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The Plant Movement Podcast
We're Digging Deep Into Nasir Acikgoz's Journey to the American Dream
"So talk to me you're you are from Turkey that you were telling me I'm from Turkey originally. How did you end up here? Well Right after college finishing undergraduate undergrad in Turkey in electronics engineering. Okay, I talked to my father You know father I said, you know, I just want to go to America United States. He said to me Okay, but why United States you want to learn English? Yes, I want to learn English, but there's England here, huh? Right here three hours away. Why do you want to go all the way to 12 hours with plane? I said, I love the American culture I left the American, you know American dream the the colleges their lifestyle and this was all in the this was in the 1996 okay when I graduated from my from college and I graduate college a little bit earlier I was nineteen nineteen and a half years. Wow. Yes, man. Thank you. I Started going to school like five and a half years old because they had that like a program there different programs at that time They allowed kids to to be the first graders. Yeah to accelerate. Yeah, I took advantage of that and Thank God I passed all the grades, you know, I never missed anything. So as a matter of fact, I'm a third year of college I told my dad this, you know, hey, I want to go to the United States, please, you know, would you will you support me? He's so what you told me Whatever you do son. I'm gonna support you. Mm -hmm. So right after college I started applying to college. I mean the you know, yeah colleges for MBA program Okay, because I said I want to do MBA. I want to do master's in business administration If you ask me why because it was the hit thing in Turkey at that time if you have your Engineering background. I mean undergrad and then you have the MBA all the companies all the corporate guys, you know They want you and especially from the United States, you know the MBA so I had two friends in Orlando Back then and I applied other states as well And one of the guys in Orlando called me, you know, he said look Nasir I know you're applying to other states. We have the house here. We have you know, the dorms everything Yeah, the dorms and everything and and we know people in the college will help you out and we love you come over We'll hang out, you know first I was hesitant I said, you know, I'm gonna go there instead of learning English right away And now we're gonna be hanging out Turkish people, you know, so I had that doubt Yeah, from my town, yes, we know their families my dad knows their dads and but my father told me look It's better to know someone there when you start off and then you don't like it you move somewhere else It's easy, you know easier. It breaks the ice. It breaks the ice So I said, okay, so they send me the application from it's called seminal community college. Okay, it's where the Seminoles India All speakers English all like, you know, and you didn't know any English at this point very very little you speak it Very well. Yeah, I practiced there so much, you know, they applied to college community college. I said, oh, it's a community college It's not a it's not a university and my friends told me look, you know, it's this little college close by to our house It doesn't matter if you call you you're just gonna learn English and here there's no Turkish people only there were some Latins like Puerto Ricans. Yeah, a lot of Puerto Ricans. You're in Orlando. Yeah, that's the Puerto Rican capital. Puerto Rican capital. Yes Back then it was like this 1996 1997. So I loved the idea. I said, okay, no problem So we I applied and they said, okay, no problem. You can start the English as a second language program. I started going there Yes, I was the only Turkish guy. So I had no option but to learn the language So I loved it. So I said, you know what? I'm just gonna stay here I'm not gonna move anywhere else and I started getting to know people Okay I had I met a lot of people there and we started hanging out even though our English all of our our English were a Little bit, you know, like it's off. Yeah, but still with hand gestures with moves and stuff like that You you manage you manage to engage So I finished English as a second language course, then I applied to UCF University of Santa, Florida Okay for the MBA program they accepted me, but they said I need to take a lot of prerequisite courses and I said, okay, and they gave me a list. It was like 12 courses I said, wow, it's too much and I gave you my transcripts guys, you know, I'm an I'm an engineer I mean, but they said hey, you didn't take financial accounting. You didn't take managerial accounting They saw me like economics macro economics micro economics all these courses, you know, you know, and they said You know, you have to take them, okay, so I don't want to say I lost another year year and a half No, you felt like it I felt like it at first but then I appreciate it because that taught me a lot because you're learning the fundamental of Economics financials actually the courses that I took financial and managerial accounting courses They teach you how to read your balance sheet of the company, which is great A lot of people are clueless to that exactly and I actually I'm doing my old balance sheets PNLs That's awesome. I'm looking at every month and I'm kind of you know Looking through it, even though my CPA looks at it almost every month But when he talks about something I already know or you already know So that's why I was like that time out to me like oh my god I'm gonna lose another one year and a half two years, but it ended up working out working out for me so I started MBA program right after I finished it and Study administration business administration, so you studied what you wanted to study when you were with your dad Yes telling them this is what I want to do exactly, okay One little detail I left off before before I got into UCF the first year when I was in seminar community college My roommate told me hey, let's apply for a green card lottery. Oh, I said, what is that? I'm like lottery also is we're gonna win money is like no it's it's called green card lottery I still didn't understand the concept and he told me look you're gonna apply a lot of people are applying and they Pick you and if you they pick you you can stay in this country and you get the residency Okay, I'm like you're kidding for me to get my student visa I have to go through so much so much and they're just gonna give me my green card and that's it over like, you know Yeah, that easy. It's like yes, that's easy. I'm like Let's apply. Let's apply and I'm thinking welcome to the United States. Welcome to American dream.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Fresh update on "latin" discussed on The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"And it's just a brilliant show that that's a brilliant insight. And you're going to achieve what my kids have not. Now I'm going to watch Curb Your Enthusiasm as soon as I'm done with dairy girls. But let me go and finish by going back in the soul of civility to the essential distinction between politeness and civility, which you explain by virtue of reference to their Latin roots, as well as to the Latin root of respect. I took five years of Latin, so I was very interested in this. Would you explain to people the difference between politeness and civility, which takes a few pages to get. But it's crucial. It's about the internal development, what repetition does for the soul, actually, what manners are intended to introduce you to. We hear this where we hear these words, politeness and civility used interchangeably. People either want more of them to revive and heal our public discourse today and they harken back to the golden age or they want less of them. They claim that civility and politeness are tools of the patriarchy, of white supremacists, of people in positions of power to silence and oppress and keep the powerless powerless. I argue that both these contingents misunderstand what civility and politeness are. Politeness is manners. It's etiquette. It's technique. It's behavior. It's external. Where civility is internal, it's a disposition of the heart. It's a way of seeing others as our moral equals who are worthy of a bare minimum of respect just by virtue of our shared moral status as members of the human community. And that crucially, sometimes actually respecting others requires being impolite, telling hard truths, engaging in robust debate. The Latin roots of these two words support this distinction. And again, we've been making, we've been conflating these two words for a very long time. The very first English dictionary given to us by Samuel Johnson in 1755 defines civility in terms of politeness, politeness in terms of civility, and we've been doing it wrong ever since. So, but the etymology supports this distinction that the etymology of politeness is poliare, which means to smooth or to polish, and that's what politeness does. It papers over difference, polishes over it, focuses on the outside, the external, as opposed to giving us the tools to grapple with difference head on. The etymology of civility is kivitas, which is the root of all things related to citizen, citizenship, the city, and civilization itself. And that's what civility is. It's the disposition and the habits of a citizen in the city that again, crucially, sometimes requires breaking rules of propriety and etiquette in order to have a robust debate, in order to flourish across deep difference, in order to confront a regime with injustice. I reclaimed the whole tradition of civil disobedience within my definition of civility. So unlike, you know, many claim that civility is this tool of, you know, keeping the powerless powerless. And I argue that instead, civility, the basic respect that we are owed to others by virtue of our shared humanity and the duties of citizenship can and can, has been and can once again be this essential tool of promoting justice and equality in our world. Do you believe, Alexandra, that repetition of politeness will lead to civility? Because I think that's what the education, if you read Montaigne, essay 26 in the first book, The Education of Children, it's all about disciplining children early so that they learn how to be actually civilized. But it's, you can't civilize a child. You can only train a child, but it's important to do that. Do you agree with that? That it's, you've got to start with politeness. You can't get there to civility without politeness? I do agree with that. So at its best, politeness will perfect and enhance the inner disposition of civility, the rituals, the practices, the behavior of sacrificing self for others for the sake of the joint project of living well with others. But too often, we are content with mere politeness. We're content with just the gesture, just the behavior. And we insufficiently seek to cultivate and nurture the inner disposition of actually respecting others. And so my argument is let's not settle for just the going through the motions and faux respect that is focused on just empty gestures. And that let's instead focus on cultivating, especially in children, the inner disposition of civility and said, this is what I talk about great hearts, that they focus on not just the behavior, but how the behavior cultivates character. And that the outer actions will ideally flow from an inner character. And yet often, especially in children, practicing the behaviors first can enhance that process of character formation, of sacrifice for self. I just double checked the index because I wanted to make sure I was clear. I don't think you referred to Elizabeth II or Diana, Princess of Wales in the book. And so my two questions to close are about that, that I don't think are in the soul of civility because I like to get an author out of their book for a second. I have often quoted or at least attributed to Elizabeth the saying, the essence of good taste is never to be offended by bad taste. Question number one, is that about politeness or is that about civility? That's a great question. I think that that's helpful to help us remember not to be focused, inordinately focused on appearances, to actually look to the heart of others. The book of Samuel in the Hebrew Bible says, man looks at the outward appearance, the Lord looks at the heart. And we can never truly know what another person is on the inside. We can only go by what is on how people act and what people say and do. And ultimately we can't control others. We can only control ourselves. So I think that that quote is a very stoical idea. And stoicism is analogous to my theory of social change in the book that we can't change others. We can't control who's tweeting what, what person's running for president and what's happening across the world. But we can control ourselves. And we can make our society better and brighter by just breathing beauty and life wherever wherever we go. So I do like that insight. Well, as I was reading Soul of Civility, we finished watching the first series of episodes of the last season of The Crown. Are you a crown watcher and are you caught up? I'm not a crown watcher and I'm not cut up. I would like to be. I feel like I feel like it would ennoble me. It's just it's just, you know, beautifully visually, visually beautiful. What it will do is remind you of everything you write about in the Soul of Civility, because there are bad people and good people and there are people being good and bad differences here. All of us are good and bad at different times, caught up in the drama, which is a drama. It's not it's not nonfiction. It's a dramatization. But it is it is that tension with civility and politeness. It's ever present in the show. And once you've read the Soul of Civility, it kind of puts glasses on lenses on how you view people's behavior. So I really want to conclude by saying I am very impressed, Alexandra. And by your stoicism of putting a book out in the middle of a news title wave, push on because I think it will get picked up. Have our friends at Great Hearts adopted it yet? No, they should tell them that they should. I will. Well, I just think Larry David and Great Hearts, if you're listening, go get the Soul of Civility, timeless principles to heal society and ourselves. Alexandra Hudson, good to talk to you this morning. Thank you for joining me. Continued success in getting the Soul of Civility into as many hands and read by as many eyes as possible.Hugh, thank you so much for having me. Really appreciate the conversation. I look forward to seeing you again in D.C. Take care, Alexandra. Salem News Channel is here. We have hosts worth watching, actually discussing the topics that matter. Andrew Wilkow, Dinesh D'Souza, Brandon Tatum and more. Open debate and free speech you won't find anywhere else. We're not like the other guys. We're Salem News Channel. Watch anytime on any screen for free 24-7 at snc.tv and on local now Channel 525.
InTouch - Think STEAM Careers, Podcast with Dr. Olufade
Favela's Endrow Metelus Is Empowering Communities Through Fashion and STEM
"Everyone. This is Dr. Oh, how are you? Again, we are on one of the episodes, STEAM to a guest who is just phenomenal. His name is Andrew Matilas. He is incredible. I say that he is incredible because one of the things that he is doing that I truly like is that he had a fashion, actually a fashion design company, and it is called Favela, if I'm not mistaken. Yes, Favela Boys Apparel, correct. Oh my God. Wow. And then guess what he's doing? Guess what he's doing with that company? So he's also using that company, man. He's a man after my heart. He's also using that company actually to also get resources to sponsor STEM programs in the Caribbean and also in the United States. I thought that is innovative. I like that because we all know how it is difficult to get sponsors, right? Or when you write a grant, it's very competitive and it takes time. But having your own project and using part of that project to sponsor a STEM program, I think that it is innovative and all of us should be doing the same thing. We're smart enough to do that. I said I was going to use 10 % of my source, African source, if I ever get successful, right? He's going to be using, he told me that he's going to be using 15 % of his profit, whatever profit that he gets to sponsor his STEM programs. I thought that is innovative. Now he's challenging me now. Now I've started to reconsider my 10%. So let me let him introduce himself and tell us a little bit about what he's doing. Please go ahead. Hey, I'm doing great. Like I said, every day is a holiday and I really mean that. Life is beautiful, right? So thank you very much for having me. I'm gladly appreciated being here to talk about STEM and talking about the brand I have and also talking about how I can get pretty much people to come and be part of this project, right? Because it's not just for me, it's for us because we can all benefit from this, right? So just to go in more details, the brand name is Favela Boys Apparel, which is a brand that we donate 15 % of a net profit towards STEM education for underserved communities, right? So not only in the US, but we also operate in the US, Latin America, the Caribbean, as well as we're looking also into Africa. Just to give you a little example, earlier this year in January, I was in Brazil. We were donating a few computers to a nonprofit organization that focused on STEM because the kids needed for coding cybersecurity where they teach at that particular nonprofit organization, but also the adults will come in at night also learning different skills, different trade, that kind of system as well.
Bloomberg Markets
Fresh update on "latin" discussed on Bloomberg Markets
"Our worldwide audience. Coming up, we're going to get the latest reporting from Israel. Galit Altshtein, reporter with Bloomberg News. She's going to join us from Tel Aviv with the latest. Then we're going to check in with Ira Jersey, chief U .S. interest rate strategist for Bloomberg Intelligence to get his thoughts on how things are going at the Fed, Treasury auctions, all that kind of stuff. Where are rates going? And then we're going to talk global energy with Fernando Valle. He's a senior analyst with Bloomberg Intelligence. Talk about global energy, some stuff going on in Latin America that we want to focus in on. So we'll do that, of course, in this hour. But first, let's kick things off and get a Bloomberg Business Flash with John Tucker. All right. Thanks, Paul. And right now, we are data -dependent. So let's start with the data. This is from the Consumer Conference Board, the Consumer Confidence Index. A little better than expectations coming in at 1 .02, just a hair's breadth lighter than the previous month. As for the yields right now, in reaction to that, not a whole heck of a lot of movement. The two -year yield at $4 .84, that's unchanged. 10 -year is at $4 .39. Well, after a couple of days of modest losses, the major stock averages that right are mixed now, investors latched onto the data coming out Thursday. That is the Fed's preferrity inflation gauge. Katie Kamensky at Alpha Simplex says investors may be getting ahead of themselves when they think Fed is near its target. Inflation is still way above target, or at least 1 % above target. So we could take a year or so
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Communicating Christ to Others
"Let's open our Bibles tonight, we're gonna actually be in just a couple quick passages tonight, but let's begin this evening in the book of Mark chapter 16, Mark 16, we're gonna look at one of the Great Commission passages to begin with tonight. The title of tonight's message is, Communicating Christ to Others. Communicating Christ to Others. What do we mean by that? So we're gonna start out with something, a very familiar command to us by the Lord Jesus, so Mark 16 and verse 15. The Bible says here, And He said unto them, unto His disciples, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature, or literally to all creation. Wherever you go, go and preach the gospel, proclaim the gospel. And so this is definitely some very important instructions from our Lord, we refer to this as the Great Commission, and as a command for us to be His salt alights, to spread His message of truth, no matter where we go around the world. We've been talking on Wednesday nights, one of the blessings or assurances that Jesus gave His disciples and even to us, that we would do greater works than even He did, and not greater in like how many or even in the way that they're being done, but greater in the scope that was done. And so remember Jesus, the miracles that He performed was pretty much just to Israel, His teaching was to Israel, to the lost sheep of the house of Israel, but we see in the book of Acts, that message went really not in just Jerusalem and Judea, but also Samaria in the uttermost part of the world, much broader than it was during Christ's ministry itself. And so it's again, they didn't do a greater job than Jesus did, I mean, no one can do that, okay? But the scope of it was much greater. And so tonight we're going to be talking about really the application of that, and even as we look at missions today, here at Victory Baptist, I'm very proud that we support about 21 missionaries serving really around the world, representing human here in Minnesota and then abroad, and we rejoice in that. I'm really looking forward to this missions conference coming up in just a few weeks. Again, we have three speakers that will be with us, Brother Sam Slobodian, who we know well, reaching Ukrainians and Eastern Europeans, Russian speakers, predominantly, with the gospel, and looking forward to hearing an update from what's going on in his world, his ministry. And then we have another man, Andrew Counterman, who is a director over a ministry that helps church planters in Latin America, and God has been doing some good things through his ministry. I actually talked to him this week, and I found out that years ago, he actually used to be on the board of BIEM, which is the mission board of Sam Slobodian. So he and Sam Slobodian are good friends, haven't seen each other in a while, so they look forward to reconnecting at the conference. Small world, isn't it? And then we have David Bennett, with Silent Word Ministries International. I've known David for many years, and he ministers to the deaf around the world, and really kind of an interesting mission field. I think a lot of times we forget about the deaf communities around, and how much they do need to hear, literally, they need to hear Jesus, they need to hear about Jesus. How do deaf people hear? They actually hear with their eyes and they talk with their hands, okay? Pretty amazing. They still communicate. So very interesting, how do we share the gospel with the deaf around us? And we're gonna do a lot of application here tonight as well. So when we think about the Great Commission, to go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature, although this command is simple, the task before us is great. In human terms, the Great Commission is daunting, but that God has promised us His presence and His power as we go forth in His name. In the world's population today, we have what, 7 .7 billion people, I believe, it's growing by the minute, right? And so there's a lot of people in this world, especially in the past 100 years, my word, the world's population has grown exceedingly. And so when we think of that, and we're supposed to go into all the world, preach the gospel to every creature, every person, wow, where do you start? Where do you begin? And I think that's kind of, when you look at it again from a human perspective, that seems overwhelming, but how do we do this? By looking at modern missions and when we kind of the traditional approach we take to missions, even here at Victory Baptist, there are a few challenges that must be considered. So I wanna do something tonight. About a year ago, we actually went over the philosophy of missions in the local church. We spent several weeks on why we do missions, why do we have, why is the local church involved? We talked about even the deputation process, is that even biblical support raising? Is that biblical? We talked about a little bit of the missions experience across the world and wherever they may be. We talked about all those things, but here's some, just a very quick recap of two things. First of all, what is missions? Let's talk about that. Missions is this, missions, this is kind of my definition in a way, but kind of modified from others, but missions is the responsibility and the task of the local church to take the gospel of Jesus Christ to the world for the purpose of discipleship, multiplication of self -supporting, self -governing and self -propagating churches for the glory of God, okay? So as we talk about works that are eventually self -supporting, self -governing, self -propagating church, in other words, they become kind of, they're not dependent on a foreign entity per se. They have their own independence, if you will. So that is, that's one of the goals of missions, but who is a missionary? Who is a missionary? There's a song that I remember singing when I was little, be a missionary every day. I don't be a missionary every day, tell the world that Jesus is the way. I don't know if you ever heard that song or not, but the fact of the matter is that song's not true. Not everyone is called to be a missionary as a vocational missionary. Everyone is called to be an ambassador for the Lord in that regard. You represent Jesus Christ no matter where you go, but here is, this is why. Why do we say, when we talk about missions and missionaries, who is a missionary? And this is a definition here, a missionary is one called by God to full -time service of Bible study and prayer and one who crosses cultural and or geographical boundaries to proclaim the gospel in areas where Jesus Christ is largely unknown, okay? Let me slow down a little bit and read that again because there's a lot in that. A missionary is one called by God to full -time service of Bible study and prayer and then one who crosses cultural and or geographical boundaries to proclaim the gospel in areas where Jesus Christ is largely unknown. So that's when we talk about missionaries and we support a missionary and we have, like you said, we have 21. That is generally their description, okay, in those parts, so very important, okay? But one thing that we're gonna talk about tonight is this. This is a practical way. We talked earlier about in modern missions, there are a few challenges that missionaries do face and it's one that often does not, it sometimes gets talked about but it is not really thought about. What do you mean? So it's, again, this is something that's talked about but not really thought about. What is one of these challenges? And one of the challenges that missionaries often face is that of language barriers. There's cultural barriers. I think we think about, when I was in Bible college, I was a missions major and so I remember going through one of our missions classes and our professor, he said that there is three Fs in the missionary experience. The first is fascination. When a missionary gets to the field, there's a fascination. It's kind of like honeymoon period, wow, you're kind of like the tourist, you know, you take pictures of everything, buy all the souvenirs, you know, you kind of get that fascination. The second part, though, after you're there for a while, you get, it becomes frustration because you figure out, wait a minute, you stick out like a sore thumb in that culture. You don't look like, talk like, act like the culture that you're in and sometimes they don't think the way you do or, you know, respond the way you're expecting. So there's a frustration in the culture. We never got to the fourth F, or the third F, excuse me, we never got to the third F, so I have no idea what comes after frustration. He left us hanging all these years, it's been 20 some years. I have no idea what we're supposed to end up. I would say, if anything, I think there is a sense of fulfillment that you are obedient to Christ, our faithfulness, that you're there sticking out as long as God keeps you in that area. But nonetheless, language barriers is very, it's a real barrier and it's actually more, and I'll kind of break it down a little bit here in just a moment here, but language barriers is actually a very serious barrier that missionaries must take, that they must cross. And so learning another language in another culture, preferably by immersion, is something that's very challenging that a lot of missionaries face and I think this is really where you find out who's going to stick it out in missions versus who's not going to stick it out. And I'll get to that, why is that, okay? So let me ask you this, how many of you took a foreign language, whether it be in high school, college, whether it be, several of you have, okay? I jokingly say, Linnea just started a Spanish class at co -op, but I jokingly say, the high school Spanish you have, by the time you get older, you're just good enough to order at Taco Bell, you know? So speaking, practically what do you do with that? And so if you've actually learned and studied another language, like actually seriously hit the books on it and to immerse yourself in that culture if you can, is very important. But here's some quick statistics. There are, how many languages are there in the world today? How many known languages? There are over, there's about, actually this is the report as of earlier this year, January 1st, 7 ,117 known languages spoken by people around the world, according to Ethnologue. Well over 7 ,000 languages represented around the world, that's a lot, okay? So here's the next question, I'm gonna ask you this, what do you think? Which language has the most native speakers, in other words, this is their first language, their birth languages if you will, which language has the most native speakers, what do you think? Chinese, yes, absolutely, 1 .27 billion people speak Chinese as their first language, English is third down the list, okay? So anyways, you think of this Mandarin or Cantonese, okay, that's very well spoken, okay? So how much of the world's population speaks English as a first or second language, what do you think? What percentage would you say of the world's population speaks English as a first or second language? What's that? I'd say you can learn to speak English and all that.
Crypto Altruism Podcast
A highlight from Episode 129 - Gitcoin - Elevating public goods with decentralization, quadratic funding, and community coordination
"You know, there are so many neat things that people are trying already. You know, like, for example, we ran around for a community group in Oakland, who had funding from their local government, it was basically all community organizations. You know, so really cool to see that play itself out. Even before we went down this road, Milwaukee was already doing some experimentation with quadratic rounds for very sort of niche applications, like helping people in Denver, Colorado, whose restaurants were struggling during the pandemic. We did a support for Ukraine round that was kind of a targeted approach at funding for that particular use case. But, you know, I think then another neat thing that's happening, which you may not even have heard about yet, is we now actually have a direct grants platform, which means it doesn't use quadratic funding. It's basically a way to use Web3 rails and all the existing tools, but just run more of like a traditional grants program. But I think we might start seeing things like people using quadratic voting to make decisions about how to give out the money amongst a smaller group of people internally. And so you might not be harnessing the wisdom of the crowd, but you can still have that transparency, that accountability, you know, all that kind of nifty stuff that comes along with using these tools. And also anybody who's created a grant proposal on builder potentially can apply to an even bigger number of different types of opportunities. So, you know, so I think, you know, we really, you know, are so just lucky to have such an innovative, creative, thoughtful global community. You know, like, we just saw a round run in Latin America where like the majority of the grant proposals were in Spanish, you know, and like we frankly, don't even have the resources internally to like provide support and documents and web pages. They just did it themselves, you know, which is so cool to see. And I think we're going to just see more and more of that. Like there's a Chinese community round that's happening. I've heard there's an African continent round that people are talking about, you know, basically any issue or cause you can think of, you know, there's probably somebody out there thinking about how they could run a grants program to do something about it. You know, and if somebody out there is listening and has some nifty idea, even without a big matching pool, like, you know, just like even a small amount of money that you put into a matching pool, or even just creating the space for people to give to something that matters, like even without a matching pool, I think can just be a really powerful thing. You know, there's something about just kind of creating the container for the conversation to bring the people together. And, you know, the neat thing about these grants programs is like the grantees are the ones who do a lot of that organizing, who bring their community with them, you know, and often do actually do a better job of supporting and onboarding people and creating guides and documentation and all that kind of good stuff in a way that makes sense to their community. So, yeah, I think it's super exciting and I definitely think about it a lot. Yeah, no, totally. I can see the excitement just as you talk about it now. And I think that, you know, what you said around the grantees is spot on too. It's just really cool seeing like how they've all kind of stepped up and contributed to the Gitcoin community in different ways, whether it's creating these educational onboarding materials, setting up one -on -one calls with people to walk them through getting a wallet set up and a passport set up, you know, which is fantastic. It's been really, really powerful. And, you know, obviously we have another Gitcoin granting round coming up November 15th, I believe you said was when it was starting, which is really exciting Gitcoin grant round 19. 56 million plus in funds allocated, really incredible. It's really been a catalyst for thousands of early stage Web3 projects. For those listening that haven't yet participated in a Gitcoin grant round, but are interested in maybe becoming a grantee, they have a really cool public good project, but maybe they're a little nervous. What advice would you give them? Yeah, I love this question. So a lot really depends on sort of what your starting point is, you know, so maybe slightly different advice, depending on like, you know, if you've already got a DAO that you're a part of, you know, you've got friends in the Web3 space, you know, I could definitely give some very specific advice for those folks, you know, versus like somebody who's brand new to the space, doesn't have an existing community. I think there's a place for everybody in Gitcoin grants rounds. And a big part of what we try to do as Gitcoin is like level the playing field, make sure that everybody has an opportunity to get in front of an audience, you know, that grantees can be discovered based on the kind of the quality and interest of what they're building. But yeah, I'd say the universal stuff, you know, it's very much like any community organizing or marketing. Like, you know, think about the picture that you put up as your picture, think about how you summarize the information in your grant proposal, think about the title that you use, good to have the name of your organization, and something to do with your value proposition. So people, maybe they're just looking for you by your name, and they know who you are, and they can find you that way. Maybe they've never heard of your project, but they're interested in your value proposition. So trying to be succinct and having both those things, kind of without needing to click away and go read it, you know, also that like, there's a bit of information that shows up kind of above the fold, as they say, like, you know, kind of in that little preview window, if you have a good little TLDR, that's like, this is what we're trying to do, this is how we intend to do it, this is why we're doing it, whatever you think is important for people to understand, like, I'm trying to raise this money so I can do this, you know, the more that you can be super clear about, like, by next round, or by six months from now, I hope to have accomplished this, and you can follow along and and sort of follow that journey. I think that's really important. Also, if you've been a grantee for more than one round, I know we're talking about new grantees, but updating people is super important, too. They sort of haven't seen that you've done anything with the funding, people start wondering, you know, like, you know, what are you really doing with this money? Should I give again? But I would say for like, people who in particular, who might be nervous, who don't have a web3 community, I would say like, there's a lot of people who are super supportive and helpful in our community. Like, so starting by coming to like our Twitter spaces, the Gitcoin hosts, which you can follow along at the Gitcoin Twitter account, and we're always announcing when the next ones will be. Also, you can usually find there's like a grantee support page, where we have like an event listing, which you can find linked to right off of the main Gitcoin website, gitcoin .co. So I mean, just follow along there, you know, and that can give you a sense of like, just if you just show up, you know, I can tell you that we are super friendly and supportive, you know, and you can just like come and talk about what you're working on, or even just listen for a while and see how other people are doing it and get comfortable, I think people will get a sense that it's a very welcoming and friendly space. You know, but also, like, there's a million, maybe not million, there's definitely tons of these Twitter spaces being hosted by people. If you're not already active on Twitter, I hear you, there's a lot going on in the world. And Twitter is not always my favorite place either these days. But, you know, it happens to be where a lot of the crypto community is, you know, definitely wherever your community is, like, try to bring them on board. But it's a lot easier to get donations from people who are already familiar with crypto, who are already familiar with Gitcoin than it is to like, you know, take somebody from never even having a wallet to like setting up their first wallet funding it, you know, connecting to passport going through all those stages. Definitely great guides out there. You know, I think it's a great idea to like host onboarding sessions or like office hours to help people in your community might want to support you. But definitely the lowest hanging fruit is the existing Gitcoin community that's quite active round after round. And you can find those people on our Twitter spaces, you can find those people, you know, in various discords, but also on the Twitter spaces that other people are hosting. And, you know, and I'd say one other thing I would throw out there is Telegram. All these tools that, you know, if you're from outside the web through space might be a little bit daunting. But you know, if you just join the Gitcoin Telegram group, there's so many people providing peer support, helping each other answering questions. Like if you just jump into that thread, which again, you can find it directly through our homepage, you know, you can from there, like find people who might want to help you with what you're building, or might have a similar project and want to collaborate with you, you know, or, you know, want to attend your Twitter space if you host one and invite other people. So yeah, I would say just like, focus on the people more than the technology. And like, figure out where the low hanging fruit is of like, where those people are that, you know, might be interested in working with you and supporting you. And don't hesitate to reach out and like DM people and, you know, and ask questions. You know, like, I'm always happy to chat if I can find the time. You know, definitely lots of people who are doing their project for the first time reach out. And like, you know, even share what you're thinking about posting in your grant proposal with others like, you know, there's no wrong time to do that. Even if you're listening to this right in the middle of an active grants round, and you missed the opportunity to apply, it's not too late to get involved to start listening to those Twitter spaces to join the Telegram. You can even post your grant proposal and then just apply three months from now in the next round. You know, so can't hurt to like, just moving start things forward, start onboarding your community, start playing with the tools yourself. Really helps to actually go and donate yourself to if you haven't before, because having done it yourself, you can then help other people do it more easily. Yeah, definitely. That's great advice. And you know, I think me personally, I only participated in two rounds, but was really kind of involved more as a community member and like just kind of listening in and being a part of the community before then, right. And it was a great way for me to learn and to kind of get my feet wet a little bit and to see what's going on before diving in headfirst. So great advice. Thank you so much for sharing that. As we near the end of our conversation, there's one thing I want to ask you about. I know that web3 can obviously be very stressful, fast paced, especially, you know, during Gitcoin grant season two, it can be feel like a bit of a sprint, especially for I imagine, the team that's working on the back end. You're also big, I know that you're a big advocate for getting outside for nature for laughter is the best medicine. I know you like to post some videos of you juggling, you know, by the lake is kind of a way to disconnect. Tell me more about how you stay grounded in this busy world of web3. Because I know that there's something that a lot of people struggle with. It's hard, man, honestly. And I can tell you, like, having spent much of my life working on, like, what feels like really life and death issues a lot of the time, like, this is definitely something I've struggled with for a lot of my life. I've definitely gone through cycles of burnout and like, you know, all that, you know, I would say just like, trying to not take everything too seriously, trying to take a step back and see everything in perspective, you know, surrounding yourself with like, friends and family that like, know you and love you and support you. You know, like, getting outside every day really makes a big difference to me. You know, my dogs are a big part of my life. You know, and they're, they're really a gift, because like, they demand that I take them outside. So even if I'm not feeling like going for a walk, they always do. And, you know, I feel like, basically, like, I having like a stressometer, you know, like, if you can sort of like monitor how you're doing, and when you get past like a certain threshold, like, just knowing that it's always okay to just like step away for a bit, you know, even just like, you know, just putting everything on pause and taking three deep breaths can go a really long way. But you know, like, I definitely feel like you really genuinely recharge your batteries by like going to a park or, you know, like the whole touch grass drink water thing like you have to take care of yourself to be able to like, you know, take care of business. You know, so like drinking lots of water or like, I mean, it sounds like, you know, sort of trite or soundbites or whatever, but I think it's really true. You know, and the older I've gotten, like the more just I haven't been able to just continue to like push indefinitely, you know, like that it used to be that I would just burn the candle at both ends and like, you know, it's like, I don't really need to go to bed at a reasonable time. I'll just stay up all night every day working and, you know, operate on zero sleep and not eat enough food and, you know, go for drinks at lunch and you know, like it just like all of that catches up with you after a while for sure. Totally. So I mean, like, as much as everything feels really urgent, like I think if you think back on what felt urgent, like six months ago, three months ago, month ago, even a week ago, sometimes, like a lot of the times things seem a lot more urgent and a lot more stressful in the moment that they really are. You know, so like just trying to have that perspective. And like, yeah, just, you know, take the time that you need to like pace yourself. That's, that's, you know, it's a marathon, not a sprint, that whole thing definitely can feel like a sprint. But, you know, even during the grants round, it honestly, it is a marathon. Like, you know, it's a, it's a couple of weeks with like, at least a week or two on either end of like, preparing and unwinding. And, you know, especially for our team, like, you know, I worry, even when I see like myself or other team members, like pushing a little too hard. And definitely, we see that with grantees too. But yeah, I mean, maybe just get off Twitter. I mean that, you know, the algorithms have a way of like, sort of sucking us back in, keeping us engaged. So, you know, like, you know, spend some time, more time on Farcaster or Lenster. You know, like, there's a lot of good vibes out there too, if you're in the web3 space. And honestly, I think there's a lot of alpha to be had in those social media networks too, that like, because it's a much smaller community, you can really focus on like talking to people who are working on similar things without a lot of the drama and chaos. And, you know, so like, even just making some little adjustments to how you're sort of spending your social media time, I find that pretty helpful for me. I actually hang out on Mastodon a lot recently, because it's an old school decentralized platform with all kinds of interesting people, and definitely different perspectives that I'm not hearing all the time in crypto Twitter. So yeah, I don't know. Everybody's got different things that are going to work different for them. You know, if you were having this conversation with one of my coworkers, you'd say meditation, you know, spend an hour at least every day meditating. You know, another coworker of mine would say, go dancing every night. You know, like, so I mean, you know, just like, I guess, like, figure out what it is that like, brings you joy outside of the space and like, force yourself to do a little bit more of it. And I think the end result is like, you'll actually find that your project is more successful, you're showing up with just like better vibes in general, and, and that resonates out and draws more people in and, you know, so, you know, there's even self -interested reasons beyond just like your health that I think, you know, people will notice if you if you make that little extra bit of effort not to burn yourself out. And if you are burning out, like, take some time away, like it, you know, might feel impossible. Like I definitely can relate to that. It feels like every time I take a week off at Gitcoin, I come back, it's a different organization that I left. But, you know, if you're in the right place with the right people, you need to trust that, you know, things are going to be okay. And, you know, if you're not feeling that way, like, maybe that's an indication that you should be thinking about if you are in the right place. And, you know, maybe there's a lot of different orgs, a lot of different, you know, things that you can get involved in, like, don't feel so trapped in the moment, especially for a lot of the younger people in this space, like, you know, don't have a mortgage or kids that they have to take care of, like, you can take those risks, you can make big changes, you can step away if you need to and experiment, explore other things, like, you know, give yourself that permission when the consequences are not nearly as severe as, you know, it will be like when you're, you know, in your 40s or 50s or whatever. Totally. Yeah. Yeah. That is some great advice. Well, thank you for sharing that, all that. And I can definitely resonate with a lot of that, especially the dog part. I have a very hyperactive black lab who I need to get outside at least for three or four walks a day. So it's been, oh, and there's my cat poking its head in the door right now, just on cue as we talk about pets. That's hilarious. So yeah, great advice. Thank you so much for sharing and so important in this, you know, rapidly growing, fast moving space. So it's been a pleasure just learning from you and hearing everything you've had to say. I've learned so much just from this short conversation. Obviously, we weren't able to cover everything. So for those listening along that want to follow you get in touch, learn more about Gitcoins work, what's the best way for them to do that? I am at Ben West on Twitter, because I was lucky enough to have a friend who registered my account for me in 2008. And I'm the same pretty much everywhere. I think Benjamin West on Telegram. I actually, if you go to my Twitter, I have like one of those link tree type things that you can click on it, I'll show you like a bunch of different places to reach me. But Twitter, Twitter definitely works. And probably most people listening to this are active on Twitter. So yeah, come find me there. That's probably the easiest one. Drew, thank you so much for doing what you're doing. By the way, I think you have crypto altruism is great. And the people the interview are super fascinating. And, you know, so so I'm, it's an honor to be part of your podcast. And thanks for doing what you're doing. Yeah, well, thank you. That means a lot. It really does coming from coming from you to hear that I really appreciate that. So thank you. And thank you for sharing all that information. I'll make sure to include that in the show notes for those listening along. And to wrap things up on this amazing conversation, I'm definitely going to have to take some time to reflect, you know, after after this conversation, because so many really cool things we've talked about. I like to ask everyone the same ending question. If you could name one thing that excites you most about the social impact potential of web three, what would it be and why? Hmm. And that's a tough one, because there's so many things that excite me about it. Truth be told, if I could pick one thing that excites me the most, but the thing that excites me the most is the opportunity for communities to empower themselves and accomplish their goals. Like I, you know, when I see projects come into reality that, you know, may not have otherwise that, like, are possible, because of, you know, whether it's Gitcoin grants, or just web three tools in general, you know, that excites me, there's, there's a lot of specific use cases that really are close to my heart. But like, I think the thing that's underneath all of it, you know, is that sort of cultural shift that, you know, that we talked about earlier, like that, you know, idea that decentralization really matters that, you know, individuals should not just be treated like cogs in a machine. You know, and I think for so many of us, we live in these worlds where like, our work day to day is not fulfilling. And, you know, we feel like we're not treated with respect. And to me, that just really sucks that that's fundamentally where we're at in our world. Like, you know, we've kind of democratized so much of our world. Yet, like, our work is this one place that is fundamentally undemocratic, fundamentally exploitative, often, and extractive. And, you know, and like, I think there's a way to change that, that's outside of these kind of old, like, left right socialism, capitalism paradigms. And like, to me, that's really exciting, because I feel like we've been trapped in this kind of debate that doesn't really go anywhere for a really long time. And like, there's a lot more nuance to be had in terms of like, how markets can be used by communities in positive ways, and how people can empower themselves, you know, by using some nifty tools and kind of working together. And, you know, really, just by all of us believing in this thing that we're doing all kinds of amazing stuff as possible. So yeah, I think that's really at the core of what excites me the most. Yeah, that's such a good one. And I couldn't agree more. I think that, you know, Web3 is such an interesting kind of confluence of so many different people and ideas and, you know, philosophies that it's really cool to just kind of be able to build and without kind of having to go through those same debates over and over again. So that's a great point to end on. Couldn't agree more. Ben, it's been an absolute pleasure. Thank you so much. Really enjoyed this conversation. And thank you for all you're doing to uplift public goods, Gitcoin and yeah, and to inspire so many early stage projects and builders. So thank you work you're doing. It's been an inspiration to me personally, and I know for many others as well. So thanks for being here today. My pleasure. Honestly, it's an honor and a privilege. And hello to your cat there who's joining us for the tail end. Yes, he always likes to make an appearance. Thanks, Ben. A huge thank you to Ben for coming on the crypto altruism podcast. Whenever someone asks me why I love the Web3 community so much, I typically point to Gitcoin grant season. It's a true testament to the power of decentralization and leveraging the wisdom of the crowd to fund what matters. Gitcoin is an incredible catalyst for public goods in Web3. And if you are listening to this between November 15, and November 29, then GG19 is live and you have an opportunity to participate by sending a VONATION to your favorite projects. So make sure to check out the show notes so you can follow along and get involved. And that brings us to the end of today's episode. Thanks so much for joining on the crypto altruism podcast. I had a great time and I hope you did as well. For more great content exploring the intersections of Web3 and social impact, check us out at crypto altruism .org. Also, if you love what you heard, I truly appreciate it if you rate, review, and subscribe to the show. You can also support the show by buying us a coffee or making a small crypto contribution. Crypto altruism runs on the support of community members like yourself and everything helps. Thanks so much for joining us and I hope you'll join us again for our next episode. Until then, let's keep showing the world the good of crypto. 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A highlight from Heroes
"If you have your Bibles today would you turn with me to 1 Corinthians 1 26 through the end of the chapter and I was thinking today on heroes in honor of our Remembrance Day there are blessings to any country that will make the God of the Bible their God and abide by his truths as laid out in the Scriptures. These truths though initially sated by David towards Israel can apply to us as Gentiles as if we're obedient to them and Psalm 33 12 blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord and the people whom we have chosen for his own inheritance and the truth is there are great blessings in being a child of God. I understand this if you know Jesus Christ as your personal Savior we are entered into the promises and blessings of Abraham and we will enter into that lineage so that's a blessing there. I was thinking of a hero, a hero is a man or a woman of distinguished valor or enterprise in danger or fortitude in suffering a prominent or central personage in any remarkable action or event hence a great or illustrious person. A little further on this a pastor and author recently wrote that our society has lost the meaning of the word hero he said that we think that if an athlete can put a ball through a hoop they're a hero. If a musician can play eight chords on a guitar they're considered a hero and if an actor can pretend to be something they are not they're considered a hero in Hollywood. This pastor wrote I remember watching a well -known journalist interview an actor about his recent movie which featured a politically troubled region of the world. The journalist asked the celebrity what he thought should be done about the political situation there the actor responded who cares what I think and went on to point out that he was an actor. This pastor said real heroes are people who actually do something sacrificial or courageous he points out that God does not seek out heroes to accomplish his purposes God isn't looking for a strong man or woman per se rather he's looking for someone whom he can be strong on behalf of. Amen end quotes there and that came by Jim Sandel but I think about some other heroes of the past. One of the heroes that rates highly in my mind is John Wycliffe. He continued his reforming attempts and particularly began the very significant step of translating and writing out the New Testament in English a radical step as it brought the Gospels close to the ordinary person who could not understand Latin and remove the church which would be the Catholic Church at that time as the interpreter having God's Word available to the public in the language of the common man English would have meant disaster to that church no longer would they control access to the scriptures if people were able to read the Bible in their own tongue the church's income and power would crumble they could not possibly continue to get away with self indulgences which is the forgiveness of sins or selling the release of loved ones from a church manufactured purgatory people would begin to challenge the church's authority if the church were exposed as frauds and thieves the contradictions between what God's Word said and what the priests taught would open the public's eye and the truth would set them free from the grip of fear that the institutional church held salvation through faith not works or donations would be understood the need for priests would vanish through the priesthood of all believers the veneration of church canonized saints and Mary would be called into question the availability of scriptures in English was the biggest threat imaginable to the wicked church neither side would give up without a fight end quotes John Jeffcoat English Bible history as he recounts the history of the Bible through the centuries now when we really consider the idea of a hero or a person to whom we characterize as a hero whether secular or sacred we think of men and women who've denied themselves for a greater cause this cause they saw worth fighting for much to their own detriment much to their own adversity and they may have thought with or without weapons those who go to war for the country do so out of duty and the heroes are not just those who died but those who have stood tall in the face of evil the Christian hero is the person who does not stand out in front of and herald their greatness or absorb the plazas of men rather it is the person who's faithful to Christ irrespective of the dangers they were called to encounter behind all of these feats these harrowing feats and these determinative there actions lies a person an ordinary person like you and I whose love for Christ I'm speaking of Christians as heroes particular Christians to whom Christ was preeminent in their life now may we not seek to be heroes may we just seek to be faithful until the day we breathe our last it is an attitude that has gained much applause respect of others of the heroes of the faith Hebrews chapter 11 we'll deal with that passage tonight here in 1 Corinthians chapter 1 verse 26 for you see your calling brethren how that not many wise men after the flesh not many mighty not many noble are called but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty and base things of the world and things which are despised that God chosen yea and things which are not to bring to not things that are why does he do this the no flesh and glory in his presence but of him are you in Christ Jesus who of God has made unto us wisdom and righteous and sanctification and redemption that according as it is written he that gloria let him glory in the Lord you think about the ones to whom Jesus decided to use as apostles tax fishermen collectors everyday citizens these were not of your upper elites now I understand there was Luke who wrote the book of Luke and he was a very intelligent man it was a doctor Paul an apostle was also very intelligent but overall God would use some fisherman with sometimes some very sour attitudes cranky attitudes he would use a tax collector who was hate noted as being a scoundrel in communities God would use these men to turn the world upside down they weren't some theological pinnacle of excellence the only pinnacle of excellence in their lives would be obedience to Christ but yet while Christ lived they forsook Christ at the moment he most needed them it's not about us it's about Christ you think about Revelation chapter 2 verse 10 as he tells the Church of Smyrna be thou faithful unto death and I will give thee a crown of life first Peter chapter 5 verse 6 humble yourselves therefore into the mighty hand of God that he may exalt you in due time and we still talk about those 12 apostles today Judas we obviously don't talk about in a positive light but we talk about the Apostles in a positive light men who hazard of their life for Jesus Christ and turn the world upside down and you and I might think I could never do anything great for God because it's not about you it's about the God that we worship I want to look at three qualities today of a true biblical hero it's an interesting study may we seek to be devoted not promoted and there are so often times in Christian up does in Christianity pandering a to elevate an individual it's not about elevating an individual it's about elevating Jesus Christ heroes who are heroes those on the battlefield are everyday men and women who answer the call to go to war they go to war they learn all that they need to they go to war and they perish sometimes but they're like every one of us same flesh and blood I trust today that we would seek as verse 31 says he that glory let him glory no Lord let's pray dear only father Lord I love you Lord Jesus I yield the state of thee God I pray that you'd work in my lips my thoughts to preach your word faithfully I pray that we would be found worthy more than pleasing to thee would help us to be an example to others behind us of faithful Christianity it doesn't matter how we started our life doesn't matter all the turmoil of what we've done in our lives but God may we be faithful found faithful into death Lord Jesus I yield this time to thee I thank you for being our gracious Savior in your name I pray amen.
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A highlight from Introduction to Philippians
"Brothers and sisters, I would encourage you to open up your Bibles this evening to Philippians. We're going to be taking a look at Philippians chapter 1 and verses 1 and 2. We are beginning the book of Philippians. Today will be more of an introduction to that particular book than anything else. I will attempt to talk about the author, the themes, the aim of the epistle, the things that we can learn from it without spoiling too much of the content so that later on as we preach on individual portions, it becomes anticlimax after anticlimax. I don't want to give away the entire book, but I do want you to have an idea of where it came from, why it is so very important to us today, what we can learn from it, and to see the similarities that exist between this book and indeed our own time. As I'll be discussing in the sermon, Philippi was actually a military colony, and you may have noticed we live in a military colony for the most part. So the resemblances between us and the Philippians, apart from the fact that we have microwaves and cell phones and things like that, and they did not, are very strong. They are still the same kind of people who deal with the same kind of difficulties. They too had a state which was sometimes nice to them and sometimes which oppressed them very badly. They also dealt with the problems of relationships and all of the things that the fall has brought in. So as we look at Philippians and we hear Paul writing to this beloved congregation of his, let us seek to apply it to our own time, but before we come to the word of God, let go us to the God who has given us this word and let's ask him to bless it. Please join me. Oh sovereign Lord, we do pray now that you would be the illuminator of our minds, that you would help us to understand your word. I pray that you would help me to divide it to write, that you would give me liberty and power and unction as I do so, that oh Lord, I would not say anything that goes against your word. I know I am a man with feet of clay. I am capable of interpreting the word or wrong, but I pray Lord that you would prevent me from doing so. I do pray also Lord that you would give me the sustaining power to go through this book, a right, and to apply it to your people. May you give us ears to hear and hearts to receive all that you have to tell us. We pray this in Jesus' holy name. Amen and amen. Philippians chapter one and I'll be reading verses one and two. It says the word of the Lord. Paul and Timothy bond servants of Jesus Christ to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi with the bishops and deacons. Grace to you and peace from God our father and the Lord Jesus Christ. The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever. I wonder if say 10 or 11 years from now, if I was in jail in Washington for my preaching of the gospel and possibly facing the federal death penalty and this congregation had sent me a gift in jail to help me along and I was writing a letter in reply to your generous gift. What would that letter sound like? What would I say? How would I come across in writing to you? Would it be complaining about the government and my situation? Would I be going on and on about the unfairness of it all? And speaking about how my liberties had been infringed or would I be writing to you to know a little about how I was doing and then spend the vast majority, not talking about myself and my own situation as dire as it was, but to spend the vast majority of my letter attempting to stir you up to joy and in the Lord to encourage you to be full of peace and grace and joy even in the midst of adversity. Would I think so little of myself that my letter would seek to lovingly correct problems of disunity that I knew about in the congregation? Would I push back against those who perhaps were on the fringes or in the congregation itself who were teaching bad doctrine in the community? And above all, would I urge you to keep the person and power of the Lord Jesus Christ at the center of everything you did? I hope that I would. I hope I would not send you a letter merely of whining or a simple thank you note that said very little. In my case, though, we're going to have to find out. But in the case of Paul and the Philippian Christians, we already know how he spoke in the midst of those circumstances because that is the letter that we have in front of us. Paul is in the midst of serious adversity, serious difficulty. He is struggling, we know, with loneliness, with persecution, and he writes a letter to his much beloved Philippines that is full of joy and encouragement in spite of all of those difficulties that stood against him in the world. So much so this letter is so full of joy that it has been often called the epistle of joy. Paul writing from jail, remember, and a Roman jail was not like the jails today. We speak today of jails as being three hots and a cot. You have TV, recreation yards, things like that. In Paul's day, that was not the case. You either had to pay for a place to stay if the charges weren't that serious yourself or if you were thrown into a Roman dungeon, you could often die of exposure. You went in with the clothes on your back, and if your friends and your family did not provide you with the things that you needed, including food in jail, you could die very, very easily while awaiting your trial. But Paul, writing from that kind of jail, he uses the Greek words for joy and rejoice, imploring the Philippian saints to rejoice. He uses those words kara and kairo more than a dozen times, and this is just a four -chapter letter, remember. So joy is one of the most prominent themes in what he is writing. He is, as I said, in a Roman jail. This is possibly the second time. I think it's probably the first time that he was there. He is waiting a trial on a capital charge of treason, and the people who will judge him are members of Emperor Nero's brutal and corrupt administration. And as we know, Paul was not somebody who was going to give them a bribe, so there's no way out of his imprisonment that way. And yet, as we shall see, Paul is able to look well beyond the circumstances that surround him, and he's able to actually see Christ in heaven and the work that Christ is doing in the world and indeed in Philippi and throughout the church and to know that God throughout is in control and that all of God's promises are coming to pass. Let me just stop and ask that question right now of you. Do you know those things as well? Do you have that solid trust no matter what your circumstances are in the Lord Jesus Christ, that no matter what afflictions, adversities, difficulties, diseases you're dealing with today, yet still you know that the Lord is in control and that his will is coming to pass and that none of his promises will ever fail. I pray that that is the case, and if not, I pray that you will take encouragement from Paul. He was writing to encourage the Philippians, but we remember that he wasn't writing just to the Philippian congregation. Through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, he was writing to us as well. And so I pray that he would be encouraging you in whatever situation you are in. But we see him trusting absolutely in God, trusting in the Christ whom he knew and that therefore there was this inner principle of joy in his heart, an inner principle that no one could take away and that he still wants to share with others. He wants that joy inexpressible that we heard about this morning to overflow to others. The Romans might take his life. They could do that, but they cannot take away his joy or his peace. That is one of the great promises that is given to the Christian. Nobody can take away the Holy Spirit dwelling within you. Nobody can take away your salvation, and nobody can steal your joy and your peace in those things. But let's take a moment now to discuss how all of this came to pass, how he came to be writing this letter from jail. Where is Philippi? What was it like? Who were the Philippians, and how did Paul come to know them? Incidentally, this is a picture of the Philippian ruins that you will find in Macedonia. I am told they are amazing. It is a UNESCO historic site. Maybe one day as I got to see Ephesus, I will also have a chance to see Philippi. But in the meantime, let's talk about the city. Philippi was originally founded as a colony in northeastern Macedonia by colonists from the island of Thanos. They were called Thacians in 359 BC. But it was captured by Alexander the Great's father, Philip, and renamed Philippi three years later. So it didn't have much of a long run of independence. But in saying that, I have told you very little about Philippi itself. Because the Philippi that Paul knew came along much later on. It is like me telling you that Fayetteville was settled by colonists from Scotland. Because almost 400 years had passed between the founding of Philippi and the time that Paul was writing. Just as almost 400 years have passed between the time of the founding of Fayetteville in our own time. So the Philippi that Paul first visited in around 51 or 52 AD was a very different place. The Romans had captured it from the Macedonians in 168 BC. And in 42 BC during the Roman Civil War that brought an end to the Roman Republic. It was the scene of the final defeat of the forces of Brutus and Cassius by the forces of Anthony and Octavian. Who later of course became Augustus Caesar. And that final battle occurred just outside of this city. This was critical because after the city Octavian turned Philippi into a Roman colony and a military outpost. They released some of their veteran soldiers. The war to defeat the men who had stabbed Caesar had finished as far as they were concerned. And they released some of their legionaries from Legion 28 to colonize the city. Which was founded and I apologize for my terrible Latin here. Colonia Victrix Philippensium meaning the colony of the victory of Philippi. From that point onwards it was a place where Italian veterans from the Roman army were given land. And it sat upon an important Roman road called the Via Ignatia. Which was a road that was constructed by the Romans in the 2nd century BC. Incidentally I learned while we were on our trip that the Greeks joke particularly in Cyprus. That the only roads in Greece that last were built by the Romans. The modern ones all fall apart. It crossed through Illyricum, Macedonia, Thracia and runs into the territory that is now part of Albania. North Macedonia, Greece and European Turkey. Why is that important? Well it's important because it meant that Philippi was a center not only of trade. And they had mines we'll talk about in a little while where they mined gold and silver. But it was a place where it was possible to go from Philippi to other areas of Macedonia. Or to turn south and to go into Greece. They had their own route 95 so to speak running right through the city. That allowed them to have concourse with all the people in Greece and up in Macedonia and into the Roman Empire. This meant that the Lord in founding his church there. Put it in a place where the inhabitants could as they did their daily trade. Carry not only letters to Rome but they could also carry the gospel to the surrounding areas. Now the citizens of this colony were regarded as citizens of Rome. And they were given a number of special privileges that ordinary inhabitants of the empire didn't have. It was in many senses a miniature Rome. Literally because they were under the municipal law of Rome. It was as though they were a colony that was in Italy actually attached to Rome. That was the way the law functioned. And they were governed by two military officers the Duumviri who were appointed directly from Rome. And the colony itself although it was relatively small. It was only about 10 ,000 people when Paul reached it. It was very wealthy as a general rule. They had gold and silver mines just outside the city. And those mines were still productive in Paul's day. It was as I said a little Rome in the midst of Macedonia. And not just in the government. It was laid out like a Roman city. And so to this day you can see that they have a Roman forum in addition to a Greek Agora. But how did Paul get to this city? How did he get there? Well let's read a little from Acts 16 which actually tells us. So if you would turn in your Bible to Acts chapter 16. And I want to begin with verse one which will tell us that Paul was actually when this all started. He was in Asia Minor. He was over in modern day Turkey on his second missionary journey. We read then he came to Derby in Lystra and behold a certain disciple was there named Timothy. The son of a certain Jewish woman who believed but his father was Greek. He was well spoken of by the brethren who were at Lystra and Iconium. Paul wanted to have him go with him and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in that region. For they all knew that his father was Greek. And as they went through the cities they delivered to them the decrees to keep which were determined by the apostles and elders of Jerusalem. So the churches were strengthened in the faith and increased in number daily. Now when they had gone through Phrygia and the region of Galatia they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach the word in Asia. After they had come to Mysia they tried to go into Bithynia but the Spirit did not permit them. So passing by Mysia they came down to Troas and a vision appeared to Paul in the night. A man of Macedonia stood and pleaded with him saying come over to Macedonia and help us. Now many people have speculated just as an aside that this is Luke who was speaking to Paul in a vision. Now after he had seen the vision immediately we sought to go to Macedonia concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the gospel to them. Therefore sailing from Troas we ran a straight course to Samothrace and the next day came to Neapolis and from there to Philippi which is the foremost city of that part of Macedonia, a colony. And we were staying in that city for some days and on the Sabbath day we went out of the city to the riverside where prayer was customarily made and we sat down and spoke to the women who met there. Now a certain woman named Lydia heard us. She was a seller of purple from the city of Thyatira who worshiped God. The Lord opened her heart to heed the things spoken by Paul and when she and her household were baptized she begged us saying if you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord come to my house and stay so she persuaded us. And we know that Paul and Timothy stayed with Lydia for some days. They had some other encounters. I'm not going to read the rest of chapter 16 but I would encourage you to actually read all of chapter 16 tonight. It won't take you that long but you will read about the exorcism of the demon possessed slave girl which unfortunately got them into trouble because the demon allowed her unfortunately to know about things that men didn't know about. And so her owners used to get money from her that way. We'll also tell you about Paul and Silas's unjust imprisonment and then the household baptism of the Philippian jailer which is marvelous and of course one of those household baptisms that shows us that we are to be baptizing not just parents on their confession of faith but also their children. This was the first church established in Europe. Note that. And that at the explicit direction of the Holy Spirit who made it very clear that Paul was to turn the direction of his labors from Asia Minor which is modern day Turkey to Europe. He goes through Macedonia and then after that he goes into Greece and brings the gospel into Europe. Now the bond as you will read through the Philippi you can't help but notice the friendship, the love that exists between Paul and this congregation. It was peculiarly close though others had abandoned him in his imprisonment as we shall see these Philippians had not. They continued to pray for him and they continued to provide for his needs in this world. They sent him a gift. As I said I don't want to give away too many spoilers but they had sent a man by the name of Epaphroditus with a gift for him in jail and then he had sent Epaphroditus back to them with this letter. That's how he got it. And as I mentioned this letter was written from Rome during his imprisonment. The beginning of that is related in Acts 28. The reference to Caesar's household which you will read in Philippians 4 22 and the palace in Philippians 1 13. In the Greek it's Praetorium. It was probably the barrack of the Praetorium guard attached to the palace of Nero and that confirms this. So I tend to think it was during his first imprisonment at Rome. That would tend to sit with the mention of the Praetorium and that he was in the custody of the Praetorium prefect and his situation agrees with the situation in the first two years of his imprisonment that you can read about in Acts. In Acts 28 30 and 31. It's not that important whether it was the first or the second imprisonment. The fact is he's in prison. He's in prison for his faith. He's in prison for his preaching. But he does not allow that to destroy him or even to to drive him down or to change the nature of his ministry. Many people might have switched over perhaps to a martyr's ministry at this point in time and yet he does not. He continues to encourage the people to go about their their business preaching the gospel and being members of the church no matter what the circumstances are. Now the tone of this letter as we go through it you'll notice this. It's unlike most of his other letters. It contains no long doctrinal discussions. It contains no rebukes of evils that were festering in the particular church. But it is an outpouring rather of happy love and also confidence in these brothers and sisters. He loves them. He is confident in them and he wants them to be confident not in themselves. He wants them to be confident in Christ and in his promises. Like all of Paul's epistles, as you saw, it starts with a salutation. Our letters, of course, and with the identification of the person who's sending it. But the letters back there started with who this letter was from. And like most of his letters, it also starts with a prayer for the people that he is writing to. He isn't just in intending to give them information. He wants to bless them, to bless them with his letter and to bless them with his prayer. And one commentator calls the entire letter a long gush of love towards the Philippians. And it is. There's nothing wrong with that. Verses 1 and 2 that we read there, they contain an apostolic greeting. The senders are identified there. Timothy is associated with Paul. Timothy was with Paul, therefore, in his imprisonment. We remember from 2 Timothy in his second imprisonment that Paul noted that only Timothy had stayed with him. Or rather that he wanted Timothy to come to him in his imprisonment to bring things to him. Timothy remained loyal to Paul no matter what. Timothy also, you remember, was going to become very important to Paul in the Ephesian church and building them up and so on. Timothy was a genuine, he was more than just an amanuensis or a secretary for Paul. He was a helper to Paul. He was a brother in Christ, somebody who would stand with him in thick or thin. Now, Paul mentions him and he often does that. He brings the friends who are about him into prominence. That also indicates that the people in Philippi knew of him and would be interested to hear how he was doing. Timothy is in Rome with Paul when the letter is being dictated. And although Timothy is not the one who is inspired to write the letter, Paul is using him as his secretary to take it down. It's very possible that Paul had an eye disease, which made it very difficult for him to write. He calls Timothy and himself, he addresses himself as a bondservant of Jesus Christ. Now, that's a nice little word, bondservant. It conjures up the idea of indentured bondage, the idea that we're just working off a debt. But when he says bondservant, he's actually using the Greek word doulos. Doulos means literally slave. He is a slave of Christ. Some prefer the translation bondservant to kind of neaten it up. We don't like the idea of Paul calling himself a slave of Christ because of the bad connotations of that. But we remember that most of the Roman Empire, in fact, 20 % of the city there, and this would have had, as a Roman colony, a military colony, Philippi would have had a lower than normal slave population, more free men than slaves. But they still speculate that at least 20 % of those 10 ,000 people within the colony were slaves. And here is Paul saying, I too am a slave. But who is he a slave of? He's a slave of Jesus Christ. He and Timothy are slaves, and they aren't complaining about that. They understood that they were bought with a price by the Lord Jesus Christ in his sacrifice for their sake, and therefore they were owned by their master. They are completely dependent upon him, and they give him their undivided allegiance. They love this master of theirs, the Lord Jesus Christ. In fact, Paul clearly, he views it as the highest honor that we can attain to serve Christ, to have his light yoke upon us instead of the heavy chains of sin which he takes away. And he is bound to absolute submission to this Lord who is all worthy and who gave everything for his sake. Paul, note in all of his letters, never forgot what Christ had done for him, never forgot where he was when Christ found him, how he was an enemy of the church, a persecutor of the church. Somebody whom Christ, you remember, addressed on the road to Damascus saying, Paul, Paul, or rather at that time, Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? Jesus associates himself so keenly with his people that to persecute them is to persecute him. I was thinking about that as we were hearing about how the Pakistanis are wretchedly persecuted. What their persecutors in Pakistan, the Muslims, do not recognize or realize is that in persecuting them, they are persecuting God the Son. And it will not go well for them to be counted amongst the persecutors on the last day. But he had once been a persecutor. Now he is no longer. He is a slave, a willing servant of the Lord Jesus Christ who loves him with all of his heart. Now note also at the beginning, he doesn't mention that he's an apostle. And so there's a great contrast here between letters like Galatians where he asserts his apostolic authority when he's teaching them. This is a very friendly letter. He doesn't actually need to. He knows they know that he's an apostle of the Lord. Jesus greets all of the saints in Christ. Jesus, who are in Philippi, and he abused them. He calls them saints. And what is he talking about there when he calls them saints? Haggai, literally holy ones. These are people who he considers as they are in Christ. Have you ever thought about this? We may think of ourselves as wretches. We may think of ourselves as people in whom there is nothing worthy of praise. And yet the way that the Lord looks at us is his holy ones, his ones who are set apart. His chosen ones who are even now being conformed to the image of Jesus Christ. If you are in Christ, that is who you are. You are one of his special people. In the Old Testament, the word was segula, his special treasure. Brothers and sisters, the devil wants us to think of ourselves as only what we can accomplish by our meager efforts. And let's face it, that's not much. Isaiah, at the end of his long, his long prophetic letter in Isaiah 66, he talks about righteousness, the righteousness that a holy man like himself might be able to accomplish by himself. And he says these things, our righteousnesses are but filthy rags. But Christ, what does he do? He endows us with robes of righteousness. He enrobes us, as Luther put it so very well, so that when we stand before God on the last day, the saints are seen as they are in Christ. That is who Paul sees them as. They are people who are called to be holy and who are being made holy. We have been saved by grace through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, but we are also, and this will come out from this letter, we are also being conformed to the image of Christ. It is as that example that was given to us a little while ago of the, as we were going through the Bible study of the princess who had been made, or rather the commoner who had been made into the queen. She was given the title, but then gradually she was taught the courtly graces and made into somebody who everybody understood and saw was the wife of the king. They are the people of God. They are the saints of Christ and that because of their union with the Lord Jesus Christ. All of the saints together in their communal sense are being addressed by Paul. This letter would have been probably read just as we read it in the midst of worship and so on, and then copied and passed on to the other congregations, the other saints throughout the world.
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A highlight from Cathie Wood Questions Bitcoin | Ethereum Rally Incoming
"All right, so let's get into Ethereum today. Is a rally incoming? After some interesting performance over the weekend, we're going to break it all down for you. My name is Paul Barron. Welcome back in the Tech Path. Before we get started, I want to thank our sponsor, and that is iTrust Capital. If you're looking at long -term holding or maybe going into a crypto IRA, one of the best things you can do is check out iTrust Capital. And, of course, you can get into Bitcoin, Ethereum, a whole slew of altcoins, as well as precious metals. So there's a lot of options over there that you guys do have. And there's no fees monthly, you're just doing transaction fees for when you're doing something inside your account. So make sure and check it out. It is a link down below. You get a $100 funding reward if you use our link, and it works out for you guys. Let me know. All right, so let's get going here on a couple of things. I want to jump over to an article on the block. And this one is really just hitting on the whole issue around inflow. $767 million six -week streak, ETH, of course, now seeing the largest inflow since August of 2022. A couple of points within the article. Come and zoom in on that one right there. Digital asset investment products as asset managers, such as CoinShares, Bitwise, Grayscale, 21 shares, et cetera. The funds have been adding $261 million to $767 million over the past six weeks. So pretty big deal considering this passes or surpasses all of the inflows we saw in 2022. And I think you can kind of see the chart right here of the inflows. What is it that is happening that's causing this? Some people would look at a couple of things. One of course is the movement on Bitcoin as an ETF, because could that mean that Ethereum could get an ETF? Or does Ethereum move in unison like it has in the past with what Bitcoin is doing? One other thing that was in the article here is if Ether crypto funds generated the most inflows since August. One of the things here though, this of course total $17 million, a significant turnaround from $107 million in outflows that they face this year. So that's another factor I think that plays into this. I don't know, when you guys, and I know I'm a big investor in Ethereum. I get behind this project, I like the ecosystem, I like the potential of it. But I'm always questioning, are there other faster ones? Are there some other opportunities out there? There's a lot of different angles that you can go. But of course with ETH, one of the things to look at is a recent analysis on this is just looking at this potential bullish breakout. You can kind of see this downward wedge that's painted in by this analyst. And they've looked at a couple of points where it's bounced off this wedge top and has retraced down. But right now it's outperforming this, which is the point of where we've seen this $1 ,900 breakout. If it continues to fly over the $1 ,900, which is where it is right now, does this mean that maybe Ethereum is set to have its own little mini rally, much like what Bitcoin had going up to $35K? This is going to be a good one to watch. Hong Kong, of course, is now, their regulator is welcoming crypto spot ETF proposals. And a lot within this that I think is important. This is the SFC's chief executive, Julia Leung, said that the regulator will entertain proposals that boost efficiency and customer experience. And we're happy to give it a try as long as risks are addressed. Our approach is consistent regardless of the asset, she said. So basically what they're doing is they're talking about crypto ETFs. That to me is a pretty significant scenario, especially because of what's happening here, even within the United States, having so much struggle just getting a Bitcoin ETF passed, a spot ETF passed. I think this is an opportunity for Hong Kong to kind of plant a flag in the sand and maybe show that this can be done in a very responsible way. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority, HKMA, is also developing guidelines to help banks hold tokenized asset. This is another factor that I think we'll see a big ramp up on once we get an ETF underway and once the SFC starts to hopefully give some leeway on what's going to happen within the crypto markets. I think banking will be one of the next areas that will be on deck for sure. But let's not forget, there's still a lot of Ethereum FUD in the market. One of them, of course, is this article from Bitcoinist, Ethereum Insider Drops Bombshell, ETH Founders Fraud Bigger Than the FTX Fraud. Of course, we have to show this. Just to kind of show you, this is the attorney that was talking about this and I'll highlight this right here. Naroff said that the two Ethereum founders have allegedly orchestrated fraudulent activities regarding ETH blockchain and exceeded the scale of actions even by the former FTX CEO Sam Bankman -Fried. So, I don't know. These are the kind of things that I feel like within this market, there's always FUD. One way or the other, you're getting FUD on Bitcoin, you're getting FUD on Ethereum or any project out there. But I think if you're doing the research, you start to realize where these opportunities are. And when you ask the questions, it starts to reveal the answers. I want to jump over to a couple of clips here. And this is Cathie Wood asking questions and maybe revealing some answers to herself listening. Can I just ask a quick question? What would be the, what would be opposition to that? Any particular reason or is this taking off pretty quickly? For like stablecoins on Lightning or for integration into the service providers? Integration. So, I think on the integration side, well, the first thing is that there is no stablecoin on Lightning live yet. And so, hopefully you'll have like a USDC or a USDT that goes live. I think the second step is that if you're developing a predominantly for like an EVM environment, if you just do like EVM and Solana, you already have some like 90 % of the smart contract market share. And so, you really only have to do two things and they all kind of work like relatively in similar ways. Now, the clip here is of Cathie Wood and a lot of Lightning developers that are kind of addressing the issues and the questions she has in terms of expansion of the project, but also the functionality of it. And that is the thing that is interesting because it's relative to what's happening with Ethereum right now. And part of this is not only in adoption, because remember ETH, largest ecosystem out there, largest number of developers, probably the most apps, even though we've seen a lot of movement, both in Avalanche and Solana, but this next clip goes into the adoption of Lightning. Now, and this isn't about Lightning versus ETH, but it is about how Ethereum has a potential here as a payment architecture in the future. But listen in. Des, is this more of a developed world or is the developing world getting involved? I just don't know your business well enough. Yeah, I mean, I would, the majority of our users, I would say are in Latin America. So it is for us very much largely developing regions. All right. So as you can see there, they're talking about Lightning's deployment in terms of adoption. A lot of this happening in the emerging markets. We've known that even if you look back at the success that Bitcoin has had in El Salvador and also Lightning to a certain extent, because it's being used across Strike and other platforms that integrate with Lightning. But her question was pretty straightforward. Why are we not seeing these kinds of integrations on a global perspective in some of the major markets? Now, granted, we are not necessarily seeing that either within the ETH ecosystems. Now, granted within the ETH ecosystem, we're seeing a lot of dApps starting to develop and solve some of these challenges and these problems. And I think that's the thing that maybe Woods is getting to is trying to understand why we haven't seen the kind of opportunities that Ethereum has represented. So it's a very interesting situation, I think, with both Lightning and Bitcoin, along with the alternative, which really right now I would still say is Ethereum, even though Solana has a lot of potential, it still is an emerging layer one that does have a lot of use cases. But again, it's hard to match up to what's happened within the ETH ecosystem in such a long period of time. Now, granted, it doesn't mean it can't be done. There's still a lot happening there. I want to jump over to another article. Brian Armstrong says OnChain is the new online, as Coinbase beats their expectations with $674 ,000 in revenue for the quarter. And the internet was and is a game -changing technology that redefined our modes of communication. Totally agree with him there. Business and social interaction, blockchain and crypto are doing the same thing today. Totally agree with him there. Broader access to financial services and even changes how we think in identity, governance, artwork and non -financial services. All this is applicable. Here is my argument with what Coinbase and what Brian Armstrong is talking about. And actually, I think he knows this. And you know, I've talked to many of the Coinbase team and I feel like they all kind of get it in the sense that when you look at the birth and the growth of the internet, we never really addressed the monetary or the financial system. It was really more about the information system. Now what you're doing with Web3 and the evolution of blockchain is you're addressing both. You're addressing the information system and you're addressing the financial system. And that I think is going to be the challenge and it's the continuing challenge. That's why it's been so hard I think to get a regulation here in the United States is because it is messing with the one thing that most people have not messed with in the past and that is the money. And I think that's the scenario we've got to face. Last point he hits on was regulatory clarity. In the U .S. it's still a big hurdle. To my point, that is one of the biggest issues. Further in this, just to give you kind of an insight on this, SEC now is struggling to hire crypto experts because they all seem to want to hodl. I like that topic line. A couple of points from the article and kind of zoom in on this right here. Many qualified candidates hold crypto assets which the Office of Ethics and Council have determined would prohibit them from working on particular matters of effecting crypto assets. I don't know if you would get a crypto expert that wouldn't be holding crypto. So are they looking for a white elephant? I think they might be. It's very possible. And then when you don't have the crypto experts you can't really find the crypto bad guys? They're going to have to probably loosen up on those situations. Candidates are often unwilling to divest their crypto. Can you imagine that? I'm not willing to give up my Bitcoin, my Ethereum, my Solana so I can come work for the SEC. Interesting. Maybe they already know. The writing is on the wall. Let's go to another clip here. This is talking about developers also coming in from Cathie Woods. Listen in. One of the metrics we like to look at is the number of developers. Over time, the number of developers on Ethereum has really taken off. And while the number on Bitcoin generally has, it's still moving up, the slope had changed and flattened out. Have all of the developments that you're talking about on the Lightning Network changed that dynamic? Are we starting to see an inflection point with more Bitcoin developers here? Yeah, I mean, I definitely think so, especially when you think about like ordinals and all of those things. I mean, those are kind of those kind of came and they haven't went, but they're not as popular as they were. There was a hackathon recently. There was like 200 people that submitted ideas. And yeah, maybe they're not like building those out in full. But I think it's just it's I know it's nothing compared to the scale of Ethereum, but it's hard to build on Bitcoin. I think everybody knows here it's it's a little bit harder. I don't think it's ever going to have the same amount of developer interest as Ethereum because you can't experiment as much. You know, when we come to building games with rewards in them, you know, we're not messing around with like NFTs and tokens and all of this that just kind of complicate things. So I think in short, they're simply saying, yeah, this is not going to develop at the scale or at the pace in which Ethereum or other chains like it are developing on. But at the same time, I look at it and I think, well, other layer ones have been able to do this. We have Solana right here, you know, 7000 registrants, 907 submissions, participants from over 120 countries. This is what happens. I think this was the hyperdrive hackathon that they did. Tolle was talking about that in terms of the growth, but almost a thousand submissions here. This is developer, a developer ecosystem that is starting to explode, much like what you saw in the birth and the explosion of the ETH ecosystem. Those are the ones that I'm watching again, ETH is continuing to skyrocket and do these kind of things, which again gives it the opportunity to experiment, to try new things, to do things that really solve real world problems. That at the end of the day for blockchain is where it all matters, because if you don't solve real world problems, what are you doing, you know, what are you doing out there? Let's go over to another clip real quick. This is talking about Ethereum and Solana. Listen in. I think it's a little bit naive to be like, hey, everything else is a scam and this is the only thing that's not a scam. What Ethereum is trying to do is build a credibly neutral blockchain on which anybody can build whatever they want. And like even looking at something like Solana, like their values are really straightforward. They want to be the cheapest and the fastest. They just want to be an app platform. 99 % of the people in each of these things are building things that they want to build for people that they want them to use it. There's a small cohort in every community and the bigger community has it as well that talks and, nonsense you know, is scammy and misleads people. All right, so you kind of can see that there is a bit of a light bulb, I think, going off in Cathie Wood's head. Now, I know Cathie is big into Bitcoin, but I think maybe she is starting to look a lot stronger into these alternatives, including Ethereum, Solana and others that will kind of flow into that. One of the articles that kind of point to this, this is a repeat of the 2019 bull run crypto now in play amid Bitcoin and Ethereum surge. This is coming from Chris Berniski. Now, remember, Chris Berniski was on the ARK team, former head of crypto at Cathie Wood's ARK, and basically says right here, if Bitcoin ETH rip here and everything else follows, it's going to be just high enough for people to believe that maybe, just maybe all new time highs are around the corner before ending in a final wipeout. This would be Q1 2024. This will be interesting because if people are looking at this, because there are a lot of people that are kind of analyzing the current move here that's similar to 2019, to where we could see another kind of fake bull run, and then a drop in the market, and then an adjustment, obviously, post halving, to where we'd start to see some of this move. But right now, he goes on to say, predicts that Sol will continue to be the prime outperformer in the next market expansion. And he loves ETH, grew up professionally along Ethereum's rise, continues to support many Ethereum projects, so that's good. But this cycle, Sol has been and likely will continue to be the faster horse. I don't know, I'd love to give you guys' input on this. I'm still a big ETH fan, obviously Solana is surprising me daily, just with what they've been able to do. So, love to get your feedback, drop some comments down below. If you're not a subscriber of the channel, also hit the subscribe button, it's one of the best ways you guys can help kind of spread the word around what's happening in blockchain as a whole. I want to go to this last clip here.
The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from Why Are People Poor? with Dr. Theodore Dalrymple
"Hey everybody, Charlie Kirk here. Are you new to investing and have savings you need to protect right now? With the Middle East war, the Ukraine war, and maybe Taiwan soon, you need a new playbook that is safe. Allocate some gold now and avoid the frenzied panic of the unprepared. When fear reigns, gold protects the wise. Noble Gold Investments offers a free 5 -ounce America the Beautiful coin with new IRAs this month. Shield your savings with a Noble Gold Investments IRA. Go to NobleGoldInvestments .com. NobleGoldInvestments .com, the only gold company I trust. That is NobleGoldInvestments .com. Hey everybody, today on The Charlie Kirk Show, Dr. Theodore Dalrymple, author of one of the most important books I've read recently, Life at the Bottom. You're going to love this book, love this conversation. Why are people poor? Is it lack of stuff? Is it their environment? You'll really enjoy this conversation. Email me as always, Freedom at CharlieKirk .com. Subscribe to our podcast and become a member of The Charlie Kirk Show and listen to our podcasts, advertiser -free, CharlieKirk .com and click on the Members tab, that is CharlieKirk .com, and click on the Members tab. Buckle up everybody, here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. I want to thank Charlie, he's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job. Building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here. Brought to you by the loan experts I trust, Andrew and Todd at Sierra Pacific Mortgage at andrewandtodd .com. Really excited for this hour and this discussion. A couple months ago, a very good pastor friend of mine, Pastor David Engelhardt, who comes on our program and is also a board member at Turning Point USA, he came up to me and he handed me a book very forcefully. He looked at me in the eyes and he said, Charlie, you must read this. And when he does that, I take it very seriously. He's a very learned man. David Engelhardt really understands the scriptures. He said, Charlie, this book is one of the most powerful books I've ever read when it comes to describing the permanent poor. And he says it debunks all of the Marxist materialist nonsense that has infected our universities. I said, OK, David, I trust you. And it was, of course, the book was endorsed by Thomas Sowell. So I started reading the book and I was blown away. Within a couple chapters, I texted our team. I said, we have to have this author on the program. And the book is Life at the Bottom, and it is by Dr. Theodore Dalrymple. It's one of many books that he has published. This one in particular I found to be very moving and powerful. And we'll talk about why. Dr. Dalrymple, thank you for taking the time. Well, thank you for asking me. So, Dr. Dalrymple, why don't you introduce to our audience your life's work? What I found most powerful about your book is this was decades of work with the poor and just noticing, analyzing and seeing patterns that what was driving people to remain poor was not necessarily a material issue. Please tell us about it and we'll dive, we'll go from there. Well, first of all, I should say that I travel very widely for a number of years and worked in Africa and I traveled across Africa by public transport, seeing it from the bottom up. And I also traveled widely in Latin America and other places. So I began to see my own country in a rather different light from how I'd seen it before. And then I worked for a number of years in what is called an inner city hospital and there was a prison next door and I started working in the prison next door as well.
Dr. Jockers Functional Nutrition
A highlight from The Surprising Truth About Lemon Water
"Hello, and welcome to the Dr. Jockers Functional Nutrition Podcast, the show designed to give you science -based solutions to improve your health and life. I'm Dr. David Jockers, doctor of natural medicine and creator of drjockers .com, and I'm the host of this podcast. I'm here to tell you that your body was created to heal itself, and on this show, we focus on strategies you can apply today to heal and function at your best. Thanks for spending time with me, and let's go into the show. Are hidden toxins and stressors making you feel run down and tired, worried about oxidative stress from exposure to EMF, 5G, heavy metals, chemicals, processed foods, and the like? You see, in our modern world, toxic is the new normal, no matter how health -conscious you try to be. The truth is that every single day, you're being bombarded by harmful toxins and stressors. When left to roam free, these toxins take on the form of something called free radicals. Free radicals promote an unhealthy inflammatory response and contribute to oxidative damage on a site or level, basically like the rusting of metal or the browning of an apple that potentially leads to premature aging, a lower quality of life, and a range of health problems. However, there is good news. Antioxidants are crucial in combating free radicals and keeping you on track, and one of the most powerful antioxidants known to man is glutathione. Glutathione fights free radicals and molecules that cause cellular damage while repairing DNA and flushing out toxins. But here's the thing. Not all glutathione supplements are created equal. If you're taking glutathione in capsule or tablet form, you're missing out on key nutrients, as they will simply pass through your body without being absorbed. You can thank your stomach acid for that. 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Believe it or not, lemon water may be one of the most powerful health tips that you may ever learn about because its ability, particularly warm lemon water early in the morning, its ability to stimulate the vagus nerve, the powerful nutrients, the vitamin C, the vitamin P, the bioflavonoids that are in there, the potassium, magnesium, some of the key elements that are in lemon water and how it helps to open up, dilate the bile ducts, stimulate bile flow, stimulate peristalsis muscle movement in your gut so you can flush out toxins and also stimulate your vagus nerve. So, some powerful tips and I go through that in detail in this podcast. You guys are going to love this information. Please share it with somebody that you know and that you care about as well. And if you've not left us a five -star review, now is the time to do that. Just go to Apple iTunes. Wherever you listen to this podcast, scroll to the bottom. Wherever it says leave a review, leave us a five -star review. That helps us reach more people and impact more lives with this message. Thank you so much for doing that and let's go into the show. In today's video, I'm talking about the real reason to drink warm lemon water. Warm lemon water is one of the best things you could do to start your day. I recommend drinking either some sort of good herbal tea and you can even mix lemon in there. Having warm drinks early in the day can be really, really powerful. I'm going to go through the science of that and in particular, I like adding lemon and there's a number of reasons for that. One is that lemon is rich in vitamin C as well as bioflavonoids, citrus bioflavonoids. Those bioflavonoids synergize with vitamin C and they help improve oxygen extraction and oxygen delivery into the cells. You see vitamin C as well as the bioflavonoids helps improve the endothelial lining, the inner lining of the blood vessels and by improving that, it allows more oxygen to go from the blood cells and into the tissues. The more oxygen you get into the tissues, the better they're able to form energy, the more resilient the tissue cells become and you function better. You have better energy, better mental clarity, you're better at burning fat for fuel and you keep inflammation under control. This has the perfect combination. Lemon does. Vitamin C and bioflavonoids to really support your body. On top of that, there's also electrolytes in there that are also very powerful as well. You've got potassium, magnesium, you've got natural sodiums in there that really helps support your body and again, help deliver that oxygen to the cells, help with blood flow dynamics, help you feel better, right? Help you feel better, more mentally clear. So that's another reason. And then there's structured water in there and structured water is really unique. It's this kind of coherent or intelligent water. See, in our society, when we take water and we run it through municipalities that filter it and add chlorine and all these types of things, we lose the natural intelligence of the water and then of course, hopefully, you're in a house where you've got some sort of water filtration system, reverse osmosis, things like that that take out all the different chemicals and stuff that the municipalities put in there but you lose the intelligence. You don't have this kind of coherent, intelligent form of water. Water is a communication medium and when you lose the coherence of it, I know it kind of sounds esoteric but inside of our body, water is used as in a form of communication between the cells and when we're consuming foods like fruit, for example, that is rich in structured water, fruit and vegetables, that helps improve the communication process between our cells. So, lemon, what's nice about it is low in sugar, pretty much no sugar, no calories, but rich in structured water, so it has that benefit of the structured water to help improve cellular communication. The better the cells are able to communicate, the less oxidative stress, the less inflammation, the better you function and feel, so it adds that structured water benefit. Number three is it's warm. The warmth actually activates the vagus nerve, right, both the warmth and the kind of sourness of lemon triggers the activation of the vagus nerve. Vagon is, vagus or vagal is Latin for wandering and the vagus nerve comes from the brain stem, travels down into our palate, travels down into our heart, our lungs, our digestive system and when we activate that, it calms our body and stimulates digestive motility, so it helps you move your bowels more effectively. It helps you with digestion, overall digestion, so if you're doing that before a meal, it's going to help your body to digest the food more effectively and it's going to help balance out your microbiome, get rid of bad bugs, improve the overall diversity and the ecology of your microbiome, so that's really helpful and also the acidity does it as well. So again, the warmth and the acidity activates the vagus nerve and helps to balance the microbiome, balance the diversity and the species of microbes. I just wanted to interrupt this podcast to tell you about how important your liver is. In fact, if you're suffering from low energy, brain fog and unexplained extra body fat, the problem could be your liver. You may not know it, but your liver is the foundation for good health. 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The Crypto Overnighter
A highlight from 701:Uncle Sams Bitcoin & Californias Bitlicense Bill
"Good evening, and welcome to The Crypto Overnight -er. I'm Nickademus, and I will be your host as we take a look at the latest cryptocurrency news and analysis. So sit back, relax, and let's get started. And remember, none of this is financial advice. And it's 10 p .m. Pacific on Monday, October 16th, 2023. Welcome back to The Crypto Overnight -er, where we have no sponsors, no hidden agendas, and no BS. But we do have the news, so let's talk about that. Tonight we dig into a peculiar irony. The US government, often seen as a crypto skeptic, might just be one of Bitcoin's biggest hodlers. We're also examining the shifting sands of crypto regulation, from America's warming attitude towards Bitcoin ETFs to new licensing laws in California and Australia. Finally, we'll take a global hop to Singapore's recent regulatory nod to Upbit, and zoom in on why Latin America is bucking the global trend by favoring centralized exchanges. All this and more, so stay close. Now let's unravel a mystery that's starting to sound more like a thriller. Reports have emerged indicating that the US government is possibly one of the largest hodlers of Bitcoin. With the valuation hovering around a staggering $5 billion, Uncle Sam's Bitcoin stash is an intriguing plot in the crypto realm. This discovery leaves some folks wondering, bewildered, and curious. How did this happen, and what does this mean for crypto? The reports highlight an interesting scenario here, between the public stance of the government and its apparent crypto holdings. On one hand, there's a constant rhetoric revolving around the regulation and scrutiny of the digital asset industry. On the other, you might be excused for thinking the government itself had delved into the very asset it appears to scrutinize. Now here's what's up. The $5 billion worth of Bitcoin held by the US government stems primarily from seizures conducted over the years. Law enforcement agencies, during various operations against illegal activities, have confiscated a considerable amount of Bitcoin. These seizures often occur in the course of actions against illicit drug markets, frauds, and other criminal enterprises operating in the dark recesses of the internet. The question of what happens next looms large. The government's next moves are shrouded in ambiguity. Will these assets be liquidated, as has been past practice, or might there be a different plan in the works? Previously, the government auctioned off seized cryptocurrencies. However, with the increasing recognition and acceptance of digital assets, could there be a change in the stance? Furthermore, the liquidation of such a substantial amount of Bitcoin could potentially impact the market significantly. The entrance or exit of such a considerable sum could lead to price fluctuations, something keenly eyed by investors and the community at large. This revelation also raises questions regarding the government's approach towards cryptocurrency regulation. Does the fact they're holding such a significant amount of Bitcoin reflect a change in attitude, or is it merely a byproduct of law enforcement activities? It's a scenario that stirs the pot, fostering a debate around the government's role and its position within the evolving crypto landscape. Moreover, the notion that a central authority holds a significant amount of Bitcoin resonates with irony. It underscores the complex dynamics between governmental bodies and the digital asset sector. This scenario paints a picture of a silent yet substantial player within the crypto market, which could have broader implications on the regulatory and market fronts. If nothing else, Uncle Sam acting as a hodler and not selling strengthens Bitcoin, so thanks. As the landscape of cryptocurrency continues to evolve in these revelations, the narrative of the US government's involvement with Bitcoin adds a curious chapter to the broader dialogue surrounding digital currencies. The presence of a substantial Bitcoin reserve within federal coffers beckons a deeper understanding of the multifaceted relationship between governmental authorities and the crypto world. This unfolding scenario is not just a tale of unexpected holdings, it's a mirror reflecting the intricate and often contentious relationship between centralized authorities and the decentralized ethos championed by those who love crypto. So we've just uncovered how Uncle Sam might be sitting on top of a Bitcoin gold mine. But what about you, the everyday investor? Well buckle up, the Security Exchange Commission might possibly be warming up to Bitcoin ETFs, whether they like it or not. Could this be the dawn of a new financial frontier? If you like what you hear, make sure to hit that follow button for the latest updates.
The Dan Bongino Show
The Police State's Priorities: Donald Trump & Trump Supporters
"Without tripping all over Joe Biden can't even exit a stage without his wife or someone helping him Joe Biden can't say anything right now other than don't what should you tell international actors looking to involve themselves in this crisis don't is there anything you can elaborate sir anything else you know I'll take a mean tweet at night right now in hell I'll take it from the Santa's Nikki is there anything else you care to offer Joe Biden so while they're busy imposing gag orders on Donald Trump today like Judge Chuck did police state has priorities the police stage priorities right now are what do you think mobile terrorism no what are you crazy that's like priority number 10 number one Donald Trump number two Trump supporters number three stop the steel rally participants number four Mike Lindell number five people who bought a my pillow number six parents at school boards number seven to attend Latin mass eight you attended a pro -life rally nine you made a Trump donation ten you tweeted out last week go Trump and then it's like and then you get to the Hamas killers and again maybe they will get maybe we'll get to them later you think they're gonna protect
The Dan Bongino Show
Rob Malley Purposely Funneled Money to Iran, Financing the Savage
"Got a nuance, you know, folks nuance. So Rob Malley, who is a savage supporter, is a quote from a former State Department official under Pompeo. Rob Malley's negotiating team, quote, purposefully funneled billions of dollars to Iran through a lack of sanctions enforcement provisions and of sanctioned relief that has given Iran somewhere between 50 and 80 billion over the last two and a half years. Whoa. So I thought we're talking about six billion. Now we're talking 50 to 80 billion. Now, listen, you guys have been very generous. Life's been good to me. I ain't a billionaire. I ain't close anywhere to a billionaire. A million dollars is still a lot of money for me. Eighty billion dollars? You can finance a whole lot of beheadings and female captive rapes and stuff like that with 80 billion dollars. Eighty billion. Throw a bunch of your infidels in back the of the truck and rape them and murder them and drag them by the hair. Eighty billion dollars pays for a lot of that, don't it? Finance a whole army on 80 billion dollars. Who gave that to them? Oh, we did. Why did we not freeze the money? Because we didn't want to. This is your government. Your government is financing the savage. You understand that? The same government targeting you for going to a school board meeting? The same government targeting you for showing a Latin Mass? The same government targeting you if you were at the Stop the Steal rally? the same government targeting you if you're a MAGA supporter? The same The government targeting you if your name is Donald Trump and you decide to run for president? That same government is paying off fifty to eighty billion dollars whether through third parties, themselves, vendors. Eighty billion dollars to a country that just financed one of the most
Hearing Jesus: Daily Bible Study
A highlight from 399// The Cost of Following Jesus: A Devotional Bible Study on Matthew 8:14-22
"Do you sometimes doubt if you're truly hearing God's voice or if it's really your own? Or have you been in a season where it feels like He's completely silent? Have you been praying for a way to learn how to hear His voice more clearly? Hey friends, I'm Rachel, host of the Hearing Jesus Podcast. If you are ready to grow in your faith and to confidently step into your identity in Christ, then join me as we dig deep into God's Word so you can learn to live out your faith in your everyday life. Need a new roof for your home or even just some repairs? That's a big investment, one that you should take very seriously. And you want the job done right by professionals and at a great price. You need to call your hometown roofing contractor. Serving Northeast Ohio for over 65 years, Coats Bros Roofing, 440 -322 -1343. How have they been in the roofing business for so long? Quality work at a great price. They keep their promises and communicate with you, the homeowner. 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Welcome back to our introduction to the Gospel series where we're going through the Gospel, starting with the Gospel of Matthew. And I'm just teaching on some of the things that we sometimes miss from the history and the culture and the background, things that help us understand the text a little bit more clearly. So today we're in Matthew Chapter 8, picking up at verse 14. And if you're just joining us, I would encourage you to go back and start listening from the beginning of this series. Everything kind of builds on itself, so it will make more sense, I think, if you do it that way. But we're so glad you're here. So I'm reading from the New American Standard Version of the Bible, starting at Matthew Chapter 8, verses 14. It says, When Jesus came into Peter's home, he saw his mother -in -law lying sick in bed with a fever, and he touched her hand, and the fever left her, and she got up and waited on him. Now when evening came, they brought to him many who were demon -possessed, and he cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were ill. This happened so that what was spoken through Isaiah the prophet would be fulfilled. He himself took our illnesses and carried away our diseases. Now when Jesus saw a crowd around him, he gave orders to depart to the other side of the sea. Then a scribe came and said to him, Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go. And Jesus said to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head. And another of the disciples said to him, Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father. But Jesus said to him, Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead. There's a lot to unpack here, and hopefully we'll get through it all today. If not, we'll pick up tomorrow. But I want to make mention initially about the location of where they're at. It says in verse 14, When Jesus came into Peter's home. So this mother -in -law scene is something that is just so touching for a variety of reasons. But I wanted to just spend a little bit of time talking about Peter's home, because this is one of those places in the scriptures that we have a lot of evidence for and verification of the house of Peter. Back in 1968, there were excavations done that convinced most archaeologists that this was the actual site of Peter's house in Capernaum. And so they sifted through the remains of lots of different kinds of buildings like centuries -old churches, and what excavators eventually came to find was this house built in approximately 63 B .C. That was originally one story that had walls made of that black basalt stone that we talked about a couple days ago. There was a roof made of beans and branches of trees that was covered with a mix of earth and straw. There was pottery shards and oil lamps and coins all discovered within the ruins, and they all dated back to that first century, along with artifacts that included several fish hooks and things from the layers of the first floor that indicated that it was a fisherman's house. And so the house was organized as several rooms, and it was built around two interior courtyards. And the dimensions by ancient standards were fairly large, but it was very similar to other houses in the area that were built around the same time. It's interesting because this building, they can tell from the archaeology, it was a typical home for extended family, and Peter and Andrew apparently moved the family fishing business from Bethsaida to Capernaum, and they established their home base essentially in this house, and it was large enough for an extended family. But during the second half of the first century, AD, the use of the house was changed. Instead of a primary residential house, the domestic pottery, which is how we tend to live, that domestic pottery stopped, and the walls of the large center of the room became plastered. And that is pretty unusual for the region, except when there were groups of people that will be gathering lots at the time. So instead of it being a residential place, this is now a place that would be housing a lot of people. And there's actually graffiti that are on the walls that mention Jesus as Lord and the Christ, and that's both written in the Greek and some Hebrew. And then pieces of evidence indicate that during this time, the house became this center of Christian worship, and it became a home church. And so this home church continued to be in existence for nearly 300 years, and there's evidence from over 100 Greek, Aramaic, Syrian, Latin, and Hebrew sketches of graffiti there in the walls. It's scratched literally into the plaster walls, and there's numerous crosses, there's a boat, there's lots of other letters, and in the graffiti, there's at least two possible instances where it says Peter's name. In the 5th century, an octagonal church was built right over the original footprint, and I'm going to put some pictures of both of these up on the Patreon if you want to see what it looks like. But I want you to just think about this for a moment. We have archaeological evidence of Peter's home that later became a church. I just love that because so much of the history of the scriptures is lost. Now we do have a lot, but there's very few things that are verifiable, but it is verifiable that Peter had a home in this area in this timeframe, so I love that. So in verse 14, when it references, he saw Peter's mother -in -law. Mark later informs us that both Peter and Andrew lived here, and perhaps had been a home of Peter and Andrew's parents, but it was now occupied by the sons and their larger extended families, including on Peter's side, at least his wife and her parents. And so Paul also alludes to Peter's marriage in 1 Corinthians. And so it says she was lying in bed with a fever. And as Matthew explains this, the actual language says she was having been thrown on a bed with a fever. And what that isn't an indication of is that she was in throes of a severe illness. She was feverish. They think perhaps it was malaria that was really common in that timeframe, that culture. And so fever was considered by the population to be a disease, not a symptom. And so it wasn't just like, you know, we randomly get fevers when we're fighting off a flu or something. The fever itself was seen as a disease. And so we don't know exactly, but like I said, malaria was pretty common, and that is symptomatic. You know, it's consistent with those kinds of symptoms. And so it's interesting to see how Jesus healed her and the response that happens. And as I was thinking about that and praying through that, I was thinking about what healing from Jesus has looked like in my own life. And I think it's consistent with what we see with his mother in law. The response of Jesus healing her produces in her this service upon the Lord. So she immediately got up and started waiting on him. And I've been there. I've been in that place where I have experienced healing, the healing of God in my life. And immediately it puts me in such a place of being thankful and wanting to just serve him, serve him with my life. And I love that we see that picture here. Moving on to verse 17, it says this was to fulfill what was spoken to the prophet Isaiah. He took up our infirmities and carried our diseases. Now, infirmities, of course, mean sicknesses. And this is another allusion by Matthew to the servant that is mentioned in Isaiah's prophecy in Isaiah chapter 53 in the Old Testament. And what he's doing is he's focusing on the servant's role of bringing healing. And so the servant bears the sickness of others through his suffering and his death and eventually his resurrection. And so many modern scholars doubt that first century Jews would have interpreted Isaiah 53 as a messianic prophecy, but some of the later texts from the rabbis in the later time period recognize that this was a messianic interpretation of this passage. And so what we see is even before the Jewish leaders of the time understood what was happening, Jesus was fulfilling this prophecy from the book of Isaiah. In verse 19, it says, then a teacher of the law came to him. Chapter eight, verse 19, it says that. And I want to mention this because the Jewish population, they had a high percentage that were trained in things like reading and writing, but only a very small segment of those people regularly worked with writing materials. And so even fewer had access to the books or of the law or the scriptures. And so therefore, the skills of writing and reading were very highly valued. And so throughout the ancient world, there was a class of people called scribes, which were basically people that were trained in reading, writing and transcribing. And because of the importance of that trade, they would often go beyond just secretarial skills, but they would also include things like teaching interpretation and even helping others to understand and regulate the laws that were found in official documents. So in this culture, the class of scribes that had developed were experts in interpreting the law and teaching the scriptures. And that's why they're called the teacher of the law. And so in verse 19, it says, Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go. The teacher of the law has in mind this kind of rabbi teacher relationship and not even teacher, but rabbi disciple relationship, because that goal of that teacher of the law is to continually educate themselves within the context of the law. So that's an admission from this teacher of the law, recognizing that Jesus truly is this amazing rabbi. If he doesn't even recognize the messianic part yet, he recognizes that there's something different about Jesus. And then going down to verse 20, it says the son of man has no place to lay his head so that the teachers of the law would enjoy a high status within that culture. And so Jesus, as a rabbi and as a teacher, he did not have a school. He did not have a synagogue. He had no real place of honor among that religious establishment, if anything. It was the opposite. And so Jesus would stay at the home of friends and relatives and other disciples throughout most of his ministry. That's what we see. He would stay at the home of places like Peter and Andrew while he was in Capernaum. Or we see in the Bible study, I talk about this. He stays with Lazarus and his family, the sisters, Martha and Mary. That expression, he has no place to lay his head. It doesn't necessarily mean that he is homeless, but rather his ministry as this rabbi in this culture would not result in this institutional establishment, meaning he wouldn't have all the benefits and the comforts that the religious leaders of the time would have.
Telecom Reseller
Digital transformation into the AI transformation with Generative AI leading the way, Tecnotree Podcast - burst 1
"This is Doug Greenan, I'm the publisher of Telica Reseller, and I'm very pleased to have with us today, Matt Sanchez, who's the Chief Data AI Officer at Technotree. Matt, thank you for joining me today. Thanks, Doug. Glad to be here. So, we are here live at the Global World Congress in Las Vegas, a very busy show here. Matt, thank you for taking time out from your booth to speak with us today. We're going to be talking about a number of things. We're going to be talking about the recent acquisition of cognitive skill, which I understand you were from, and some big developments, but also I'm hoping we'll get the listeners and readers to be able to see a bigger picture of generative AI and its role in the marketplace. Your perspective on that, I'm really looking forward to hearing that. But first, Matt, could you just tell me a little bit about Technotree? What is Technotree? So, Technotree is a company that's been around for about 45 years, based in Finland, digital full -stack VSS provider. We serve 90 operators in over 70 countries worldwide, but we're relatively unknown in the United States and North America generally, but we are starting to build our business here as well. We are one of the most, probably the most compliant vendor when it comes to standards, TM Form compliance. We got our diamond badge for open API compliance last month, and are very excited to bring one of the best, I would think, modular microservices -based VSS platforms to the market. And late last year, when I joined Technotree, it was because they acquired a company called cognitive scale, which I founded in 2013, and our focus at cognitive scale was around building the world's best AI engineering platform, to be able to create hyper -personalized experiences using a technology we call Profile of One, and really focusing on how AI drives business outcomes in multiple industries. And now we're integrating that platform into our digital VSS stack, and we're also providing AI solutions in multiple industries, including healthcare in the United States and worldwide, and fintech as well. So I guess this is sort of a big picture question, how has Technotree's new AI solution positively impacted the telecom industry? So as we've looked at over 250 plus customer journeys that Technotree enables, there's not a single one where AI cannot provide some additional value. And the way that we always approach these problems is to look at the business outcome or the goal that we're trying to achieve in that journey, make sure we have the KPIs to measure it, and then we have an AI system that allows us to then try to achieve those goals, measure them, and continuously improve. We use different technologies like reinforcement learning to generate a feedback loop and continually improve the system, and we have a technology called Profile of One, which is a telco specific data model for how you represent customers, products, orders, trouble tickets, all the core entities in the telco domain, and a data model that's designed for AI, it's designed to allow us to do mutual reason, it's designed to allow us to build different types of machine learning models, and standardizes that data structure so that we can build AI capabilities much faster and roll them out in a modular fashion for our customers. So what struggles or challenges is AI helping to solve or simplify in telecommunication solutions? Well, there's a lot of a lot of these, I think that we can approach and I think I'll talk about it in two phases of phase one being everything that happened before generative AI, and what's going to happen in the future. AI has been, in fact, I'll give you a quick background on myself. I came from IBM before I started cognitive scale. I was one of the, I ran Watson Labs for about three years. It was a commercial, the first commercialization effort for the IBM Watson system, we built the first applications using that system back starting in 2011. Back then we weren't even calling it AI, IBM had to call it something else, AI was not the word that industry used, so they called it cognitive computing. And the whole idea of that Watson system was that it could reason over language, it could understand specifically how to answer complex questions in an open domain format using just unstructured information. And it was a great breakthrough at the time, and really was sort of the first example of a kind of generalizable AI system that can do that kind of open domain question answering. And they demonstrated this at the time by defeating a couple of Jeopardy champions on live TV, which was pretty fun. But as we commercialized that technology, we realized that there was a lot more that we had to bring to the table, lots of different technologies, lots of different types of AI models that come together. And ultimately, the challenge has always been that when we think about AI, machine learning, we're thinking about a very specific type of problem, task that we want to solve. So I want to predict churn, I want to forecast sales, or I want to create a model that can apply some computer vision algorithm to detect or classify objects in a scene. These are very specific narrow tasks, and we typically approach that kind of more bottom up and sort of one use case at a time. And there's been a ton of use cases that are really valuable there. So when you think about personalization or hyper personalization, it's good to know, for example, that you have a set of customers that might churn, churn out. But what do you do about those customers? What's the action you need to take? How much should you spend? How much, how valuable are they to you? Can you get to that prescriptive output and can you measure the value? And that's really where we see a lot of great use cases on the customer experience side to go after whether it's next best action, or whether it's dealing with churn or whether it's dealing with SLA failures for subscribers that need to be escalated and automatically dealt with. So whether it's cost savings, automation, or top line growth, revenue monetization opportunities, there's AI use cases across all of these that we've been approaching in the, I would say in the traditional sense. One use case at a time, one data set at a time, very, very narrow models and solutions. Now, fast forwarding to today, where we are regenerative AI, outside of the fact that chat GPT has democratized the technology, and I was just in a session here an hour back and the panelists asked the audience, okay, who has not played chat GPT and not a single hand goes up in the audience, right? So everybody understands this technology and what it can do and the power of it is experienced it. And I think that's the first pillar of this being a new thing that we've actually now got to the point where the general public is expecting this to be what AI is going forward. So that sets a very high bar for what we want to be able to achieve. But if we dig underneath that to the technology, generative AI actually is going to change the way we approach AI problems and AI capabilities forever. It's actually going to completely change the way we think about these problems. And the reason for that is several layers to that. One is that generative AI models, these pre -trained models, whether it's language models, which are very powerful, of course, but even vision, speech models, et cetera, there's other types of models that are we call foundation models that are pre -trained in a very similar way. So the amount of information we've been able to really kind of represent when we're able to unlock that in different ways, we can not just achieve chat bot type of functionality, but we can do complex reasoning. And these models can be adapted to solve many different types of problems. So instead of building a single model for one problem, I can now build one model to solve many different problems. And I don't even know where the bounds of that are yet. And so that changes the way we think about use cases, not just single use case at a time, but really to identify a pattern of use cases that we want to attack and then identify what the foundational capabilities are that we need to embed in that knowledge of that language model or that vision model to be able to solve those problems. And in fact, now we're seeing language and vision simultaneously coming together in a single model. So being able to take a picture of something and then ask questions about it and then reason about that plan and solve different scenarios, the possibilities are endless. And so we have now a new way of, it's not just a new tool, it's not just an incremental change. It's a completely new paradigm for how we can approach AI going forward. So I think that's a massive shift in the industry. And you've coupled that with the fact that I think now the expectation, the public expectation is that, well, everything should just work like chat GPT. Everything should be that smart. Everything should have this sort of super intelligence behind it. I think it's going to change the industry dramatically faster than we probably realize because we're going to need to be able to roll these technologies out quickly. The good news is because we can approach these problems differently, I think we can also get to a point where we can drive an innovation cycle much faster. That's the other part of the transformation. I think we're going to be able to innovate, bring products and services to the market much faster, which the telecom industry, I think is certainly challenged with in terms of new monetization opportunities, new services, especially with 5G and really trying to maximize the value of 5G, bringing those new services to market has taken too long. And I think this is an opportunity to really accelerate that. So Matt, are there still barriers holding people back, especially in our industry? Absolutely. So if we look at AI and traditionally the barriers have been challenged around data. So can I get my data, the models were very sensitive, are very sensitive to how the data is formatted, how the data is represented, the features I create in the data, whether the model is ever going to work properly. And then beyond that, does the data change over time? And I have data drift and all these other issues with generative AI. We have similar problems, but we also have a lot of different problems. So yes, we have data and knowledge that's changing constantly. And so, you know, as everybody's aware, if you've had GPT, it always tells you, oh, I only have knowledge until September 1st, September, 2021. Now they just re -enabled the Bing search feature today. So it'll search the web again. And we've seen that with some of the other competitors, like Google BARD and everything that just uses the web data now has more recent information, but that really isn't the heart of the problem. It can still hallucinate and give you completely fake information, it can have very inconsistent answers one user to the next, or it can give you information that is found somewhere, but contextually is completely wrong. So these kinds of challenges are in this way very new. And we don't necessarily have the tools yet to deal with them. There are lots of different people working on these challenges from different perspectives. And I think we will overcome them, but until we do, it's going to cause people to pause a little bit and say, okay, can I really trust these models in production? In fact, the stat I heard today was that 96 % of operators are experimenting with generative AI, but only 4 % have done anything, have actually gone into production. I think we're going to see that continue to be a barrier around that. And then there's ethical AI concerns, responsible AI concerns. The other role that I serve on, I serve as the vice chairman of the Responsible AI Institute. It's a nonprofit. We focus on helping our member organizations really understand the ethical implications of AI in their organizations. Generative AI has added a whole new layer of challenges that we are addressing as well. And one of the things that we're doing to deal with that is forming industry consortiums to look at these specific problems by vertical. So healthcare being a vertical that we're interested in, we launched and actually announced a generative AI testbed for healthcare with National Health Services in the UK and Cambridge University. And we are also now looking at forming a Telco generative AI consortium as well. And I think bringing together the industry to start looking at these problems and figuring out what does it mean for a Telco generative AI system to work? What kind of knowledge does it need to have? What kind of problems do we need to avoid? What does it mean to have the right context in these systems is the way to solve this. So we have to bring operators together, vendors, regulators, and have them all be able to have a safe testbed to be able to experiment with this and bring the standards through that. So I think that's going to be a tool that we need to use in the industry. And I think for operators, it's really one of the things that it's not going to be a new thing because ethical AI or responsible AI, especially from a client's perspective, has to be addressed. But now we have far more challenges because the knowledge baked into these large language models. We don't really know what's in, I mean, understanding exactly what's in there and how it's represented. More importantly, how that model, quote unquote, thinks about these different connections is not well understood yet. So we have to really kind of understand or have a way to manage that. So these are going to be the barriers that I see. The other one I'll mention, and we work with this tech country, we work with operators in the emerging markets quite often, Africa, Middle East, Latin America, and being able to access the technology, be able to access foundation models, large language models, requires high end GPUs primarily. And the cloud is really the way to scale that, these organizations, but many of these organizations do not have access to cloud resources. So it presents a unique challenge where we now have a very good use case for cloud, like a very clear use case for why you'd want to leverage cloud because the only way you're going to get access to cloud is to use those models. But how do you get access to that? So new types of hybrid cloud architectures need to be developed to allow operators who are in geographies where they do not have direct access to data centers with huge banks of GPUs and or the actual models themselves, for example, open AI models, they are going to have to have a way to access that information in a safe way, in a secure way. And so we're working with our cloud partners to develop some of those architectures in these different geographies. But then that's going to create sort of another set of challenges outside of the fact that GPUs and cells are in high demand as we've seen. But that's getting better. I think the challenge now is going to be where they are physically, geographically, where can we access this compute. And we're not going to be able, not every operator is going to be able to just buy a data center full of GPUs to run large language models themselves. So we're going to have to leverage the cloud more. So I think that's another trend and it's another challenge that we're going to have to get over. So we're looking into 2024 and maybe looking and actually addressing some of this work. What's ahead for Tekno3? So Tekno3 is looking at AI in a very kind of holistic way, really thinking about how the industry as a whole is going to evolve in the light of generative AI, even outside of the VSS space, what can we do? We see a lot of challenges working with our operator partners, both on the development and customization of systems, integration of systems, as well as within areas like customer experience where we think we can really leapfrog the competition of some of the new technologies we're working on in our platform. And so we have use cases that we ourselves are rethinking, what we traditionally focused on with classic ML, which is now we're saying, why would we not use generative AI for this and maybe combine that with other AI models that we already have in place? Can we accelerate time to value for our customers that way? We're starting to see some of our customers even look at it. We used to see RFPs for digital transformation. Now we're seeing RFPs for AI transformation. Come help me transform my business with AI. So we're seeing that demand start to come from the market and we're starting to think, okay, how can we flex and do what we do with our, now that we have an AI platform, we have our digital VSS stack, we have a telco compliant data model for representing all the core entities in telco that's AI ready. What can we do to help our customers with that transformation journey around leveraging AI? So we're developing new solutions for developer extending our platform to support these different types of hybrid architectures. And we're looking at ways that we can use generative AI internally inside Technotree to reduce costs and increase value for our customers anywhere from how data is migrated and ensuring mapped to reliable operations for our customers and also delivery, making sure that our deliveries are rock solid and can maybe can reduce the cost and reduce the time. So we see opportunities for AI internally and externally, and we're fully planning to execute on those next year. So Matt, I really want to thank you for joining us today. This has been really interesting. I really appreciate the sort of broad view of where I, where we are with AI. I hope we learn more. So you can hit our website, technotree .com, follow us on all of the social channels. I would also encourage readers and listeners to look at responsible .ai and some of the work that's going on there with different organizations that that membership brings together. Because I do think AI is something as a global community, we have to really make work for society. And I'm a big supporter, a big fan of open development, open source platforms, open source models and open data. I think all of these things are very important as ingredients to making sure that AI is successful and works well for society. Matt, again, thank you very much indeed. I hope we get to do this again, but for now, thanks very much for joining us today. Thank you. Thank you.
Telecom Reseller
A highlight from Digital transformation into the AI transformation with Generative AI leading the way, Tecnotree Podcast
"This is Doug Greenan, I'm the publisher of Telica Reseller, and I'm very pleased to have with us today, Matt Sanchez, who's the Chief Data AI Officer at Technotree. Matt, thank you for joining me today. Thanks, Doug. Glad to be here. So, we are here live at the Global World Congress in Las Vegas, a very busy show here. Matt, thank you for taking time out from your booth to speak with us today. We're going to be talking about a number of things. We're going to be talking about the recent acquisition of cognitive skill, which I understand you were from, and some big developments, but also I'm hoping we'll get the listeners and readers to be able to see a bigger picture of generative AI and its role in the marketplace. Your perspective on that, I'm really looking forward to hearing that. But first, Matt, could you just tell me a little bit about Technotree? What is Technotree? So, Technotree is a company that's been around for about 45 years, based in Finland, digital full -stack VSS provider. We serve 90 operators in over 70 countries worldwide, but we're relatively unknown in the United States and North America generally, but we are starting to build our business here as well. We are one of the most, probably the most compliant vendor when it comes to standards, TM Form compliance. We got our diamond badge for open API compliance last month, and are very excited to bring one of the best, I would think, modular microservices -based VSS platforms to the market. And late last year, when I joined Technotree, it was because they acquired a company called cognitive scale, which I founded in 2013, and our focus at cognitive scale was around building the world's best AI engineering platform, to be able to create hyper -personalized experiences using a technology we call Profile of One, and really focusing on how AI drives business outcomes in multiple industries. And now we're integrating that platform into our digital VSS stack, and we're also providing AI solutions in multiple industries, including healthcare in the United States and worldwide, and fintech as well. So I guess this is sort of a big picture question, how has Technotree's new AI solution positively impacted the telecom industry? So as we've looked at over 250 plus customer journeys that Technotree enables, there's not a single one where AI cannot provide some additional value. And the way that we always approach these problems is to look at the business outcome or the goal that we're trying to achieve in that journey, make sure we have the KPIs to measure it, and then we have an AI system that allows us to then try to achieve those goals, measure them, and continuously improve. We use different technologies like reinforcement learning to generate a feedback loop and continually improve the system, and we have a technology called Profile of One, which is a telco specific data model for how you represent customers, products, orders, trouble tickets, all the core entities in the telco domain, and a data model that's designed for AI, it's designed to allow us to do mutual reason, it's designed to allow us to build different types of machine learning models, and standardizes that data structure so that we can build AI capabilities much faster and roll them out in a modular fashion for our customers. So what struggles or challenges is AI helping to solve or simplify in telecommunication solutions? Well, there's a lot of a lot of these, I think that we can approach and I think I'll talk about it in two phases of phase one being everything that happened before generative AI, and what's going to happen in the future. AI has been, in fact, I'll give you a quick background on myself. I came from IBM before I started cognitive scale. I was one of the, I ran Watson Labs for about three years. It was a commercial, the first commercialization effort for the IBM Watson system, we built the first applications using that system back starting in 2011. Back then we weren't even calling it AI, IBM had to call it something else, AI was not the word that industry used, so they called it cognitive computing. And the whole idea of that Watson system was that it could reason over language, it could understand specifically how to answer complex questions in an open domain format using just unstructured information. And it was a great breakthrough at the time, and really was sort of the first example of a kind of generalizable AI system that can do that kind of open domain question answering. And they demonstrated this at the time by defeating a couple of Jeopardy champions on live TV, which was pretty fun. But as we commercialized that technology, we realized that there was a lot more that we had to bring to the table, lots of different technologies, lots of different types of AI models that come together. And ultimately, the challenge has always been that when we think about AI, machine learning, we're thinking about a very specific type of problem, task that we want to solve. So I want to predict churn, I want to forecast sales, or I want to create a model that can apply some computer vision algorithm to detect or classify objects in a scene. These are very specific narrow tasks, and we typically approach that kind of more bottom up and sort of one use case at a time. And there's been a ton of use cases that are really valuable there. So when you think about personalization or hyper personalization, it's good to know, for example, that you have a set of customers that might churn, churn out. But what do you do about those customers? What's the action you need to take? How much should you spend? How much, how valuable are they to you? Can you get to that prescriptive output and can you measure the value? And that's really where we see a lot of great use cases on the customer experience side to go after whether it's next best action, or whether it's dealing with churn or whether it's dealing with SLA failures for subscribers that need to be escalated and automatically dealt with. So whether it's cost savings, automation, or top line growth, revenue monetization opportunities, there's AI use cases across all of these that we've been approaching in the, I would say in the traditional sense. One use case at a time, one data set at a time, very, very narrow models and solutions. Now, fast forwarding to today, where we are regenerative AI, outside of the fact that chat GPT has democratized the technology, and I was just in a session here an hour back and the panelists asked the audience, okay, who has not played chat GPT and not a single hand goes up in the audience, right? So everybody understands this technology and what it can do and the power of it is experienced it. And I think that's the first pillar of this being a new thing that we've actually now got to the point where the general public is expecting this to be what AI is going forward. So that sets a very high bar for what we want to be able to achieve. But if we dig underneath that to the technology, generative AI actually is going to change the way we approach AI problems and AI capabilities forever. It's actually going to completely change the way we think about these problems. And the reason for that is several layers to that. One is that generative AI models, these pre -trained models, whether it's language models, which are very powerful, of course, but even vision, speech models, et cetera, there's other types of models that are we call foundation models that are pre -trained in a very similar way. So the amount of information we've been able to really kind of represent when we're able to unlock that in different ways, we can not just achieve chat bot type of functionality, but we can do complex reasoning. And these models can be adapted to solve many different types of problems. So instead of building a single model for one problem, I can now build one model to solve many different problems. And I don't even know where the bounds of that are yet. And so that changes the way we think about use cases, not just single use case at a time, but really to identify a pattern of use cases that we want to attack and then identify what the foundational capabilities are that we need to embed in that knowledge of that language model or that vision model to be able to solve those problems. And in fact, now we're seeing language and vision simultaneously coming together in a single model. So being able to take a picture of something and then ask questions about it and then reason about that plan and solve different scenarios, the possibilities are endless. And so we have now a new way of, it's not just a new tool, it's not just an incremental change. It's a completely new paradigm for how we can approach AI going forward. So I think that's a massive shift in the industry. And you've coupled that with the fact that I think now the expectation, the public expectation is that, well, everything should just work like chat GPT. Everything should be that smart. Everything should have this sort of super intelligence behind it. I think it's going to change the industry dramatically faster than we probably realize because we're going to need to be able to roll these technologies out quickly. The good news is because we can approach these problems differently, I think we can also get to a point where we can drive an innovation cycle much faster. That's the other part of the transformation. I think we're going to be able to innovate, bring products and services to the market much faster, which the telecom industry, I think is certainly challenged with in terms of new monetization opportunities, new services, especially with 5G and really trying to maximize the value of 5G, bringing those new services to market has taken too long. And I think this is an opportunity to really accelerate that. So Matt, are there still barriers holding people back, especially in our industry? Absolutely. So if we look at AI and traditionally the barriers have been challenged around data. So can I get my data, the models were very sensitive, are very sensitive to how the data is formatted, how the data is represented, the features I create in the data, whether the model is ever going to work properly. And then beyond that, does the data change over time? And I have data drift and all these other issues with generative AI. We have similar problems, but we also have a lot of different problems. So yes, we have data and knowledge that's changing constantly. And so, you know, as everybody's aware, if you've had GPT, it always tells you, oh, I only have knowledge until September 1st, September, 2021. Now they just re -enabled the Bing search feature today. So it'll search the web again. And we've seen that with some of the other competitors, like Google BARD and everything that just uses the web data now has more recent information, but that really isn't the heart of the problem. It can still hallucinate and give you completely fake information, it can have very inconsistent answers one user to the next, or it can give you information that is found somewhere, but contextually is completely wrong. So these kinds of challenges are in this way very new. And we don't necessarily have the tools yet to deal with them. There are lots of different people working on these challenges from different perspectives. And I think we will overcome them, but until we do, it's going to cause people to pause a little bit and say, okay, can I really trust these models in production? In fact, the stat I heard today was that 96 % of operators are experimenting with generative AI, but only 4 % have done anything, have actually gone into production. I think we're going to see that continue to be a barrier around that. And then there's ethical AI concerns, responsible AI concerns. The other role that I serve on, I serve as the vice chairman of the Responsible AI Institute. It's a nonprofit. We focus on helping our member organizations really understand the ethical implications of AI in their organizations. Generative AI has added a whole new layer of challenges that we are addressing as well. And one of the things that we're doing to deal with that is forming industry consortiums to look at these specific problems by vertical. So healthcare being a vertical that we're interested in, we launched and actually announced a generative AI testbed for healthcare with National Health Services in the UK and Cambridge University. And we are also now looking at forming a Telco generative AI consortium as well. And I think bringing together the industry to start looking at these problems and figuring out what does it mean for a Telco generative AI system to work? What kind of knowledge does it need to have? What kind of problems do we need to avoid? What does it mean to have the right context in these systems is the way to solve this. So we have to bring operators together, vendors, regulators, and have them all be able to have a safe testbed to be able to experiment with this and bring the standards through that. So I think that's going to be a tool that we need to use in the industry. And I think for operators, it's really one of the things that it's not going to be a new thing because ethical AI or responsible AI, especially from a client's perspective, has to be addressed. But now we have far more challenges because the knowledge baked into these large language models. We don't really know what's in, I mean, understanding exactly what's in there and how it's represented. More importantly, how that model, quote unquote, thinks about these different connections is not well understood yet. So we have to really kind of understand or have a way to manage that. So these are going to be the barriers that I see. The other one I'll mention, and we work with this tech country, we work with operators in the emerging markets quite often, Africa, Middle East, Latin America, and being able to access the technology, be able to access foundation models, large language models, requires high end GPUs primarily. And the cloud is really the way to scale that, these organizations, but many of these organizations do not have access to cloud resources. So it presents a unique challenge where we now have a very good use case for cloud, like a very clear use case for why you'd want to leverage cloud because the only way you're going to get access to cloud is to use those models. But how do you get access to that? So new types of hybrid cloud architectures need to be developed to allow operators who are in geographies where they do not have direct access to data centers with huge banks of GPUs and or the actual models themselves, for example, open AI models, they are going to have to have a way to access that information in a safe way, in a secure way. And so we're working with our cloud partners to develop some of those architectures in these different geographies. But then that's going to create sort of another set of challenges outside of the fact that GPUs and cells are in high demand as we've seen. But that's getting better. I think the challenge now is going to be where they are physically, geographically, where can we access this compute. And we're not going to be able, not every operator is going to be able to just buy a data center full of GPUs to run large language models themselves. So we're going to have to leverage the cloud more. So I think that's another trend and it's another challenge that we're going to have to get over. So we're looking into 2024 and maybe looking and actually addressing some of this work. What's ahead for Tekno3? So Tekno3 is looking at AI in a very kind of holistic way, really thinking about how the industry as a whole is going to evolve in the light of generative AI, even outside of the VSS space, what can we do? We see a lot of challenges working with our operator partners, both on the development and customization of systems, integration of systems, as well as within areas like customer experience where we think we can really leapfrog the competition of some of the new technologies we're working on in our platform. And so we have use cases that we ourselves are rethinking, what we traditionally focused on with classic ML, which is now we're saying, why would we not use generative AI for this and maybe combine that with other AI models that we already have in place? Can we accelerate time to value for our customers that way? We're starting to see some of our customers even look at it. We used to see RFPs for digital transformation. Now we're seeing RFPs for AI transformation. Come help me transform my business with AI. So we're seeing that demand start to come from the market and we're starting to think, okay, how can we flex and do what we do with our, now that we have an AI platform, we have our digital VSS stack, we have a telco compliant data model for representing all the core entities in telco that's AI ready. What can we do to help our customers with that transformation journey around leveraging AI? So we're developing new solutions for developer extending our platform to support these different types of hybrid architectures. And we're looking at ways that we can use generative AI internally inside Technotree to reduce costs and increase value for our customers anywhere from how data is migrated and ensuring mapped to reliable operations for our customers and also delivery, making sure that our deliveries are rock solid and can maybe can reduce the cost and reduce the time. So we see opportunities for AI internally and externally, and we're fully planning to execute on those next year. So Matt, I really want to thank you for joining us today. This has been really interesting. I really appreciate the sort of broad view of where I, where we are with AI. I hope we learn more. So you can hit our website, technotree .com, follow us on all of the social channels. I would also encourage readers and listeners to look at responsible .ai and some of the work that's going on there with different organizations that that membership brings together. Because I do think AI is something as a global community, we have to really make work for society. And I'm a big supporter, a big fan of open development, open source platforms, open source models and open data. I think all of these things are very important as ingredients to making sure that AI is successful and works well for society. Matt, again, thank you very much indeed. I hope we get to do this again, but for now, thanks very much for joining us today. Thank you. Thank you.
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A highlight from 1420: Bitcoin Will Surpass $1,000,000 By This Time - Max Keiser
"And here's your prescription. I know just the pharmacy to get this filled. Who are you? A pharmacy benefit manager. A middleman your insurer uses to decide which medicines you can get, what you pay, and sometimes even which pharmacy you should go to. Why can't I go to a pharmacy in my neighborhood? Because I make more money when you go to a pharmacy I own. No one should stand between you and your medicine. Visit PHRMA .org slash middleman to learn more. Paid for by pharma. In today's show I'll be breaking down the latest technical analysis as one analyst predicts a Bitcoin price crash all the way down to $20 ,000. And check it out moving forward all crypto news alerts YouTube videos will have both English and espanol subtitles available. I'm also currently working on a dedicated channel dubbed 100 % in espanol. Let me know if that excites you. Also check this out Stanley Drunkenmiller is now known as one of the most successful hedge fund managers on Wall Street and is currently worth $6 .2 billion. He says straight up frankly if the goal bet works the Bitcoin bet will probably work better per each. Also in today's show Ethereum futures ETFs garner a lukewarm reception on the first day of trading with all of the trading volume across nine products at less than $2 million. We'll also be discussing the crypto community tells Elon Musk to dump the Satoshi X account. I'm also going to be sharing with you a Satoshi Nakamoto secret email emerging from the shadows never shared before. As well as here's what's in store for Bitcoin in the S &P 500 for quarter four of 2023. According to crypto analyst Jason Pizzino I'm also going to be sharing invest answers unveiling his max upside price target for Bitcoin in 2025. And quoting Max Keiser from November of 2011 he says Bitcoin has about 100 ,000 users now. My goal is to try to get that number up to 1 million in 2012. He also shared his short -term price target of $65 ,000 back in January of 2021 and lo and behold by November we smashed that price target. He now says that BlackRock agrees with my 220 ,000 interim price target for Bitcoin which he says is still in play. He also says by the time America catches up to El Salvador and starts buying Bitcoin the price will be over a million dollars per coin. We'll also be taking a look at the overall crypto market, all this plus so much more in today's show. yo what's good crypto fam this is first and foremost a video show so if you want the full premium experience with video visit my youtube channel at cryptonewsalerts .net again that's crypto news alerts dot net welcome everyone just joining us this is a live show as you know seven days a week welcome to the number one daily Bitcoin pod this is pod episode number 1420 just blaze today is October 3rd 2023 and the markets are correcting and consolidating after the recent pump let's kick off today's show with our market watch as we do each and every day you can see Bitcoin correcting down 2 .2 % trading just above twenty seven thousand two hundred dollars also ether is down trading at 1650 along with the majority of the altcoin market and checking out coinmarketcap .com we're still sitting at 1 .08 trillion dollars with roughly 36 billion in volume in the past 24 hours we've got the Bitcoin dominance which has recently been on the climb currently at forty nine point three percent with the ether dominance barely up trading at eighteen point four percent and checking out the top 100 crypto gainers of the past 24 hours we got gala leading the pack up almost seven percent trading at one and a half cents followed by conflux up three percent trading at thirteen point six cents followed by polygon matic three percent trading just under fifty seven cents and checking out the top 100 crypto gainers of the past week we can see ultimately a sea of green with a handful in I mean a sea I should say of red with a handful in the green with our LB leading the pack of roughly seventeen percent with the biggest losers being Bitcoin cash and Ave down collectively roughly seven percent and checking out the crypto greed and fear index one of my favorite indicators hence why I shared every day in the show we're currently rated dead in the middle with a 50 which is neutral same as yesterday last week was a 46 and last month a 40 in fear so there you have it how many of you are currently bullish on the king crypto let me know and how many of you are anticipating a low as I'm going to be sharing an analyst predicting a twenty thousand dollar price crash and we'll be breaking down everything in between so let's get it shall we and again welcome to everyone just joining us make sure to say hello in that live chat as this is a live and interactive show and at the end of the show I read everyone's comments out loud so let's break down today's Bitcoin technical analysis Bitcoin just hit six week highs to start off October but some forecasts still see the Bitcoin price returning to twenty thousand in which lo and behold there's a CME futures gap if you didn't know and while up around six percent since the start of last month and now circling twenty seven five Bitcoin is not fooling many with its current price behavior the Bitcoin price strength in the recent weeks has many market participants hoping for a push and even through thirty thousand resistance send it let's go for some there remains every reason to be cautious however in an ex post analysis published October 2nd popular trader crypto bullet reiterated that twenty thousand is still very much on the radar as the Bitcoin price target the latest trip to twenty eight six he argued is now forming the right hand shoulder of a classic head and shoulders chart pattern with the downside logically due to follow if it completes quitting analysts here second half of October should be bearish in my opinion the idea was built on an August roadmap with a short term upside target of twenty eight thousand before reversing towards that twenty thousand target let me know if you agree or disagree with the analysts I disagree I think we are bullish for this October and I think we're more than likely to continue up but it's good to cover all our basis is here now not all reasons headed heeded his warning with fellow popular trader you easy in particular skeptical of the likelihood for this scenario playing out crypto bullet however is far from alone when it comes to fearing that the worst for Bitcoin is over yet and one of crypto quants quick take blog posts on September 28th we had Wetson founder and CEO of crypto trading resource dominando crypto compared bitcoins performance between 2020 and 2022 quitting the analysts here between 2020 and 2022 Bitcoin underwent a notable appreciation region historic highs and capturing global attention however this phase was followed by significant correction that caused the prices to plummet sending crypto back to the lower levels say goodbye to your credit card rewards big -box retailers led by Walmart and Target are pushing for a bill in Congress to take away your hard -earned cash back and travel points to line their pockets Senate bill 1838 would enact harmful credit card routing mandates that would end credit card rewards as we know it if you love your credit card rewards visit hands off my rewards calm and tell them to oppose credit card routing legislation paid for by the electronic payments coalition now we also suggest that should history repeat a sub 20 ,000 level could resurface and an accompanying chart offered a fractal which now has been subject to a repeat quoting him again now in 2023 we are once again witnessing Bitcoin achieving over a hundred percent gains attracting substantial interest from institutional and retail investors nonetheless the market has recently experienced significant volatility and a downward price trend the similarity to the past raises questions about whether we are witnessing a repeat of the 15 ,500 USD if this fractal holds over the next few weeks which could result in a series of FUD and negative news in the crypto space furthermore there's a possibility of a redistribution where the price threatens significant highs but institutional profit -taking forces the price down creating the atmosphere of uncertainty in the market and as reported we also had another analyst rack capital who's demanding that the bulls step up to protect this support in order to avert the long -term retracement now for news as I shared in the intro of the show moving forward all crypto news alerts YouTube videos will have both English and espanol subtitles available and I'm currently working on a dedicated channel dubbed 100 % and espanol so we can serve our Latin community for the Bitcoin daily news let me know if this excites you and if you'll be one tuning in and also as shared here breaking news Stanley drunken Miller known as one of the most successful hedge fund managers on Wall Street who has worked 6 .2 billion he says frankly if the goal bet works then the Bitcoin bet will probably work better how many of you believe that he is probably right let me know your honest thoughts fam in the comments right down below and with that being shared yesterday was a historic day for ethereum futures ETFs launching however they ultimately flopped with less than two million dollars in trading volumes across nine assets so let's break this down and discuss it shall we here we go check it check it check it the rush of excitement that accompanied the launch of nine new ethereum futures ETFs appears to have yielded little in the way of investment dollars in comparison October 2nd nine new ETF products which are designed to track futures contracts tied to the value of the ethereum native currency arrived on the market of these funds only five hold exclusively ether futures while the other four track a mixture of Bitcoin and ether futures contracts quoting Eric Balchunes right here unprecedented day today with multiple ETFs all launching at the same time no clear winner has emerged all of them were pretty average lower than I would have predicted but it's a long run and remember these hold futures ETFs investors much prefer physical to derivatives that's right we much rather prefer spot ETFs because there's nothing but manipulation and price suppression continuously occurring in the futures market all by design hence by the regulators decide not to approve anything spot related but they continue to approve the futures ETFs which blows my mind personally in total all nine ETFs witness less than two million dollars worth of trading volume which is essentially nothing as a midday Eastern Time on the first day of trading the most popular of the futures ETFs products were Valkyrie's Bitcoin strategy ETF which tracks the combo of Bitcoin and ether raking up a total of 880 2 ,000 worth the volume it's worth noting had already been trading as a Bitcoin only futures ETF since October of 2021 but then adjusted its strategy to also include ETH the first day trading volume of ether ETFs paled comparison with that of the pro shares Bitcoin strategy ETF which debuted October of 2021 one month prior to hitting that all -time high and during a roaring market for crypto assets obviously it witnessed more than 1 billion dollars in trading volume on its first day so Wow compare that 1 billion in 24 hours to less than 2 million in 24 hours crazy now Balchune has noted that compared to the regular traditional finance ETF launched the volume witness was actually quite a lot though investors tend to prefer spot ETF products over futures Balchune has explained that all the products were scheduled for launch on the same day as the SEC wanted to prevent any one fund from gaining market domination now what if the SEC decided to do the same thing with the spot ETF approved them all at the same time like whoa meanwhile a range of United States firms jostled for the pole position for the nascent ether futures market ETF firm volatility shares canceled his plans to list a similar product saying that it didn't see the opportunity at the current time well we all know this we're all seeking the spot ETFs those are the game changers and there is probably about a 95 % chance that the BlackRock Bitcoin spot ETF get approved in 2023 I mean 2024 we're in 2023 hopefully right before the having occurs scheduled to be in what is that April of next year roughly six months out as we know it's gonna trigger trillions of dollars cascading into the Bitcoin market and that alongside the Bitcoin having are the two biggest catalyst for 2024 and let's add a third bullish catalyst which is a supply shock as there's currently less than two million Bitcoin sitting on the exchanges and for these ETFs once they get approved for the spot they have to be holding the underlying asset so there's gonna be mass accumulation continuing by the whales not only in this fourth quarter of 2023 but collectively in 2024 as well so let's freaking go and with that being shared now for the Satoshi X saga going on and also I want to share with you Satoshi Nakamoto's secret letter which came from the shadows never shared before I've never read it I'm gonna be reading it in real time with you so let's break this one down shall we members of the crypto community have rallied behind a post on X calling for Elon to remove a profile claiming to be the fabled creator of Bitcoin Satoshi Nakamoto and here's your prescription I know just the pharmacy to get this filled who are you a pharmacy benefit manager a middleman your insurer uses to decide which medicines you can get what you pay and sometimes even which pharmacy you should go to why can't I go to a pharmacy in my neighborhood because I make more money when you go to a pharmacy I own no one should stand between you and your medicine visit ph RMA org slash middlemen to learn more paid for by pharma October 3rd the user posted saying that both the account claiming to be Nakamoto and account with the handle Bitcoin should be removed because they breached the platform's terms of service which says doesn't allow misleading and deceptive identities as predator shared here hey Elon Bitcoin and Satoshi accounts are in breach of your terms of service for using misleading and deceptive identities please remove their checkmarks I guess it could be confusing to people thinking it is an official Bitcoin account and we know there will never be an official Bitcoin account and an official Satoshi account which we all know there will never be an official Satoshi account he says you can't misappropriate someone else's identity without disclosing you are a parody account it is no different than making a fake Tesla or Elon Musk account and I think he makes a great point what are your thoughts chat let me know the true identity of Nakamoto has been subject of discussion and the Bitcoin and crypto community as we know since the inception Satoshi X account is reportedly run by a user named Andy Rowe who was claiming to be posting from a profile back in 2018 and on July of 2018 Rowe said he curates quotes for the Satoshi account as outlined right here the account had been quiet since October 31st of 2018 however October 2nd yesterday the account made a new post saying Bitcoin is a predicate machine and went on to explain that it would explore different aspects of the Bitcoin white paper over the coming months as Satoshi Nakamoto announced here on X now what are your thoughts fam let me know another user call for the accounts to be disabled linking or likening them to how X responded to the account with the handle internet yeah interesting the Bitcoin creators true identity to this day remains a mystery what many people over the years claiming to be the true Satoshi the most prominent of which is fake Toshi Craig right now let's discuss this particular letter which recently surfaced from the shadows allegedly from Satoshi Nakamoto check this out fragments a Satoshi secret identity the genius responsible for the birth of Bitcoin has resurfaced shedding new light on the creation of the world's first crypto this revelation comes in the form of an email and bearing the date August 22nd 2008 we all know the Genesis block was I believe in January of 2009 now the email director to computer scientist way die offers a captivating window in the nascent stages of bitcoins creation a journey that would go out to profoundly alter the contours of the global financial realm this recently unveiled correspondence serves as a valuable historical artifact shedding light on the intellectual exchanges and collaborative efforts that paved the way for the development of Bitcoin by delving into this previously hitting piece of communication from Satoshi to way day we gain invaluable insights into the genesis of the revolutionary crypto a technology that would ultimately disrupt and redefine traditional financial paradigms worldwide so let's discuss it in the email Satoshi expresses profound admiration for way dies be money page indicating a strong connection to dies groundbreaking work in the field of digital currencies Satoshi goes on to reveal his intention to release a comprehensive paper expanding upon dies ideas ultimately culminating in the birth of Bitcoin now let's read the actual letter you can see it's dated here August 22nd 2008 sent at 438 p .m.
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A highlight from Ep386: 3 Ways To Make Money From Your Show
"I want to make sure that I'm always bringing in at least one client a month, one new client a month. So I'm not going to waste my time only doing four episodes in the month. Instead, I'm going to go much more. I'm going to do 16, 17 episodes in the month. Most hosts never achieve the results they hoped for. They're falling short on listenership and monetization, meaning their message isn't being heard and their show ends up costing them money. This podcast was created to help you grow your listenership and make money while you're at it. Get ready to take notes. Here's your host, Adam Adams. Hey, Podcaster. It's your host, Adam Adams, and we are talking about monetizing your podcast. We're talking about the three most common ways that podcasters will monetize. Now, if you look at other episodes that we've done on this podcast, and actually I'll have my team put a few of the monetization episodes in our show notes right now. So now you're listening and you're going to be able to scroll down and see what are the other ways to monetize because in this episode, we're talking about the three most common ways that people monetize their show. So if you want to know the other seven or eight ways, go and check out the links that are in the show notes. We will link to other episodes with other ways of monetizing. We're going to talk about the three most common ways, the three most common ways. The first is CPM. This means cost per meal, and it doesn't mean cost per million. It means cost per thousand. I think meal, M -I -L, must have Latin roots. It must be like Latin, cost per meal. Cost per thousand downloads is the most common way that most people try to monetize. As the three ways that I'm talking about today, this is the worst of the three ways. So I'm going to share what CPM is. I'm going to explain how it works, and then I'm going to share with you a better way. I'm going to explain how that works and how people get a hold of people because you make a lot more than your CPM model. And then I'm going to explain the third way, which is the way that you can make the absolute most amount of money. CPM cost per meal means that an advertiser who, and here's kind of like the caveat to it, and it's an advertiser, they don't necessarily have your same avatar. They're just more of like a general audience advertiser. And so you might have a real estate show. You might have the podcast on podcasting. You might have a show about your health and wellness. You might have something about piloting. You might have something about, you know, aviation, or we can just talk about millions of these things. Education, we can talk about movies, whatever your podcast is about. If you were going to go with a CPM model, that would mean that you would get an advertiser on that had a general ad. They're usually about 30 seconds or a minute long. So that advertiser, they wouldn't even really conversate with you. They would end up just putting up their ads in your place. And so one of the ways that we do this is there's some platforms out there that allow these ads to happen automatically. And when I say automatically, they can be dynamic ads, which means they can do it to episodes that you've already been published, that have already been published, you published a long time ago. And they just basically push a button and then one, two, three, or four different ads, one, podcast. And when it's a dynamic ad insertion, that's going to mean that there's going to be a 30 second ad followed by another 30 second ad followed by maybe a one minute ad followed by a 30 second ad. And that's before you ever give anybody value. Before anyone ever hears anything on the podcast, before you've said anything good, they get bombarded with these CPM model advertisements. One might be about diapers. One might be about home improvement. Another might be about a meal prep service. And the fourth one might be in Spanish or some other language that you don't even understand and neither does your listener. And this is a real story. This is actual true story. And so do you want the CPM model? Maybe. So far, it doesn't sound very enticing, does it? They don't even share my same avatar, you're thinking. If they're not going to help my perfect person, why do I want them? Well, you might not want them at all. You probably don't. And how do I get paid? That's your next question. How do I get paid with CPM? Well, most of these places, they will say, hey, I'm going to give $5 CPM. Or if they really have a lot of money to throw around, they're going to say $20 CPM. And if you found a way to just get the cream of the crop, the best of the best, you might get $30 CPM. What does that mean? That means that per thousand listeners that you have, so think about it, how many listeners do you have? The average podcast has about a hundred listeners. A top 10 % podcast has about 300 listeners. The average one has about a hundred. A top 10 % has 300. A top 1 % podcast has about 3 ,500 downloads per episode. Now you know how you get paid. If I'm getting $5 CPM and I have a thousand people listening, I'm going to make $5. Awesome. Now, if I had three advertisers, I would make 15 bucks per episode. So all the time, the effort, the work, the value that you're trying to give, and then you go ahead and you make 20 bucks, you sell out, you make 20 bucks, and you turn off your listener. You're a very awesome listener that has been coming every single day that you publish an episode. They get excited about it. Well, now they have to sit through three or four ads. And by the way, one of them's in a language they don't even understand because you went with a CPM model. That type of sellout, no offense if you're doing this already, but yes, offense if you're doing this already, that type of sellout isn't going to have a prolonged active podcast. Let's just say you had a thousand people downloading and you had four ads. So you're about to make 20 bucks. Now you're probably going to have like 500 people listening because they don't like the freaking ads. So now your income goes down to 10 bucks. If on the highest end, think about the CPM being on the highest end. Like I'm really crushing it. In the top 1 % of all podcasts in the entire world, I've got about 3 ,500 say I'm even above that. I've got 4 ,000 downloads per episode. And you're looking at a CPM model where you're able to somehow negotiate 20 bucks per each episode, per each CPM, per meal, per thousand downloads. And you got 4 ,000, you just made 80 bucks per episode. I do the math on this. Let's just say you're doing one episode a week. So 52 times 80 bucks. This is the best you could do. At the end of the year, you've only made four grand. It won't even pay for your editor. That's why I don't like the CPM model. That's also why did I bring it up first? I brought it up first because it's the absolute most common way and it sucks. And people get excited because they think they're making all this money, but really they're making like $2 because listen here, I'm going back to the CPM And negotiate you $20 per meal, cost per thousand. You're going to make two bucks, two bucks. You're going to make a 10th of it because you only have a hundred listeners when you need a thousand. So you made two bucks on that episode. What can you get with two bucks today? A candy bar? So if you do this the whole year, you can buy a candy bar every single week. It sucks. Option number two is partnership. This is a sponsor that is partnered with the show. And why is this different than CPM? It's way different because in CPM, they are chasing you. They are putting it at that $5, $10, $20 per meal. And then they're reaching out to people and saying that they'll give you like $20 per thousand. And you think to yourself, Ooh, I get almost a thousand downloads per month. And so I'm going to make like 20 bucks a month. And that's one way. Okay. What is the partnership? This is when you reach out to them. When I give you an example, I coach a ton of people to do number two. And it's because I think the CPM model sucks. And so I tell them, why don't you find a partner of the show or a sponsor of the show? Now, this does not mean an advertiser. The CPM is more of an advertiser who reaches out to you and says, I'm only going to do $5 CPM. And I'm going to do it with anybody who wants to do it. When you're getting a hold of a partner to your show or a sponsor of the show, you reach out to them and then you dictate how much money you're going to be making. So let's just say you've got a hundred downloads per episode. In this case, you'd be able to command much closer to let's just say 1500 bucks a month. If you are an average podcast, you would probably be able to command about 1500 bucks a month. Let's say that your 1500 bucks means that you've got 4 .333 episodes per week, because that's how the math really works. You don't have four episodes a month. I mean, you don't have four episodes a month. You have 4 .333 episodes a month because 52 weeks divided by 12 months is 4 .333 weeks per month. And so in this case, you would be making $348 per episode. Now that's a lot better worth your time, isn't it? Think about how long does it take you to do an episode? If you have a team that edits your podcast for you, then your podcast is only going to take you about 30 to 60 minutes, maybe 90 if you're doing a little bit of research. So for example, you spend 90 minutes to do this. So I'm going to divide $348 by the 90 minutes that it takes you. 348 divided by 90 equals, I don't know why I was even thinking about 90. 90 minutes is an hour and a half. Okay. So I needed divided by 1 .5. So I did that. I was like, what the heck? Why isn't this adding up when I divide it by 90? Okay. You were making about two bucks a minute, but when you look at how much are you making per hour with that podcast, if it takes you 90 minutes to come up with the content or invite your guests, do a little bit of research and then press record, then in the partnership slash sponsorship version number two, you're making $232 per hour. That's if it takes you 90 minutes. Now, if it only takes you five minutes to do an episode, 10 minutes to do an episode, you make a lot more. On the other hand, you are editing your own podcast and it takes you 12 to 15 hours to do all the editing of post -production, create all of your marketing pieces and all of that. Then let's just divide this by 15 instead. So I'm going to do 300 divided by 15 hours. You're making about 20 bucks an hour. And that's not terrible. It's slightly higher than the average minimum wage right now. So it's close to minimum wage. It's not amazing, but it's not terrible. It's not $5 an hour, $10 an hour stuff. So that's okay. You want to spend 15 hours editing and all of this for your podcast, you make about 20 bucks an hour. If you use the partnership slash sponsorship version, that's version number two. There was CPM was number one. Partnership is number two. Number three is going to be selling your own stuff. And that's the cream of the crop. We'll be there in just a moment. So I tell a quick story. I had a podcast client. Well, still have a podcast client. But this is in the past. So Alex came to me, he wanted to make money. He had a top 1 % podcast. So he had about 3000 downloads per each episode. And I told him, Hey, if you do CPM, you're going to be able to make something like $20 CPM. You've got 3000. So that three X of what the cost per meal is. And so you make $60 per podcast. And is that how much you want to make Alex? And he would say, no, it's not worth my time. Why would want to offend my listener to listen to an ad? That's not even going to serve them that comes in in the beginning of my episode before I've even added any value. And I do all of that for 60 bucks just to lose listeners. So that later I'm only making 30 bucks because it goes from 3000 people to 1500 people now. And so of course he's going to say no. So then it goes, Alex, here's a way to partner with somebody. And in the real estate space, I said, one of the main people that you reach out to is a lender. Alex has a real estate podcast. And so he teaches fix and flip and he teaches mindset and he teaches how to scale a business. And when it comes to him getting his sponsor and reaching out to them as a partner of the show, I told him one of the best, easiest places that you can go is a lender. So think about this, Alex, think about a private money lender, a hard money lender, somebody who lands on these fix and flips. Now you can still do coaching for listener and they still need somebody to fund the deals. So you having a fix and flip partner, it definitely both of you serve the same person, but neither of you take away business from the other person. Now, in fact, Alex probably makes more money if he has somebody who can really support his people with money. And the person who lends the money, the hard money lender, probably makes more money when Alex has more clients as well. So it's a win -win. Instead of detracting from the business that Alex can get, it actually supports his business and he's more profitable and effective and his sponsor or his partner of the show is more effective. And Alex says, well, with my 3000 plus downloads a month, because I'm in a top 1%, I could either make 60 bucks if I do CPM or if I do this partnership, how much do you think I can make? So five to 10 grand. And he's like, five to 10 grand? Are you sure? And I'm like dead serious. I am sure you could easily make five to 10 grand if you are the one who reaches out to them. So I taught him how to reach out to them. He and I even role played. So he practiced it. Step one was we decided who are the people that can help him. He writes down the hard money lender. Step two is we decide how do we play to the player? How do we give a pitch to that hard money lender? How do we give them that what's in it for me so that they even give a darn? And step three is to do that first call and to go out of your comfort zone and to call the hard money lender and let them know about the opportunity. So he did this behind my back. Well, we at the end of a coaching call, I said, okay, go and do this. And so he did, but he did it with two people instead of one. So he asked the first person for about five grand. And then he called the second person and asked them for about five grand. And so guess what? Alex could have made 60 bucks an episode, but instead he made 10 ,000 a month. He was doing eight or nine episodes a month. So I need to put in this math, $10 ,000 divided by approximately nine episodes a month because he's doing two a week. So this is an approximation. He's making $1 ,111 every single episode. He's making $1 ,111 per episode. And I know for a fact that Alex has my team doing all of the back office. So it takes him about 45 minutes to make $1 ,111. So I'm going to multiply this by 0 .75 because it's three quarters of an hour that it takes him to do that. Oh, I need to divide it by 0 .75. And he's making $1 ,481 an hour with his podcast. So partnership slash sponsorship, way better than CPM. Do you still want to do that CPM model? No. So the partnership is a much better way to go because Alex was able to make $1 ,400 in per hour instead of 60 bucks or 70 bucks an hour. Much, much better. Now let's go to the third option. The third option is selling your own stuff and this can yield you so much more fruit than the partnership slash sponsorship. So if you want to make more than $1 ,481 .33 every F an hour that you do your podcast, stay tuned. We'll be right back after this episode. Hey my friend, as you know, this episode is sponsored by my company, growyourshow .com. We want you to be able to have the best tools at your disposal without costing you a whole arm and a leg. So right now you can get a free list of vetted equipment that like mics, mixers, webcams, sound treatment, editing software, everything that you need. I created the whole PDF with direct purchase links just to save you time and money to help it be more convenient for you. So this free PDF will help you skip all the guesswork. If it's on there, it's vetted and approved by yours truly. And if it's not on there, it's probably not worth the money. So go ahead and get yours at growyourshow .com forward slash PDF. Let's get back into the show. We are back. We are talking about the three most common ways that people monetize their show. The first was the CPM model. We decided together that that one effing sucks. The second one was partnership. That one's really pretty cool. Like that one's pretty cool. Remember Alex making $1 ,481 .33 every single hour that he works on his podcast. When you like that too, or would you like something even a step better? A step better would be you selling your own services. You would sell your own coaching, your own consulting, whatever you can do, coaching masterminds for your listener. And let's imagine that you've got a products. One of my products is above $40 ,000. So the client would come to us and they would pay about $3 ,000. They would pay a little upfront fee and then they would pay about three grand a month and we would serve them for the 12 months. Okay. We would serve them for the next 12 months. So that ends up being more than 40 grand. When you add the three grand a month, but times 12 plus the down payment as well, it's over 40 grand. So for that package, if I get one person, just one per month, then we gross just like you would be grossing the CPM. You would be grossing the partnership money or sponsorship money. You are also grossing. You're selling your own services. So in this case, if all I do is just sell one person, that one package, and I have other packages available that are more and less, all I do is just sell one of those packages once a month and I'm doing four or five or six episodes each week. If I just sell one a month, then I make 40 grand every month, more than 40 grand every month. I'm doing the math right now on my phone, on my calculator, my trusty phone calculator. And I'm assuming that I do four episodes per week, four episodes a week. Now, two of those episodes are 10 minutes on average. We'll just say 12 minutes on average. Let's just say 15 minutes on average because that'll be actually easier with math. And the others are 45 minutes on average. And so I've got basically two hours of work, two hours of work each week because I've got a 45, a 15, a 45 and a 15. I hope that's making sense. So two hours a week. And so I've got 17 episodes happening and almost exactly 17 hours of work. Now, if I divide $40 ,000 by 17 hours of work, it's $2 ,352 .94. It's $2 ,352 .94. So let's recap. Option number one, CPM. You can make 60 bucks -ish max, maybe $5 per episode. Let's imagine that you are doing four episodes a week. And so you're making, let's just say 40 bucks a week. That's a hundred. And anyway, I don't want to give you too much numbers. I'm now realizing that I keep throwing out numbers and that's going to get confusing. So I'm not going to waste my time doing all of that since this is an audio and I don't have something to show you. I'm just going to explain it to you. On one way, you are most likely making about 20 bucks an hour. The next one, you're making closer to a thousand bucks an hour. And on the next one, you're making about $2 ,000 per hour. Now for me, I'm doing four episodes a week. If I was only doing one episode a week, of course I could quadruple that, but I want to make sure that I'm always making that. I want to make sure that I'm always bringing in at least one client a month, one new client a month. So I'm not going to waste my time only doing four episodes in the month. Instead, I'm going to go much more. I'm going to do 16, 17 episodes in the month. If I do 17 episodes in a month, I'm still making $2 ,352 and 94 cents per hour. And in additionally, about $2 ,352 per episode. Now, if with that type of motivation, think about it for a second. If you were doing four episodes a week and you were selling one $40 ,000 thing per month, would you have some motivation to get behind the mic? If you knew that you were going to record for about an hour and you're going to make over two grand, it would become your favorite thing to do. You would choose to record an episode before you would go do something else that was fun. Because it's like, I can get behind the mic for just an hour and I can make two grand. So let's recap. CPM, shitty. Partnership, pretty freaking good. Selling your own crap, your own good stuff. Hopefully nobody sells crap. Hopefully you're only selling really quality things that you've got. Well, that's the way to make the most amount of money. So those were the three most common ways that podcasters make money through their podcast. We talked about how they work and we talked about why the last one is the one that I suggest that you get started on right now. And if you need help, my name is Adam Adams. I coach people for a living. I support people. I help you to be able to make your 40 grand a month, even just 10 or 20 grand a month through your podcast because you're doing fewer episodes. That's great too. That's really, really good too. And I coach people to do that. So feel free to go into the show notes and schedule a call with me so that you and I can start working together. That's going to be a discovery call. And in the show notes is a link to our website. It's growyourshow .com. You'll see the link. And at the top right, you see a button. The button says schedule a discovery call. It's green. It's bright. It tells you exactly what I'm telling you right now. So you just go to that button, push it and schedule a call with me and we will help you start making your 10, 20, 30 or $40 ,000 a month through your podcast by selling your own stuff. See you on the next episode. This is serious. Don't go. Now that you've gotten whatever value that you feel that you got the actionable takeaways, you need to implement the stuff that you learn. If you remember me talking about bird church once and they learn how to fly and then they walk home. I don't want you to walk home. I want you to fly home. So take the steps, take the actionable steps for your benefits that you can become a better podcaster. That's the only thing that I ask of you. And I'll see you for more actionable tips on the very next episode.
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"We are going to explore the life and work of a father of the Church, a doctor of the Church, that many people probably have heard of. Most people, most Catholics, most Christians, have heard his name. He lived throughout the fourth and into the early fifth century. When we think of the Vulgate, we think of the Catholic Bible, the official text of scripture in Latin. We think of St. Jerome. So in that sense, he is certainly one of the pivotal figures in the life of the Church, in helping the Church to really integrate the love of scripture, the place of scripture in the Church and in the development of Western Christianity.
podcast – Lawyers, Guns & Money
"latin" Discussed on podcast – Lawyers, Guns & Money
"And you know this history, it goes all the way back to the arrival of Chinese immigrants bringing with them a habit of smoking opium on the West Coast in the late 19th century. It goes to Mexican immigrants after the Mexican revolution arriving to work in mines and fields and bringing with them cannabis. So the kind of racialization of an outside drug threat is a long story that the United States has told, there's a kind of imagined pure white body politic and these foreign racialized drugs that are coming in to really pollute that body. And so it's been very easy for more than a century for the United States for our representatives to tell this story about the way that drugs are kind of coming from elsewhere. And what that means is that particularly in the late 20th and early 21st century, you begin to get, as you said, this bipartisan consensus. And I can see this in the Biden administration. I had conversations with doctor Gupta with his chief of staff. I've been talking to the people at the office of national drug control policy. And what they said to me is basically the Republicans will never let us change this, right? They will come after us as kind of soft on crime on narco terrorists. And so there's a way in which we see this in many realms, right? The Democrats hampered themselves from the beginning by saying, this is politically impossible, right? It is politically impossible and what the chief of staff of the ONDCP said to me was, look, source control has these kinds of measurable outcomes. We can say we burned this many hectares. We seized this many kilos. We imprisoned this many kingpins. If we take a different kind of non militarized approach, what are the measurables here? How do we know that we're succeeding? And I think we should know that we're succeeding when we don't have literally 8 million people internally displaced in Colombia.
podcast – Lawyers, Guns & Money
"latin" Discussed on podcast – Lawyers, Guns & Money
"And we are here today with Christy Thornton, who is an assistant professor in the sociology department at Johns Hopkins University. We've had kirstie on before actually to discuss her book revolution and development Mexico and the governance of the global economy. So if you haven't read that book yet or heard that podcast, please do. But the reason we have her here today is that last week, the September 7th to be precise. She had an excellent op-ed in The New York Times, titled the U.S. has led the war on drugs abroad for decades. And it's been a staggering failure. And we thought this would be an excellent time to discuss the war on drugs a little bit. So Christy, thank you again for joining us. Thanks for having me. So what led you to write this op-ed and what do you want readers to get out of it? Yeah, so there's a couple of things that are going on right now in U.S. drug policy that are really interesting. And one of the problems that I see is that the way we think about how the U.S. has waged the war on drugs over the last 50 years, really since the Nixon administration is sort of bifurcated between drug policy here in the United States, which has to do with questions about over policing and mass incarceration and racial disparity and the kinds of results that it has in neighborhoods here in the United States. Now being addressed by people working in public health and those kinds of questions. And then a totally separate conversation about U.S. foreign policy and the way that the war on drugs oversees this prosecuted and the results there for human rights and environmental devastation and the rise in violence. And so as I teach a class here at Johns Hopkins called the political economy of drugs and drug wars and we talk about these things a lot.
KGO 810
"latin" Discussed on KGO 810
"Latin America. We look around for good news. There's turmoil everywhere. But when isn't there turmoil doing a worldwide pandemic? However, we come to this unusual story. I'm reading from the Bloomberg headline Their headlines in Europe as well. Argentina's ruling coalition dealt big blow in primary vote That doesn't immediately sound like positive news. Just a little help. Argentina's ruling coalition suffered his biggest political defeat in two years. After a primary election that saw the opposition winning most districts putting the government of President Alberto Fernandez under pressure. Joseph, this is this looks like a surprise, is it And what is Fernandez do now that He is. He's not being applauded. So, Yeah, this is, uh I want to see a surprise. But the margin of victory by the political opposition Argentina and the street is not a victory yet because this is a, uh, Argentina has a weird system where they do a primary. Before the actual election, But the primary isn't just the political parties. It's all done on a national level. They call this kind of like the election before the election because it shows you essentially what the results would be. If the election were held today, the election is actually gonna be on November 14. But what we learn is there's a huge and much and this is what's surprising that much larger rejection. Of the policies of Alberto Fernandez and the government realized his poll numbers are down there down to about 34% approval rating. And you know the handling of the pandemic, the corruption among the distribution of the best scenes, the rising poverty, which is at 42%, the rising inflation, which is above 50% of hyperinflation. All these things lead to the Argentines rejecting the policies of Alberto Fernandez, and that came as a bit of a shock to the government. The government of understood that they're not the most popular But I don't think they thought that they were going to be, uh, beating this bad in this primary. Now this is going to lead us to November 14th, or we're going to have the midterm elections, the local elections in Argentina, and there's two main coalitions. There's the ruling coalition, which Alberto Fernandez is part of which is called solos. And then there's a political opposition, which is a bunch of different political parties together, which is called homeless Cameo, and there's and two million points to take away from this joint is one Bueno Cyrus, both the province of Buenos Aires in the city of Winter Series, which is one third of the electorate in Argentina is now favoring. That's a huge shitter. For the political opposition and even provinces that were once ruled by the ruling coalition of different coalition such as Santa Fe, which is the home state home province of Cristina Kirchner. They lost that they're losing that The trends continue. That will lose that on November 14, So the impact is pretty big. I mean, this could provoke Cabinet changes between now and November and and they want to finance government but also maybe have them double down on some of his populist policies that he thinks that that's the way he's going to be able to win. But your finances recognized that this is on. He's on the road to being defeated in the Congress. If the current trends continue, If I remember some of the issues about Argentina have to do with the fact that it's a perpetual deadbeat when it comes to its global debt. In addition, there was a lot of insider favoritism for vaccines for the conduct during the during the lockdowns, in other words, by the leadership, acting as if it didn't have to follow its own rules are those issues mentioned in this preliminary vote that the unhappiness is cultural as well as political Absolutely John. I think the Argentines are fed up with the film policies in both economics and the pandemic. The corruption has been long standing. This is a 1 880 degree reversal from the previous election in 2019, which is that it's only two years away two years before. And this is giving you opportunity for new political starts to rise one I would like to mention, uh, have ear. Millais is a libertarian Austrian economists who years ago probably had no political future. But now it's probably the third top candidate and when Cyrus he and leading a new political cart political party called caliber to in the city of what I'm serious, which top City, the capital of Argentina, so there's many new political faces are coming onto the scene with a much more pro free market. Pro business pro, Uh Democracy type message that are gaining a lot of traction, which you give to me. That's why it's good music priest aside of, uh, fresh air into the political landscape in Argentina, when Argentina is looking like it's coming on a cross words, but they don't fix this current trajectory. They may become the next Venezuela of South America. If I remember also correctly, Argentina's been Accommodating to bad actors in the region. I remember Eva Morales seeking refuge there at one point and certainly the vice president Kirchner, who is associated with a lot of bad practices over the years, including What should have to say trafficking with the gangster elements of the Middle East. Is this a setback to all that apparatus as well? Or is it is it buffered by its years of, uh, behind closed door activity We've got about it. We've got about a minute, Joseph, go ahead. Yeah, So I think that's determined. There's definitely not a favorable to those type of external allies to Abel Morales is in the Iran's and the rushes of of the Of the region because they obviously favour the ruling party. They favor Alberto Fernandez and Cristina Kirchner. Because of the elements that they have current agreements and current relations with this is not a definitive election. This is the primary for election in November, 14th If the trends continue. That means that these external allies will probably have less influence over the Argentine National Congress and that gets one sit closer to them losing power. In the next Argentine presidential election. So yes, I think that those actors are would become started. These current trends continue, but they made wake up and try to Maneuver more aggressively to support Alberto Fernandez and Cristina Kirchner, Argentina Now that they're saying that the political landscape is not in their favor. Well, if this was Morales in charge, he would rally his troops right and they would make certain at the ballot box was overwhelmed by support. Is that possible? In Argentina, it's a different governance. We have 30 seconds. It's possible, John. But here's the only favorable point I think of the morale is distracted because he's focused on Peru and that might give an opening for Argentina did not have those kind of external meddling in their internal affairs. Joseph O. Meyer. He is the executive director of Secure Free Society, and he noted that he'll be filing reports in these next days for what he learned at the border between Venezuela and Colombia, Colombia. The promising star of Latin America. Venezuela Darkness Visible of Latin America, This is the new World Report. This is CBS. I in the world. I'm Jeanne Bash. You're listening to CBS Eye on the World with.
Telecom Reseller
"latin" Discussed on Telecom Reseller
"And I can actually understand people want notifications and communication in the same channel where they name. With friends and family like all spheres of life in only one channel. Even if, if it's like customer care from from a bank, they're using or some shop where they do something, they would like everything to have in only one channel. This doesn't mean that one channel would dominate if they will always go next to each other. As I said, you know. And before that, we go on with our, some of our questions here, you know, I think you brought up a very big point. When you say that SMS is a, and these other apps are texting, is a way to talk to customers who may not have internet access and that's huge because after all what we're talking about is enabling companies to actually reach out to customers. And I think what I'm hearing is, there's a giant hidden, a customer base in Latin America, maybe they don't have internet, but they're, they're available, and they're interested in buying products. Exactly. Not only this I would not only focus on on private sector. It's also important like for governments to be able to communicate any urgent matters to the to the wrong, people who are living in some of the parts with no internet access and who actually just have the, the feature phone only support SMS. So, there is still a big Market over there and this is why companies are still exploring and this is why SMS is still alive and will be alive. So how are you guys that made of ensuring that customers can communicate with you? I'm effectively. First point is our Global Knowledge. We are connecting to connected with carriers around the world. And we have the, the knowledge about the roots and talk about all the regulations. And we are providing this quality with cost efficiency to the clients with our real-time monitoring tools, that it's actually choosing dead. First of all, like the first step would be, our managers are actually speaking to the clients and checking. What is the solution? They, they need with all knowledge base that wage and plus our real-time monitoring tool, is choosing the best food at the moment to provide the cost-efficient solution for the final users or for our partner..
Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank
"latin" Discussed on Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank
"Dude dude at anything. You hear that full disclaimer. Might have been her being a fucking crazy latino check. That's the reality of it. Ladies and gentlemen. I'm always your here. Let's go let's get the fuck out of here. Fuck is wrong with me. I could have done before. Let's go let's go let's go. Oh my god oh my god. Goodbye dave what. Reagan picking mussoorie muscle flat timothy guy owning company all the remakes. Remain on top phone. Uh-huh took piano and it's the first time osama bin reagan. Three home wildland race only took took russell duck back a Cravey's i'm crazy for so lonely. A crazy you'd love me as long as you and then sunday you why do Crain's for thinking then Folk been crazy thinking then and then crazy. Can you do.
Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank
"latin" Discussed on Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank
Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank
"latin" Discussed on Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank
"That's all ralphie is a ghost. that'd be a big ask. It was the whole room just called anxiety. You you can't breathe that's ralphie give the cajun. I mean it's not funny but that he died after all those people vegas died. You know that happened in the same weekend. The the vegas shooting from the mgm. I think it was the same night really. And then ralphie died now is like at least he headline because he died after a but yeah he died in the same week and i was like i would hate for my clout to be taken like that cloud because i think it would have been a bigger death. If it wasn't for that. I think it really put because if you think about it didn't get much but when we're tracing what who ralphie. Yeah wasn't he was a celebrity in the comedy world but he outside the world was was unknown so it was like some people like. Oh my god ravi hang out but other like who his people right next. That person who is that. I've heard nick. Cannon is cross platform. He's not a list comedian. Yeah but when he will he. He brought me to brea improv. I think he was. Bobby lee then him with the first couple comics even bring me on. The road was the first one from kill. Tony bring me on the road ever And then you'll told me. Say whatever you wanna say about louis but like. He introduced the new york comedy scene. Now it's like. I don't even consider you as lewis's acts we were just like just a comic here. But that's where i give myself the credit. I could have easily been introduced in. Just been lewis his ex but he did he like introduced me and he gave me all the connections. But i used my own talent. Stay around but i do appreciate them for that. I don't remembering that who is going to be way more famous than me talent. I don't have talent. I always always like. Yeah but ralphie. Br brought me to improv. Was one of my first weekends. I was so fucking excited. It was sold out at so cool. It was the first time. I was ever like in a green room with a bunch of food. He ordered like god he would order. He would he lived. It was more food than i'd eaten all year. I was like we eat all of it. Can i bring some home. Lady rican try girl com. Comes it down girl early. Come get a seat mike. And then Also wouldn't get upset because he would just order more was like. I actually wanted all those orders. Six more with yeah so much and we had a great time. And i had a great fucking set and ralphie was like one of those comics that would like genuinely. Give me advice and was like i felt like genuine genuine wasn't trying to fuck me And we'll probably couldn't tired that point a i've seen him asleep and situation. No one could out of breath from breathing. he was exhausted. and Then eat okay. He died or whatever and then the next step over. So he dies right brain improv. The first time. This is years later. Since then i was like wow. I haven't been here in four years. And since i was a i at comic. I'm with louis now like this is crazy. I'm sort of just thinking about ralphie. And i'm thinking about how i haven't you know when you think about dead frugal. I haven't even thought about them in long enough. And you kinda feel bad like they haven't crossed my memory enough. I should at least think of them. More than i'm thinking i'm all those times i go on set. I have a great set. Such a good set off stage. I'm turning the recorder as i'm walking down the steps i'm turning the recorder off for myself and i get a twitter notification accidentally. Click it when. I'm trying to turn off my recorder. It opens up to a notification from ralphie maze instagram. And it just liked a random post said row in the notification specific said ralphie may liked. This is what the notification i got was when i was getting off stage still hearing the claps the same class you heard in the same room with last time you said ralphie may like this and he had never liked any of my post. I didn't tag him anything before. There was no reason. I didn't even post it. I was at the brea improv. yet there is not he all he would do is try to help people yes genuine. Hey he would. Simone always says that he was like hella like what are we like to year comics for years. Ralphie cami the levees gonna break. Always say some shit like that. Levy's gonna break for you. Yes some shit that happened to talk to make the best of it. Like that's fucking weird. Wow what was the to you know. It was just a random. It was like a tweet. Like i tweeted like i like cotton balls like it was weird like but he likes something right then he was just like and it was right in. That moment happened two seconds before i clicked on the notification and it was as i was getting off stage after my set at brea. I'm like what are the chances ghost his goes. that's cool. forget about his. Sometimes you're right you don't think about these people sometimes right. Sometimes i just have to be sad for a second just to be like. I think you're supposed to remember. Just remember them. Sometimes i purposely. I have a friend who died awhile. I purposely lessened him. Talk so i don't forget. His voice was created. No no no just a regular from college who died. You'll hear in your mind here. I'm talking yeah or i'll go back to this. Video is one where i hear his voice. Cause it's hard after years to remember what they sell like. Memory of the e-even an emory dreams. Like they were talking. What are they sound like. I don't know. I just know they're talking like if you imagine an apple you can't see it in perfect detail but you know you're seeing an app that with the voice there's this I don't know where it comes. Province is this idea that like people things live on as long as people are memorizing right. So it's like as long as you're remembering anything they live on so it's like if you die or if your grandmother dies like while you're still around you remember your grandmother so that's why you visit the grave. That's why you go visit gray's in general just because like we'll put a gr- flowers on air remember them and they're still sort of a lotta spirits alive. Yeah i try to go. Random graves like an ecuador wherever and just like. Look at one person's thing and just like imagine what it'd be like to settle him to life a little bit. That's like when. I go to the zoos and i don't look at the elephants in the eye out of respect and mike you can't you have to. They have to know you're one of the good ones. You're not fucking with this. I'm not gonna take a picture of you. Fuck an animal exact. The zoo and you're taking pictures of animals in cages. You're sick fuck just download. Free animal pictures that are free in the safari and a happy happy. Yeah pictures of animals. It's so weird to me living. I love the elephants are always more ashi than they're supposed to make further whole life. I legitimately go like this out of respect. That don't let them and i want them. You want them. Go to libya and i go to open air slave markets. Look dude i get it. You shouldn't be here. I came across a fucked up. Tiktok by accident of this dude who moved to nicaragua nicaragua. Curriculum you the new..
Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank
"latin" Discussed on Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank
"All before we even start where here this brand new studio too much content studios. Thank you very much for having us. This is big. j's old apartment. It looks so much better now. There's no more dank in the common room like not wait which you get that kodak thing. That wasn't jay. Was it camera that he left it here. He was gonna take it back. Chris and stuff. That's here that that skunk fest. Two thousand sixteen thing is that jays. Yeah okay but it's so much nicer an air. I was always like yeah. You gotta leave this place man. There's no light and now there's plenty of light it was j blocking the light was dark soul sucking the life out of them kind of like the under of nfl player to standing in the window. He just needed the town. Step to the left zooms that it would just be like. Why are you so dim turn on a light because it's off like what it no one else. Everyone else was like okay. Kobe ties we got by some lighting equipment. These guys here too much content made a whole fucking studio with leading equipment. This great every sunday morning and here do you record your pockets here. Me and alex. Ben recording the podcast. Here it's fine because we can smoke. I let us smoke in here. Told you how you can smoke it. Guess digital to now. You told me the secret. And i'm going to go do that next time. I'm going to take another step. I'm going to do it in front of ralph and be like you said i could all those interns there have no idea What ralph says. So they're all sort of scared of him and the comic they're all sorts of new so you could just take advantage. I realize that you know like stuff. We gotta gus digital employer here. Don't tell them the secret. Well get the tank. Everybody might guest today. Is kim conga for. that's professional. never that professional kim. I had this idea to do this. Podcast with you. What's the name of your pockets. Promoter right out the gate My name and my podcast is broad topics. You can find it on anywhere that connects topics of the nets. Minorities are on t. o. P. i. x. Anywhere podcasts are available. I tunes google play. Youtube stitcher gas digital network With my co host alex karl-otto. We have frank here my producer. Who endorse me for legitimate skanks. Parts of it. So listen everybody. Over the summer. I was starting to think like ideas for podcasts. You are one of the wildest people i know. And i heard a stereotype. It's a racial stereotype. And then i'm like. Oh you fit in perfectly with that. Just the wild fucking latino check right chongo. Have you ever heard that term. I've i've been called that at me as i was doing research. That's exactly what i mean. Yeah sometimes not. You're you're as the miami. No i was raised even worse. Like the worst place to put a puerto rican is central florida with the redneck white. He hebrew florida lake. Swampy like no. Yeah no i mean it was just like very where i grew up. I was just very gangster. Black people or Rednecks like that was my town. Mostly i was about three and a half hours away from miami. We're there tons of latinos. They're not really wasn't nope. You don't wanna heard lat next. I thought that was like a Convention for latino people like hip hop artist spanish. He just does the same stuff he just translated. They're all that by the way. That's indian studies. That was From a latino the worst latino really hard to do mail d. Amax i can do women pretty well. Female the amax. They're just gonna do a female indian accent now Was i gonna say fox a heads up in boston. Yeah you're saying. I i'm puerto rican. I'm a chunga. We're known to be crazy. The wild latina. You have always been that thing. Which i had a god-like respect and fear of god like respected fear of me. That's honestly an honor clip. That so i looked it up. Yeah exactly clip rink minute. Making a shirt fear. No fear himself. Was this figure it out. Yeah it's i don't know if it's florida general or but when i looked up like crazy latino check which is a specific type. I wanna get later. Like what the other types of like ethnic crazies are but like i found chunga and it was like you used to be pejorative. Which means derogatory mean stronger. Oh yeah i. I would not have been able to use that word before this morning. Like never heard of it but it's but then they said now it's like all these kind of queer where they're taking it like. no no. we're stronger like it's like a proud thing. Okay okay where does that come from chunga. Sure okay. I think it's it's to me when i hear it's less puerto rican and more like I think it's what they refer to as like mexican women tonga's i think so. It's like big gold earrings with your name across it. That's their version of tola toll. Holo that's what i was thinking. Maybe that is me. So they said in in miami hearings but the m. oh yeah their faces. They said the version of that for florida was like basketball jerseys loose basketball shorts like below the knee. Not the who bearings. It's like every region has their own version of that puckett. I know we used to wear these shoes. That look like metal gated. Do you remember the metal shoes. They had the flowers on the top of them. They came in like eighteen different colors. Oh god they were so puerto rican like i specifically remember seeing a hispanic girls the ones that we did have in my school. Like take them off to fight like it was just an image of them. Those being kicked off really quick to get him off quick traction from like let's leakers. Would afford now. It's kind of like a hood thing to fight barefoot if you got flip flops on remember that girl baby she made that song coochie flops. Fucking hit you bitch and my socks are don't remember. That was a great line. Fuck it. I'll hit you bitch and my socks that is good. It's called gucci flops. By bad baby. Girl from dr phil at the big tits. That just turned eighteen out the best side. She puts out the best. She's the greatest. Rapper alive. And i'm not kidding. She's talented as fuck. I wouldn't call her lady. But i wouldn't go lady. Gucci flipflops writes in this notebook like notes like gucci flipped. Loves like a for real old. Jill texting people song gucci flipflops. Wow that's going out and she's also like a roaster. Did you ever see when Spayed posted a picture with her. He was excited that he met her and he was like. I'm the catch me outside girl and then she re posted the picture. Mp just put.
Altamar - Navigating the High Seas of Global Politics
"latin" Discussed on Altamar - Navigating the High Seas of Global Politics
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Altamar - Navigating the High Seas of Global Politics
"latin" Discussed on Altamar - Navigating the High Seas of Global Politics
"It was a very ambitious and complex propose help on a we so that for example. The minister of finance never went before public before as besides the first introduction of the proposal. Diene explain so the basics off his project so in that sense sort of a narrative became common in the streets. With of course most people had in read the proposal and when the water began to rise to his expression the government reacted in a very very slow motion so when it finally withdrew its proposal sort of things have taken a wearing movement already on e. became basically a protest against everything are meant percents. How does it end. How does columbia go forward. When i have to arias i we. We go thousand patients similar to chile expedients to at the end of two thousand nineteen. That process took a hundred fifty days of continuous protests in the streets. Sometimes more intense sometimes less intense again took five months so that's one was really clear that they are meant really engages in a data process. And in that sense you'll be able to settle diffuse some of the dangerous but i believe sadly that a if this other scenario less probability as thinks that now i i believe that a bite of the problem of the government is not being able to understand that this is a multifaceted problem and he has many sources as chima. Dongozi say this is the danger of a single sorry they will remain believes that this is basically a conspiracy in which we have violated the elements which is true. But he's not by far the only explanation. You and i know each other for a long time. You know i can talk about colombian politics for our is but you mentioned chile and the similarities are incredible because chilean's also went the streets supposedly because of a transportation hike in price. But the reason they went to the street is actually so many other things. So let's talk a little bit about. She leads the darling of latin america. You know everybody's so impressed with delay. They had a great vaccine response and they've had a sort of interesting constitutional reform response. But something happened. She lives now in as bad a situation as many countries in latin america. Why do.
Altamar - Navigating the High Seas of Global Politics
"latin" Discussed on Altamar - Navigating the High Seas of Global Politics
"I'm peter scheckter mony. This is such a hard episode for us. we're discussing. What is really a once. In a lifetime crisis. In latin america a region that is so close to our heart. It is our heart. No it's where you were born. It's where i grew up. It's where we both have worked and played and where we have family where we have some of our dearest friends. And i i gotta tell you i have never been more pessimistic about a region that i love for ten years for the last decade. We've seen economic growth encouraging strides towards equality strides towards better freedoms and most latin america. But now fueled with this pandemic. even the most stable countries are just breaking apart revealing such scars. And putting these new ones you know. Most concerning almanac is the erosion of democracy that. We're seeing everywhere from the rio grande all the way to patagonia and we're going to be joined by a good friend of mooney's than mine who is ricardo. Allies colombian journalist former editor in chief of portofollio. The most important business newspaper in columbia and one of the most balanced voices and latin american today. Peter sadden concerning is really an understatement. It's really hard to write this episode to you know to do it..
Fearless Beauties
"latin" Discussed on Fearless Beauties
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Fearless Beauties
"latin" Discussed on Fearless Beauties
"Like Jamie mentioned for Latin culture, the ritual of getting ready for the event is just as important as going. And I think this symbolizes how significant they're outward appearances to them. This is something estheticians should definitely keep in mind when treating LatinX clients. So Mary, how should estheticians go about doing their initial consultation with LatinX clients? Well, Janie had a really interesting perspective on what it takes to gain their trust. We're all about the relationship. We have to really love a few and trust you to work with you. And we don't feel that we will not work with you. So and because you almost become an extension of a family, like you want to, whatever it is, the stylist, helps take care of your yard. You have to almost have a relationship with them to trust them and bring them in. And I saw this even when you're my dad came on. This is when I was still in college. My dad came out to go for a business thing and venetia and it was Mexican owned business. And my dad is the type of Mexican that looks blond hair and blue eyes. And he shows up at the meeting and the gentleman the captain was very out Spanish. And my dad had asked me to show up at the meeting with him. And I didn't understand why, but I of course, I just did. And then I walk in and my dad says to the owner, this is my daughter and my dad looks that gentleman looks at me and he says, I'm Spanish. You know, you're Mexican and my dad's like, of course. And he's like, oh, and then from that on the meeting went completely different. My dad and I were immediately brought in like family. We were taken out to dinner. Of course, my dad closed the deal, but it was very interesting watching that on how we trust and how we work with cultural in the now it's very different, but this is not too long ago that it was still very much like that. I absolutely loved Janie's story. Her dad brought her in to show that he looks Mexican because he doesn't look like the typical Mexican. And that was really smart. All he needed to know was that he was Mexican and he was all good in his eyes. And that just proves how close knit and trusting the culture is. But like Janie mentioned, it's a lot different now. So based on Janie's insights about LatinX culture, how should estheticians consult with their potential clients? Well, I think that there's a lot of distrust for authority figures and you really can't find fault with that. I think they've been taken advantage of economically. They've experienced a lot of negative biases. They experience one of the highest diabetes rates in the U.S., they have the highest incidence of COVID infections, which means there's a real healthcare shortage. And I think you have to do a lot to win respect and gain trust. You know, like we've talked about so many times,.
Fearless Beauties
"latin" Discussed on Fearless Beauties
"This week on fearless beauties, we're diving into the 5th chapter of the fearless beauty's book, LatinX skin. We are so excited to be joined by two Latina estheticians, Janie escamilla, and Amy Fuentes. To chat about Latin culture and best skin care practices. Well Mary, let's jump right into it. What is the biggest misconception about Latin skin? Well, I think some of the biggest misconceptions about LatinX skin is because there's confusion about what that term really means. Or what it includes as an ethnicity. Someone who's LatinX means that their heritage originates from the geographical area that we call Latin America. Hispanic refers to someone who originates from a Spanish speaking country. So, for example, someone from Brazil is considered LatinX, but Brazilians speak Portuguese. Latin America is a huge geographical area. It ranges from the United States border to the tip of South America near the South Pole. So skin tones can range from very, very pale too dark. So LatinX skin isn't just cookie cutter. Nomadic travel from Africa are original human migration meant that LatinX people became very integrated with America's indigenous population. A lot of their origins are a blend of the Spanish conquistadors, the slave trade and Native American. There are centuries of health and beauty secrets or traditions that have been passed from one generation to another. I think that is so interesting, it seems like Latin skin is a melting pot of racially diverse people. It's not just one skin type or race, and that is beautiful. And LatinX skin influences a large part of American culture. But what about skin care? How much does Latin culture influence skin care? LatinX culture influences skin care a lot. I know that even with their diversity, there's some cultural beauty rituals that seem to be common to all Latin cultures. You know, taking time to prepare for an event or an outing, really looking your best when you're out in public is important. You see that now, okay, maybe not so much now with COVID restrictions. But in my community, which has a really large Latin population, you'll see families out on a Sunday afternoon. They're going for a walk. They're having a picnic. They're involved in some kind of larger family gathering, and the women are all dressed up. Hair, makeup, dresses, and the kids are spiffed up too. I think it's just amazing to watch. You can tell they have put a lot of effort into preparing for the day rather than just throwing on a pair of sweatpants and a T-shirt and heading out the door. I know that Florida has a big Latin population as well Taylor. Well, I don't want to generalize, but what are your impressions? Most definitely Florida has a large LatinX population. I have lived in Orlando for ten years now and in my opinion it seems like there are more LatinX people than caucasians. I mean, walking down my street, you hear the Latin music from the garages and the pool decks. And I'm so used to it now, but if I really think about it everywhere I have lived, has not consisted of as many LatinX people as Orlando. The LatinX population is most definitely a collectivist culture. I have Latin neighbors on both sides of me, and even today they gather every weekend about ten of them to listen to music, eat good food, laugh, and go on the pool. And it never fails. And yes, in regards to their outward appearance, it is true. I remember when I was in high school, 2010, I started at a high school here in Orlando, Florida, and I have never seen anyone in high school dress and heels and blouses. And the Latin ladies, every day, they will dress in heels, blouses, and their makeup was just on point. And I've never seen anything like it. But they just take how they address society on a different level, and there's nothing wrong with that. So let's hear Amy and Janie's thoughts on the ways being Latin themselves has.
Le Monde diplomatique - English edition
"latin" Discussed on Le Monde diplomatique - English edition
"That made it possible politically geopolitically and in terms of the economy as well so This is what happened in during this so-called pink wave so the wave rose by the wave also broke and we start from a very different vantage point from from rookie. A in two thousand ten and in your article in lamont diplomatic use the the image vickery's who flies to near the sun. The higher he goes the more vulnerable he becomes which kind of suggests that there's something intrinsically risky or vulnerable about the particular conditions for democracy in latin america. Can you explain a little bill. Why you chose that image to try to convey that situation. Yeah the idea is that there is a limit a structural social limit as to have far democracy or what we accepted to call. Democracy today will allow people to go especially people from the left it carries would have been fine if he had not attended to go as far reaching the sun but by going too far it's wings made of walks start to melt and by going too far precipitates his own and fold. There is logic at the very core of democracy. it's a progressive continuous increase in people's right people freedom people's capacity to decide for themselves and against this principle. This driving force you might say. Debbie's another that is as strongly inscribed in our society is as the previous one which the logic of capitalist profit making and there is a point where the two logics collide and the wings of the democrats. Start to to melt. And this is what has happened over. The course of centuries since may lead in the in the independence independence in latin america anytime leaders attempted to push the boundaries of what was expected by elite. Little too far then. There was a coup There was a military intervention. There was a reaction. You would argue. I think that really understand the situation. Latin america today we have to understand something of the circumstances in which those nations gain their independence and gaining their independence meant in terms of who actually had power and determined the way in which democracy was expressed. Yes the The democracy project of the nineteen th century never really came to fruition anywhere. I mean that would be an argument. You could make for funds for instance but there is something something specific with latin america which is the fact that the people who initiated the revolutions. The the breakaway from the colonial powers did intend for the colonies the newborn countries to enjoy more freedom but did not want the comics in the social hierarchy to change. who were they. They were descendants. From the colony from spain from portugal. And benefited. from the way latin america had taken its place within the International the world economy system which was a system whereby ritchie's came from trade. There was no industry. No local industry. There was no room for the development of a internal market. So that means that independence used the vocabulary of social emancipation of of of freedom of citizens right but only to break away from the center of power from the colonial center of power but not to actually democratize the society which means that there was a highest and which still remains in the way the societies were built and the prospects that they they kind of drew in order to to convince people to mobilize and the the very real intention for society not to change. So this leads to what Francis carlos fuentes a mexican writer colds a feudal castle. We've cardboard capitalist state which means that..
Le Monde diplomatique - English edition
"latin" Discussed on Le Monde diplomatique - English edition
"My name's george miller. And i guess this month is bruno. Lumbar renault is the deputy editor of the paper and the author of an in depth article in this month's edition about democracy in south america is entitled latin america's futile castle. You'll hear why shortly this year there are elections in several latin american countries peru and chile will vote for president and mexico. Argentina will hold parliamentary elections looking at latin america's experience with democracy since new nations gained independence from europe. Renault lomba in his essay compares the continent democrats to ecus the higher. They climb the closer. They come to true democracy. The more vulnerable the are to a full and latin america that usually means a military coup. Even dictatorship is the recyclable pattern. Does it have deep. Structural roots francis former ambassador to brazil allah rookie. Clearly thought the cycle had been broken when he wrote in two thousand ten. After decades of instability and dictatorship democracy seems to have taken root everywhere. We know now. That was over-optimistic the so called pink wave of progressive governments. That inspired his optimism. Did.
YANBAR PODCAST
"latin" Discussed on YANBAR PODCAST
"And that's based on and funk. It's it's it's it's not. Just i don't wanna say that stereotype makeup artist. The funk is something i did. I got in my heart which is let you know. I have a lot of solar metoo gonna love ryan so is part of part of it but the focus behind is latin representative people by saying well. This is my this my background and my culture. It's let let's still faulk. That's what i base it on. No no once again for me and people out there checking it out. That track that you said is indicative or good representation of what you are on latin funk. Which track is that again. Where can people find that they can find some cloud and just the soundcloud reverb nation on south click. Click right now. I've got a soft call. How many years does it take all track. But you can find the victim there also and that's right now. I love sonic because they do have a real. Legit chart ranking system. And he'd be on there at number three right now. The hip hop charts. ooh congratulations. actually. I'm thirty four on the about judge. I'm number three on the also about charge and i'm gonna be fifty this year ryen milestone for me happy birthday here. Hey what do you call it. to be able to be still be able to be up relevant youngsters on. That's basically yeah but you can find that song on south click and again was the title of then addicted addicted. That's right yes. Kota kota some producer on your california. That's decimal check. It out and i may have came across. I really never call and stuff and one thing. You mentioned about the professionalism. That's one thing that really stuck out with me. Most when i first heard you. I ain't gonna lie emails. Hey little i said man of jack how great man who who. Who do you work with. Who's mixing that. Where did you get the music from the music for most of the music right now that i get. I get downloaded for free. 'cause i became a member with vibe. Each you pay for a subscription. I think it was thirty bucks. And they they allow you. They'll obese for free but you can't sell them online. You can use them online videos but you can't sell them because all the actual rice to the way you understand what. I'm allowed to use them so they tossed me emailed threats all the time so i i beat because they got the flavor that i really love. You know it's all school then it's funky funky. They've got their based on sixteen bars. Eight more hooks. Does you know person that cintra production is so simple. The basic setup is real simple for a writer. It's up to you to find that. Find that Find your niche and get in there and try to write something constructive and productive. You know people are going to feel it. They're gonna actually say you know what it has pretty good or it's not no good. You're gonna have eaters have lovers. You could have people that love music. Just go with year. Did you present you know you mentioned on a goten a few days as real cool when the touch on once about staying relative you mentioned age now wasn't we'll bring that up now you that out here now. Now you mentioned your age. And yes. I go through the same thing. As a matter of fact that man oh man we concentrate on something else. Whatever but what's your take on that and How can perhaps an older music artists stay relevant today. Advice on that on cool. Listen to other people's music and you can catch arts and pieces of there's just your folk or ashraful do that type of to receive right now. A lot of people do that for the monetary. But i still you know thanks. I used to love triplex. Joan nice loves that. He's a southpaw falling. Really nice track A lot of this too and she got see seton. and then i'll i'll try to convert my style. It's basically i would say i won't do i'll do. I'm so set on the trying to keep it original exactly really basically stay keep going keep making music whether people tell you that it's not good. It is good. You do it for yourself really if your family or your loved ones and then from there you go on. You know it's it's basically stay relevant to yourself to say you know what i can't do this you know. I've been doing this for so many years in different about doing this. Different style A lot of people say what you copy my style. You come to my style you listen to all the rappers now that us auto tune and that's like one thing that i don't really use his but if you notice that the it's on now oh yeah that's that's like the relevant of music right now so you have to put a track or two out there with our too so people can actually feel feel it here. You're absolutely right almost like when in rome do as the romans do. What's the other saying. The people what they want they want gas heat okay. I'll give them happy to be dark music all the time that fall to make them dance in all different styles then magic right especially nowadays. We need some happy news we do. This man about student was open. I do something about what's going on with all this up with the protests and stuff like that. I'll do some political thanks to get into it. You know the moment that i'm not. It doesn't pertain to me but being a minority you still feel the racism every legal you know and and it's just not it's not just black people. It's everybody that is not part of the part of the majority. You can feel the tension of racism within that community I've seen i watch a lot of.