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"Okay, well, let me say that live streaming is not a substitute for church, you know, sitting at home and watching a church service online is definitely not a substitute for church, I don't believe in these flat screen pastors, as I've heard them referred to, however, we are living right now in very unusual times, and it has come down from state governments and the federal governments that we are not to congregate in groups larger than ten, and so I think this does fall under a Romans 13 situation, 1 Peter 2 situation, that we're to respect the governing authorities, because this is not specifically calling out Christians, this is across the board, now if the government were saying something like, okay, everybody can congregate except for churches, then I'd have a problem, then you'd run into an Acts chapter 5 type situation, you'd have to obey God rather than them being banned, but Christians are not specifically being targeted here, and so I think this does fall under Romans 13, 1 Peter 2, it's not good, none of us likes this, I can't wait for this to be past us and we can go back and congregate together as a body and have fellowship and do all the things that we're supposed to be doing, but for right now, given that this is not specifically targeting Christians, this does fall into a submitting to the governing authorities thing, and Lord willing, this too shall pass. That's really helpful, thank you brother. Okay, what do you think Susan, do you have anything to add? I know that in Oklahoma over there, there's not quite as many cases, but here where we're at, there's not as many cases either, but what do you think about that sister? Well I would agree with Justin that live streaming is not a substitute for the local gathering, and I know the psalmist when he couldn't get to church, he said his soul, he longed to be in the house of God, but he was prohibited for some reason, and so even Paul in prison said I longed to see you face to face, I want to impart a spiritual gift to you, so in Oklahoma we just now actually have had to close our doors, Sunday will be the first Sunday my husband will be live streaming, we've been able to meet until last Sunday, Attorney General didn't close the churches until this week, so this will be an experience for us. My concern is that already so many believers or so-called Christians are satisfied with sitting at home and live streaming or listening to a message in substitute for being with the body of Christ, so I have a grave concern for this time, I hope it's not long because if it is, I fear that some who are nominal Christians will vacate the gathering of the saints for sitting at home in their pajamas and eating a bowl of Cheerios while they watch church, so I like Justin, I hope it's short, I hope it's a very short time and I'm thankful that we have this opportunity to trust the Lord in the situation. Absolutely, I totally agree with that. What do you think Dwayne, do you have anything to add? Yeah, being in the middle I get the privilege of not messing up too bad because I got fear of cleaning up at the end, but what I think being a podcaster and someone that loves technology, I always tell people you never can replace the assembly and so I definitely piggyback on that, but I also look at the side of pastors, we have now more sound biblical pastors that are streaming. If you think about it before now, if you're on TV, most likely you was a false teacher unless it was Grace to You or a few other folks that actually made the TV, so now a plus side is you actually have more sound biblical teachers on live stream and looking into that medium and providing it for people that probably wouldn't have seen it any other way. I like that perspective, I didn't think of that. Thank you. So what do you think about that Doreen, what do you think about having to do the live stream? Well I just go to God is sovereign and he's got this and in his sovereign wisdom he had the internet set up when this all came to be. My husband and I went to online church last Sunday and it was actually lovely. I am going to Miss Communion Sunday this week. One of the things our church did which I want to suggest is we have a small group live Zoom meeting now. We started it on Wednesday so all of our small group is meeting in live time so it's still that flat screen but it is fellowship where we can talk to each other and learn from each other and learn from our pastor through the use of Zoom. Oh that's such a great idea, you should link that below. People want to use Zoom, it's really great. That's what we're using to record right now. Yeah absolutely, that's a really good point. I love that. Phil what's your take on this? Yeah well I agree with all of that. My fervent hope is that this is temporary and the shorter the better and I have mixed feelings on it. I think there are probably some people who will think in their heads, well online church is just as good, I can drink my coffee and sit in my pajamas and let's do this from now on. Those are the people whose spiritual state I would wonder about because part of the purpose of the church, in fact a significant part of the reason we gather weekly is for fellowship with one another and if you don't miss that, if your heart isn't hungry for that weekly fellowship, then I wonder where you're really at spiritually. So the upside of all of this is I think for those of us who genuinely know the Lord and the body of Christ and understand that the church is a body and it has to function that way, I think this will leave us hungry for that fellowship and hopefully this will be very short term and in the long run it will solidify the fellowship that we have when we do meet together. Also I think even during the quarantine it's possible to gather in small groups even if it's just a group of ten to watch the live stream and still enjoy some of that fellowship and I know that lots of people in our flock are finding ways to do that. It's actually been an encouragement to me to see how much people in my flock actually miss the fellowship that we enjoy. They don't come and our church is a teething church, that's obviously part of what we're known for. Our next question is about taking communion I think for communion and Sunday coming up and churches that do that maybe once a month or every week, what does that look like now that we're in quarantine? How about you Justin? Well communion of course is an ordinance and function of the church, the gathered body, so I don't see how you can do it at your home by yourself. I would not and I know some churches do it every week, some churches do it every few months, you know but I wouldn't do it at my house, just Kathy and me, I mean we don't read scripture together, we do all those things but not communion. As I said, hopefully this will pass relatively quickly and we can get back as a gathered body and do the things the church is supposed to do but that's not something you can do at your home in my humble home. Right, right. That's okay because we had a lot of people ask and so we were like we're going to add that to the panel, we're going to ask the panel for this question, do you want to speak? We haven't had to face that yet, this is our first Sunday but my husband being a pastor, I guess he and I could do it but I'm more like Justin, I would rather wait until the local gathering but I think Phil has a great point that we still can meet in groups of ten, tonight we're going to a wedding and there's going to be 11 of them. Oh that's so cool! But anyway, I would be very comfortable with my husband leading communion in our home with ten of our people in our church but I'm like with Justin, I hope it's short lived and we can get back to fellowship. That's really good, that's awesome. Do you want to lead? So I agree with both the panel in front of me, I think it definitely should be with the group but I will say with my word of faith, ten across the background, you know anytime you need a guy to move you need to do communion. And crackers around the house but no, I definitely agree with the panel as far as waiting for the group but I do want to kind of pose a question about doing it as a family because you know I have four kids, what would we think about that? Well I'm not qualified to answer this except as a student of the Bible and a seminary student but I'm not aware of anywhere in the Bible that says how often we have to do communion, we aren't commanded to do it. And I defer to the wisdom of Justin and Susan and Phil who's graced for you and their years of experience with this. All I know is it's going to feed my hunger for fellowship and returning to church. Absolutely, one of the things that I was so encouraged the most about here and hopefully we've got that audio fixed but keep letting us know, hopefully that fixed the problem. But one of the most encouraging things to me was to see all these people, they're on Twitter, they're on Facebook and they're talking about how they took this for granted and all the days that they were maybe like they accidentally slept in or they had a cold but they could have gone and they took for granted all those days that they could have been to church and now they're at home and they can't go and it's like it's encouraging to me to see all these believers that are like wow I didn't realize what a blessing I had. With this ability to just really go about my business and now that they can't it's been like something that they're really considering. I mean just the idea that now we have to miss this and I think that this is such a connection to some of the earlier church where there were times where they probably just were like you know wars and famine and all sorts of things like that they just couldn't meet and so I think that's really encouraging. I'm so thankful for all of your responses to hopefully everybody's saying this sounds way much better now so hopefully that fixed it I'm not going to touch anything I'm not going to put anything I'm not getting emails we're just going to keep going then in that case thank you guys for so much for your patience for that hopefully it continues to be we're all learning together you guys are so patient and wonderful I'm so glad that we're Christians and that you guys are giving us grace thanks guys okay so the next question.
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Why Is Semafor's Ben Smith Slobbering All Over Nikki Haley?
"Of course attacked my stepson and me because he works with DeSantis which the world whole knows but apparently they didn't but I make my own decisions I decide what I'm going to do you have adult children don't do what they want to do and that's okay you know I'm just thankful we don't have any kids that support Bernie Sanders you many callers come here and correctly say my god I've lost this kid didn't lost any of our four let me go on operations were initially supported stick me with you'll see how this works by twenty five million investment funding as well as revenue generated from advertising in person that investments you know their biggest initial investor was mr. producer Sam Bankman freed is in prison for ripping off god knows how many people that's inauspicious beginning I would say but this is 74 so their first investors in a 2023 semaphore raise $19 million in additional funding from investors to replace the money that they had received from Bankman free so what he was their largest external investor their largest external investor so that shows you some of their judgment now they don't put that up on their site they don't have a footnote so people quote semaphore go to semaphore they don't know these things there's more in March 23 semaphore launched its China and global business initiative quote -unquote a collaboration with the center for china and globalization ccga think tank registered as a non -government patient though its independence from the communist chinese party has been disputed semaphore has said the project's purpose is to offer quote a diversity of opinion unquote an alternative to washington's hawkish consensus on beijing now you know what that means of peace communist china for business the initiative would consist of regular events in new york and beijing and would foster dialogue between business leaders and increasing china u .s tensions now you see why they're promoting Nikki Haley if they don't present any of this on they the website don't reveal their connections they the don't other business model semaphore's partnership with the ccg has occasionally come under scrutiny semaphore's show justin smith said semaphore would go into the collaboration with eyes wide open that that it was under no illusion that chinese business leaders are other local groups operate he said they would
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We had four games that everybody thought were gonna be great and as it turned out, three of them were pretty good. One of which was a blowout. We'll get to all them here in a minute then of course we have our week 10 lines of five games that we're gonna focus on from our SI Sportsbook odds and then from there we also have the midseason awards that we have to get to as we are halfway home in the 2023 NFL season. Before we get to all that, let's welcome the other man of the tandem, Gil, what's going on man? How you been? Yeah, I'm doing well. Matt, as you know, I like to brag about my wins and complain about my losses and last week was a good week. I went 12 -2 with the picks but I am pretty disappointed that I betted against Joshua Dobbs. What a game, right? Unbelievable. I'm annoyed. You went 12 -2, I went 11 -3 and I feel like 11 -3 should have given me some bragging rights for the week and yet it did not happen. So I will say on the whole, our group, yourself, myself, Connor, Orr, Albert Breer, Mitch and John our editors and Claire, another editor of ours as well that does great work, I feel like everybody's picks have been really pretty good this year. There are some years you look at picks and go, oh my god, I'm barely above 500. Right now, I've got the sheep pulled up in front of me, so the best record is Albert who's 95 -41, went 11 -3 last week and then after that, Claire Kawana is right behind him with 92 wins and then in gold it says 87 wins and then it's myself, yourself, John and then Connor Orr at 75 and 65 pulling up the rear, so Connor's got to step up. Connor is bringing down the credibility of this entire group. That's not bad for last play, so 10 games over 500? His thing is, we all do our upset picks and he's done 50 upset picks. I think I've done like 16. So that's part of the reason, but yeah, the picks are good and of course people that want to can read those over at SI .com, we put them out every week. The editors are nice enough to put that together. All right, so last week, like I said, we had some great games. We had Chiefs Dolphins over in Germany and then we had Ravens, Seahawks, which we thought would be a great game, turned out to be a massacre, Late Window, Cowboys, Eagles, which was one of the wildest games I can remember seeing in quite some time and then of course we had Bills, Bengals at the end, the Sunday night game there and so like I said, we'll get to all those. Let's just start with how the day actually started. Over in Frankfort, Chiefs build up a 21 -0 lead on Miami. Miami comes back, makes it 21 -14. They had a couple drives at the end where they could have tied the game, even taken the lead if they went for two. They got into Kansas City territory both times, but both times ended up going backwards, lose the game. They dropped to 6 -3. Chiefs, of course, improved to 7 -2. Both teams go on their bye weeks. I'll So, let you set the stage here, Gilberto. What is it to you, is it more about the Dolphins that game or is it more about the Chiefs? It is more about the Dolphins because they can't beat a team with a winning record and don't tell me the Chargers are .500 and the Dolphins beat them. They barely got to .500, so I am concerned about the Dolphins, but I don't want to let the Chiefs off the hook, Matt, and I know you've been writing about this, but the Dolphins have been pretty average. It got to a point where now Mahomes is saying, yeah, we sting. We're pretty bad. Go talk about the defense. That defense is carrying us the entire season. You know what's kind of funny, Matt? This season, it feels like the team with the best defense might win the Super Bowl, and the Chiefs still have the best defense right now, it feels like, so it's kind of a weird irony, but you expect better from Mahomes and Kelsey, but the wide receivers, they can't create separation. And it wasn't for that awesome fumble, reverse play, whatever it was from Cook there. They would have probably lost a game there, but what's going on with the Dolphins offense? Averaging 17 points against the Bills, Eagles, and the Chiefs, so I go with the Dolphins there because I feel like the Chiefs could figure it out. It's halfway point in the season, they're just cruising by, and I think something will finally break out there, but I'll let you maybe talk about the Chiefs a little more. But the Dolphins, man, you're supposed to be the most explosive offense, highest scoring, and you can't even get a first down. It's like, do they have too many home run hitters? Too many touchdown makers? How about some chain movers? How about some first down people? How about some quick outs, and just get four or five yards, and everything just feels like a home run, and they don't adjust, and they don't kind of make end game adjustments because credit to the Chiefs, and Tyreek Hill said it too, they covered, there was great coverage on Tyreek Hill, so it's kind of one of those games where like, why not get a tight end that can help you out here? Why not get some guys that can make it easier? How about go to Raheem Oster a little more? He had like 12 carries, and he's averaging 7 .1 yards per carry, so I don't know what's going on with Mike McDaniel on two, and two was pretty bad in that second half there. Yeah, he had the touchdown to Cedric Wilson, but make some adjustments, Mike McDaniel, and stop going for the home run ball, Tua. Yeah, look, first of all, I agree, I think the Dolphins are the bigger storyline coming out of the game. Like, they've now played three really good teams, and they've lost all three of them, and they came back against Kansas City, but they were getting killed in that game too. They were 21 -0 midway through the third quarter, and frankly, if Chris Jones doesn't take one of the dumbest personal fouls you've ever seen, it's probably 21 -7, and we're having a different discussion. I think your point though, man, is good with the Dolphins in the sense of like, there's timing strung off. They're just dead in the water. They have no answer for it, and we've seen that now multiple times, this year and last year. Kansas City basically said, we're going to get up on the line of scrimmage, we're going to get our hands on Tyreek Hill, we're going to reroute them, we're going to cause problems. Look, who knows them better than the Chiefs, right? I mean, they know what can cause some issues, and they actually went back and watched practice tape of a couple years ago to try to figure out how to stop them. They went back and watched how they worked against him in team drills and practice, and tried to figure out some things, and it obviously worked. But from the Chiefs' angle of this, listen, the offense is a disaster, okay? They had 46 yards in the second half of the game in a turnover. But they're 7 -2 in the number one seed in the AFC because the defense is incredible, and they're just shutting people down left and right. If you go and look this year at teams that have played the Chiefs, nobody's thrown for 300 yards. Kirk Cousins came the closest. He was up in the higher 200s because he threw a million passes. But if you look at Gough's numbers, 253 yards, one touchdown, which was a good game. That was without Chris Jones that week. Trevor Lawrence, they didn't score a touchdown. He threw 41 times for 216 yards. Justin Fields threw for 99 yards. Zach Wilson, of all people, had one of the best days against him, 245 and two touchdowns. That game. wild And then you had Cousins, who went for 284 and two touchdowns on 47 attempts. Russell Wilson threw for 95 yards one game, and in the other game, the game that they won, he threw for 114. These teams, two I didn't throw for 200 yards. Nobody's throwing for yardage against them. They're second in the league in sacks, the first in pressure rate. They've got two elite corners in McDuffie and Sneet, and so, look, the question with Kansas City is obvious. Can this offense get going? Because if the offense gets going, they're probably the best team in the NFL. I mean, if they get even borderline top -10 production out of that offense, forget it. They have the week now to scout. I was texting with some people around the team, and I think there's a general thought of like, look, it's a bunch of little things that are throwing off the whole thing. Question is, how many of those little things can you fix in the next couple of months? The good news is you have Mahalem, you have Kelsey, you've got a good offensive line, you've got Andy Reid. The bad news is they have you and me at receiver. So, I mean, that's the question. My guess? They'll fix it to an extent. I don't think it's going to be a unit that you'll look at and go, oh my God, they're incredible. I think it's probably going to be a top -10 unit right around there at the end of the year. They're in the mix, but yeah, I agree, man. The Dolphins are definitely the thing that you'll look at right now, and the team you'll look at right now and go, all right, you're going to make the playoffs, but what are you going to do when you get there? Are you going to beat somebody good, or is there going to be a one -and -done? Matt, let me ask a quick question, because you watch this team closely, and I think I watch them good enough because they're always on prime time, but all these analytics people are saying, look at the EPA, look at the DVOA. They're top five in offense in all these categories, and I'm like, I get it. You keep showing me the numbers, but I keep watching the games, and the wide receivers are not that great. They're not scoring points. They had nine points against Denver, so I don't know what it is. Maybe when you said disaster, I'm like, okay, cool, because I was trying to play it safe. Maybe they're average because there's something here that I'm missing with the DVOA and the EPA. They're a disaster by their standards. By anyone else's standards, yeah, they're probably still an above -average offense, but by their standards, they're a train wreck. I will say this. People forget it because they won the Super Bowl last year. They were somewhat of a train wreck offensively the first half of last year, too. They had a bunch of games last year. They lost to the Colts last year. They muddled through a Chargers game that they ended up winning because of a pick -six that went 99 yards the other way. They struggled offensively against the Bills. They ended up beating the Raiders on a Monday night last year, but they were down 17 -0, and they needed to come back in that game. They were not good offensively for stretches of last season, and then they're them. In January, they cranked it up, and that was it. Even on one ankle, Mahomes did enough to win. But this has been the year before that. They were 3 -4 at the beginning of the year. They couldn't score a point in that season. That was the year Mahomes played, again, by his standards, not by anybody else's, but by his standards. He played poorly. You go to 2021, and they lost in the AFC title game. They were 3 -4, and then people say, oh, well, then they came out of it. They did in terms of that they won games. Their point totals after that 3 -4 start, they won 20 -17, 13 -7. Then they blew the Raiders out, scored 41, 19 -9, 22 -9. The last couple of years, they've had stretches like this, but by their standards, they're a disaster offensively right now. By the NFL's standards, they're probably somewhere between 10 -12th in the league offensively. So, got to take it for what it's worth. Yeah. All right. Let's get to the next game here. The Bengals and the Bills will go right to Sunday Night Football, speaking of a team that by their standards is an offensive disaster, despite what EPA will tell you. I'm not here to bag on the analytics, guys. I will tell you this. I'm a big eye test guy. You watch the Bills. My eye test, I don't care that they're fourth or whatever in EPA offensively. They have not been good over the last month and change. I don't think there's any way to say that otherwise. They go to Cincinnati. They made it a little bit closer at the end, but they were down 24 -10 with a few minutes left. They score a touchdown. They get the two, but they can't get the ball back. The Bengals now, 5 -3. Winners of four straight playing like we expected them to play at the beginning of the year. The Bills are 5 -4. It has been a struggle for them. They started the year 3 -1. Since then, they're 2 -3 going in the other direction. They have a very hard schedule. We'll get to that in a moment. What was your main takeaway from that Bengals -Bills game? Just the difference in quarterback play between Joe Burrow and Josh Allen and how to cover that game. I wrote about it. I kept seeing Joe Burrow moving around the pocket and extending plays. Then I look at the boxer, I'm like, wait, he has four rushing yards? I thought he ran for a bunch of yards. I know he had that one where he had the first down kind of signal. It's just when pressure comes, he knows how to move. It's smooth. It's not like he has to speed it up. He just says, okay, cool. You're right there, but I'm still going to do what I have to do and just extend plays. Matt, when it's Drew Sample and Tanner Hudson and Erskine Jr., Trenton Irwin, these guys are making plays. Then you look at Josh Allen, when the pressure comes, it looks difficult. It's chaotic. He has to kind of see what's out there and then, okay, force a throw or miss a throw. I get the Bengals defense is better than the Bills defense, so Burrow had maybe an easier time, but there was pressure. He was fighting pressure. I get it. The second there is not as good there, but it just seems harder for Josh Allen.
Ethereum Daily
A highlight from Prisma Finance Hits $300 Million TVL
"Welcome to your Ethereum news roundup, here is your latest for Thursday November 2nd, 2023. Prisma Finance deploys its Prisma token, the Argon Association dissolves, the EF JavaScript team releases Ethereum JS updates, and Uniswap turns 5. All this and more starts right now. Prisma Finance, an LST -backed stablecoin protocol, reached over $300 million in total value locked within a day of its Prisma token launch. A significant portion, amounting to $110 million worth of wrapped STE, was deposited by Justin's son. The protocol offers Prisma token rewards to users who mint its MKUSD stablecoin using LST collaterals. Users who opt -in to lock their Prisma tokens for half a year gain access to boosted yields and lock weight for voting on where to direct the missions. Prisma tokens can also be staked on convex finance. Prisma also increased its deposit limits, which have all been reached with the exception of RE. The Aragon Project is dissolving the Aragon Association, an entity that manages the project's $200 million treasury. As part of the dissolution, a portion of the treasury will be distributed to holders of the Argon's native ANT token. ANT holders will have a one -year window to exchange their tokens for a set rate of 0 .00253 ETH per token. The redemption rate is currently equivalent to about $4 .55 per token. The ANT token will no longer hold any functional purpose moving forward. The project had scrapped plans to establish the Aragon DAO. Instead, Aragon intends to allocate the remaining treasury funds towards a new entity to continue working on product development. The Ethereum Foundation JavaScript team released a series of updated Ethereum .js library versions. The updates include support for the Holsky testnet, support for the latest Dankoon developments, a new EVM profiller, enhanced EVM performance, and client improvements. The Ethereum .js transaction library has also been refactored to support transaction types in a backward -compatible way. A new blob -based fee opcode is also included in the release, which allows the EVM to return the blob -based fee of the current block it's executing. And lastly, today marks the fifth anniversary of the deployment of Uniswap v1. On November 2nd of 2018, Uniswap deployed as one of the first AMMs on Ethereum. The initial development of the DEX was funded through a grant from the Ethereum Foundation. Uniswap v1 is still live today with just over $8 million in total value locked. There have since been three iterations of the protocol, with a fourth planned for deployment next year. In other news, Coinbase releases its Q3 report, OpenSea Pro deploys on Polygon, and Kraken supports zk -sync era deposits and withdrawals. This has been a roundup of today's top news stories in Ethereum. You can support this podcast by subscribing and following us on Twitter at ethdaily. Also subscribe to our newsletter at ethdaily .io. Thanks for listening, we'll see you tomorrow.
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A highlight from Prisma Finance Hits $300 Million TVL
"Welcome to your Ethereum news roundup, here is your latest for Thursday November 2nd, 2023. Prisma Finance deploys its Prisma token, the Argon Association dissolves, the EF JavaScript team releases Ethereum JS updates, and Uniswap turns 5. All this and more starts right now. Prisma Finance, an LST -backed stablecoin protocol, reached over $300 million in total value locked within a day of its Prisma token launch. A significant portion, amounting to $110 million worth of wrapped STE, was deposited by Justin's son. The protocol offers Prisma token rewards to users who mint its MKUSD stablecoin using LST collaterals. Users who opt -in to lock their Prisma tokens for half a year gain access to boosted yields and lock weight for voting on where to direct the missions. Prisma tokens can also be staked on convex finance. Prisma also increased its deposit limits, which have all been reached with the exception of RE. The Aragon Project is dissolving the Aragon Association, an entity that manages the project's $200 million treasury. As part of the dissolution, a portion of the treasury will be distributed to holders of the Argon's native ANT token. ANT holders will have a one -year window to exchange their tokens for a set rate of 0 .00253 ETH per token. The redemption rate is currently equivalent to about $4 .55 per token. The ANT token will no longer hold any functional purpose moving forward. The project had scrapped plans to establish the Aragon DAO. Instead, Aragon intends to allocate the remaining treasury funds towards a new entity to continue working on product development. The Ethereum Foundation JavaScript team released a series of updated Ethereum .js library versions. The updates include support for the Holsky testnet, support for the latest Dankoon developments, a new EVM profiller, enhanced EVM performance, and client improvements. The Ethereum .js transaction library has also been refactored to support transaction types in a backward -compatible way. A new blob -based fee opcode is also included in the release, which allows the EVM to return the blob -based fee of the current block it's executing. And lastly, today marks the fifth anniversary of the deployment of Uniswap v1. On November 2nd of 2018, Uniswap deployed as one of the first AMMs on Ethereum. The initial development of the DEX was funded through a grant from the Ethereum Foundation. Uniswap v1 is still live today with just over $8 million in total value locked. There have since been three iterations of the protocol, with a fourth planned for deployment next year. In other news, Coinbase releases its Q3 report, OpenSea Pro deploys on Polygon, and Kraken supports zk -sync era deposits and withdrawals. This has been a roundup of today's top news stories in Ethereum. You can support this podcast by subscribing and following us on Twitter at ethdaily. Also subscribe to our newsletter at ethdaily .io. Thanks for listening, we'll see you tomorrow.
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A highlight from AI in Healthcare with Adam Odessky, Sensley
"Start the proverbial stream and here we are this is indeed yes yes yes as it is right now hello ladies and gentlemen boys and girls here we go welcome welcome welcome to VUX world I'm your host Kane Sims and I am with today Adam Odeski from Sensely. Adam hello. Hello Kane how are you? Good to connect. Good to connect long follower time first -time caller that's me to you not you to me I've been following you for a long time definitely definitely yeah it's I'm so glad that we can connect and definitely definitely appreciative of your of your time and we're gonna jump in in just one second but very firstly before we do that I just want to quickly give a shout out to everyone who's tuning in whether you're on the podcast whether you're on LinkedIn YouTube wherever you are we are doing webinar a on it's it's a fortnight it's probably two weeks away now depending on when you listen to this but it will be on the is it the 9th let me just double check my dates the 9th of November save the day 9th of November and what it is is we will be joined by wisdom we did a webinar with them previously we had a look at that tool we had a look at the conversational analytics components there this time we're going to be taking you through a framework for chatbot improvement and this is the whole kind of theme for this is patronum expecto summoning the majesty of chatbot improvement if you in fact if you're a Harry Potter fan you'll like the the theme for this one but even if you're not Harry Potter fan doesn't really matter because it's not magic it is a proven framework it's a step -by -step process and we're gonna walk through some case studies and some examples of how you can first find the things that need your attention so you're not working on the wrong things you make sure you're working on things that are moving the needle what kind of things can you do to remedy it how do you track improvements over time and how do you make sure that your chatbot is constantly delivering value to to the business so if you are interested in joining that you can go to V UX dot world forward slash events or you can go to the V UX dot world website and the events tab there and feel free to enroll and join and we will see you next Thursday alright as I said thank you Adam for for joining me well let's let's kick off let's kick off with with yourself first of all and we'll get into sense because I know since he's been around for a long time actually so tell you tell us tell us a bit about yourself and how you how you kind of got involved with essentially oh yeah sure so I've actually been in the avatar or the voice user interface world for a very long time my first job out of college was actually with the Oracle voice lab in Chicago where we were building enterprise this is back in 2001 I guess I'm trying to kind of figure out I'm getting old I feel pretty young feel like a kid still but I guess I'm pretty old now but back into back in the early 2000s I could say my first job out of college was with the Oracle voice lab and the goal of the Oracle voice lab was to build enterprise voice applications that would sit on top of the Oracle application server so things like email and calendar and files things like that sort of like what Siri does today or the Apple you know the smartphones do today we're building in voice with voice applications and the goal for establishing the Oracle voice lab and these applications was basically one executive at Oracle who wanted to listen to his email on his commute in Silicon Valley from like his his place in Santa Cruz up to Redwood City so he really wanted to like listen to his emails as he was driving he's like okay well let's let's establish this lab so we can build these voice applications like what I have to do for the day and my emails from the last night and my first sort of I guess claim to fame or one of actually the first applications that I wrote was voice access to email where it was based sort of a voice made a voicemail model and it's interesting with the voicemail model because back I guess voicemails you can just tap and listen to voicemails today but you know quite early before the way the way you would listen to voicemails is that it wouldn't go from the the latest voicemail that you have down to the earliest unread voicemail it would start at the earliest unread voicemail that you have and go up to the latest so more chronological order and so that was the pattern that we used for building voice access to email we wanted it to be just like voicemail and that was kind of a tricky algorithm to figure out which which of your emails is the most unread one you know the earliest unreading you have so I had to like build this application to sort of start with that earliest unread email and they had maybe other unread email scattered throughout your inbox but the earliest that was in chronological or in like pattern order that also follows other unread emails all the way up to the top and we use kind of a it was like a Genesis platform or the voice genie platform IVR platform at the time to to basically use voice XML right and I was a voice ex developer I started out as a voice XML developer to to build these to build these applications and besides email I built you know calendar and you can listen to like you you know the appointments so you have for the day and and you know in file so it's kind of an early version of a voice based assistant digital assistant you can you can compose new emails and you would use your voice to basically compose the email so we didn't have great speech -to -text technology back then so the the emails would come as with a voice with an audio attachment basically of your recording but we had you know a large grammar for and we had recognition to like basically say the name of the person that you're trying to email so that was kind of early experience one of the earliest they think experiences in building these kind of voice only IVR applications for enterprise right for personal information for information management that that employees could use whatever they were away from the phone so that was sort of the start of my career that's how I got into this space building these applications later on I actually worked on a real voicemail product that was based on email except the emails were actual kind of deemed as voicemails you can just listen to your voicemails that used email servers to basically be transferred around and later on I went after that I went to work for for tell me networks which was later acquired by Microsoft and there's another example of a similar thing though wasn't it an IVR based assistant that's right that's right and tell me networks had a very actually large enterprise business as well and this is where I got a chance to work with big companies building both inbound and outbound IVR applications for their customer service so we worked with you know companies like United Airlines and E trade a bunch of a bunch of these big names insurance companies like Humana etc and I always had a I had a kind of a niche for health care you know on the my family had a lot of kind of health care issues over the years my grandma especially had heart failure and it was interesting I was so experienced with these customer service IVR applications but if you look at you know the way doctors work the way hospitals work they hardly use any of these kind of technologies to communicate with their patients it was always difficult to get a hold of a doctor was difficult to book an appointment and especially people with chronic conditions you know they they hardly ever followed up and you know the way the better these conditions is for you to check like you check various vital signs like blood pressure and weight and you know other things like glucose levels if you're diabetic and I always like I wondered why is the healthcare industry so far behind you know travel and transportation for instance or insurance or you know hospitality and those are the industries I was mainly dealing at tell me and Microsoft and so that's kind of that itch became sort of a passion of mine to build something that was similar to what I was building in you know it tell me in it oracle but specifically focused on the healthcare industry to do these kind of IVR outbound follow -ups and you know conversations where somebody can report something new or report their symptoms and that's sort of the that led me to eventually start building out Sensly to focus on that part of the industry which I thought was very much underserved but at the same time the need was I thought higher than and you know both the social need and the financial need you know was it was higher than any other sort of enterprise applications I've ever worked on and that was sort of the focus that I started the path that I started going on which eventually led to creating Sensly and then here we are yeah here we are the rest is history so they say that's really interesting that the the stuff from from before they're kind of like the tell me stuff in that was that using like keyword recognition was there like it and it was that one of the first sort of like intent based NLU systems like what kind of stuff was that using and and how did that inform what you wanted to do when you started building Sensly yeah so back then tell me and a bunch of other companies in the space this is around you know 2005 2010 I would say that that period in time that was still heavily using voice XML as a language for creating these applications the way voice XML works it's very similar to HTML where you would specify these tags of prompts that you want the you know the voice bot or the IVR system to say and then you'd have these grant would call them grammars back then I haven't used that term I haven't heard that term now being used in a while but you would build grammars of the things that you wanted to recognize and now I guess these are called intense and the way you build grammars there's a bunch of these grammar specifications like GSR and and some other ones but they kind of involve both sort of specifying the kind of keywords right that you want the system the speech recognition system to to listen for and some of these can be very large you can have a very large data set of keywords and then you could also specify like slot fill so which which keywords or which words or which phrases I need to be assigned to a particular slot and that's kind of a definition of an intent right you have a bunch of these kind of phrases and patterns and there's a lot of these pattern matching type of scripting involved into figuring out like these particular patterns and these kind of patterned orders is what a person has to say in order to fill this particular slot and that's the intent definition I think is much more broad now and you can specify a lot more things you'd be able to specify before but you know the GSR and the other kind of grammar definitions that then we're pretty sophisticated the the the speech recognition systems obviously weren't as sophisticated because you didn't have this speech -to -text translation that you have now and the matching of the speech recognition system was specifically done on these grammars you have to pass it into the speech recognition system specifically what you're looking for and it'll tell you whether there's a match or not now what it does is obviously translated to text and then you can do a lot more more specific and more customized matching on that text to figure out exactly what you know what you're looking for what the intent should match to what do you think because that because voice XML not very many companies use voice XML anymore don't do they where our CTO Justin he was saying that there's a lot of functionality that voice XML had that now doesn't kind of exist like what was how is there anything from your perspective being lost in the kind of transition to that more sort of speech recognition translated to text pass it off to a to a you system and like is there yeah is there anything that you think it's been sort of lost there was any benefits to it over and above I think the specification of how you would listen for particular types of phrases or particular kinds of intentions was much kind of easier to imagine for a developer to kind of figure out like this these are the kinds of things that I'm I'm listening for but I don't think there's anything that's been lost specifically I think there's just more features that were more obvious that made people think about how to develop an application like the these grammar specifications so they'll turn out a lot like what exactly this is do I want from this and it's harder to do that now with just speech to text where you're getting like a text string the other thing that you know in text -to -speech you use SSML which is a markup language to specify like the prosody or how the language or how something is pronounced or how something is spoken and I see fewer and fewer companies and developers using the power of SSML to specify how to pronounce specific specific things they kind of rely on the text -to -speech engines to just give them what they want when they give it the text without thinking about how that text should be spoken but the SSML inside voice XML kind of provided sort of an obvious way and made the developer think or the designer think about specifically not just you know what what the text should be spoken according to design but how the text should be spoken what kind of tonality to use what kind of prosody to use where to put in the specific like excitement or emotional cues we do that quite a bit at Sensley because you know healthcare conversations by nature have to be empathetic or we want them to be as empathetic as possible to reassure patients or to reassure you know people that everything's gonna be okay and we use quite a bit of that's a smell in our work but I don't see a lot of designers well building voice applications do to these things today because I don't think a lot of them actually know that SS this even though you can and most text -to -speech engines you can embed us SSML inside the prompts but they're just not well known yeah I agree and then that's that's with a voice user interface all you have is what it sounds like so like this is ML is a crucial sort of design tool to make sure that you can create the experience in a way that people expect you know so I definitely agree yeah yeah there's such an underutilization of SSML I think the Alexa community that's when I first come across since it actually it was when I was kind of like you know really tracking the Alexa movement we were building out and designing Alexa skills and Google actions and stuff and that I think Amazon did a pretty decent enough job of kind of you know educating people about SSML but the the community now is there's people come from absolutely all over the place some people come for messaging now they're kind of doing voice some people come from the contact center kind of like getting into it that way and so I agree there's definitely a gap there in people's one maybe is understanding and to certainly usage of SSML and it doesn't make a huge difference and if you look at the rate then you know the ratings for how people have people complete conversations what people actually think of the of the you know that the voice bot those things really make a difference as far as like judgment as far as appreciation as far as empathy and connection I think those are important tools to build really high quality voice applications definitely so so so you you left what was then Microsoft then you you think you are you identified that there's a an opportunity in healthcare you had the idea for sense Lee where did that kind of begin it was 2013 so it was a while ago so what were the first kind of few years like of getting essentially going yeah so since Lee actually started in the orange voice lab or the orange the orange lab or is a large telecommunications company you may know based in France yeah in the UK as well used to be France telecom and so I worked at the local research lab here in San Francisco that's where I built the first prototype of the avatar having conversations with patients that was the original sort of goal of my project at that point in time avatars only existed on the web via Adobe Flash I remember that yeah it was important you know at that point there were no avatars for the mobile phone right down to the kind of for avatar creation tools so what I did was this is like the hack at the time I made Adobe Flash work on on the iPhone and was able to make it the avatar work on both Android and and the iPhone and the first sort of applications were kind of a symptom checking a symptom checking tool and that's when you know like I displayed this tool at like like an event one of the events here in San Francisco it was health 2 .0 and I got like a standing ovation based on this avatar that like this talking avatar nurse that that I built as a demo and orange got really excited and they allowed me to spin out the company and that's what became sense Lee and that's how since we started in 2013 he knows actually a spin -off from orange and the first application that we built was the symptom checking application that was able to essentially that we marketed it as a virtual nurse a virtual avatar nurse that you can get on your smartphone and you can tell it what your symptoms are and it would basically navigate and ask a few questions navigate you to the appropriate place for care for care and we we we started the company we joined a couple accelerators there was our initial kind of fundraising is that we got a couple hundred thousand dollars for from alchemist accelerator and a few investors and our first big client that we landed it was actually the NHS which you may be familiar with the National Health Center here in the UK oddly enough we're a u .s.
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A highlight from Christ , the Fulfillment of the Law
"I want to invite you, if you have your copy of God's word, to please turn with me to the fifth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew, Matthew chapter five. I want to ask if you are able to please stand for the reading of the word of God. This is Matthew five, verses 17 and 18, this is Jesus speaking. Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not in iota, not a dot will pass from the law until all is accomplished. You join me in prayer. Father God, Father as we turn to your word tonight, as we seek to worship you through it, as we seek to be blessed through your word dear God, Father we ask that you would give us the grace needed. Father we ask that you would give us the help and the presence of the Holy Spirit in our meeting tonight. Above all dear God, let us not focus on ourselves or worldly things but let us focus solely upon you. In the name of your beloved son we pray, amen. Thank you, you may be seated. Although we are not sure exactly when he was born, the most likely sometime towards the end of the first century, his teaching would have a tremendous impact in the early church and he would influence many. Although most Christians have never heard his name, he was at one point one of the most infamous men alive. And even though many of the early church fathers would write against him and oust him as a heretic, sadly his teaching still manifests itself to this day. Albeit through a much sneakier and more hidden means, I am referring to a man by the name of Marcion. Now who is Marcion? Marcion was a sort of a gnostic influence, a deceptic teacher in the second century who was excommunicated from the church in about AD 144, died sometime around 160 give or take. What is Marcion well known for? Well he is most well known for making a gross and inappropriate distinction between the Old and New Testaments. Now a fuller discussion of his theology would take up more time than I intend to give here tonight, but essentially Marcion taught that the Old and the New Testaments were so different, so distinct from one another that there in reality existed two gods. The creator God of the Jewish people and of the Old Testament and then the God who sent Jesus. Marcion believed that the God of the Old Testament was cruel, was harsh, was unloving, was full of violence, but that the God of the New Testament was good, he was loving and full of peace. Marcion would eventually reject the authority of the entire Old Testament and the vast majority of the New accepting only 10 of Paul's letters and an edited version of the Gospel of Luke. Now none of Marcion's own writings exist in our day, survive to this day, but we know about him because many of the early church fathers such as Justin Martyr, Tertullian wrote vehemently against him in opposition. And although Marcionism itself in its full extent is no longer seen as a threat to the Christian church, nevertheless in the minds of many people alive today there is this idea that the Old Testament God is mean and cruel while the New Testament Jesus is soft and tender and nice, when in reality God was no less loving in the Old Testament and no less wrathful in the New. It's the same God, one God. And so this is something we seriously need to contend with and we seriously need to address. In our generation sadly there has been a move to distance and to separate the Old Testament and its relevance from the church.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from INDIA KICKS OFF BULL RUN! (Bitcoin To $125,000)
"Today is a great day to discover crypto. We got a lot of stories. And, guys, I am so excited for the markets right now, and I'll tell you why I'm so excited. Someone pointed out a very interesting aspect to me. We are a 2X away from all -time highs, folks. Let that soak in for a second. A 2X away from all -time highs. I know we've been trading sideways two, three days. This might be your opportunity to jump in because we're seeing a lot of global adoption. We got a lot of stories. We're going to be talking about India today and why India is important for crypto adoption, Bitcoin adoption, the global currency we all know, love, and respect. I'm talking about my orange friend, Bitcoin. I'm going to rotate it, and we carved in the B. Oh, wait, no, we haven't done it yet, but we're going to do it soon, folks. Folks, we're going to talk about Bitcoin already in a fifth bull run. People are saying a potential $125 ,000 price target, and that thing might happen sooner than you think. Now, how do you feel about the $125 ,000, and why is India and some of these other countries so important for Bitcoin adoption, Joshua? What are you thinking here? Yeah, so, of course, I'm going to pull this up actually on the screen here in just a second, but India, guys, a lot of you have heard about them because the whole BRICS narrative popping up. They're one of the largest GDP countries in the BRICS nations. It's going to be Brazil, Russia, China, India, and South Africa. And obviously, guys, India is set to overtake Japan as the third largest economy by 2030. Now, just this month, their inflation dropped by over an entire percent. Now, I wish this was happening in the United States because we are looking to be a lot more stickier. Their inflation is definitely, yes, above us a little bit, but if you guys didn't know, India's stocks have been actually performing very, very well. They've gone stagnant about these last two to three weeks, but over the summer, moving into August, September, and October, there was a lot of money from India's economy just flooding into these small cap altcoins. So, with the article that Deezy is going to break down here in just a little bit, this could be a huge reason in why we're seeing them start to turn to new altcoins and pump that market up like Solana, Ethereum, and et cetera. So we're seeing this growth, this impact come out of India's economy. We have them actually now focusing on semiconductors, which I'll show you in this, I pulled up one of these articles. I got a couple up here just a second. But this is where a lot of people are starting to project and analysts and economists are saying, hey, is India the next China? Because right now on the projection by 2030, they're going to be overtaking Japan. But right now they're working with the United States to perhaps become the largest semiconductor producer in the globe, especially with all of the uncertainty around the CHIPS Plan 4 Act that was released by the Biden administration pushing semiconductors out. So this is bullish for India's economy. This shows signs that they're, one, looking into a lot more tech stocks. They're starting to get a little bit more lively in their stocks. And this is going to flood right over into the article, Deezy, if you have it pulled up for Solana. Yeah, we're going to roll into CoinMarketCap first, look at the market watch here. But I have a hot theory, hot theory on India. I think it might happen before 2030 and it's going to be for two reasons and two reasons mainly. One is going to be power, energy. They're really, really into nuclear. Then we have the tragic event that happened on Japan's coastline around a decade ago. And so they're a little bit understandably hesitant on nuclear technology. So as India grows and really expands their nuclear capabilities, probably looking at China as an example, that's really going to push them forward. The second factor is going to be the birth rates, especially when you look at Japan's birth rate compared to India's birth rate is very, very different ends on the spectrum right there. So I think we're going to accelerate like 2028 is going to be Deezy's prediction here. All right, let's get into CoinMarketCap or yeah, yeah, today we're looking at CoinMarketCap. The CoinMarketCap is down, however, but we are still up above $125 trillion. We have 24 -hour volume. It's a little, let me move it for you folks so you can see here, we're moving, we're moving, we're moving. Live adjustments happening. All right, so we go to the CoinMarketCap, you can see here, 24 -hour volume down 25%. It was very hot yesterday. Bitcoin dominance, 53%, gas also cooled down, is down to 25 Gwei right now. And then the fear and greed, we're above 69, coming in at 71. But now it's time to look at some prices. All right, you know what, I was so excited, I was so bullish. But now Bitcoin's below $34 ,000. So maybe I'm just going to flip bears, folks. I'm just kidding. It's a little bit of a pullback. We're kind of hanging around in this, some are saying maybe a Bart Simpson's forming, some are saying a bullpen. We're going to be looking at the charts later, don't you worry. Also, we have ETH cooling down a little bit. Both Bitcoin and ETH down about 0 .4%, BNB up about 2 % here. Solana, we are going to be talking about Solana in relation to India very shortly. It is up 2 % here. And TonCoin, but let's just go ahead and look at the exciting movements here. This is what everyone wants to see. NIO is up almost 18 % today, Injective up 12%. And then Floki, Floki is back into the top 100. So we might be seeing some Floki. TJ, what is your thoughts on Floki? I don't really have a lot of thoughts on Floki, but it is interesting seeing NIO moving because I... Okay, what's your history with NIO? It's an older coin. Yeah, NIO is just an old, you know, a lot of people think of it back in 2017 as the Chinese Ethereum. It makes me think of Justin Sun is actually what it makes me think about. So there's Tron, there's NIO. But I noticed a lot of things, you know, Jestland was moving today, which was interesting. A lot of things in the Justin Sun ecosystem had some movements there, which is just interesting to me, you know. But it's very fascinating when you see a lot of these very old projects start to move seemingly out of nowhere. I know we've got some other projects that had some big pumps that we're going to talk about a little bit later, potential Amazon partnership and some of that stuff. So yeah, seeing NIO moving is interesting. Injective still pulling back from, you know, where it was earlier in the week. Look at these weekly pumps for these two coins. Injective up 50%, Floki is doubled. ThorChain is up almost 50%, DYDX up 30%. We have some serious weekly movers here. NEAR Protocol is up, Flow is up. You know, TJ was talking about NEAR yesterday. IMX is up as well. I was talking about that one. All right, let's look at the biggest losers. Now we're on a new page. It's no longer CoinGecko. It's now on CoinMarketCap. The streak will discontinue, will not have any of my coins on here, and I guarantee it as a possibility. All right. We have TonCoin. I don't know how. God dang it, Mina. All right. Then it's Bitcoin SV is down almost 4%, Mina Protocol down 2 .5%, Arbitrum, Aave, and HBAR. What are your thoughts on HBAR? Oh, I got quite the history with Henera. But Henera is one of my actually top choices in 2021. I got in very, very early, so respectively made a lot of gains off of it. But you know, HBAR just over time, we've seen a lot of the inflation in their tokenomics with their release kind of be based on how bullish the market is. So if the token price is up, the team is releasing more tokens into the market and diluting a little bit more. So unfortunately - So we can see here circulating supply is 67 % for HBAR. You can kind of maybe see just the cutoff right there. So here again - Yeah. And they're pulling up. And so that dilution was coming in. And so unfortunately HBAR was one of the contenders that did not receive all -time highs again in that second cycle of our last bull run. So just from a volume perspective, I definitely would like to see a lot more price action come from probably the marketing and talking about their governance council and actually probably doing some more public release and statements of their partners that they have. But I do like HBAR, but some people don't because it's a little bit more towards a centralized aspect of B2B. And so it's kind of like you got to choose between that middle ground. All right. Yeah, it looks like a range. If you got in early, you're looking pretty good. You got in under a nickel. It went all the way up to $0 .50. You can kind of see it right here. I don't know if you could zoom in and up there. And then now coming in around a nickel. So if it reaches all -time high, previous all -time high, you're looking at a 10X there. So I know there's a lot of HBARbarians in the chat. All right. Let's talk about India. Let's talk about India's relationship to crypto. Can India propel us into that super cycle that TJ thinks we might have? Can India propel us to the six -digit Bitcoin? I certainly think it is possible. But first, what is India like? All right. So there's a new altcoin, maybe not a new altcoin, but now Solana is reaching Ethereum's level of popularity in India, says analysts here. Ethereum has long held the prominent position. However, recent data indicates that Solana is increasingly becoming the preferred choice in various global markets, with India being the noteworthy example here. Further submitting its position in the Indian ecosystem, is there marketing tailored specifically to resonate with Indian developers here so they know, hey, how do you get your crypto to really, really have a large impact on the world? One element is going to be community. The other element is going to be the developers. What can the coin actually do? What can the chain actually do? It looks like they have a pretty smart strategy by targeting the developers. In that nation of 1 .3 billion people, if I'm not mistaken, the accompanying chart reinforces this narrative from the latter part of 2023. It's a notable uptick in Solana's trajectory. The SARP ascent, particularly in the last quarter, indicates not just increased interest, but also a growing trust in stability and potential on the return here. You can see the chart right there. Yeah, nice little breakout of a lot of these moving averages. I believe a 200 and a 50 right there. So I'm feeling pretty good about Solana at these prices. It is hot. It might need to cool down. Maybe it's going to come back down to mid -20s, potentially even low 20s if we get really bears for a short term. But Solana, I definitely think you're going to be looking good if you hold it today and sell a year and a half from now. So why sell up 44 %? Real quick, we did have a question from the chat, PLSuperChat, appreciate that. He's asking for your thoughts on CRO, Kronos, or I guess that's crypto .com, Kronos chain. Any opinions? Yeah, you know, I kind of gave my broad thoughts on it. I think it's going to be a great retail pump. So you know, maybe you want to get in early. I don't know when the exchange tokens are going to pump, but I do think the exchange tokens will pump. I think the FTX thing and you know, it's maybe kind of dampen the mood for a bit. It was a hot narrative about a year and a half ago, crypto .com is probably the best domain name in crypto. And so if you're a new person, you're coming in, you see it, you're watching some sports, you've seen crypto .com arena for five years, four years at this point, however long they've had the name rights, and you're thinking about downloading some, you're probably going to download Coinbase or crypto .com. And then you see, imagine you're new again, you remember when you're new, it doesn't matter what APY is, it doesn't matter what the yield, it doesn't matter where the yield comes from, you just see free money. Oh, if I buy 10 of these tokens next month, I might have 11 of these tokens. And so I think a lot of people are going to gravitate towards it. I just don't know when we get the exchange pump in relation to the retail market. I'll take the inverse. I, I'm saying I used to love exchange coins because of what was the progress we saw with BNB. I was thinking FTT would be similar, was thinking, you know, CRO could do similar things. At this point, with all the regulation coming out of the EU and the US, I don't know that exchange coin niche is the best place for this next bull run. Not saying it's impossible for it to pump. So if you're all in on CRO, you know, don't hate me. I'm not saying, you know, you have no shot, you know, there's always a chance in crypto, but there's so many different options out there right now. To me, I'm looking other places other than exchange coins. I guess I feel like there'll be a lot of pumps, TJ, you know, I feel like there would be a DeFi pump. There'd be a gaming pump. There'd be, you know, X, Y, and Z pump. Do you think exchanges will miss out on one of the pumps? You know, just like we saw AI pump and some of these other ones, will there be an exchange token pump? I see. My opinion is no, not like we've seen in the past because all of the heat with the regulators and basically they're using, they're targeting exchanges with exchange coins. So it's going to be tough for them to pump it. Follow up. Does that apply to BNB? Not as much BNB. BNB is a little bit more outside, but I do think there's a lot of pressure on it. So they're going to be targeted for legal. So yeah, I don't know. What do you think, Josh? Yeah, I would completely agree with the BNB statement, but for Kronos, there's two alpha points or perspectives I can give here. One is chat, make sure you again, smash that like button for more alpha and keep the pumps in the market going. But for crypto .com, something you guys can actually all do is when you pull out your phones and go on the app store, a very clear sign that we're moving into a high volume based market and now we're moving back into a boron is actually by simply going to the app store and seeing if crypto .com is starting to move up on that list of most utilized apps. So to TJ's perspective on exchange on Kronos ecosystem, I'm not going to be the biggest fan of. However, exchange tokens are something you kind of want to watch out for as we progress into a boron because they're going to make most of their money off exchange volume. And of course, if crypto .com, like DZ said, has probably the best name in all of crypto. So as that moves up on the markets and on the app store, you actually see that correlate right over to the price. Yeah. Because you see millions of downloads and you're like, oh, this must be one of the real ones. And I'm so scared because if I lose the seed phrase, I lose everything and I'm freaked out. They're gonna be very careful when I download my app here.
The Crypto Conversation
A highlight from Scaling Business with AI Superpowers
"Hi everyone, Andy Pickering here, I'm your host and welcome to the Crypto Conversation, a Brave New Coin podcast where we talk to the people building the future in the Bitcoin, blockchain, and cryptocurrency space. Five years ago, deep in a bear market, a group of traditional finance experts founded Bitget, and they've been building ever since. Now with 20 million users worldwide, Bitget is committed to helping users trade smarter by providing a secure one -stop crypto investment solution with copy trading, future trading, and spot trading. Your security is their priority and Bitget has one of the largest protection funds in the industry with US $300 million to cover potential trader losses from unforeseen events that are not due to misconduct from the user or platform. Bitget wants to inspire everyone to embrace Web3, so if you're new to crypto, learn more at the Bitget Academy with free blockchain courses, crypto guides, cryptocurrency trading strategies, and more. Or for the experienced investor, trade smarter with daily access to institutional -grade crypto market intelligence and trends analysis with Bitget research. I've put links to Bitget research and the Bitget Academy in the show notes, so get amongst it, or simply go to bitget .com. Thank you to Bitget, and now it is on with the show. My guest today is Justin Flitter. Justin is the founder of New Zealand AI, among other things. Welcome to the show, Justin. Cheers, Andy. It's nice to be here. Nice to have you here. Let's do what we do at the beginning of the show, Justin. I'll invite you to please introduce yourself. Love to just hear a little bit of your, I suppose, personal and professional backstory and what has led you to getting involved with AI. Yes, my name is Justin Flitter. I'm the founder of New Zealand .ai. We are the place where New Zealand businesses start their AI journey. And how have we got to be here? Well, I'm a marketer by trade, I guess, and along the last 20 -odd years have been curious and interested in emerging technology and how that plays out in marketing and business. I guess I can kind of share around the communities that we've created, whether that's the Young Professionals group in Wellington in 2006, we were getting 300 under -30s in monthly events coming and learning from each other through to founding the Auckland Social Media Club in 2009 and getting 300 people a month coming along to those events right at the kind of forefront of social media for business. And then in 2016, I was working for a company called Results .com and their board investors had come out of Diligent, which had a mega exit, and they'd invested in and created this company called Aria, which was a natural language processing organisation in the UK. And I started becoming curious around how natural language would impact the world of marketing, certainly as we were seeing devices like Amazon Alexa and Google Home and all sorts of things that we were starting to talk to these devices. And the way that we ask questions verbally is quite different from the way that we type things in a search bar. And so I started going to a whole lot of vendor events around Auckland and meant a whole lot of other people working in professional services like me trying to figure out what AI was, what the potential was, is it another fad, what's going on. And so I did a whole lot of research and eventually started a meetup called the AI Show. And the first event was at a dark and dingy bar in Britomart, but Shannon Thomas, who was then the external PR and comms lead for IBM New Zealand attended and she said, oh, we'll host the next one. And so then started quite a long partnership with AI Show and building an events programme, getting 200 -300 people a month along for several years, where we would showcase companies utilising artificial intelligence and share the expertise and the tools and the tech enabling the capability and discussing some of the pressing issues around how AI was changing people, society, the way we work. And yeah, and so that's kind of really been the journey. And I guess, you know, we ran AI Day, which was the two biggest AI conferences in New Zealand in 17 -18. And then COVID hurt and everything kind of went into hiatus, so we went back into some marketing contracting. And then in October last year, OpenAI launched ChatGBT and it completely changed the game for everybody. What's fascinating about this, Justin, is, I mean, the reason that you and I know each other, or at least are aware of each other, we're not sort of good friends or anything like that. But I've known who you are for more than a decade. And the reason for that is, you know, we've both been on Twitter, or what used to be called Twitter, for, well, let's just say for over 10 years, and certainly in, you know, smaller countries like New Zealand or tech communities, you know, it's easy to see, you know, those kind of identities such as yourself pop up. And it's incredible, though, if you kind of think back that, you know, AI, and I'll say blockchain as well, crypto, Bitcoin, have been reasonably, you know, from a mainstream perspective, reasonably esoteric, and very much niche topics for discussion on, on, let's say, Twitter, but, you know, suddenly, you know, the world is changing. And these things very much are going mainstream. And as you pointed out, you know, the world really literally did appear to change overnight at the end of last year, when, yeah, the first rollout of ChatGPT was unleashed into the wild, right? Absolutely. Yeah, it's doubled the website traffic. And all of a sudden, I was rebuilding the website and getting booked to speaker conferences and run workshops and things like that. And I think it's really, you know, I mean, AI has been around since the 50s, since that Dartmouth University, and the UK with Alan Turing and his cohorts. But, you know, for many decades, it's really been sitting in the research labs and, and, and for the, for the first time for the general public, I think ChatGPT makes AI interactive, we can use it, our mothers and fathers and our daughters can use the same tool that we might use for our research assignment or to understand complex charts, or to write a blog post or to research new markets. And, and that's just a staggering change in people's perception of what artificial intelligence could actually do for us. And, and so putting it front and centre and giving everyone a browser based, free, interactive experience where these machines are talking back to us in human language, is seismic. Indeed, and the Turing test has finally been passed and, you know, in spectacular fashion. So, you know, Justin, you work with an array of different businesses, I'm sure, smaller, smaller businesses, larger scale businesses. And, you know, you consult with them to help them identify, I suppose, the different ways that AI can perhaps improve their business processes. But I'm conscious also that, you know, a lot of businesses are a little bit conservative when it comes to the adoption of new technologies, they need to be risk averse. So it's often kind of tech savvy individuals are the ones that are first able to really leverage these new tools. But so curious, give us give us a sense of how you see and find to talk about New Zealand, you know, how you find the business community, what's their approach to the sudden availability of easy to access AI tooling? Yeah, on one hand, I think a lot of CEOs and C -suite leaders are asleep at the wheel here. And they're really, you know, they're a little bit, you know, they're not, I don't think they're paying enough attention to this at all. Yeah. On the other side, we are seeing a groundswell of change. And, you know, we've been running an AI for Business webinar series and workshop series through the Employers and Manufacturers Association. And, you know, one chat GPT webinar we did a month ago, we had 1200 people on the call. And so this is, you know, this is this is workers across all all levels who are starting to use personal chat GPT accounts to short shift their work. And so they're using it to augment some of the tasks that they have to do every day to increase productivity to help them do things faster, smarter. And a lot of senior leaders are seeing that activity. And they're concerned they don't have necessarily the same knowledge. They, you know, a lot of C -suite leaders I talked to have never even used chat GPT. I get asked questions around how do I install it? I'm like, you already have it installed. You simply have to open the browser. And so they're concerned around so what are they pasting? What are they sharing? You know, are they sharing our software code? Are they sharing, you know, customer information? What are they doing with us? And so they're putting the roadblocks on it. And we're seeing, you know, that's not the right way to be necessarily to be thinking about it. We need to be leaning in and we need to be providing the education and the resourcing and the guardrails around these tools the same as what we would do with any other new technology that's coming to the market and any new software tools that we have at our disposal to enable people to use them safely and responsibly. Yeah, absolutely. Well said. And, you know, one of the, I suppose, for the, you know, enterprise use cases, one of the faster growing sectors will be, I guess, the custom chat models that are native to a particular business. So that's important so that you can ensure, you know, whatever internal data that your business have that is obviously you want to keep that secure. But if you can have a chatbot that allows you to, you know, query your own data in any way possible, then that is an immediate benefit to your business and it alleviates some of those privacy concerns. Yeah, so I think, you know, certainly that's one of the most common use cases for businesses getting started on their AI journey and that's to unlock organizational data. And so we're seeing generative AI and conversational AI platforms now where you can integrate all your different company data sources, whether that's, you know, your finance with Xero or your Microsoft 365 and SharePoint or your file storage, your CRM, your ERP, all of these different types of data that you have, which are all traditionally siloed and specific job functions, can now be woven together into this mesh of data that generative AI can cross -reference to help you better understand the business, to generate new insights, to generate new content, to create new workflows, and ultimately to automate some of that repetitive processing that you have in your business, which sucks up employees' time and unproductive work. Yeah, and what's incredible about AI is the, you know, it is causing, let's just say, tensions, right, in almost every sector of society, if not now soon. So obviously in business we've talked about that a little bit, but like one other sector, of course, it's a simple one, but education, Justin, for example, you know, I have a 13 -year -old son, so he goes to what we call secondary school here in New Zealand. He'll start secondary school next year and I can see already that there's, I'm sure there's disagreement amongst, let's say, you know, school boards or amongst school teachers as to what is the best policy in terms of, you know, do you allow students access to AI tools? Do you try and, you know, run their essays through these clunky AI, you know, scanners? It doesn't work, it doesn't work. You can't detect AI writing. You can't, you can't. No matter what they say, you can't do it. That's right. So it's just like, this is a bit of a, yeah, a tricky one, Justin, but what do you think is the correct approach? And obviously it can evolve over time, but if you were heading up a school's education department at the moment, what would you say? When calculators came in, did schools ban calculators? Just, you know, like, you know, yes, but people can, they're still buying them at home, right? So, you know, banning something automatically creates demand for people to use it. Like you're saying, don't do this. So then everyone goes and does it. It's, you know, facts or well, whether you can call chat GPT fact -based chat GPT is a large language model that's designed to convince you that the next word in the sentence is correct, right? So it's, it's a production, a production model. So all it's, so, you know, you can't rely on, on the information that it's, it's given you all the time. There has to be a human in the look. It's there to augment our work. Now, if as a, and there are, there are schools and you know, obviously my opinion is that's just the completely wrong way to think about it. It's, it's it's naive. And, and we, and it comes because of a lack of education, a lack of awareness and lack of knowledge around how to use and leverage these. And you look to the, the US and, you know, when, when colleges are on holiday chat GPT usage goes down 30%. And so, you know, no matter what you, what you decide to do as an organization, students are going to be using this tool at every level of their education, because it can be that coach, mentor, support person, teacher, that's, that gives them that, that confidence that, that they need, right? It's there with them at every different stage of their learning journey so that they don't have to start from scratch. They're asking a question, they're getting a response, they're able to have a discussion about that particular topic. And so instead of the education system asking them, is the answer this or this? The answer, the question should be, how do you interpret that answer? Why do I think more deeply about that particular topic? Contextualize that response. Why is that meaningful? And so you, I guess it's, it's how we're thinking about critical thought. And, you know, we're, you know, you've got the entire world's knowledge base sitting in the DBT. You can literally ask it anything you want and, you know, generally get a reasonably good, reasonably good answer out of it. You do have to check it, but, you know, how we, how we, how we teach people, how we ask them, how we score knowledge and, and test knowledge and, and contextualize those insights for the world around us is something that, you know, we need to be getting students to do, to do more of. You know, I mean, I was at, I was at a University of Auckland, I was delivering a marketing lecture a few months ago, and a student asked me, he was like, if the lecturer gives us a book to read, why wouldn't I just go to chat GBT and ask it to give me a summary? And my answer was, because when you get into the next class and the teacher asks you what happened in chapter 13 to Mike, and how did that play out for the result of the story, you're not going to know the answer. So, you know, it's, it's only giving you a certain amount of, you know, knowledge. It's not giving you that contextualization in terms of what those ideas mean in the world that you live in. Yeah. Thank you, Justin. Very well said. You know, I mentioned the, you know, the tension across different parts of society. So another part of society, Justin, is, I suppose you'd say, broadly, the creative industries, but I'm more specifically thinking of, you know, tools like Mid -Journey and Dali, the incredible kind of, you know, on -demand instant photography, instant image generation. And it's incredible just in the last 12 months, much more sophisticated. Something like Mid -Journey has gotten, you know, a year ago, an AI couldn't really generate a realistic human hand. But now they can. And it's, if you extrapolate at forward five or 10 years, it's fairly easy to see that eventually you'd be able to generate, you know, short films or even like full length films from a detailed prompt, which is crazy to think about. But yeah, it'd be tough being a digital artist or graphic designer at the moment. I mean, you know, we're on the cusp, certainly in the next couple of years, of 80 -90 % of the content we use in marketing or, you know, many sectors being generated by AI. And that throws up a whole lot of unique challenges. But at the moment, like we're seeing short films being created, I mean, you know, two or three minutes. And at the moment, these are four to six second snippets stitched together with a soundtrack and a voice overlay, or voiced as well using AI. And so you've got Runway ML, you've got Pixel Labs, you've got a whole bunch of amazing tools. And I would say, given the pace of change, three to five years, I think we're seeing, you know, we're seeing, you know, full feature, full length movies being able to be generated. And you've got the ability where, and this is where that kind of writers and artists block and Hollywood is coming up because, you know, we can clone voices, we can clone actors. And so, you know, there's a, we can make people say and do anything we like once we've got some footage or some audio of them, which of course, makes that whole production of traditional films a whole lot easier. Because if you need, you know, it might take away the need to do a reshoot. If there's a slight tweak, then you could use some AI to do a slight tweak to something with editing and certainly in the post production. But none of this stuff is particularly easy just yet. And none of it's like particularly that good just yet. And certainly, you know, we've got a guy here, Steve Ballantyne, who runs an agency called Brand IQ. And they designed the cover for the New Zealand marketing magazine a couple of months ago. And, you know, that would have taken hundreds of hours to build the layers and the artistry around that. So, you know, while we're seeing some parts of production and execution being automated, the ideas and that creative freedom is just exploding. Yeah, it really is. And look, well, if that's the case, then, Justin, if AI is both a revolutionary tool and a weapon, what do we do now? That's the topic of the panel that I'm on at the Devonport Library tonight. It is indeed. Yeah, look, there's some immense global challenges around us. And, you know, we're seeing, you know, challenges around, you know, battle for Taiwan with between China and the US around semiconductors and the race for compute power and, you know, the computer parts that process the artificial intelligence. And, you know, along that we're seeing a race with Microsoft, AWS, Google, Facebook, and all of these that are, you know, they're all trying to vie for an advantage in the capability to generate, you know, to generate AI powered systems. So we're seeing, you know, drones now, you know, swarms of drones replacing firework shows. And so there's, you know, while there's always a super exciting, amazing, positive, humanity changing use case for almost all of those, there's also a potential for weaponization. And we're seeing the likes of the EU and debates around Capitol Hill discussing and regulations around privacy and copyright and those sorts of things. And, you know, certainly there are going to be some movements around that. The EU always takes a lead on these types of things. And generally, you know, New Zealand's a follower, not necessarily a fast follower, but a follower. And so we're kind of looking to the instruction and the guidance from the EU in terms of what that might look like. But, you know, it's a super complex environment. Some might argue the cat's out of the bag with lots of these things. You know, no one knows what's going on in the research labs necessarily. I mean, we've just seen, you know, we've got Neuralink, which is putting chips into brains to help people with different diseases and things like that to short circuit their processing. And now we've got a another startup and I'm just trying to find it actually. I posted it on LinkedIn this morning. And so they're actually building, they're actually putting growing brain cells around a chip. And so they're doing the complete opposite to Neuralink. And so that, yeah, so this guy was at, is at the brain conference in San Francisco today. He's Hon Wing. So Cordica is the name of it. And, you know, yeah, they're putting brain cells around chips instead of putting chips around brain cells. And I think there's, you know, a whole lot of, holy crap, what's coming next when we start thinking about the implications of that around GPU and computer processing and, you know, how we still haven't created AI or chips that are nearly as good as the human brain. So, you know, could this be a paradigm shift? Indeed, indeed. All right. Well, look, Justin, as we finish up this part of the podcast, just for anyone listening who's interested in learning more about what you and the team do at New Zealand .ai, I guess that's the best place for them to go. But yeah, where should people go? What should people do? Yeah, so we help businesses understand and learn where AI can thrive within their organization. We run a series of workshops, both kind of AI lunch and learn style, which is kind of AI for everyone. We do an executive leadership workshop where we deep dive into strategy and the potential use cases, how we're preparing the organization and building out that strategy and roadmap. And then once we kind of get to that point where an organization goes, yes, that's a really great solution, you know, the things that we can create using AI we couldn't imagine or do any other way, then we engage different partners from around New Zealand. So we don't produce any tech. We don't make any tech. We leverage the amazing technology businesses around New Zealand and in Australia to enable that. So we're bringing in partners to design, build and integrate those AI -powered systems into those businesses. So yeah, we're the place for businesses to start their AI journey and, you know, right through from curiosity to integration, we're helping to support that process. Awesome. And listeners, just go to New Zealand .ai link, of course, is in the show notes. Let's go do a very quick break and then we'll come back. We'll finish off. We'll have some fun. We'll run Justin through a slightly modified version of the very famous crypto conversation. Hot tech ground back in one second.
VUX World
A highlight from Conversations Squared With Justin randall
"So, you know, being able to understand and being able to zone in versus, you know, some of the other 50 % could be an error condition, or it could be that there is a piece of the conversation that's bad, that's very frustrating, and it's causing people to lose their patience and say, hey, let me put me through to a person. But unless you can separate all of that and kind of figure out what's going on, how are you going to dig in? Are you just going to start doing qualitative analysis on transcripts for all calls that were escalated? Like, have fun, right? Like, it's going to take quite some time to kind of get those insights. But even on the NLU confidence front, there's a lot more that people could be doing, right, by pairing in that sequence and turn data. Because when we talk about intent confidence, I think most people in our industry would know what that means. Oh, you know, person said this intent, and we had an 83 % confidence that that was, you know, that we correctly identified the right intent. But how do we know if our copywriting, if our prompts are confusing, right? And so by being able to, again, understand where we are, where we are in a sequence, where we are in a turn, we can also evaluate what is the average confidence of any intent within a specific term. So if we have a turn where we're saying, you know, please provide your postcode and, you know, the color of your favorite hat, right? I'm sure we're going to get some pretty confusing responses to that, right? Maybe, maybe everyone just gets it, and, you know, we just actually intense to capture perfectly. But I'm imagining, like, that would probably leave people a little confused. Maybe triggering some what's and why, right? Or like weren't you like all things that are not progressing the actual conversation. So being able to, you know, identify what are the turns people are spending more times in. So how many turn durations did we have to get through for people to exit? How many fallbacks per turn? What is the average confidence of any intent being triggered in turn? Suddenly, now we're also able to evaluate how well we're doing on the copy front as well, right? And so, you know, the other thing when it comes to, you know, standardization of data, and there's nothing standard about this at all, but everyone should be doing this. It's again, coming up with like, learn about it, learn as much about your customer as you can, right? Without obviously being invasive. But like, you know, obviously, most bots that I've worked with, all bots that I've worked with have had the need to identify a customer, right? Doesn't that you don't have to identify them for every use case, but like, the more the more details you can pull about a customer in some way, shape or fashion, the better you're going to be able to help them. And the better you're also going to be able to provide ROI details on the bot itself, or even even do that proactive, you know, the proactive contact prevention, because if you can figure out the state that people are in, so identify the customer, look up things like, you know, are they a new customer? Are they a long term customer? Do they have a subscription? Is that subscription, you know, about to expire? Was there a recent price change? Is it like there's, there's so many things about a customer that might drive them to call, there's so many like fingerprints or breadcrumbs that you can identify. And then when you can take that data, and pair it with the response to how may I help you, you've essentially got a customer journey map into like a journey aware map of contact drivers, right, which then can lead you down the path of optimizing it, right? So how do I shorten it? I already know these details about this customer, how do I ask them the least questions possible to get them to the right, you know, outcome, or try and prevent, you know, you know, an example of a debt collection agency recommendation that we made, we noticed that, you know, over 50 % of people were contacting to find out how to set up a payment plan. Right. And so we provide them responses on how to set up a payment plan. And that's awesome, like job done sort of Yes. But like, at the same time, do you know how many contacts we could prevent if we, for example, tried to more proactively get that information into customers hands, right? So big, big journey, informed contact driver analysis, and then at the top of the pyramid, but the business side, really, I again, even less standard, I would say here. But but there is one analytics conversation AI analytics vendor that that I would say does this very well. Definitely love that product. But I would focus on automation. And then again, that's what we do, because automations, you know, things like looking up an account, things like delaying a payment, things like opening up a case for a bad internet issue, like these are things that a person would ultimately have to do that have a unit of time associated with them. And in other words, have a dollar amount associated with them. And so when we're, we're really talking about ROI for conversational AI, it definitely should not focus should not be on containment. That's for sure, because containing doesn't mean that you actually helped anybody. The focus and also an escalated conversation. The bot may have still added value there. Right. Totally. Yeah, some people may say, oh, cost per call $15. Right. Then, you know, the bot didn't handle it, it escalated it. So that still cost me $15. And on an average sense, like they're not wrong. But there's a difference in cost still. Like we say $15. That's based on an average, right? Where we're averaging all calls out, there's obviously still a dollar value difference in a phone call that an agent spent 15 minutes on or spent 45 minutes on. Right. If the bot is completing tasks, like creating cases, doing DPA checks, like actually doing work that is ultimately going to save time for the agent when they are actually handling the call. That's valuable. And if you're focused on deflection and cost per call and all that kind of stuff, you're going to lose all of that. But if you focus on the automations, you can actually look at metrics like agent time saved, and you can actually put together the ROI that says, hey, you know what? Okay, so we've reduced the volume of contacts going to our agents by 50%, but we're not getting rid of anybody because you've also doubled our subscriber base. And so now we've kind of broken even. So the way I like to look at it is really when you're tracking the automations, you get that more fine granular ratio where you can actually say, here is the improvement, either the cost, if you really are looking for headcount, it is what it is, or you can say we've now doubled our customer capacity with the same number of people. And that's what those by tracking automations, you can get the data that actually lends you to those metrics and that financial proof. Yeah, totally. It's almost, it's really just proving the value of the bot, right? Because you can be saving money, which I guess looking at containment is, it's like, how much money are we saving? But also how much value is the bot adding? And if you have these metrics, and I think that could even lead, and I think it does, it leads to thinking, oh, here's somewhere else that we could add value when we have all of this data in front of this, all these metrics. Oh, we can see here that, you know, these people are asking for this and the bot could provide it, you know? Yeah, it makes perfect sense. It's all about time saving, time saving for everybody. But that's the thing, it really is time saving for everybody. It's for the agent as well as the customer as well. And I think a lot of people, at least when I talk to people, it seems like, you know, people aren't always necessarily thinking about the agent side as well, but like there's other than just, okay, we're going to reduce capacity, therefore we're going to reduce the number of agents. But it's not always the conversation, how do we make their lives better, how do we make it easier? For me, like when I look at this, I know you've probably heard me say that a bunch of times, but like I think I feel like, you know, we're probably on one of the most noble missions out there, which is, you know, how do we give people, again, customers, agents more time in their life back, right? It's like the most precious resource, we can never buy more of it, right? So by keeping that goal in mind, and by focusing on that for everybody, like literally everybody wins, the business wins and the customer wins, as opposed to when you're focused just on deflection, the business wins at the expense of the customer in most cases. Or even as well, yeah. Yeah, not a good path to go down, really, is it? You know, if the business is winning, but the customer isn't, then there's a very good chance they're just going to go somewhere else as soon as something else appears. It's very interesting, sorry, I'm not going to go on a long tirade here about this, but to show that, again, there's that book I love quoting all the time, The Effortless Experience, about how the battle for customer loyalty is more about reduction of effort than it is about delightful experiences. But, you know, beyond that, you could absolutely love a product, but when you feel a business is wasting your time, you're out, right? There was a really nice monitor that I bought. I think I told you the story, but it was a really nice monitor that I bought maybe a couple of years ago when I started working from home. And I love the monitor. It was great, I was so happy with it. And then after a few weeks, there was like a little red pixel kind of in the middle. I was like, oh, OK, whatever, stuck pixel, you know, it's under warranty, so, you know, I'll get it replaced and what not. And it was funny because it began as what I thought was going to be one of the most sophisticated customer experiences in my life. Or like I Googled, like, what do I do with this monitor? Or where do I call it? So scan the QR code in the back of your monitor to get this express code. And I was like, ooh, fancy. So I scanned it, right? I'm thinking this is going to save me time, right? So I scan this code and give my 10 digit express code number. And then I call the hotline. I'm not going to throw this brand under the bus.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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I don't know. We're messing around. Just trying stuff. It's the end of 2023. You know? I don't know. You just start trying things. Why not? Who cares? Hey, new rewatchables come in Monday night. I'll just tell you what it is. It's a movie from 1993. Yeah, another one. Another one that did really well in the box office. So you'll find out Monday night. It's a good one though. I'm excited to drop it on you. So we did that true crime podcast, Wedding Scammer, hosted and created by Justin Sales. And it did really well. People liked it. And it makes me super happy because Justin Sales is a great guy. And he's been with The Ringer pretty much since the beginning. But it's nice when somebody works their ass off on something and it actually pays off. So I'm glad people like it. Check out the first episode. It's not that long. It's really well done. And you will definitely 100 % enjoy it. Okay. Let's bring in the cuz. Let's talk some football. Let's talk some wound licking with some bets, some Eagles, all kinds of things. It's all next. First, our friends from Pearl Jam. Pearl Jam! All right. We are taping this. It is 830 Pacific time on Sunday night. Cousin Sal is here as always. He's wearing a nice, fresh Oregon hat that I think you probably bought probably this weekend. You went to visit your son? Smells very new. Yeah, I went to visit my son. I'm not happy with the way my hair looks. And I think the hat's an improvement. So what am I going to do? It looks great. We just watched Dolphins Eagles just now. And at the same time, Rangers Astros was happening. And it really felt like, I don't know, it felt like a great October sports night there. And then Texas blew it open in the end. But next week, we'll have basketball. There will be baseball going on. It'll really feel like October. The Eagles though. So right as I start sending texts to Eagles people in my life wondering what's going on with Hurts and what's going on with this team, and then they just turn it on and they win by 14. It's weird. Eye test wise versus the stats and just looking at the standings and stuff. It's a team that doesn't seem like they have all their shit together. And yet it doesn't matter because they have so much talent. They can just kind of pick and choose. And then all of a sudden they win anyway. I know don't what other team in the NFL is like this. Do you see that too? Yeah, absolutely. And it's a bummer because I think you agree. The Dolphins are, I don't know, favorite team to watch if you have to cut everything else out. Best offense, so much going on, like dynamic, Tyreek Hill, anything. Tua. But when they play a game like this, when they go to Buffalo, they're just going to get beat in the trenches. And like what you said is it doesn't really matter if you're so physical, Philadelphia, offensively or defensively. And like Tua's getting swallowed up in the pocket on third and ones. And where Philadelphia could just run that tush push like it or not, it's going to move the chains every time. So, yeah, it sucks. Yeah. The less flashy team wins. And they happen to be in my favorite team's division. But that's what's going to happen in January. Ten turnovers for Hertz. He had eight off last year. There's times where, you know, like sometimes, and I don't know whether he's protecting his body or what's going on, but he'll kind of duck away from taking hits, which is smart. And then he'll have weird throws. And I texted Solak today during third quarter. I'm like, are we going to find out that Hertz has had like torn rib cartilage since week two or, you know, he doesn't look right sometimes. And then in the fourth quarter, all of a sudden looks great. And I don't really know what to make of it. And I can't get a feel for it. But on top of it, they have this tush push thing that in the big drive of the game, they're able to get two straight fourth and ones on their own side of the field. I know we, you and I have talked about it. You've talked about it incessantly. And at the same time, it feels like it is the most important NFL invention in the last five years, this play that nobody can stop ever at any point. If he does, nobody else can do it. I know it's weird. And we likened it to the Tom Brady thing. There was no reason why Tom Brady should convert fourth and one and a half every single time, you know, physically and everything else. But except they had their shit together, the Eagles, they really do. And if he does have cracked ribs, I hope it's from his own teammate, smashing them over the line of scrimmage there. Yeah, it was just wear and tear on the back of his body from several guys. Yeah. So they're performing the Heimlich on him like every eight minutes. So I guess if you're taking the takeaway from the Eagles is nice when they needed to have it, they're also supposed to win. But the AJ Brown piece of it, the fact that they traded, you know, a first round pick basically, and then they paid him. And I don't know, he's one of the four best receivers in the league now. Is he one of the three? He's somewhere on the shortest possible list. I have him on multiple fantasy teams, and it's gotten to the point where I'm just expecting 100 yards in a TD every game. But that turned out to be one of the better trades, I think, of the last 10 years. Just kind of took him from Tennessee. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that was ridiculous. And he is such a great possession receiver. And it's like, it's scary, too, because you'll forget about him, too. You probably put Justin Jefferson in the top three. And then every time Cousins drops back the pass or any snap, you're like, all right, this has to go to Jefferson. Otherwise, it's going to go for nothing out of this offense. And then eight tush pushes in a row. And then you see AJ Brown's like, oh, my God, I forgot about this guy. What? He's got 120 yards. It's nuts. So, yeah, dynamite. I like, yeah, there's like four different kind of catches he can make, too, which I think makes him stand out because they can throw those bubble screens. They can just put them right over the middle, like for seven, eight yards. It seems like whenever they want, they can send him deep down the sidelines, which he seems to love. And then that kind of deep over the middle with two guys on him and he can make plays anyway. But he he has, like, I think the biggest bag of any of the receivers right now. Yeah, personal. I don't know. I got these guys. Yeah. Yeah. I hate this team. I don't know. I don't even know what to say anymore. Like, you know, the Miami have what, 10 or 11 penalties? It's just like it's a it's like a mind fuck, too, when you play him, too, because you can't get out of a can't get out of your own way when you play against them. Kyle, don't turn on the tick tock camera for this. Has Philly replaced Boston for most interesting sports city? Like, look at all the shit they have going right now. Right. Right. They're they're about to make the World Series. They have this Eagles team that made the Super Bowl last year and it feels super relevant again, is definitely going to be a final 14 worst case scenario. And then they have this NBA team with this James Harden saga that God only knows how he's going to sabotage things over the next month. But and then you look at my team where my city where I have the the you know, we have a great NBA team, it looks like. And then other than that, completely forgettable across the board. I think Philly's kind of grabbed the mantle a little bit. I don't like it. I don't like it right now. That's not good. And it's not good for their fans because their fans are supposed to just hate the other team, not supposed to like their team. So it doesn't matter if their team is good. Right. Yeah, I don't know. It's a bummer. Although I'll say that they were in this position last year, too. Right. Phillies win the World Series. The Eagles win the Super Bowl. This has been this is the 2020s has kind of been the Philly decade. I don't like it. It's upsetting to me. And fortunately, the Sixers are it seems like they're going to go in the tank. But I got to say they have great crowds like the the Phillies playoff crowds are way up there. That's about as good of a baseball crowd as you're going to get. It really feels like if they can have like a do or die game or a must win game or a clincher at home, you feel like they're going to get it. And whatever happened with Bryce, you know, pretty special, like to sign that guy from another team and he becomes the signature athlete in your city. We had a little bit of that with Manny Ramirez, where we kind of took him from. We paid for it, but took him from Cleveland and he kind of became one of the symbols of that run. But pretty nuts that they just took him from another team and he became what he became. Yeah, it's a great crowd whenever they I mean, I thought the Rams crowd today was dynamite, too, against the Steelers. I thought they really showed up. It's really loud. Yeah, yeah, it's been proud to be from L .A. Yeah, I have a I know you don't want to talk about Phillies, so I'll move on. I have a Tyree question for you. What's your all time receiver list for receivers you've watched just where you're like, that guy's fucking amazing? Because for me, it was always Rice number one and Moss two and then a drop off. And then some people like Tio's three for me. I'm like, cool. Tio is like an absolute franchise murderer and was a huge head case and you couldn't trust him. And as the years pass, the stats will be great. All the fucking drama that he brought to every situation he's in, that stuff will kind of die off. But for me, I think Tyreek's unequivocally three now for me. Every single game, it just you just feel like he's going to have 250 yards as you're watching it, right? Yeah, I think so. Yeah. Unstoppable, Tyreek over Calvin Johnson, that type. Yeah, I think like where you would put him. Yeah, I think for me, he's definitely over Calvin Johnson. Michael Gallup is three, four. I'm trying to see where I would put these people. Yeah, I think you're right. I think you're right. I think he's got to be number three. Although if you look at like Antonio Brown, who's now a punch line, he had like six of the best seasons you'll ever see in a row. But but in terms of presence and being unstoppable, Rice, Moss, Tyreek Hill, it's a good three. That's how I feel. I think, you know, Sharp, I think, could have gotten there in the Packers way back when in the 90s. And then, you know, he hurt his neck and he basically only had like a six or seven year career. But I thought in the 90s, I thought other than Rice, he was the second best guy. Your guy, Irvin, was great. There's no question that team was loaded. We've had some good ones over the years, but Tyreek, the speed, how he just tilts the field over and over again, how scared the other team is of him. How much space he opens up for everybody else. I think he's three. I don't think he'll ever get over Moss or Rice for me, though. I'm trying to think who could pass him, though, now at three. I mean, we've put Justin Jefferson up there before. Now that we haven't seen him for a few weeks, we've kind of forgot about him in the right now. But Hill's done this now for, you know, six, what's it, six years since he's on the 18 Chiefs. I can't remember how many years he's been in the league, but yeah, he'll be stride for stride with two defenders. And then, like, if the ball hangs up there long enough, he's now seven, eight yards past them. Oh, I know who's number four. That's a nice little advantage. Pooka. He is? Guys, see that catch he made on the sideline today? It was pretty great. Before the Rams realized they were going against a force greater than any satanic force or anything, the Pittsburgh Steelers. You want to talk about that? Yeah, let's do it. Let's do it. So they're four and two. I've watched every play of all six games. I have no idea how they're four and two, but they've hit the point now where I feel like they're going to win when there's no signs. Like that guy missed the extra point today for the Rams and made it nine, three instead of 10, three. I'm like, oh, here we go. Steelers come down. All of a sudden it's 10, nine. They have five first downs because they get the TJ Watt, you know, the pick that sets up the touchdown. And you're just like, here we go. They're doing this. And we've seen this before because this was the Eli Manning. Danny Heifetz was the first person to point this out. This was the Eli Manning recipe for years and years that I can't believe that team's winning. What the fuck just happened? He only made two throws. How did he do it? They're four and two. I totally believe in them. And I feel like they're going to go 12 and five and have a negative point differential. Well, the good thing is we're making money off them, right? We've been and we saw them. Plus, I mean, I thought they'd be favored last Sunday night. I thought they'd be favored, but they're not. So we're doing that thing, but also just taking them because the Steelers. But I found the gem and I gave it out on ringer wise guys, Rams first half Steelers to win the game 10 to one. You know, I'm positive that their bullshit is going to pay dividends and 10 to one. I think it'll hit like three more times. Like you're right. That TJ Watt interception brings it down to the eight. We see some separation from Pickens on a receipt, like the little one drive you wait for all game and it happens. And then that terrible spot at the end, it didn't give him a chance. That that was beyond really big. McVeigh also probably should have had a timeout left. I know. But, you know, what is it important to be like, hey, listen, we could get this right, but we'd rather teach you a lesson, coach, to save your timeouts. Like, I don't, this, the spot thing bothers me more than missed pass interferences because it's an old man jogging eight yards and he has to see between 20 bodies. And then like, you know, he sticks his foot in the mud and says, here, this is like a surveyor from 1835. He's like, this is where your property in, sir. Like we got to put, there's a chip in the ball. Isn't there a chip in the ball? What's it for? It's funny that we figured out Wimbledon. We figured out we've in U .S. Open, we figured out how to measure serves immediately, whether they hit the line or not in football, which seems like it would be really easy to just have some sort of magnet that was attached to the chains. The other thing that was weird about that for the people who didn't see it, the Steelers did fourth and one, they had the lead. There's probably like a little more than two minutes left and they run the QB sneak play, kind of the Brady play where you, you kind of put your head down, but you go left. But he slipped and fell on his knee and his knee went down. And it wasn't one of those when you're watching it where you're like, oh, I wonder if he got it was like, you knew immediately, oh, he didn't get it. He slipped. And then they come in with the spot and then like, oh, he might have gotten it. And they did that. I couldn't believe it. And I'm rooting for the Steelers. But I was like, oh, my God, it's the worst spot of the year. I thought they deserved to win anyway. But but that was pretty tough for the Rams. We need some clarification. And I get it because McVeigh didn't have timeouts and it wasn't actually the two minute warning yet, even though it did wind to that after that. But is there a ref in the sky? Is there this guy in the sky or is this everything has to go back to New York? Like, I feel like we're told three different things. It's a bummer because that could have been overturned. But you're right. Ten to one we hit. Let's just keep doing it. You know, you know who else would have gotten that fourth one? Eli Manning. He would have fallen down a half foot in front and somehow would have gotten the spot. The Rams kicker was the MVP of this game for the Steelers. He missed two longer field goals. They were like 50 yard field goals, but he missed about them. Then he missed that extra point. And then Tomlin just, you know, he threw away the challenge. He screwed up a challenge, which is the Tomlin staple.
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"Coming up NBA, million dollar picks, UFC, my guilty pleasure, terrible TV show, it's all next. It's the Bill Simmons Podcast presented by FanDuel. It's the best time of the year with football in full swing and basketball returning soon. FanDuel, the best place to bet on the action. The app is safe, secure, and easy to use. And when you win, you get paid instantly. Get exclusive offers every day. Jump into the action at any time during the game with quick bets and take home a fast W. Plus check out the explore page for the simplest way to start betting. Download the app today. Bet with America's number one sports book. The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Visit theringer .com slash RG to learn more about the resources and help lines available and listen to the end of the episode for additional details. Must be 21 plus and present in select states. Gambling problem, call 1 -800 -GAMBLER or visit theringer .com slash RG. This episode is brought to you by CarMax. Patriots promised me they'd win the Super Bowl. That'd be pretty legendary. When CarMax offers an unrivaled 30 day money back guarantee up to 1500 miles, well, that's legendary too. CarMax never wants you to settle on a car. They want you to love your next car. That's why every car from CarMax has upfront pricing and an unbeatable love it or return it. 30 day money back guarantee up to 1500 miles. Shop a nationwide inventory on your terms. That's car buying reimagined. Start now shopping to find a car you'll love at carmax .com. We're also brought to you by The Ringer Podcast Network. I forgot to mention on Tuesday's pod, we put up a new rewatchables on Monday. We did So I Married an Axe Murderer, one of my favorite nineties comedies, and it was me and Sean Fennesey and Chris Ryan. We had a great time. I put up a lot of content this week because we had the three part NBA under podcast as well with Rossello and House. Did Sunday's pod, had this pod. Sorry for all the content. It's a lot of me, a lot of talking. I do have some Ringer news for you. Austin Rivers. Yeah. He is spinning off onto his own feed that is called Off Guard. It's Austin Rivers and Pasha. They've moved on Tuesdays and Fridays. They're going to be putting up podcasts. Make sure you follow it on Spotify. Also in that Ringer NBA show feed, the group chat podcast, which is excellent with Barrier and Woz and Mahoney, they're going to be going now basically Sunday, late morning, early afternoon -ish and then Wednesdays. So they're moving to twice a week. So that's our basketball news. Also, we had our first true crime pod, the first Ringer true crime pod we've ever done. Justin Sales, my guy, New Englander, still kept the accent. One of our finest. And he pitched us this really, really, really great seven part series about how he got scammed. That is what episode one is about. And it just keeps going. It keeps going, gets weirder, gets weirder. There's no way you're not going to like it if you like true crime. So check it out. It's called Wedding Scammer. It is the Ringer's first true crime podcast. I also went on Jimmy Trainor's podcast this week. So if you want to hear me talk about me, which I hate usually, but I did it on that podcast. I'm on there as well. Coming up on this podcast, Howard Beck from the Ringer talking about John Morant, James Harden, some other stealth storylines heading into opening night on Tuesday. And then Million Dollar Picks, feeling really good about the Million Dollar Picks this week. And then Arno Hwani, our guy, talking Knicks, talking Bills, talking the big UFC event this week, talking about the influencer boxing thing he did last week and some WWAW stuff. And then I thought I'd end the podcast there. No, no, because we launched a new segment that we're probably spinning off into another podcast. We talk about it during the segment, but Amanda Dobbins came on to talk about The Morning Show, which is the worst good show on TV. It's either the best bad show on TV or the worst good show on TV. Just make sure worst is somewhere in there. It is just inexplicable. It's unbelievable. I can't stop watching every episode. I hate myself for it. Amanda and I are gonna break down all the reasons why we just can't believe the show exists. That is the podcast. First, our friends from ProGip. Show"] ["The Morning All right, Howard Beck is here. He works for The Ringer. We love having him. We're gonna talk some NBA storylines. I did four hours of NBA preview content on with Monday Priscillo and House, and it already feels like seven things have happened since we did that. The biggest one was ESPN wrote a huge story about John Marrant. It's written by Baxter Holmes and who was the other one? Tim McMahon? Yeah, that they reported for a while. Tim McMahon. The timing of it was interesting, heading into the week of the season. I also thought Jaa's absence was being slept on a little bit, especially when we're talking about The Futures, where I think their over -under was like 44 and a half, 45 and a half, and I was like, Jaa's gone for 25 games? This feels like a big deal. Plus, what are we getting when he comes back? And you read that story, and it was mostly stuff that had been around or stuff that was out there. There was some unflattering stuff in there, but in general, I left that story going, hmm. Now the narrative is going to be this story was out there. There's a bigger spotlight on, but now it's actually a little bit better for Jaa in a way, because the attention, now you can kind of use that. Nobody believes in me that this is, I don't know. I was wondering, how do you think that story and the whole blow around it affects him and his comeback? Well, it's interesting. By the way, I'm only about 90 minutes into your five -hour marathon on the over -under. Yeah, maybe over the weekend. But I listen to pods while they wash dishes or while I'm on the treadmill. I'm gonna just have to, I need more dirty dishes and I need to get into better shape. And by the time the end of the week, I'll be through it. No, I mean, you were right to flag that, right? Ja Morant, not there on media day. So he still has not spoken to anybody in the media, to the public in general, since this 25 -game suspension was handed down by Adam Silver, that the story came out now. Look, I haven't talked to our friends at ESPN about reporting the process and everything else, but those things take time. I don't think anybody should read into it that it dropped now, it's relevant now. We're going into seasons opening up next week and one of their brightest young stars won't be there under really unique and troubling circumstances. Well, it seems like they also talk to every local business owner in Memphis because there was a bunch of them. So you could tell they worked on it for months and months. For sure. And by the way, neither of those guys is Memphis -based. I think like McMahon has responsibility for a lot of teams and Memphis might be one of his and Baxter is just kind of more like all -purpose investigative guy. So if you're not based there, so there's the first challenge. As I'm reading this as a reporter, my first thought is like, wow, either somebody pointed you in the right direction, like you need to go talk to this restaurant owner or this might've been strip club owner, this bar owner, whoever. Cause if not, you're just kind of making the rounds and trying to get a fee. Like you could do that. You could do a lot of just like the shoe leather reporting, but that's tough when you're not based there and you don't have that local network of people. They talked to obviously some really important voices there. People who knew not just the on -court version of this or what the internal politics of the Grizzlies are, but how he's being perceived in the community. And it also tracks Bill with a lot of the other incidents that have been reported on in the last six to eight months, right? It's not just issues with, obviously flashing guns is the big thing right now, but it's not even just issues with how he's conducting himself within the organization with teammates or coaches or team officials. Social media judgment. Social media judgment, but the attitude or the entitlement issues that seem to present themselves with these local business owners, who I think we're all speaking anonymously, tracks with a lot of the stuff that was like the shoe store incident, the mall incident and all these other things, right? There's a pattern here. And so I think the story is really valuable in that sense. It's giving us a more full picture that this is an ongoing issue on a variety of levels, even including just the way he carries himself around Memphis. The other thing that struck me, yeah. Well, there was one piece in there. I knew most of this stuff or I had heard secondhand, but I think the people like us, we just talk to a lot of people. So you get a general vibe of where things are going or what things are happening. The one thing that was in the story that I never really thought about, one of the anonymous owners was saying, and this guy was the biggest celebrity we've had since Elvis. And I read that and I did like a double take and I'm like, is that true? And I'm thinking about it. I'm like, yeah, that's probably true. Like who, it's not like any of the, they had Zebo, they had Pau Gasol, they had Derrick Rose when he was at the University of Memphis. But for the most part, I hadn't really thought of it that way. And then you think like this young, kick -ass, incredibly fun to watch star just drops in their lap as like the consolation prize in the Zion draft and then becomes what he becomes in a small city and just becomes the guy. And I guess I'd never really wrap my head around that. But when I read that, did you do a double take when you saw that? I did and I guess I chuckled a little bit because it's just such a like, whoa, wait, hold on. Well, cause we're old enough to remember when Elvis died, that was like the biggest thing that happened in 1977.
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"Welcome to your Ethereum news roundup, here is your latest for Thursday October 19th, 2023. Yearn Finance introduces VE .YFI, Pulled Together V5 goes live, Polygon proposes a protocol council, and Eigenlayer announces a fellowship program. All this and more starts right now. The Give ETH Quadratic funding round is now live. If you'd like to support this podcast, please consider donating by visiting ethdaily .io forward slash give. Yearn Finance, a yield aggregation protocol, introduced VE .YFI, a non -transferable vote escrowed version of its governance token. Users can lock their YFI tokens in exchange for vote escrowed YFI, which allows them to partake in governance, cast votes on vault gauges, and earn DYFI rewards. The locking period for tokens can vary from one week to four years, with more rewards granted to long -term lockers. Users can exit their lock early but will incur a penalty. DYFI is an ERC -20 token that allows holders to redeem YFI at a discounted rate. DYFI serves as a reward mechanism for active users. The rewards are allocated from a yearn buyback initiative executed in 2021. About 1 ,700 YFI tokens have been locked so far. The fifth iteration of the Pull Together Price Savings Protocol is now live on OP mainnet for all users. The upgrade introduces immutability, permissionless vaults, and automatic yield -to -price conversion. Initial pools for wrapped Ether, USDC, and DAI are available, which leverage Aave v3 on OP mainnet as a yield source. Notably, the upgrade eliminates the need for manual price claims, transforming the protocol into a permissionless price savings hyperstructure where anyone can deploy a price vault backed by ERC4626 compatible tokens. It also replaces governance with automation and incentivized auctions. Two initial front -ends, pooltime .app and cabana .fi support the v5 release. Polygon introduced Polygon Improvement Proposal 29, proposing a 13 -member protocol council to oversee upgrades to system smart contracts. The council will manage changes to the PAL migration contract and emission manager contract. Regular changes will require 7 out of 13 signatures, and emergency changes will require 10 out of 13 signatures from the council. Council members include Jordi Beyelina, Murti Gupta, Victor Bunin, Justin Drake, Guantlet, L2B, Zak Imanyan, and Zak XPT. The proposal aims to balance decentralization with efficiency in preparation for the network's transition to Polygon 2 .0. And lastly, Eigenlayer announced a research fellowship where restaking enthusiasts can apply to be one of five fellows in a three -month program. Fellows will have access to the Eigenlayer research team, technical support, a trip to Def Connect, and Eigenlayer co -working spaces. Users who apply before October 27th will be prioritized. In other news, L2B now tracks Scroll Mainnet, Base migrates its testnet from Gourley to Sepuljia, and Avic considers staking diversity for its DAO holdings. This has been a roundup of today's top news stories in Ethereum. You can support this podcast by subscribing and following us on Twitter at ethdaily. Also subscribe to our newsletter at ethdaily .io. Thanks for listening, we'll see you tomorrow.
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A highlight from Yearn Finance Introduces veYFI
"Welcome to your Ethereum news roundup, here is your latest for Thursday October 19th, 2023. Yearn Finance introduces VE .YFI, Pulled Together V5 goes live, Polygon proposes a protocol council, and Eigenlayer announces a fellowship program. All this and more starts right now. The Give ETH Quadratic funding round is now live. If you'd like to support this podcast, please consider donating by visiting ethdaily .io forward slash give. Yearn Finance, a yield aggregation protocol, introduced VE .YFI, a non -transferable vote escrowed version of its governance token. Users can lock their YFI tokens in exchange for vote escrowed YFI, which allows them to partake in governance, cast votes on vault gauges, and earn DYFI rewards. The locking period for tokens can vary from one week to four years, with more rewards granted to long -term lockers. Users can exit their lock early but will incur a penalty. DYFI is an ERC -20 token that allows holders to redeem YFI at a discounted rate. DYFI serves as a reward mechanism for active users. The rewards are allocated from a yearn buyback initiative executed in 2021. About 1 ,700 YFI tokens have been locked so far. The fifth iteration of the Pull Together Price Savings Protocol is now live on OP mainnet for all users. The upgrade introduces immutability, permissionless vaults, and automatic yield -to -price conversion. Initial pools for wrapped Ether, USDC, and DAI are available, which leverage Aave v3 on OP mainnet as a yield source. Notably, the upgrade eliminates the need for manual price claims, transforming the protocol into a permissionless price savings hyperstructure where anyone can deploy a price vault backed by ERC4626 compatible tokens. It also replaces governance with automation and incentivized auctions. Two initial front -ends, pooltime .app and cabana .fi support the v5 release. Polygon introduced Polygon Improvement Proposal 29, proposing a 13 -member protocol council to oversee upgrades to system smart contracts. The council will manage changes to the PAL migration contract and emission manager contract. Regular changes will require 7 out of 13 signatures, and emergency changes will require 10 out of 13 signatures from the council. Council members include Jordi Beyelina, Murti Gupta, Victor Bunin, Justin Drake, Guantlet, L2B, Zak Imanyan, and Zak XPT. The proposal aims to balance decentralization with efficiency in preparation for the network's transition to Polygon 2 .0. And lastly, Eigenlayer announced a research fellowship where restaking enthusiasts can apply to be one of five fellows in a three -month program. Fellows will have access to the Eigenlayer research team, technical support, a trip to Def Connect, and Eigenlayer co -working spaces. Users who apply before October 27th will be prioritized. In other news, L2B now tracks Scroll Mainnet, Base migrates its testnet from Gourley to Sepuljia, and Avic considers staking diversity for its DAO holdings. This has been a roundup of today's top news stories in Ethereum. You can support this podcast by subscribing and following us on Twitter at ethdaily. Also subscribe to our newsletter at ethdaily .io. Thanks for listening, we'll see you tomorrow.
The Aloönæ Show
A highlight from S14 E01: Justin's Journey: Artist to Agricultural Inspector
"Hello, welcome to the Elone Show. I'm your host, John Mayelone. In this episode, don't have regulars because reasons, sadly. As for our guest, he's from Florida, currently in Vero Beach, maybe in the same state, and he is an agricultural inspector. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Justin MacSweeney. Hi, Peter. Hello, audience. Nice. So, how's life? Oh, how is life? Hmm. Yeah, life is good. From my narrow perspective, just me, it's good. All right, then. Very good. Have you been up too much recently? That, unfortunately, I haven't had anything really spectacular happen recently. Just more the mundane patterns of going to work and doing the odd stuff that I do when I'm not working. Ah, okay. So, what is it you mainly do for a living? Okay, well, you mentioned I'm an agricultural inspector, and this is a recent change for me. I had owned a business prior to that, and I happen to be a plant geek, so I answered an ad for somebody to go and do agricultural inspecting. And so, it's a program within the Department of Agriculture in the state of Florida that goes out into citrus groves and looks for diseases and the vectors of those diseases. So, that really scratches the plant geek itch in me. And as a bonus, when I'm out in those properties in the groves, there are ancillary systems of what they would call hammocks or marsh communities or prairies or things like that. So, I get to go wander around and have ADD moments out in those fields. So, that's fulfilling, at least to me. Probably not to anybody else, but at least to me. Okay, that's nice. How long have you been doing that for? Just five months. I started in May. Alright then. And what have you done before that? Prior to that, in terms of business or occupation, I had a landscape business. And I worked with doing landscape maintenance and a little bit of design and install, and it was my business. So, I kind of, not necessarily my own boss because I had about 40 to 45 customers and they were my boss, but I could fire myself from somebody if I didn't get along with them or things weren't going well or working out. So, yeah, it was kind of nice. But again, that speaks to my interest in plants, botany, horticulture, things like that. I was able to scratch that itch through there. Nice, nice. What inspired you to be so fascinated with plants and such? Is this an adult show or do we have children on board? There's a much older audience mainly listening. Alright.
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Monitor Show 18:00 10-13-2023 18:00
"With Bloomberg, you get the story behind the story, the story behind the global birth rate, behind your EV battery's environmental impact, behind sand, yeah, sand, you get context, and context changes everything. Go to Bloomberg .com to get context. We have an incredible team that really makes it all happen, and we so appreciate it. Justin Milliner, Ariel Agami, Paul Brennan, and a special shout out to Sara Lizzi. Thank you for making it happen. Wall Street Week. Have a good weekend, everybody. Wall Street Week starts now. Microsoft says it's closed its $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard after almost two years of regulatory tangles. Activision's stable of games, such as Call of Duty and Candy Crush, will move Microsoft further away from Xbox consoles and towards gaming that can work across platforms and devices. The war between Israel and Hamas has the potential to disrupt the entire world economy, starting with the price of oil, sending it and inflation higher, and growth slower. Wall Street is worried that helped send the S &P and NASDAQ down a half to one and a quarter percent, the S &P falling 22, the NASDAQ falling 167, the Dow rose a tenth of a percent, 39 points. Joan Doniger, Bloomberg Radio. When Wall Street is waking up, Europe is already trading. Bloomberg Brief brings you the news, data, and analysis you need to set your agenda. Micro, macro, and everything in between. This is Manus Granny in New York. And I'm Danny Berger in London. Join us next time.
Bankless
A highlight from ROLLUP: SBF vs Caroline Ellison | Sam Altman on Joe Rogan | ETH Predictions
"David look at her surrounded by all these reporters. Yeah, easy. That's intense. That's a circus very intense. So Caroline Ellison is like the only person closer to Sam Bankman freed than Gary Wang Like not only was she in charge of Alameda, but like Sam Bankman freed and her were dating they were sleeping together in 2019 They were dating in 2021 then they broke up, but they were still together Yeah, and so like, you know, very incestuous business dating sleeping together relationship Also in the Bahamas like well the business relationship They're not related though, let's just clear that they're not related. Yes. There's many other things like a lot of convoluted They're not related Bankless nation. Happy Friday morning. It is the second Friday of October or should I say flat tober David? It's looking pretty flat out there in the markets. It's down. No, it's I haven't looked at the markets. You just put them in the prices in but we'll get to that What else we got on the week topics of the week the SPF trial of FTX? Continues on to week two Friday of last week before we were able to cover it Gary Wang the CTO of FTX Testified this week Caroline Ellison testified for two days straight There's a lot of juicy stuff to unpack there who days two days two days hours of testimony One day was like eight hours straight so she just kind of dumped it all about Alameda on the table Little did I know that Thai prostitutes would be involved with this story. Did you hear about this? No, okay, like oh you haven't heard about this at all. Oh, you're about to know it's fresh. No Thai prostitutes have entered the FTX arena entered the chat entered the chat the arena He's funny you say that they used to have an arena didn't they? We also have Sam Altman He is talking about crypto on Joe Rogan show. What did he say? What was it? Good. Was it bad? Did he mention world coin at all? We'll get to that too. David. What else we got Why do Americans own crypto the Fed the Fed did a survey result? So we'll talk about that. Also the vampire attack on Lido I got some takes that's at the very very end and then apparently Ryan we're giving our price predictions for ETH Why are we doing this? You didn't know that? I did not sign up. You better be thinking of a number Okay, because we're getting to it But before we get in we've got a message from our friends and sponsors over at a 16 Z You know a 16 C crypto VC firm. Well, they they're telling you they want you to go back to school That is crypto startup school. What are we looking at here? David a 16 Z crypto startup school It is that time of the season where you can apply to join and get accepted by the crypto start -up school It's a 12 -week accelerator program to make you into a crypto founder. So cue the the Mulan music We're gonna make a founder out of you That's what a 16 C is gonna do You're gonna work with some of the best and brightest mentors in the crypto space including some of the a 16 C Partners and sometimes just like external founders come in and just get involved the a 16 Z startup school 12 -week program March 27th through June 11th in London in the UK. So you you will be there. This is on -site. This is on campus And yeah is great you get to work with some fellow founders work with some great mentors You need to apply October 20th That is in eight days from recording seven days if you're listening to this on Friday, which you should be So applications are open. Make sure you catch that deadline. I've got some videos from Chris Dixon there He's gonna be providing some mentorship also Jin Jin Wang from optimism some fantastic people there So yeah, go check it out become a founder David. All right, you ready for it? You said it wasn't flat tober It's not up tober is it over does that mean it's the other direction? What's the other? Yeah, the other is the bad directions the down direction. Yeah What's big kind of accelerating to the downside a little bit started the week at 27 ,900 down four and a half percent We were asking for bigger moves last week. We kind of got them 26 ,600 is where we are this week 700. Excuse me. Okay, I guess it's better than flat We wanted I don't know. I don't know if this is what I've wanted Let's give me some charts too so I can decide what I'm looking at started the week at 1630 down 5 .5 % to 1540 1540. I didn't want that. No, I didn't I mean feels good. I bought this week Did you yeah? Yeah, that's the upside actually. It's like what a fantastic buying opportunity I've got to take about that at the end and of course, we're gonna get to price predictions, but I guess it's not off October, huh? We got we got we got um, we got half the month yet to redeem ourselves, right? Yeah. It's only the 12th Right. It's only the 12th. Yeah. Well, it was tomorrow's Friday the 13th. Congrats to all the bankless listeners Who are listening to some Friday the 13th? Everyone brace yourselves. Should we do something spooky David? Eat. Oh, dude Halloween's coming up. We're gonna have to get our costumes Anymore I'm not doing it. Are you doing? The listeners love it. We got it. Do they we got I think you and I like it Last year for a bankless listeners who are new who the the five new bankless listeners that have come in the last year Up as a crypto dick, but yeah, oh dude, I'll be SPF and you'd be Caroline. Oh My god, I know what I signed up for. I already kind of have my well I haven't got my costume, but I've got my idea Really? Yeah, I've got my idea. But is this the thing where you're not gonna tell me We haven't we haven't impressed we have not told each other this has been the deal we reveal I know okay Do we do the refill at cameras off until we hit record? All right. I'm just saying this year one. I was my crypto punk now now behind me year two I was my crypto dick, but you're three if you continue the trend, it'll be an NFT perhaps perhaps Perhaps an NFT one of your NFTs my NFTs. Yeah, I think that's my rule of thumb It's like I'm gonna scan your wallet It's for some bankless listener go find date go track down David's wallet and and let's see if we can predict It's David Hoffman, Dottie Super secret location Alright, how about the ETH Bitcoin ratio? That's it's bad. It's bad point. It's bad. I've seven seven. Yeah Yeah, I was gonna ask you to give it to me straight and you just did huh? So we're down one point five percent on the week one point five percent of the week Total crypto market cap one point zero eight trillion dollars So it's not great. Come on. Yeah, we can thanks to crackin for those charts We appreciate the charts at least make them look better. Make them go You can make it look pretty but can you make them go up? Hey crackin? Can you help us with that? All right. What are we looking at? Here we go CPI that is the consumer price index inflation Reports came in for September and guess what David and it's not dead yet No inflation is still here. There's actually a little higher than most analysts expected So it's up point four percent in the month of September. So it was not flat timber It was up timber a little bit for inflation And if you if you extrapolate that yeah, I'm working the months in the show David four point eight percent annualized That's what inflation would be starting to feel like five percent. Actually, that's annualized That's if you take, you know, one point four percent multiply that by twelve months, right? But if you look at historic data We are at three point seven percent. Okay annual so no, it's not dead. You see this bump That's a bump up. Yep. It's bumped up a little bit. Okay You know, what's interesting is you and I just did a recording with Lynn Alton So we talked about so it was fantastic guys. That episode is coming out soon. Actually, I still have her book right here broken money David Anyway the contents of that book is in the episode and it's absolutely fantastic But one of her takes was what if inflation just becomes like background noise? For us, you know high background noise Well, I mean inflation is always background noise But but what you're what you mean to say is like it's the volume is increasing still background but higher I'm what I'm saying is like what if we don't go back to the 90s? What if we don't go back to the 2000s, right? What if what if now it's just a sustained like four five six seven percent spikes up maybe tiny spikes Sounds like what if it's in the background and you know Lynn's comment was that's how a lot of countries live right now I'm talking about kind of in Western developed nations right in Europe What if what if this is the new normal in Canada in Australia? What if this is the new normal in the u .s? What if this is the new normal she she mentioned she was just in Egypt 30 % annual inflation Okay, and people just live like that. And so what do you do when you're in a high inflation type of environment? Well, you tend to spend more you you might want to you might be willing to take out more cheap debt if you can find It in fiat that's nominated in fiat. You might want to hold your money in other things You know real estate in a lot of emerging countries that don't have strong capital markets like the u .s Stocks you for know, Western developed countries like the u .s. Maybe crypto Maybe you start to think a bit more short -term about your spending habits as well This is very interesting. If this is what the next decade holds for us is kind of sustained high inflation rates What do you think about this? I was talking to Mariano Conte who lives in Argentina who bought a car maybe a few years ago and he got a 20 % interest loan in Argentine peso, so he's paying 20 % interest terrible loan for for a car loan for a one -year car loan shark It's yeah, it's terrible His first pain but Mariano Conte like lives on dollars like most people who do in lieu who live in Argentina So his first his first loan payment that he had to pay to pay back The loan was most people who can I would say in Argentina live on dollars. Yes Dollars are like most everyone in Argentina. Almost everyone has a person that exchange dollars with so it's not just really Oh, yeah. No, it's the dollarization of Argentina is like very well permeated. It's not like an elite, but it's all great Martin, right? It's it's all like it's all great market and it's like so totally social culturally accepted, right? Everyone has like the guy that comes and swaps currency your dollar guy. Yeah your dollar guy. Yeah, it's not like it It's not like an elite only thing. It's just like everyone. Anyways, his first car loan payment was $1 ,200 so he converted $1 ,200 into pesos to pay his car loan and his most recent car loan Payment he told me was five hundred and eighty dollars because it only took five hundred and eighty dollars To acquire the same amount of peso that he would need to pay back his car loan inside So like when he takes like a 20 % peso 20 % interest rate loan on a one -year loan, which is a dumb loan It actually works out because it's inflating so goddamn much. It doesn't matter Do you know an elder millennial flex? It's just be like, yeah, I got a mortgage at 3 % Yeah, like that's a huge like that what a gift that was I can't get that nowadays and you know You're you're basically making money on that because inflation is higher than your interest payments So the Fed has an idea on why people are buying crypto and it's not necessarily inflation So apparently David every couple years the Fed puts out a survey on why people buy crypto they map Must be interested. I don't know. I don't know if they're worried or just Generally interested at least since 2019 First guess what percentage of Americans the Fed says owns crypto. What do you think? Well coin base said 50 million and there's like over 300 million Citizens so like yes, like what was that number like 20 % quick math 20 % percent one five kind of thing Yeah, the Fed reports less than that. Okay, so this is a survey of about 400 Americans and they say eight point one percent in their survey of Americans that own crypto Which is which is not nothing. It's not coin base numbers, but interestingly enough. This was up from one point nine percent Oh 2019 2019 one point nine percent now eight point one percent That number it's a great. It's a great like that's a great multiple, right? Little 4x for us and I think these numbers are actually 2022 numbers So, you know, although no one's really buying 20 20 Probably salad But one of the questions they asked in this survey is why do you guys why are you guys buying crypto? Why do you own crypto? All right, you want to know the number one reason why 67 % of Americans own crypto David? You want to guess what that is number go up? Yeah, it's number go up as an investment as an investment was number one with 67 % number two was curiosity about the tech was 21. I'm in it for the tech Those are the ones that are down on their bags They're dissident for the tech and then other interestingly enough was 10 % You know, what got no mentions was remittances payments for goods and services So no one using this as a payment in their in their study or number the last one most Dishardingly almost at zero because they don't trust banks. Well, duh, you don't as an American That's by crypto for remittances Well, okay, I guess if you're an American citizen and you are sending crypto abroad Then I guess I guess you are if you're like a if you have family abroad if you've recently immigrated that sort of thing You know, you know, maybe maybe you're probably doing like stable coins, I would expect yeah, but the big use case of Percent is investment is never to go up. So Anything surprising there for you David? No that that checks out. Well, I know you're in it for the tech man. So I'm in it for the means I Here's a number that's all I got at this point in the market Christ. Ooh, okay. Here's a number that is straight down It looks scary. Is this a good chart or a bad chart? We're looking at this. Oh the validator queue Okay, so this is okay now we're talking about crypto Okay, this is aetherium proof of sake validator queue, okay, so quick rock through memory lane We enabled withdrawals the supply of ether and the beacon chain went down because people withdraw and then the rate of inflows into the beacon chain like Accelerated bigly like 3x in chain. It's just people who want to state their state the proof of sake Yeah, there was like a 45 day wait queue to get into The beacon chain to stake their ETH a while ago We have finally approached an equilibrium that acceleration of people Depositing into proof of stake has finally started to come down and so it's currently less than 24 hours to deposit your ETH into the beacon chain staking contract and get your ether staking and so this is this is we this inevitably was going to This was never going to be up only of course, like, you know, not all ether is going to stake And so we are have found the equilibrium that equilibrium is around 27 .3 million staked ether that's 22 .7 % which is about the 20 to 30 percent range that we predicted So about three point five percent APR is about what the market wants And if that goes down then people won't want it anymore and that this is the equilibrium that we have finally arrived at cool It is cool a bullish bearish. I don't know straight neutral as a staker I was um, you know wanting to keep that number above three percent, right? Certainly, right? So I didn't want the queue to stay full and the demand to be kind of perpetual Yes, and so as a state you are not to see that number good. You are not alone Everyone else should unstake please I think it one reason what you know, why was it? Why did it get so high because 45 days is pretty high, right? All these people want to get in the in the beacon chain club and stake their ETH I think it was really because once withdrawals went through post Shanghai people just saw like lower risk I mean, maybe I'm extrapolating but that was true for me. I was like, okay. It was so obvious I was arguing with Bitcoin maxis around like as soon as withdrawals are enabled a theorem is gonna collapse because everyone's gonna unstake I'm like, you're an idiot. That's not how you do. Why do that to yourself, David? Why do you still argue with Bitcoin maxis, huh? People are wrong on the internet Ryan. Oh, okay. You can't sleep Yeah, can't sleep. Someone's wrong on the internet Token terminal speaking of Bitcoin You want to get you all your all your angry takes out about Bitcoin friend tech just surpassed Bitcoin in the 30 -day Fees, okay friend tech is making more money Selling each other as friends friend shares. Sorry, they don't call them that friends keys friend keys Then Bitcoin is making selling block space. That's what this means. That's a little rich bearish So not even a layer one app on a theorem a layer two app is making more money than Bitcoin is Yeah, Sam. I'm paying ether very little for security because it's on layer two friend tech revenue 28 million Bitcoin revenue 26 million over the last 30 days eth revenue 90 million Tron revenue 87 million the Tron revenue is actually such a dark horse Turns out Tron has very similar economics to aetherium and it's it's super duper used for payments And it's it you should be you should be careful saying Tron. Okay, because That old Justin Sun guy is kind of litigious. So you should be careful what you say about him We're gonna open up the store. Okay, can you can you open up the article then if we're gonna open up this article the Okay, Bankless released a Tron bull versus bear case Inspired by I think for me it was inspired. I didn't write it. It was inspired by Paul Enya's Article about the economics of Tron and how they're like their mimics ether and they're kind of bullish. And so we published this article Jack wrote a great great article wrote the bear case and then the bull case and so there was a When talking about the bull case for Tron is already super dubious. Why is it dubious? Well, cuz the founder Justin Sun I in my opinion is a morally bankrupt character And we alluded, you know, I is this my opinion It's my opinion and you could say that we just the article gave that disclaimer is like hey the bear case for Tron Is that you know, Justin Sun is dubious. He's there's allegations of fraud and then The author and the newsletter editor of Bankless got pulled into a telegram group with Justin Sun's lawyers for Tron and They submitted a cease -and -desist We're talking shit and they threatened legal action Against Bankless for publishing by the way, this wasn't just the bear case It was the the bear case and the bull because we just actually said there is kind of a weird bull case about Tron Which is that it's generating a lot of fees and it's burning those transactions Okay, it's completely centralized. It's completely part of the Justin some Sun Empire, but it is actually producing revenue number two behind a theorem yeah, and we got sent this cease -and -desist from Tron and We talked to our lawyers Here's what they say wild Assertations like Tron's primary function is to enrich its insiders and participating in the zero -sum game is a mistake that you will invariably Regret Yeah, if you want to live on a chain rot with fraud and deception then Tron might just be the one for you God, I'm so proud. That's what that's what that's what that's Jack put in the post But but yeah, the Lord Tron's lawyers disputed that they didn't like that. They sent us a cease -and -desist We talked to our lawyers and they said you look you got First Amendment, right? You get to say whatever you want Yeah, yeah, but do you really want to get in a pissing match with Justin Sun? We said, yeah We already shipped the newsletter so we'll just strip that from yeah So we have stripped it from the record because I don't want to go up against a billionaire who's gotten way more money than me Unless he's gonna be a total bully and then right like and then we might talk about it on the podcast. Yeah Just our opinions It's just my opinion Not anyone else's that Justin Sun is morally bankrupt and probably so are the lawyers who work for him There you go. Just an opinion just an opinion Okay, so back to the fees though We're talking about Bitcoin fees 30 days. I mean, I don't know David the quick take is I don't think this is great for Bitcoin and You know, we've said this for a long time since 2019 when it was a lot less possibly popular to talk about the sustainability or the lack of sustainability of bitcoins right monetary schedule and model and You know, it's it's starting to pop up again, it's really bad I'm looking at the graph that you have on the screen Which is just the token terminal like graph of who's making money a theory number one Tron number two bullish Lido number three friend taking before Bitcoin you know swap Where's Solana? There's 25 apps on here. No Solana doesn't make money do not not that not the traditional way It doesn't even make the top 25 and fees So it doesn't doesn't doesn't but you know everyone values the bull case for Solana is fees That's what they say. They make it up in volume. Like I think I think I actually make a volume I think the bull case for Solana is a fees but MEV it's sound you got to sell the block ordering at some point I maybe it's gonna be less the user fees. Yeah, it's MEV extraction for sure. Not our rent extractors their rent extractors Hey semantics You know what there we promised the last thing here is guys private warfare coming out Price predictions though. Okay. Okay. So this was a price prediction from Standard Chartered Bank Don't know who's gonna charter my favorite bank that your favorite bank. Yeah. Uh -huh. Okay. Well, they're analyzing ether and according their analysts ether could reach $8 ,000 by the end of 2026 okay, so but that's not their top side the top side at the end of the journey The long -term range is twenty six thousand to thirty five thousand. Okay. All right now we're talking Yep, and I don't know what timeline that is, but that's it's like in the fullness ten years out It sounds like yeah, something like this final Yeah, the equilibrium so I don't know what like backs their analysts But I know David you have some takes on the price of youth If you don't at this point in the episode when I teased you just like 15 minutes ago To get your take ready because I'm gonna ask you what do you think the top is for this bull cycle for ether? What's the top call? Give me a number call the top for the next cycle. I mean my gut my heart says 15k Okay, okay. So we had 10k was the mean price last bull market and we got to Four thousand eight hundred which in logarithmic terms actually isn't terribly far off from that But you know still a 2x or away from the top so increasing last cycles call from 10k to 15k I think is appropriate so And what what do you think are you willing to time box that you know, are we talking 20 24 25 26? longer Assuming four -year cycles play out then yeah end of 26 by the end of 26 What year is it? 23 15k by 20 soon. That's what you're saying 15k in two years who is starting to get real specific That's making me a little scared. There you go Those are some specific numbers in times which I am just pulling from my absolute. You know what? I don't know I mean, you know, that's only double what standard chartered bank said. So yeah company here All right. Well, wait, wait, what's your number? You say you want to know my number? Yeah I was gonna go twelve thousand five hundred. Okay. Okay, but in honor of Friday the 13th 13 ,000 13 ,000 This is me saying that's the top. That's the eve price top for next cycle 13 ,000 I'm just a little bit under 15 ,000. My rationale is we're looking at it like I was like David's too bullish Yeah rational My is take anything David says and then discount it by 20 % because that's that's what we do in this podcast Anyway, those are our numbers those are our numbers David what we have coming up in the episode kind of next SPF trial week To Gary Wang we got to talk about him because he was last week But we didn't cover him because he was on Friday Caroline Ellison this week kind of a climactic cinematic moment in the trial There's a lot to cover including Ryan don't forget about the Thai prostitutes got to talk about them Wow, you're weirdly excited about that part. I don't know Also crypto is playing a role in the story of the Israel Hamas conflict So we'll discuss the details there And of course, there's always just gonna be the regular old news of the week some new chains coming to polygon Remember ape coin now ape chains We'll talk about that far casters going permissionless all this stuff and more but first I'm going to talk about these fantastic sponsors that make this show possible Especially kraken our preferred exchange for crypto in 2023 if you're not having account with kraken and consider clicking the link in the show notes to get started with kraken today Kraken pro has easily become the best crypto trading platform in the industry the place I used 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 lightning -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 pick and choose your favorite Modules and place them anywhere you want in your screen with kraken pro You have that power whether you are a seasoned pro or just starting out join thousands of traders who trust kraken pro for their crypto Trading needs visit pro .kraken .com to get started today Arbitrum is accelerating the web 3 landscape with a suite of secure Ethereum scaling solutions hundreds of projects have already deployed on arbitrum 1 with flourishing DeFi and NFT ecosystems Arbitrum Nova is quickly becoming a web 3 gaming hub and social dapps like reddit are also calling arbitrum home and now Arbitrum orbit allows you to use arbitrum secure scaling technology to build your own layer 3 giving you access to interoperable Customizable permissions with dedicated throughput whether you are a developer enterprise or user arbitrum orbit lets you take your project to new heights All of these technologies leverage the security and decentralization of aetherium and provide a builder experience That's intuitive familiar and fully EVM compatible faster transaction speeds and significantly lower gas fees So visit arbitrum .io where you can join the community dive into the developer docs bridge your assets and start building your first app with arbitrum Experience web 3 development the way it was always meant to be secure fast cheap and friction -free Here it is SBF trial.
Daily Crypto Report
A highlight from "Crypto friendly Tom Emmer makes a move for House Majority Leader" Oct 09, 2023
"It's 8am Eastern October the 9th, and this is your daily crypto report. Bitcoin is down slightly at $27 ,443, ETH is down slightly at $1 ,587, and Binance Coin is up slightly at $206. Minnesota Republican Representative Tom Emmer is making a move for House Majority Leader following the removal of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Emmer has shown support for crypto -related legislation in the past, including introducing the Securities Clarity Act, voiced opposition to CBDCs, and introduced a bill to prevent the Federal Reserve from issuing a CBDC directly to individuals. He has also criticized the SEC Chair Gary Gensler for his approach to regulating digital assets and for not allowing the listing of a spot Bitcoin ETF, and he's supportive of a comprehensive bill that seeks to establish a regulatory framework for crypto, it might be interesting to have him in the speaker seat. The hacker who exploited the crypto exchange HTX last month stealing approximately 5 ,000 ETH has returned a portion of the stolen funds. HTX advisor and Tron founder Justin Sun confirmed the recovery and revealed that a white hat bonus of 250 ETH, or around $400 ,000, was paid to the hacker as a reward for returning the other funds. In an on -chain message, the hacker explained the vulnerability in HTX's hot wallet and recommended changing the wallet address and reducing its rate. HTX expressed gratitude to the hacker for returning the funds and requested a security vulnerability analysis report to prevent similar incidents in the future. Well, South Korea's largest crypto exchange, Upbit, faced nearly 160 ,000 hacking attempts in the first half of this year, according to their parent company. That translates to approximately 879 hacking attempts each day on average. The methods employed by hackers were not specified, but they could include phishing and DDoS attacks. The number of hacking attempts is two times higher than the attempts recorded in the first half of last year. And finally, OpenAI founder Sam Altman expressed concerns about the U .S. government's approach to crypto, which he sees as a war on crypto. During a recent appearance on the Joe Rogan podcast, Altman criticized recent government actions that he believes are attempting to control and suppress the sector. He also voiced his opposition to CBDC's saying that he is super against them. Altman remains enthusiastic about Bitcoin, emphasizing its role as a global currency free from government control. But Altman himself has faced criticism within the crypto community for his involvement in the controversial WorldCoin project over privacy and ethical concerns, resulting in legal issues in some countries. Well, that's all for us today. Visit us at dailycryptoreport .io for sources and links and listen to us everywhere else you podcast under Daily Crypto Report. I'm Dr. Rae Wynn -Grant, wildlife ecologist and host of the award -winning podcast Going Wild, produced by Nature on PBS. In the brand new season of Going Wild, we're tackling the big question, how can humans look at our relationship to nature differently? And with the help of special guests like Christian Cooper, host of Nat Geo's Extraordinary Birder, and Ayanna Elizabeth Johnson, co -creator of the How to Save a Planet podcast. Follow Going Wild with Dr. Rae Wynn -Grant on your favorite podcast app.
The Breakdown
A highlight from An Analyst Warns on TUSD, stUSDT, and Huobi/HTX
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, N .L .W. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Sunday, October 8th, and that means it's time for Long Read Sunday. Before we get into that, however, if you're enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. Hello friends, welcome back to The Breakdown. As you might imagine, a huge portion of people's commentary and op -ed writing this week is about SPF and the trial, but man, we are doing a lot of coverage around that, and I kind of get a chance to editorialize constantly about it. So I wanted to do something different, although it may be a little less unrelated than it might at first seem. Today's Long Read is going to come from Twitter. It's around a viral thread by analyst Dylan LeClair, which has some pretty serious allegations around Justin Sun and Huobi. Now, I am not presenting this as definitive. I'm not presenting this as smoking guns. I'm presenting this because I think it's imperative in the world that we live in now, the post -Sam world, to be just a little bit more cautious, to pull on threads that seem strange, to explore and dive in and use the tools of on -chain analysis that we have available to us, to ask if the leaders in the space are behaving the way that they're supposed to be behaving. I think, unfortunately for exchange owners and for basically any other leaders in the space, they're just going to have to answer more questions now than they might have needed to in the past. I think that many of us have a sense that had we asked harder questions of people like Sam, we might not be in the situation that we're in now. I certainly feel that on a deeply personal level. So, like I said, the spirit that I present this to you is one, a desire to see a cleaner, better, more above board crypto space in general, and two, an offering for you to do your own investigations, to go explore what Dylan has to say and come to your own conclusions. On October 4th, Dylan tweeted, Thread on the web of deception with Justin Sun around Huobi, STUSD -T, and TUSD, as well as the TUSD relationship with Binance and the drain of real USD liquidity from the crypto ecosystem. In late 2022, Justin Sun reportedly acquired a controlling stake in Huobi, now named HTX, which had over 1 .5 billion Tether deposits at the time. Over the summer, deposited Tether funds started getting replaced by STUSD -T. This substitution has been largely unnoticed by Huobi users. What is STUSD -T? STUSD -T, controlled by Justin Sun, claims to provide a yield by investing in quote real world assets, such as treasury bills, while the actual flow of funds from Huobi's USDT to STUSD -T, and then to just lend DAO, indicates that no such investment into real world assets occurs. We can follow these swaps very clearly on chain, and let's remember that STUSD -T and USDT are considered as the same asset natively on Huobi, as evidenced by their lack of STUSD -T trading pairs. Instead, it goes to just lend under Sun's control, and the USDT is not burned. Huobi wallets have been found to transfer significant amounts of USDT to STUSD -T's staking contract, then STUSD -T circles back to Huobi. As seen in Bloomberg, you can see a shift in Huobi's reserves from July 1st to September 15th. On July 1st, USDT made up 18 .8 % of reserves, but by September 15th, this had dwindled to just 4 .7%, while Sun's STUSD -T grew to represent 14 .5 % of reserves. As an NLW aside here, Bloomberg was actually looking at the complete set of Huobi reserve assets and found that on July 1st before STUSD -T was introduced, tokens associated with Sun, which include Tron, made up around 38 .7 % of Huobi's reserves, and now tokens that are linked to him make up about 60 % of Huobi's reserves. This is obviously very top of mind, given the fact that FTX's collapse was associated with people realizing how much of Alameda's balance sheet was just SAM coins. Now back to Dylan's thread. Huobi USDT gets staked for STUSD -T, which then moves to just lend, a platform Sun controls. The USDT never invests in RWAs, but just sits in just lend, while Huobi users end up with STUSD -T instead of the USDT they thought they owned. Looking at just lend, currently there is 1 .3 billion STUSD -Ts supplied, earning 4 .23%, with only 15 .15K of borrowing, earning 0 .01%. The real -world asset story is a lie. However, it isn't uniquely USDT this is happening with. TUSD, which is also controlled by Sun, plays a part. Over the past six months, a significant portion of TUSD burns have been attributed to just two wallets, both associated with Sun. So, isn't it convenient that you can now quote -unquote stake TUSD to mint STUSD -T? In theory, the TUSD slash USDT is burned, so that the supply decreases, and the supposed cash -backing it invests in T -bills that earn a yield that's passed on to the holders of STUSD -T, i .e., 500 million of TUSD is minted, sent to Huobi, then sent to Sun's wallets, parked in just lend, mints STUSD -T, STUSD -T goes to Huobi, TUSD gets burned, STUSD -T on Huobi remains. TLDR? Use the Tether or USDT brand and its reputation internationally, swap it for fake STUSD -T, while it appears as regular USDT in the UI -UX on Huobi. And then what? What's the end goal? Why create an IOU of another stable and trick your users behind the user interface? For one, selling the USDT, which is actually mostly STUSD -T, for USDC, on Huobi. Data from Keiko shows this clearly through the USDC -USDT cumulative volume delta on Huobi, with 350 million of Tether being sold off for USDC in just over two months. Data from just over the last few days shows every single transaction over 100k is swapping USDT for USDC on the pair. To reiterate, it's mostly STUSD -T under the surface, being sold in hoards for USDC, which can then be redeemed for US dollars at Circle. This is not unique to just HTX -slash -Huobi, though. We have seen similar developments on Binance, albeit without the STUSD -T sleight of hand, since the SVB collapse, CVD shows an $8 .9 billion difference for the USDC -USDT pair, indicating $8 .9 billion of USDC buying while selling Tether on Binance. Even if you remove the first month post -SVD collapse, the CVD for the pair is still plus $4 -5 billion of net buying for USDC. Also according to Arkham, Binance wallets preceding the SVB crash to today are minus $4 .27 billion USDC and up $384 .1 million Tether. Let's also note Binance's curious relationship with TUSD. On March 15th, mere days after the SVB collapse and Binance re -enabling USDC trading on the platform, 0 % fee trading on little -known TUSD was enabled for the Bitcoin, ETH and BNB pairs. While zero fee trading is obviously anything but organic, the chart comparing Bitcoin to Tether pairs versus Bitcoin to TUSD pairs is something to behold. Dylan then shows a chart of Bitcoin TUSD volume absolutely leaping up. He then adds, but to be fair, it was an expected development from the 0 % fee trading promo. The real interesting chart, Dylan continues, is a look at the TUSD outstanding supply and the timing of its largest mints. Convenient timing for billion dollar increases in the stablecoin sent directly to Binance at a time where zero fee trading is enabled. Quite the timing, isn't it? Never mind that TUSD attestations are blatantly unreliable and shady, and its largest mints are coincidentally timed perfectly with market sell -offs. But the world's largest exchange is promoting said stablecoin with zero fee trading for its largest pairs? By the way, let's note the token distribution for TUSD, shall we? Dylan then shares a chart from Arkham that shows the vast, vast majority of TUSD controlled by either Binance or entities associated with Justin Sun. Dylan wraps up, One, Sun is creating a web of deception in order to siphon USD liquidity out of crypto using a multitude of fake stablecoins. And dare I say, he is a fraud. Two, CZ and his embrace of TUSD, despite it being very suspect, is also ominous and reeks of desperation. Three, TUSD minting patterns during sell -offs are suspect and must be noted. Four, Huobi users get out of USDT into another asset and withdraw immediately. Number five, it's no wonder the Chief Strategy Officer for Circle is saying that the crypto ecosystem is blatantly counterfeiting USD. Alright guys, back to NLW. Now Justin Sun for his part responded to this just by blocking Dylan. I haven't seen any commentary specifically addressing this, and I also haven't seen any follow -up reporting from other outlets like Blockworks or Coindesk, but what I do see is a lot of people retweeting this, quote -tweeting this, and saying basically, this is something that needs to have an eye kept on it. Travis Kling said, read this. Now imagine a world where we collectively held our leaders to some semblance of accountability, where Justin Sun would actually have to respond to this thread thoughtfully and with evidence rather than post four. Why don't we demand a world like that? Well, friends, it is in that spirit that I share this Long Read Sunday. Go check it out, and let's see if we can't start the next bull run in a much cleaner, better, more above board kind of space. Until next time, be safe and take care of each other.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"justin well" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"President Obama told us eight years ago elections have consequences. There you go. The consequence for you being on this couch is you have wound up as Brian mentioned earlier with a brand new show. It's going to start Monday night. It's called Tucker Carlson Tonight. What will we talk about? We'll be in DC. I'll be the only person left in the city. You've always been at a loss for words, right? Tucker, thank you very much. Congratulations. Thank you as always. So most people in media are trash. They're degenerates. You know, they do not have really, I think, proper moral behavior. Tucker is a great man. He's honest. He's ethical. He's compassionate. He's fiercely loyal. He's always been there for me. And I'm honored to call him a friend, whereas most of the people in media are duplicitous and just awful. Chadwick riff on that a little bit. Tucker Carlson is a decent man. I would agree with your characterization of people in media, absolutely. And not only is he a decent guy, he's a hilarious guy, you know, as you can imagine, and in person and hanging out with them. You're just in stitches half the time. But he is truly a decent man. And you know, I think that something interesting I found out I got to interview some of these people for the book is the man gives his phone number to basically everyone who stops him on the street. It's sort of an amazing thing. And it's a big source of where he gets content for his shows. So I talked to like, you know, waitresses, pilots, nurses, actors, just random people who had a random encounter with Tucker Carlson, and he gave them his phone number, and they text all the time. He always responds to everyone. He gets a lot of show ideas from there. He doesn't get content from his show from the New York Times. It's everyday average people. You can't imagine a lot of people on cable news being that way with the unwashed masses, you know, a lot of people on cable news have such an ego. Tucker doesn't have that. And one thing I saw that when I spent so much time with him is that he really goes through great lengths to humble himself, to remind himself every day that he's not God. Because when you're on cable news, and you have that job, the job title is I am God. I'm right, you're wrong. I'm telling you about the world. And he steps away from his hour on television and reminds himself that he's not, that he's just a person like billions of others who've existed before him and will surely exist after him. So talk about the impact that Tucker has made on the philosophical direction of the right. He moved the Overton window on things like war, the border, immigration, corporate power, the idea of chemical castration of children, you know, all just from little things to big things. Tucker Carlson, I believe, has in a good way radicalized the right. I agree. And I think that one area where he's still working to move the right, he certainly has, I think, among average people, maybe not necessarily our leaders, is talking about beauty and talking about architecture and talking about environmentalism, not from a crazy green energy climate change perspective, but keeping a beautiful planet. You know, conservatives, in his view, are meant to conserve things. That's what the ideology is about. And yet we have leaders that have been said, embraced this kind of libertarian idea that, as Tucker would say, the aesthetics of the dollar store are important and that we should all live in strip malls and horribly ugly environments. That's one of my favorite, personally, one of my favorite things about Tucker and writing this book was that, unlike anyone else on television, he could talk about these things. He could talk about architecture and beauty in a way that nobody else could because he deeply cares about these things and believes in them. And he tries to push the Republican Party to embrace those things as well. I think with many Republican voters, you don't have to convince them. They already agree with that. So Tucker has big plans. He said he's going to start a network. He's into all these things. What is going on? What is Tucker have planned for us? Because we have not heard the last of Tucker Carlson. That's right. They are currently raising money to start their own network. Tucker's executive producer, Justin Wells, tells me that on this new venture, you're going to see a lot more Tucker than you ever saw on Fox News.
The BOB & TOM Show Free Podcast
"justin well" Discussed on The BOB & TOM Show Free Podcast
"Go. This is from Justin. My dad bought a storage unit, and it was a bunch of boxes with unwrapped porn videos. Still in cases in all, then a bunch of homemade candles, skulls, some stuffed animals. I mean everything. It was the strangest storage unit I've ever seen. Oh, my God. Have a great day, y'all, Justin. Well, remember you. Yesterday we had that story about the body parts human body parts. It was 20 boxes of body parts. Being sold on the black market. And my question with that, what possible purpose would you have? Did we get any wind bags suggesting what could have been done if I don't know. I guess if you win back knowing what happens to that kind of stuff you you're sort of confessing. I know what they're doing with it. Oh jeez. You boil it down till you get the bones. That's my question. I don't know. Yeah. I mean, it was the body parts did include human genitalia. Very unpleasant ladies and gentlemen. Now, Christy Lee is a woman, the bob and Tom news just coming up. We're going to talk with the great recording artist Peter Frampton. We'll talk with Peter coming up at about half an hour. What have you got over there right now, Christy? Well, coming up, we're going to have a lot of news about animals. We have a bear that shocked a West Virginia principle. We have an emu chasing a woman on a rail trail. Bees and be careful where you throw your joints, ladies and gentlemen, it can be hazardous for doggies. And a reason to feature these
WCPT 820
"justin well" Discussed on WCPT 820
"Life? Yes. Pretty much all the time. Thinking nasty psycho liquid crap. You sit on a throne of lies. Historians have ranked Trump 43rd from the bottom. Presidents and find that 19th, so I don't. That's his whole. You could take out of the worst president to put the big banks or failing blah blah blah. No, no, no, according to Glenn Kessler. Real wages. He said have been falling 24 months in a row, blah, blah, something, workers, pay cut. No, no, no. Do we want to just hear, let's hear it from the orange horse's mouth, yeah. Our cities have been overrun with homelessness, drug addicts, and violent criminals who are being released from jail and mass with no retribution whatsoever while law enforcement is weaponized against law abiding conservatives or Republicans or people they just don't like. It's not back in the blue? Pardon me. Yes, Glenn cluster described that as a mishmash of grievances and false claims. So that was a little mix of his. And the fate wages falling. That's also just a completely inaccurate. Okay, did I need to say that everything Trump says is a lie, I guess I didn't need to. All right, and he ended up Taj Mahal was rated the top casino, the world has ever seen. And this will be taught as projection one O one in psychology classes forever. This next one. On top of it all, Biden is the most corrupt president in American history. And that's not even close. And I love my way to prison. What's going on? Again, no retribution whatsoever. With such a calamitous and failed presidency, it is almost inconceivable that Biden would even think of running for reelection. Yeah. You know what happened in the last election. They cheated. And they rigged the election. But I promise you this, when I stand on that debate stage and compare our records, it will be radical Democrats worst nightmare because there's never been a record as bad as they have. And our country has never been through so much. I hope I get to stay on because if they don't, then I say go to the United States. Can you imagine seeing that? Oh, God. Half a day and having to live with that, even in a separate room. Oh my God. Even through one meal, having to stop hearing him. You know, it was really good. Stay in this meditation, this marriage, money, money, money, stay in this medicine, this money. It was rigged. It was rigged. You know, stolen. Have I told you that before? They cheated like I cheated on you. With a porn actress when our son was four months old. Very disgraceful. Many people are saying, see that she did like I did. If he ever does make a debate stage. Biden is just going to destroy him with the actual facts and figures. What he says, his record. I mean, you can't spin that unemployment is less than half. It was when Trump was in office XYZ. I mean, every single barometer is eleventy billion times better, Chris. That's what I did. Yeah. I think you should just say that. Infrastructure went up, bridges were built, roads were repaired. It's awful. Many people will tell you it's a terrible many people say. And the homeless situation started. Just right at the beginning of it wasn't there when I did it. Every single person was housed when I was president, yes. Mike and Colorado, you're on with Carlos. Hello. Hang on here. Oh, okay, good morning, gang. Hi. Warren. Something really delicious happened yesterday here. Governor polis signed a law called the right to fix it. Which means that outfits like John Deere Alice Chalmers, et cetera, et cetera has to give farmers, I would assume probably in ranchers. Manuals tools, software, whatever to fix their machines. One guy, one guy that was at the signing yesterday had to wait like four weeks for tech to come out and do like 5 minutes of code work to get his machines, it would be back to operating. Now, the dilemma for our friends on the other side is that they either vote against their conservative rancher farmer friends or they vote against their manufacturer friends. And I think that I think that the Democrats that immediately bring up in the House and the Senate, a right to a right to fix Bill. Just like what was signed here. And let the Republicans crawl up from underneath their rocks and decide whose side they're going to be on. Okay. Good. Good. They are a giant bag of rats over on that side. Can I just say, thank you. Here's another one. Peter Navarro. Lashed out at Brian kilmeade. He was the first villain host. I don't know who's who's been, but I think it was Monday. Yeah. Brian kilmeade, you tweeted to watch him. He'll be invited followers to tune in to borrow said, hard no, Brian kilmeade, you never Trump suck puppet, your midget feet wouldn't fit in Tucker. Carlson's big shoes in this lifetime. Goodness. Cut the Fox News court now. Wow. Wow. But Tucker had a crumb. It revealed that chucker also has. Well, in private, not in public. He then quote tweeted himself and added, by the way, this is why Brian kilmeade is such a cowardly scumbag and honorable man would have declined to sit in for Tucker the very first night of the firing, but no, the biggest never trumper at Fox News this side of Karl rove went for the carcass. Fight fight, fight, fight, fight. We were all awful. Did you notice that the C word story about Tucker this morning? They brought up, well, what about the time that he said those things about Trump? He said, that was just a fit of rage. I had a long and enduring feeling towards the executive I called a seat word. I don't like how the whole dossier. This is done. Yes, oppo, isn't it fantastic? Who is opposition research files on their own employees? You do? Well, that goes without saying. Fox News executives have in their possession a dossier of alleged dirt on Tucker Carlson should he attack the network in the wake of his firing at 8 sources close to the network, say the anchor and some of the channel's top executives are parting ways on the worst and messy as possible terms. Fox News and its communications department has assembled damaging information about Carlson one source with knowledge calls it an opposition file. It includes internal complaints regarding workplace conduct, disparaging comments about management and colleagues and allegations that the former host created a toxic work environment. I was shocked, shocked to find out that his workplace environment was exactly the same as his show. I was shocked to find that. A workplace having a dossier. And that's when you get when you make a deal with the devil. Hey, come with me. You can say anything you want. You can lie, huh? I love lawyers because I'm alive. You want to work for me and get famous. What? Why was not allowed? I was not aware that the devil had that accent. That is, he's from where now? A cockney actually well, his last name is Murdoch. Okay, sorry. Got it. Yes, apparently they've been the past planted negative stories about some of their own top starts, including Bill O'Reilly and Stuart varney. So I don't know what Tucker's hired this high powered attorney, right? The same one John lemon hired. So it continued to fight fight fight. Big bag of rats. You're all equal waffle. Maybe Don lemon and Tucker will have like a point counterpoint type of show. Oh, that'd be fun. That would be fun. TMZ reported that news nation was talking to both of them yesterday. Oh, fantastic news. Okay. So rocket. Endless said, so what was Carlson saying about safe Fox News media CEO Suzanne Scott? What was he texting about the Murdochs? We don't know. We may never know, but this theory may explain why Carlson's top producer in Tex mate Justin wells was also terminated his predilection for using vulgar language he was revealed to have called apparently he called everyone the SeaWorld. I just didn't tell him. Willy nilly. Yes. Yeah, so there's so much speculation, Carlos as to what could have been a combination of things, but yeah, that he is gone? I don't think the why is important. I think the fact that he has gone is just
The Ben Shapiro Show
"justin well" Discussed on The Ben Shapiro Show
"Warrior partnership. Go to pure talk dot com enter promo code Shapiro say 50% off your very first month of coverage that's pure talk dot com from a code Shapiro pure talk is simply smarter wireless. Okay, so what lay behind this? So a few different theories. Theory number one is that Tucker was basically ousted as a consequence of the dominion lawsuit. This is the theory of The Washington Post, The Washington Post says, Carlson's a private messages, or among hundreds of internal communications made public in the course of the dominion lawsuit, it caused angst embarrassment for Fox and heightened the company's legal jeopardy. Fox ultimately agreed to pay dominion $800 million or so. Among other comments, Carlson expressed skepticism of the election fraud claims made on air by attorney's affiliated with president Trump and declared that he passionately hates the former president, whose rise to power had been cured by Fox in order to avoid people like Tucker having to testify or judge jeanine having to testify or why variety of other Fox News hosts having to testify. Fox News instead decided to in this would be Rupert Murdoch decided to sign an $800 million check to dominion. But according to The Washington Post, it wasn't those comments that were so bothersome. It was Carlson's comments about Fox management as revealed in the dominion case that played a role in his departure from Fox, according to a person familiar with the company's thinking, quote, to the executives understand how much credibility and trust we've lost with our audience. Carlson wrote to a colleague in a message, a day after Fox, like if the other media outlets called the election for Joe Biden. This is a sentiment echoed by others at Fox in the fall of 2020. As you can network officials who just believed that Trump's election fraud conspiracy theories, friend of the countering them strongly would alienate their consumer viewers. So in other words, a lot of the Fox News executives were looking at the fact that Tucker really didn't believe a lot of the things that were being alleged by Sidney Powell and Trump's legal team, but also was deeply worried about how that was going to play with the Fox News audience and all that had now come out. In another message, Carlson referred to management with an expletive quote, those efforts are destroying our credibility. He later wrote a combination of incompetent liberals and top leadership with too much pride back down is what is happening. Carlson did not have a farewell show, obviously. So this is theory number one is that this was the natural after effect of the dominion lawsuit that basically everybody who was involved in any sort of credibility giving to the election fraud narrative is now going to be on the line. And to back that theory, you have the fact that Fox News also parted ways with Dan bongino just last week. And Dan bongino, of course, had been very vocal in his support not only for president Trump, but also had wanted to do an interview a couple of years ago in which Trump actually aired his grievances about the election. The Fox News brass cut the interview and Dan actually went on the air and he said, you shouldn't cut the interview with the former president of the United States. He's the former president of the United States. It was just a few days ago that Fox News parted ways with bongino. So it's hard not to see Carlson's ouster in the context of Dan bongino also being ousted as of last week. Now that's not the only possible theory theory number two is that they're ancillary issues that we actually are only now becoming aware of. According to the Los Angeles Times, and this would have been Steve battalion reporting to staff writer over there. People familiar with the situation who are not authorized to come in publicly said the decision to fire Carlson came straight from the top from Rupert Murdoch directly. Carlson's exit is related, according to them, to the discrimination lawsuit filed by Abby grosberg, is another lawsuit that has been on the books. She's a producer fired by the network last month according to certain people. Carlson senior executive producer Justin wells has also been terminated, according to people familiar with the matter. So what exactly was in that particular lawsuit? A bunch of allegations were in that particular lawsuit. None of them, particularly pretty. According to Yahoo news, just about a month ago, that discrimination lawsuit included allegations that constant bullying and gaslighting caused the producer so much stress and anxiety or stomach ulcers flared up and she was in excruciating pain and that you've been discriminated against based on gender religion and disability. Discovery may have uncovered other ugly messages, perhaps. Maybe this is what Fox News was worried about. The network said in a statement, Fox News media engaged in independent outside counsel to immediately investigate the concerns raised by miss grosberg, which were made following a critical performance review. Grossberg's complaint contains allegations that fox's lawyers pressured her to provide misleading testimony in the dominion claim in the dominion voting claim. Fox News says her allegations in connection with the minion case are baseless. We will vigorously defend Fox against all of her legal claims, which have no merit. So again, the allegation here is that a former Tucker producer was alleging anti semitism and sexism and maybe this had some legal ramifications. So that is theory number two is that it was sort of ancillary issues that producers lawsuit. Another possibility was that the network was very upset with the possibility of additional legal liability created they think by Tucker Carlson. For example, rate apps who you'll recall from Tucker show, he was a Texas man who the day before the actual storming of the capitol building urge people to enter the capitol building. That a lot of people on the right have suggested that he was some sort of FBI plant. And eps was interviewed Sundance N 60 minutes. He suggested that Tucker had targeted him, maybe Fox News didn't want to be hit with another lawsuit. That's quite possible after having suffered an $800 million settlement, which is actually the largest media settlement in American history, so far as we are aware. Again, that is a possibility as well.
WLS-AM 890
"justin well" Discussed on WLS-AM 890
"Their toddlerhood. Propose I mean, we're talking about surgical interventions. I mean, I want you to put this in context. We're talking about using scalpels to permanently alter the bodies of children because they've been, they told someone a story about how they think they're the opposite gender. I want you to think about something. I had a, I had a couple pretty dramatic surgeries over the last ten years. I had three in the last 6 months. A couple of them were easy. I had a hernia fixed. I blew that out. Deadlifting, like, an idiot. My old age, not taking it easy. But I had a really serious elbow operation. I mean, open, it was not arthroscopic. It was both sides and it's what they took out of my elbow was pretty nasty. And it was a pretty extensive operation. The doctor, my Doctor Who was extremely talented and really saved my body. I mean, my arm was a mess. Before that, he came in to Jim. He sat me down in the room over in over in the health clinic where he has an office and he was like, listen, I want to warn you. Here's what's going to happen. You're going to be in the hospital overnight. I can't let you out. We're going to do a nerve block. He said, because the nerve is so compressed, you're going to have a lot of feeling and skin and the muscles you haven't had in a while. Some of it's going to be really painful. He said, we're going to have to use his bone chisel. I mean, he went through the whole thing and he said, because this isn't a life or death situation, it's functional but cosmetic because my arm was basically cocked at a 90° angle, like all the time. It just looked weird. If you go to my Instagram and look at pictures of me 6 months ago, you can see it. It's not. You'll see my own, that's not me trying to be like, do it like a karate chop or something. That's how my arm was. It was just permanently, but it wasn't life threatening. I could still move it a little bit, and the doctor said to me, your big boy, man, you gotta make your own decisions. I'm just telling you, this is gonna be a lot of work for you. This is not gonna be any working out for months. You're gonna have bleeding, there's gonna be a lot of blood. And I made that decision. Yet this is the craziest thing. You got a bunch of kids who are clearly not emotionally mature enough to be discussing issues of their gender and sexuality, some of them 9 to 13 years old. And we're discussing taking a surgical blade to their bodies and doing a massive surgery that if an adult was doing it and nothing to do with gender politics, you'd be talking to them and say, hey, listen, you got to be very careful. I mean, folks, I'm serious, man. You have women and men. Going in for plastic surgery, mommy makeovers and stuff like that. Who probably get a more detailed briefing from a doctor about this surgery than some of these kids are getting. You got people going in for Botox. Hey, listen, there's some potential side effects. You got to be careful of this. That's insane. All right, I'm going to take a break a little early. And here's the reason. I usually go longer in this segment. They leave us a lot more time on the other side. Something we'd lose any time in the show, obviously. But there's a lot of stuff starting to filter out about this Tucker case online. I don't know what's true, what's not again. I'm going to be fair when I'm telling you I'm reporting other people's stuff. There's a report that just came out that Tucker's producer, Justin wells. I know they were very close as left as well. So this is really spiraling into an incredibly busy news day. As we're on the air, a lot of people, I think, are going to have a lot of questions about what's going on. And I have an obligation to report what I know to you, but the reported factually. So I'm going to take a quick break. I'm going to scour some of my Internet sources here and see if I can get an update for you in this Tucker thing after this break. We'll be right back. Folks, these are trying times, the natural rights endowed by our creator and protected by our constitution are under attack by the most extreme leftists our nation has ever seen. But there are plenty of patriots with the courage to stand up to the left with the courage to stand up for the preservation of our constitutional republic as well. And there's an easy way for you to stand beside them. That's why I'm asking
TuneInPOC
"justin well" Discussed on TuneInPOC
"It's so good. It's going to terrible. No, now control yourself. Oh, I can't imagine why anyone would do such a thing. Good. Do you know where Hans is? Well, I suppose he is at his apartment. Hasn't he called you this morning? Yeah, usually does, but he hasn't. Stephan hunt is broken partly or uncle's body. Could I must one? I was letting him know what's happened. That's bad. By all means phone him at once. Are you calling? Of course. It's chronic state for free force 7. That's right. He must be there. Okay. What have I answered by now? Where could he be? I haven't the slightest idea. But he always calls me before this. It isn't possible. It can't be. Oh, now just try to control yourself, Yale. So it is clear. Special delivery sign here, please. Well, thank you. Who is it for? For you. Good. It's from home. Could heaven's read it? Leaving me, and I'm an important business. Contact me at 16 ruder Roche Paris, under name of Pierre Cabo. I don't understand him. What does he mean? What important business? Why should he disappear like this? I have no idea, but it does look strange. Your uncle has murdered and haunts disappears. But what motive could he have had? But they found his pipe near uncle's body. You know Hans had nothing to do with it? I'll admit he's always been rather peculiar never seemed to let loose always seem to be on his guard, but why didn't you think of no reason for this? What could this important business be? He never told me of it. I honestly go to Paris under an assumed name. And that is strange. Good. That officer said something. What? Well, you know the knuckle was active in anti Nazi work. Do you suppose it could be a Nazi? Why not? But who? Who do we know that's a Nazi? Ah, I said that. Wait a minute. You just said that you felt Hans was always on his guard. To me, you felt he was concealing something? Well, there have been times when I felt that, but on the whole I thought of him as a slow thinking, absent minded professor. But it does seem strange that the moment I go gave him the check that this should happen and he should disappear. Maybe he went to visit our old pal, Jean Renault. He remembers young. He was one of our classmates. He's going to have a strange feeling with Hans wooden go away like this without telling me beforehand. I missed something were wrong. Do you suppose that Hans has been deceiving us all alone? What makes you ask that? Well, it certainly occurred to me that he spoke French without the traits of an accent. And I remember Joe Reno said once that he spoke English without an accent. So what? What if he did? We had to learn to do that. Certainly not by living in Vienna all his life. Oh, I see what you mean. Why didn't you tell me beforehand that it was leaving? Nobody wrote you this letter? Yes, but it wasn't written by the Han so I know. I think you'd better forget about it. I didn't tell you this. The police found a note on the floor. It said leader Paul galley, death. It must admit that uncle was an anti nasty leader, and he was sentenced to die. And if this ties in with Hans disappearance, then Hans must have been connected with the national darling. You're getting yourself all worked up. You don't think Hans was a Nazi? Well, I'll admit that what you've got it all worked out. It sounds plausible, but if he was a Nazi, and he's left the country, what can we do about it? He won't come back. Why should he go to Paris? Was a good friend of ours? I'm sure Jean knows nothing about Hans being a Nazi, Jean would never suspect him. Maybe Paris is his next assignment. Nazis are just as busy in France as they are here. Let's see that letter from hunts. He says here, contact me 16 rood arose Paris. Veteran I was addressed 16 ruder Roche. I just can't believe it. How could I have been such a fool? I'll see who it is, don't they? I'm captain Gruber from police headquarters. Come in captain. All right, the public again for a land. We went to Michael's apartment. He wasn't there. He wasn't. As far as I've been in the garage, all that. Strange? He's on this riding on the notepad on his desk. Is it his handwriting? Yes. Is written the same two words over and over again. As though he tried to make up his mind about something. But what's become of his car? The guy's been fountain. Where? The public arrives. Remote indications make list left the country. Rub a bigger plan. So my Friends, we've discovered that hunts minkler is a French citizen. A French citizen? He always led us to believe that he was a native Austrian. No, we want to check things over, little further. We'll be back this afternoon. Please don't disturb anything. No, no, we won't. By the way, what is your name, sir? My name is Kurt Lesnar. Good day. Good. What did you see? What were you looking at Justin? Well, what do you mean? What do you uncle's desk? Well, nothing. Nothing at all. Let me see. Good heavens, I see it. Here on the desk blotter, uncle handwriting, it says, find Hans Nicholas. It was fun. It was. I was trying to tell us who did it. Maybe. Don't think that he could be so low to take on those bunny and then kill him. Please be you. I just can't believe it. I won't believe it. I must. Say that all the evidence is certainly against him. I'll try to get this off your mind. Try to get some rest. The
Bloomberg Radio New York
"justin well" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Of Queen Elizabeth II's funeral. As the congregation stand, having just sung God save the king, arousing rendition after a very somber funeral service. If you're just joining us, this is Bloomberg radio's special coverage of the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey in London. We have heard from the dean of Westminster leading this service the archbishop of contraband Justin welby, giving this sermon during this state funeral marking the end of Queen Elizabeth's rate 70 year reign on the throne and part of her final journey from here from Westminster Abbey, the procession funeral procession will move to Hyde Park gaze in London and from there to Windsor Castle where had the queen's home had been in recent years and she will be buried there in so many that will take place later today. An absolutely moving service in word and in song and music, the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin well-being, talking about people of loving service being rare, but leaders of loving service being even rarer. How much Queen Elizabeth II touched a multitude of lives giving thanks and praise. So the Archbishop of Canterbury delivering the sermon. This is now the final Oracle organ processional as the queen's coffin will be moved from Westminster Abbey for the next stage of this state funeral. We heard also from the dean of Westminster Abbey, David hoyle, about the queen's unswerving commitment to her high calling as he described it, her 70 years on the throne, and also paying tribute to her love for her family as well as her public service and her time as the British monarch. We are beginning to see now members of the congregation in Westminster Abbey beginning to process outwards, we know that following the service, the queen's coffin will be drawn in a walking procession from the Abbey to Wellington arch to London's Hyde Park corner, the streets have been lined, perhaps ten, 12, 15 people deep, along that route so that people can catch a last glimpse of the queen's coffin and will hear the bells the bell of Big Ben toll. This is the procession now that we are listening to of the bishops, the archbishop of York, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the receiver general, and other high members of the Church of England who are leading the procession out of the church. They will be followed by, of course, the members of the queen's family, the royal family, King Charles, queen consort, and also the queens, of course, three other children who are present there as well and her grandchildren who will lead the procession out of Westminster Abbey and I'll be that's filled with 2000 people foreign leaders, dignitaries, current and current government ministers, the current prime minister Liz trust, who we heard giving the second reading and also, of course, past prime ministers we saw them line up on the way in to the building, David Cameron, Boris Johnson, of course, most recently Theresa May, David Cameron, John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, with their spouses among the last to arrive to Westminster Abbey in this enormous event of international significance that seen the emperor of Japan attend presidents from across Europe members of other European royal families come to London to pay their tributes to the life of Queen Elizabeth, the second, as we now wait for the coffin to be to be born out of Westminster Abbey and to begin the next stage of its procession again back by gun carriage to be drawn by 98 members of the Royal Navy as we saw the journey that it's already made. A short journey until now just across parliament square from Westminster hall where the queen's body had been lying in state into the Abbey and from here a further distance through London to Wellington arch to Hyde Park corner where it will then be transferred to a hearse for the longer journey to Windsor where the commit the committal ceremony will take place later this evening. I think it's worth reflecting
Daily Pop
"justin well" Discussed on Daily Pop
"You for joining me. Now Nikki, you were actually at the Grammys. I was. And you weren't able to make one on the red carpet. No one was there yet. I was me and the guys installing it. So yeah, I was there. I was doing like the pre coverage before the red carpet and it was like so exciting. I've just never been a part of the E red carpet experience before. Oh, it was great. I really have to give it up to eat, but let's get straight to this because the stars came to slay. They did not disappoint. The Grammys are all about fashion. I have to shout out one of my favorite looks of the night. Lil Nas X is balmain. I mean ladies. This is pearls for days. And it wasn't fake pearls. It was real pearls. I mean, how did you like this look, crystal? He looked amazing. I mean, all night he looked amazing from the carpet to the show. I mean, you can't take your eyes off of him. He is a star. I like the little butterfly, too. You know that was on his chest. You know, Nikki has to kill it. He's so cute. He's just such a sweetie, and I just think this, whatever he wears, you know he's just like feeling it. It was probably like his vision that someone, you know, who's the designer? Yeah, like it just seems he was just, he's just, I just love him. He's just definitely rockstar. Oh, yeah. You know, and that's what you felt. That's like a that's gonna end up in like Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Said that in a case someday and be like, oh my gosh, there it is. It's sort of like Elvis, you know? Okay. We also had the beavers, they came on the carpet. Let's look at this look that they have. Yeah, Justin. Okay. What's happening, Justin? I appreciate the pink hat. But what's going on here? Look, I think that they are such a sexy couple. That they can't do any wrong to me. I mean, look, I don't know if I could ever pull off this sort. I mean, she's a supermodel. Look at her. I mean, this is like classic 90s model to me. Uh huh. Absolutely. I mean, look, you know, there's people I can see why people might think it's a little messy, but that's how I'm gonna like get out of the shower from now on my towel and just look like Hailey Bieber and just channel that. I mean, it's such a good look. I just can't imagine he was like, what do you think? And she was like, great. It seems like someone pranked him by being like, that's it, Justin. Well, you love you love. You love him dressing when you want to dress. Now, Saweetie came, dressed in not one, but two dresses. So let's look. The pink was that the theme that hot pink was a result. I love these bra cup couplets that look like the thing you take out of your sports bras when they are too form fitting and you can insert the inserts. This is like the new look is like the insert is the look. Yeah, and that was custom Valentino. She had another look, which was black. First of all, I'm trying to understand how did she change on the red carpet? So quickly. That is actually what I was thinking. I mean, I think finding one outfit is hard enough, but to find two like this. And I think this is Oscar, right? Don't you? Yes. I mean, I get why you're going to figure out how to change because they're both so gorgeous. And she probably couldn't decide. Yeah. Of course. And it's the Grammys, and this is her moment. So you're going to find, you know, if you find two outfits, you got to figure out how to work. And she's got that body out. Honey, okay? Nikki, you had some thought about Billie Eilish, just looked last night yesterday. Yeah. I mean, I thought that she looked like a bat. On my Instagram story, I flipped yeah, I flipped it around. Like, look at this. Exactly. And she's got like, you know, Wednesday Adams vibes going on. I believe she had a good time last night, but you wouldn't know it. I love her. She's not trying to impress anyone. She's had like a moment where she was like getting kind of sexy and you're like, oh my gosh, are we gonna start seeing the sexy side? But it was just a taste. Yeah. She's like, no, no, no. It's still here. She kilted in the performance. I think she just, I like this look because big girls can wear it. Anything a big girl can wear. I love it. I love Billie Eilish. Now crystal, who did you also love on the red carpet? I loved Olivia Rodrigo. I mean, I couldn't stop staring at her. She looked so fresh and young, but a superstar, and my gosh. Oh my goodness. And then also Dua Lipa had this wonderful. This was Versace. And also her and made the stallion had the same type of look too. And do it look, I mean, I think this is an homage to 90s Versace. It's like, definitely. And I remember she wore it like in a couple years ago at the Grammys. She did a performance with St. Vincent and wore something similar. And I remember then she killed it, and I mean, I love Dua Lipa. I mean, I'm such a fan. She looks so hot. She does. And she's always looks different. You know, you always like, who is that? But you're captivated by whoever it is and you're like, of course it's Dua Lipa because I was like zooming in like, who is this girl? I didn't know who she was. That's like that she always changes, but I like the way she is. You know? Now somebody that the Internet was torn on was Lady Gaga, some say she looked too formal for the Grammys. What do you ladies think? I loved it. Well, I mean, this was like her. She's winning an award with Tony Bennett. This is a throw to that, I think. So I think she looked like glamorous, gorgeous. A little more of like an Oscars look, but I totally agree. I mean, I got to see her in the Tony bench show a couple years ago. And she's a chameleon. You know, so when she wants to do the meat dress, she's in that kind of pop world. She could do country. And like you said, I mean, she's up there for Tony Bennett and herself. And this was the right look. I think because she didn't get the Oscar nomination, these were dresses. I'm gonna wear these down. A good point. I'm gonna wear my Oscar dresses. So that's how she's looking. We're gonna break down the fashion later in the show, so stay tuned for that. Now, Lady Gaga may be the hero we all needed this award season, sza was having a hard time getting on that stage. I was so fearful. You know, to accept her Grammy, she was on crutches, but Gaga got down on the ground to grab her train and make sure everything was perfect. I tweeted this out is Lady Gaga's Hollywood's hero because you remember last weekend at the Oscars, she was helping Liza Minnelli. She kept saying, you know, I got you. I got 'cause Liza was on. You know, and then she was like, I got you. Don't worry. This woman, Lady Gaga is helping everybody. What do you ladies think? I think the bar is too low for us to be celebrating this minor act of kindness. When we are just so fawning over a slippery doing.
Daily Pop
"justin well" Discussed on Daily Pop
"But I had so much fun Justin. Well, you guys, baby the baby does great work. They provide essentials to millions of children living in poverty. Who's your favorite person that you talk to? Oh man, I would say, Lauren, again, she had the amazing energy amazing aura, but I have to say, Morgan Stewart was there with her hubby, Jordan McGraw. That's right. Yeah, I know that's really rich. And actually, that was their first baby to baby together as parents, you know, she got those Irish twins now, so that was really fun to see them, but then my girlfriend Decatur where it's greater, you know, Sierra. She was there as well. Looking gorgeous, Kerry Washington, Mindy Kaling, all of them sneaking by on the carpet. You could have stopped that fertile Myrtle, but it took that. Taylor Swift just dropped another brand new music video. She released I bet you think about me directed by her good friend Blake Lively. Taylor also hit the red carpet over the weekend to premiere the short film. She directed for that ten minute version of all too well. Now, no mention of Jake Gyllenhaal, but she was feeling all nostalgic about heartbreak, check out what she told us. It's a coming of age film about a very specific time in someone's life when you're between 19 and 20. You have one foot in childhood one foot in adulthood. You don't quite know where to stand. And how fragile that makes you in that moment. We go through life. We get our hearts broken. It feels really special and really fun. I've never directed a short film before. So I'm so proud of it. And it's a real relief. It felt like we really wanted to commit to creating sort of a tiny, short cinematic universe for the song that the fans cared so much about. And we have this ten minute version of all too well. So I figured, why don't we take this really commit to it expand upon it and see what kind of a story we can tell and I think it's really beautiful how it ended up being. And you help us there are a lot of new slash old songs like the vault tracks. These are songs that nobody has ever heard before. So I think that it was a real buzz for pre recording all too well, the ten minute version because these are lyrics that have been written a long time ago, but the fact that I'd never really recorded them before, it was pretty insane. I think one of the nostalgic things about this for fans is going back in your life for where you were when that album came out. It's also got like an autumn thing happening. They're singing outside. It's all really wonderful. I'm just feeling lots of nostalgic feelings, but all the memories I'm feeling are with the fans over the years in concert and it's really a celebration of that bond that we.
WMAL 630AM
"justin well" Discussed on WMAL 630AM
"First song I played in my car when I bought my new car I had to. I was like, Yeah, I got the new car, baby. Gotta get behind the wheel. It was easy top to get me out the drugs. Possible. We've got, uh, an incredible story developing. Yes, the government had its eyes on Tucker Carlson's Communications. How did that story end up? Huh? Remember, he comes out with this allegation is like, you know, the NSA has been spying on me. Everything? Yeah, sure. Whatever crazy guy. Go get another layer of tin foil for your hats, and he stuck to his guns, he said. Yes, it's really happening, And then we found out earlier this week he appeared on Fox Business Network. Speaking to Maria Bartiromo's guess what? I've just been contacted by a journalist who is reading out now the details of emails that no one else could possibly have access to. No one else. But and, uh, And this is coming right from the government whistleblower had alerted him that the NSA had been spying on him had captured his communications. The NSA after he made the allegation in public came out with a mealy mouthed You know, miss directions filled, Uh, statement that said that Tucker Carlson is not the target of any NSA investigation. Uh huh. And And of course, we know we know how the intelligence services we've gotten. We've all kind of gotten a crash course in how the intelligence services gather information on Americans haven't way over the course of the last few years, and one of those ways is what they refer to as incidental collection that maybe Americans communicating with somebody else who was being Spied upon and then we happen to get their information. But you know the two bad things to real bad things done here. One unmasking the name of the American Positively identifying yes, that is Tucker Carlson in that communications and then leaking it, which is, of course, illegal and putting it in the hands of the press. But that is where this story ended up this week. Axios with the quote, scoop. Jonathan Swan riding over there. Tucker Carlson sought Putin interview at time of spying claim so little more information. Now, Tucker Carlson was talking to US based Kremlin intermediaries about setting up an interview with Vladimir Putin shortly before the Fox News host accused the National Security Agency of spying on him. Sources familiar with the conversations. Tell Acacias. There you go. Why It matters, those sources said. U. S government officials learned about Carlson's efforts to secure the Putin interview There. It is the government tracking his communications and his attempts to set up an interview with a world leader. As you might expect, a journalist would do. Carlson learned that the government was aware of his outreach. And that's the basis of his extraordinary accusation, followed by a rare public denial but by the NSA that he had been targeted Swan notes here what I just said a moment ago, the NSA's public statement didn't directly deny That Carlson's communications had been swept up by the agency. An NSA spokesman, declining to comment to Axios referred access back to the agency's earlier carefully worded statement in order. In other words, the NSA is denying the targeting of Carlson but is not denying that his communications were Incidentally, collected all right, so there you have it, So the government's got an eye on his communications. Tucker was right. He was accused of being insane in the first place. But he's he's got it right. He's got this whistleblower who tells him he knows that it's getting out to the press. Axios writes up an entire story on that basis and even says yes, the government had information about his communications. Now. Here's Tucker Responding to this last night, No one in Washington appeared to be shocked in the slightest. In fact, the usual shills right after our segment had a ready explanation for it, either. It never happened at all, they said just a cable news show lying for ratings. Or there must have been a good reason It happened and they began furiously making excuses for the NSA did it a powerful, heavily politicized spy agencies. Surveilling journalists have been critical of the regime. No problems perfectly normal. Just don't call it spying. But it's not normal at all. It is third world and as we told you repeatedly, it did happen. Now that has been confirmed. Yeah. Now that has been confirmed. So why go through the the effort to spy on Little Tucker Carlson. Yesterday we learned that sources in the so called intelligence community told at least one reporter in Washington. What was in those emails? My emails was something scandalous in there. Thank God. We're happy to report that late This spring. I contacted a couple of people I thought could help get us an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin. I told nobody I was doing this other than my executive producer Justin Wells. I wasn't embarrassed about trying to interview Putin is obviously newsworthy. I'm an American citizen. I can interview anyone I want and I plan to But still in this case, I decided to keep it quiet. I figured that any kind of publicity would rattle the Russians and make the interview less likely to happen. But the Biden administration found out anyway by reading my emails. I learned from a whistleblower at the NSA plan to leak the contents of those emails to media outlets. Why would they do that? Well, the point, of course, was to paint me as a disloyal American. A Russian operative been called that before a stooge of the Kremlin, a traitor doing the bidding of a foreign adversary. And, of course, I mean, hardly the only person who has been accused of those things in the last several years. We've seen this movie several times now. Yeah. Here's here's one other element of this and I think it's important the media and the way the media has responded to all of this, Tucker says. You know, they have been saying that I deserve this, You know. Scholar, These morons who say things like this. They have no respect for this system. None at all. They even if your political opponent Especially actually, if your political opponent is being abused by this system. You should come out and forcefully fight for the rules to be followed that there are standards for a reason that American citizens shouldn't be spied on for no good reason by the United States government. Pretty straightforward. And then if you don't like soccer debate him on the merits. Instead, they like seeing him spied on by the United States government. There are no principles behind this. Even now, some of the media are claiming that we deserve this emailing with people who know Putin, are you? Of course, the NSA is watching you. That's what you get. But that's hardly the point. By law, the NSA is required to keep secret. The identities of American citizens have been caught up in its vast domestic spying operations. So by law, I should have been identified internally merely As a U. S journalist or American journalist. That's the law. But that's not how I was identified. It was identified by name I was unmasked. People in the building learned who I was and then my name in the contents of my emails left that building at the NSA and wound up with a news organization in Washington. That is illegal. In fact, it is precisely what this law was designed to prevent. In the first place. We cannot have intelligence agencies used as instruments of political control. Both parties. You used to agree on that Democrats were especially adamant on the point, but not anymore. So that's exactly what is happening here. The case he lays out is really very strong. His.
Culinary School Stories
"justin well" Discussed on Culinary School Stories
"Here. That have the oppo sugar. No yeah that's the rob the the kernels right gonna pop here. So this is our tumbler. Were tumble chatter in hokey of train. So this right. Here is our our our meltzer clothes. Dry you put the popcorn in there. The flavorings and it just to ourselves ships here. Cookies tempers chocolate We must be the popcorn into tumbler who ban Scoop talk that in and then we tumble in their nassau. The focus in crane coats. So how long does it take to cool down before you can sell it because it's going to be sticky right. The doesn't take long at all and the but the carmo takes about fifteen minutes up fifteen minutes they do make do make tables that you can have like a fool late aired pushes through like air hockey table. Okay on but we don't. We don't have that be masol yet. It takes about thinks about autism so then we have all packaging ra- boxes that we use for shipping off the orders. Now do you ship all over. The world is global we shipped to canada so we shift to canada and then entered the us canada. The us now bits bits apo a e the military the military addresses. Yes we shipped to those as well so apa canada and the us of someone wanted to buy some for a serviceman woman. That's deployed or station somewhere in germany. Make advice some shipwreck germany. Right kwait iraq so yes. Apo a than yes. We could make a shift. What is the shelf life on the popcorn. So so the these bags so they have a wide and you'll lining on the inside as america. You can see this wall So it has waxed in a full lining on the inside and then a post papers will always cats in a a temperature control area months. It'll last month's oh it in a car or something like that the sign then yes is right right but if you keeping your house in new keep the bag. Keep the backfield on. It'll it'll full of salt and sugar. It's really the oil that'll probably get right in slash especially carbon preserve it so so you can see inside here. So it also has this zipper. So here's our sealer. So once we seal it is basically the at feed it through dislike up. Those are heat. Seals is pretty labor again which know which is why with with sui are looking to Looking to automate so we have dealt. That'll that'll bag and seal on automatic. Silk cut that labor down for because that's the most intensive part is just bagging and then she'll so if anybody is in fayetteville north carolina area or passing through. They should stop right and see you at the where you though the mall. They across creek mark across cross creek mall and make it stop by a get a sample at out the facility and say hi say hi to you. Yeah yeah we we. We love to have him come in. So what's what's next for you. I mean i can see that you're going. Try to expand here. You're gonna try to get into these military installations. Maybe some other wholesale accounts. You're going to try to open up. A larger manufacturing company. And maybe do some candies as well. Is that the long term goal. What what else you have on your plate right. So we're we're we're focusing on Getting the store ready you know. We've that ready but just fine tuning a few things. That had a meeting iraq for this with the god is giving it on putting some graphics like the space you can see behind me about the shopping in the ceiling like the put some graphics that just show you know customers eating popcorn. They dislike that on mentioned that july machine we liked you liked to sell basically bringing more wholesale products Pretzels of we had the fudge in a container that would like to fudge slabs begin. Cut things like that. So Maybe maybe social bulk candy that we've making brings some in to kind of plans for the for the stop the personality of thinking about going back justin wells from my doctorate in business so as to have some funding for my on my job. Bill from last mobilization so on in a way has been encouraging us it. So i'm considering going back in possibly getting my in than than maybe some speaking all. Maybe the teach much bureau should class of at fsu rate awesome. It's guts get honorable thing. Keep the lifelong learning right. And is your wife still in the military as well she is she is. She's in for a long haul which is fine so but yes she. She's still serving so you know she is a career managed right now for the all the nurses and arming local. She goes so the goal is to retire her early. I can But if not then you know. She continue serving seller now proud of her top to port. Her dorm issues on. So you know but me. I'm done twenty years. That's a long time to have a lot of fun. Alarmed ally being being a food service worn off series. You know huge responsibility. It's huge Commodity to manage but have a lot of fun. Doing it focused right. Now one hundred percent on usher bomb right now. What about your children. You have three. i believe they. What do they think of the store. They excited do they come in. They know they wanna take over. Do they want to get into business while my my son is is an artist on his in the early college program right now here and He wants to go into school for business Some type of graphic design agency. And then she'll be a sophomore this year and my daughter she's ten Shaq has a youtube channel in a. She wants to be a youtube. Wow she started her youtube channel eighty while two months ago she has more. She has more views than i do. On my own company. You actually had a lot of a lot of fun helping hurt theater content so if you go to hauch crops you channel a lot all that content and you see on there is content that i did with my so am phone of yes. She is just also plays guitar so loved atar than my youngest. My six year old. She's she's just kind going. Whatever my daughter does. He is the frontman of their band..
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"justin well" Discussed on WBSM 1420
"Great question, Justin. Well, I could answer this personally. I travel to Vietnam on business several times a year. And the people there are. It's a very young generation. And if you were asked the people in Saigon, especially what do they feel about the war? Most of them were not really They will not be angry. They've moved on. And there is a lot of love and consideration compassion when they see American visitors and I've experienced that firsthand when my wife and I went over there, it's a very loving Economy society and if you know Vietnamese They are very genuine people, and they're like laboratory retrievers. They tend to stay with you for the entire life. One of the things I've read Twan about the Vietnam War is that for those people who feel that it was a worthy thing to have done at the very least we gave Vietnam Maybe 10 years of economic stability that they otherwise would not have had to make them that much stronger to be able to withstand outside forces. If nothing else, we've done that, definitely And if you were to look at what happened to Vietnam after the war They were going through poverty. A lot of people are starving and until they really embraced capitalism, which they won't not publicly say. They recognize a capitalism was the answer. And that's why they've opened the doors to embrace capital. Uh, society and again. I don't want to relitigate the war the conclusion of it, But I do know that When Nixon negotiated the the end. He promised that if the North re invaded that we would resupply the south and give them give them aid, one of the first things that people like Joe Biden and John Kerry did when they became senators was to renege on that deal. So the North did reinvade. We didn't we did nothing. And that led to the killing fields of Cambodia and other atrocities. That in my view still haunt us today. I know that Nasrallah, the head of of the terror group in Iran, Has accused America of always cutting and running and never fulfilling their obligations and he feels that we're going to. We were going to do the same thing in Iraq and then Obama, in fact, did pull out of Iraq and he said, See, I told you and now we're back in Iraq. That's correct. But again when you look at the people who are living there now It's a thriving economy, and they realize that it's a thriving economy because of capitalism. Vicky is in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Vicky, You're on with Juan Dom and Larry. Thank you. Hi. Thank you. Can you hear me? Hear you fine. Okay, Good. Um, I I just want to thank your guest for thinking the.
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"justin well" Discussed on 860AM The Answer
"Most of the Vietnamese American South Vietnamese still have not forgiven the communist Vietnam but Been honest driving and there Bigger powers in East Asia that threaten Vietnam. So is there any chance that the Vietnamese Americans in the South Vietnamese can forgive the Communist government and do what they can to try to help Vietnam thrive today? Great question, Justin. Well, I could answer this personally, I travel to Vietnam on business several times a year. And the people there are. It's a very young generation. And if you are asked the people in Saigon, especially what do they feel about the war? Most of them were not really. They will not be angry. They've moved on. And there is a lot of love and consideration compassion when they see American visitors and I've experienced that firsthand when my wife and I went over there, it's a very loving Economy society and if you know Vietnamese They're very genuine people and they're like laboratory retriever say tended, stay with you for the entire life. One of the things I I've read Twan about the Vietnam War is that for those people who feel that it was a worthy thing to have done at the very least we gave Vietnam Maybe 10 years of economic stability that they otherwise would not have had to make them that much stronger to be able to withstand outside forces. If nothing else, we've done that, definitely And if you were to look at what happened to Vietnam after the war They were going through poverty. A lot of people were starving and until they really embrace capitalism, which they won't not publicly say. They recognize the capitalism was the answer, And that's why they've opened the doors to embrace capital society on again. I don't want to re litigate the war the conclusion of it, but I do know that when Nixon negotiated the end, hey promised that if the North re invaded that we would resupply the south and give them give them aid one of the first things that people like Joe Biden and John Kerry did when they became senators. Was to renege on that deal. So the North did reinvade We didn't We did nothing on that led to the killing fields of Cambodia and other atrocities that in my view still haunt us today. I know that Nasrallah, the head of The terror group in Iran. Has accused America always cutting and running and never fulfilling their obligations. And he feels that we're gonna that We're going to the same thing in Iraq and then Obama, in fact, did pull out of Iraq and he said, See, I told you and now we're back in Iraq. That's correct. But again when you look at the people who are living there now it's it's a thriving economy, and they realize that it's a thriving economy because of capitalism. Vicky is in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Vicki, you're on with Juan Dom and Larry. Thank you. Hi. Thank you. Can you hear me? Hear you fine. Okay, good. I will. But I just want to thank your guests for thanking the Vietnam vet. My dad was a bed and unfortunately is no longer with us, And he was there in Vietnam and He was 17 when he signed up and he was in the Navy and he had a job when he left and look guaranteed That job would be there when he got back, and unfortunately it was a whole different world when he came back, very difficult to get a job that general No longer offered to him and it was very tough on them. And you wouldn't think that in the Navy there would be a lot of ugly, but he shared with me some of the things that That were really difficult to see and to participate in. And so it was very traumatic. But my dad was a very patriotic person. And he would have been it all over again. Well, Vicky thank you very much as you know, Twan, don some of the Vietnam vet work. Greeted his baby killers on tawn it in airports when they went down that with their uniforms. We'll talk about that later on Triple 8971 s A. J. Charlie Jim Scott Francis don't leave town all across America, The Larry Elder shows. No. This report is sponsored by Staples Stores. This is 8 60. Am the answer. Livermore westbound 84 seeing heavy delays right now, from caliph of comment to pigeon past. Also still dealing with plenty of traffic. Westbound Idiot highway for good news is a four car crash has been cleared from the two left lanes. But you are still going to see brake lights from coming. Skyway Vaca Bill South bound 505 before 80 Have a two motorcycle crash on the right lane. There's also a car stopped there as well. North bound one still jam packed, leaving half Moon bay between Main Street and Highway. 92. Stinson Beach North bound one slow between Rocky Point and Arnold. That's traffic of.
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"justin well" Discussed on Power 106 FM
"Dynamic duo Batman. Robin, don't like that problem when I feel like I'm sorry. My mom may be taking me. Hi. Come on, Fire. Sure. Burn it up. You make me me? You make me better won't well, six hour by your Southern California, Toyota dealers. Man back home. Smoke illegal e got more slaps down a beetle's point, honey, no diesel dog, man. Women think lethal dog got quality oniy trust we had to stop. It isn't lonely. Everybody acted like they know me, Dawg. Don't just say it. You gotta show me You got to bring it back Empties. You see the boss? So they sent me. No. You broke off with its hippies, dog Ain't nothing. I'm just being friendly dog. Just love 10 piece for just a blow it in the mob doesn't mean it will involve I just what? I just put a Richard on the card. I ain't going playing ball. But I say you gotta do it. Billy Bonaparte to your father and your back against the wall and a bunch of need you to go away. Still gone bad on him anyway, I saw you last night but due Monday Yeah. A lot of murder coming in the hallway. Got a sticky and keep it that my daughter's place. Gonna let me love it. Magic Not saw Shane still going bad on you anyway. Well, well, well, well, E could feel like the rest of my marries, man. Drizzy. Better bags get scary if you just don't come near me. Put some business on your head. I just Terry Originally because of lamb balls and only kidding. Better commandos. Every time I'm in my trip, I'm alive Rambo in any neighborhood in Philly, that I can't go. Something real. She's all you rich, rich, rich, rich. Graduated coming. Been fish got Lori, Ari on my wish list. Worry that the only thing I want for Christmas. Sorry, I've been my way out. Yeah, yeah. No, that's facts. Facts. You ain't living. You said Yeah, we notice CASS. CASS, You ain't got to ask you when you see me. No straight. Did you Yovov back it going gone, friend, Justin. Well, 10 piece for just a blow it in the mob doesn't mean that we're involved. I just what? I just put a Richard on the card. I ain't going to play a part, but I'll show you gotta do it. If you really want to find your father and your back against the wall and a bunch of need you to go away. Still going bad on him anyway, I saw you last night, but did it.
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"justin well" Discussed on Power 106 FM
"To bag hole smoking legal e got more slaps down a Beatles feint money known diesel dog playing with my things Meet the dog. But Doctor Leoni just we had to top It isn't lonely. Everybody acted like they know me, Dawg. Don't just say it. You gotta show me what you got to bring a clip back empties. You see the ball so they set me up. E will go with a champion dog ain't nothing. I'll just be a friendly dog. Just love champions for just a blow it in the mob doesn't mean that we're involved. I just but I just put a Richard on the card. I ain't going playing ball, but I show you gotta do different. Billy Boone, Take your five in your back Gets the ball and a bunch of need threw the ball bag still going bad on him anyway. So your last night it did cost a lot of money coming. In a hallway. Got a sticky and keep it down. My dog plays God, I love you love it. Maybe not so shame. Still going bad on you anyway? Well, well, well, well, I could feel like the rest of my marries man crazy. Better bags get scary if you just don't come near me. Put some business on your head. I just Terry region really? Cuts of Lambeau. Remember kids, better commandos every Some of them might trip up everybody in the end and never beautifully that I can't go out of business real. She's all you rich, rich, rich, rich. Graduated coming. Been fish got Lori, Ari on my wish list. Worry that the only thing I want for Christmas. Sorry I've been on my way out. Yeah, yeah. No, that's facts. Facts doing living at you said Yeah, we notice CASS CASS, You ain't got to ask you when you see me non straight. Gov. You'll be back doing confit, Justin. Well, 10 piece for just a blow it in the mob doesn't mean that we're involved. I just I just put a Richard on the card. I ain't going to pay a ball, but I show you Disability pulling parts of your father and your back gets the ball and a bunch of need you to go away. Still going bad on them anyway. So your last night but did it past day by morning when they can't in the family I had before 20. This is the home of cannons Cast with your next chance to win. $1000 of my money is tomorrow morning, seven A.m..
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"justin well" Discussed on Comedians Interviewing Musicians
"Terrified. Is that a serial killer tree right. Yes yes it is. Yeah i know that. I switched my handwriting. So often is a serial killer. I didn't realize when i drew big. That was a problem. Also so. I'm i'm flagged by the fbi. Now kill no. Thank god about time. Snipe my asking i don. I don't want to spoil it. But they asked me to do the webpage. And i wrote bios for everybody and it was really super late and i just didn't have the they're all real not anything after four committed to this so i took everybody's birthday and birth year and i found the playmate of the year and her turn offs in the centerfold and i applied to everybody in the band fucking time. You'll like hot top strawberry sweet. I really do though. Thank you the only one. That's like these are real. Do you dislike dirty shoes. Poor impression of famous people. And harry backs doesn't it doesn't everybody. Yeah this song just did we can take you out of the reading because i have a harry back but i do go to therapy impression. Currently oh don't it's pretty good. I think that's enough and my shoes are clean. I feel personally targeted the good. I didn't pick up on that. These were clearly. Why yeah woman is like clean hands. That's how minimalistic a woman's expectations of but two thousand nineteen like clean hands. But were you know big boobs. Big bang women who are to reality and like i just want to do with clean. Fucking hands man. Isn't that a zohar. Just wash your hands after you pee. Okay jack cheesecakes pinball inhere play because they said hair play you like it when i run my fingers through your hair. I feel like you would like that. You look like a that would like. There's a lot of i contact happening here. I think the winner you can all of us. I'm gonna make your leg go up and down like a puppy dog that you're okay. And then he did like wrestling heights. In harry chess so close so close russell at backup. I got a harry chanced. Okay so now that i know about you. Apparently don't jas okay my lakes. I like potlucks. Amen mall walks because it's too hot outside music. Bird-watching hugs tracksuits. And a good deal. I just love you know when you go in and you see that big tub of dishwashing soap and you got a coupon and it brings it down like a whole dollar. Twenty-five dow is good. Now a good one on what you think about a good deal. A good do drugs. You run in person. take out this outfit. A good mike coupons are there. What's that with with the fist. What's a good deal. Or should i be. Should i be saying to people look good deal. Who am i okay. So who do you think. Is your perfect meal dislikes. Oh god i don't like cursing. I don't like violence. I don't like mary grounds unsolicited. Dick pic no one likes unsolicited. Dick yeah i like dick cheney but i like to look him up on my own. No don't need you. Send me vandyke pumping when looking for it knowing what dick were you talking about. I'll we'll google leader okay. It's fine it's google unsolicited dick. That'll well so. We'll definitely get flagged by thinks that ray would be the perfect man for me. Nobody you're out you're out. Sorry take a seat. She's not. I like it though because then he could follow me around. Do the little skits cat scary. Okay who thinks chases the right man for me. He is a liar. Okay so much. Yes okay justin. Well okay are we. We're all just waiting for jack. I sh okay. So then because you're the man of my dreams of going gonna put my hand on my fanny bag okay. What you think is actual came back to close. My eyes implement pack. Okay because you're the amanda may dreams. I'm going to give you this prize. That says maybe you touched your genitals hand sanitizer because everyone's about clean hands so just touch. My general judah touch me and easier to put their hand on. 'cause that back here is no joking matter. Perfect i'm going to all and then my question is pretty pretty is obviously written about me. What's another sign. You might write about me now that you know me really well. Can i say that booty conspiracy was written about you. Oh i will look that up down. I don't know that sound. She doesn't like cursing too much writing down booting conspiracy. It'd be on her new album. Wheelchairs and satellites wheelchairs and satellites also written about you not in a wheelchair here yet. Wow are you gonna haunt tardy me or something. What is that. Name harding attorney. Who's the tonya harding. Smell dominance think. I may be having a small stroke. Aren't everybody give it up. Laura thank you so much i've been. She's me one of those. Does austin east sider fanny packs. They have Seera your servers. Your those fanny packs tip cash that outside when you go off health catch you after the show not cooler. You across. Body lean intimate. Y'all you're like bad good. Yeah didn't realize that smell my fingers in it. Smells like just sunshine. Aaron okay.