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Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 07:00 09-25-2023 07:00
"Today, ophthalmology residents use Fundamental VR and Orbis International's virtual training tool to practice surgeries. Dr. Renee Badrow says, with Fundamental VR, I can virtually practice cataract surgeries over and over in the metaverse. More training hours in the metaverse means increased access to quality care for patients in need. These are the ways surgeons are using the metaverse today. Learn more at meta .com slash metaverse impact. The rate sets the problem. It's the adjustment. What's going on in market is quite different to what's going on in the real economy. The economic soft landing narrative is definitely being challenged. This is Bloomberg Surveillance with Tom Kean, Jonathan Farrow and Lisa Abramowitz. Good morning, everyone. Bloomberg Surveillance on radio and television. Jonathan Farrow, Lisa Bramowitz and Tom Kean. John Farrow on assignment after a two to two draw at Arsenal Tottenham. I watched the highlights. I did too, actually. I was trying to make sure I kept up. Very good. Farrow recovering from that. We hope to see him maybe tomorrow because the Gulf Stream's over here. So you know, I think maybe Wednesday. Okay, hold on. Let's just make this real clear right here. I do not take a Gulf Stream or a private plane because people have actually stopped me and said, why are you not on a private plane? I know, they stopped me too. I have never taken a private plane before in my life, but carry on. I was stopped and he threw about Lisa on the Gulf Stream and said, well, the Bombardier we're looking at, but we just don't think we can pull that off. Future's a negative one Dow. Future's negative 14. You're waking up on a Monday to a changed world. Bramo nails it with a quinfecta idea of five or things in a swirl. Let's go to something we haven't talked about yet with a real yield up near new highs, new generational highs, 2 .11 percent. China, the developers, that story unravels to the point, I think I can say there's no bid in the market because there's no market.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "john." discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"Here the commanders crumbled in three game against the Buffalo Bills yesterday we're gonna get the details go more in depth at least as deep as we can go the time we have with WTOP sports director George Wallace is allowed to talk about its 912 hi I'm Tricia Ferrick president of FBC Bank with me today is CEO Richard Zarek and CFO Nadine Shwery of Mission First and their new acquisition Ardent Richard Nadine as a valued customer of FBC Bank would you please tell us about your business sure Mission First is a federal civilian and OD global contractor that specializes in signal cyber Intel analytics and AI frameworks deployed in complex environments information regarding our capabilities and government contract vehicles can be found on website our at missionfirst .com thank you Richard and Nadine FBC Bank appreciates the great relationship we have with Mission First take it from us Richard and Nadine of Mission First and Ardent we we do what others can't we go where others won't we succeed when others don't and so does FBC Bank that's why you need FBC Bank as your trusted financial partner visit FBC .com Bank that's FBC Bank .com member FDIC here's John Meyer VP and GM of software ventures at Arkfield encouraging agencies to keep focused and patient when employing a zero trust strategy the journey to the cloud it's exactly that it's a journey right so planning as they're and designing their zero trust architectures they're also leaning forward and saying do we do this in the cloud do we still stay on -prem maybe we push most of this to the cloud so it's it's a journey and especially for those organizations just keeping up to date right I mean last week we had July was July 10th or 11th Microsoft came out the NATO summit over in Lithuania and said hey there's a word doc and it has a vulnerability in it right it can take over your systems those are going to evolve they're going to continue to and so staying on their guard for what they currently have to do while they're migrating to their future position right is really important. That's John Meyer VP and GM of Software Ventures at Arkfield. For more, go to federalnewsnetwork .com search Arkfield. Snap into action this NFL season with FanDuel America's number one sports book Dave Preston here and right now new customers get $200 in bonus bets guaranteed when you place a $5 bet that's $200 in bonus bets win or lose can you believe we get two Monday night games for the second straight week I like the Eagles and the Bengals if you've been thinking about joining FanDuel there's no better time to get in on the action the app is so easy use to there's also a wider range of betting options including spreads player props over -unders and more so visit FanDuel .com slash presto and kick off the NFL season that's P -R -E -S -T yo yes I took the last letter off of my last name never gets new FanDuel official partner of the NFL must be 21 or older and present in Virginia first online real money wager only $10 first deposit bonus issued is non -withdrawable bonus bets that expire seven days after receipt restrictions apply see sportsbook .fanduel .com gambling problem call 1 -800 -GAMBLER everything you need every time you listen WTOP News 915 I'm John Aaron I'm John Doman thanks for being with us here this morning
Bankless
A highlight from 189 - Taking Treasury Bills Onchain with Martin Carrica
"If you look at like last seven days Ethereum versus run rate for Circle, it's the same amount of money. Huh, is the equivalent to Circle? Exactly, exactly. Holy shit, Circle is printing money. Every time you pay gas, like that amount of gas, that's the same amount of money that Circle is making. Tether is three times that. Tether alone is making more money than the whole rest of the crypto ecosystem outside centralized exchanges. Oh, that's your margin. Your margin is my opportunity, is that what you're saying, Martin? Exactly. Welcome to Bankless, where we explore the frontier of internet money and internet finance. This is how to get started, how to get better, and how to front -run the opportunity. This is Ryan John Adams, and I'm here with David Hoffman, and we're here to help you become more bankless. This is certainly a money opportunity to front -run. On -chain T -bills is the topic today. The overnight Fed funds rate is 5 .3 % right now, and that's some pretty good yield. But how much are you getting in your bank account? Probably not very much of that. How much are you getting from your stablecoin is maybe a better question for crypto natives. And if it's an instrument like USDC in your Ethereum address, the answer is probably nothing. You're not getting any of that yield. But what if we could tokenize treasuries instead of just dollars? What if we could create a USDT, and the T is for treasury. And that tokenized treasury yielded 5 % just for holding in your ETH address. That is the promise of tokenized T -bills, and it's gearing up to be a major theme over the next 12 months. I think another force for democratization worldwide. We have Martin Karika here. He's the founder of a tokenized T -bill company, and he's here to get us up to speed. A few takeaways for you on the episode today. Number one, why don't we already have tokenized treasuries? Why doesn't that product already exist? Number two, we talk about why on -chain treasuries are a force for democratization worldwide, especially in emerging countries. Number three, we talk about why the US government actually wants this, even though they may not admit it. Number four, in this weird paradox, we talk about why US citizens will probably have a hard time getting tokenized T -bills as well. David, you're laughing right now because, man, it is hard being a US citizen in crypto these days, isn't it? Yeah, really. The irony of US citizens being the people that are going to be the hardest population to be able to access the yield from their own government's money printing. And in fact, no, we're going to just export it straight to the foreign countries of the world. Bankless listeners, you'll just have to listen to the episode to understand, understand the punchline there. But Martin, not the guests on the show, does a really good job laying it out for us. I think Ryan presented this as the promise of tokenized T -bills, tokenized treasuries, on -chain T -bills, whatever you want to call these things. Also, I'll add that there's an economic weight here. It's kind of destiny. You know, like maybe we don't get there for some reason that I can't understand, but incentives will produce this outcome. Eventually, stablecoins will be replaced by tokenized treasuries. It's kind of the same if you accept that eventually all vanilla ETH will be replaced by some liquid staking token alternative. Eventually, like why would you just hold vanilla ETH and Aave when you can do our ETH and Aave instead? If you accept that, then it's kind of the same thing. Eventually, all vanilla stablecoins will just be replaced by tokenized treasuries and you will get the yield natively. There's a gravitational pull, right? It's like water goes downhill and liquidity finds a way and a yield will find its way in a tokenized form on -chain. So there's been just growing demand and interest about this topic of on -chain treasuries and real -world assets. So Bankless listeners, you can consider this the first of a few steps into the world of real -world assets on -chain that we want to explore here on Bankless, starting with tokenized treasuries. Yeah. I'm looking forward to discussing this with you. A lot of interesting implications here. And David and I are going to discuss that in the debrief. Of course, if you're a Bankless citizen, you already have access to that on the Bankless Premium feed. So go check that out right now. Ad -free. Bankless Premium feed. Ad -free. It's a beautiful thing. But before we get into this episode, first we disclose and the disclosures are there's nothing really to disclose here. Of course, we hold crypto assets. Didn't even talk about ETH. No, we didn't. Crypto assets that we do hold stand to benefit from tokenized T -bill transactions. But of course, you know that. And we are long -term investors. We're not journalists. We don't do paid content. There's always a link to all Bankless disclosures in the show notes. You can access that at bankless .com slash disclosures. All right, we're going to get right to the conversation with Martin on tokenized T -bills. But before we do, we want to thank the sponsors that made this episode possible, including our number one recommended crypto exchange for 2023, Kraken. Go create an account. Kraken Pro has easily become the best crypto trading platform in the industry. The place I use to check the charts and the crypto prices, even when I'm not looking to place a trade. On Kraken Pro, you'll have access to advanced charting tools, real -time market data, and fast trade execution, all inside their spiffy new modular interface. Kraken's new customizable modular layout lets you tailor your trading experience to suit your needs. 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Bloomberg Surveillance
Fresh update on "john." discussed on Bloomberg Surveillance
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Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Preaching in the Valley of the Drum
"Well, standing in my usual place and about 50 hours down there's a group of people with a loud amplifier who are doing karaoke in the town centre. Of course, I'm not going to interfere with that in any sense, but it could make it harder for people to hear the gospel or they might prefer karaoke to the truth. But I commit this to the Lord and the Lord, and it's a good time to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ. Father, I pray that you have mercy upon this town of Kidderminster. I pray, Father, that conviction of sin would come upon the people. I pray that a hunger for God would come upon the people. I pray that they would gather together to hear the word of God, that this world and its sidelines, its attractions, its music, its karaoke, its songs would mean nothing to them, Lord. That they would have a concern for their souls, that they would be awakened to their lostness, their ruin, their damnation. I pray, Father, that you would use the preaching today for your glory, and I pray, Lord, that you would have mercy upon those who are perishing in their sins. Lord, I pray that they would be awakened. I pray that they would find Jesus Christ. I pray that they would find mercy. I pray that they would seek Him with all their hearts and repent of their sins and believe on Him to the saving of their souls. And Father, I come in weakness, and I can't do this work except by your help and by your Holy Spirit's going on, and ask that your name would be glorified, that your grace would be magnified, and that your gospel would be faithfully, fully, and powerfully preached in the power of the Holy Spirit. And I ask for forgiveness of my own sins. I trust in Jesus Christ alone. I love the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank you, Father, for sending your Son into the world to be my Savior from sin. I pray that His name would be glorified now. Amen. Well, good morning. I pray that you would come crucified and to declare that there is salvation in no other name, under heaven, given amongst men, whereby we must be saved. Jesus is the Savior of the world. The Lord Jesus came into the world to seek and to save that which was lost, and that was sinners like you and I. We cannot save ourselves. We cannot deliver ourselves. We cannot by any means cleanse ourselves from sin or redeem our own souls We need a Savior, and Jesus Christ is that Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. And He is the Savior of all those who put their trust in Him, the Lord Jesus, who came into the world and died in the place of sinners, loving sinners. The Lord Jesus Christ gave Himself for sinners, and the Bible tells us, for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth on Him should not perish but have everlasting life. If you believe on the Lord Jesus, you're saved from your sin and you have everlasting life. If you do not know Jesus Christ, your sins remain upon you. You are lost and damned and ruined and under the wrath of God. Repent of your sins and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Turn from your sins. Seek Him with all your heart. He is not dead. He is risen. Jesus Christ is raised from the dead by the power of Almighty God, and He is seated at the right hand of the throne of God on the throne of heaven, and He will save you from your sin and deliver you from the wrath to come if only you come to Him. Now if you will not come to Jesus Christ, you cannot be saved. You cannot be saved. If you will not come to Jesus Christ, you cannot escape the fires of hell. If you will not come to Jesus Christ, then the wrath of God abides upon you, and on the day of His wrath you will be charged with your sins. God knows your heart. He knows everything about you. He knows your sins. He knows your corruptions. He knows your wickedness. And incidentally I should add, in a day when many people are becoming addicted to vapes, He knows your heart where you do not care about addicting people to something which is harmful to them. I say that because a man who owns a vape store opposite was listening. And vapes harm people. They've replaced smoking but they harm people. And they're addictive. Jesus Christ is that Saviour of the world who will save you from your sins, deliver you from the wrath to come, and give you everlasting life. This world will very soon end. Very soon. All the signs are that very soon the clouds of heaven in all that glory and all that majesty that belongs to God alone. God alone is the Saviour of the world and He is the Saviour of all those who put their trust in Jesus Christ. So if Jesus were to return on the clouds of heaven today and you do not know Him, you would be cast into hell for eternity. That is the plain teaching of the Bible. That's what the Lord Jesus Christ Himself taught us. Hell is a real place, a terrible place of terrifying fiery torment for eternity. Yes, that's right, yes. Well if you listen, if your swear words are foul, why should God allow somebody that swears like you into his heaven? God will never let a swearer like you into his heaven. You must repent and all the love of God is revealed in Jesus Christ. All the love of God is revealed in Jesus Christ. I didn't know children were allowed to buy vapes. I didn't know children were allowed to buy vapes, but there we are. Two very small children went into the vape shop. Am I okay? I'm fine. I'm preaching the gospel. What was that boy saying to me then? That's what he said. I'm not going to repeat it because it's foul. I'm not going to repeat that. Was it a bad thing? Oh yes, very bad things. People hate the gospel. They hate Jesus Christ, but if you find Jesus Christ, he is the savior of the world and he will save you. It doesn't matter what he said to me. He didn't like what I was saying and I'm talking about Jesus saving us from our sins. Okay, so say one thing in here. Okay, Jesus said, okay Jesus said unto them, this is in John's gospel in chapter two, he said, destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up. Now there was this huge temple like a great cathedral in Jerusalem and the Jews thought that Jesus was talking about destroying that temple, but actually he was talking about them crucifying him and nailing him to the cross. Yes, of course. Okay, so I believe in God, but Jesus Christ is God, so we must go further and we must believe in Jesus Christ and if we believe in Jesus Christ, then we've found God. Now that there is one God, but there are three persons within the Godhead, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. You won't find that in Islam. Jesus is God the Son and God's love was so great towards us that he sent his son Jesus Christ into the world to die on that cross, to be the savior of the world. Now I've got some gospels here, I wonder if you'd like a gospel to read. Sorry, my foot's stuck in there. I wonder if you'd like a gospel to read. Yes, of course. You can keep it. Yes, yes, of course. I give these out to people. So you can share that and that will tell you more about the Lord Jesus and what he did. Thank you very much. The Lord bless you. God bless you. So you'll hear the drums and as they started, those two girls were distracted from the preaching, but I was able to give them the gospel. Father, I pray for those two girls and for the man who swore and I pray, Father, that they would find mercy and I pray that they would find the salvation which comes from Almighty God. And Father, I pray that you would silence the drums because the drums are silencing the word of God. And I pray, Lord, that because you are the Lord of heaven and earth, that you would silence the drums, maybe by the batteries running out or maybe by heavy rain or something, Lord. But I just pray, Father, that you would work and that you would, Father, that this is your word. I pray that you would ensure that it goes forth to the glory and honour of the Lord Jesus Christ. For people are distracted by drums just as they were distracted in the valley of the Son of Him and when they were offering their children to sacrifices, to idols. So I pray, Father, that you would deliver us from the drums and I pray, Father, that the gospel will be faithfully preached because my voice isn't strong enough and my frame isn't strong enough to compete with the drums, Lord. And people are drawn aside. Lord, again, have mercy on those girls and that man. In Jesus' name I ask and pray. Amen.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "john." discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
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Elevation with Steven Furtick
A highlight from How Did I Get Here? (Travis Greene)
"Hey, this is Steven Furtick. I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. Hope it gives you perspective to see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. Elevation Church, wow, wow, wow. So, first of all, what we're not going to do is act like you don't have the greatest pastor in the world. Come on, can we get real noisy in this building and all around the globe for the Pastor Steven Furtick, Holly, Eliza Graham, Abs, love you. I'm excited to be here. I'm black, and that's just how we're going to start. We're going to start there. My are roots Pentecostal. Pentecostal is like a fraternity or something. They'd be like, that's my dog. It's not a frat, but I was going to use a headset today so I could dribble with my left hand, but I woke up feeling preachy, so I told them, give me a handheld, because we about to go up Elevation. I love Pastor Steven. He is a songwriter. He is an architect, and he is the greatest communicator in the world. To be on his platform is beyond a blessing, but something funny happened to me. I told myself that I would be validated as a good preacher when he invited me. Let me tell you how gracious God is. He refused to allow me to be invited as long as I believed that, because when heaven wants to affirm you, it doesn't use opportunity, it uses opposition. I know you're anointed not by the stages, but by the scars that you got. I need you to high -five your neighbor like you in Ballantyne and tell them, I know I'm anointed. The struggles that you overcome reveal your anointing. We know that the oil on David worked not from the throne he sat on, but by the giant that fell at his feet, and if open doors can make you, then closed doors can break you. Quit waiting on man to validate you. I'm afraid that in our churches, heaven believes in us, and I'm going to tell you something you never heard before, hell believes in you. This is why the devil and all his imps and wimps have been coming against you, because he know how much you carry. He doesn't bother you if you're not a threat, but if the devil has been trying to come against you and your family and your neighborhood, I need you to give God ten seconds of praise like you know no weapon formed against you. Shall prosper. Come on, praise him like you're an overcomer. Praise him like the battle's already over. I'm not praising him for a victory. I'm praising him from a place of victory. In Jesus' name. In Jesus' name. And so I have a very prophetic word for elevation. It's really for the Columbia campus. Because they up the street from me. But if the shoe fit, you can wear it in here or Orlando or Greenville or wherever you're watching from. I told them to send me a list. It was too long. What y 'all do have is some campuses. My God. We're going to be in Mark, and it's my custom to share the title after I read the scripture, but today I'm going to share it before. I believe God is about to bring your name up. I don't know how it happened for me. I was minding my business, and chumps texted me and said, are you available? And I'm wondering, how did my name get brought up? God's about to bring your name up. Because this is the season, hear me, that God ain't looking for gifts. I got degrees, but I'm going to talk how I want to talk. God ain't looking for gifts. He's after hearts. There's so many people that can sing, man. We don't need another song. We need hearts like Chris and hearts like Jen and hearts like John. Man, we need hearts. God's about to bring your name up. Here's the title for today. How did I get here? How did I get here? Let me preach because my wife told me I take too long to transition. I'm not going to show a family picture. They're all on the ground, but my wife is a dying piece on the front row. I love you. Mark 10, 46. Then they came to Jericho. I teach at Ford City that you can't just read the Bible. Oh, snap, you've got to read the Bible. It's the second read. Then they came to Jericho. As Jesus and his disciples, together with the large crowd, were leaving the city, a blind man, Bartimaeus, which means son of Timaeus, was sitting on the roadside begging. When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to shout, Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me. Many rebuked him. Don't you hate when you're sitting next to the loud one? You're like, okay, I get it. You grateful. I am too, but my God. They told him, be quiet, fam. Jesus. You ever brought your mama to church? I said, mama, I'm preaching at Elevation. Do not come. My mom be tearing the whole row up in the back. I said, be quiet, man. But he shouted all the more. I love that. Son of David, have mercy on me. I really want to preach this next verse, but I got something else to preach. But the next verse says, Jesus, stop. Whoo. There is a DB, if you're into audio. There is a frequency. There is a shout that is packed with enough desperation to get a busy Jesus, a focused Jesus to stop. Oh my God. Are there any praises in the room that know how to get him to stop by? Come on, the only reason I'm in church today is because he stopped by. The only reason I'm in my right mind is because he stopped. The only reason I didn't cut somebody this week is because he stopped by. He stopped by, he stopped by, he stopped by. When he stops, anything is possible. Who am I to deny what the Lord can do? Whatever's impossible for you is easy for him when he stops by. All right, let's keep reading. You ready to sit down. He stopped by and said, call him. I like that. So they called the blind man. Cheer up! On your feet, he's calling you. Now the way my imagination works, I wonder if these are the same people who just told him to hush. That's why you can't listen to people. One second they saying hush, next second they saying cheer up! Cuz, what do you want from me, dog? I mean, throwing his cloak aside, he jumped to his feet, came to Jesus. Here's Jesus. Jesus is really funny. He said, hey, what do you want me to do for you? Blind man's like, ah, let me see. He said, Rabbi, I wanna see, man. I like this. Go, Jesus said. has Your faith healed you. Your shout has healed you. Your resilience has healed you. Somebody, it took your last 20 to get to church today. That's the thing that healed you. The fact that you believed in spite of what you were facing. And the Bible says, I like this word, immediately. I feel it coming, all of a sudden. Immediately. This ain't for everybody. This is just for 50 people and a two year old that can give them a praise and say, that thing about to happen quicker than you can even imagine, immediately. Immediately. He received his sight, followed Jesus along the road. How did I get here? Lord Jesus, I'm gonna pray a prayer. You ready? How did we get here? Amen. You can take your seats. All right, how did I get here? How did I get here? How did I get here? This past week, I went to North Myrtle Beach. That's where my dad is buried, where my mom is from. And we went there to visit my grandma. My grandma is 92 years old. Yeah, yeah. Her classmate was Harriet Tubman. My grandma is so old. She's seen many presidents. And I walk in and my grandma, she's like Isaac. Her sight is fell on her because she's up in age. And she's sitting there with her snuff. You're not from the country if you don't know what snuff is. No teeth, but snuff. I say, my grandma had 14 kids, y 'all. After 10, you don't even feel them no more. There's another child. They just, she got 14 over 40 grandkids. And I walk in and I'm like, grandma. And she's like, whoa, who's that? Get over here. And I go over to her and I say, grandma, it's me. And I can't talk, y 'all. I got speech impediment if you laugh. You laughed and that was not a joke. She's like, ah, I thought it was just me. And my speech marks me. So my grandma, she knew it. And she was like, try this. That's you. I spent some time with her. Something about when your sight is felling, your senses are heightened. And what's interesting about this text, I learned this from Pastor Furtick. You preach every line in the text. So the first thing I want to acknowledge in this text is that the blind man is in Jericho. The word Jericho means fragrance or to smell. Isn't it interesting that he's blind, but he can still smell the roses? So I want to tell you, don't allow your low place that calls you to miss the beauty of the season you're in. He's in Jericho. This is not a mountaintop message. Because most of the people who are asking, how did I get here, aren't on top. You feel like you're at the bottom. You're asking, how did this happen to me? How did I get here? My last great memory was a wedding photo and now I'm a widow. That was my mom at the age of 29 when my dad died on a Sunday morning. I was five years old. How did I get here? How did I get in the back of this police car? How did I get in divorce court? Come on, y 'all, don't look at me in that tone of voice. How did I get here? My life was heading in one direction and then one decision, one thing caused me to get into an uncertain, unfamiliar, and unexpected place. How did I get here? How did I get here? How did I get addicted? How did this happen to my child? How did I get here? And you may think, you may be sitting here thinking like, man, my situation's rough. Listen to me, your situation cannot compare to being blind in the first century.
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¿Dice Así? Podcast
A highlight from Pablo se glora en la cruz de Cristo | Glatas 6 con Chepo Guzmn
"We will see, if you want to see this podcast. I'm talking about your food, your coffee, what you eat. And for other people, it's not like that. Because it's your work. It's like if you're living, you know what you're eating. And I think that's a more common problem, as the government is the best part of the problem, is that it's not like that. Someone is just being taken out of their time, of their records, for a great amount of time, for courtesy. Because this is also, I have a huge problem with it. You are to listen to the podcast. Did you see? Let's start. More or less, a lot of manipulations. More or less. I don't know. Wait, wait, wait. I don't know. And why do I have to do this? And why do I have to do this? And why do I have to do this? And that would be a problem for the living. Look, I want... Wow, we're talking about the housekeeper. What housekeeper? Look, look, look. Silence, silence. Silence. I want to... Wait, wait. I want to know if the moon is going to be able to be the housekeeper. So... No, John, first of all, I don't think that the moon is going to be, and when the moon is, it's a privilege. No, not really. If the moon is going to be able to be the housekeeper. I mean that, so that you are aware of your father, and you say, if the moon is going to be the housekeeper, it's a factor that you don't have to work, you have to be secular, and the only thing you have to do is to dedicate your life to. So it's a manipulation, you have to, you have to, you have to live a life that you can't do, if you have to work, you have to work in the secular, that's another factor. Now, there are cases, there are cases. But, but, but, but... If you have to do anything, well, I'll tell you the same thing, I'm not the same person. You don't have to do anything, it's a pastoral thing. I don't... I don't have a wife. No, but you don't have to do anything, how do you do it? Let me tell you, let me tell you, my time at the house, my life, is during the times of separation. And these times I don't get the services. This time apart. I can see that, that's the moment. This time for me here, that's functional, in this time of labor, I have to be part of my work. I think there is a point of crisis, you have to have a sabbatical, you have to do things and now literally my participation is exclusively in the areas of Reunion and two hours a week in my house. The difference of the organization is... There are no words to describe the difference of the organization. It's not formal. It's just... Abysmal in the game. And how does it come from a small group that works hard? It's a very small group. Many times I say this, it's not that it's a normal group. But of course, it's simply my sermon. I just wrote my sermon. It's very different from the sermon that I have today. I have time to write a liberal book. The sermon that went on for a year. I can write one or two books per week. It's very different. And I remember saying to myself, it's clear, it's just part of the work. No, no, no. It's very different from the sermon. You have to write your book, because you have to... You have to write a book, because you have to... You have to write a book, because you have to write it here. And you have to write it there. Okay, what does that mean? It means that you have to write more than a lot. How do you process the information that you have written? I didn't write the work. For me, it's a level in the work. A small group. And many people have their own group. a sauna young y sierta siglesias donde hice pastor cellepon when the moment is a little while the man is we get it so you have to be clear to the channel they enter a pyramid Michael so this is important it's a new casio me me me Pelea john semer is a car persona que hace algo semer ese entiende para mi problema siempre cido cuando de una organización que tiene digamo dos sientas tres sientas quinientas personas solamente reciben su elto una seis cinco cuatro personas en ese iglesia que tiene una función abísmal cuando una máqui una iglesia es una máqui nagigantesca que ocupa muchísiman manos y a todo de más eleven como voluntarios y se leven como me cervejo y se le hace algo y si llaman hanano y para mi todos me resen ahora si hau a un ció no no sorry sorry pero sorry pero spera se que yo termine si un ció porque son lo tuye importa guesando quiero la rágil más no lo esas de más que los empleados que hacen correr el negoción, ya y un problemas y gantesco. Y esa sido mi queja con mucha de las iglesias y con mucha de las megas iglesias. Pero ha más, yo voy a hacer que un pastor que tiene una iglesia y a todienta personas que trabajan tres semán y todo eso que no me rese algo del igle por su pueso que me rese entiendo mi problemas cuando llegamos a niveles donde a esa persona en pieza y la casi que la unica que recibe y recibe cantidades abísmales y en pieza a busar de su poder es ese sido mi problema siempre. Ahora mi queja no es con los pasores especificamente. Mi quejas con la institution y con pastor es que ellos mílmos se poner en esa posición donde hacen que gente es en capacidad de poder llegar aído la tracarlos porque ellos mílmos buscan, ellos mílmos manipula, ellos mílmos, ya, hay una razón por la que muchas personas quieren ser polícias y se tiene que hacer examenes cicologicos para filtrar porque mucha gente con mucho de cedo poder que quieren meterce y tristamente hay cierta tendencias cicologica en personas que estamos cando poder que sona emes críticas que yo siempre le ahoguada víde. Hay ciertas personas con ciertas tendencias quieren hacer en siestas posición es para busar de otras. O siempre esenciamente para sentirse por en cima de lo emas y si les va bien proder a va sentir.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "john." discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"That's filled up and then all of a sudden there's a actually leak thirty seven weeks to make a little tradition of uh... they get blasted by buffalo thirty seven a three turn ball the over five times converting just one of nine third downs head coach ron that you've got you can't first i can't turn the ball over we get you some score position you gotta put points on the board and and we and didn't do that on as i said because you know when the scores different early on it it dictates the game a little differently w t l p's george wallace joins john and john at nine fifteen to go in depth on the gory details he was at fedex field yesterday ravens played down to indianapolis and lose at home in overtime twenty two to nineteen dallas never let in there twenty eight sixty lost a previously winless arizona miami makes history in their seventy to twenty win over denver dolphins the fourth team to reach the seventy point market nfl history it's also the first time we have had a seven to twenty score so score agami is what it's called it is a thing yeah seventy to never had that score before and i get laughed at for twenty seven to four predictions would be a while before we again see that sir one yeah you can only hope pittsburgh wins at las vegas and sunday night football baseball national split their day -night doubleheader with atlanta rookie jackson rutledge posting his first major league win as the nats take the matinee three two braves win the nightcap eight five orioles five cleveland won the magic number to win the ale east is now three college football maryland uh... receives votes in this week's eighty top twenty five check out my ballot posted on x or formerly as known twitter is dave presto read about what went right and wrong for the turps dukes virginia and this college football corner on the sports page of w t l p dot com dave pressman w t l p sports up next union the writers in the hollywood studios on the verge of ending that historic writer's strike its eight twenty seven the greater for washington board of trade is a professional membership community representing top vibrant and diverse leaders who work together to build strong economic growth for the d c region and now here's regional its insights with blue jenkins president and c e o of washington gas a member of the greater washington board of trade for almost a hundred and seventy five years washington gas has been committed to improving life in the v safety and reliability are just two reasons why washington gas is investing in large -scale station of our infrastructure region wide when you see us on your streets this is what we're focused on learn more at washington gas dot com the greater washington board of trade is pro -business and non nonpartisan it is where local leaders work together to drive inclusive resilient and sustainable economic growth for for the region go to b o t dot org to learn more about the important issues that board of trade members are tackling today the power's out at our house coffee table but since my family has storm ready wi -fi from xfinity they can stream and game like usual on all their devices all over the house who moved the couch so everybody stays connected well I just try to find a seat in the dark cactus can I get a little help over here yeah bro just let me finish this boss battle sure go ahead medic now you can get fast reliable internet on the xfinity 10g network and get storm ready wi -fi when you upgrade so you can stay connected for up to four hours even when the power goes out only from xfinity go to xfinity .com
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
A highlight from Congressman Mike Lawler (R-NY) on the Crack-Up in the House GOP Caucus
"United States Border Patrol has exciting and rewarding career opportunities with the nation's largest law enforcement organization. Earn great pay, outstanding federal benefits, and up to $20 ,000 in recruitment incentives. Learn more online at CBP .gov slash career slash USBP. Welcome to today's podcast sponsored by Hillsdale College. All things Hillsdale, Hillsdale .edu. I encourage you to take advantage of the many free online courses there. And of course, listen to the Hillsdale dialogues, all of them at Q4Hillsdale .com or just Google Apple, iTunes, and Hillsdale. Hi Canada, Hugh Hewitt live inside of Studio North here and on the Salem News Channel. Good morning. A lot happened overnight. The Ukrainian armored columns pushing towards the Sea of Azov broke through the last line of Russian defenses. It's a narrow breakthrough, but it is a breakout. The Telegraph of Great Britain reporting that the Ukrainian military punched through a section of Russia's main defensive line on the southern front with an armored assault for the first time. Video footage from the front lines is seen. The Wall Street Journal followed with Ukraine sends first armored vehicles through breach in Russian defenses. That would be a significant milestone in the three and a half month counter offensive aimed at cutting Russia's occupying army in two. Too bad they don't have the attack. Joe Biden has refused to send. This would be over at this point. Senator J .D. Vance made a good point yesterday that Joe Biden wants blank check. Doesn't have a strategy. Well, he's incoherent. That's why I didn't have a strategy. And as a result, some Republicans, I think up to 30 of the 265 senators and Republicans who are up there are turning against Ukraine aid because Joe Biden can't lead. He can't articulate. Speaking of which, presidents in a world of hurt this morning. I mean, a world of hurt. Not only is he getting crushed on the migrant invasion, it's not a flow, it's not an influx, it's not a new wave. It is quite simply an invasion. Hundreds of thousands of people, 10 ,000 people a day are being met, greeted and turned loose. And those are the people that we see at the border. And President Biden got up at a fundraiser last night, repeated the same thing twice within two minutes. John Lemire of AP reporting, giving people pause. Then he went over to the Congressional Latino Caucus to address them. And he said this again. It's the Congressional Hispanic Caucus that he's talking to, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. Joe Biden says this cut number 12. I mean, this is certainly my dad. You say everyone, everyone is entitled to be treated with dignity and respect.
THE EMBC NETWORK
A highlight from How to deal with a liar (Series) E1
"Hey, you hear that? That's what home field sounds like. It's how you know it's time to go for the win. Gambet DC is your home field advantage for sports betting. Bet from almost anywhere in DC with an easy to use app and convenient betting locations district wide. Online, in app or in person. Get the home field advantage with Gambet DC. Must be 18 or older to bet? Please play responsibly. Music Coming at you tonight. January 16th. Starting off the series actually tonight on Sunday instead of our Saturday. So this is going to just be Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday for this series. For those of you that are new, welcome each week. I come up with a very interesting topic. And I address different points of that topic each night in my live stream. If you are coming back, well, welcome back. It's great to have our old friends back again. And, you know, why don't you go ahead and give me some love, whether you're on Facebook, Facebook, John C. Morley Serial Entrepreneur page, whether you're on my LinkedIn profile page, whether you're on John C. Morley Serial Entrepreneur YouTube page, whether you're on my John C. Morley Serial Entrepreneur Twitter, Twitch or Periscope page. Show me some love, depending on what love those platforms have by clicking the appropriate button. Subscribe, like, support, insight, curious. Be so grateful for that. And, you know, friends, tonight we're going to talk about how do you deal or handle a liar? Now, that's an interesting thing, right? So first of all, before I get started, why don't you comment below? Have you ever known someone that's lied to you and it's made your position, well, a little bit challenging? Or have you lied maybe to someone else and realized that you really shouldn't have done that, but you just couldn't stop? It was like this habit. Either way, just comment below. We'd be so grateful for you to do that. But before I get started, as I said, I would like to first give you guys the definition of what a liar is, right? Now, you're probably saying to me, John, you know that that's kind of crazy. Well, no, it's not. So we're going to give you the definition from Merriam Webster. And this is the definition right from their book about what a liar is.
Home Gadget Geeks
A highlight from Christian Johnson with Reliefband, the MGM/Caesars Hack and an Update on Windows 11 HGG585
"The, I looked up this vagus nerve, because I hadn't heard it before, and it said, The vagus nerve is involved in regulating important body functions, including breathing, heart rate, digestion and immune response. It also plays an important role in controlling mood, I'm sorry, mood, emotions and social behavior. Did you see any positive side effects beyond, you know, helping you, and maybe this was part of getting through it, but did you sense any of those other benefits of it as you were, as you were wearing it as well in those areas? You know, I think it's certainly mood, not, not particularly. I mean, my mood was very focused on trying to fly the aircraft, trying to control the, the response. But I would say I wouldn't be surprised if it helped quite a bit with the actual, that, it's like the anxiety climax drop off phase of the motion sickness. And so if that's kind of the contour in which they mean mood, I think absolutely, because that is a big part in what holds you back from feeling like you can go through that experience again. Social behavior, not so much, emotions, not so much. Definitely, though, the breathing and the ability to handle the kind of, that stomach response. Yeah, they say in this article here, and I'll have all these links in the show notes if you want to go out and look at them, but it says the vagus nerve is sometimes called the wandering nerve because of many of the different parts of the body it interacts with. Stimulating vagus nerve can also have calming effects on the body, which I think is what you were looking for, right? That recovery, because you were going into it while it was still happening, you were going into it. Man, I think about, for folks who, you know, in boating or in, you know, maybe any of those situations where that's debilitating, this could be, you know, this could be one of those things. And so how long, how long did you use the watch? You're off of it now, right? At this point, you're not, you're not using. Would you consider bringing it back for, for any reason at some point? Or, or you're good, you feel like you're good at this point? I mean, unless I was like in hurricane conditions out at sea and felt like, gee, this might be a good thing to have just in case, like maybe. But I mean, my goal with it was to not have it become a crutch where, Oh, I'm only going to be in the plane if this thing is zapping my arm. But I keep it in the flight bag as like an honorary, like it's there. It's pretty small to stow. So like, there's no harm in having it and keeping it. But no, I mean, for me personally, like I said, it was about 20 to 25 hours of use of flight time of the 61 hours that I've logged. So about a third of my journey. And if I were to put out on like a chart, because my pilot journey has been around November 16th of last year was my first flight. And I did a couple of flights in November and December. The first kind of experiences with motion sickness were a bit enough for me. So work and other stuff was pretty busy and that on top, I was kind of thinking about, OK, what's my next move here? So I took January, February and most of March off. And then in the last week of March, I got back into it and had the relief band. And, you know, you can plot out like what was my kind of productivity or advancement against the hours I was doing the logbook. And you can see just how much the relief band accelerated that. So even though I've been flying for almost a year in November, really my core training to get where I've gotten today has been six months of very focused two times a week. I'm out there flying. I'm working with the instructor. I'm doing ground instruction at home, et cetera. And that definitely wouldn't have been possible without the relief band. But definitely for a good third of that journey, it was the way that I was able to get to that six months of really core focus in, in doing the pilot training. Yeah. Now, that sounds cool. I wonder if you could compare that to your, do you, do you get any watch data? Are you wearing any kind of, any watch that's doing any kind of health? I'm not. You know, it's funny. My wife wears the Apple Watch every day and loves it and has all the health data. And I guess I'm, I'm an old fart in that respect. I just don't have one. It would be interesting to correlate, you know, to have the relief band on one side and the Apple Watch on the other, whatever. There's, there's a variety. Apple's not the only one in this space. But to kind of see what kind of health conditions that would, that would bring. Maybe even, oh, yeah, can you get, you got me kind of thinking on this thing now. It's kind of cool. From like, even from just a regular wear on a regular basis of, or you're sleeping with it. I wonder what that, you know, if that, maybe first time it would keep them awake, right? Because obviously, do you feel it? Do you feel the physical stimulation as it's happening? On the higher power settings, definitely. It's, you know, if it's on like full power setting, it might even be a little uncomfortable, depending on your weight, how tightly you have it installed, how much gel you have, etc. But certainly on a low power setting, it, you know, after a while, you would, you would forget it's there. I Yeah, just think of maybe for individuals who have, and sometimes I have a tendency, I'll mess with my, like I'll pinch my fingers in a, in a response to just, if I'm agitated or if I'm stressed, you know, I kind of, and that's a obvious pain response. I'm doing that to stimulate something in, on my body, wondering if this could be one of those devices for stress, where, you know, you might, if you're feeling, if you're feeling stressed, that may be one of those things with something like this and a little meditation practice or something along those lines. I don't know. Sounds interesting. Yeah, no, right on. But it was a, it was a cool gadget to introduce, only because I just feel that a lot of people, even in my own life, didn't know about it. And it certainly has a lot of applications outside of flying. Well, and you've got a story, like, I mean, just think, fill in bags to, to not at this point. Yeah, I think John asked, John asked earlier if the, if the CFI charged extra for that service. And yeah, he's been very kind and patient and Zip it up and put it back in the bag. Oh, cool. Just can't imagine. Brian says, figure if you buy meds for nausea enough, buying this device would pay for itself. And, and to your point, I mean, man, if you can have a mechanical device that would help you overcome that, as opposed to, to, to, you know, to drugs, right? I, yeah, I mean, I, for me, the drugs was really like, it was a red line for me. I mean, maybe if I really got beat down that like nothing else is working, I would try one of the FAA -approved drugs just to see if that would be enough to jumpstart me. But it's really so awesome that, yeah, you don't have to ingest anything in your body to get the benefits. It's like, there's really not many things out there that, that can do that for you. So. A little bit of gel, put it on, set, set the, dial it in. I'm assuming those numbers are what, what, yeah, the power level. How does it charge? Is it a, it's got the batteries? Is that where you were showing earlier? Yeah, so there's different models. So the higher -end models have like a USB -C charger, and the base model, like the one that I have, is just two CR2032 batteries. So once they're done, you're replacing them much like you would replace a CR2032 battery in your watch.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
St. Padre Pio and the Healing of the Church Building a Kingdom of Love w/ Msgr. John Esseff podcast - burst 3
"So when I met him, I was convinced and brash as I remember my self -being, as I looked at that first encounter with him, that I said to him, I don't have the stigmata, but every time I offer Mass, I have in me, Jesus. The same Jesus that's in you. And I don't understand why you have to have those wounds. If that makes me a curiosity seeker, then that's what I am. But I've never quite understood the stigmata. That was before I went to his Mass. And I know he and God forgives me for being so arrogant with this holy man.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
A highlight from St. Padre Pio and the Healing of the Church Building a Kingdom of Love w/ Msgr. John Esseff podcast
"Monsignor Essif encountered Saint Padre Pio, who would become a spiritual father to him. He has lived in areas around the world, serving in the Pontifical Missions, a Catholic organization established by Pope Saint John Paul II, to bring the good news to the world, especially to the poor. He continues to serve as a retreat leader and director to bishops, priests and sisters, seminarians and other religious leaders. Building a Kingdom of Love, Reflections with Monsignor John Essif. I'm your host, Chris McGregor. Good morning. Good morning, Monsignor. How are you today? Very good. Very good. Thank you. The Feast of Saint Padre Pio. What a great feast, huh? I can't even imagine what it must be like for you to have known those individuals who have been lifted up and are now saints. Does that make you a second -class relic? I feel very privileged to have known them, to have met them, to have been accompanied by them. And I believe all of us have various saints that we're just really looking forward to, to spending time with for eternity. And what would a visit be like with your favorite saints? Hagiography, which is the study of the saints, I really think needs a review, because so often we think that we almost make them unreal. Saint Pio suffered terribly in many, many ways. Yes, he is honored and praised now, but he was rejected, just like Jesus. What was his stigmata a sign of? The suffering of Jesus Christ. When I heard of him, I was very drawn to go to see him. And when I went to see him, the time that I saw him, he was banished to the furthest monastery that the Franciscan had. There he was, way off. Petriosina is not the center of the world. It's the furthest monastery they had. It's way up in the hills on the Adriatic side of Italy. Not the center, certainly, of Franciscan life. And I think they were trying to hide him, because why? Because the bishop suspected that his, and I didn't know this at the time, that his wounds were self -inflicted, that he was self -inducing the wounds. And his bishop was convinced that he had to be silenced, and he did. He was unable to preach. What kind of psychological, emotional, as well as physical pain does a priest have when he's been banished to a far remote place, silenced, unable to preach? The only thing he could do was hear confessions. And what a magnificent, he did, completely obedient. What example does he really give us when Jesus was lied about, when he was subjected to all kinds of examination and tests? Even the place that they sent him to said that they weren't sure that his wounds were not self -imposed.
Tech Path Crypto
A highlight from 1263. Gensler Rejects Courts | Hints At Revoking Bitcoin Futures
"Today, we have the SEC going directly against the U .S. court system, and I think it's going to be a good one for you guys. We'll break this down for you. There's a lot happening with Garrett Gensler, how they are strategizing against potentially some of the rulings already by the U .S. courts. You don't want to miss it. My name is Paul Baron. Welcome back into Tech Path. All right, let's get into it today. Before we start, I want to thank our sponsor, and that is Tangem. If you guys are looking at a secure way to do your own self -custody, one of the things you can do is get into these card wallets. Now, a card wallet is like a physical wallet. It in itself works in tandem with your software on the phone, and it does a great job in terms of your overall security and protecting your digital assets. If you like self -custody, this is one of the tools you can use. Just go over, go to tangem .com, click Get Tangem. You've got a couple of options here. They've got a brand new wallet coming out that will give you optional seed phrase capability, all of that happening in October. So jump in, use our discount code. It's going to give you some additional discounts. Make sure and get the three -pack, too, because it's a better deal. So use the discount code, click the link down below, and start your journey on self -custody. Let's get into the first thing. I want to go to the clip that explains Gensler's strategy here about the current status of our courts and their decisions so far and what he might do with that. Listen in. When you take collectively recent court decisions we have seen, how have they made you, Gary Gensler, think differently about regulating this space? I'll tell you. I think the same thing. It's about ensuring for compliance and protecting the investing public. And this is a field, it kind of reminds me a bit of the 1920s, where a lot of people were getting hurt. The securities laws apply to crypto security tokens, and there's nothing incompatible with those tokens, with the securities laws, and we've just seen so many people hurt and lost their money, and there's so many hucksters and fraudsters in this field. All right, so most of this has been, as you guys know, if you've followed our channel for very long, you understand where the problems had lied. Most of it is because of the lack of clarity, the lack of real legislative direction, and I think that's been the case. Gensler's position has pretty much been unchanged. He truly believes that all tokens are essentially securities and that they are the savior against protecting individuals' rights and hopefully their finances. The only problem is that we see just as much fraud and problems within the traditional finance markets as we do in any other markets that are speculative. So I think this is still Gensler's missed shot of really understanding what the future of innovation really means for crypto and blockchain. Let's go to another clip here. This is where maybe could the courts convince him because the rulings have been coming out pretty sequential here in and against, in favor of the blockchain industry and against the SEC. Listen to what he had to say. And so nothing any court would say would change your mind on that? I wish something a court could say which would actually bring the compliance sooner. Having said that, there are a lot of folks in this field that are trying to say, well, those don't apply to us. And I suspect you've interviewed one or two of them, too. You'd be right about that. First thing I want to say here is Gensler's selection of words. His pauses are getting further and further apart. Why is that? I mean, he seems to be so intrepid in the past. And now all of a sudden he's taken this role of just a very, very strategic way of answering questions. And I think it's an interesting concept, especially because of the fact that he's had what handed to him over the past few months in terms of court rulings by judges who are essentially following the law. And this is where I think it starts to rub with a lot of people about Gensler's kind of frivolous attempt at, hey, I don't really care what the courts have to say. They just need to give us the ability to litigate and execute our plan over the SEC or over these financial markets, including the crypto markets in general. Stuart Alderadi kind of jumped in on this on Twitter. Stuart Alderadi obviously coming in from the Ripple case, fresh off a fairly good win. But what's most concerning to me, let me zoom in on that, and should be to you in the full video clip, is shocking admission of an unelected bureaucrat that he won't respect the decisions of the court. This is the problem that the overreach of the SEC continues to dive into. But more important, I think it's more importantly around Gensler himself. Because there's enough dissent in the SEC, especially in most of these rulings here recently, that it does pose a very interesting position right now. Here's John Deaton coming in with it. Just watch the reaction of the question posed. Any court includes the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court of Law of the Land. These people are so inherently arrogant that they think they are above the law. Let me introduce you, everyone, to the real -life example of a megalomaniac right there. And I would agree. I think this interview alone started to really showcase how Gensler thinks about these things. And he's strategically lining up. I'm wondering if there is something big that Gensler - because remember, if you watched one of our other clips when we did the government shutdown video, part of that was in a clip here and there was a lot of nervousness around these government shutdowns. I don't know. Is there something brewing down there with the SEC? I want to go to this next clip because this is where Gensler is going directly against a decision that's already been made around ETFs, listening to what he had to say. I'm not going to ask you to comment specifically on what's next in the Grayscale case, but in part of that ruling it was about the distinction between futures and spot and it not being clear that really fundamentally they were differently in terms of the fraud and manipulation you often talk about. My question to you is, is there a world given those concerns you have about fraud and manipulation that the SEC could actually revoke approval of a Bitcoin futures ETF? We take into consideration any time a court rules and we consider it and think it through and deal with filings that are in front of us. And we have a number of open filings in the Bitcoin exchange traded product space. For spot products, sure, but could you rule out revoking the futures product? Again, I'm just not going to speak to the filings and you are absolutely right. There are a number of Bitcoin futures exchange traded funds and they've been live since about two years. All right. So there was some body language in there in that interview. Part of this was the smirk that Gensler has on his face when that question was asked. This concerns me because it does and has the ability to impact the markets in pretty much a catastrophic way. Traditional traders would see this as a very bad move by the SEC because this could put a lot of futures ETFs at risk. And I think for just him to even entertain that, as opposed to an unequivocal no, we would not do that, we've already put markets in motion, is very telling about the strategy and his grab of power that the SEC has continued to go after. So it's a very interesting situation right now brewing within the SEC. There is something up, there is something up with Gensler and his strategy in terms of these market conditions. I want to go to another clip here on Custodia Bank because this kind of starts to play into this because there are some other scenarios playing out with Custodia Bank and the Fed. I'll explain this in a couple of clips so you guys can catch up. You probably are not completely aware of it. Let me go to this first clip that kind of gives you an overview on Custodia.
a16z
A highlight from The Engineering Challenge of Rapidly Reusable Rockets
"200 years ago, we were sailing around on wooden tall ships. That's how we got across oceans. And in those days, transportation was slow, expensive, and unreliable. And in many ways, those are exactly the three words that describe space transportation. You know, you'd never throw away a 737 after every single flight, right? That's pretty obvious. And so the same thing is true with rocketry. There's no reason you would want to throw away the vehicle if you didn't have to. Start asking yourself questions. What are the important problems that need to be solved? And how can I go and do this in a way that's a sustainable business? We're in like the 1930s and 40s for space. We have a lot of different ideas that are being tested. And in my opinion, mastering the first stage reuse and the second stage reuse are the two ingredients that are going to lead to mega consolidation and then also a healthy and thriving economy. Hi, everyone, and welcome back to the A16Z podcast. This is part two of our mini series on the booming satellite economy. In part one, we spoke with Astronis co -founder John Gedmark about the opportunity to build smaller satellites in geostationary orbit and who's actually buying that satellite capability. But ultimately, in order to build this computation shell around Earth full of thousands of satellites, rocket usability is an important unlock. So today we're joined by Andy Lapsa, co -founder of Stokespace, who after spending over a decade at Blue Origin is now on a mission to build fully and rapidly reusable rockets with the hopes of reusing both stages and also allowing daily reusability. Like Astronis, Stoke is growing quickly and also has customers in both the commercial and government sectors. And if you need any convincing of just how hard this engineering challenge is, well, the original launches of the Falcon 1 failed due to things as small as a corroded nut. And between launches, it might take as much as a year to get something back in the sky. So what are we looking at now in terms of testing cycles, given that we're on Falcon 9 and also new companies like Stoke are trying to get in on the action? So listen in as Andy gives us a glimpse into this truly outworldly engineering challenge of not just getting to space, but also doing so reliably over and over and over again. Alright, prepare for liftoff. As a reminder, the content here is for informational purposes only, should not be taken as legal, business, tax, or investment advice, or be used to evaluate any investment or security, and is not directed at any investors or potential investors, in any A16Z fund. Please note that A16Z and its affiliates may also maintain investments in the companies discussed in this podcast. For more details, including a link to our investments, please see a16z .com slash disclosures.
The Dan Bongino Show
Scott Presler: How You Can Help Register New Voters in Pennsylvania
"I'm by and i follow a lot of i'm pretty sure that was you how are we doing in pennsylvania and do you think there's a possibility based on some of the the the the the move in the republican direction that we could win pennsylvania again well i want to speak very directly and please to the listeners of the dan bongino's show hear me out week by week we are being a net loss in voter registration for the democrats by about one thousand voters per week we are making huge progress the in commonwealth of pennsylvania despite john centerman being in the united states senate right now and i'll tell you i'm currently in pennsylvania i'm in pittsburgh so if anybody listening to the dan bongino show wants to get involved come tomorrow saturday the 23rd to hundred sleek street at ten a m we're going to be knocking on doors we're going to be writing letters to new movers in pennsylvania because i have a list and of forty thousand forty thousand movers new to pennsylvania those are people that we need to get registered to vote those are people but we need to alert of the closed primary process because if you're not registered as a republican you can't vote for donald trump or governor de santas or whoever the heck you want and so we must educate those new movers because joe biden quote unquote won the election in twenty uh... twenty two thousand eight by eighty thousand votes these new movers are
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from UNCHAINED: Why FTX Might Try to Claw Back Funds From Retail Customers
"Thanks for listening to Unchained, your no -hype resource for all things crypto, on the CoinDesk podcast network. You can also listen to the episodes on the Unchained feed earlier if you subscribe there. Plus check out all our content on our website, unchainedcrypto .com. These are all fraudulent transfers, potentially while the debtor was insolvent, potentially while it was coming to lift funds, so clearly all that money has to come back. I think that's pretty easy. The question is, like, what's it worth now and who can actually pay it back? With Toku, you get unmatched legal and tax tech support to grant and administer your global team's tokens. Make it simple today with Toku. Today's episode is brought to you by Overtime Markets, your premier Web3 sportsbook. The innovative protocol is changing the game one match at a time. Powered by Thales, explore more at OvertimeMarkets .xyz. Arbitrum's leading Layer 2 scaling solution offers you ultra -cheap and lightning -fast transactions, all with security rooted on Ethereum. Visit arbitrum .io today. With the Crypto .com app, you can buy, trade and spend crypto in one place. Download and get $25 with the code LORA. Link in the description. Today's guest is Thomas Brazile, founder of 117 Partners. Welcome, Thomas. Hey, Laura. Good to see you again. This week, FTX sued Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried, the parents of former FTX CEO Sam Bankman Fried. Alleging that Bankman was intimately involved in a number of the allegedly fraudulent schemes, such as silencing someone who threatened to expose the alleged FTX fraud, the purchase of property in the Bahamas, Barbara Fried encouraged the use of strong donors as campaign finance laws, or allegedly, and both were accused generally of either knowing or ignoring the red flags that FTX was insolvent. Was this development surprising or expected? Thanks for having me on, Laura. Good to see you, as always. Was it surprising? No, I don't think it was that surprising. I think what was in the lawsuits in bankruptcy referred to as adversary proceeding, but what was seen in the adversary proceeding was probably a bit shocking, the actual details, but I think people knew that they were pretty involved. I think that was some of the heat they were getting post him getting a criminal complaint against him was that, why is he hanging out with his parents? Weren't they involved in a lot of parts of the business and people were saying things like that. I don't think it's that unexpected. People, I think, long knew that there were some real estate transactions where they were gifted or given some certain real estate in the Bahamas, but to see it all laid out in the complaint or I should say in the adversary proceeding was interesting. Which items in particular really struck you? I guess just the involvement in the actual day -to -day stuff. I mean, if you come from a corporate background or were a tax lawyer, which his dad, I guess, was and is, that there wasn't more, I don't know, structure to the organization. I mean, the dichotomy between what people thought pre -petition, what John Ray sort of said post -petition and now some of the revelations coming out about the pre -petition activity. I mean, it's just kind of amazing to think about people that might have been a more corporate background and saying like, if the business was so profitable, why were you cutting corners? To be fair to these guys, like in the light of day, sunlight of bankruptcy court, which as people in bankruptcy say, like my parents would say, the last place you want to be as a criminal is in bankruptcy court because there's so much sunlight and everything. Everything gets scrutinized. To be fair to people, sometimes the stuff gets overly scrutinized and they cherry pick stuff that went on. But it seems pretty damning, some of the stuff and there's, let's see what the responses will be. I mean, it's good for the estate and it's good for creditors because I'm sure they want to see sort of retribution. But in terms of recoveries, I don't think it's going to be incredibly meaningful, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 million dollars. I mean, that's, I don't know, maybe two months of bankruptcy fees. And so, earlier when we were talking about like how some of the things are particularly damning, like if you were to kind of say, FTX will win in court for these reasons, like which were the particular acts that you think probably will put things over the edge? Oh yeah. I think almost all the stuff though, the win on the merits of the fraudulent conveyance. I mean, these are all fraudulent transfers potentially while the debtor was insolvent, potentially while it was coming with funds, so clearly all that money has to come back. I think that's pretty easy. The question is like, what's it worth now and who can actually pay it back? Like if money was given to a charity, can you actually go and get it back? Like meaning, is it there? Has it been spent kind of stuff? And you can only squeeze whatever rocked so hard. So the question will be, what is the real estate in the Bahamas worth? The 10 million bucks or whatever that was gifted to them, where did that money end up going? Can they trace it? So, these things cost money to do and then the question is like, how much of an effort do you want to make? And of course, all that can be stopped by a criminal investigation, which there isn't a complaint, but clearly some of the activity could be considered criminal. And I think, I won't pretend to be a criminal lawyer or a lawyer at all, but when you're bringing lawsuits, I mean, basically these are kind of like preponderance of evidence standards versus like higher standards that you might have for criminal complaints. So, it's easier for John Ray to like stitch together some stuff they know and slap an AP and sue these guys, but it's a little harder from a criminal side. But all of it, just facially, I mean, of course, as my lawyer likes to tell me, like, facts matter Thomas. So, if more discovery happens than they take discovery, we'll see. But on the face of it, I mean, it looks pretty obvious that it's sort of slam dunk. Just the question is what they'll actually be able to recover. Yeah, I think one of the ones that stuck out at me, simply because I could very easily imagine myself in a similar position with my own parents and I could just picture what my mother would say. And it was when they purchased the Bahamas property and everything was just getting billed or allegedly in the complaint to FTX. And the parents didn't even make an attempt to pay to furnish their home themselves. And I could just imagine if something similar was happening with my mother, she would be like, wait, is this okay that we're doing this? Like, you know, she would have so many questions about the money and like what was okay, what was kosher, what was not. Like, I could just practically hear her in my head. But at least, you know, from what the complaint described, it didn't feel at all like the parents had any of those qualms. So that was... Yeah, it wasn't 100 % owner of FTX. So it is bizarre that those red flags wouldn't have been, or people wouldn't have been like, hey, I know that you think this is okay, but I don't. Like someone would have said something, maybe they thought it was a drop in the ocean, but if FTX was so wildly profitable and Alameda was so wildly profitable, they didn't need to cut in corners and have them picking up the checks. I mean, it would have been easy for Sam to just be like, no, I'm picking this up personally or something. Well, one thing that I also noticed is that the document hedges its language saying things like, quote, Banquin and Freed either knew or ignored bright red flags revealing that SPF and other insiders were orchestrating the scheme. And again, you know, I saw later again, it was like, they either knew or blatantly ignored. So, yes. Right. That's because the standard for these civil cases is much lower. You know, like if you were trying to criminally try them, you'd have to like really show that they knew because they're going to say they didn't know, they didn't know, right. But the standard for like breach of fiduciary duty or, you know, kind of unjust enrichment, it's a much lower standard. All you have to basically show is a reasonable person should have known, you know. Oh, oh, I see. Yeah. So, that's why they keep saying that. So, you're saying – So, basically, they don't know whether or not they knew, but it doesn't matter for what they're trying to do. Is that what you're saying? I will respectfully say that I'm not a lawyer, but a stress investor and what people usually say – is the standard is usually what a reasonable person should have known, steps a reasonable person should have taken, best practices that a board should have taken. So, like a board of directors, if somebody runs off with money in a company, they don't have to necessarily show that they knew the person stole the money, but did they take any steps a reasonable person would have taken to like verify that the money was there or that the person wasn't absconding with money or whatever. So, it's this reasonable person standard that I think you trigger under Delaware and there are a lot of jurisdictions for breach of fiduciary duty or breach of loyalty, duty of care that you have, mainly in the boardroom, but also I think as a C -suite executive and it sounds like he was sort of melding between the two. So, basically, yeah, they're just trying to meet that standard for their purposes. They don't need to go beyond. And Barbara Fried, you know, also – so, as far as I understand from reading this, you know, Sam Pinkman was definitely involved more in the day -to -day, you know, he was often listed with FTX management. He could make executive decisions on his own at one point saying, oh, I'm just going to make this decision without Sam, like we don't need to involve him, that kind of thing. So, Barbara Fried was not involved at that level. However, it did say that she was a key influence on the campaign donations and I wondered what your takeaway was in that regard in terms of, you know, her involvement there. campaign finance fraud. Yeah, I don't have too much to say other than it's just bizarre that, you know, so many corners were cut in regards to stuff. I don't have a real view on – again, it's like it helps them build a story that they can, you know, just slam dunk, take back any money that was taken out of the estate at any point in the last couple of years by Barbara and the husband. But I don't think that – I don't have a real view on that. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And as far as I understand, I don't think they're married, they're domestic partners. Just to clarify, yeah. All right. So, in a moment, we're going to talk about what the consequences could be after, you know, from this document. But first, a quick word from the sponsors who make this show possible. Toku makes managing global token compensation and incentive awards simple. Are you designing your token compensation plan and grant templates with multiple law firms? Are you managing cliffs, vesting and taxable events in a spreadsheet? Are you distributing tokens to your team manually? 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The Café Bitcoin Podcast
A highlight from Swan Private Macro Friday with Steven Lubka, Sam Callahan, John Haar, and Terrence Yang - September 22nd, 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. This is like a rabbit hole, but, you know, posture is a very interesting topic because there's lots of studies out there that show that actually fixing posture doesn't do absolutely anything to preventing pain. So you could say posture is a shitcoin. The best way to fix your posture, I think, is just sell your chair. So, Sam, I've been doing a muscle activation technique, which is basically a realignment of your nervous system, I guess, so you have a bunch of different muscles that help your joints to mobilize your joints, and oftentimes we get micro injuries and some of these slow twitch deep muscles stop working and then your body compensates, of course, by utilizing other muscles around that muscle group or within that muscle group to compensate, and sometimes those muscles start refiring again and sometimes they don't. And so I've been doing this thing called muscle activation technique, and my posture has actually improved because this technician has gone through and ensured that all of these muscles that are around these joints for mobility and range of motion are activated. And I feel I actually it's almost like magic. It's just really weird thing because you don't really you can't really tell what's going on because you don't really feel a lot of these muscles individually. But after doing this for about 10 sessions now, I feel better physically than I have in a long time. My posture is better. It feels like my body is working in much better than it has in the past. And it's really been it's really and he and he actually and people have noticed my posture getting better. And it's just a really it's it's probably the best health care money because he doesn't take insurance or anything. It's probably the best health care money I have spent in the last 20 years. Wow, that's quite an endorsement. Well, that's great. Happy it's up for you. Muscle activation techniques. What's up, Terrence, Dom, good morning. Yeah, I've been working on my posture, too. I look back at like old bull market charts, Bitcoin, and then in my posture, I like puff up and my everything kind of comes much better. I just have to go on internal team videos, watch my great colleagues, Steven Lubka and put them. Sometimes they look the same to me because they have the exact same posture and they're the same height. But yes, that's always a good reminder to improve my posture. That is true, as you learn about Bitcoin and you stop watching every single five minute candle staring at the chart and just stop worrying and go outside and start learning about other things, start learning about the network, reading books, the posture improves. So there's a little benefit there. Dom, yeah, I saw you make an announcement about the proof of workforce. Congratulations. Pretty cool. You want to tell us a little bit about it? Yeah, thanks, Sam. I got a little background noise because I'm on the big red. But yeah, really awesome to get that thing up and going. We put it, we tweeted out our board, which is, in my opinion, an unbelievable board of directors, including, I see in the audience, the one, the only Joe Carlasari. So I got mad BJ Dictor sound effects. I got my BJ Dictor sound effects loaded up right now. So, yeah, no, just doing great stuff, doing some great work, really excited for it and excited to talk more about it at Pacific and connect with anyone who's looking to bring Bitcoin to workers and unions and other membership based organizations. So really cool stuff. And yeah, man, super pumped. Yeah, I think it's a super cool nonprofit just working for, to educate people about Bitcoin, these unions, these pensions. Congrats on getting that off the ground. I think it's a really important effort for the next bull market to kind of start protecting workers and their future retirement. So with Bitcoin. Yeah, it's a tough group to crack sometimes. And it really helps, you know, was thinking about like, what's the best model and the nonprofit model being able to come in with no product? No, like, hey, sign up here. Like, hey, here's the cards on the table. We want to help you figure out how this works with your organization, whether that's just education, whether it's adding Bitcoin to the balance sheet, you know, enabling lightning payments for your members, you know, whatever that is, we just want to provide the tools and then let them kind of find their way on their own. Yeah, probably use the Nakamoto portfolio. That's a great tool right there. It's going to help a lot. Check it out. Nakamoto portfolio dot com. Play around with those tools. Extremely powerful. Yeah, that's a great tool for sure. Kind of pivoting a little bit, but like. Did you guys see that video of the guy getting his engagement ring back on like a reality TV show and then saying, you know, oh, that's a Bitcoin. That was hilarious. I could play it for you if you want. Yeah, why don't you play it? Vanderpump rules, right? You're still wearing your engagement ring, huh? Yeah. Yeah. I'm I'm going to give it back to him. Do you want to know? I mean. Don't give it back. No, I'm not going to keep it right here. Thank you. That's a Bitcoin. I love that so much. It's like every Bitcoiner thinks that you start like pricing in everything in Bitcoin. It really does become your unit of count in your head. Once you give the girl the ring, don't take it back. Yeah, you're going to want to make sure you're. You're positive on that one. Another reason not to put data on the base layer, right, like marriage certificates. I kind of think the days of expensive engagement rings and expensive weddings are going to end fairly soon with housing affordability at all time lows and so forth or in all time lows for at least for decades. You mean because diamonds are a shit coin and they dump them in the in the ocean off of the coast of South Africa? Yeah, basically, I think it's already the demand is already down, but it needs to kind of die a permanent death. I think the greatest marketing campaign ever. Yeah, diamonds are a rabbit hole. Like I'm going down that rabbit hole, the De Beers company and how they control a monopoly on the entire supply. And it was a huge marketing campaign. And there's no scarcity there. Girls aren't going to want to hear that, but only it's only for certain only for certain sizing and color. But yeah, then there's like these lab diamonds, right, that you can't even tell the difference now that are better. Yeah, I'm not going to get one of those, but they're shit coins. There's no scarcity to them. And they're wow. Really, Sam? It's progressed that far. You're already thinking about a ring. Congratulations. You heard it here first on Cafe People. I wouldn't go that far, Peter, right? But if I was, there's no way I'm going to get her a lab diamond. I saw this video of somebody like in the front row of an NBA game. And I guess there's like a gun that you could check rings to see if they're lab grown or they're regular. And they were going down looking at the big rocks of these celebrities. And this guy, his wife's ring, and then it shines red that it's a lab diamond. And she just gets so pissed off and throws it at him and runs out of the game. Whoops. Rug pull. Rug pull. Or that gun was inaccurate. Because again, you're like trusting the third party source. That's the whole point of bringing it back to Bitcoin. But that's the whole point of Bitcoin is you can self verify that you got real Bitcoin from whoever sent you Bitcoin because you're running your own node. Whereas with whether it's gold or diamond, like the Chinese got swindled for billions of dollars. I think of fake gold bars that were actually tung sun and just gold plated. I like how quickly you think on your feet, Terence, but I don't think she's going to buy it. Yeah. Terence is like, oh, did you think about the gun? It was the gun, bitch. It was the gun. Oh, my God. Hey, guys. So a friend of mine, actually, this is timely. A friend of mine just bought a lab grown diamond and he paid 1500 euros for it. It was 3 .07 carats. And a traditional diamond would have cost about 50 grand. So it's completely destroyed the price of diamonds, man. That's insane. Yeah. Over three carats. And it's chemically, he showed me the certificate is chemically identical. It's still got slight flaws in it, but they literally just they're basically just printing diamonds now. Right. So they've become dollars. I thought it was funny. That's hilarious. The stock to flow is going down for diamonds. Anyway, his wife, she's delighted. She's got a $50 ,000 diamond around her neck. Does she? Got to get one of those guns around here. So check out, check them all. Yeah, I'm intrigued about that gun because what he was saying to me was that he said chemically, they're identical. So I'm not sure what the gun's doing to identify it being a... They find the flaw, right? Because natural diamonds have flaws. So if it's natural, there's going to be a flaw. It's inevitable. You can't see it, but you can see it under like a magnifying glass or whatever. Well, I saw the certificate of this lab grown diamond and it had flaws in it as well. Oh, wow. Yeah, they artificially create the... Yeah, Chris, did you verify that there was a flaw? That's a valid point. I mean, I did trust. I didn't verify. So I stand called out. Yeah, a lot of Bitcoiners are pretty hesitant to separate with their sats. But I think a white is a good investment. That's when you know you got a keeper. Like I was going to buy you a diamond ring, babe, but instead I stacked into cold storage for us. For us. Sam, you might have something there. A ring that's a self -custody hard wallet. You might be something there, dude. I'm actually seeing... I remember in 2017, I saw rings and watches with like little tiny QR codes in them. I don't know if it's a good idea to have a lot of your Bitcoin on a ring or I saw another person with one in a necklace. So there are like things like that. It's not great security. It reminds me of how like in India and stuff, they wear their gold. You know, they keep it around their neck and wrists just because it's the safest place to be. I mean, I guess if it's just a receiving address, you know, I mean, somebody could hold me down and track it down and figure out and whatever. But I mean, you know, that could be your diamond ring. You know, instead of the diamond up there at the crown, throw a QR code up there. Just be like, babe, you're going to be stacking. We're going to stack for the rest of our lives together now. We're going on a stacking journey together. How do you carry across the border more than $10 ,000 in value without having to report it? You wear it. Or Bitcoin. I have friends who move tens of millions of dollars or millions of dollars of their net worth, like 90, I don't know, 98 % plus of their total net worth to leave China, leave South Africa, come to the U .S. and never go back. And at the time, at least, they were too dumb to stop them or even question them. We just left, one -way ticket. Yeah, the fact that Bitcoin is digital and that anybody can escape like an authoritarian regime or war with some of their wealth, you know, that's when you think about like the ESG narrative and even like KPMG report talked about the S and how that characteristic of Bitcoin really helped people in really tough situations and think about how else they would do that and kind of realize that like Bitcoin is a solution there to a problem. And BlackRock and State Street are closing up ESG funds as we speak, which is, I think, a positive development. Yeah, I kind of reject that entire framing. I think it's led to a lot of misallocation of capital and kind of influencing boardrooms about how they invest their capital kind of impeding free markets. Yeah, ESG is a control scheme. I mean, we've seen that, but what are you talking about about BlackRock shutting down ESG funds? I don't know about that. Yeah, BlackRock and State Street have just been closing ESG funds in 2023, kind of shutting them up. And that's a reversal of the trend over the last couple of years. And BlackRock, Larry Fink, I mean, in the early 2010s kind of spearheaded a lot of these efforts, really gung ho about ESG. The last couple of years, they've seen a ton of pushback. And now we're kind of seeing them close up ESG funds. And I feel like we're seeing a shift in sentiment around the entire movement because I think people are realizing that like, A, some of these goals are completely untenable. And then secondly, you're hurting the poorest countries amongst us, like the developing nations, by preventing them from accessing cheap energy sources. And you're really making us weaker and less resilient by shutting down oil, gas, and fossil fuels. And so you're seeing a ton of pushback on it. And so BlackRock and State Street are starting to shut down ESG funds. It's just kind of like a flag post in my mind of this ESG narrative that was so, so strong the last decade. I don't know if anyone else has opinions there, but... Yeah, the only thing I have to say is I feel like Larry Fink kind of jumped on the bandwagon somewhat later after the ESG narrative got a lot of traction. Then he kind of added fuel to the fire, which is a huge name and was very outspoken. My point is he's added fuel to the fire. He didn't start the fire, but he kind of... So he's a politician ultimately, right? Like he's very political, even though he knows finance. To a manage massive fund that manages, I don't know, $9 .6 trillion or whatever, you have to be political and you have to read the tea leaf, so to speak. And yeah, react to the times. I think the exception would be somebody like Vanguard that might do a lot less in terms of ESG or jumping on the latest trendy whatever, because they're so focused on index funds and they're member -owned. This was not an ad for Vanguard, but... I just remember Larry Fink writing... And I just remember it made a lot of waves and kind of definitely added fuel to the fire, like I said, Terrence. So they shut down two dozen ESG funds this year, just to give some stats there. Yeah, I wish I could say like, you know, oh, maybe they really are being orange -filled and whatever, whatever. But it's probably like you said before, I mean, like ESG stuff, it's untenable over time and you get to a point, it probably just isn't profitable. I don't know than any of this, any of what I'm talking about, but just I'm just going off a gut, like the ESG stuff is unprofitable because the economics don't work. We've talked about that. You can look at the windmills and the solar panels as perfect examples of that. But I mean, just the overall thing, there's a good book, I've talked about it before, called The Prize. And it talks about the control of energy on the planet and how there are groups that seek to control other groups through the narrative of controlling what type of energy you're using, what is acceptable energy use, all of this stuff. But in the end, if you're going to try to make like, you know, bets and gambles off of this stuff, like you're going to have to pull your rug early because it's not, at some point, the economics don't work. Well, not to mention too, you know, it's the trend of like having an ESG report for a company. I want to see some of these companies that are like, you know, Nike's ESG report, which I don't know the details, you know, but you know, there's some low wage labor being done. And then, you know, you got this shiny ESG report that's like, you know, sustainability, we've done this and ethically, we've done this. And also, you know, behind the curtain, we've got this going on too. Yeah, I mean, it trickles all the way down, even now, like in web design, web development, like if you want your website to rank well on Google and whatever, then, you know, you have to build your site, you have to have that in your mind while you're building your site. You have to make sure that it's going to be well received by Googlebot and, you know, all these other stuff. And one of the things that they've been pushing is how ESG friendly is your website? Like your, the processes that it runs and, you know, are you doing it correctly and coding it correct? There's more than one way to code. And, you know, it's like, man, okay, I understand the idea, like, make your website work more efficiently. Like, of course, duh, like, that's what we're doing. But Google of all people to tell me about energy use of a web platform? Come on. Yeah, Chrome is pretty bad. Yeah, go ahead. I was orange peeling and no, I was I was just like at insurance, kind of talking to them about Bitcoin. And it was a bunch of claims professionals and lawyers. They were very like, you know, obviously, these are like super risk adverse cohort of investors. And so we were there just like talking Bitcoin as like the weird Bitcoiners at this conference. But I found out that 90 % of them take into account ESG when they're thinking about investments today. And that's in the most recent Goldman survey. So 90 % of insurers consider ESG when making capital allocations today. And at the same time, their number one worry in that survey was inflation. And so it's one of those things where I don't want to give credence to the framework. But it's so ingrained in some of these like traditional capital allocators minds that maybe just by playing into it and saying like, well, here's how Bitcoin is actually, you know, quote unquote, ESG and just kind of like Trojan horse in it through their their silly framework is the strategy that I took. And it kind of kind of went well. I kind of like said, like, although I reject this entire framing, here's why Bitcoin actually kind of achieves your goals. That's kind of the tactic that I took.
The Aloönæ Show
A highlight from S13 E12: Wayne: Entrepreneur, Founder, Marketing Expert
"Hello, welcome to The Elone Show. I'm your host, John Mayelone. In this episode, don't have regulars because reasons, I guess. As for our guest, he is from Alexandra, Louisiana. He's an entrepreneur and founder of Ugly Muck Marketing. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you, Wayne Mullins. Thank you so much. I'm excited to be here. Me too. So, how's life? Life is fabulous. I think, you know, I'm learning to embrace every day in every moment. To embrace the moments, whether they are what some would consider beautiful or what others may consider ugly. To learn to be present and in the moment. And I think that's the best way to possibly live life. Fantastic. And have you been up to much recently? I have. We are on the work front. We are busy growing. It's our busiest season of the year. So, we've been busy there. My wife and I and our kids were in the process of building a house, which is a little bit deceptive. We're not doing the building, obviously, but lots of decisions around building the house and the finishes and all that kind of stuff. Ah, all right then. Very good. And what was the inspiration and the idea of Ugly Muck Marketing? Yeah. So, the idea and inspiration behind Ugly Muck Marketing was simply this, that I wanted to create a marketing agency that is focused on results as the number one thing that matters. So often in the digital marketing space, in the ad agency space, the thing that so many get distracted by is trying to win awards. And Ugly Muck Marketing, the name actually stems from this quote that is, I would rather an ad that's ugly and effective over one that's beautiful, but isn't. So, that is the mission and that is the calling for what we do at Ugly Muck Marketing. Ah, I like it. And what was life for you growing up? I grew up in, I guess you could say more of rural Louisiana, not across the river, not far from where I'm at right now in an area called Pineville, Louisiana, population roughly 15 ,000 or so. So for me, it was growing up, spent a lot of times out in nature, in the woods, building forts in the woods and just had a lot of fun with friends and yeah, it was great. Okay. Very nice. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be? I would live where I'm at right now. I'm a firm believer in this idea that we as human beings, we aren't trees, meaning we can get up and move at any point in time. And I think it's not good for us mentally, emotionally to always long to be somewhere different than where we are. And, you know, if I really wanted to live somewhere else in the world, then I'm of the belief that I should make that happen, that I should get up, that I can move. Yes, there may be obstacles, there may be challenges, there may be all kinds of other things that, quote unquote, get in the way. But again, anything is possible. And we live in a world now where it's easier than ever to up and move to a new location. Couldn't agree more. What's your favorite ice cream topping? I'm going to go with probably strawberries. Interesting. Have you heard of a drink called banana friche? It sounds familiar. I don't know if I've had it, but it does sound familiar. Oh, is that so? It is. I don't know where or why I would have heard of it. OK, interesting, because every guest I've had, I've asked this question a lot to most guests and they said, no, I never heard of it. You are the first person to at least heard of it to some extent. So that's a surprise to me, in my opinion. Yeah, we need the bells and the whistles and like the streamers going off or some fireworks or something, at least, right? Yes, that calls for a celebration. Absolutely. So fill me in. What is it? So it is like a banana flavored drink, which is part smoothie, part milkshake. It's called a tingly sensations that you could possibly think of. Sounds delicious. It sure does. Would you rather never use social media again or never watch another movie or TV show again? Well, I'm going to choose TV because I actually really don't watch TV at all at this point or don't watch movies. And I often joke with people when they meet me or get to know me. I say if you begin the sentence or you begin the question with, have you seen the answer is already going to be no. So don't even ask the question. OK, that makes sense. I would say I would say never watch TV or movies again because I'm mostly on social media looking at stuff anyway. And also, you can watch full length feature films on social media, which is kind of multiple parts. So that's the ultimate cheap code. Yes, indeed. I love it. What's the weather like today where you currently are right now? It is overcast today in a high of only 84 degrees, which is actually a break in the heat from where we've been. So we're we're enjoying the overcast and cooler temps today. Me too. It was pretty hot the last few days, but now we're reaching autumn temperatures now, which is pretty cool. Literally. Well. What is the most comfortable piece of clothing you own? I would say it's a T -shirt that my wife got me for my birthday and it's by a company called One Golden Thread. And I don't know what they made the shirt out of. It's some cotton blend, I believe, but it is incredibly comfortable. Ah, very nice. Do you think a hot dog is a sandwich? I would say absolutely. It comes between two slices of bread or two pieces of bread. But I guess if you want to get really technical, the bread is still enjoined on one end. So you can make an argument in that case that is not technically a sandwich, but there are sandwiches that go in a similar style or similar type of bread. So I'm going to say it is OK. That's a good point, I guess. What hobby would you get into if time and money weren't an issue? Time and money weren't an issue. I would get into surfing. Nice. What could you do a 40 minute presentation on without any preparation? Marketing. That makes sense. Would you rather not be able to open closed doors or not be able to close open doors? That's a tough one. I'm going to go with I would rather not be able to close open doors. Nice. It leaves opportunities open for you. Absolutely. Yes, I love it. If you were given 400 acres of land, what would you use it for? I would take some of it. I would make it into a small farm of sorts, enough to produce enough produce for my family and friends. And then I would have a small portion for maybe some farm animals. And then I would love to leave the rest of it very wooded and maybe put a few trails, hiking trails, biking trails through some of that land. OK, that'd be pretty cool. How much time do you spend on the Internet? Way too much. I spend most of my work day on some form of the Internet, whether that is Google Docs, whether that's email or a social media channel. And then unfortunately, I spend too much time of that on social media or on various forms of Internet in the evenings as well. So way too much is the answer. OK. Yes, I agree. I would certainly say the same thing. What is the best way to start the morning? The absolute best way to start the morning is with some meditation and some gratitude. Sweet. Is that all? Or is there more to it? Well, those would be the best. I also love doing some journaling first thing in the morning and reading something that is inspirational, encouraging, something that really helps me set the tone for the day. I believe that our morning is kind of like the rudder, if you will, for the day, like a rudder on a ship determines where the entire massive ship goes. That one little rudder in comparison to the ship. I believe that our morning routines act in that same way. And unfortunately, for so many of us, we are unintentional with our morning routines. We allow the alarm to go off multiple times. We hit snooze, we rush, we hurry, and all of those things fill our minds subconsciously with worry, with stress, with thoughts of I'm late, with thoughts of I'm not going to be on time. All these words and all these feelings that, in my opinion, have a very negative connotation. So, yeah, I think that's that's the rudder for the day. Okay, yes, couldn't agree more.
Unchained
A highlight from Why FTX Might Try to Claw Back Funds From Retail Customers- Ep. 547
"I mean, these are all fraudulent transfers, potentially while the debtor was insolvent, potentially while it was coming to lift funds, so clearly all that money has to come back. I think that's pretty easy. The question is like, what's it worth now and who can actually pay it back? Hi, everyone. Welcome to Unchained, your no -hype resource for all things crypto. I'm your host, Laura Shin, author of The Cryptopians. I started covering crypto eight years ago and as a senior editor at Forbes was the first mainstream media reporter to cover cryptocurrency full time. This is the September 22nd, 2023 episode of Unchained. Toku makes implementing global token compensation and incentive awards simple. With Toku, you get unmatched legal and tax tech support to grant and administer your global team's tokens. Make it simple today with Toku. Today's episode is brought to you by Overtime Markets, your premier Web3 sportsbook. The innovative protocol is changing the game one match at a time. Powered by Thales, explore more at OvertimeMarkets .xyz. Arbitrum's leading Layer 2 scaling solution offers you ultra -cheap and lightning -fast transactions, all with security rooted on Ethereum. Visit arbitrum .io today. With the Crypto .com app, you can buy, trade and spend crypto in one place. Download and get $25 with the code LAURA. Link in the description. Today's guest is Thomas Brazile, founder of 117 Partners. Welcome, Thomas. Hey, Laura. Good to see you again. This week, FTX sued Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried, the parents of former FTX CEO Sam Bankman Fried, alleging that Bankman was intimately involved in a number of the allegedly fraudulent schemes such as silencing someone who threatened to expose the alleged FTX fraud, the purchase of property in the Bahamas. Barbara Fried encouraged the use of strong donors as campaign finance laws, or allegedly, and both were accused generally of either knowing or ignoring the red flags that FTX was in solvent. Was this development surprising or expected? Thanks for having me on, Laura. Good to see you, as always. Was it surprising? No, I don't think it was that surprising. I think what was in the lawsuits in bankruptcy referred to as adversary proceeding, but what was seen in the adversary proceeding was probably a bit shocking, the actual details. But I think people knew that they were pretty involved. And I think that was some of the heat they were getting post him getting a criminal complaint against him was that, you know, why is he hanging out with his parents, weren't they involved in a lot of parts of the business, and people were saying things like that. I don't think it's that unexpected. People I think long knew that there were some real estate transactions where they were gifted or given some certain real estate in the Bahamas. But to see it all laid out in the complaint or I should say in the adversary proceeding was interesting, you know. And yeah. Which items in particular really struck you? I guess it's the involvement like in the actual day -to -day stuff. I mean, if you come from a corporate background or were a tax lawyer, which is that I guess was is, and that there wasn't more, I don't know, structure to the organization. I mean, you know, the dichotomy between what people thought pre -petition, what John Ray sort of said post -petition, and now some of the revelations coming out about the pre -petition activity. I mean, it's just kind of amazing to think about people that might have been a more corporate background and saying like, if the business was so profitable, why were you cutting corners? And, you know, to be fair to these guys, like in the, you know, in the light of day, sunlight of bankruptcy court, which as, you know, people in bankruptcy say, like my parents would say, like, the last place you want to be as a criminal is in bankruptcy court because there's so much sunlight and everything, you know, everything is good scrutinized. And to be fair to people, sometimes the stuff gets overly scrutinized and they cherry pick stuff that went on. But it seems pretty damning, some of the stuff and, you know, let's see what the responses will be. I mean, it's good for the estate and it's good for creditors because I'm sure they want to see, you know, sort of retribution. But in terms of recoveries, I don't think it's going to be incredibly meaningful, you know, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 million dollars. I mean, that's, I don't know, maybe two months of bankruptcy fees. And so, you know, earlier when we were talking about like how some of the things are particularly damning, like if you were to kind of say, FTX will win in court, you know, for these reasons, like which were the particular acts that you think probably will put things over the edge? Oh, yeah. I think almost all the stuff though, they'll win on the merits of the fraudulent conveyance. I mean, these are all fraudulent transfers, potentially while the debtor was insolvent, potentially while it was coming with funds, so clearly all that money has to come back. I think that's pretty easy. The question is like, what's it worth now and who can actually pay it back? Like if money was given to a charity, can you actually go and get it back? Like meaning, is it there? Has it been spent kind of stuff? And you know, you can only squeeze a, you know, whatever, rock so hard. So the question will be, you know, what is the real estate in the Bahamas worth? The 10 million bucks or whatever that was gifted to them, where did that money end up going? Can they trace it? So these things cost money to do and then the question is like, how much of an effort do you want to make? And of course, you know, all that can be stopped by a criminal investigation, which there isn't a complaint, but clearly some of the activity could be considered criminal. And I think, you know, I won't pretend to be a criminal lawyer or a lawyer at all, but when you're bringing lawsuits, I mean, basically these are kind of like preponderance of evidence standards versus like, you know, higher standards that you might have for criminal complaints. So it's easier for John Ray to like stitch together some stuff they know and slap an AP and sue these guys. But it's a little harder from the criminal side. But all of it, just on facially, I mean, of course, as my lawyer likes to tell me, like, you know, facts matter, Thomas. So it is more discovery happens than they take discovery. We'll see. But on the face of it, I mean, it looks pretty, pretty obvious that it's sort of slam dunk. Just the question is what they'll actually be able to recover. Yeah. I think one of the ones that stuck out at me simply because I could very easily imagine myself in a similar position with my own parents and I could just picture what my mother would say. And it was when they purchased the Bahamas property and everything was just getting billed or allegedly in the complaint to FTX. And the parents didn't even make an attempt to pay to furnish their home themselves. And I could just imagine something similar was happening with my mother. She would be like, wait, is this OK that we're doing this? Like, you know, she would have so many questions about the money and like what was OK, what was kosher, what was not. Like, I could just practically hear her in my head. But at least, you know, from what the complaint described, it didn't feel at all like the parents had any of those qualms. So that was. Yeah. It wasn't 100 percent owner of FTX. So it is bizarre that those red flags wouldn't have been or people wouldn't have been like, hey, I know that you think this is OK, but I don't like someone would have said something. Maybe they thought it was a drop in the ocean. But if FTX is so wildly profitable, I mean, it was so wildly profitable, they didn't need to cut in corners and have them picking up the checks. I mean, it would have been easy for Sam to just be like, no, I'm picking this up personally or something. Well, one thing that I also notice is that the document hedges its language, saying things like, quote, Banquin and Freed either knew or ignored bright red flags, revealing that SPF and other insiders were orchestrating the scheme. And again, you know, I saw later again, it was like they either knew or blatantly ignored. So right. Yes. That's because the standard for these civil cases is much lower. You know, like if you were trying to criminally try them, you'd have to like really show that they knew because they're going to say they didn't know, they didn't know, right? But the standard for breach of fiduciary duty or unjust enrichment, it's a much lower standard. All you have to basically show is a reasonable person should have known, you know? Oh, oh, I see. Yeah. So that's why I keep saying that. So you're saying, so basically they don't know whether or not they knew, but it doesn't matter for what they're trying to do. Is that what you're saying? I will respectfully say that I'm not a lawyer, but a stress investor. And what people usually say is the standard is usually what a reasonable person should have known, steps a reasonable person should have taken, best practices that a board should have taken. So like a board of director, if somebody runs off with money in a company, they don't have to necessarily show that they knew the person stole the money, but did they take any steps a reasonable person would have taken to like verify that the money was there, that the person wasn't absconding with money or whatever. So it's just this reasonable person standard that I think you trigger under Delaware and under a lot of jurisdictions for breach of fiduciary duty or breach of loyalty, duty of care that you have, mainly in the boardroom, but also I think as a C -suite executive and it sounds like he was sort of melding between the two. So basically, yeah, they're just trying to meet that standard for their purposes. They don't need to go beyond. And Barbara Fried, you know, also, so as far as I understand from reading this, you know, Sam Pinkman was definitely involved more in the day to day. You know, he was often listed with FTX management. He you know, could make executive decisions on his own at one point saying, oh, I'm just going to make this decision without Sam, like we don't need to involve him, that kind of thing. So Barbara Fried was not involved at that level. However, it did say that she was a key influence on the campaign donations. And I wondered what your takeaway was in that regard in terms of, you know, her involvement there. Campaign finance fraud? Yeah. Again, I don't have too much to say other than it's just bizarre that, you know, so many corners were cut in regards to stuff. I don't have a real view on. Again, it's like it helps them build a story that they can, you know, just slam dunk, take back any money that was taken out of the estate at any point in the last couple of years by Barbara and the husband. But I don't think that I don't have a real view on that. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And as far as I understand, I don't think they're married. They're domestic partners. Just to clarify. Yeah. All right. So in a moment, we're going to talk about what the consequences could be after, you know, from this document. But first a quick word from the sponsors who make this show possible. Toku makes managing global token compensation and incentive awards simple. Are you designing your token compensation plan and grant templates with multiple law firms? Are you managing cliffs, vesting and taxable events in a spreadsheet? Are you distributing tokens to your team manually? With Toku, you get unmatched legal and tax tech support to grant and administer your global team's tokens. Easy to use token grant award templates, vesting tracking via online dashboard, tax withholding integration with payroll, automated distributions, great employee experience. Make it simple with Toku. Learn more at toku .com slash Unchained.
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 07:00 09-22-2023 07:00
"With Bloomberg, you get the story behind the story, the story behind the global birth rate, behind your EV batteries' environmental impact, behind sand, yeah, sand, you get context, and context changes everything. Go to Bloomberg .com to get context. This is Bloomberg Radio. We still think rates are somewhat too high over the long run. As long as the politics lets the U .S. be exceptional, you can have higher yields and a stronger dollar. Turning to the U .S., we are a lot weaker than consensus with U .S. growth. Inflation expectations are fairly well behaved for consumers. What we're seeing is the lagged impact of fairly aggressive monetary tightening really starting to bite. This is Bloomberg Surveillance with Tom Keane, Jonathan Farrow and Lisa Abramowitz. This is Bloomberg Surveillance live from the city of London for our audience worldwide. Good morning. Good morning. Alongside Tom Keane and Lisa Abramowitz, I'm Jonathan Farrow, your equity market positive here by 0 .2%. It's been a rough, dicey couple of days in this market. Let's put it all together. Biggest one -day loss on the S &P 500 in about six months, yields we haven't seen for more than a decade, cycle highs on a ten -year, on a two -year. This morning in today's session in Asian trading, we went through $4 .50 briefly on a ten -year. We come back about a basis point, $4 .48. TK, putting it all together, what a ride it's been over the last few trading days. I'm going to go away from the equity market. I really take issue with the worry and the doom and gloom on equities. It's barely a pullback here with a VIX at 17 .12, I believe, as a level. You think we had a 20, a 22, a 25 VIX. We got nothing. It's been resilient equity markets with the bounce back today. In the other areas, you're right, John, in foreign exchange, I can tell you it's an interesting study. It's not one or two pairs. It's like 10 or 12 pairs you can study. Sara Velles with us from Deutsche Bank.
The Stuttering John Podcast
"john." Discussed on The Stuttering John Podcast
"I am doing fine. I'm sitting on Scott the journey. Scott the engineers patio as I do my show from Delray Beach fart. And I went to the beach yesterday, got myself a little color. To kind of wash away somebody's freckles that I'm having. You get old and you get freckles. So my colleague spots, I don't know. Somebody told me they were freckles. I don't know. Thank you for Richie. There's my link to donate. You can please donate, PayPal, me slash John Melendez, Inc and you could also go to the Venmo, which is right up here, and then hold the phone up. Because as you know, my D.C. trip is happening. And you know, I said to somebody, I think it was joanie, somebody was like, because I said, if I get the interviews, they're going to go up first on Patreon or onto YouTube for only the members. And she said, you know, it better not be if, well, the truth of the matter is, even when I was doing the stuttering John interviews on Howard Stern, there was never a guarantee that I would get anything now I am tenacious that's for damn sure. But there's never a guarantee. So I'll do my best. Believe me, a lie, I'll do anything I can. To try and get the interview, I used to say I was from kabocha and television, where every interview was a suicide. But yes, I used to wear ABC sweatshirts to make it appear that I was from ABC. Like the bullshit with the best of them. Speaking of bullshit, we got to watch Donald Trump. Oh my God, this idiot on Piers Morgan, who I can't stand either to numb nuts in a pod there, but he walks off the set. Pierce does a good interview. And I gotta hand it to him. But Trump walks off the set, and then his people say, oh no, they edited it and he didn't walk. Oh, shut up, you fat fuck. You walked off the set. Oh, a lot of stuff to talk about. That's why I got the resident genius house sparks coming on. No other guests. Not today. Today it's just how to come on and talk about all that's going on and who knows more about.
The Stuttering John Podcast
"john." Discussed on The Stuttering John Podcast
"Respect for committees because comedians, they'll still do it. And they need the comedians. And they need them to go out there and be vulnerable. And you know, with the joke with Chris, you know, he was, you know, he wasn't making fun of her disease. No. He did not realize that. It was a simple. It was a very too easy joke. GI J two is too easy for Chris Rock. But if there's anything. But, you know, there's an exit that if somebody offends you, you could leave. And or you could unfollow them, or you could do whatever. But that was definitely not Chris Rock's intention. And I feel like Will Smith thought about that moment for a long time. And that he's going to blame it on Richard Williams. Let being a character or whatever bullshit. Or I love what people do something really awful and they start talking about God. It's like the worst, the worst thing you, you know, and God's like, leave me the fuck out of that. Nothing to do with that shit. And you see it all the time just country where people, then they both got Jesus, they've done something truly awful. And it deludes the brand. It dilutes to God bread. That's all I can tell you. Mark Pete, thanks for the 5 bucks. Good to see you, Tom. What's the latest on your search for the Trump tape? Well, you know, thank you for asking that. You know, I had a series on vice 8 part series where we look for each tape that allegedly existed. One thing is it got me very close to Michael Cohen. And so you can hear a lot of tape Michael Cohen and I talking that actually has been helpful in other ways. For instance, Jerry Falwell Jr., Jerry Falwell, junior would still be the president of Liberty University if not for a tape that I made with Michael Cohen where he explained how he fixed that pool boy. They for Jerry follow junior and then went to him and said, I need a favor. I need to support Trump. But up till then, Jerry Paul, junior was denying it. And since then, something I'm working on, I'm working with 22 J dose from documentary series from Liberty University that Jerry Falwell Jr. and company covered up their sexual assaults and rapes. And was not for me doing that show, getting to know Michael Cohen, you know, and it's not just Trump, it's all of his buddies. They're just terrible people. But if it wasn't for that, one thing led to another, I got to know John Carlos granda, who was, he doesn't like me called a pool boy or former boy. But full of candidate. But he's very brave. And he came forward about his relationship with Falwell said, you know, they were blackmailing him, which is crazy. They said that John Carlo and I see the receipts that Jerry Paula, he made his sex tape with Giancarlo and Becky follow and Jerry Falwell threatened to send it to John Carlos girlfriend. I mean, what kind of an ego where you're the head of this Christian bullshit thing and you're like, yeah, I'm going to blackmail you by letting everybody know you.
The Stuttering John Podcast
"john." Discussed on The Stuttering John Podcast
"Live. Well, I'll tell you, I hope if I ever make any offensive comments, your audience is welcome to come on stage and smack you gone. Well, that's what I was afraid of, John, as a comic, you know, by Will Smith doing it. It almost gives other people a license now to do the same thing. Do you know what I mean? Let them try it. Let them try it. You know what I mean? Like, go ahead, assholes, be copycats on that. Go ahead and we already have a problem in this country of men using violence to solve their problems. And it's from the top down. You know, we have the death penalty. We kill people who kill people to show that killing people is wrong. What a government does that? You're going to act surprised when individuals use violence to solve their problems. I mean, come on, man. It's like, you don't have to believe in religion to follow the teachings of Jesus. And go for nonviolence. And I mean, I don't know. It was so depressing the other night. And we should have been talking about the first queer woman of color who's out to win an Oscar. We should have been talking about the first death man to win an Oscar. We should have been talking about how dune won 6 Oscars. We should have been talking about how Apple was the first streaming service to buy a best picture Oscar. We can talk about any of that. We're talking about this lab. I mean, literally, like for LGBT and disability audiences and instead, we're all just talking about a couple of rich guys slapping each other. Well, just one rich guy slapping. Yeah. Lauren, it's people saying podcasts just signed up. Right on. Thank you, Lauren. This is what's great, John, because you get this all in real time. And before I let you go, 'cause I do have another guest coming up. I was Matt Gaetz, I'd be asking you to send me pictures. Go on, John. Just as you can see, I am wearing my I stand with a.
The Stuttering John Podcast
"john." Discussed on The Stuttering John Podcast
"Selfishness is a very, very powerful force. And it's what the party sells. It's Donald Trump's entire message. But the problem is, John, when you have a cult of selfishness, eventually, they're all going to turn on each other. Thank you, John. And as DS kibo says, John fugle saying, you are a breath of fresh air. Oh, hardly. But thank you. And my mom also, you know, who happened to be more like a breath of chloroform before a guy shoves you with his band. But thank you. And my mom, who's, you know, who's from Denmark also enjoys you, and she has had yes. How old was your mom? She's in her 80s. How about that? You're lucky to have her. Mark Pete, thanks for the ten bucks. Mister fugle saying, nice crypt drop, though. I would have preferred Thea. I love your show. I love your guests. I love your call as Mitch from Kent State and Steven from Kentucky are amongst my favorites. So I guess you got a big fan and Mark B very nice. Okay, thank you Mark. Yeah, you know, I should announce our SiriusXM show. I've been trying it for like 5 years, begging SiriusXM to let us make it like a weekly podcast as a commercial for what we do because we have celebrities. We have filmmakers. We have comics. We have politicians and actors and activists and journalists. And they've always said no, and they finally said yes, and now it's going to be a daily podcast. So even if you don't subscribe to SiriusXM, you can go subscribe to the John cable sang podcast on stitcher or Google or apple or wherever you get your podcasts. Pardon? On what days is the podcast? 6 days a week, we just began beta testing in last week, so it's already launched. We haven't done a big official announcement yet. I guess this is my announcement because we haven't said it on the area. But now you can every day, every morning here, a 30, 35 minute version of last night's show. And some days, you know, it'll be me talking to filmmakers, Ken burns, is on this Friday. So nice. Journalists, yeah, Ken Brant is a great new movie about Ben Franklin. We had a really, really smart conversation. So, you know, we're at Jane Lynch is coming on in a couple of weeks, Richard linklater is going to be on this week. So we get a lot of good people. And I invite all of your wonderful deeply attractive audience to subscribe to the channel, people sank podcast. Well, I'll tell you, though, you know, John, I mean, I plug you all the time and I always say my guys need that. And I need it to be plugged by a man like you as often as possible. No, no, but I always say guys like me and you and Hal and dean, you know, I mean, you know, a lot of times our fans kind of cross over and, you know, and they watch, you know, all of us, which is kind of cool. But is your podcast? Is it just audio or is a book? Just audio. I'm not as pretty as you. No one wants to look at me. Especially with his hair, because I mean, come on, I look like John Wick and a Moroccan roll shortage. Just kind of saying. Hey, John, I want to show you something..
The Stuttering John Podcast
"john." Discussed on The Stuttering John Podcast
"Making fun of the homeless. Or making fun of developmentally disabled people, talking about retard retarded people, right? Yeah. Crowd might be drunk enough to laugh once or twice, but eventually you're gonna feel dirty and go home. You can't punch those who are below you in terms of power and influence and strength. And the sculpture. So I think he broke that rule, but he didn't know. He didn't know she had it. So I'm choosing to believe this is a great chance to talk about men and testosterone and the stupid reckless things men do. I know in many degrees this is a loaded issue on race and I respect that. But I think it's broader than that. I think it's all about men and toxic masculinity. And mean this, everything we talk about. And I like to believe that we're all going to move on from this. I will say, John, that I've had hundreds of people come up on stage when I'm performing to hit me in the middle of my act. And never once is the crowd given those people an award a few minutes later. So I don't even know how Christmas we feel. I know. I know. It was crazy, but I only have you for short periods of time. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, it's totally fine. I mean, you know, that happens. I mean, you know, but anyway, John, okay, where should we start with Donald Trump? First, what was a federal judge said that he's guilty of obstruction of justice? Is that right? And yeah. And now over 7 hours and 37 minutes have been, you know, deleted from the phone logs. Now, John, somewhere in hell, Richard Nixon is saying, finally, I look good. Yeah, I was just gonna bring him mixing. That destroyed him. Where was Merrick Garland, John? Where is Merrick Garland indeed? I think where is Merrick Garland is Satan's drinking game word. Look, Robert Mueller delivered ten counts of obstruction of justice that Donald Trump committed..
The Stuttering John Podcast
"john." Discussed on The Stuttering John Podcast
"Didn't get the StreamYard legs. So now I got it. I just got it three minutes ago, and I clicked in. Oh, I sent it to you at 11. I literally came through. I'll send you the email. It came through. No, I believe you. I believe you all good. All good. 44 p.m. Eastern Time. So sorry, hi. Yeah, you know, I recently, I guess he didn't, you know, let me try and I'll send it again, you know? But yeah, it's all good. All right. People usually do this with me. They invite me to things, and then they don't show up, and I just kind of assume I'm being pranked all the time. So no, no. John, John, you know, trust me, I would never do that, okay? And I do have trolls who do try and contact all my guests and tell them, you know? You know, and try to cancel them, mommy. So I thought of the haters, John. How do you handle the haters? What do you do? Besides drinking to the point of blackout like me. What do you see with a handle the haze? Oh, I'm used to it, you know, thanks to my family. There you go, there you go. John, first of all, I've been doing a little rant about the whole like before we get started about everything and of course I stand with Ukraine. I did want to just talk to you a little bit about the Will Smith incident. Now, my stance is what Will Smith incidentally. Well, there are two, there were two narratives. Well, there's more than two. There's probably about ten. But the first one is that it was staged. It was not staged. We'll see. Chris Rock is not that good of an actor. I'm sorry. Although he did a great job, he did Chris Rock did a great job getting through the best documentary nominees while in complete shock in front of 15 million people. Yes, he's a class act..
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"john." Discussed on The Stuttering John Podcast
"With the exception of that Wesley Snipes film, which he did a damn good job, I can't remember the name of it, but as a crack addict. But for the most part, Wilson is not acting there. Stephen Colbert did a funny thing. A drop in. This is the kind of things that I would do. On this tonight show, buddy, he said, how did Will Smith get everyone in the standing ovation and they show with that Men in Black thing that gets everyone to forget that was pretty funny. So kudos to Stephen Colbert. And I'm also Jimmy Kimmel, thought as I did. He and his wife, they were watching, and they were like, is this real? And then they went, shit, it is. It was real. I'm so sick of these conspiracy theorists. The same people who think that was staged thinks the insurrection was a peaceful protest. All right? Now I don't know where my guest is. But I don't even care because that's how angry I am at this. I couldn't wait. I was going to do a show yesterday. What's with Twitter now? Come on. We could please Twitter. There is mister fugal saying, we got more stuff to talk about today. John, where are you, buddy? I don't know. You know, I booked these guests in advance. So, you know, and my next guest does at one is somebody who you've seen on many films and you know him, he's a comedian. And I think you're all going to be very happy with my guest at 1 o'clock. But I was hoping John feige was saying can bring us to that point. So let's hope the fugues is on the way. So I am waiting, waiting for the fugues..
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"john." Discussed on The Stuttering John Podcast
"Well, there's the Venmo. Right, up there. So weird because this is like, this is a mere image, so everything's backwards. Okay, so there's a link to donate, keep super chance coming. Johnny Heisenberg, a tie, John. I thought the talk of the town at the Oscars would be showing Penn smelling his Oscars. They didn't see that. I did see the punch. And let me tell you, Will Smith, you're an asshole. You are an asshole. We'll get into that. Let me just do the roll call here. Yeah, joanie, White House. Donald Trump, I'm telling you, man, if Merrick Garland doesn't get off his ass now, 7 hours and 37 minutes. A gap where there's no, there's no phone logs..
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"john." Discussed on The Stuttering John Podcast
"I know yesterday you passed the deal and got me a play race. But what did you do for me today? And you know what? I don't give a shit about those people anymore. I'm tired of those assholes. Those are the people that follow me and watch me in the hopes that I trip and fall. That's what they do. There's a lot of people out there. Make no mistake about it. You've got people on here right now that are on here hoping to God that you say something that they can then go and copy paste and use against you. Make no mistake about it. Don't you think? Oh, I got 10,000 followers. That's right. Yep. And 500 of them want nothing more than for you to fail. Fast. You're buckled. Yep. Well, you've experienced that. I mean, it's the same thing. I mean, it's really sick in a way. The amount of hate that there is for what I don't know. Like, you know what I mean? You and I obviously are Democrats, but you know, when people try and sabotage you or like, you know, a lot of people, a lot of people don't have the guts. First and foremost, John, you're a stand up comedian, man. I mean, but you have to, it takes a special person to be willing to stand in front of a group of people and put themselves out like that. That's a special person. That's an absolute fact. But you know, and me, you know, it was dig coal, sell, join the army. I chose the military and had become the best decision I ever made in my life..
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"john." Discussed on The Stuttering John Podcast
"And speaking of football, I do want to say RIP John Madden. John Madden, to me, was the heir apparent to Howard Cosell. He was one of the funniest, most intelligent sportscasters that I've ever seen in my lifetime seen or heard. Ashburn nuts and thanks for the 50 in Norwegian krona. I see army majors wincing. Are you our dim our religious fanatic, a gun knight book? Republican we got you covered. Exactly. Yeah, that's how they actually say it too. And getting back to John Madden just to give you my favorite John Madden broadcast. He was broadcasting a giants football game. And Jim Burt, I believe was number 64. And Jim Burt was a big freaking guy. I'm talking as big tall as he was wide. Why guy? And John Madden goes and look at how big he is. Even his numbers are spread out. Like, I mean, like his numbers are farther away than anybody else's numbers. And then he's got the snot coming out of his nose. This guy is built to play football. And I'm sitting there laughing 'cause John Madden would just say whatever came to his mind. And he was great. It was brilliant. I don't know if you were a fan on me, major, but to me, he was the best. No, I mean, you know, you're right. He basically, you know, come in and in terms of football, he definitely replaced the Howard co sale. So, yeah. Yeah. I mean, I don't honestly, I really don't watch any sports for the most part. No. Nah. Really army made. I'm shocked. You know, I mean, I just, to me, I just do other stuff. I honestly feel like I just don't have time for I just don't. I don't watch football, I don't watch. Now, I like to watch if a boxing matches on or an MMA fight, I like to watch that, but that's about it. Well, I'll tell you just to, you know, I was in first place in my fantasy football league. It's a $100 buy, and I had a chance to win a grand. I was 11 and four..
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"john." Discussed on The Stuttering John Podcast
"View for the way we treated the indigenous people. I mean, this is embarrassing. And the mere fact that we've got leaders in this country, well, they call themselves leaders that are pushing this garbage just shows how low this nation has become. Yeah, and just like Helen John says right here, I'm truly worried about this country. Yes, I am, too. What has happened? What the hell happened? We've got a, you know, white people are scared. When the census come out and it showed that the white person is no longer in the majority. Now all of a sudden the people at the top, the people that are the filthy filthy rich, know that, you know, it looks like they're no longer going to be able to just take at wheel that we may finally start having people come up in power that believe in fairness and think that we should treat people with equality and that scares them because they have been used to being able to do what they want when they want to get away with it. And, you know, you know, are we worried that the Native American people are going to finally look at us and say, you owe us, are we worried that the African American community is going to finally say that you need to pay us for 400 years of slavery? I mean, that's what they're scared of. And, you know, I mean, at the end of the day, here's the deal. We've got to acknowledge that these horrors actually took place. You know? And you have to address them. What these people are trying to do is completely erase history. And it's all because they just don't want people to realize that you're great grandparents and even your grandparents in certain areas. We're horrible, racist, sexy shit. You know, I watched it. I see this video all the time. The picture..
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"john." Discussed on The Stuttering John Podcast
"I thought I was doomed. Thankfully, the doctors in the ER, one of them happened to be a fan and she took a picture of me. You know, for her husband, it was a big fan. But they were so nice to prescribe me 6 kilometers. And they gave me one while I was there. And I said, how long is it going to take? Before, you know, these go where they said, listen, John. And Nikki bee had texted me this, 'cause she said she was on the way, God bless you, Nick, you know, her aunts was not doing well from COVID. Just wasn't gonna make it. And I said, you know, to Niki, I'm sorry about Joanne. I said, I think I might have it, because I didn't know. But then I texted her, I think it's because I stopped my constant, she goes, yeah, John, that's a benzo. You can't stop that cold Turkey. I had no idea. But anyway, so the hospital so they give me one. I go and how long is gonna take? She goes, John all your symptoms will be gone, they'll all go away in about an hour. Guess what, less than an hour? No more symptoms. None. So I do the shows on Saturday. Kill it. Feel great. Everything's back to normal, but hemorrhoids are fucking killing me. Killing me. Not to gross you out, but I got another fucking John growing out of my ass right now. And I had three of them, two of them have gone away. Why? 'cause I called Dave dementia, the host. I said, Dave, could you pick me up some freaking preparation each topical cream and some freaking stick up your ass? Because I'm fucking this is killing me. I feel like I'm gonna pass out. And he's like, yeah, yeah, she'll. He's the nicest guy in the world. So he gets me topical went into it. So I start just taking those like crazy. The suppository and, you know, so finally, yesterday, killing me. I went to the I went to the drugstore, the right aid to see if they had those little donuts that you could sit on. Did this suppository thankfully I had some oxycodone at my house for the last time I was in the emergency room. I had like two or three tablets. So I just paste them out. And the pain subsided was able to take my son out to dinner last night, which was put.
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"john." Discussed on The Stuttering John Podcast
"On that stool. And I took the step but man, it must have looked awkward to everybody in the audience. And it was crowded. The Friday shows on Saturday shows with really crowded and the manager said they had at least a 25% increase in their normal to consoles because I was there, which makes me happy. It's a lot of stern extern fans and Jay Leno's fans there. A lot of stuttering John fans actually. There's nothing better than the next morning as you're walking to go get breakfast. In my case, go to the hospital that as you're walking some guy past you by John solder so last night, you were great awesome show. I mean, there's nothing better than that. At least if you're a comic to know that you were appreciated and you did a damn good professional job. Anyway, so after that Friday night show, I could barely make it off the stage and it's funny because they've mank Ali the host who's the nicest person on the planet. I thought maybe he could help me off the stage, but he has some he has a cane 'cause he's a diabetic so much. I can't even get out any help from the host. So I mustered my way, took the three or four steps to get off the stage and then grab the seat with my hand and sat down on the seat closest to the stage. Keep in mind, folks, that Friday night, that second show I was flop sweating. Sweat was pouring out of my pores at an alarming rate. So when I sat next to Dave and I went like this with my hair and he goes, oh my God, you're drenched. I go, yeah, I know. I go, I thought I was going to die up there. And then I'm going to really kill. Myself. I said, I don't know what's going on. I go, I don't know if I can make it up to my room. I don't know if I can walk. I said, Dave, I don't know what it is. It's either I have COVID,.
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"john." Discussed on The Stuttering John Podcast
"Yeah, baby. Look at me, I'm bleeding. Are you shaved? I try and shave the look good. And now I'm bleeding all over my freaking nose here, right? Jesus. Well, there's the link if you want to donate, PayPal dot me slash John Melendez ink. Now, first of all, I am going to say that I do apologize for not doing a show this past Thursday or this past Saturday. Truth be told, and I apologize to all the Patreon people. I know that was only one that was really upset with me, but, you know, I understand, I understand, you know, I have an obligation, but if you knew how close I came to dying, you're probably would not, you know, you know, start getting angry with me. Maybe ask first. What's going on? Well, I'll tell you. On.
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"john." Discussed on The Stuttering John Podcast
"Everything helps. Cat is here. Just going down the roll call. Nurse M 65. How are you? Christina Garcia. Don't want to forget just in case two beds, say, I know. I booked this freaking hotel on the plane. I paid to 15 bucks for the Wi-Fi. So I looked for like, you know, I don't need any elaborate hotel. I ain't wasting any money. That ain't me. My father was a cheap bastard. In fact, his idea of a trust fund for me was John, you'll get nothing trust me. And I'm not gonna waste money.
The Stuttering John Podcast
"john." Discussed on The Stuttering John Podcast
"What are you trying to hone in on her already told you he's not. But I I just haven't, you know, I haven't heard or or you know, or seeing you mentioned her. I didn't know. Yeah. Well I yeah I don't know. I am on my show every week. So really. Yeah. She well I mean we do we do a subscription only showing my patreon page where yeah. It's just her and I but I'm not hitting on her baggage. Well I did at one point I did one time but you know that I didn't know that. That you know that that was your girlfriend. I had no idea. Yeah, we don't we don't advertise a lot. What's that? Incredible taste in women? Of course. Yeah. That's why I'm smiling right now. I'm not going No. But, you know, I really didn't know, no idea, I'm smiling because I won John. That's so, how long have you guys been together since 2015? Yeah, we first went out and 2015. Yeah. Wow. Six years now. Yeah. We moved in together over in 2016. Yeah. When they going to pop the question John, I've been divorced twice. I'm I'm in. No, hurry to get married again. I I love Kimberly to death obviously, you know, we're we're our relationship as happy as a great and and perfect but we're in no hurry to go through that process. Look, everyone Benny, local John's, John hits on them. All I don't hit on all of them just to pretty ones off. Oh, man. Yeah, yeah, Kimberly comes into my office against John Melendez, just hit on me on Twitter. Like, what the fuck John That's one. Now what I I think I just asked her, I forgot what I asked her, ask her out to lunch, just what you did. Oh, is that what it was? I think we were living, we were living up in the Bay Area at that point in time. So yeah, yeah. So we were in the same state at that point. So it got it would have been a bit of a commute for lunch for her boss. I've travelled I've travelled much further Bob for, I once met a girl, I swear to God, Bob is cool. I was on, I was in Daytona on spring break. Yeah, when I was going to college and I was with this beautiful woman, but I never got a chance to, you know, to go to bed with her if you will write. She was from Detroit. I ended up driving from Long Island. And meeting her in Ohio. Wow, from Detroit admit. And we met in the middle at a hotel in Ohio and you hated each other back pocket. So I will travel miles. I don't know what that says about you John, but God bless you, man. Good luck. It's, it's not an admirable quality, put it that much but, you know, you'll break if something happens with Kimberly. And I will be the first to know, I mean, I can't guarantee anything but no, no, no. But but but you know that song, I will walk 500 miles an hour Home. Yeah, which also happens to be one at Kimberly's favorite songs. Sorry..
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"john." Discussed on The Stuttering John Podcast
"Have kids. You will love it and you will never regret it. And I will just going to give you a little, a little small story, The Stage manager at The Tonight. Show. A very good friend of mine. His name is Mike, he was getting up in his years forty, five, fifteen or whatever and he was like, I don't know, I don't know if I, I think I'm too old to have kids. I go Mike, have a couple of kids. You'll never ever regret it and that and you know what he said to me after we had two kids, now, they're old, you know, getting older. These like, John, best advice that I've ever got. Well, I appreciate that. I'm going to I'm going to be myself cuz I would be remiss if I wasn't true to myself here in. Just say it's a little bit different for a woman, especially one in the industry. Because I got big plans. I will tell this to anyone who wants to listen. I want to most, I want to take over for Stephen Colbert. They're like, these are my plans, you know, and we just, we know what Society does to women in general when they have kids. The the motherhood tax is a real thing. The women's wealth Gap is a real thing in the industry. And when we talked about, we take it even further with women on television. I'm a television host, like, how long am I going to have to stay out of, you know, out of work. And unfortunately, a lot of these jobs don't offer maternity leave. They don't offer Insurance cuz most jobs at this point are like, contract here in California. Like these are things that I think about differently than my husband thinks about, you know, so it's it's not that simple, especially high career woman. I think, I think that that's, there's a lot. There's a lot more at play. I think Joy. Hi says not, everyone seems to have kids, great story, John Doe and then Julie Swenson said, here's the thing. I think, I actually think that you're right. Like, I love.