, it puts you into a better mental state, it extends your life. And like attention, physical activity is beneficial for a lot of other parties, a lot of other participants on the market, starting from your family that is, of course, would prefer to have you physically active rather than not because they want to enjoy your company for longer, they want you to be in a better mood. Your healthcare provider, your insurer, your employer are all interested in you being physically active and actually prepared to pay for it. Especially insurers, they know very well that your health insurance and your life insurance, if you're physically active, should be a lot cheaper because you're a lot better risk and you genuinely a lot better business for them. Now, attention economy exists and it's $7 trillion, movement economy or physical activity economy doesn't. There is absolutely nothing there. We can talk about it, we can discuss these use cases, but it doesn't exist. And then we thought, hang on a second, in order for humanity not to spend 200 years building this economy, why don't we actually think of creating a token that is tokenizing your physical activity and makes it into a liquid asset that you can exchange with other parties? That's how the concept of Sweatcoin and now Sweat was born. So coming back to your original question, Sweatcoin is our health and fitness app. Despite the name, it's actually not crypto because for eight years we couldn't operate in crypto. We got 240 million users using this application. And when we could move to Web3, to blockchain, it was too late to tell everybody, like, look, from tomorrow, it's going to be completely different game. tokenomics is going to be different. You can't do that. So we had to put out a new token that's called Sweat and it is a crypto token built on NIR. And effectively the way the two businesses work together is you choose, you either play Web3 game and you just create your crypto account and then your steps are converted into Sweat. Or as a lot of people, you know, kind of choose to, they don't opt in and then they get Sweatcoins, which is a centralized points, think of it like air miles that you can gather and you can use inside Sweatcoin, but they cannot be traded on exchanges. They are not real crypto and not as liquid as Sweat, the token. And of course, these two tokens have very, very different token economics. Sweatcoin, for every 1000 steps, you earn one Sweatcoin and Sweat is constantly demanding an increase in number of steps in order to meet next Sweat. This way, supply dynamics are a lot healthier and we have become deflationary already from the month of July. So July and August circulating supply has been slowly shrinking. Wow. Interesting. So much going on there and like incredible. First of all, with the amount of folks that you've been able to onboard the love, the idea of like offering, you know, Web3 and Web2 version, because it might just be those people that maybe aren't quite ready yet, but want to experiment a bit, want to learn about the technology first, then it gives them an easy kind of entry, you know, accessible entryway, which is great. And so you talked about the Sweat token, which is the built on the near blockchain. And that's kind of the for the Web3 version, the currency that kind of behind this whole movement economy. So you talked about that users will get this, they'll earn this from from walking, engaging in that physical activity. What can they do with these with these tokens once they actually receive them? What's the like utility of them? Yeah, no, there is there is plenty. But actually, if we take a step back, because I think in the crypto world, a lot of people are sort of obsessed with the word utility. I actually think that the more important question is, if you ask somebody, why is this token valuable? Yeah, what is the answer to that question? And I have answered to both of these questions. But I would like to start with the one that I think is more relevant in long term, why is Sweat valuable? And the reason why Sweat is valuable is because it is produced by your verified physical activity. So when you move, and if you try to cheat, it doesn't work. In fact, if somebody is trying repeatedly to kind of break into the system and you know, sort of game it, then we just disable accounts and they can never return. But if you put in genuine physical activity, so you sweat it, then we verify it. And we issue with this token that is tokenized physical activity of yours. And because of that, there is no single question in people's mind that it is valuable. It's a very, very different relationship to a string of numbers that sort of miraculously appeared out of, I don't know, nothing, airdrop, I don't know, whatever activity. And then people, majority of people, not crypto natives, but crypto curious are wondering, why does it have any value at all? Why is it not zero? And that is an extremely difficult question to answer. Now we don't have this problem. However, crypto educated or crypto informed you are, that's my physical activity. That's my sweat. That's not zero because, you know, it cannot be, you know, can I sweat it over it? Right. And this is an answer to the longterm question. So in five years, 10 years, 15 years, 20 years time, when people are going to be talking about why is sweat valuable, they're going to say, are you kidding me? It's a tokenized physical activity. How can it be zero? However, it doesn't stop there. You know, in order for us to build movement economy, in order for us to feel sweat with this meaning that it is tokenized physical activity, in order for us to establish financial, you know, kind of number or just a value to it, we need to play a game in the interim that is effectively creating utility and demand drivers for sweat. For a lot of projects, that's all they do. We do have a longterm vision that I've just described to you. The short term vision is extremely simple. You need sweat in order to participate in our kind of network in our platform, you stake sweat, and you earn interest by taking sweat, you also have access to a lot of rewards that are linked to health and fitness, well being fashion, etc. So this is an extremely engaging thing for our users, you are also earning sweat from our learn and earn. And because 90 % of our users are brand new to crypto and web3, they are seeking and are very interested in information. So what is taking? How does it work? You know, how do you transfer? How do you receive crypto? So we are building this whole ecosystem of effectively onboarding products and information, how do you become a proper crypto native? Last but not least, are a lot of functionalities that are being rolled out right now as we're ramping up for our US launch. The most exciting one is Sweat Hero. It's a free NFT game that effectively, if you engage, come in, we give you an NFT of legs. Because, you know, we're about walking and running. Yeah. And, you know, you get the NFT and you can play with other people, literally walking, I'm not going to go into mechanics, if you're interested, you can sort of go and look at it yourself in Sweat Wallet app. Or if you are in the US and you can't still use all the functionality, then you can just go on YouTube and put Sweat Hero and there are plenty of screenshots and screencasts from users that have been participating in beta testing. So you basically go into battle and the game and I battle you and I put 10 Sweat, you put 10 Sweat, the winner takes 80 % and the 20 % goes into what we call a battle fee, which is effectively a token sync that community votes on later on. And that brings me to your one of the first and earlier questions, you know, about move to earn and sustainability of the business, because we're frequently asked, you know, how are you different from, you know, kind of other projects out there? And we say, well, tens of millions of users is one thing, nine years of history and therefore ability to spend time thinking about building sustainable business and sustainable token economics. And what we are doing right now by scaling and not going into that spiral is evidence that we know how to build sustainable businesses that really function. More than that, as I already mentioned, in July and in August this year, Sweat has already become deflationary. So the sources of demand on a monthly basis are higher than emissions of token by you walking, plus all unlocks, users, team investors, and everything. So the number of tokens that hit the market is lower than the number of tokens that are extracted from the market, which in web two world would basically be definition of profitability. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Very interesting. Yeah. So much on the go. And, you know, I love this idea as well of the Sweat Hero NFT game. I think that's a really fun way to engage people in a different way and to bring NFTs in the mix as well. You mentioned move to earn in there too. And so I know that obviously Sweat Economy kind of is a great example of that, you know, move to earn ecosystem fits within there. You know, there's, it's a pretty early stage space for sure. You know, fairly nascent, a couple projects for sure, like yours that are really growing at a rapid pace, but still very early. Where do you see things when it comes to move to earn in the future, let's say five to 10 years from now? What do you think? How do you think it'll shape, you know, the overall wellness sector in the coming years? I mean, there are several very interesting things here. One is, whole industries are born when you can break a trade -off that, you know, is considered standard. You know, for example, internet broke this trade -off where you could deliver rich message, but very few people, or you could deliver extremely poor message and extremely narrow message to a lot of people. Reach and richness was a trade -off. Internet broke that and the rest is history. You know, you can talk to individual with extremely rich message and sometimes screw with their heads as well as Cambridge Analytica has proven, right? So it's a double -edged sword, unfortunately. So in our world, the trade -off is, or if you want to be healthy, if you want to be active, you got to pay. You got to buy kit, you got to get job membership, you got to dress, you got to do all of these things. You know, how can you be physically active if you're not paying? Actually, because it's beneficial to you and to a lot of other people, we believe that you should be paid for it because it is incredibly valuable. Like in attention economy, you are given free products in exchange for your attention. Why wouldn't we be doing exactly the same thing in exchange for my physical activity? So move to earn is breaking this trade -off and I believe that it is going to become a more or less standard approach because if physical activity was only valuable to me and me alone, I would need to pay. But given that it drives an incredible amount of value for everybody, including countries, I mean, if you're physically active, you're going to be more economically active for longer. The tax revenues from you are going to be higher. It's good business. You know, even if you're looking at it in the dry light of day, obstructing yourself from taking care of people, making sure that, you know, this country is a good place for them to live. But even just in financial terms, it's good business. So this is the first thing that all the businesses in move to earn are doing, regardless if they're Ponzi or non -Ponzi actually think that it's great because businesses are reminding people that their physical activity has value. Bingo. That moves this whole idea of movement economy forward. The other trend that I see is that we need to get fewer people who are focusing on crypto natives, which is the case with a lot of other products and are focusing on mass market, because the value is not in making very, very narrow field of already reasonably rich and wealthy people more physically active. The real value to humanity is going into the lower social stratas, because that typically is where behavior change is most needed. If you look at dominant in A and B social groups, but it's starting to ramp up as you go lower down the income tail. So we need to start focusing on these people. We need to start developing propositions that are absolutely free, that are extremely simple to engage with, like what's what economy is doing. Because a lot of people are asking me, crypto, web3, what's your advice? And my simple advice is, look, we're so early, I can't even point a finger where to go. But if any of you remember internet of 96 and 97, you would remember that, I mean, there was Yahoo, right? There were very, very early businesses. None of them are really sort of dominating. And the opportunity is still there. And the opportunity number one is we still don't have an email for internet. We don't have an ubiquitous use case for web3. That email became for internet. That's what we're focusing on. Can we develop something that every single person on planet earth would be interested and benefit from if they engage with? And if you have legs, and if you can take steps, you know, you can engage with sweat economy. And I think we're on the right path there. The other thing that I would say is that if you actually look at the overall web3, and all the different tokens that exist, I see right now only three use cases or three classes of tokens that can be explained in a very simple fashion. Why on earth do they have value? Case one, Bitcoin digital gold, inflationary protection. It's capped supply. Everyone is paying attention to it. Everyone is in because of the first mover advantage. Therefore, it is playing the role of digital gold and probably is replacing gold as that inflationary protection asset. Case two, layer ones, computers securing asset ownership on the internet. Like electricity powers computers, like tokens, like ETH, like NEAR, like Avax, like MATIC. You need to have them in order for these computers to work for you and secure ownership of assets. And case three is tokenization. And here there is kind of wide range. The most simple one is tokenizing fiat currency, USDT, USDC. Basically, you are turning an asset that already exists into a token to make it more liquid, easier to transfer, easier to exchange with a lot more censorship resistance and with fewer parties being able to tell you can you or cannot you conduct this particular transaction. And there is a lot of experimentation with other assets like TDELs, for example, kind of tokenizing them. And we are pushing absolutely boundaries of that because we're not tokenizing an asset that already exists, that already has markets that can be exchanged. We're creating new asset class because as I said, everyone agrees that physical activity has value. It should have been an asset, but actually without blockchain, it cannot be turned into an asset. And we are creating new asset, new asset class, and the whole new industry that cannot be created without blockchain participating in this.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 09/26/23
"Olivia Newton -John would have been 75 today. So this one hurt. I mean, when she passed last year. I mean, how many people are this universally loved? It would have been easy to go get I Honestly Love You or Let Me Be There. But two, three years before that, she had this cover of the great Bob Dylan, If Not For You. It was her first big hit, and so we salute Olivia Newton -John today on what would have been her 75th. Hey! You know, it's funny that you mention this, because I spent some time on the show yesterday saluting a great, great guy out of Columbus, Ohio, Bruce Hooley. He is a Columbus host. He's filled in, I think, for Hewitt a few times. And he and I had a segment together. We haven't always seen eye to eye. He's kind of a mainstream conservative establishment Republican, and he's a really, really spiritual guy out of Columbus. He found out a couple of weeks ago, wham, he's got brain cancer. And he had brain surgery. Well, this guy is now embarking on sort of a journey to say, you know what, remember the things that matter. Now is the time everyone should lean into your faith and remember the love of Jesus, remember what we're here for. And he sees this as almost a calling that he's facing this very tough, difficult journey. And he's got a blog going, Bruce Hooley. You can look him up in Columbus. Spell Hooley. Spell Hooley. H -O -O -L -E -Y. He's the midday host on 98 .9 The Answer, our affiliate in Columbus, the Salem affiliate in Columbus. And he's such a deep man of faith that he said, I'm not afraid of this at all. He said, I know what I'm supposed to do, and if I can share the love of Jesus Christ and help everybody know what the right path is, I'm going to do it in whatever time I have. He's my age. He's 63 years old. And this guy, I always have such a deep admiration because you know what? If it's me, I'm on the floor in the fetal position, and I'm not going to be able to get out of bed. I'm going to be afraid. I shouldn't be. We should know we're here for a short period, and we know what our real purpose is, and we know where we should be headed. But you've got to make—it's an easy choice. And he writes about that. He goes, it's real easy. You accept him as your savior, and you do it now, and don't wait until you get a diagnosis. And that's kind of his message. Mark, I just love the courage and the nobility of people like Bruce. And so you just reminded me of that when our prayers were out. I am so glad. Let us lift him up in prayer. And it's funny. It's a big—not to use everybody else's story as a mirror and an attitude check in our own lives, but it just invariably happens because I can get a little twisted off if I can't get to the bank and the post office in the same day. It kind of gives you a little bit of a big -picture look at your own blessings, your own health, your own prayers. So let's everybody kind of get a grip. I got a scathing email from a listener in Columbus who said, hey, Mr. Wisdom Tooth, we had to hear you whining about your stupid wisdom tooth, and here's Bruce facing brain cancer. How dare you? And she really went at me. And I read this email, and I thought, holy—and that was after I did this lengthy tribute to his courage. But I get it. I lose perspective all the time. And all of a sudden, my stupid dry socket problem didn't seem so bad. That's it. Everything's relative. Like Elaine Stritch said, everybody's got a bag of rocks. We all got something we're dragging around in our lives. And, you know, right now we've got seven candidates on a debate stage dragging around some rocks tomorrow night. And by the way, can you help me understand why Larry Elder's name has just been eradicated from the conversation? They don't even talk about him anymore. A little bit of history, because he did, by all accounts, he did what was necessary to get onto debate stage number one. X amount of fundraising, 1 percent in a stretch of significant polls. He did it. And Ronna McDaniel or somebody simply blocked him from that debate stage. So I think he could have gotten from 1 to 3 percent just by being Larry on that debate stage. And that would have opened the door to who knows what, because if Doug Flippin' Burgum can be in this debate tomorrow night, Larry certainly could. But he was denied the chance to be on debate stage number one. The threshold for debate stage number two is 3 percent. And with Larry back there at one, there's no way for him to triple that without being on the debate stage.
The Financial Guys
"health health" Discussed on The Financial Guys
"These are all been all these regulations from back in Cuomo doing executive orders to now when we're doing emergency regulations where it just an unelected body just signs off on it. And the executive branch does it all by themselves. And that's just not how we make laws in this country. We never have. And early in the pandemic, we gave Cuomo this is 30 day emergency power and maybe that was reasonable at the beginning when we didn't know anything. We didn't know how we were going to have to respond. But even then, and those are the early cases that I went on, you know, it was clear. He had 30 days. And we passed a law saying during this emergency, we're not going to follow the constitution for 30 days at a time. And then we're going to go back to normal process. That was stretching the constitution, maybe a little bit more than a lot of people are comfortable, but it kind of made us a little bit of sense at the beginning. But that was repealed. The emergency ended, and then they just started doing the same thing all over again using this public health health planning council to in 24 hours notice. I don't know about his body, just to prove this new, these new mandates get sent to the health commissioner. They sign off. Now you'll Senate doesn't get the chime in. You suddenly doesn't get the chime in. Ever making law completely by executive branch Fiat. Which is not how laws are made in a democracy. And Cassie never got those hours, right? So she was never they took those powers away from governor Cuomo and march of 2021. She just extended them. What did she do? I mean, how did nothing? Nothing's happened, right? No, you know, that's the thing. It's like if there's anyone in state government who knew all his powers, you know, it was answer Cuomo. I mean, I will say that about him. He knew every little inch of the law in New York State and knew how to get power and use power. And if he didn't think he had these powers, if he thought he needed a special emergency declaration from the state legislature to do these things last year, and he needed to do it during a declared state of emergency. And then she comes in, there's no emergency anymore. The executive emergency powers have been removed and she discovers these powers that Cuomo never knew existed. I mean, that is why initially that's usually here that story is right here that way. Because if anyone knew who the powers yet, it was formal. That's what as we speak. As we speak, by the way, this is not to confirm yet, but my understanding is that there's some kids being removed by police. Good work. Because they didn't wear their masks. Yeah, that's an unbelievable to me. So if she just disingenuous or is she ignorant when it comes to what she's doing, in fact, seizing power in a way and just doing whatever she feels that she wants..
MAD MONEY W/ JIM CRAMER
"health health" Discussed on MAD MONEY W/ JIM CRAMER
"A lot of money all right well. Look everybody just kind of nice three dollars spec that i think makes a ton of sense because this guy gave us when it was seven i would chenier. I dunno twentyfold. I guess that's what you did anyway. That's three sukey go pattern. Chairman of hillary and teo l. shrimp. It's always pick daggers. Gel thank you very much. This was for the first ten years the biggest winner we had was reefs. Maybe get back coming up. A storm is coming. So give us a call. Kramer's got the answers to all your burning questions. The likely round is next. It is and then the leading. Are you ready scheme note. Do jose jose mr kramer. Thanks for taking my call. Shuttleworth's all your team wanted to ask a couple questions on principle. I just got a puppy for my son. And i wanted to build some portfolio for funk. What do you think about park. I wanna get some ninety something of you when it goes wettest before animal-health health hide expert animal health or if they wanted to be that thing by chewy but not original book. It's too risky. Let's go to carol in florida. Carol thank you for taking my glove. I want your shots on lanark corporation are. It's had a very big run right. now. I'm sensing that this market is angry. It's the kind of stock that's going to have to come down. I can hang my hat on anything involving homebuilders. Let's cut it to jameson.
Trading Secrets
"health health" Discussed on Trading Secrets
"Then second third prices for amazing racer. Now there are. I think those the same one hundred seventy five got interest. I'm still surprised by the amount for the non winners of survivor. Even though it's not it's pretty high. I mean bashar you on his contestant you get zero dollars even if you win yes. Zero dollars We had someone from big brother on and it's a thousand dollars a week. So i mean they film a little longer but still the end of that even if you make it to the end in you're on the jury but there It's just interesting because that's still. It's thirty thirty nine days. So i mean we're not talking life changing money but it's still it's worth your physical ailments like it's pretty bad lake for the year. After i came back my hair was falling out. Like i lost twenty two pounds first season. Which when you lose weight really quickly can cause fatty liver like we. We always joke. I haven't taken a solid shit in twelve years like you just like live with lake the side effects of it forever so i think that the money is fair given like what you have scars element body from the insect bites like i have. Dan have had now multiple cancerous moles removed which were a product of sunday image from being out there and not have adequate some like. You should be more than they sing net. That's probably a deficit when you think about all that stuff. What about david. Good point about our big brother Elena davies came on his awesome. I on this reality tv. I'll tell you what it's small but what we've found out from her. At the first time she did big brother there was a small portion. Oh no no no. So she did to. Tv shows a small portion. The first time the second time she knew she had a little like fame behind her and platform she was able to negotiate substantially more for survivor to go around to for you and then amazing race. Were you able to leverage what you had before to increase your right now. In fact when. I told you i said no. They had asked me back for the first season of as hobby cast was heroes vs villains right. So they want me for that. They won't be bad. And i was like cool. You need to guarantee me a certain amount of money to buy. And i just got another job like a four months. After my new job started. They wanted to bring me back in. I was like not even like i'm i wasn't asking for a lot. I was asking for a base guarantee to get me on the shelves. So that if i lost this now again we carry me over and they refused and so they lost me and they had to answer that quite often being one of the few very little hardcore female villains why is it was right after mice liguori chenoweth and they only go. She couldn't put her job By you just weren't going to pay me. And i was. I was asking for like eight grams. Wasn't like an absurd number thirty grand more than what you've got the previous season and you had some following behind you and everything else. And i actually even tried to broker. I said like if. I don't make the jury. I need to go home because i could keep my job in that case because it would you know under two weeks i could. I could just go back to work. And they refused even. Let me do that money. But go back after if i make they said no. That's crazy so is that what employers said. They said you have two weeks to go beyond two weeks. We're firing you well in the case of the employer where i said no i said to the employer like i need you know basically forty days. I have two weeks occasion. You know i actually On the phone with my boss was trying to this and they side of you know maybe if you go and you don't make it any comeback you exist shut. We backfield this job in two weeks. But if you have being on any longer than that sorry not you. Wow cutthroat world real world hitting reality. Tv it's freaking unbelievable. Go like some people like it's their dream like they can't even fathom how someone known it happens. I've been very infrequently. But i legitimately unlike these other people what the end game. So what have i got on. The first person voted out. Like you know. I no job. And they're not using your pay at all and then you to get back on the job hustle. I mean it's it's a grind health health insurance that you're built like we we just talked to atlanta to write like reality still goes on your mortgage payments your car payments all these things while you're still filming the show are being done and pay doesn't meet those requirements. He could get ugly quick. And i think it's a sad reality. Tv that ought people don't see are the glitz the glamor the cool. Wow it just knew this person there in my math class at college or they worked with me and then now they're here but there is so much that goes on after the show especially financially financial by that you don't realize or maybe you do but on survivor. Especially the one thing that gets ruined. After survivor marriages relationships. Everybody gets divorced. Book it up it they all. It's it's like a staggering percentage. Why do you think that is. I think the person becomes so fucking insufferable little piece of fame that the other person stand anymore. That's pretty good solid collusion or it's fake in perceived by the by the partner who wasn't on the show that they're jalousie at least a fifty percent divorce rate crazy high divorce rate when people come back. There's a lot of cheating because everyone goes these parties but see you have different because you got to start out single so you maybe didn't realize that's a big that's true. We started off single chip most of them not all of them which then creek that it really life up all right so all these really fucked up things about reality. Tv that being said. Would you go on big brother if you're asked right now for the track considered survivor so okay interesting so you pick and choose the show. Yeah i mean I'm gonna end this by saying you need to be. I think with your personality your professional background and your flyer david. Could you imagine we freak out but it could just be big brother recap show put it this way. I was in the big brother house. There's not many people that i would like. Take seriously as a threat if you came walking down the door after talking to you for forty minutes. Oh this is going to be a tough one thought. My strategy with with korean would be definitely be on her good side and then the second item back door. Get her out of the house. I mean i got blindsided Super glenside. I did not know what was happening so again. That is a strategy. That is how you get me out. I love it all right david anymore. Questions before gins last two segments here. Just a wild one when you're on survivor. And the foods awful obviously is very sparse. Part of any of those challenges. Were like the team who wins. Wins like an absolute feast. Yeah so on day. Nineteen my first season. We'd had no food so you win a bunch of stupid trash before that you've been like a tarp and pillows you know get wet the first day and then you don't want to use but day. Nineteen we want a picnic. which had bows a champagne and then Gherkins patasse everything is by the way that like when they bring it out. I really person that knew anything was like they're like what do you think this is. This is like it's like no one likes type mcdonald gherkins. I decided that. Moment that i have huge blazes everything so there's seven of us on the picnic so everything has to be divided intentionally. Didn't give you seven rolls right. They give you five and you have to figure out how to one-seventh everything so you're winding everything and i look at. What's on the table on a mike. I'm going to be hungry tomorrow. I'd like to get drunk today. I will trade my one. Seven of food for each person's one-sided the champagne so nothing on my only opportunity something the face t hydrate yourself in.
Ross Patterson Revolution!
"health health" Discussed on Ross Patterson Revolution!
"Look that's a if you're asking if anyone out there would would not want to cuddle up with giselle thing in that one picture has better tits picture better other pay for outlook who fucking announcement to the bunch family. Okay we're not. We're not going to shame anyone today. Here this is like shitting on the other manning for like only plenty like some college football cooper. Yeah this shit. Cooper manning like. She's a good. She has like look. She has hips right. She's got boo flat stomach. We'll tone on that stoic. Right what you want with. This is a civilian civilian. And like in this. Like i will say giselle as a whatever a thing a an idea. Giselle is hot right when you really look at that picture. It's just like a straight boy's body with no boobs straight no hips no nothing. Twelve year old boy. You'd rather do some elliott page avs. Is that what you're saying. I wish i had those apps items. Can we i don't know is my health insurance. Cover that no definitely doesn't because it doesn't fall under anything health health related that is simply cosmetic georgia and i think there's another level to this like patty bhuttan being like m- actually kind of hotter and giselle is the one that's like. Do you know what. I mean now. Shutdown right now. I'm saying there is a large swath of the population. That would choose right over left. Thank you especially if you especially if it was like neck down like it was just like here like not even like it's just like who is it. Yeah just like what do you prefer like. What type do you prefer. Not going to tell you these boone chins registers. We're just gonna say okay. Look at it now. What are we thinking which body is going right man. I'll see better make the right decision because we're like mine and the other is not.
BIRTH YOUR VISION PODCAST SERIES
"health health" Discussed on BIRTH YOUR VISION PODCAST SERIES
"We love to hear from you. Absolutely and then one question from one of our guest guesses about an promoting health and wellbeing in the workplace They just wanted to know Do you actually support that as well definitely team effects. I who are fantastic in this area. They deliver twenty four seven training with the world man qualified And i work across the whole gambit so mental health health resilience physical house. The whole works so let me go and supply all those levels. Today element indeed absolutely..
The Common Cents Show
"health health" Discussed on The Common Cents Show
"So i can't wait for you all to hear conversation between me and dan young. This guy has energy for days. It's going to be exciting. We're gonna go into dance past. Some of the health issues had oblivious story why he started performance food centers. Why we partnered with them with the meld franchise and what he's looking forward to in the future and what we're looking forward to do together so hope. You enjoyed this conversation with dan. Young mike logan. This is the common sense show. It's time for another common sense. Welcome to commerce conversations in our conversation today. We have dan young. Who is the president and founder of performance. Food centers and swig dan. It is i guess for me. It goes without words to say but not for everyone else to pleasure to actually have this conversation with you today. Welcome to the show. It's actually my pleasure mike. It'd be on with you today for a lot of great things about you and i'm very happy to have you as a partner. Yeah i'll be too so For all those listening today you have an amazing story that you've probably told a million times by now and this makes a million and one But i'd like to start at the beginning in at the end. And so dan if you just before we get into the business side of smoothies not as their stuff. I wanna hear the foundational story. Why is it that you started performance through centers if you can kind of go into some of your backstory and let the folks listening and watching Just hear a little bit about that. I love to share that Piece my my story like thanks for asking actually so i Probably not unlike thousands of people who've been in my situation but the twenty five plus years ago I was sick. i was very sick. Actually i had several health health challenges and doctors pretty much had no idea what was wrong with me at the time and after about two years of of Going from doctor to doctor with zero results. I finally decided that it was pretty much. My my Opportunity to take my life in my own hands and figure this out myself. And just by picking up a book by paul Healing with whole foods..
790 KABC
"health health" Discussed on 790 KABC
"If you want to talk about any anything that our last caller Ron nearing, had to say about his candidate, Kevin Faulkner. You know for equal time will be happy to have someone out there Who might want to say something about John Cox or Caitlyn Jenner. Or whoever their candidate might be. But we've got a couple lines lit up here We have Ah, Linda and Burbank Online one Louise in Rancho Cucamonga Online, too. Let's open up with Linda. How are you, Linda? Thank you very much for calling in. Hi. Um I don't know for sure. But I think, um Newsome could be funded by some woke corporations and there's a website. You know that. Well, that shows you had a boycott Well, corporations and shows you who what with all the local corporations are consumer. Research done. Zorg. Wow. Well researched Dad or G'kar? Well, you know, Newsome is, you know Part of the San Francisco business Communities got close ties with the woke law firms like Oh, Melanie and Meyers on duh wouldn't surprise me. If we went on there, and we saw that a number of well corporate I would imagine most of the world corporations would support him. What do you have to say about that? Don, you actually lived through him being there for a while there, didn't you? Don't remind me. Yeah, He certainly has the connections. That's basically what he has. That's what he's got going for. Yeah. Well, thank you very much for sharing that with us, Linda and for being such a good listener. What's What's the one thing? Yeah. What is it again? What's the website? Oh, consumer research that ord and they monitor woke corporations. I think our listeners interested in that okay? Yeah, I hear that they have They have negative avatar. Next of every child's been sawn them. They they have not. They have Nike on there. I heard they have American Airlines Cola child labor in China, and it's just terrible. Anyway, what you were going to say something else. Hello? Yes, we hear you. Oh, yeah. Faulkner. You know, I think when he's governor, I think he should be like Trump. I really liked what Trump did, Um Mm hmm. Lowered taxes, but also what Trump did he cut off? You know the world she cut off funding for the World Health Health organization. Faulkner can do the same thing and he could cut off funding. Enough for on that was California Resource is board, for example. Well, it's so odd that we had Jerry Brown is governor and his response to what President Trump did to pull us out of the Paris Climate accords, which were very extremely one sided against us. You know, we know that The pollution and the carbon problem in the world is really created by China and India. But the Paris accord would have had the United States tie one hand behind its back and Give up all this manufacturing. So what did Jerry Brown do? Jerry Brown went out. Because the liberal Democrats like to think of California's being a nation of its own. And he negotiate, tried to negotiate his own deal to get California into the Paris accord. Did you know that done Yes, I heard he was doing international, uh, international activity. Well, you know, let's say the first thing we've got to do Linda's we've got to recall. Gavin Newsom, and then the next step will be to get a good governor in it. And it looks like it looks like Faulkner Handsome. Good policies. Thank you very much for your call will go to line too. And we've got Louise from Rancho Cucamonga on the line. Louise, can you hear me? I can hear you Happy Sunday, Lewis. Yeah. Listen, I want to ask. Sorry. Sorry about that. We got the producer Put an E on the end of your name, Louis and Rancho Cucamonga. Thank you very much for calling. But we're all we're all for gender fairness here, Lewis. I'm assuming you're a man because, you know, I hope I'm not going to get into some gender problem Now you're not gonna get in trouble with me on that on that issue. Um, what one of the things that I think we need to ask ourselves. On. I think your programming, which is good as you get other representatives of some of the kick considered candidates is the question which we should ask him is What would you do? What would you can it do as governor, knowing that you don't have the full control of both the assembly and the Senate. Right? Great. If you're going to pass legislation you've got to get it passed both houses so similar to executive order. What can the governor of California do? To Fiat to get things done. Um, and so because it and also I'm not. I'm not one who is going to recall Gavin Newsom on Lee on his mishandling of the Corona virus issue. There are myriad of issues by your reference G D D. There's also the way he handled the water. The twin tunnels when you switched from twin tunnels to single tunnels without any viable science. So there's also proposition 13 why you supported the ballot initiatives and so forth, So there's a whole bunch of issues that we should be addressing burst in addition to the crew in a vise mishandling so that voters know That this mismanagement hasn't been on one front has been in a serious of issues. I don't know what a question I would like to hear from some candidates is what will you do? As governor of California and knowing that you have no control of both other houses to make a difference. Well, what comes to my mind is the fact That the we only have 19 Republicans in the California State Assembly out of 80 members. And then there's one independent. That's Chad Mayes of former Republican So you've got 20 out of 80 and done. Romano and I were talking about this off line the other day. That's only 25% representation. What That means is is that if you have a Republican governor that doesn't like a bill that the Democrats passed. Its veto proof. If he vetoes the legislation. He can't get the one third. The 33%. 33 30% needed to block the bill, And I think it's even worse in the state Senate. I think that in the state Senate there's 40 total members, but only nine of them are Republicans. So What does this mean? Well, it's one thing it means is is that If you want to reform California, we've really gotta work on making this a two party system again, and we've got to try and do is best is we can to try and increase those numbers. We were able to do it with the congressional seats. In the last election. We were able to pick them pick them up and we pick some up before, but we've got a We've got to really have a plan to try and increase our position in the state Legislature. But don I'm interested in this is a good question, Lewis and don, um, interested in what you have to say it, But I would just say I think that there are certainly significant powers beyond just job owning that the governor has in terms of the power of appointment..
WCBM 680 AM
"health health" Discussed on WCBM 680 AM
"Well, Jonah, This isn't the siren song for my fellow New Yorkers. I don't know what is and in my opinion, the governor needs to think about stepping aside. Look at the totality. We had this Nursing home order expose last week by the attorney general, the cover up was exposed. Now we have the evidence that he's sidelined his own health department on the vaccine roll out in favor of the Greater New York Hospital Association. Which for those that don't know is one of Albany's biggest lobbying groups, one of his biggest donor groups and then again the totality all this while whether it's vaccines or deaths or the states, but it devastate the economy. Unemployment. This is a governor who has led the worst response of the United States of America. I think it's time for him to really think about heading down the Thruway one final time. A friend Joe Borelli, who's a city councilman in New York, and you've heard on this show many times in the past. Just speaking the truth about the governor of New York, and there's a reason look at the recall campaign against Gavin Newsom. Look at these Democrats in big states who now that people see What has happened now that people are feeling the pain of the decisions that are made. And how they didn't save them from Carl Vid. They made everything worse that that's ultimately the assessment should come to hear whether it's Gavin Newsom or Governor Cuomo. Governor of new similar Cuomo. Same thing, they they made everything worse without any real benefit whatsoever, and they were smoke. They were arrogant about all of it, too. The MSNBC watchers out there were all clapping for it. Yeah, the science? Yeah, we believe in science. Then they want males to compete in female sports, and we'll see what happens here. What is even the justification for this? I never even They don't even bring it up. It's just it's just supposed to happen. Because equality or something back to the Cuomo saga. You had nine New York Times because there's so little trump passion to really do Right now they've got to do occasional journalism, and they're also going to look for people to blame for some of this, They're gonna have to throw some Democrats under the bus. That has to happen here. They had to sacrifice some Democrats to protect the rest of the Democrat Party narrative here that they were so good in dealing with Cove ID. You know, buying 100 days of masking was really, really smart. You got nine. Top New York health officials according New York Times quit. As Cuomo scorns expertise. When I say experts in air quotes It sounds like I'm saying. I don't really trust the experts government you, Cuomo said of his pandemic policies. Because I don't. Yeah, This is the guy who was holding these these sessions like the king bringing in everybody to his court to entertain him. Right? We tell you what I'm doing tonight. With the vaccine. We have charged with listening to science. We're gonna do a great job. And if you don't listen to me, you want people to die. That's Governor Cuomo. And this guy's a nightmare. Anybody who knows anything about New York politics will tell you that Governor I mean that Andrew Cuomo. Has a reputation for being thin skinned, vindictive, vicious on basically just not really a bad person. He's a bad person. Okay, So you start with that. That's his reputation broad reputation. Did you get any of that from Democrats back in April and may when he was holding those? You know, every day, I would have a press conference. Whatever think about. We're gonna talk about the date all listen to me. That's about the data, the numbers the people around him or who are the actual quote experts. On dealing with pandemic pandemic disease and other issues. Those people Have been fleeing from him. Because he overrides them. Because he is impossible to deal with. And because he's a nightmare, basically. Remember the media made this guy into a hero. The media pretended. That Cuomo was said Remember, he was he was maybe going to be the Democratic nominee for president of the last moment. Nine Senior health health officials have all left Cuomo because He is terrible. And now with the New York State attorney General Leticia James, who, by the way, I think she's got the governor's chair in her sights. So this is this is a two fer. This is great for her. Gets to look like the champion of the people here that a G for New York State and also maybe clear out a little look clear out a little headroom clear a little space for the next move. His Cuomo's nursing home order as much as he's been trying to suppress this and fight. It was the single that that's the one decision. You can point you from any leader in this country that seemed to have the single most direct effect on the spread of covert to the highest vulnerability, populations, seniors and nursing homes. And resulted in. We can't know the exact number but resulted in a large number of people losing their lives because of Cuomo stupidity. That's where we are. That's the truth. So we should all at least be willing to look at that and understand it for what it is. But notice how things are starting to change. Now that we have more results More time, the timeline has been extended. More data more information. Democrats didn't have some great plan to handle this. They don't know what the hell they were.
77WABC Radio
"health health" Discussed on 77WABC Radio
"Be signing also changes what the president is done. Present with the president was former president has done on that remember and reversed the My predecessors attack on women's health health access And You continue to battle over 19. He's reading from cue cards and still can't get it. Right. Poor guy. Poor poor job. I look, I heard Tony Bennett Has Alzheimer's his status in 1996 Look, they talked about Ronald Reagan while he was in office. They savaged him. He's got Alzheimer's. This that the other there's something wrong with Joe Biden. Is it? Not much is it? Not a legitimate into question His cognitive abilities, actual said at this point, and this man is the most powerful man in the world. A little break. Wow, I wish I could just, you know, have a great story coming up about to remember when Maxine Waters got out, you don't get all up in their face. Did you see that Trump if you get up In their face. Stay woke, and you go up to him. You don't get no peace whatsoever. Yeah, we'll have a great story attached to that. You don't wanna hear kid was actually funny. Just come back. It's really good. Stick around to today. Getting what if your Super Bowl party we're giving away like we did yesterday, a $200 gift card. Why the D'Agostino's or grist Edie's where I shop in one of three in Broadway, So get your Super Bowl party ready? You know, I think I have to say the big game. I don't know, but I could say Super Bowl all I want from this show. It doesn't matter if I was not gonna sue me for that, But if you attach it to a show like my Sunday show, or some type of give away then you can't say that. I'm not going to say the big game 55. I'm going to say Super Bowl 55 when I'm talking about the game. Does that make any sense to one child Give card to Gristedes or D'Agostino's for the big game. Giving that away today We'll do Sports and Anthony Scaramucci keep it right here. Chairman of the board Oh blue eyes, the Sultan of smooth triple in Frank Sinatra this Sunday night at 8 P.m.. It's Ramsey, Mazda's Sundays with Sinatra with.
990 The Answer
"health health" Discussed on 990 The Answer
"Grandpa yesterday behind the resolute desk in the Oval. There's communist standing there like the statue behind the mask again. It's weird. It's so weird man. Why is she just standing there in the mask? What's she doing? What is that? Does she do something? Is that Is that what the 1st 2nd there? The first vice president of the first female vice president's role is going to be just toe stand around. Yes, probably with with this president. Yes. Well, I thought she was supposed to have like, Wouldn't you think we'd see something more prominent of her? Wouldn't you think you roll her out and have her? First face forward, and in every instance like why is she not more prominent? Really? It's gotta be a reason. There's a plan for everything. I just I haven't figured it out yet. She's always should see the curtains back there all the time. She just standing back there like the curtains. She's like a vase. Flowers. Just a decoration. Yeah, no big like prime time Sunday night interviews. She doesn't speak. No one talks to her. She's not ask questions. She gives no interviews. She's just You know, Grandpa Res rolled out there. He needs squints. Under the bright lights and reads the giant letters on his teleprompter than shuffles. Like, you know, the old Tim Conway sketches shuffles over. To the executive order table assignment. Signs. It reads. What he's trying to read. Can't figure out what he's reading for the first time and then shuffles out and then comma curtains, Kamila. Feels herself off the wall the wall flower there and follows in behind him. And they set him down in his chair and cover him his lap with the shawl. Give him his pudding and turn on the cartoons, and I don't know what she doesn't know where she goes. That I guess they go into the situation room and the Obama team sits down, and Susan Rice tells everybody how it's gonna go for it. I said so yesterday again. They're sitting there in the Oval Office. There's Biden her Today. Mary excited Have some things to tell you. Ah, he has note cards in front of him this time. So you think to yourself, okay? He's going to say some big boy stuff on his own. Grandpa wants to talk about himself, Does he? No, not so fast. Everything's on a note card. Everything he's saying is written out on the little chicken Scratch note card. He's wiping his mouth and flipping the cards is he's reading her. There's Kamila curtains, Kamila. Standing back there against the wall, the wallflower Act. Uh, the second order and will be signing also changes what the president's done present that the president was former president has done on that. Remember and reverse the My predecessors attack on women's health health access on and as we continue to battle over 19 Wow. Mr President. He doesn't even know he's the president. It just called Trump the president. Yeah. Uh, the second thing I'll be signing Unders. What the president does. That should know That's me now. I'm the friend, right? Ah! Go over it. Oh, Oh, Mama. This is that I don't I don't even know how to feel about this. And oddly of all of this were watching. I find him the least offensive. That's the thing like of all of it. He's the thing that bothers me the least. I don't even find him. I mean, I feel sort of almost oddly sorry for him. I don't even know how they've managed to achieve it. But somehow I feel sorry for the president. I really do. Every time I see him, I feel like we're watching a hostage. You know, I was very young, very, very young, like I barely remember one of my earliest images of news footage. And it's only because this guy came from my hometown. It was when a T W A flight was hijacked. Reagan was president John Test drink was the pilot of a T W a flight. This was what eighties late eighties. Sorry, guys. I don't remember my Is true. But when I was a tiny child, very little, but you know, it's like one of those early memories. Remember, seal seared in your brain, and it was a team of you a flight John test. Rick was the pilot. And the reason I remember this so well is because John test Rick was from my little hometown. Where I was born. My grandparents lived there. Richmond, Missouri. He was from there and pilot and he w. A was based in Kansas City, Missouri, where I come from, So this was a huge I mean. Big story. Yeah. This was broadcast all over the world. I mean, there were terrorists sticking their gun after window of the plane. 10 straight. The pilot is waving and I'm okay. You know, while the terrorists sticking the gun out the window on it. You know, it was like Chilling stuff to watch. Oh, yeah. I think that's one of the earliest news footage. Things I remember as a child in my head. I kind of feel a bit like that when I watched Joe Biden. Is it without the gun? He reminds me a bit of John Test rate. The pilot. Something. There's something about it like he's under duress, like blink twice if you need help. I think it's clear Look at the people surrounding him..
ESPN Chicago 1000 - WMVP
"health health" Discussed on ESPN Chicago 1000 - WMVP
"With you, and we've got a Super Bowl related green list today, and we have Mike Holmgren coming up today. We're talking about the Baseball Hall of Fame today. But today is also a zoo. I'm sure you're already aware a day of solemn remembrance. Today is the one year anniversary of the day that we lost Kobe Bryant. And like you. I remember where I was when I heard that news. Were certain things that life you'll always remember exactly where you were when you heard them. I was in an airport in Tampa, Florida. I've got nowhere snuck away for a quick weekend of golf of my best friends. Down in Tampa in the middle of work, you know, getting set to go cover the Super Bowl the following week. And I was in the airport in Tampa. This is before the pandemic, of course, so the airport was otherwise sort of a normal place. What I what I remember, among other things about that day. Was how silent it Woz. As news began to spread, the airport was silent. Packed with people and Absolutely chillingly silent. As I sat there like everyone else, scrolling through Twitter and receiving notes and texts from people. Remember two guys who were sitting near me. Just in the waiting area waiting for our plane. One of them sort of looked over and caught my eye. And he said, You're the guy from ESPN. Right? And I said, Yeah. And he said. Is it true? And I remember saying I think it is. It was before it had been confirmed. But the story had been out there far too long not to have been accurate. By that point. He was far too famous, a man So that is a year ago today. And I know for all of us this past year for any number of reasons has felt like a decade. And so that that they feels both at the same time. It feels both like it just happened, and it feels like it was another lifetime ago. So my relationship with Kobe Bryant was very important to me because of how big a deal he was. We met. Because the Bill Clinton Clinton Global Health Health Initiative. Did an event. In Palm Springs, California. It was in January of 2000 and 14. And among the people that they invited Bill Clinton invited Julie found E and I to host it. And he invited Kobe Bryant to be the primary speaker. And when I arrived, unbeknownst to me, this was not anything that had been told to me was going to be the plan. They told me that both the president and Kobe Rather than getting up and speaking at a podium would prefer to sit in sort of a conversational fashion together. And they wanted to know if I'd be okay. Moderating that So the next thing I knew I'm sitting on a stage. For an hour and 30 minutes. With Bill Clinton and Kobe Bryant. And that is an experience that I will tell you. I will never forget as long as I live. And when it was done, and the conversation was about health, it really wasn't about basketball. It was about health. And Kobe talked about it very eloquently in the president was talking about in all of that was fabulous. I mean, it was endlessly fabulous. I think it was actually televised somewhere, so they're probably somewhere out there. You could find the video of that. But that's not the point of the story. So when it was over, we all go back into this green room and one of the members of the of President Clinton's Secret Service detail, you know came over. He knew who I was, and he was a fan of hosting Mike and Mike in the time and he said, Hey, we love the show. Could we take a picture? Whatever it is. And I said, Do you think I could? Could you bring me over to me just to say hello to the president. Just one on one. And so he did, and I went over and I got a chance to talk to Bill Clinton for I don't know. Two minutes standing in this room. And all he talked about was how extraordinary he thought Kobe Bryant was He was and I'm not going to try and do the voice. You know how he talks, But he was like he's so at Kobe Bryant. I whatever I can't do his voice, but Um He was so enamored of Kobe, but anyway, the event went so well. That Kobe decided. That from that point forward when he did corporate events, which he did, many of particularly after he retired. He would frequently arranged to have me comment. Interview him. He liked that format rather than getting up on a podium and just talking. He liked sitting in a chair opposite me and me, asking him questions. We probably did that. Don't know. Six or seven times I was going through pictures that right after this happened, and I was doing it again this morning, and I'll find some more. But I'll never forget those days and I don't want to over. It's not like we were social friends. We didn't have dinner or anything, but I spent a lot of time just asking him questions one on one. And so the fact that he is gone still. Does not register for me. It's still not something that my my mind has really been able to fully take in..
KDWN 720AM
"health health" Discussed on KDWN 720AM
"How many shots and get into the arms Americans. We feel Confident we can achieve this goal. Obviously, there are other vaccines that are being considered at this point in time by the FDA. There is funding that will be needed for distribution. There are a number of steps that will help expedite at some point in time, but Right now. Our focus is on what many health, health and medical experts have consistently called a bold goal. I will note also that some of the reporting this morning, which Kristen asked about earlier was that the Trump administration left us with no plan. It's hard for them to both be exactly true at the same time, and our team has been Putting together a plan our own planet's doctor found you talked about for some time to achieve this goal, But he also mentioned that there are a number of challenges. It's not just about lining people up. As you won't know, but for people watching in a football stadium and giving them shots, we have to overcome vaccine hesitancy. We have to get to health communities where there are they don't have access to health centers. President Biden pressed on it earlier in the day, he said, quote when I announced it, you all said, it's not possible. Come on. Give me a break, man. It's a good start 100 million You heard Jen Psaki is a doctor, Anthony found she was back in the White House briefing room. He was there to talk about the administration's covert plan, saying the Biden administration will be open and honest about the pandemic. Something he called liberating. One of the things that was very clear. As recently as about 15 minutes ago, when I was with the president is that one of the things that we're gonna do is to be completely transparent, open and honest if things go wrong. That point fingers but to correct them and to make everything we do be based on science and evidence. I mean, that was literally a conversation. I had 15 minutes to go with the president. And he has said that multiple times, can.
860AM The Answer
"health health" Discussed on 860AM The Answer
"Thanks so much for joining us making us part of your weekend here, this cut my I don't share this with you. Passing through the hospital corridors, a doctor noticed a strong smell of marijuana. Asked one of the nurses on duty about the odor. Good thing there's said, is that everybody's glaucoma has cleared up. The bad thing is that now everyone wants a Twinkie and my next guest. I think one of his favorite foods is a Twinkie. If I'm not mistaken, Dr Roman villas with us He's the author of the Vitamin Bible and more than 50 other books on health, nutrition and medicine, and we welcome him. Back to the doctor. Health radio microphones this morning. Good morning, Dr Mental Health Health, are you I'm terrific. And I do recommend Twinkies are recommend eating the wrapper. It has more fiber fiber. I mean, you're going to say that I know that that's one of your Your pet. Craddick's my class? Yeah. Hey, since you're in the know you live in Beverly Hills, and so that's part of l. A the L A Basin. What happens when the smug lifts over Los Angeles do you know? Yes, we see all the bounds. We see all the buildings but small. No, no, the that's not the right answer. U C L A You see, I get it. Well, actually, it's a lot better than it used to be That kind of an old cliche. Take, uh the, uh, The pollution level is better when it comes to visualization, But unfortunately, the ozone layer is the problem anyway, That's the news. Big news. The new dietary guidelines came after Whoa, big, all right, and what a joke. They they wanted to drop the Sugar content of the American died from 10% to 6%. And guess what? No, they didn't allow it. Businesses wouldn't have it. The the lobbyists right right. They wanted to drop the alcohol content of also and no that didn't go through either. So, instead of saying that the average American male should have two drinks a day, they wanted to have one drink. I love love with people say a drink. I had a AH office manager That was an ex alcoholic, and she told me that she says she only had 11 drink of alcohol is a but it was two leaders. Oh, thank God. She never every feel they're right. So it's amazing that after all these years, uh, the so called dietary experts A couple things. And, of course, nothing happens. But the big problem really here and if I had it to do with this is to get people that start taking vitamin these three. We invited these three. The natural want. The research is unbelievable. I mean way could probably decrease the amount of, uh, viruses that central and especially the elderly. It's such a great mystery Vitamin D three. And the only It's frightening. So what they tell them is well, yeah, it's not bad idea. Taking 600 days. 100 units. We need 4000 to 5000 units. See, that's the problem that when they come out with these so called studies is and new Ah, uh, recommendations. Right? Never enough or that's right. The lobbyist shoot it down, or they use a synthetic form of the vitamin C. Say like the vitamin A studies from the seventies instead of using, you know, an isolated ice synthetic instead of using the natural Family of nutrients and that particular vitamin or nutrient category. Let's talk about I just came across this doctor Mandel. This is from Dr Anthony Fauci. The nation's top infectious disease expert where you probably saw this where he you know he takes personally, he takes vitamin D himself, and he says that that low levels of the vitamin can affect your susceptibility to infection. But then, by the same token, he says, I take Thea's. You should take the Not. It's not how it goes. If you are deficient indeed than taking the settlement is important. If you have normal levels, it doesn't make any difference, he says. And you wouldn't have been Well, you've got to have a dog a dark, the blood test. But the problem is normal levels. We know you know, the actually ever American is to like 22. It should be 50 or over and they're like 80 is kind of ideal 70 or 80. But what's what you come in on this because my comment is Aziz bin for the many years. Why wait to your deficient? All right. It's like saying, Well, wait a minute. I'm gonna wait until it run up a gas and then I'll fill up. That's a good analogy. Well, absolutely. I mean, it's so ridiculous and ludicrous that we as a nation One of the ones that when the richest nations in the world are when it comes to as I've heard the statistics that 85 95% of Americans are are not getting enough vitamin D and that's we're talking about 600. Units are youse a day, which is not ideal. Yeah, that's not. That's just to prevent a deficiency. Another problem to David is that when you start taking a supplement like Vitamin D Eve, people say, Well, I guess it'll two weeks. No, it could be up to a year. Right. It takes a long time before you get the blood level upto word should be and that there is a difference that really bothers me about this whole field. That people are getting partial truth. They're getting a special recommendation, but they're not getting the real thing. But the real story is you have the more the longer you take a supplement. The better The results not exactly exactly opposite of drugs. You know, I'm a pharmacist, a swell and the girl that every drug has a side effect. And the longer you take a drug, the more chance you have of having side effects contraindications or toxicities. Well, when it comes to supplements is exactly opposite. Exactly offset Yeah, You know, I opened the show Dr Mandell with it was a cartoon that it showed where the pharmacist is talking to the patient or the customer and the customer is floating in the air. And he says, I said there are no side effects. I didn't say anything about special effects. So so I think special effect on supplement effects. The special effects are beneficial and not exactly not military issue help. Exactly. They're not side effects. They are benefit effects. Anyway, I finished my update on the new to be called 40th Edition, Vitamin Bible yah well beyond August of this year. On and I brought in, uh, you know, it's been a while since the older one has been updated and is amazing how much new information is available. That really blows me, too, that the average person gets almost no information about the benefits of these suffered all the used to get is the negatives. That's right. He wants any of the so called television channels from the major networks. They're always negative, because guess who pays their bills? The drug companies? I mean, you don't have to be an expert to watch television on..
Newsradio 600 KOGO
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"Kogo News time is 6 32. It's time for the opening bell on Wall Street with Gina. Serve any at Bloomberg. Good morning, Gina. Morning, Ted Madonna and stocks are rising here so far, a new high for the Dow, which is up 93 points at 31,150, the S and P 500 is up 7 38 16 announced act so far up 45 points at 13,173. Despite the impeachment drama in the nation's capital, investors are expecting more government support. And progress in getting the vaccines out faster. But we did get news today that applications for state unemployment benefits surged last week by the most since March. Rising by 181,000 to a total of 965,000 claims. I'm Gina Servitia Bloomberg for his radio 600 Kogo going to use time. 6 33 San Diego County's big plan to speed up the covered 19 vaccination process includes allowing those 65 older to get a shot. But questions remain. If there is enough, the county is still trying to vaccinate those tear one workers. More than 261,000 and health, health care, and some haven't even received their first shot. Yet Scripts and Kaiser are worried about when they will get another shipment of vaccines before they will consider inoculating seniors. The World Health Organization says health professionals have administered about 28 million doses of the vaccine worldwide. Speaking at a virtual event, wh O Emergencies Director Michael Ryan says there have been five different vaccines or platforms used in about 46 countries in Noted. Most of the vaccinations have happened in the world's wealthiest countries and called for more equity, Ryan said. There are populations who are not going to get vaccinated unless or until we learn to share better. I'm at Madison Three communities hit hard by the pandemic. Getting some much needed funds from the San Diego Foundation, which has raised $64 million through private donations. Donna De Berry is president and CEO of the San Diego Black Chamber of Commerce. One of the group's getting $100,000. She says black businesses were suffering before the pandemic, and it's worse now black owned businesses have endured decades of systemic racism and historically discriminatory practices from redlining. The discrimination in financial assistance from lending institutions and the lack of wealth in the black community has had a huge impact on its ability to survive the pandemic. Latino and Asian Pacific groups also received $100,000 from the San Diego Foundation, which continues to take donations. For the second time. The Senate is preparing an impeachment trial for the president, Jared Halpern has more from Capitol Hill. The Senate impeachment trial for President Trump is unlikely to begin while President Trump is still in office. Majority Leader Republican Mitch McConnell is not consenting to convene an emergency session requested by top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer. That means the Senate won't return to session until next. Tuesday, one day before the inauguration of President elect Joe Biden. McConnell says there's no chance for a fair or serious trial before then. He also is telling colleagues he is not decided if you will vote to convict President Trump, Schumer says. If convicted, the Senate will vote to bar President Trump from running again. San Diego Congressman Scott Peters initially called for unity ahead of the Biden inauguration, saying impeachment may get in the way of the next administration. But now, he says the events of last week were too much to ignore. After voting for impeachment. Congressman Peter's compared President Trump to President Nixon, saying he should have stepped down under pressure from his own party. Now the time for him to step up like every other losing candidate, Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush and say I respectable the voters don't like it. I think they made a mistake. I get it. We'll fight next time maybe wants to come back, but not Tonto. George Washington Center, example of which is giving it to the next person believe you don't have a kingdom. We have Ah, presidency and it's a democracy and he lost the vote. You gotta admit it and that would calm everything down. But short of that we're in this position where were sharply divided. Obviously, this doesn't help. But I don't think there's a little through that, in terms of providing accountability, said he goes congressional delegation Voting 41 for impeachment. Along party lines. Jack Cronin, Coco knew whose street well widely reported impending split between Kanye West and.
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"Million Covert 19 infection since the start of the pandemic. Another 14,896 infections confirmed today by the Florida Department of Health Health officials also announcing 156. Recent resident deaths. Meanwhile, seniors in Miami Dade could soon be getting a little more help is they keep struggling to book their covert 19 vaccine appointments? Jackson Health System is working with state and county officials as they try to open mass vaccination sites at Marlins Park in Tropical Park CEO Carlos Montoya says it's all about coordination and supply. He believes they could administer 3 to 4000 shots a day. That's on top of the 1000 a day being given out at hard Rock Stadium used 75,000 week here in Dade County alone, and that's that's our goal of once we get to 75,000 week. We believe we can get all the senior citizens done in 3 to 4 weeks you were next in four months between 40 and 50% of the population could be inoculated air correctly Guess news radius of 10 w y o d out of Broward County were Broward Health is open to vaccine side of Fort Lauderdale's Inter Miami UCF Stadium. With the ability to offer shots to 500, pre registered seniors and healthcare providers a day. People struggling to keep roofs over their heads could soon be getting some help from the federal government coming around to Santos announcing the state Will participate in the emergency rental assistance program, offering residents $1.4 billion in relief cities and counties with populations of at least 200,000 would be paid directly through the Treasury Department. The state is expected to shell out about $850 million Thea FBI raising red flags. With the security alert issued ahead of Inauguration day. There are no specific threats log didn't South Florida, but groups are calling for the storming of courthouses in all 50 states of President Trump has removed from office prematurely. Miami Deputy Police chief Ron Popular says they have Intel groups checking social media and other sites to detect a threat and a preemptive strike against the capital Riot type scenario Right now we don't have anything but we certainly will have extra personnel and and And be prepared for anything that may happen. I'm not racial day, he says they're beefing up security around the courthouse is another important buildings. That house is moving quickly to impeach Trump, whose term expires January. 20th Wendi Grossman News radio's 6 10, W Y. O D markets appear to be overlooking fears of more civil unrest in covert 19 economic impacts. All three major indices ended the day higher. Let's get the details from Bloomberg's Mona Rivera..
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"Double D Y o D looking good on 6 $10 radars for his reign is concerned at seeing any of the moment 73 degrees in western 75 on keep its cane at 301, Florida, surpassing a grim milestone 1.5 million covert 19 infection since the pandemic began. Other 14,896 cases confirmed today by the Florida Department of Health Health officials also announcing 156 recent resident dance. Meanwhile, seniors in Miami Dade could soon be getting a little more help is they keep struggling to book over 19 vaccine appointments that's in health system is working with state and county officials as they try to open mass vaccination sites at Marlins Park in Tropical Park CEO Carlos Montoya says it's all about coordination and supply. He believes they could administer 3 to 4000 shots a day. That's on top of the 1000 a day being given out at hard Rock Stadium. You 75,000 week here in Dade County alone, and that's that's our goal of once we get to 75,000 week. We believe we can get all the senior citizens done in 3 to 4 weeks. You were next in four months between 40 and 50% of the population could be inoculated air correctly Guess news radius of 10 Wi Fi, Broward County were Broward Health as open to vaccination site at Fort Lauderdale Center Miami CF Stadium with the ability to offer shots to 500 preregistered seniors and healthcare providers a day Upgraded charges for a man accused of sending his girlfriend on fire back in November. Anoushka ridges Sara Garcia's has died leading prosecutors to charge No Jimenez Cortez with first degree murder and arson. The investigation revealed a menace. Cortes Sport an accelerant on the woman's body, then lit her on fire. President Trump slamming Democratic moves to impeach him a second time Trump talk to reporters outside the White House called the impeachment. Absolutely ridiculous.
KOA 850 AM
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"With the presidential election. In the rear view, both sides are already gearing up for the next political battle, especially in cities such as Jacksonville. This morning's Gordon deal has the story for speaking with Ari on Campo Flores, reporter at The Wall Street Journal. His species called in Florida. Many changes turn Jacksonville into political battleground. All right, this is a cool, deep dive here on on what has happened kind of set the scene for Jacksonville and Duval County. So Jacksonville is that it is actually the largest city geographically in the country on the largest population in Florida, up near the Florida Georgia line. And it's an area that you know has long been a Republican stronghold. It's an area that's cut up has had several Navy bases, you know, heavy military influence. It's culturally part of the South. And so it's long been a place that Republicans could count on to rack up some margin. But that has been changing in recent years and we've seen that shift happened gradually over. The most recent election cycles where it became the GOP margin became narrower and narrower than in 2000 and 18 in the gubernatorial race in Florida. Andra Gillum, Wanda County, even though he lost the state that was a big deal that hadn't happened in decades. And then this time around is a county went for Joe Biden again, even though by it and lost the state, But it just shows that there's been a significant Change a driven in large part by demographics and migratory patterns, but also the organizing efforts by the parties on the ground because this is now become a real true battleground in the state of Florida. All right, so get into those finer points. Then what changed with the demographics? This is an area that has long had certain industries like the insurance industry has long been around. There's been some there's some railroad, obviously the military so but over the years they they really built out some of these sectors. More significantly. So if we have growing, you know, finance sector is growing tech healthcare sector they have. Ah, you know, they're one of the of the few. Cities around the country that has a male clinic. Very prestigious health health institution They have, you know, George Bank has a significant office. There. There are there's a new There's a financial technology company that's building a new headquarters there. So that has Increasingly grown, and it's drawing more educated professional of some cases, you know, young, professional job seekers who were coming in to take these positions and settling in and they're coming from different parts. Of the country often times of areas that are changed blue. And so that has been one demographic trend that is that has played a role in this competition in flux. Of younger professionals, college educated, higher income white collar workers that we know are are increasingly associated with Democrats. The other thing that's happened is That there has been a out migration over time. More conservative, right? More affluent to have moved to neighboring suburbs that are have become very, very red and you know, and so there's been this kind of redistribution is well. Of the population. So those are kind of the major demographic changes that the area's undergone this morning scored in deal with Arian Campo Flores of the Wall Street Journal. It's 14 minutes before the hour coming up technology that worked and technology that didn't work.