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UN nuclear chief urges Russia and Ukraine to ban attacks at Europe's largest nuclear power plant
"UN nuclear chief urges Russia and Ukraine to ban attacks on the zephyria power plant. Raphael grossi, who leads the International Atomic Energy Agency, is asking UN Security Council members to support 5 principles to avoid a nuclear accident at the tsaritsa plant, Europe's largest. It comes after fighting there on 7 occasions as recently as last week and disruptions to critical power supply. The principles include banning attacks prohibiting heavy weapons storage and ensuring uninterrupted offsite power supply, Kremlin's forces took over the plant after Russia's invasion, and Ukraine opposes any proposed legitimizing Russia's control of it. I'm Mimi Montgomery
Crypto Curious
Debt Ceiling News Pumps BTC
"Let's go straight into some market talk. Is it all around what's happened with the debt ceiling, do we think? Or is there a bit more to it? I'm not sure, but that news about the debt ceiling has really pushed up all asset classes, and Bitcoin had a bit of a shakeout last week. Even you had a bit of a panic sell trace, but we're back to the races now. Police. I don't know if I had a panic sell. Come on. We're back to the pre -sell -off levels. I guess it was the debt ceiling, which you can give a bit of an update to. Let's talk about that. Crypto prices had a nice little pump on Sunday night with the news that the US lawmakers had ended their stalemate over the government's debt ceiling debate. As part of the deal agreed between President Joe Biden and Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, the plans are a 30 % tax on crypto mining also has been shelved as part of this deal. So I think what exactly was the deal as well? There's no debt ceiling until January 2025? I mean, that's interesting. It's the kicking the can down the road scenario that every country is doing basically, but particularly America has been leading the way for well over a decade. I'm certainly no financial expert, but what I do know is if you keep printing money, money is going to be useless. Absolutely. We've been on the way there for a long time. I'm sure that's why many people are in crypto. I didn't see this coming. I thought they'd sort of let what needs to happen happen, but how much further can they go? They sort of keep making their own rules and, like I said, keep kicking the can down the road. So the inevitable will happen at one point or another. All they're doing is, in my opinion, making what will inevitably happen
Mark Levin
David Jolly: Ron DeSantis Is Far More Dangerous Than Donald Trump
"But here he is hat tip news busters on MSL cut 12 go You and I have talked a great deal about desantis authoritarianism in Florida Nevertheless This is really precious coming from these Democrats Joe Biden just said the other day that he had the power to unilaterally Raise the death scene Which would be the biggest grab of power in American history By one branch against another Ever Go ahead This week that he would quote aggressively go after pardons for one 6 insurrectionists No Matty I say this with conviction I think Ron DeSantis is far more dangerous than Donald Trump Donald Trump is willing to ignore the rules ignore the constitution And hold on hold on hold on hold on down to Trump never ignored the constitution Name once Never ignored the constitution He must have been confused with Biden You moron You know there's nothing worse than a Republican who's gone to the other side
AP News Radio
New US aid package for Ukraine will total about $300 million and include munitions for drones
"A new U.S. aid package for Ukraine will likely include munitions for drones. I'm Lisa dwyer. A U.S. Military aid package where you crane that is expected to be announced this week will total up to $300 million and will include additional munitions for drones. The drone decision comes after new attacks by unmanned aircraft targeted Moscow. There has been no suggestion that U.S. made drones or munitions were used in the recent attacks and U.S. officials have repeatedly said that Ukraine has agreed not to use any American provided weapons for attacks on Russian soil. U.S. officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because the latest aid package has not yet been publicly announced. I'm Lisa dwyer
The Dan Bongino Show
Sen. Mike Lee: This Imposter Bill Puts the Onerous on Republicans
"I find it odd that we undermine their own piece of legislation which already passed the House for a week or bill that you now have to fight to pass the House That call me crazy center but that sounds like regression not progress It is regression precisely And we undermine that in the process we undermine all Republicans Look a few weeks ago I put out a letter a letter that we signed by 43 Senate Republicans We only needed 41 but we got 43 three others that they agreed with the substance of it for strategic reasons didn't want to sign it What that essentially said was let's assuming those 43 at a minimum would have been willing to vote to pass Bill like limits save grow What that meant was that it would be up to the Democrats because it'd be up to the Democrats to limit safe growth had already passed in the House They didn't even need to Democrats over there All we needed then was for Chuck Schumer to find 17 Democrats to vote for it So as to avoid what the Democrats themselves are touting as an imminent emergency By doing this by coming forward with this impostor bill that purports to have all these savings measures in it but on further examination it's just smoke and mirrors he's now put the onus back on Republicans You watch remark my words Dan what they're going to do this is going to unite Democrats Democrats are going to be just thrilled about this You will have more Democrats excited to vote for it than you have Republicans This will be good for them put the onus back on Republicans You're already seeing conservative Republicans who are opposing it Being attacked And that is because of this very thing And by the way the reason the only reason why they have any ability to claim that this is the only deal is because of this fake June 5th deadline
The Dan Bongino Show
Daily Caller: Bud Light Sales Reportedly Keep Plunging
"And if you notice during this week and there were a lot of pictures going around the Internet a lot of people were obviously recognizing the fallen over the important solemn holiday Memorial Day but some people were out in supermarkets and there was some pictures floating around One of them from the daily caller specifically about these beer shells and supermarkets and conspicuously the one beer that was not selling was Bud Light in a lot of these places Now this is not a story to be discarded lightly This is a heavy news day I never talk about these stories He's like kind of filled stories during heavy news days at all I try to avoid them all together sometimes to be honest with you but this is an important cultural story for us folks The left can never ever admit They screwed up I told you any sane operation right now The LGBTQ PC two plus lobby would go to Bud Light and say which is by the way it's been very generous to these groups in the past And very generous to them in the past and would say listen thanks for your help in the past Dial this thing down So you don't think I'm speaking with forked tongue folks I have been really honest when I was running for office that what is a politician want more than anything They want money they need donations to run their campaigns It's that simple right When I was running for office there were more than a number of people Friends of mine who were from out of state and said hey I'll donate to your campaign And I kid you not I said to him don't do it Because anything over $200 is going to appear on an FEC report And with this whole thing going on right now let me just handle this race You do you later on and we can show up later on or whatever but just give me some time to work this out Because I'm insane operator I don't want to see anybody get hurt especially with a nascent campaign right I want to see if we gathered some steam first Folks the left can not do that The left can't do it
AP News Radio
Crucial days ahead as debt ceiling deal goes for vote and Biden calls lawmakers for support
"There are crucial days ahead as The White House and congressional leaders work to pass a compromise package in time to lift the nation's borrowing limit and prevent a U.S. default. A key test will come this afternoon when the House rules committee is scheduled to consider the debt limit package and vote on sending it to the full House, officials say the U.S. risks default as soon as June 5th, President Biden says he feels good about the deal negotiated with House speaker Kevin McCarthy and has been calling lawmakers ahead of this week's votes in Congress. There are still concerns about the deal's passage with some hard right conservatives criticizing the lack of deep spending cuts they wanted, and liberals denouncing policy changes like new work requirements for older Americans in the food aid program, the full House is expected to vote on Wednesday. Jennifer King, Washington
AP News Radio
LGBTQ+ activists call for new strategies to promote equality after Target backlash
"LGBTQ+ activists call for new campaigns after targets announcement last week that it had removed or relocated prod displays from some stores following backlash. The activists say new strategies are needed to convince corporate leaders not to cave to anti LGBTQ+ groups. Target said its actions were aimed at ensuring the safety and well-being of its employees after protesters knocked over pride signs and confronted workers and shoppers in stores. It's the latest company to face backlash over its support for the community. Meanwhile, nearly 500 anti LGBTQ+ bills have been introduced in state legislatures around the country this year and at least 18 states have enacted laws restricting or banning gender affirming care for transgender miners. I'm Julie Walker
AP News Radio
Police fire tear gas and protesters burn vehicles near home of Senegal's main opposition leader
"Clashes between police and the supporters of Senegal's main opposition leader have continued days before a court verdict is expected on charges against the politician. Police fire tear gas and demonstrators burn cars near usman sonko's home. He's being tried for rape and death threats against a woman working at a massage parlor and could face up to ten years in prison if convicted he would also be barred from running in next year's presidential elections. But sonko and his supporters accused president Mackey Sal's government of trying to derail his candidacy. The clashes come a day after police stopped sonko's freedom caravan from traveling from his hometown in the south where he's mayor to the capital where he was forced into his duck our home last week, one person was killed and others were injured in similar clashes between police and sonko's supporters in the south. Senegal's government says it will stand firm against any attempt to disrupt public order. I am Lawrence Brooks
AP News Radio
30 international peacekeepers injured in fierce clashes with ethnic Serbs in northern Kosovo
"The NATO led peacekeeping force and Kosovo has raised the number of its troops injured in fierce clashes with ethnic Serbs to 30, the Serbs were trying to block newly elected ethnic Albanian officials from entering municipal buildings in northern Kosovo after taking up their posts last week. A statement says 11 Italian and 19 Hungarian soldiers have sustained multiple injuries including fractures and burns from improvised explosive incendiary devices. It adds three Hungarian soldiers were wounded by the use of firearms, but their injuries are not life threatening. Kosovo police fired tear gas to disperse the crowd as they tried to let new officials into the offices. Serbia put the country's military on high alert and sent more troops to the border with Kosovo, the two countries have been foes for decades with Belgrade refusing to recognize Kosovo's 2008 sovereignty. I'm Lawrence Brooks
AP News Radio
The day has arrived for Elizabeth Holmes to report to a Texas prison
"The disgraced CEO of health technology company theranos begins her stint in a federal prison today. Elizabeth Holmes is scheduled to begin her 11 year federal sentence at a women's prison camp in Bryan, Texas, Holmes was sentenced in November for overseeing a blood testing hoax that claimed theranos technology could quickly scan for diseases and other problems with just a few drops of blood taken with a finger prick. She'll be leaving behind two young children, a son born in July 2021, a few weeks before the start of her trial, and a three month old daughter who was conceived after a jury found her guilty on four felony counts of fraud and conspiracy in January 2022, investor and fellow theranos executive ramesh sunny balwani was convicted of 12 felony counts of fraud and conspiracy, and already has started serving his nearly 13 year sentence in a Southern California prison. I'm Donna water
AP News Radio
76ers hire former Raptors coach Nick Nurse, AP source says
"The Philadelphia 76ers have hired coach Nick nurse, weeks after he was fired by the Toronto Raptors, according to AP's sources, nurse led the raptors to the 2019 NBA championship after they beat the 76ers in the Eastern Conference Semifinals. Nurse will replace Doc Rivers, who was fired after he led the 76ers to their second straight 50 win season behind NBA MVP Joel embiid, but again failed to lead them to the Eastern Conference Finals. I'm geffen coolbaugh.
AP News Radio
Teenager walks at brain injury event weeks after getting shot in head for knocking on wrong door
"Weeks after being shot in the head after knocking on the wrong door, a teen has joined others to bring awareness to brain injuries. I Norman hall. Ralph jarl of black teenager who was shot in the head and arm last month after mistakingly ringing the wrong doorbell, walked in a brain injury awareness event Monday in his first major public appearance since the shooting. Jarl, who is 17, suffered a traumatic brain injury when he was shot while trying to pick up his younger brothers in April Andrew last year in 84 year old white man is accused of shooting y'all. Jarl walked with family friends and other brain injury survivors that going the distance for brain injury, a yearly Memorial Day event in Kansas City, his aunt says Gerald has debilitating migraines and balance issues. I Norman hall
Crypto News Alerts | Daily Bitcoin (BTC) & Cryptocurrency News
You Gotta Be Crazy to Short Bitcoin Right Now
"Bitcoin traded near $28 ,000 on May 28th. Would traders still worry of a full correction of weekend upside? And here you're looking at the Bitcoin One Hour Candle chart. Data from Cointelegraph Markets Point Trading View showed Bitcoin cooling volatility after a last minute surprise saw the action around the weekly close with the US markets closed for Memorial Day holiday. Crypto markets were quite quiet. Traders waiting for a congressional vote on the proposed deal to extend the US debt ceiling. Bitcoin up 4 .4 % on May 28th. Meanwhile failed to convince everyone that the bulls might now have the upper hand. Uploading a potential Bitcoin price roadmap on Twitter, popular trader Crypto Tony called a move back to the low of $23 ,000. Still very much a possibility. Quitting him here. If we close back below $27 .5, I will close my long and look for a short position. And quoting decent trader, the Bitcoin long short ratio has been declining as the price has gone up. This suggests a lot of retail traders on Binance are adding shorts. You got to be crazy to be short in Bitcoin at a time like this. Just saying. But on chain monitoring resource material indicators nonetheless cautioned over dismissing the uptick as a fake out. As someone who frequently uses the phrase while Wes weakening crypto actually believe the Bitcoin PA we have seen for the past few days is legit for multiple reasons, including the fact the bounce came from a key technical support of the 200 week moving average and the debt ceiling deal announcement
Crypto News Alerts | Daily Bitcoin (BTC) & Cryptocurrency News
You Gotta Be Crazy to Short Bitcoin Right Now
"Bitcoin traded near $28 ,000 on May 28th. Would traders still worry of a full correction of weekend upside? And here you're looking at the Bitcoin One Hour Candle chart. Data from Cointelegraph Markets Point Trading View showed Bitcoin cooling volatility after a last minute surprise saw the action around the weekly close with the US markets closed for Memorial Day holiday. Crypto markets were quite quiet. Traders waiting for a congressional vote on the proposed deal to extend the US debt ceiling. Bitcoin up 4 .4 % on May 28th. Meanwhile failed to convince everyone that the bulls might now have the upper hand. Uploading a potential Bitcoin price roadmap on Twitter, popular trader Crypto Tony called a move back to the low of $23 ,000. Still very much a possibility. Quitting him here. If we close back below $27 .5, I will close my long and look for a short position. And quoting decent trader, the Bitcoin long short ratio has been declining as the price has gone up. This suggests a lot of retail traders on Binance are adding shorts. You got to be crazy to be short in Bitcoin at a time like this. Just saying. But on chain monitoring resource material indicators nonetheless cautioned over dismissing the uptick as a fake out. As someone who frequently uses the phrase while Wes weakening crypto actually believe the Bitcoin PA we have seen for the past few days is legit for multiple reasons, including the fact the bounce came from a key technical support of the 200 week moving average and the debt ceiling deal announcement
Crypto News Alerts | Daily Bitcoin (BTC) & Cryptocurrency News
You Gotta Be Crazy to Short Bitcoin Right Now
"Bitcoin traded near $28 ,000 on May 28th. Would traders still worry of a full correction of weekend upside? And here you're looking at the Bitcoin One Hour Candle chart. Data from Cointelegraph Markets Point Trading View showed Bitcoin cooling volatility after a last minute surprise saw the action around the weekly close with the US markets closed for Memorial Day holiday. Crypto markets were quite quiet. Traders waiting for a congressional vote on the proposed deal to extend the US debt ceiling. Bitcoin up 4 .4 % on May 28th. Meanwhile failed to convince everyone that the bulls might now have the upper hand. Uploading a potential Bitcoin price roadmap on Twitter, popular trader Crypto Tony called a move back to the low of $23 ,000. Still very much a possibility. Quitting him here. If we close back below $27 .5, I will close my long and look for a short position. And quoting decent trader, the Bitcoin long short ratio has been declining as the price has gone up. This suggests a lot of retail traders on Binance are adding shorts. You got to be crazy to be short in Bitcoin at a time like this. Just saying. But on chain monitoring resource material indicators nonetheless cautioned over dismissing the uptick as a fake out. As someone who frequently uses the phrase while Wes weakening crypto actually believe the Bitcoin PA we have seen for the past few days is legit for multiple reasons, including the fact the bounce came from a key technical support of the 200 week moving average and the debt ceiling deal announcement
Crypto News Alerts | Daily Bitcoin (BTC) & Cryptocurrency News
You Gotta Be Crazy to Short Bitcoin Right Now
"Bitcoin traded near $28 ,000 on May 28th. Would traders still worry of a full correction of weekend upside? And here you're looking at the Bitcoin One Hour Candle chart. Data from Cointelegraph Markets Point Trading View showed Bitcoin cooling volatility after a last minute surprise saw the action around the weekly close with the US markets closed for Memorial Day holiday. Crypto markets were quite quiet. Traders waiting for a congressional vote on the proposed deal to extend the US debt ceiling. Bitcoin up 4 .4 % on May 28th. Meanwhile failed to convince everyone that the bulls might now have the upper hand. Uploading a potential Bitcoin price roadmap on Twitter, popular trader Crypto Tony called a move back to the low of $23 ,000. Still very much a possibility. Quitting him here. If we close back below $27 .5, I will close my long and look for a short position. And quoting decent trader, the Bitcoin long short ratio has been declining as the price has gone up. This suggests a lot of retail traders on Binance are adding shorts. You got to be crazy to be short in Bitcoin at a time like this. Just saying. But on chain monitoring resource material indicators nonetheless cautioned over dismissing the uptick as a fake out. As someone who frequently uses the phrase while Wes weakening crypto actually believe the Bitcoin PA we have seen for the past few days is legit for multiple reasons, including the fact the bounce came from a key technical support of the 200 week moving average and the debt ceiling deal announcement
AP News Radio
South African president appoints judge to oversee weapons-for-Russia inquiry
"The South African president Cyril ramaphosa has appointed a judge to oversee an inquiry into allegations the country supplied arms to Russia. The U.S. ambassador to South Africa claims weapons and ammunition were loaded onto a Russian flagged cargo ship that secretly docked at a naval base near Cape Town in December last year, ambassador Ruben brickett indicated that the allegations were based on U.S. intelligence and that he would bet his life on the accuracy of his claim. The container carrying ship named lady R is already under U.S. sanctions for being tied to a company that has transported weapons to aid the Russian war effort in Ukraine, South Africa has denied there was any government sanctioned deal to provide weapons to Russia, although it hasn't categorically ruled out that an unofficial transaction took place involving another entity. The South African president's office says the panel has 6 weeks to complete its investigations and another two weeks from then to provide a report to ramaphosa. I am Lawrence Brooks
The Breakdown
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The Breakdown
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"Most community banks have on their balance sheet. Awesome. So the one other's macro thing, I want to use the back half of this conversation to catch up on a few crypto situations. I just want to flag the new swap lines that were announced yesterday as well. If you could just give a quick summary of what those are and how people might want to think about them. Even just as a way for people to kind of keep an eye on it, it would be great. Well, sure, let me define them. So a swap line is when a Central Bank offers a dollar liquidity to another Central Bank so they can then disperse that to any member banks that need dollar liquidity. What we don't know is how much has been drawn around that. It looks like they're primarily testing it. These programs were rolled out in 2008. It's worth pointing out. A lot of debt globally is denominating U.S. dollars. And when there's demand for U.S. dollars and demand for treasuries, it's harder to source U.S. dollars and it can make the likelihood of something going bump in the night higher than it otherwise would be. So that's what they're attempting to do here with these dollar swap lines. They use these during just after COVID as well, right? In COVID, I don't recall that. I believe in COVID, what the Federal Reserve did is they provide liquidity on investment grade corporates and they announced that they might take further action. They don't really do anything. Just announce the credit facility was ultimately untapped. The mere announcement of the facility led to a record breaking move in IG corporate so they rallied 30% bonds aren't supposed to rally 30%. Bond supposed to make four to 6% a year. Biggest move in my lifetime. So I don't recall any that you may be right. I don't want to call that as well I'm saying. Yeah, yeah. All good. Okay, so let's shift over to the crypto side of the conversation. Maybe just to connect it to the bank discussion. I want to come back to signature for just a moment. Again, lots of political debates last week around the extent to which signature was a political assassination. You had folks who sort of Barney Frank basically accusing or suggesting that they were singled out because of their crypto portfolio, then you had folks from the New York department of financial services say that no, that wasn't it. It was about our fundamental lack of confidence in the signatures management, which is a very he said she said kind of. Given the context for it. But then when the push came to shove, the crypto portfolio, the crypto business was not included in the sale, which obviously sort of puts a pretty fine point on the argument of those who thought that it at least seemed, if not outright politically motivated, certainly a convenient sort of side casualty. I guess where do you think this leaves kind of crypto banking now after the most recent announcement? How big is it? How big a deal is the loss of cygnet, especially after sen, what's your take on the crypto banking landscape coming out of this process? Phenomenal topics. So first off, look, the primary actor here that put signature bank into receivership was the New York State BFS. Not the FDIC. Receivership of single bank was a surprise to everyone, including the short sellers. No one expected that. Shorts were prepositioning around this and a new kind of flood campaign, similar silver gaping ever really had a chance to ramp that up. And the New York State BFS has had a number of issues with signature, including around KYC and AML, but also other deficiencies in audit and control, as well as management. There are a whole mess of issues around signature bank that's coming to light. I'm not saying the receiver ship was justified. But I do want to point out that this was New York State BFS driven. And then they assigned the receiver ship to the FDIC. It's not FDIC driven. That distinction matters. The New York State DFS, I do believe, is far more hostile to crypto than the federal regulators. Even the Federal Reserve put out two weeks ago, maybe three weeks ago statements saying that they're not encouraging or discouraging crypto banking and we can come back to that later. There's what's happens publicly that will happen privately. So I think that's a key point in the non Barney Frank. Of course, Barney Frank co author, senator Bonnie for core author dot Frank. And he was on the board of signature. My interpretation is that he's a board of director. He's deflecting scrutiny on his own role as a board director who's liable for ensuring proper governance and managerial content. And compliance, right? This is the guy that Cawthorn Frank. I think what he's saying is, hey guys, don't look at me. It's crypto. And the question for Barney Frank is, was his comment made with knowledge, I don't think they were. It was put into receivership quickly. It was unexpected. I don't believe that the board was informed or given a heads up around this, management was also surprised, management's first to know. And then the board of directors caucus of management later. So I think Barney Frank is just making a guess. I don't put too much stock in his assessment. The third around the federal regulators and what does it mean for Cigna and crypto banking regeneratively? Look, it's a big, it's incredibly disappointing. It's a big loss. So we've seen the loss of silver gate. Send network and sign that crypto is a 24/7 market. It needs a 24/7 instant settlement network to correspond to that. So you can mitigate settlement risk. Avoidance settlement risk matters because you can get margin calls that can force liquidation of a party, one party campaign, another party, simply because of the checks in the mail, which isn't a way to think about settlement risk. Your money good to pay off a loan, but the bank's not going to deliver the cash to win the bank opens, which is Monday, 9 a.m., but you got margin called over the weekend. So the other thing is that crypto needs a toehold in the banking market. Not many banks bank crypto. So long as you have one bank offering a bank or service, you can then petition to the regulator, you mean another bank and petition for the regulator. I did this at cross river. I was the executive officer of the crypto business. I said, look, here are all these banks offering crypto services. We need a level playing field. You've got to encourage competition. And if those banks can lawfully offer those services and so can I. And if you lose those source writers on the market, you are taking a step back. You've got to renew your argument and you got to find a legal basis. And so it's an unfortunate loss. And I will have to see. There's still this $4 billion deposit portfolio, maybe another actor steps into acquire it. Now, my take Nathaniel ancho .2. I think I'm going to choke .1 .5 or 1.7 cap. I think the regulators are mixed. Fed chair Powell, it's reported by the financial times approved DM that dean is not the same as the Ethereum decentralized blockchain. But it's a step in the right direction, right? Meaning, if we had gone in the world where Paul approved DM and secretary on turns out it's reported did not approve it. That changed the course of crypto history. If it was approved, you'd have big tech companies including Facebook and Amazon and others like lift and Uber enabling wallets to move money using a stablecoin issued by silver gate. Silver gate would be making money handover fist, they'd still be around today. And hundreds of millions of consumers in the United States and globally would be using crypto to settle like TCP IP. That world we don't live in now because regulars have different views on how to approach crypto regulation. So I had a conversation this weekend with Austin Campbell and we were talking about this set of issues. And I think that one of the pernicious things about that regulatory mix is that basically it defaults to bad when you're when that interacts with an inherently conservative system like banks. And what I mean by that is you don't need unanimous government and regulator consensus. The crypto is bad and you shouldn't be able to do it. For the handful of folks who do feel that way and are loud to make it such a high political cost and a potentially high compliance cost that functionally it doesn't matter if there's a whole bunch of allies as well because it's sort of the loud squawk anti crypto voices dictate how risky it is, not the people who are sort of pro it, right? Because it's all sort of a cost benefit
The Cryptoshow - blockchain, cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin and decentralization simply explained
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"What happening in the markets? Why did the fat meeting, despite raising rates, not crushed the markets? Why are the markets still up? Let's dive in. Just make sure that this thing doesn't scratch on my last time on the shirt. Let's dive in happy 6 week of 2023. I sent out a newsletter yesterday about things I'm watching in the upcoming week. If you want that newsletter, go to CEO news dot cake DeFi dot com sign up and I'm going to be sending you regular market updates, things I'm watching from a CEO perspective, but obviously as a personal investor. I put in one or the other personal thought in there. So if you want to get out, get some value of this, sign up. Let's dive in, let's first talk about what happened last week, and then discuss what I'm expecting for this week. First and foremost, I think a couple of key things last week, I think it crypto space. It was relatively quiet other than the entire ordinal topic on Bitcoin. Let me know if you want to hear my thoughts on that in a separate video, explaining what these ordinals are, how they work, and NFTs on Bitcoin, obviously the big uproar there is the Bitcoin maxis who are trying to fight that and obviously some of the game theoretical issues, not only from who pays more fees because these ordinance really demand quite some fees. Also bid on regulation, what happens if child pornography gets stored in there. So obviously this was a, yeah, hefty topic, my thought on this is anything that brings utility to Bitcoin. It's good. As you know, I'm a big critic of the lack of utility in Bitcoin. For me, Bitcoin has this utility as simply being an index for the crypto space. That's why we are investing from a company standpoint in Bitcoin. And it has the ability of being an insurance in my opinion, and that's why I personally have a little bit of my allocation Bitcoin. But that's it. I don't see it as a currency I don't see it as a world currency. I don't see I don't see it as at all. So for me, these are all things that I know a lot of people just kind of try to hype it around. But to me, that's the same thing as when people say, oh, inflation protection. Oh, it's the next world currency. I don't know. It's always something, right? And at the end, all these things just simply aren't true, in my opinion, at least. So that was a big crypto topic. We didn't see any escalation on the other than that. Nothing in genesis. I was in kind of quiet there, binance, silver, all these things really, really want to quiet side. So it was macro macro macro under on the one hand, it was the fed Wednesday, they came out with 0.25% interest rate height, up to 4.75%. This was all expected. The ECB, European Central Bank raised by half a percent to 3%, the Bank of England, to half a percent to 4%. Actually, we're seeing this and I send this out in newsletter. We see this all around the world all central banks are raising interest rates. All of it very expected. Now, what was unexpected was J Powell actually saying two things. Jerome Powell is the head of the fed. And he was unexpected, two things. First of all, that he sees disinflation. What was unexpected about this, not that he sees that, but that he says it. Why? Because he has been very hawkish hawkish means he was very bearish and careful so far. And for the first time, there was a meeting where he was more on the bullish side. He was more dovish. And so the question on this is why is that? And I think obviously because the fact is reactionary. It's no proactive. It has to kind of follow data. It can not anticipate. So he needs to raise rates based on what's happening in the market, but I think his signaling can be a bit about what he's expecting. And does this inflation so inflation coming down? I think that is expected. And we're seeing this all around. So I think that's where a lot of this is coming from. The other thing is that he said they are not expected to lower rates the entire rest of the year. So he expects one to two more rate hikes. I think he said two, but the market kind of prices in one. So I'm saying one to two, but they're not expected to lower rates. And the only reason the fed would lower rates would be because there's a recession and that recession is really, really hard. Or because the bond market is kind of blowing up. Or because inflation is so low that he doesn't need to keep the right time. He's the only three reasons. And so since the bond market has been holding up really well, it's unlikely that these slow rate hikes right now are going to cause issues. It's actually very unlikely. And they kind of also shows you I mean, maybe that's a key point. How many of gurus experts, a year ago said the rate, the fed can not raise interest rates more than over 2%. It's impossible. The bond market is going to not going to be able to handle it. Well, bond market is completely fine. So key thing is always like these macro experts. A lot of these gurus that have their favorite investors, right? Investments and so on. They always try to paint the narrative. So you have to be so careful if you kind of think, oh, you know what, like rates are not going to go with 2%. Now we're close to 5%. Everything is fine. So be just extra careful. So bond market, in my opinion, is going to hold this, no issue on that. Inflation will go down. Sure. The question is just how fast I do think we're going to see it go down, go up a bit, go down, go up a bit. The key thing why they are not saying that they're going to lower interest rates in my opinion is because Powell is fairly sure that they are not going to see a hard lending. They're not going to see a recession. And a recession simply means a shrinking economy. And so he's fairly certain about that. And I mean, he could be, I'm not saying he's wrong, I'm just saying he could be right. Also, it could just be that he signaling, right? So could be that he's just doing some signaling there. The market took everything up very positively. And I'm going to give you a bit of my thoughts going forward on that. So yeah, quite interesting. The three a company plasma came out, in my opinion, their earnings were relatively abysmal. Some of the worst earnings they've had or reportings they've had in a long time. And especially because the slowing growth, it's not so much about the absolute here. A lot about growth companies or tech and so on, it's really about the signaling in general. And to be honest, that was not very optimistic. If you look at the fundamentals there, nothing of that was like screaming optimism. Everything was screaming pessimism, some of the slowest growth they have had in their history. So I don't know, I don't understand how to market is so optimistic about all that. It's just like, this is now the new kind of scenario, absolutely not, but it's definitely not what some people are saying, oh, we are through all this. Now we're going to see the V shaped recovery and it feels like that's what people are expecting to be honest. And I don't see that at all. So meta rallied massively, the reason it did was because Zuckerberg seems to be really focusing on becoming more efficient, moving away from the pure metaverse, which I think if you have seen our meetup last week on Wednesday, we posted it on the cake company, YouTube channel. I'm not a big fan of the metaverse. I just don't see the utility in that at all. And I mean, it's not only needs, people, otherwise more people would spend time in there, and they don't. So yeah, I just don't see much utility in that. So meta is going away from that. So I think that's the right move to be honest. And last but not least, we had unemployment numbers. And they
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"So it definitely, by what percentage? I don't know, off the top of my head. But it's meaningful. Now, it's meaningful. What did you just say? We're talking about in clear terms. That the Federal Bureau of Investigation showed up to Facebook and said, hey, there's all this Russian disinformation out there. There's all of this nonsense happening out there. You should probably censor this Hunter Biden laptop story. That's what they were talking about. The FBI visits the channels of social media. The places where decisions are made about politics where information is spread and the FBI back channeled to social media companies. So significantly that Mark Zuckerberg was made aware of it and said, you should probably suppress this story. I want you to think about that. If that is not direct election interference, what is. The FBI has now been, it is now transparently been revealed that they go and visit the channels of communication and manipulate what should be spread and what should not be spread. Wow. And yet the most and I love Joe Rogan, he just didn't follow up on this perfectly. He did pretty well. There's two questions that weren't asked. Which is number one, is this still happening? Is the FBI interfering in the midterm election? Is the FBI showing up to social media companies right now? Is the FBI trying to prevent stories about how young kids are being exposed to drag queen story? We do have some evidence of that, but as the FBI doing that, we don't know. Is the FBI showing up saying it's Russian disinformation to say, Democrats want open borders. Is that going on right now? Because there's, and by the way, the other question is that's the first question, the second question, which is less important, but it's more important, it's more, it's critical for just a broader perspective, which is, how long have they been doing this? How many other stories has the FBI showed up to Facebook and said, hey, you got to censor this? The FBI has basically created a backdoor pass to control Facebook. That's what was just revealed right there. That if the bureau doesn't like a story, if something is not trending the way they like it, then the FBI becomes the federal bureau of election interference. The New York Times article is very, very clear. The New York Times article says that they need to indict Donald Trump, but they have a two step move. We're now living through a two step move. Take out the leader, create a maga Civil War. I don't think it's that simple. I don't think it's that clear. The only move Donald Trump has left. For those of you that want to see Donald Trump become president again, he needs to announce for president right now. It's his only move left. If he doesn't, he could be convicted, become a felon and not be allowed to serve as president of the United States. Thanks so much for listening, everybody, email me your thoughts is always freedom at Charlie Kirk dot com. Thanks so much for listening. God bless. For.
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"5 points more popular. And so it really kind of begs the question and I want your thoughts freedom at Charlie Kirk dot com. Should Donald Trump announce for president right now. You might say, why would he do that? Well, according to guidelines by the DoJ, active presidential candidates are active candidates are treated at a difference threshold and standard. Because they don't want to act as if they're doing election interference. And of course, again, one of the most extraordinary clips is Mark Zuckerberg coming out and admitting that the Federal Bureau of Investigation back channels with major social media companies to be able to manipulate the spread of information. So the question is, do you think it's good for the movement right now if Donald Trump announces for president? Just gets out of the gate. Says, if you're going to indict me, you have to indict the entire movement. I got to be honest, I'm coming around to this argument. The only card, in my opinion, Donald Trump has left the play. The only card he has left to play for the sake of our movement before the decade comes in, the decade comes in at settles in. If you study American history, if you study political history, takes a decade for a political movement to have permanence. We are not there. They know that, by the way, civil rights movement, decade before it really got powerful. The civil rights movement just wasn't, okay, here we have it. No, it took a decade before they got the Civil Rights Act passed. Do you think Donald Trump should announce? For president. I'm coming around to the argument because our movement I want it to have durability. I want it to have shelf life. I do not want to go back to the ruling elite of McConnell and Paul Ryan and Boehner. And if he gets indicted, it does put that in jeopardy. I think we can survive it. Most movements get derailed, occupy Wall Street, BLM, me too, Tea Party movement. Reagan revolution, Goldwater, movements easily get derailed and they believe they can derail it by taking out the figurehead himself. This is an amazing clip. I don't know if he planned to do this. This is the brilliance of Joe Rogan. By the way, we get emails every once in a while. Charlie, why do you like Joe Rogan? He bashes on Trump and he does all this stuff. Just just press a little pause here, okay? Joe Rogan is super influential. He's not a leftist. He does love freedom. I disagree with him on a wide variety of issues. But he literally said to Aaron Rodgers, reigning MVP of the National Football League yesterday, the way that we need to send a message to the COVID lockdown people is vote Republican. So you don't have to agree with everybody to understand that Joe Rogan has talent, Joe Rogan has a following and Joe Rogan has an unbelievable skill. I have to say, Joe Rogan's skill is to get very powerful people to forget their on camera. Cut 13 Joe Rogan interviewing Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook censoring the Hunter Biden story, play cut 13. I mean, basically the background here is the FBI, I think, basically came to us some folks on our team. It was like, hey, just so you know, you should be on high alert. We thought that there was a lot of Russian propaganda in the 2016 election. We have it on notice that basically there's about to be some kind of dump of that's similar to that. So just be vigilant. So can we say the distribution is decreased? It got shared. How does that work? It basically the ranking and news feed was a little bit less. So fewer people saw it than would have otherwise..
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"Them. So they're wargaming. How do we potentially prevent this from happening in The New York Times tells us what they're going to do? It says this in The New York Times. Again, The New York Times is read by all these prosecutors. It's read by all of the inner workings of the Department of Justice. It is the top of the tributary. To give you an idea, for those of you that watch Fox News, but I'll give you even better example. Remember when Rush Limbaugh, for example, put forward operation chaos. I think that's what it was called. Where he said we should switch over in the Democrat party and we should vote in the Democrat party for Hillary so that we can stop Barack Obama. I'm butchering some of the details. It went everywhere. When Rush Limbaugh or when Tucker Carlson looks to the camera and gives you a well scripted argument that is a little bit out there, our base listens. We stop what we're doing. Say, oh, wow. That's the power of The New York Times. The New York Times is that to the left is Rush Limbaugh was for 30 years to the right. When Rush Limbaugh talks, you stop your car and pull over to the side of the street. At least for me, when Rush Limbaugh was on, I would delay appointments. I'd say I have to call you back. When Rush Limbaugh was on, I would design my schedule, especially. When there was some breaking news, when bob Mueller, I would listen to rush every single day during the Mueller investigation during the 2016 election every day because we kind of needed that north star. We needed that guiding light. That's what The New York Times is to the left. To give you an idea, I know for you think The New York Times, whatever is just another rag, that's not correct for the left. They get, they orient their direction, their compass based on what The New York Times tells them is considerable and acceptable, especially when it's the editorial board. And that's what happened. So the editorial board, the people that run the entire New York Times philosophical direction, says, quote, no one should revel in the prospect of this or any former president facing criminal prosecution. Mister Trump's actions have brought shame on one of the world's oldest democracies. Again, we're not a democracy. Do you see how important it is to define our terms? Because then you allow the charlatans to just get out of control. And destabilize its future. Even justice before the law will not erase that stain. Nor will prosecuting mister Trump fix the structural problems that led to the greatest crisis in American democracy since the Civil War. To give an idea of the argument they're making, they're making that our elections are going through a greater crisis than poll taxes and Jim Crow segregation. That's their current argument. But then The New York Times and this is the total tell everybody they tell you what they're doing. They're game plan is right here. But it is a necessary first step. Towards doing so. This is not the endgame. They write in The New York Times. It is a necessary first step. This is the first step towards what they believe is how to stop your voice, silence your activism, shut you up and make you obey. They would not do this. This is the good news everybody. And some people are emailing us Charlie. This is so incredibly depressing. Well, it really isn't actually, it's honest. If you can't handle it, then I think there's that. We can get that old Jack Nicklaus, yeah. Can't handle the truth. Pretty simple, pretty clear. The good news is this, though, all they have left are moves by small groups of powerful people. That's it. That's all they have left in their quiver. They have emptied their, they've emptied the cartridge. They got nothing left. They're not winning public opinion. Their policies are deeply unpopular. We are the ones that are filling up auditoriums. We're the ones that are registering voters. We're the ones that are on the front lines. All they have left are these games. And if they think for a second that indicting Donald Trump is going to all of a sudden make us give up or surrender, I think it will have the opposite effect, but I will say that doesn't mean we should be hoping for it. Because for some of you out there, we just got an email here freedom at Charlie Kirk dot com. Let them indict Trump. It will be a good thing for us. I think we can make it a good thing, but there's also a layer of risk within them indicting Trump that I think could unnecessarily create a power struggle on the right. Having a clear person in charge for the time being of the maga movement is very important. The maga movement has not yet finished settling in. It takes at least a decade for a movement to become permanent. Let me say that again. It takes a decade for a political movement to become permanent. Otherwise, it's just a flash in the pan Tea Party done. Occupy Wall Street done for a political movement to become permanent. It has to finish kind of settling in to the roots and it has to metastasize both vertically and horizontally throughout the entire culture. We're close to that, by the way. We're just a couple of years out. And so we need a little bit more time otherwise. If they indict Trump, it will give oxygen, it will give basis for the McConnell's and the establishment Republicans of the world to say I told you so. Time to move on. We're going to suck up all the money, all their candidates are marred by a felon who endorsed them. We will make a positive out of that totally, but we should not invite it. We shouldn't want it. It would be messy and it would create some bedlam on our side. But this is all they have left. Remember, Donald Trump got 5 points more popular after the raid..
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"I want to give a shout out to our entire team on the Charlie Kirk show and just kind of a turning point USA for the very few of them that new Erica was pregnant. The ability to maneuver with vagueness and abstractions in the last couple of weeks to give excuses that I couldn't do things was rather remarkable. I just said we want this to be private and to be secret. And in a world where everything you do is publicized for where you tweet and what happens to have one little corner of something that was just our own was very, very special. So thank you to all of you and thank you to the wonderful tech team. Okay, so the entire New York Times article was written and crafted to try to sway a grand jury. But this is not even about Trump. This is much bigger than Trump. This is about the entire movement. So we must understand that when they sit around a conference table, you have Merrick Garland, you have the FBI Christopher wray, you have all the Democrat operatives. They see finally what we have been forecasting what we have been predicting and what we have been hoping for. They see a once in a generation realignment. They're not totally dumb. I'd say some of them are pretty unbelievably ignorant, but in some sense, it's almost as if the architects of the 2020 election scheme are now back in charge. So this is our working theory here on the Charlie Kirk show. Our working theory is that there was a cabal of pseudo criminals that orchestrated a perfectly precise plan in the 2020 election, lockdowns, fear, death counts on television, blaming Trump, mass mail in ballots, mules, drop boxes, 2020, was planned perfectly from their perspective. And the people behind that were marked Elias and many others as miss ball wrote in Time Magazine, the shadow campaign that saved the 2020 election. And it seemed as if that kind of cabal. They worked very hard at it. They got it done. They implemented one of the most unpopular incompetent incoherent human beings as presidents, rather amazing when you think about it. To implement someone that can't draw a couple dozen people as a rally as president, you want to talk about a palace revolution they overturned, they ran over the will of the people with all of these different instruments. And then January 6th happened and the working theory I have is Marc Elias and all these people. They kind of took some time off. They didn't stop doing what they were doing, but they started to get other work. They started to get rich. They started to enjoy some of the, let's say, trappings of having the house, the Senate, and the presidency. I believe the cabal that orchestrated 2020 is now back in charge of the Democrat party. It's almost as if the kids were running the house, the teenagers were running around for the last 18 months. Green New Deal infrastructure plan. All these different insane ideas, defund the police, men can become pregnant. Have you noticed Democrats have become a lot better at lying about their messaging on television advertisements recently? I mean, again, I live here in Arizona. We'll talk a lot about the Arizona elections. The Mark Kelly advertisements are phenomenal. They're deceitful. They're well crafted. They see moderate, they seem common sense. They're well shot. If you didn't know better, you would think Mark Kelly was a moderate Republican. The same cabal that orchestrated 2020, I believe is now back into gear going through a plan, but I think there's some disagreement in the ranks of the Democrats. Remember, their entire currency, they find them so that they judge their success based on how much power they have. And the fact that there's going to be this tsunami inevitably potentially inevitably in November bothers them and worries.
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"So Donald Trump is the figurehead of this nationalist bottom up parents party movement. And the machine is now getting into a desperate mode of operation. It's a very, very, very risky thing they're embarking on. But it's transparently clear what they're doing, which is, again, the affidavit was a complete joke. And we're going to get into that my take on it. But they are now focused on taking Donald Trump off the chess table. Now you might say, oh, Charlie, they've been focused on that for quite some time. You know, they've wanted to know this is different. They're going for it. They think they have a window of opportunity, and they believe that if they don't do this, that our movement is going to take over everything for a long period of time. And they're right. Now, they have a very low percentage chance of pulling this off. In order to pull this off, they will have to successfully and convincingly indict Donald Trump convict him, start a maga Civil War, and then have us all of a sudden completely and totally give up. But we must understand they are running out of tools at their disposal. To be able to stop our movement, they've tried everything, social media banning, smearing. Shadow banning. They've tried everything, and yet Latinos are now defecting in the conservative direction in record numbers. We're winning school board races all across the country, voter registration numbers are going in the Republican direction and huge numbers. What do they have left? A palace revolution. Take the figurehead off the chest table. Now, some of you might say, well, Charlie, our movement is larger and greater than Trump. I agree with that. But their strategy now is a two step move. The regime now has a two step move, which is displace and remove Donald Trump, take him off the chest table, indict him on some sort of paperwork crime. Which we're going to talk about what I think their path forward is because it was articulated. They put forward the entire indictment in The New York Times this weekend. The entire indictment was right there in The New York Times. And then the second one is then to try to sew and foment a maga Civil War where the warring tribes are not able to find a consensus of how to move forward and they're able to dominate elections, not because they're popular, but because they have sowed rancor and division in our ranks. It is a two step move that we're seeing in front of us right now. We're going to get into this. I want your thoughts freedom at Charlie Kirk dot com. By the way, I'm loving all of your parenting advice, freedom at Charlie Kirk.
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"Let's see Phoenix versus Dallas Phoenix will lose against Chicago. Phoenix will lose against Chicago, so that will and then beat Dallas, let's say. So they're 15 and 21, which means Phoenix, Atlanta, New York. All in the season at 15 and 21. Now, if that happens, we enter a whole world of tiebreakers, which Minnesota would be on top of. Because Minnesota holds a tie breaker against New York against Atlanta and against Phoenix. Which then puts them at some, I don't know how, when they've basically spent the whole season in 11th place, bumps them up to 7th place, which what means they would likely as of now play the Las Vegas aces in round one of the playoffs. That's a doozy, but hey, at least still gets a plan. I mean, but they're going to be in there. It's hard. I kind of get lost as soon as we get to those Friday games. It's kind of easy to not easy, but you know, you could look at the next four days and kind of be like, okay, this is where we're at. There's so much. It's actually amazing to me how much basketball is going to be played this week. And how much there is to be determined. And I think when you're throwing out Phoenix out there, they're a wild card. I think Dallas is a wild card. I mean, it is not out of the spectrum of Dallas to go on like a freaking losing streak right now, you know? So it's hard because you also don't know in terms of the injury reports as well, but ultimately at the end of the day, it's going to come down to those Sunday matchups in Minnesota is going to have to steal a game between Seattle and Connecticut. It's a must and the crazy thing too is the beauty if you're a Minnesota lynx fan because I think if you look at New York Atlanta, if you're a fan of that team, you want them to succeed you want them to move on, but there's also that element of like, we're not winning it all this year. And yes, it would be cool for us to make the playoffs in all. But it would be more beneficial for the franchise to not make the playoffs. So I think it's like a little bit, you know, pick your poison type thing. If you're a Minnesota lynx fan, there's not that idea, right? Because you're losing sell this off season, which frees up a lot of cap space to bring in a top free agent big. And then you're back in contention. It's like you're not in the same situation as these other teams. Phoenix similarly, you know, Dina Rossi, how much longer is she around to scatter digging Smith with all the drama that we've seen this year, going to be around in Phoenix next year. So if you're those two teams, it's like a very much like do whatever we can to make it to the playoffs. You can have a first round pick. I don't even think so. I think they traded it away. I don't even have that in front of me. But we obviously, we've obviously talked about LA not having to pick. That's huge. That's a whole other. We'll have plenty of time to talk about that in the off season. But yeah, I mean, I think the diamond is shields trade included one of their picks. So end of the day, like Minnesota and Phoenix and Dallas are the ones who are just like. I mean, Dallas is pretty much a lock in unless they have just a colossal fall apart. And then the question is, who is 7 and 8? And the way I'm looking at it right now, you know, it comes down to the tiebreaker just because it's going to be tough for Phoenix up against Chicago and some of these other teams, but end of the day, like if four teams end to end at 15 and 21, I am curious what that means for the tiebreaker. I would have to break that all down. I don't even have all that in front of me. But end of the day, I would enjoy seeing Phoenix in Minnesota in the playoffs. Well, and pickle, more most importantly, thinks that LA is going to be Connecticut. So. Okay, there we go. We got it. And just to remind everybody a week and a half ago, two weeks ago, we picked you pick that the sparks wings and mercury would make it. I said mercury, Atlanta, and links would make it. So I guess I just had faith of the wings with falter. But hey, oh, so I'm reminded. You pick sparks, wings, and or agree to make it. Well, great picks, Rachel. We've been hosting watch parties on playback. It's a really fun new way to watch the games, no lag, no spoilers. We do merch giveaways. We do NFT giveaways. We do trivia questions. And we just have a
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"But from my understanding. But this is really a coin flip. It's a coin. It's like, but I'm gonna say this. I believe the injury report I saw yesterday had a rique out. And I don't want to be that jerk who's saying it, but I honestly, I think this team not having a riquet out there makes them better. Marina mabry, you know what? Hot take whatever more valuable to this Dell swings team because she can facilitate for others and score. Yeah, I agree Dallas now stands at 17 and 16, Atlanta in 14 and 19. The New York loss because New York loses the tiebreaker with Minnesota. They would then drop below Minnesota. Right. And just a huge game tonight. That is a huge, huge game because that could move Minnesota into 9th place and just half a game back from Phoenix and Atlanta and that means the playoffs. Now I'm not gonna lie, I don't know between New York and liberty who have the tiebreaker, but LA and my perspective is kind of like a long shot. They just got to win out and hope everyone else loses. What's the next game? All right, then Tuesday, we've got Seattle at Chicago. We don't need to really focus on that one. We're just talking about this week and what happens with those final spots. Atlanta dream at Las Vegas, in my opinion, no way Atlanta goes into Las Vegas and beats them with the way that they're playing. So then that will drop Atlanta to 14 and 20. And then you've got the Connecticut sun at the LA sparks, I really don't see that happening either. So then that drops LA to 13 and 21. But now I completely agree with all of that. I mean, I know LA's fighting for a spot, but Connecticut is fighting to, look, it's just plow forward. Maybe at best LA splits too, but I doubt they're winning game one. And yeah, at this point, if you're LA, you just got to hope can not get really off. Yep, and that puts us at LA's 1321, so 11th place. New York's in tenth Minnesota would then be just half a game back sitting at 13 and 20 while Atlanta is 14 and 20 in Phoenix is 14 and 19. Next games. Okay. Wednesday, really, really, really big night New York at Dallas, Minnesota, at Phoenix, you know, again, you look at this New York Dallas matchup for the sake of this, let's just say they split. So let's say New York ends up winning that. They end up being 14 and 20. New York drops to 17 and 17. By the way around, but yes. What did you say? Either way around, New York working in 2017, 17. Yes, you know what I'm saying. Yeah. And then you've got Minnesota links at Phoenix Phoenix mercury. I mean, that's a must win game. I'm going to take the links with that. I think that they're just going to put their heads down. I don't know the injury report. I don't know what's going on with trazi or Skylar digging Smith. Obviously Phoenix has proven that they can win a game or two without them. So a lot up in the air with that one, but I think at the end of the day, Minnesota is fighting for their lives. They're going to go down there and get themselves a win. Yeah, and then that bumps the Minnesota to 1420. Phoenix to 14 and 20, and now Minnesota now, they have the tiebreaker over Phoenix. They've already been Phoenix two or three times this season. And they last night beating Atlanta gives them the tiebreaker versus Atlanta, which means Minnesota would then move up to 7th place in the standings where Phoenix still well, I don't know. Then there would be a tiebreaker between Phoenix and Atlanta. I would have to look at that and in their games head to head, but we'll save that. The order would be Dallas, Minnesota Phoenix, Atlanta, I would assume just based on the fact that currently they have the same record. Oh, sorry. Atlanta, it seems, has the tie breaker just based off of the current WNBA standings. So that would then that loss bumps Phoenix out of the playoff picture. If the season ended then. Okay. So then we're in the Thursday, Chicago, at Las Vegas. That's exciting. That's great TV. But then another one, Connecticut's son at LA. Can LA sneak a win there's pickle thinking absolutely not. There's no way. I don't know, pickles. I think I heard that as pickle saying, yes. For the sake of argument. Let's say they split. Let's say they split. They split 14 and 21. Yeah, 14 and 21. So what does that do in terms of their potential? Nothing. They're still in last place. There's still an 11. All right, so that day, you know, again, we're giving away the benefit of the doubt we're saying, hey, there's an opportunity there. They might be able to steal one. And then Friday, really, I mean, that's a big day. You've got the mystics at the fever. I don't know when really doesn't mean much. New York liberty, Atlanta dream. You know, this is really, really kind of where everyone's like, man, this is going to come down to this final matchup at the end of the season. Seattle storm at Minnesota. That's a tough one for Minnesota to win. And then Dallas at Phoenix. So you look at those last three games I talked about and then I'm well keep in mind. So we have to play back to back. Wait, wait, who's Atlanta playing? Atlanta is playing New York and they play him again on Sunday. Okay, so they played. They played New York twice, so let's say they split that both teams would then be 15 and 21. Okay. All right, then we have Minnesota going up against Seattle. Let's say they're probably going to lose that, right? Realistically. I mean, honestly, I'm not even sold on that seals last home game. To steal it. For the sake of, well, let's just say that they lose it. Do they still have a shot to get in? Well, then they're 1421. Okay. And let's say Atlanta loses the first game and goes 14 and 21, which means New York would be 15 and 20. All right, let's just assume New York in Atlanta split it. Yep. Okay, so we got 1521. Minnesota sitting at 14, 21, so they bumped back down New York bumps back up. 'cause here's what happens. If let's say I kind of have more faith in Dallas, but you know what, Phoenix is going to be fighting for that playoff spot. Probably a little bit more fight, so I'll give Phoenix the win on that. So they're 15 and 20. So that bumps Minnesota right back down to tenth place and then it comes down to that last Connecticut game. Yeah. Yeah. At the end of the day, you know, Minnesota is going to, I mean, you're relying on other people's winning and winning and losing. Well, well wait, wait, wait, wait, let's look at the last, let's look at Sunday the 14th, right? So we assume that New York and LA, New York and Atlanta split, let's assume Minnesota can pull off one win versus Seattle and Connecticut. Yeah. So then
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"The amount of work that goes into getting your body back to a place of exercise, not even competing against the other top level athletes in the world in the best basketball league in the world, but just to normal exercise, it is mind-blowing to see somebody ten and a half weeks out back on the court. Major kudos was, I want to rewatch a game. I haven't had a chance yet. I want to see what she was doing on defense. She ended up playing from my understanding, double what they wanted her to. She hit a couple big shots. She brought a calmness, but also an energy to this team that I hadn't really seen, you know, we often talk about teams looking to leaders in crunch time moments. And I feel like they didn't even have to do that with having fee on the court. Now that you have and this is going to suck next year when sill's gone. But like having fee and sill, right? Like the faces of the franchise on the court, these all stars who have just been historic in what they have done in this league. I think really calms canon McBride, Mariah Jefferson's her knees finally feeling better. This team, I said it many episodes ago. Make the playoffs will be the most. Impressive mind boggling. There's so many words it's a hell of a story. That's a hell of a story. And I saw I saw Mitchell put out some information. They were talking about how powers was out. And reeve had called up fee and was like, do you want to stick to the plan? Or do you want to end up, you know, do you want to try and play today? And she was like the one thing was holding me back with my nerves. I'm really glad I ended up doing it. I think we're about to go through an exercise and kind of really talk about these games this week and kind of predict what we think could happen. But that ends up being a huge game for Collier to get under her belt. Yes. In terms of just getting those nervous jitters out, you could see it the first few moments on the floor and just the way she was carrying herself but then as the game progressed, you saw her get gradually more and more and more comfortable. You know, she hit a couple shots, you saw her shoulders drop a little bit more. She just was easing into this. So now, you know, you're in a situation where they've got a shot. They've got a shot. And as a former competitor myself, it does take a while and I can not imagine what she felt that those first, you know, that
Winsidr WNBA Show
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"To take the shot right as time was expiring, even though you probably had a more open look a little bit earlier, a few split second, half second, whatever it was earlier you decided to drive. Point is end of the day, it was an embarrassing loss, and I would say even more so, in a simplistic fashion, it's classic EDD gone. She comes back and this team struggles because everybody has very different roles when Elena delle donne is there and when she isn't. And I think hopefully if you're a mystics fan, the positive side is we saw what happens when Delhi strings stick together a few games. This team is a serious contender. This team has the best defense in the league with team has offensive weapons. But we also saw the downfall and we've seen that throughout Della Don's career in Washington specifically in the playoffs and other times where she is the one who kind of starts this engine. And if she's not there, everybody else kind of works together, but when she is there, if she's not hitting her shots, I mean, she couldn't hit the broadside of a barn yesterday. Well, I think you also have to give credit to LA. I mean, props to them, comment this is a team that has struggled to find offensive production consistently throughout the season, and you end up finishing with 5 players in double figures. And that's without Kennedy Carter and Lee's campaign. So I mean, I thought that that was one of their most complete offensive performances of the season which is interesting because we are there going against what the top defense in the league and it's not even like, oh, a team hangs 79 on you. That's not what beat you. It's the fact that Washington struggled to make shots. It was a missed opportunity. You know, the angles and analyzing that final shot, you know, I definitely, I definitely am way more on the side to believe that it was after the buzzer. But not to get too far into that because whatever you have yourself in that situation, my biggest question is what was Jordan Canada doing? You know, like, good God. My God. I mean, I can't even. But hey, I mean, LA got out of there with a win. I don't really know in the long run what this means, but I guess they live another day. Live to see another day, Rachel, I just want to throw this out there because I don't know, maybe you don't want to say this. I feel like we agree on this take. Fred Williams, you're the interim head coach. That Kennedy Carter play. Now is not the time and I get, right? I'm not going to sit here and say like I've been in meetings or I know why there's been this I'll just say a dark cloud following Kennedy Carter wherever she's been in her WNBA career. I'm not going to get into that. All I'm going to say is you're the interim head coach, right? It's not your job to make personnel statements. It's not your job to speak to the culture and whatever, unless the players are doing something and like Fred's just taking the face of it, play Kennedy Carter. Why not? Yeah. Yeah. It's really, really hard because obviously we don't know the inner works and workings of what's transpired. They've been so hush hush about it. We can guess because there is a pattern of behavior and things like that, but we don't actually know matter of fact what that might be. However, if you're the sparks organization, you knew this headed into this free agency signing. And so it's just it's all bad. It's all bad. I wish I don't understand the inconsistencies, like sometimes she'll play sometimes she's out three games then she'll kind of play a little bit. Like, I don't know. Is it all just, you know, determined if she had a good week of practice, or how her attitude is that week of practice, I don't know, regardless, the sparks are just limping through to the end of the season. So side note, even more hilarious about this is, excuse me. Because the mystics have the sparks first round draft pick. This game also was an opportunity for Washington to not only solidify playoff seating and kind of get a rhythm going into the playoffs. The only few games left, but also a chance to solidify them getting a lottery pick. Yeah. And they botched it, but okay. The other big game of the weekend was Minnesota, well, I guess no. We just have to real briefly, Rachel. Phoenix mercury without Skyler digging Smith without Diana taurasi, beat New York. I mean, why not? You gotta tip your head to shape petty. I mean, Shay petty, diamond to shields. I mean, Sophie Cunningham. I mean, ultimately, it comes down to people stepping up when it matters. And that's especially what this time of year is about. When you're playing for your lives, you're playing for those to extend your season. Excuse me. And yeah, really impressive performances there. And a short bench, even shorter than it normally would be. I mean, I don't know what that means for New York. You have to question, are you losing intentionally? Or are you just were you just not ready to go? I'm going to call it out, Rachel. What? Congratulations comes back. Everyone was all hyped. And I hope New Yorkers don't take us in the wrong way. New York is a huge market, which means they have what I would assume, hopefully, a lot more fans, which means their fan base voice on social media and other platforms is going to be a little bit louder. So I think often certain teams New York, LA are going to be a little bit overhyped at times, and I think this season is kind of an example of that with New York, but I would even say that benign coming back everyone's talking about all the teams finally together blah blah blah. Now obviously Natasha Howard goes down with an injury, there's some other kerfuffle, but ajala, the issue in my mind at least with New York last year and this year stills turnovers. But Angelina is not going to solve that issue. She's maybe even going to add to that. They need to be playing smarter, less turnover basketball if they want to continue to win. Yeah. Final game was Minnesota, Atlanta. If he's coming. Unbelievable. Oh, yeah. I mean, look, ten and a half weeks, I'm not going to sit here and I don't want to say anything wrong or offensive all I'm going to say is that my
Winsidr WNBA Show
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"Is the most glorious time of the year. It is teams finding any weapon to bludgeon the other team scratch claw, bite their way into the playoffs. But before we get into that, let's talk about this weekend. Thoughts reactions, what's going on? Yeah, I mean, I thought that the Connecticut sun, Chicago sky, Las Vegas, Las Vegas aces and storm game. Those games were absolutely unbelievable. You know, we're at that point of the season where it's like, you know, play off type games in terms of just jockeying for like deep position and seating and things like that. But then you also have those lower part lower level teams that, you know, we're really honestly almost some ways more focused on just trying to make sense of who's actually going to make it in. But yeah, final week of the regular season, it's unbelievable. I can't believe how fast this season flew by, but I'm excited. And honestly, I'm really excited to not just pay attention to this week of who's actually going to get in to get that final, those final couple spots, those final that final spot out and kind of analyze what we think is going to happen. But just I'm ready for playoff basketball. Yeah, and you know what, talking about you touched on this, like over 18,000 people. We're in Seattle, went to suburbs, final regular season, home game, brand January's final regular season home game. That atmosphere. Unbelievable. Was unbelievable. I mean, talk about fomo. Talk about Rachel, how much what would you have given up to be at that game? I mean, given up, I don't know. I have to say, I don't want to say it's just as enjoyable to see it on TV, but I got chills multiple times. Throughout that game, just listening to the crowd and they're reaction to certain plays, like they were so in sync with and it was such a heavyweight fight, like big shot after big shot. Brandon Stewart goes off for 35. And then you've got Chelsea gray coming down hitting daggers, you know, just responding to every single big time shot that Stewart made and I mean, that was just too heavyweights throw in punches left and right. I was really impressed with the Las Vegas aces and their composure down the stretch. I thought that that really spoke volumes about them. I think Seattle, you know, obviously we could talk about Sue bird and we talk about Briana Stewart, and I got I'm talking more just down the road and play off basketball. They got to have more offensively Joe Lloyd can't go zero for 6. But yeah, that was just an unbelievable game. I mean, just I remember sitting there I was just like, I don't want this to end. I really don't want this to get any. And here we are. It's like the middle of nothing, the final week of regular season, this game didn't hold a ton of weight in terms of just what it meant for both of these teams, but still unbelievable. I can't wait for the playoffs. Yeah, it was, oh man. I was going to say, Rachel, I would offer to give up your tisha Jersey finals Jersey so that we could go. I don't know about that. No, but it's not my Jersey, so I would totally give it up. I want your thoughts about the mystics ending to LA. I mean, I was a little bit surprised. I this is why I can't put Washington up in that top tier. There's clearly four teams that are contenders in my mind. Then Washington goes out and just when I'm ready to talk about them, you know, being dominant and having a chance, they do something like this. But here's my thing. I think it's more simplistic. All right, first of all, Natasha cloud, like, all right. Listen, tweets, I'll say it right now. First of all, I respect Tasha cloud. The utmost. I would say, what she's doing this season extremely underrated, which she's been doing her career over the past few years since she kind of took that leap forward underrated. She's a top point guard in the league in my opinion. But whatever, we can talk about that later. She was filed on that shot, but she was followed after the buzzer went off. She got the shot off after the buzzer went off. So I'm not going to talk about that. I'm not going to talk about the fact that there is horrible calls because there's horrible calls going both ways. And you know what? They were down by like 12 or more at one point. And for the majority of the game, they were down by double digits. So don't come tweeting after the game at me saying, hey, the rest cost them the game or while these rests are lousy. We know the rest are lousy. Everyone's been screaming about that. When you say the rest are lousy and not acknowledge that they have been lousy for years upon years and every game this season, it almost makes you sound like a noob watching the game. You know what I mean? What's new? Okay. But you allowed the refs, like maybe I'm that curmudgeonly old person who's just like, you suck, but you allowed the refs to decide the game.
The Mini-Break
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"He's followed up his win or his final with a win over who her hurkacz in hallo- and that's a really good bounce back victory for him there and it speaks to the fact that you know again. This is why. I'm buying stock because long term i have no doubt about felix. You're all the same and by the way for those of you curious for felix in his career Santana success on grass not sample size. But he's twelve and four fifty a seventy five percent win percentage. She's already made a couple of finals on the surface. He made the semi-finals at queen's club as well. Last year it was a third round or two years ago third-round loss to ugo bear who was a fourth round or they're obviously in has subsequently entered the top thirty five so that's a loss i would say that's appreciated in value his four clay court events finals finals. Semi-finals third-round wimbledon. That's pretty damned good. His aggressive game style. His comfort at is going to translate at the surf to the surface. I actually would not be surprised. If felix seems i fourth round first quarter final of a grand slam actually comes at this wimbledon because hill have been playing on it for three weeks in the build up to the event he'll be comfortable on the surface and again that plus one gear that planning for felix still looks as good as always but just wasn't quite dynamic enough with plan b. plan c. plan d. and ultimately gets knocked off by chile in the final. I mentioned it earlier. Some of the other notable results. You talk about evil ratings superstars on grass court sam queries third and of course part of that has to be due to the fact that he made a semi-final of wimbledon on not too many years ago. But you know follows up with a quarterfinal. Excuse me semi-final result here in Institute guard and look for him who he was able to beat in this tournament. Four sam query. Who's hanging onto that top. One hundred spot for dear life tops having five number sixty three right now you know take advantage of the draw chelsea belic duckworth and talented young stricker. Who i promise you. We're gonna talk about more on the podcast with david tomorrow. Because i started talking about the lefty gumption. He plays with. This'll be an hour long. Podcast when i'm trying to preview and again through this one on the quicker side query beat stricker in three sets felt like stricker was going to win that match. He got the mini break early in the tie-breaker to go four two. In that second seven. I think query took five straight points and closed at second-set gets the break in third for six three. I mean again. You know sam's game serve forehand translates well to this surface He was the other semi-final chile in his semi-final. He knocked off sebastian. I knocked off. Yuri rodionov who we did an action two point. Oh podcast on a few months ago. If you want to go here david earn. I you can find that on our website. I mean i mentioned the draw for him already. Chappel of bachelet's villi mollica rodionov. Who had to retire but has that tricky aggressive game style on the grass was a good week for both of these players again took was clearly a to fifty But the two best players emerged in the final and ultimately chile just little too much plus one.
Reset
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"On their iphone. Here to talk about the arrival of digital driver's licenses is recode's rebecca. Hi awhile rebecca. Hey so what is a digital driver's license in how will this new system work. You've probably been hearing a lot over the past few months about digital vaccine passports and serve saving personal information on phones and in phone apps so you should sort of think of that as the foundational technology but this will work a little bit differently primarily. Because it's the information that would be on your driver's license so imagine an app or part of an app that contains all the information that would be on your physical driver's license. That's actually now inside your phone so it would kind of look like physical. Id but there would be potentially some big differences so instead of just a stall photo it might be that digital's license includes a moving image kind of like those live photos on your phone. So it's you know kind of a digital version of what you already have. But it's way more than a screenshot and this is kind of similar to something that we've been seeing a lot more lately digital credit cards like i've been paying with apple pay a lot more in the pandemic. What else can you do with digital wallet is. They're going to be other stuff in there too yet. It really seems like companies like apple. Want to have control over everything that would have once gone into a physical wallet. People are paying for things with credit cards that are stored digitally on their phones. People are able to open their cars now with digital apps and even going into their homes with that so basically everything is kinda being transferred and condensed into these apps. I know i've started using public transit by using a phone and things like that so people are really making that transition. Okay so just so. I'm understanding how apple pay works. I clicked the button on my phone and it scans face and then i'm able to use a credit card. Is there like a verification system or does it even work like apple pay or is it a separate app. What's the deal apple said. This is coming this fall and that it's going to be part of apple wallet. We should expect that it's gonna follow similar rules for that but right now we actually don't know that much about how it's gonna work because all we really have is. What has apple's hinted thus far we do know that apple does basically want to take over everything in the physical wallet and put it in the digital wallet. Yeah that's one thing does it. All approach now reminds me of the multi pass in the scifi movie. The fifth element. Have you seen that one now. Have you should. It's amazing. Is this just an apple or other tech companies doing it. I have to imagine google. Lots to apple is actually not even the first company to try to roll this out on google. Like you said it's also been trying to work on a system for digital driver's license and it's been releasing standards that are supposed to help that happen you know. Ibm has been trying to get digital identification rolling for quite a few years now and it's been involved with the vaccine passport system in new york and then there's this other company called idee meow which you may not have heard of but it's actually helped launch digital versions of id's with several us states already including arizona and oklahoma. So apple is a big flashy name here. But we've had companies looking into this for quite some time. We've talked on the show before about the controversy around digital vaccine passports. There's a debate about privacy and medical records given. it's a similar technology. Is there also a debate. About digital driver's licenses digital driver's licenses have not become this fixture within a culture war. That vaccine passports have become so we have had these digital driver's licenses in some respect you similar kind of technology in similar concepts to storing personal information on phones which people can sign up voluntarily for as many of vaccine passport apps workers. Well but there hasn't been this whole debate over it and there have been several states that have tried to limit or ban vaccine passports and apps like that also go forward with digital driver's licenses. That's interesting to. We'll tell me more about the case for digital driver's license wire aside from convenience. Why states like one sort of advantage of this is that it. Lets you have a bit more control over your information so say you're trying to get a drink at a bar and you need to confirm that you are in fact over the age of twenty one. It's not really necessary for you to show your personal address information like that. That might be on your id to a bartender. So for instance you could kind of just show your agent formation which is sort of a privacy plus some might argue at the same time like other people think it could potentially be more secure and harder to fake and this is something that the department of homeland security has been interested in talking by creating standards for digital versions of id's and the tsa is interested in well. But you know. I think a lot of states that are moving forward with this member. States are the entities that primarily. Give out identification cards in the united states. Want to be part of the future and sort of see this coming. Just sort of are trying to keep up with the times when i travel. I have plane tickets to go in there and concert. Tickets apple wallet is sort of like you even more useful to physical wallet because there is an infinite amount of space and moving stuff from say like an email into apple wallet is becoming increasingly easy right. Yeah i'm imagining that. You are going up to the tsa officer and the tsa officers not only is looking at your digital license to make sure that you're meeting this identity requirement and you're also ending up using apple to access your boarding pass for the plane as well also really a lot is ending up in your phone. I am all for streamlining the interaction with the. Tsa anything to make that it would be awesome so if the tsa is involved. Does this bring us closer to having like a federally issued identity card. That's not passport. So one of the weird things about the way the. Us works with ideas is that we have states issuing cds and state driver's licenses but then we also have the federal government setting standards for what those ideas should look like nationally. So if you know what's happening with. Real i d. That's an example of this so it does kind of get us closer to that and you know at the same time we have all of these companies which obviously want to have their version of this are providing a framework that would exist on a national level or at least across several states of a digital version of the idea as well so i think we are kind of getting closer to that. Even those states are the primary agencies that deliver these identification cards. So if you didn't want more apple or google in your life these digital driver's licenses are not for you. Yeah well you could probably just stick with your physical licensed as much as possible or burn it all live in the woods. Sure you mentioned privacy. Can you tell me a little bit. More.
103.5 KISS FM
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"Last week. Just like we always talked about. You're so excited for me to follow. You Drive up to your house, but they drove through the suburbs crying as you well know. You're probably was one girl who always made me down. She's so much only she's everything I'm insecure. Oh, yeah. Today I drove through this summer's How could I ever love someone else? No perfect this way. I just can't imagine how you could be. So I guess you're you're you're such forever. Now I drive alone passed your street. Yeah. My friend's tired human Holland Shaman issue a kind of feel sorry for them Expel. Never know you the way that I do you today I drove through the suburbs on picture it. I was driving home.
Celtics Life NBA Basketball Podcast
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"The celtics last podcast after a week for the history books all kinds of ways rather were decided to reconvene for the pod and be collective bargaining expert crescent journey dirk to take the pulse of a season taking place mid pandemic mid social justice in startling host coup attempt on justin quinn. Here celtics gobert. We have a little bit of typical. Nba businesses discussed before. We dive into the most important stuff. I was doing doing well. Just how are you. Well little freaked out but coming down we can get into that in a minute How about you. Alex you know. It's been unquestionably a really weird week. So between just constantly refreshing my twitter feed actively destroying my mental health. And you know just kind of generally trying to grind through the year. I think i'm ultimately doing okay. In large part because the celtics came back last night. And they're my main source of serotonin. Well let's get the elephant in the room out of the way in terms of that typical nba business James harden is now a brooklyn nets. what are we. Let me think about that. I mean it's an absolutely earth shattering. Trade you know herring durant harden and if he ever comes back kyrie irving together on the floor That could be you know that's gonna be nothing less than a historically great offensive. All those parts can work out. The kinks irving is definitely a question mark. His play has been great this year when he's been on the court but he has not been on court lot. Durant is still coming off injury and did not play all that well as a kind of de-motivated buyer in the rockets organization. But let's not get it twisted. These three guys are between them. Probably three of ten best offensive players in the nba. They're going to score over and over and over again and they're gonna be really hard to be not invincible. But that's a really really good basketball team at least on paper. Yeah i think that's right. I mean not invincible. Certainly we've seen super team succeed. Seem super teens come shortage succeeding without that super squad as you point out. Each of those three guys are at their best but he put it differently. If each of those three guys are at their best it's hard to imagine. Being brazil also pointed out for various reasons. Each those three guys conceivable might not be at their best. And so we'll get to plus one little menashe the oneplus two little diminish we'll see potential is extraordinary trade..