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The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Congress Demands Bitcoin ETF NOW! (Gary Gensler Accusations)
"Good morning. It is time to discover crypto. Today is September 27th. It's my late mother's birthday today and it is 11 .31 Eastern Standard Time. How are you doing today? We got Tim and someone else at Andrews, BJ on the ones and twos today. How are y 'all doing? I'm doing fantastic. Great, great morning so far. Excited about this show. Excited to have BJ sitting in our production seat. Looking forward to it. Yeah, BJ. BJ, how was Vegas? BJ just got from Vegas for Magic the Gathering. How was it? I mean, it was epic. It was fun. Were you the one hacking the casinos for $100 million? No, but I do have some very funny footage when we went to the MGM. Okay. We might do something with that later. All right. Did you jump into the lion pit and you rode a lion? I don't want PETA coming after me. All right, guys, make sure you hit the like button if you haven't already. We're going to talk about Gensler's speech in front of Congress, what's going on. We got a couple clips from that as well. We also have a breakdown of his speech. We're going to talk about Bitcoin jumping in price. We're going to talk about CCP. We're going to talk about Binance as well and Ethereum staking as well. All right, let's just get right into it, folks. All right, so we do have, you know, Gary, he's in front of Congress right now. There's a harsh notice to the SEC from a large group of US representatives led by Tom Emmer, approved Bitcoin spot ETFs, immediately. He said, I like to think there was an exclamation point after the end of that as well. Representatives Mike Flood, Tom Emmer, Richie Torres, and Wiley Nickel. What the heck is up with the name Wiley Nickel? That is a cartoon character that's going to shoot you at the saloon, correct? That or it's a superhero's, you know, real name. I would take superhero sidekicks, real name. You know, Batman and his sidekick, Wiley Nickel, because Robin fell down the shaft. But no, yeah, Wiley, we love Wiley, I guess, maybe, I don't know. They sent a letter to Gensler on Tuesday arguing that a regulated spot Bitcoin ETF would increase investor protection. Congress has the duty to ensure that the SEC approves investment products that meet the requirements established by Congress. Here are requirements. Okay, crypto ETF fits that. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know if we can prove that you're not doing your job representatives here, or you're not doing your job, SEC. The court specifically addressed the SEC's disparate treatment of spot Bitcoin ETFs and similar funds based on a regulatory approved futures contracts. Representatives point out this inconsistency saying a spot Bitcoin ETP is no different than a Bitcoin futures ETP. Therefore, the SEC's current stance is untenable going forward. So that was the statement. Okay, then. So what did the SEC say in response? Well, the SEC is delaying a decision on Art21's proposed spot Bitcoin ETF until January 2024. They also postponed the decision on GlobalX's Bitcoin ETF until October. This isn't saying a no, this is just a classic kick the can down the road here. So Cebo BZX had earlier proposed a rule change aiming for approval listing of the Art21's ETF, although they submitted April 25th. It was not published for comment until May 15th. They then designated a longer approval period on June 15th. Well, you fast forward to today, they're expected to approve or reject within 181 days or by November 11th. However, the regular setting is current. Finally, it is allowed to extend the approval deadline by an additional 60 days. So not only do they get to increase the amount of time, hey, guys, we need 180 days. All right, we're on 179 days. Oh, yeah, I need another 60 days. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. As such, they have now postponed until January 10th, 2024. Many asset management firms submitted similar filings for ETFs after BlackRock submitted its own application in mid -June. However, ARK submitted considerably earlier. They can only delay until January of next year where it can delay some of these other ones until March of next year. But then you know what happens on February 28th? Wait, is next year a leap year? February 29th, what's going to happen? Oh, we need another 60 days. So even though you're seeing March 24 is the latest deadline there, I wouldn't be surprised if March 2024 gets increased. If I have a video clip from the SEC hearing chat, they can hear it, right? The audience can hear? Yeah, we can play around or if you send it to me. Okay, well, I have to hit refresh here. This is breaking. I haven't had time to send it to you. This is just getting uploaded within the last hour. This one, Matt will we know? Do we know? Let's try. Let's try.
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The Financial Guys
A highlight from Rising Auto Theft Rates: Urban Consequences and Solutions
"Well, you see how easy this is now. Now you look at how they move money around and how the in your face money laundering folks, this is what this is. This is corruption and fraud. Some of the Bidens are great at the money laundering part. They got 20 shell corporations, but guess who's getting the guess who's going to be controlling the funding to rebuild Ukraine. We pay to destroy it. And guess what? The Hillary Clinton Foundation gets paid the rebuild Welcome right. to the podcast. We are in the same studio today, which is kind of nice. So thanks again for downloading. If you're just listening, if you're watching or watching the clips, uh, thanks for watching as well. And just for a quick mention, so I don't forget, if you haven't downloaded our app yet, I'm noticing we're getting a lot of downloads and the cool thing is when the morning Mike's program is going Monday, Wednesday, Friday, I'm the, seeing the view count go up and up and up, which is awesome. So I know we're only, you know, we're still in the dozens. I'd like to get into the hundreds and eventually thousands, um, but it's a cool program. If you haven't listened to it, it's a quick 15 minutes to quick by morning, run down three days a week of the top five topics, three minutes each. Do a great job. They do an awesome job when we're, when we fill in the stuff. We screw the whole thing up. Yes. Yeah. We, we blow the whole, the whole, uh, the schedule, but, um, but they do awesome and they're funny. I love it. It's a quick, you know, down and dirty 15 minutes, top five items of the day. And now you get your day started off on the, uh, they, you know, I think on the right foot, they were saying this week, like, Oh, it's so negative all the time, but I think they're hilarious. They take the negative stuff that's going on, but of course the negative stuff isn't the news. Yeah. Yeah. That's what we're seeing. I mean, carjackings again, Rochester had another, you know, record night. I mean, it's incredible how that was going on. And so it's amazing is, is like the Democrats just sit around and watch this happen in every city and every city. It's insane. Yeah. I sent you an article earlier this morning about Philadelphia. Let's see. I can find it. It's, uh, not that it's anything out of, you know, anything that we don't know about, but let's see here. Philadelphia swarmed by alleged juvenile. Come on, come on. Juvenile looters targeting the Apple store, Lulu lemon and footlocker. Yeah. So, cause they're starving. They're starving. They just, just need a little piece of ham and some Turkey. They need clothes and food. That's, that's only fair. I mean, they, you know, and once again, I know we've all heard this joke, but footlocker is not missing one pair of working boots. No, no, all the Nike's, all the Nike. Yeah. Well, some of those Nike's, I mean, Oh my God. Crazy. You know, talking about like, you know, thousands of dollars for a pair of, thousands, thousands of dollars. I was talking to my daughter and she said to one, one of her friends has a, as a pair of shoes were $1 ,200. I'll never forget the most expensive pair of shoes I ever bought. We were just starting a business. This was like 30 years ago now. Right. Crazy to think. And I remember somebody told me that maybe my dad was like, you got to have a decent pair of shoes. Right. And so I went up and I bought a pair of Justin and Murphy's. They're like 120 bucks at the time. Yeah. The most money I have ever spent on a pair of shoes. Now boots, I've spent more money on since because boots are more expensive, you know, hunting boots. Well, there's a purpose to them. I still don't spend more money on shoes. Like I'm wearing like Skechers or like $40. Like some of these Nike's $500. You can't tell me you're running faster. It's different when you're going to go out and buy a pair of like waders or something. You're going to use them. First of all, you're going to use them for the next 30 years. Right. And there's a purpose to them, right? Like, okay, they're more expensive, but I can walk through the water with them. Right. But if I bought like, if I had five, 600 hour pairs of shoes, I'd be afraid to leave the house. I wouldn't, I wouldn't get off the carpeting. Well, they're targeting the Apple store here, Glenn, because they'll buy jobs. And that's the only way to get a job is to make sure you've got an Apple iPhone. So it'll be like Chicago. We talked about this the other week with, with, uh, with Mike Speraza, Chicago is now forced to open or, or just talking about opening, you know, a, a government run grocery store in the inner city because they've all that. Well, they're going to, so they're going to, they're going to, the plan is to fight the communism with more kind of communism, right? That's going to work really well. But could you imagine how inefficient, first of all, Walmart's pulled out, Costco's pulled out, all the stores have pulled out because now target, have you heard targets now closing stores across the country? So target is now going through and discussing all the stores across the country, liberal target, liberal target. They put a black lives matter that they ripped down the smash of the window. I thought that'd be some sort of a shield or that we're just going to put up this, uh, this plywood and we're going to spray black lives matter on it. Hashtag hashtag BLM. And we'll be safe as they rip it out and use that same plywood to smash the window with. It's pathetic. There'll be nothing left in these inner cities. The problem is when it starts to spill over into the, into the, Oh yeah. This is, this is where it gets ugly. Well, they want it. That's what they want. That's, that's why people like, uh, the governor of New York, uh, you know, Kathy, the ice queen, Kathy Hochul is, is, you know, they first tried the push for section eight housing in the suburbs because that was only fair. Yeah. Now they couldn't get that through because the people in the suburbs are like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Now they're busing in illegal immigrants in the middle of the night. And I tell you something, if these Democrats like Mark Poland cars were proud of what they were doing, they would have a welcoming party at noon at noon, high noon. They'd have a press conference welcoming our newest community members off the bus so that the whole community could see these family units that are getting off. You got the husband, the wives, the two kids, you know, the things that we see in our country, right? No, it's not happening. They're bringing them in at two o 'clock in the morning. So nobody sees, they're all, they're all 23 year old males, right? Or 18 to 25 year old males. Some of which are from the Congo. I don't know about the, uh, you know, the, some of the social norms in the Congo, but I'm just thinking that maybe they're a little bit different than the Western world. I don't know. I'm just thinking maybe not. Maybe they're exactly like us. I don't know. But they're exactly like us. Why would they want to come here? Why are they aspiring to come here? I don't know. Anyway, it's a fentanyl fentanyl up again, by the way, there was another report. I think it was on a Fox news. Well, good for the Republicans. I mean, at least part of them, I should say good for the five or six Republicans that are the extreme right wing, according to the media, that's holding this garbage up. No, shut the government down, shut it down, shut it down until there's no more money. Take the money, go into Ukraine and send it to Texas, which they did right to the border, which they didn't do last time. Right. Kept it open. That's what do you need? What do you need? We're out of control. The founding fathers gave the power of the purse to Congress and the, and the Pentagon, the Pentagon goes, yeah, you know what? We're just going to exempt Ukraine funding from the budget. So ha ha. We just went over 33 trillion. If you go online and look at the clock, it's moving fast, right? So we're on our way to 34 or 35. Can you even see the numbers anymore? They just blur blur now. So, so fast. Oh no. And, and good news, by the way, we're refinancing this debt at 5 % now, not at 1 % or zero like we were doing. Yeah. It makes a lot of sense. Yeah. It'd be great. Yeah. The fence talk about keeping rates higher for longer. I don't know. They're not going to be able to do that. They'll be cutting interest rates by next year. Mark by where? And the number one reason I say that is because when you talk to every economist, I say, that's not going to happen. And they are typically wrong. So if you take the, it's like saying betting against the casino, it's like saying, you know what? I don't think MGM is going to make money in the sporting books next year. Ma, they're going to figure out a way to make money. They'll rechange the lines, right? Well, you, all you need to do is look at it and get a bunch of economists in a room and ask them where they think the market's going to be and then do just the opposite and you would be way better. Yeah. Pretty much that's usually the way to go. No doubt about it. So the, the, the, the Pelosi, we were talking earlier about the Pelosi stock trader. Yeah. You can follow online. Now, some of these folks, we did the game show game last week. We talked about the, uh, the net worth. I picked the poor ones too. They were like 23, 21, you know, $20 million. Some of these folks are amazing. I mean, really just, you know, the wizards of smart on some of these are just really, timing is impeccable up here. This is somebody who is selling some software that I'll track it, which you can, you, you've pointed out, you can get it for free online, but, but the, the numbers are really astonishing. This Democrat Senator sold her Aspen vacation home for $25 million. That was just after she sold her Lake Tahoe vacation house for $36 million. Well, by the way, why, why do they own these big $25, $36 million homes? Well, a big, big part of it is because the taxation of it, right? So a Feinstein who's telling you your ordinary income tax rates are too low. She's shifting that to a capital asset, which is going to create a capital gain in the future or no gain. Or no gain. I mean, they're 10, 10 31. This is why when Donald Trump looked at Hillary Clinton right in the eye and said, you will not get rid of the carry interest deduction and you know it because all of your, I use it, of course, all of her bigger donors donate money to Hillary Clinton. And this is exactly the truth, right? They will never get rid of some of these things. Like they talked about, we're going to get rid of the 10 31 exchanges. Yaha. Yeah. Uh huh. Yeah. So the big developer strokes a giant check to the, to the Democrats off the table. Let's listen to her success though. Amazing. A Senator sold her Aspen vacation home for $25 million just after she sold her Lake Tahoe vacation house for $36 million. Only two years earlier, Diane Feinstein has been a member of the political scene for 32 years and her salary is only $130 ,000 per 130 grand a year. Now it's more now. That's a little bit dated, but it's up, it's up to probably 180 now. But, but listen to this. First of all, if it was up to 580, you're not buying $23 million homes, $36 million homes. No, no, we're going to put in multiple homes. We're going to, we're going to put the Paul Pelosi onto our research committee. You make a million dollars a year. First of all, most of, most business owners that make that kind of money, they didn't make it throughout their whole life, right? They didn't start making a million dollars at 20 years old. They started making a million dollars at 50 years old and it took 30 years to get to that point. Right? So my point is, you're not at a million dollars a year at age 50. If you did it the right way, the hard way, and you did it yourself, you're still not affording a $23 million home, right? Multiple ones. Yeah. Multiple, multiple. Right. Those aren't even her primary residence. Those are her vacation homes. She lives in, she lives in California. Listen to this though. And it's, it's all of them. It's all of them now. This is a, this is from Nancy Pelosi, stock trader. Uh, this is a tweet, uh, a Twitter feed. You can follow Pelosi tracker is what it's supposed to track or underline or something like that. You'll find it. Anyway, uh, three weeks ago, sitting politician bet against the U S economy so far. He's been right. Tom Carper bought $45 ,000 of PSQ and inverse ETF on the tech sector on eight 23, August 23rd. Since then he's plus 3 % while the market is negative 4%. Go figure. Wow. Go figure. Man, these guys are so good. Yeah. And they're not by, they're, I mean, these are, that's some pretty technical strategy. You started getting into options strategies and stuff. I mean, yeah. Yeah. These guys have become very, very slick. It's not just about buying a, you see, it used to be, okay, I'm going to buy X, Y, Z. Then I'm going to vote for or against something. You know, I'm going to short the stock and then I'm going to vote against them for both that, that, that. So the stock goes down or I'm going to vote for something, knowing that it will benefit the company. The stock will go up and in a sense front running. No, they're, they're in the options strategies now. They're in the market. Yeah. They're doing butterfly spreads. Yeah. Crazy stuff going. They're very sophisticated. They shouldn't be allowed to two things. When you go into Congress, I, you know, I would love to have a Congress person run on or present around the following platform, right? Number one, term limits, term limits, top of the list. Number two, though, while you're in Congress for the eight years, or wherever we allow you to serve 10 years, 12 years, whatever it is, you could not invest in a stock market at all. All your investments are frozen or your choices, a model, some kind of a model liquidated go to cash, or you could buy the fidelity balance to counter. You could buy the, you could buy the T -rope price, you know, target retire, whatever, you know, or you go to goes into a blind something or other where you have no idea. Right. It just goes into what you picked a one through five tolerance for risk and somebody else invest. Maybe it's just broad indexing. Maybe that's it. Right. Something that doesn't allow this kind of garbage to go on where, you know, they buy, you know, Tesla stock and then approve a huge, you know, oh, we're going to, guess what? We're going to build a, you know, for government funded battery stations all the country. Of course, Elon comes out and goes, we already got those, you idiots. I did that like four years ago, you morons. Amazing what Elon can do and what the, what the government can. Going back to target for just a second, not to digress, but I found WGRZ, thankfully came up with a list of the, uh, the target stores that will be closing, Mike, the full list of locations all in, all in Republican run. You'll be shocked. Yeah. Yeah. Right in the, uh, the thriving, the, uh, you know, thriving, the Minneapolis, uh, location, the retailer said the decision, the close was really difficult. I wonder if that was after half. That was the one they put the BLM on. Yeah. Oh, that was the one they put the sign on that said, please don't burn our store down. We love you. I hashtag BLM lit it on fire. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Uh, let's see. I'm shocked though. I wouldn't, I'm surprised you wouldn't stay. I mean, you know, like just collecting, you love them. You love, you support them. This is what you supported. Remember you, you, you raised money, you gave money. Yeah. And guess what they did with that money. They agitators hired to whip up people in the community to smash and burn down your store. You idiots. So there you go. There you go. Nice, nice work. What else do you think, Mike? Uh, New York city's East Harlem neighborhood. That's going to be one that's goes down. I wonder why. Chicago, San Francisco for sure. San Fran. Yeah. San Fran. Uh, by the way, before I forget San Fran, Democrat San Francisco mayor, announces plan to require drug testing, which is good in an effort to, if you're going to receive homeless benefits. Right. But the funny thing was in this same passage, they're going to Texas to try to recruit police officers. The funny thing is is that the people they sent from San Francisco to try to recruit people. They didn't come back. They defected like North Koreans. Some of them got jobs. They get over the wall. They come out, they get over the wall. It was hilarious. No, they didn't go back. Well, the other five stores, Mike, three in Portland, Oregon and two in Seattle, five, three in Portland. They're pulling out of Portland together. All of these inner cities folks will be food deserts. You're going to hear that term. It'll be business deserts. It'll be nothing. Well, business deserts, nothing left, but there'll be, but target, don't forget target. Does target sell food? Yeah. Well, yeah. They sell food. Yeah. For sure. Yeah. Well, I don't go on target. So Walmart I know does Costco for sure. Costco is a food store. I don't think target is as big as Walmart as far as like fresh fruit, but definitely frozen food, all that kind of stuff. You know, aisles of pop and water and chips and right, right, right. And all that kind of stuff. But you can definitely frozen food. You can buy bulk frozen food there. So, so there's going to be food deserts, all over the place, business deserts, whatever you want to call them. You know, it's amazing because you know, the, there's no policing. And the sad thing is that is the problem. It's not, there's no policing. I shouldn't say that. Excuse me. No, you're policing your asses off. I get it. There's no ability. There's no prosecution. There's no bill. You guys are arresting people, putting them in and they go right back on the street. They're getting, they're getting appearance tickets. It's a joke. Your point is no, there is no policing anymore because of the system, the Democrats put together where the police officers aren't going to bother. If you're a police officer and you know that somebody is going to be this, this carjacking or whatever is robbery. And you know that there's a potential, you're going to get an altercation where you're in New York state. There's two police officers that have been brought up on charges recently with almost a hundred percent chance that if you do catch that person, that person will be right back. Yeah. A hundred percent. Why would you bother? Why would you bother? You're not going to put your life in line. No way. You want to go home to see your wife and kids too, and your mother or your husband or whatever. You want to be able to spend your Christmas with your family. Why would you do that? And they know that, right? The Democrats know that. This is, you can't be this stupid. I mean, who allows these people to go right back on the streets and say, this is a good idea without correcting this right away. You can say, okay, bail reform. Our intentions were one thing, but when you look at the fact that in New York state, we are now breaking records in towns like Rochester and Buffalo for the most amount of vehicles being stolen. We can say, okay, look at bail reform, put it in place. It clearly did not work. It's been a total disaster. These towns have turned to shit. We absolutely need to go back in the other direction. They're not doing that. They don't care. They want to, and they're doubling down, tripling down on it, tripling down. We invited this liberal on, you actually were on the show with him and he said, things are actually safer since bail reform. That's what his argument was. His argument was, and by the way, his argument was if we have even less police officers, cities like Buffalo will get safer. Well the thought was less police officers, less arrests. Less arrests means less crime. Dude, you got the whole thing backwards, bro. And not only that, but now we know that, right? Now we know, now you can, I mean, literally auto thefts are up 360 % in Rochester. They're not up 3%. You can say, well, you know, in Buffalo and we're in second place. And they can't play, they can't play in COVID. They're trying to like, well, it was a lockdown. People were at pent up, whatever. Remember that was the, that was the reason for the rioting and the ballooning and burning like, well, people had a lot of pent up. We probably should have locked them down. That was a little bit of the reason for the increase in suicides. You guys, you guys increased suicides because you locked kids in their homes, but it wasn't the reason that they went and decided to steal Nike sneakers from a footlocker. So check this out. Speaking of COVID, this is huge. This is, I don't know if you saw this or not, but this is absolutely ginormously huge. Dr. Fauci was smuggled into CIA headquarters without a record of entry where he participated in the analysis to influence the agency's COVID -19 investigation according to the house select subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic. Did he need to do much with these left -wing CIA agents? Probably not. No, no, no. That's what they're smuggling him in for. Well they smuggled him in because they didn't want anybody to know that he was part of the PSYOP operation, which was hydroxychloric. By the way, the I think it was a Mayo clinic and some other hospitals now have come out as well as the CDC and said hydroxychloroquine, yes, indeed is an effective treatment for COVID. Oh, by the way, ivermectin also an effective treatment. The CDC now approving that. Now mind you, we're going to keep in mind that if there was any other treatments that couldn't get the emergency use authorization for these vaccines that clearly don't work. Amazingly, I'm still seeing people online go signing off my sixth booster on our way for the sixth shot, proud to get our sixth shot. How about how about one the other day, local left -wing nut job got her sixth booster shot, six shot and she still got COVID and then she said, well, I was so good hiding and it got all my shots and then I went to a concert and I got it at this concert. Well, first of all, you don't know that, but second of all, if you have six shots and you six shots and you still got COVID and you actually think that was a good idea, you don't need a vaccination. You need a mental, you need a mental check. I tell you, I know people during the during the COVID, the height of the COVID that were older, some of our clients actually that were prescribed by a doctor a hydroxy quirk when they were taking it once a week as a as a preventative measure. Yeah. And they, to this day have never had COVID. Yeah. And it's, it's, I mean, so it, but the sad thing is again, you know, we couldn't, it's all about the money now. And that's, you know, when people talk about the evils of capitalism, you're seeing some of that. Now, capitalism is the best thing on the planet, right? As far as, you know, lifting the masses out of poverty and creating amazing amounts of wealth. But the problem is this isn't, this isn't capitalism. What's going on. This is cronyism is what's going on. It is, Hey, look at, I will give you these government dollars. You're going to get this patent. You're going to get this. Unholy marriage between business and government. Mark my word. We were talking about Feinstein selling 25, $30 million homes. This Fauci will be on the board of Pfizer. He'll be on the board of Moderna. He's going to get shares of those companies. He will be blessed with with with millions and millions of dollars. His family watch and see, we'll be talking if we're, if you and I are fortunate enough to be around 20, 30 years from now, we'll be talking about the Fauci trust and watch and monitor that trust and see how big that family trust. Well, you see how easy this is now. You look at how they move money around and how the in your face money laundering folks. This is what this is. This is corruption and fraud. Some of the Bidens are great at the money laundering part. They got 20 shell corporation, but guess who's getting the, guess who's going to be controlling the funding to rebuild Ukraine. We pay to destroy it. And guess what? The Hillary Clinton foundation gets paid to rebuild it. Right. And guess who's going to get the contracts to rebuild. Oh, that'll be probably one of the Biden family members or somebody else's politically connected. Right. Remember it was, it was a Joe Biden's brother who got the contract, the multi -billion dollar contract to rebuild Iraq. No building experience, never been a contractor, right? No idea. Right. This is why these projects cost 500 times what they're supposed to cost. This is why when money comes into Buffalo, for example, $25 million to build homes, five get built. And you were, wait a minute, five, are these $5 million homes in the East side? Each of those homes would have been built for a quarter million dollars or less. And yet where did the rest of the money go? And the, the answer is never, we don't know. We don't know. We can't account for it. Or we'd have no idea. Or I mean, how many times have we've seen that in so many places that whether right down the local level or God forbid at the federal level between, you know, Iraq and others. I was telling you last week on the radio, I was reading an article about the grants that were coming into the city of Buffalo to plant trees. And I thought, okay, wow, like this could be sweet. Okay. You know, like I'm a big tree guy. I love trees. I plant trees every year. I do think, okay, that's one way to, first of all, I think it's one way to make a community look great. When you, when you drive around, let's say North Buffalo, all the streets are all tree. They look beautiful. You drive around the East side, it looks like shit, right? So, okay. You're going to take some of my tax money and you're going to directly plant trees. Okay. It's a win for the environment. It looks nice. It's going to bring things together. I'm like, well, where's the catch? This is a government agency. Where are they going to screw it up? You read through and you find out that they're paying $1 ,000 a tree. Now you and I both know that if they're saying it's $1 ,000 a tree, by the time it's done, it'll be two to $3 ,000 a tree. Now you, you're talking about $13 million worth of trees. You and I just planted trees. Every year we plant a few trees around our office, you know, three, four in the spring, three, four in the fall, just so they can start to grow and work their way in. And then, you know, plant more. We pay $250 a tree, plant it. Right.
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"In the suburbs. It's 1130. This is WTOP news. Everything you need, every time you listen. The WTOP producers desk is wired by IBEW Local 26 where electrical contractors come to grow and good evening I'm Dimitri is our producer. Breaking news on WTOP. continue We to gather the latest details on a shooting on the campus of Morgan State University in Baltimore tonight that several has left people wounded. Baltimore police say there's an active shooter situation going on right now. Students and staff are ordered to shelter in place. Police say the public should avoid the area. The Baltimore banner reports that at least four people were shot. Their conditions are not known right now and the shooter at last report remained at large. Special agents with Federal the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, ATF, head to the scene to assist. Keep it here on WTOP at WTOP .com to bring you the latest on this developing situation, a shooting on the campus of Morgan State University in Baltimore. This is a historic first. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has been voted out by lawmakers. Democrats joined a handful of hardline Republicans to force out McCarthy a little earlier tonight. It's the first time a House Speaker has been ousted by lawmakers in the 234 -year history of the House. Meanwhile, McCarthy says he's not running again for Speaker. Unfortunately, 4 % of our conference can join all the Democrats and dictate who can be the Republican Speaker in this House. WTOP's Mitchell Miller today on the Hill. The historic vote was 216 to 210 and included an announcement never made before in the history of the House. The office of Speaker of the House of Representatives is hereby declared vacant. Eight Republicans were joined by all the House's Democrats. Florida's Matt Gaetz, a conservative who's been a nemesis of McCarthy, argued during debate that he needed to be forced out for a variety of reasons. Staying late at night, working hard, that's what the American people expect. It's something Speaker McCarthy hasn't delivered and that's why I've moved to vacate the chair. Louisiana Republican Garrett Graves, a McCarthy ally, defended him and is in disbelief over what's taken place. wondering, I keep what is going on? Are we redefining what conservative is? What's going on in this body? North Carolina Congressman Patrick McHenry has been chosen to serve as acting speaker. Meanwhile, Republicans until House elect a new and permanent speaker, all legislative action has ground to a halt. On Capitol Hill, Mitchell Miller, WTOP News. Well, how soon could we see a vote take place on McCarthy's replacement Vice News Deputy D .C. Bureau Chief Todd Zwilich tells WTOP Republicans could try to elect a new speaker as soon as next week following a private candidate forum. One thing that we're seeing that Kevin McCarthy did implore the Republicans to do was to go to the floor and do it in one round. What that means is don't have a repeat of what I election was that he went went through 15 votes to try to become speaker vote after vote after vote having to make concession after concession after concession which we content Todd Zwilich Vice News Deputy D .C. Bureau Chief reporting here on WTOP a little earlier tonight one name that has emerged is Steve police the house majority leader Republican from Louisiana it was recently announced that he is fighting blood cancer and and he's had some other health issues but says tonight he feels strong and punch bowl news has reported scalise is already calling around to Republican House members to learn whether he stands a chance of being elected speaker Donald Trump was back in a New York City courtroom today for his fraud trial the judge issued a gag order today after Mr. Trump posted about the judges clerk on social media CBS News chief election and correspondent campaign Robert Costa in that courtroom again today. Judge N. 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A highlight from Huobi Changes Name to HTX and Almost Immediately Gets Hacked
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Tuesday, September 22nd, and today we are talking hacks, hacks, hacks. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. Well, friends, today we start this show talking about Ben Armstrong, better known as BitBoy, who was arrested last night after he won, posted to his YouTube that he was going to confront a former business partner about the Lamborghini that he said was his, two, went to said person's door and rang the doorbell, three, did this with a gun and illegal narcotics in the back of his car, along with another business and affair partner to boot, and then four live streamed himself getting arrested. Just kidding. I'm not going to talk about that ever at all. In fact, I will only say this. The crypto space gets exactly the level of influencers it deserves. So perhaps as we think about where we want to be heading into the next bull market, we might want to choose who we listen to with just a hint more discernment. Now, what we're actually going to be talking about today is the plague of this bear market. Well, outside of Gensler, of course, and that is hacks. A wave of hacks impacted crypto firms starting over the weekend. On Friday, Nansen disclosed a security breach at a third party software vendor. The attacker was able to gain access to admin rights of a Nansen account in charge of facilitating client access to the platform. Nansen claims it, quote, managed to stop the unauthorized access shortly after learning about it and launched an immediate investigation. According to Nansen, wallet funds were unaffected. All affected users had email addresses exposed, while smaller user cohorts had password hashes accessed and wallet addresses revealed. Nansen urged all users to double check emails claiming to be coming from the company and be vigilant for phishing attempts. So that was Friday. Then on Saturday, OpenSea disclosed that one of its third party vendors, quote, experienced a security incident that may have exposed information. They warned that user API keys were compromised. The company noted that the incident was not expected to impact any programs which use an OpenSea API key, but that external parties using exposed keys could experience rate and usage limits. OpenSea plans on shutting down existing keys by next Monday and asked users to rotate their keys. A third exploit was disclosed early on Monday morning. Mixin Network, which is a nominally decentralized wallet service, said it lost $200 million in customer assets during an attack early on Saturday morning. Crypto developer Lawrence Day at Function Zero writes, Also, respectfully, how are you losing $200 million from a cloud breach? So this company Mixin was founded in 2017 and had nearly $400 million in protocol funds across 48 chains. The service allows users to send digital assets assigned to phone numbers and its biggest market appears to be Hong Kong. Now the firm said that it can guarantee the safety of around half of user assets, but that guarantee seems to be in the form of a corporate backstop rather than the product of successful threat mitigation. During a livestream on Monday addressing the attack, Mixin founder Feng Xiaodong said, No matter what your assets are, whether it's Bitcoin or Ethereum, we will ensure that half of it is unaffected. We're trying to find a way to recover the compromised money, but that is very difficult. For the other half of the assets, Mixin is considering offering what they are calling bond tokens for users to claim. The firm would later buy back the tokens, making them similar to other token -based recovery schemes seen in the past during events like the Bitfinex hack. A security firm called Slowmist is involved in the investigation and stated that the incident occurred when a cloud service provider database was attacked. Now if this feels like just the latest in a string of big hacks, that's because it is. In 2022, we had the record of $3 .1 billion in funds lost from hacks. And estimates this year include TRMLab saying that $400 million was stolen in Q1, Immunify saying that $700 million was lost in the first half of the year, and then just in Q3 we've had a 126 multi -chain hack in July, a $61 .7 million market -based protocol exploit of Curve Finance in July, $41 .3 million hacked from Stake .com in September, and another July hack of $37 million at CoinsPaid. So from estimates, it looks like this might be the largest hack of the year, roughly the same size as Euler in March. Still, even though it wasn't the biggest, the most high -profile hack of the weekend was disclosed on Monday as well, and that was from HTX. HTX, formerly known as Huobi, suffered the loss of 5 ,000 ETH worth around $8 million on Sunday evening. Justin Sun claimed in a Twitter thread that, quote, HTX has fully covered the losses incurred from the attack and has successfully resolved all related issues. Sun added that, quote, all user assets are SAFU and the platform is operating completely normally. Now, in addition to disclosing the loss, Sun downplayed the impact of the attack, stating that, quote, $8 million represents a relatively small sum in comparison to the $3 billion worth of assets held by our users. It also amounts to just two weeks of revenue for the HTX platform. Sun disclosed the wallet address of the hacker and added, We are willing to offer 5 % of the stolen amount, $400 ,000 USD, as a white hat reward to encourage the hacker to return the stolen funds. If the hacker returns the funds, we will also hire them as a security white hat advisor for HTX. However, they said, if the funds are not returned within seven days, we will transfer the information to law enforcement authorities for further action and to prosecute the hacker. In an on -chain message to the hacker, HTX claimed to have discovered their, quote, true identity. Now, according to Arkham Analytics, the attack affected an HTX hot wallet, which was created in March. Since then, the wallet has received $500 million in deposits from Binance, and on -chain analysts confirmed that funds have now been migrated to a new wallet. Now, there were a lot of comments relating to the name change of this exchange. Crypto Kaleo writes, Huobi changes its name to HTX and gets hacked for $8 million in the first month? Coincidence or tempting fate? Lawrence Day again said, I'm sorry, but renaming Huobi to HTX and then immediately losing millions of dollars is so effing funny that I might have a stroke. Even Binance's CZ said, A week after you rename your exchange after FTX... Jokes aside, our security team will help in tracking hacker funds in all cases where we can. Now, in addition to just the jokes about the HTX name, there are lots of questions floating around about Huobi solvency. To get a sense of some of those theories, go check out Adam Cochran's account. It's a little bit out of the scope of this particular episode, but it's obviously something that we're watching closely. Now it's unclear at this stage whether these attacks had any sort of links, but the small amount of detail available does show some common features. The first three hacks all blamed a third party service provider. While the provider was not named, Nansen did urge them to disclose the security breach. These attacks come just weeks after crypto custody firm Fortress Trust suffered a $15 million attack, which was also related to a security failure at a third party cloud provider called Retool. In that attack, an employee at the software provider was the victim of a phishing attack. The attacker used an AI -synthesized voice clone of an IT support worker to replicate the employee's credentials to access Retool's systems. In their write -up of that attack, Retool said that 27 customer accounts were compromised. All 27 were crypto companies. So the method of attack here, which uses a combination of social engineering and a bypassing of security measures, also bears a striking resemblance to the write -ups of the recent cyber attack on MGM and Caesars casinos. The casino's systems were hacked two weeks ago with customer and corporate data compromised. Postmortems of the attack claimed that hackers used a voice replication of IT workers to gain access. Identity management firm Okta confirmed that the casinos had been using their systems to credential employees. In an August blog post, Okta said that their customers were seeing, quote, consistent pattern of social engineering attacks against their IT service desk personnel, in which the caller's strategy was to convince service desk personnel to reset all multi -factor authentication factors enrolled by highly privileged users. The casino attacks were attributed to a threat actor known as Scattered Spider using malicious software developed by Alfie or Black Cat. Now if these attacks are all part of the same cybercrime spree, it could speak to a group of hackers going after high -value targets like crypto firms. The vulnerability seems hard to address as it involves security training for employees at third -party software providers. And one of the implications is, if these kind of attacks become a systemic threat to the industry, it could mean more crypto firms need to bring sensitive software in -house. That higher barrier to secure operations could make it more difficult for smaller startups to compete in the industry. Now of course for any of you who are listening to the AI breakdown, you'll also recognize that this is not going to be a problem that's unique to the crypto industry. The casino attacks speak to that as well, but the reality is that voice cloning technology is incredibly advanced and just getting more so all the time. Individuals and companies are going to need to develop entirely different modes of operation that recognize the fact that you simply can't trust a voice on the other line of a call anymore. Now when it comes to the impact of these hacks on the industry outside of just the ramifications for the people who lost money themselves, it's hard exactly to know what the real impact is. On the one hand, it certainly lends to a perception of immaturity overall, but at the same time, when it comes to the geopolitics and regulation of crypto, the hacks that are most important to keep an eye on are those that have some sort of geostrategic ramifications, particularly those emanating from the Lazarus Group in North Korea. Still, being this deep into a bear market and trying to match all -time records for hacks is not necessarily the place we want to be overall. The one other story that I wanted to cover on today's show is a bit of a dust -up around the Celsius restructuring. In short, the Celsius bankruptcy could be coming to a close after creditors have voted in favor of the current recovery plan. 98 % of creditors gave the thumbs up to a plan which would see the sale of assets to crypto consortium Fahrenheit Holdings. The acquiring group includes Errington Capital and miner US Bitcoin Corp. Fahrenheit plans to retain and operate mining equipment owned by Celsius under a new corporate structure. The new company also plans to stake Ethereum and monetize other Celsius assets. Some large creditors will receive equity in this new company. And in addition, another $2 billion in liquid crypto will be distributed to creditors. Overall, the plan is projected to provide a 76 -85 % recovery. Now one remaining snag in the plan is an objection from the SEC. The regulator filed its objection last Friday to express concerns with Coinbase's involvement in the process. Celsius receivers plan to use Coinbase as an intermediary to distribute crypto to creditors. The SEC claimed the agreement could require Coinbase to The SEC filing claimed that However, this court should not be asked to approve a deal where their material terms are missing or inconsistent. The regulator also appears concerned about an additional agreement with Coinbase, which Celsius have attempted to file under seal and have not yet disclosed. Coinbase's Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal hit back at the SEC's objection in a Twitter post stating, Now, Wayne Vaughn had a very simple explanation, saying, And of course, this isn't the first time we've seen the SEC stand in the way of a bankruptcy distribution agreed to by creditors. In March, the SEC objected to Voyager using Binance US to distribute crypto to its creditors, which was of course months before the regulator had filed its lawsuit against Binance but still based their objections on claims that the exchange was an unregistered securities brokerage. A very unimpressed judge in the Voyager case called it This time around, of course, the SEC at least does have an ongoing lawsuit that they can point to regarding Coinbase's brokerage services, but the objection does still seem odd given that the regulator didn't seek an injunction to prevent Coinbase from operating as normal in the interim. The Celsius case will return to court next Thursday to hear the SEC's argument and see if the judge is inclined to allow the plan to go ahead. Now one interesting line of discussion are the implications for the spot ETF applications that are outstanding. Adam Cochrane writes, Now, speaking of ETFs, Bitwise filed an amendment to its spot Bitcoin ETF application on Monday, adding 40 pages of research on Bitcoin market structure. The research aimed to preempt arguments from the SEC, which could be used to reject the current batch of ETF applications. Bitwise claimed to show that Bitcoin futures are the primary market for price discovery with spot prices following futures. According to Bitwise, this would mean that the well -regulated CME futures market should be the primary consideration when looking for evidence of market manipulation. They argued that this trading venue should count as a regulated market of significant size for market surveillance purposes. As part of their argument, Bitwise also cited a previous study from 2019, which suggested that Bitcoin's spot market mainly consisted of fake volume, making the relative size of the regulated futures market much larger in comparison. Regarding the price impact of futures, Bitwise found in 2021 that futures markets accounted for between 52 .97 % and 68 .03 % of Bitcoin's price discovery. Now this isn't the first time Bitwise have dropped large amounts of Bitcoin research on the SEC to dispute their claims. They have produced at least two 100 -page -plus reports in support of previous Bitcoin ETF applications. Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hogan explained his firm's strategy in a Twitter thread stating, That's the happy case. The question is, what happens if the SEC appeals the court decision? In short, we return to the status quo. We're back to needing to prove that the CME Bitcoin futures market leads price discovery over the spot market such that it can serve as a regulated market of significant size for the purpose of surveillance. Unfortunately, existing filings do not include substantively new arguments or research addressing this question head on. Until now, today's amendment aims to address point by point each of the major objections the SEC has raised in prior disapprovals for spot Bitcoin ETFs. In particular, we try to clear up the significant confusion around the growing body of academic literature on price discovery in the Bitcoin market and demonstrate that every well -designed academic study supports the finding that the CME is significant. So friends, there you have it, a little bit of hacks, a little bit of the SEC objecting to something that seems reasonable from the outside. In other words, a quintessential 2023 crypto day. Appreciate you guys listening, as always. And until next time. Peace.
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Fresh update on "mgm" discussed on Live From Studio 6B
"Alright live from Studio 6B on a Monday. New month. October is here. Slick Rick's gonna do some news. Lots to talk about. Harry on the highways in the building. Aaron and Fran holding it down as always. And of course you live from Studio 6B audience. New week. New month. Hope everybody had a great weekend. We were off Friday. I was off Thursday. Thanks to the great David Zier for sitting in for me on short notice. As always appreciate that. So I feel like I haven't been here in a long time. Slick Rick how are you? Fantastic big day. How was your weekend? It was terrible. Oh why you ask? Why? Well I'll tell you why. Because if there's one sporting event in the world that I almost paint my face red white and blue that's how much I'm into it. As you know Slick Rick and I know you know what I'm about to say. Is the Ryder Cup. It's the one event in golf. There's a lot of events in golf I love being a golfer my whole life. But the Ryder Cup is is the event that I look forward to and root as hard as you can root for the American team especially as they flip-flop home and away home and away when they're away in Europe for the Ryder Cup. And your favorite player of all shine. And this was an unmitigated disaster for the US. But first let me say David Zier how are you? I'm wonderful thank you so much for asking. What's under Marxist leftist assault? New York. New York is crazy. Washington's not far behind. Check. Is there anything new? Another day that ends in Y. Mayor Adams is going to Mexico City we should revoke his. Yeah. Oh the white shirt. I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm hearing something in my ear. Is that going to air Fran? No. Oh it's not going to air. Okay that's Harry on the highway. The white shirt is black is blaring. Harry of course comes in and takes over the microphones talking to us. White balance. If you were at least going to air Harry that'd be better so people could hear you. Yeah yeah well anyway EV mandates are here for trucks we'll get into that if you want. Great. You know. Fantastic. Takes away 20% of the cargo weight of a truck that's good news for the truckers. All right so we're gonna get into all that. David Zier's got a bunch of news he wants to get into. Slick's gonna have sports but just to get back to what I just and then we'll get into. We'll get into Gates and all this nonsense and then McCarthy and it's it's this is a cut we'll get into all of that what's going on motion to vacate is on the floor okay rah rah rah great we'll get into all of that how we got here and what the real real problem is here it's not Gates and it's honestly not McCarthy it's this whole damn party that that's really the bottom line so we'll get into all of that and how we got here and some of the things maybe you didn't know that happened you know I I said to somebody this weekend when all this was going down if you're at the table in your short stacked and you have seven deuce offsuit for those of you who play poker you know it's gonna be harder for you to be the bully at the table then if you have got you know 70% of the chips in play and you've got aces every hand you know then you can bluff and and bully and do these things and here we are with a four-seat majority and all along what have we talked about on this show we have talked about the fact that you actually have to get to the shutdown you have to get to the shutdown and with a four-seat majority how much are you gonna be able to do without eventually playing into McCarthy's hands and have him turn around and work with the Democrats which is not exactly what happened but pretty damn close pretty close to what we talked about but before we even get to that because this is gonna be a night of basically drawing the distinction between the Democrats and the Republican Party as a whole because that's really we're pretty much screwed with the party that we have now it's just it's just a fact but just to just to draw the distinction let's talk about California for a second so what happens in California Diane Feinstein passes away last week I guess on Friday was it Friday yeah I saw the news or Thursday Friday whatever it was now California is obviously a huge state and you'd have to figure it's it's California's become a you know leftist progressive utopia over the last years and of course slick slick Newsome running the show and everybody's talking about him and how he's gonna worm his way into the presidency and whatever he gets to a point this person in the to replace Feinstein so you look at you look at California and you got to think well there's got to be a lot of up-and-coming Marxists in the state Senate state legislature some government body there in California that he can go to House members whoever well Gavin Newsom goes to someone that wasn't elected to anything in California as a we can tell she's registered to vote in Maryland didn't she scrub her Twitter page she did today so he appointed a quote first of all black female because that was if you're gonna check the boxes on what she had to have it wasn't you know good legislative history it wasn't smart it wasn't black female check black lesbian female okay we're about to get the box number two does that seem you know kind of random black woman who of course he promised the point that's not even from California so why do you pick her of course that brings us to box two not only she a black female she's a lesbian activist so now we have two boxes checked and that brings us to of course box three which is she's a rabid abortion activist she's the head of Emily's list which is the biggest pro abortion organization that the left you know is in bed with or whatever so this just draws the distinction between the Republican Party and the Democrats the Democrats will get whoever serves their purposes the most on the issues that matter to them the most at the time they matter and they will do whatever they have to to get their biggest activists their biggest player for whatever they're trying to tackle they'll do whatever and wherever to get those persons in those positions the Republicans would never do something like this the Republicans would never make a move like this abortions hot what does he do goes out and gets a black lesbian abortion activist who's not even a Californian to put in this Senate seat which is a hugely powerful seat and she campaign advisor to Kamala Harris they take their best fighters at the time they need them for the issues they need them for and do whatever they have to to get them in position to fight for what they want the Republicans just don't do it they just don't do it you'd never see something like that as we face every existential crisis known to man coming at us border inflation debt biomedical tyranny judicial tyranny all over this country so do you mean that the left always puts the most hardcore person up and we don't we always put a moderate they they put what they put whoever the most vicious yeah killer to attack issue they think they can leverage to win because when we started 2023 what were the Republican leverage points that we had we had to we had the debt ceiling and we had the September 30th deadline that we knew was coming for the budget that was the leverage Republicans had heading into 2023 correct everybody knew that this is your chance to not give the American Express black card to the Democrats again with no limit decide what you're gonna fund decide what you're not gonna fund and use your leverage points to get what you want and what's amazing about where we are is that in all of the times on this show I've talked about these debt ceilings Pelosi and Schumer rolling McConnell rolling McCarthy rolling who ever was in charge they always got their ass kicked all over the place always but in previous years they always had the leader of the party whether they were in control the White House or not had the ability to actually help them in messaging and now we're in this fight with a president and leader of their party who can't put a complete sentence together is half dead is half comatose every single day not even there to help them fight this fight and yet the outcome is still no different still no different so you can't fight on a party that it's extremely disliked a president that is extremely disliked on issues that the American people favor your position on most and they couldn't even fight for 24 48 72 hours past the deadline for government shutdown they were more scared of the actual shutdown than they are of what's going on at the border what's going on it with inflation what's going on as everything that cripples your life that's crushing your existence that's crushing your Liberty no they're not scared about that they're scared about all but the the the the deadline to shut down the government we couldn't even get to a government shutdown which has been the point I've talked about for you have to get to the shutdown which is why Chip Roy who clearly saw this coming a mile away and Byron Donald's had put together to start an 8% credit cut across the board and catch and release some other border provisions as at least a point to say here's our jump-off point here's what we're gonna stand behind we're gonna pass this and send it to marble mouth and let him pressure would it have mattered that Democrats didn't have the Democrats have to say in an election year are we gonna are we gonna work we're gonna be responsible for this shutdown right now are we gonna be responsible for saying no no no we don't want to secure the border at all yeah I think one by the way before you before you go on the word on the street is that 8% that they discussed two weeks ago not got shut down went to 30% yeah on Friday afternoon I saw it because that's what they had promised back in March and they said let's do it 30% cut I saw that but you know again in the end does it do anything my my concern is that I don't care if the government shuts down let us shut down when new gang rich which surprisingly you know was ripping apart Matt gates because new Cambridge shut down the government and we got the largest tax crease in cuts up until that point in the history of America the economy took off like a rocket ship in 1996 I'm in the building industry for 35 years I watched it it happened and also they got Clinton to balance the budget over it but I just wanted to add Ben Burquam on the war room tonight if you didn't catch it go online and watch the segment with Ben because you know they he was on fire that they should all walk out of Congress just over the border situation but anyway that's that's why that's why they discussed using the border as a jump-off point it was easily understandable by the public it was something that every almost every you would think everybody in the in their caucus even the mainstream Rhino caucus and if certainly the Freedom Caucus would have been on board with you throw in an 8% cut for the 30 45 days and say this is our jump-off point it's not this is not what we want we know this is not going to be signed but this is our jump-off point in the house here you go let Schumer and them say no we don't we're not gonna do this let them be responsible for the messaging but we could never get there all right a lot more on this and some of the other things that happened this past weekend and the real question is when is enough enough for the Republicans all right 17 past the hour live from studio 6b we'll do some sports and news here in a second so just to finish these first thoughts so I was away for two days and all this was going down I mean I have no confidence that in 45 days anything's gonna be any different and I just I just don't know how how much worse does it have to get like where do we have to get to that the Republicans can actually unify behind some messaging is there any amount of people across the border is there any amount of inflation is there any amount of our Liberty be taken away that the Republicans can unify behind positions and you know how unify behind messaging at the actual time that it actually matters like how lives have to be destroyed how many people have to be targeted how much how much does the Trump family have to deal with how much degradation to your way of living does there have to be political targeting of opponents of Americans j6 or like how much is there anything that will elicit a unified response from the Republican Party is the question that I would ask myself tonight what if the you know the Freedom Caucus and the conservative people who claim to be more conservative what if they're not happy with what the Republicans are doing there's no fight in the mainstream Republican Party I think in normal times I could be down with that argument you have a four-seat majority you have to play the hand at some point you have to play the hand you're dealt you could argue that what Gates is doing and I always say what do I say about Gates he's always on offense he's sometimes the only one but you have to be somewhat pragmatic about what you can get at the time what do you have right now you have 45 days of Biden's agenda still fully funded with not a single concession I think the left you've lost the plot my friend I think the left wants to annihilate our country they want to flood the country with the Legals they want to tear it all down and that's their that's their end game so you know the Republicans are complicit in it by not taking tougher stands you know so I understand what you're saying I honestly don't even think it's like one it's not even about gates it's not even about McCarthy it's about the party as a whole it's not even about one person yeah I dare say it's not even about marble mouth it's not about one person when you look at this party when you look at where we are is there anybody that thinks in 45 days this is going to be any different now he's put a motion to vacate on the floor I don't think he's gonna get 218 votes and he admits that he says he probably won't get it on the first time around so maybe they'll come to a consensus by then you know maybe they make gains maybe gates makes gains and they come out swinging after that right I mean it's always worst before the dawn right I don't know I think the gates is doing us any favors right now with the way he says but I also don't think like if he was out of the picture that we would be like sailing off to conservative utopia either I don't think that's I don't think that's the case either right that's what I'm saying I don't think it's about one person at this point with the party it's the whole party as a whole it's bigger than I don't know what we can do about it I don't know I don't know if we can do anything about it even if we dig in our heels unless they say I'm not coming to Congress anymore and we're gonna shut down the government for good until we fix the border you know and other things I mean we're being destroyed like we are being destroyed right now there's one thing you can say in past years Republicans have never had the people on the inside to fight the fight now we have people who are willing to fight the fight but they're not part of it right yeah exactly but no one now we have the outside not paying attention most people are not paying attention to what's going on the 104th Congress you know in the Republican Revolution did make dramatic gains it was a special time in our history and in the end you know people like Scarborough it's a total jerk you know was part of that Republican Revolution but they got a lot done right in the beginning they got a lot done and you know I don't know I feel like the civil and criminal courts are controlled by leftists and Marxists I feel the federal government is controlled by people who want you dead they want us dead they don't want us around and you know we're in the fight for our lives so you know I just it just bothers me that there's gonna be like you know negotiating you know I don't know what to do I don't know what to do but you know we're all getting hurt we're all getting hurt and people can't pay their bills right now does anyone does anyone think in these 45 days that McCarthy can get eight appropriations bills with actual key priorities that the Republicans say they are gonna stand for and actually stand in unity before the what we should have been doing in August when we went on recess which is part of the problem mrs. Warren McCarthy screwed us again not only to screw us on the debt ceiling he screwed us on this too why weren't we doing this in August putting the 12 appropriations bills together and then again say here's what's the messaging here's what we're standing behind here's what we're doing we're ready to go for September 30th we're ready to go we're passing this and here you go Senate I look at it like when you read the news the mainstream media and they say gates is bad I feel like he's doing something right but I also agree with what you're saying you know I get it but you know they want it they want to demonize the right yeah all right we'll do more on this more news with David dear let's do some sports though and here with that is slick Rick Rick Amorani sports brought to you by Mike Lindell if you didn't see Lindell today on war room I shared the clip on our social media and it's just a constant he's just another one it's just how much just a constant attack now he's getting audited there's five or six audits going on now all of a sudden at my pillow if you didn't see it it's on our social media check that out but Mike Lindell sponsor sports LFS XP is the code slick Rick what's going on I big D well before I get to recap the games we have to pick the NFL game on tonight the Monday night game odds makers Aaron and I it's the New York Giants hosting the Seattle Seahawks in MetLife Giants on the move big D they got the ball down around the 30-yard line five minutes into the game so who you gonna take Aaron I'm taking the Giants tonight okay and I'm gonna take Seattle so that makes it interesting I'll take Seattle Seattle's laying two and a half points big D so mark that down in the book and before I get to any of the other odds makers do I do want to get to a story that really disturbed me this morning disturbed my 70s and early 80s football former Pro Bowl tight end Russ Francis dies in a plane crash and we're terrible ESPN report this morning for Pro Bowl tight tight end Russ Francis was killed in a plane crash in Lake Placid New York on Sunday according to family members Francis was 70 Francis and Richard McSpadden a former commander of the US Air Force Thunderbirds rolled hard to the left after takeoff from Lake Placid Airport before crashing according to a NTSB spokesman it was not immediately clear whether Francis or McSpadden was flying the plane Francis was taken by the New York New England Patriots in the first round of the 1975 draft he made three pole Pro Bowls for the team in 1982 he moved on to the San Francisco 49ers he won a Super Bowl there in 1984 and Francis returned to the Patriots in 1987 before concluding his career the following season Pro Bowl career my older brother Russ Francis was just killed in an airplane crash in Lake Placid New York Francis's brother Ed Francis wrote on Facebook yesterday flying was my brother's lifelong passion and perhaps a fitting way for him to go godspeed to you my big brother very sad story a lot of the old 70s and 80s football fans remember he was one of the prototype phenomenal tight ends of his day big day with the Patriots and very sad news and I'll get to a couple of quick scores so odds makers over the weekend Aaron and I we both split we went two and two she won the Notre Dame game do do do did not pull it out in the end and then I had Kentucky over Florida yes she had Ole Miss over LSU and the Colorado bad now Dion kept it close big day 21 and a half point dog and that game turned into a dog fight at the end 48 41 USC Caleb Williams just getting out of Dodge before that game wrapped that was a heck of a game on Sunday and that's a wrap in sports if we get time later I'll get to the NFL breakdown how we did on that I will do some more sports right when we get back and then we'll do some news with David Zier more news on the budget and where we are what we think is gonna happen we're gonna cover Charlie Kirk tonight his first tour stop in San Jose we'll cover that as well in our to live from studio 60 more to do I 30 minutes past the hour live from studio 6p on a Monday night glad you're in new week new month lots to talk about lots to do as I said we're gonna be covering real America's voice is gonna be covering Charlie Kirk is going on on his think it's called live free tour it's a college tour he's gonna go challenge the progressives I think on these college campuses and when he does we're gonna be covering it so any night that Charlie's out there we're gonna cover it whenever we whenever he goes live we will go to Charlie Kirk tonight I think it's gonna be around 930 or so so last half hour of the show you're gonna get Charlie Kirk live from San Jose on the live free tour so we'll keep an eye on that as soon as they take the stage there we will go live to San Jose and bring you that in its entirety so let's do some more sports 30 minutes past the hour since Slick didn't have a ton of time slick Rick sponsored by Mike Lindell and my pillow LFS XP you know how many emails I got today you know what the majority of them were what's the new shirt of the month that was the number one question I got today in the email is what was the new shirt of the month which I will reveal before the end of the show you've already actually decided what the shirt of the month is the audience you did that last month when you picked the did not comply will not comply you know it was second that's the new shirt of the month and it was really close to the winner last month so that's what we're gonna go with slick what else is going on sports all right well listen to this one Patrick Mahomes goal line slide shifts millions at is in in Vegas David Purdum ESPN staff writer Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Holmes slid down at the New York Jets two-yard line sealing a 23-20 win over the Jets on Sunday night a decision that shifted tens of millions of dollars at sportsbooks around the nation the Chiefs closing as eight-point favorites over the Jets and received overwhelming support from the betting public at sportsbooks an hour before kickoff 91% of the bets and 84% of the money wage it on the game's point spread were on Kansas City at Caesars sportsbook met MGM and draft kings also reported heavy action on the Chiefs a Mahomes touchdown an extra point would have put the Chiefs up ten enough to cover the spread with less than two minutes to play he instead made the heady play to give himself up allowing the Chiefs to kneel run out the final seconds and secure the win big day books makers knew early the last week that they need all all the Jets for a big decision in the Sunday night game all week money from the betting public had poured in on the Jets who opened a nine-and-a-half point road favorites over the Jets yet some big bets from sharp bettors caused the line to move in favor of the Jets in the hours ahead of kickoff Caesars reported taking in a $350,000 bet and a $240,000 bet on the Jets plus eight and a half on Sunday yet still had lopsided action on the Chiefs somebody knew something there big day but the sharp money came in on the Jets and we're still rooting for them Adam pull in this isn't directed the Caesars book said Sunday shortly after the game kicked off the Chiefs jumped out to a 17-nothing lead but of course we know the story the Jets came back Zach Wilson played a stellar game a lot of folks think that the Jets might have got shift you know got the slip down that on that one call that big D little jockey and back and forth between Jets great sauce gardener and the Kansas City receiver skips my mind right now and there was a flag thrown Wow unbelievable so what are you gonna do that's the way it goes and let's just quickly recap the NFL games Aaron and I had picked on Thursday night in advance of Fridays because we weren't on Lions did end up defeating the Packers 34 to 20 therefore I did cover that game we split on that one bills over the Dolphins but blowout 48 to 22 a tug of a low is still looking for his hat unbelievable game there and so that was 48 21 that won the Eagles that was a loss over the commanders minus eight they did pull that game out 34 31 in overtime but they did not cover the Vikings over the Panthers they did cover they won 21 to 13 and we both had the Chiefs beating the Jets they did beat them but they did not win by nine and a half as I just mentioned in that story about my homes and all that money in Vegas big D so for the weekend we were two and two on the NCAA college picks that I mentioned in the last segment and then three and two on the pro so and not such a great weekend there in the NFL I am 21 and 10 on the season right now big day I'm not sure what very impressive your numbers I'm not sure what I think Aaron's 500 that's fantastic too yeah I think I'm just about 500 15 and 15 about fantastic good from both of you so far yeah no not bad pick so we'll have more picks up we got this Friday we have to show a big day so we'll definitely do that do you want to get into the Ryder Cup or you want to skip that news then we'll get into the Ryder Cup because I have some thoughts to offer you on the Ryder Cup too and our captain so we'll get into that more sports thanks LeCric sports is brought to you by Michael and Dallas do some news news is brought to you by seven cells sitting in for Rick Delgado of course the great David Zia mr. Zia hey what's going on in your world there's a lot going on you know I have a background in real estate so this stuff hits home yeah about Trump I mean I don't have assets anywhere near you know or virtually any assets except a home but listen join a club listen all of this stuff has to get vetted through a bank and as my new friend Mandy Katz says her monarch real estate he's an expert a veteran in Manhattan you know there are appraisals their insurance companies is underwriting the site visits there's comps nobody gives out money from a bank you know as lawyer as Trump's lawyers you know crazy put out today nobody's gonna give you a loan based on you say if you were 3.8 billion if you're really only worth 2 billion so the whole thing's fraudulent but you know as Mandy Katz had he had a great quote with me in our conversation that the iconic Trump organization is going to be chopped up and and they want to get rid of the Trump name and bury it under the streets of Manhattan why is it okay for Jeff Bezos to buy a property in Beverly Hills for a hundred and sixty five million dollars on just a couple of acres that's only 12,000 square feet or why is it okay for him to buy a 10,000 foot home not even in a nicer area than Mar-a-Lago's in Palm Beach Island which is the creme de la creme it's the French Riviera of the East Coast of the United States you know for 68 million dollars for a 10,000 foot house or 12,000 foot house I think it's 10 on just a couple of acres people are selling land on Palm Beach Island and right there for 200 million dollars for two acres for three acres just for the land Mar-a-Lago's 30 acres it's 63,000 feet it's the iconic Marjorie Post family from the famous cereal Empire was built it's this incredible property it's probably worth a billion dollars but also Jeff Bezos bought all these properties in Manhattan 17 million 16 million 80 million 11 Madison Park or one of those addresses you know but they're not as nice as Trump Tower and these other iconic and the Trump brand brings so much to it so we're watching this and it's very very sad because when you buy a Trump brand it's like a trophy asset on millionaire or billionaires row it has meaning and depth to it and the value is arbitrary you know you could say it's worth whatever you want it's only what somebody's willing to pay for exactly which with is what it's worth but anyway I just wanted to get that off my chest it's what it's upsetting to watch because now anybody crazy anybody's can be a target if you're on the right and you're in New York doing business your target yeah it's Banana Republic stuff and it's an that's an insult to bananas to say that that's how bad it is it's ridiculous I mean if anyone's ever bought or sold a house I mean you know what's involved with even just doing that when it comes to banks and it comes to appraisers and it comes to pricing and it comes to what they'll lend you and all you ever anybody who's done basic transactions know how valuations work and how and who they're left up to and I've never in all the transactions I've ever done had some radical leftist judge be a part of it or maybe any decisions about it or give his opinion about it yeah it's it's out of control here this is this is another just trying to put the handcuffs on President Trump so that he has continued money issues borrowing issues campaign issues campaign calendar issues whatever they can do it's just so blatantly obvious and wearing a leftist Marxist takeover of a criminal and civil courts like Giuliani says and it's just the way it is and Latisha James Trump calls her a racist has a history of prosecuting or trying to prosecute white men falsely past the Doyle from the cornerstone Church upstate Cornerstone Church he had a reawaken America tour come to his church she wanted him arrested for domestic terrorism or extremism and the Rensselaer County County County executive won a case I think it was the county executive up there won a case against James she wanted to put him in jail and he beat her you know another way she wanted to go after Cuomo and then run for governor herself this woman I mean it's insane yeah and she doesn't have the intellectual capacity to respect the Constitution there's no one more politically motivated in this country than her no and but it's it's on a grand scale and you know that's where we're at and I got some funny videos for you later and I got a story on time you want to do some we still got time you want to talk about EV trucking really quick yeah you know these EV mandates I just interviewed Mike Kucharski again I interview him a lot he's the head of the largest refrigerator corporate refrigerator truck corporation in America these guys are operating on a shoestring they're already going out of business the mandates the health insurance all the stuff that's going on the crazy laws in California you can't have a truck that's more than 10 years old right now it only costs 180 to 200,000 for a tractor trailer only but these EV trucks they're gonna cost over $300,000 do you know that the batteries there's two 8,000 pound batteries in these trucks they weigh 16,000 pounds now most trucks in the United States only have a gross vehicle weight of about 80,000 pounds on the road because the roads can't take it anything more than that so you're gonna lose 20% of your cargo load now you have to stop now a diesel truck has two 150 gallon tanks plus another diesel tank for the refrigeration up front you only have to stop once on an 1800 mile run you get 1600 to 1800 miles with the electric vehicles the most range they've gotten so far is about 377 miles if I'm not correct and every time you stop to charge you use the power of 200 homes from the grid and it takes 10 hours to charge so good luck getting strawberries from California to shop right on Long Island New York in anything less than a week and it's gonna be devastating for the industry and it only takes 20 to 40 minutes to fill up your truck with diesel and you don't create the torque with EV that a diesel can only diesel and diesel is also non flammable Volvo released the line of electric trucks and they're telling you not to keep them indoors because all your other trucks are gonna burn down so what's going on here are mandates that in some states are going to be in as early as 2030 I think parts of California and some of the ports and these guys are already and this guy Mike Kutarsky from JK JKC trucking it's the largest refrigerator truck company in America he drives a Prius and you know he gets 57 miles a gallon he's not knocking innovation but it's got to be market-fed it's got it can't be can't be pushed or mandated it's got to be market driven I mean so you know either works or it doesn't and he's proponent of even hybrid technology but it should incorporate hydrogen but hydrogen is very flammable as well but that's the only thing that can create the torque for a truck so again they're shoving these things down our throat you can't change the laws of physics and we're gonna destroy an already struggling industry yeah all right we'll do some more news with David zero do some more sports with slick Aaron and Fran holding it down as always on a Monday night live from studio 6b and we'll continue to talk about what is going on within this Republican Party and where we go from here okay we got 45 days we got no concessions we got bond all of Biden's agenda still funded for 45 more days and where do we go from there and what is the crux and the core of the problem with the Republican Party we'll get into that we'll get into some other issues as well including this New York case President Trump what happened today is some of the case gonna get thrown out on statute of limitations we'll talk about that as well and Charlie Kirk in our to buy from studio 6b I 13 to the hour live from studio 6b got an email forwarded to me here came in Damon please why don't you make a public announcement invitation demand that Mitch McConnell come on your show and answer dead serious questions about why he is so quiet about the terrible border crisis I dare you to mention this on air and demand the response from McConnell we never hear anything from him on the border David thank you for the email couple things number one you don't have to demand me just talk about it on air if you've watched this show consistently since 2015 since I've done it or since 2020 since we've been on real America's voice I've talked about Mitch McConnell incessantly hundreds of thousands of times about what a political disaster loser wussy he is he will never go on any true conservative talk show not this one not that I'm putting this show in that realm but he would never go on with Hannity he'll never go on with Levin he would have never gone on with rush he'll never go on with Ben Shapiro he'll never go on with Michael Knowles he'll never go on with Dan Bongino he'd never come on with us he'd never go on with Megyn Kelly he'd never go on with anyone he'll go on MSNBC he'll go on CNN he may go on Fox with maybe Brett Baer back when he had when he had it somewhat together but he will do no true conservative show where he'll get any real questions or pushback ever so it's a it's a moot point and again I understand the frustration but it's a total moot point he'll never do any place that he'll get any serious questions or pushback or not allowed to just you know do that for 20 minutes well no so he won't go on shows where he can't do that so it's it's a it's a moot point he's never gonna come on here for many reasons and most a lot of people won't a lot of people a lot of these Republicans won't go anywhere I want to see a Biden Fetterman and McConnell roundtable that's a no-brainer where they're gonna any serious questions none of them will that's why you see the real real conservatives even like I mean they don't have any guests on their show most of the time very few they don't have guests piled up every night because none of them will go there they want to go where they're loved that's why they you know they want to go on MSNBC it's why they take shots at Trump cuz that make the what do you think Chris Christie's on every damn channel 24-7 for that fat bastard cuz he's taking shots at Trump all the time oh let's get Christie on he took another shot at Trump put him on with Jake Tapper it'll be great get him on the view that'll be great that's what they do so thanks for the email but that's this is not gonna happen so Daniel Horowitz today the right has a problem it's not merely a Mitch McConnell or Kevin McCarthy problem it's a Republican Party problem conservatives will never have leverage to fight the issues that matter in any meaningful way until we find a new home that is the stone-cold truth of the matter before we can move forward we all must face this inconvenient reality on Saturday 82% of Senate Republicans 82% and 50% of the allegedly more conservative House GOP conference voted to continue funding every single odious Biden administration policy including destructive inflationary spending for another seven weeks without a single concession in return in doing so they show that they fear the partial shutdown more than they fear anything else that the government's targeting a government shutdown has not been averted because we now face the ultimate government shutdown indefinitely with no strategy or political vehicle to end it Republicans began this year with the most auspicious potential to block Joe Biden's agenda they had the twin leverage points of the debt ceiling the budget deadline whereby they could have refused to grant Joe Biden any more funding for any of his harmful Marxist policies without serious concessions to the Republicans in many respect Republicans had more leverage than ever before because they could theoretically govern with a simple majority in the house while Democrats needed 60 votes to use their majority in the Senate moreover unlike during the ten years of Bill Clinton or Barack Obama Democrats are saddled with an extremely unpopular president who could not command the bully pulpit during any shutdown fight so of course what happened Republicans in June gave Biden a blank check for the remainder of his term by suspending the debt ceiling until 2025 more time than he had asked for the debt has grown quicker than ever before as a result the GOP's final leverage point was the budget and the anticipation of the border invasion gave congressional Republicans the perfect mandate to fight through a government shutdown yet with both of these leverage points Republican leaders showed us that there is no degree of danger in which Biden can place this country in that would prompt them to engage in any brinkmanship whatsoever they wouldn't even go up to the line and allow a lapse in funding for at least Sunday when most government facilities are closed anyway they fear one minute of temporary funding lapse more than they fear inflation debt illegal aliens and the FBI picking off their political opponents you should shudder to think exactly what it would take to shift Republican leaders attention away from the old paradigm everything we have been through these past few years was evidently not enough it's also shocking how Republicans had no problem shutting down the entire country for months yet they zealously clamor to avoid one minute of a partial federal furlough over a weekend what's clear is nothing has changed about this party since the era of Trump began not among leadership not among the overwhelming majority of rank-and-file members if they can't even fight for a few days into a government shutdown over issues like the border inflation debt against this Democrat president and these Democrat opponents they will never fight for us ever we will now suffer through endless inflation invasion at the border war on our energy war on our freedoms political persecution with zero backstop in sight there was quite literally nothing Democrats can do that would seem to elicit a unified righteous response from the Republican Party it's not that they don't have values they certainly care deeply about funding Ukraine it's just that you and I are not part of their value system and that really is the main point now that we can't even wait till 2025 to redress any of the aforementioned crises but nothing will change then either even if Republicans win all three branches with such a maniacal degree of fear of a debt ceiling or budget funding lamps Republicans will never have leverage to fulfill a single campaign promise assuming any of those promises are even a little sincere Democrats will always have enough votes in the Senate to filibuster any GOP budget bill GOP leaders have made it clear that they will never allow the government to shut down not even for a day by definition that means the Democrats will always win a budget fight a hundred percent of the time we need not speculate about the future when in fact this is what occurred when Republicans controlled the trifecta of government with Donald Trump as president McConnell as Senate Majority Leader Paul Ryan is Speaker of the House and as I noted earlier this year Kevin McCarthy was the House Majority Leader and shepherded nearly every budget bill through the floor with more support from Democrats than they had from Republicans nothing has changed from then and nothing will but it's worse than the political math at the federal level in more than 20 states Republicans enjoy control of all three branches with filibuster proof majorities why is it we can barely find Republicans outside of Florida willing to fight on issues such as green energy and illegal immigration they wield dominant majorities in some states to the point where there aren't enough Democrats to populate all of the committees yet Republicans still betray us at some point we have to face the music that the obstacle the reform has nothing to do with the Democrats the Republican Party is the problem more sports news coming up all right hour two nine o'clock on the East Coast real America's voice glad you're in on a Monday October 2nd new week new month lots to talk about lots to do everybody's complaining cuz I'm talking I wasn't here Thursday wasn't here Friday so I got a lot to say Delgado's not here you think Delgado was hosting this show it doesn't matter who's sitting in the seat you complain about whoever's here they talk too much right slick right now always absolutely yeah he gets it I yield my time all night slick right tell Delgado to shut up get right on it Damon talks too much David oh well oh well thanks for watching all right slick's gonna do some sports Aaron and Fran holding it down the great David's here it's sitting in for Rick Delgado who does have a birthday tonight that he's significant family birthday yes significant others birthday so he took the night off David's gonna do some news and we're gonna Charlie Kirk is traveling around the country doing a live free tour and I think tonight he is with University of San Jose students which I would think would be fiery because I can't imagine well I don't know I can't imagine any of these places I think that's the point of it right he's gonna go he's going into the enemy territory he's been great you know when he was at ASU I think it was last week you know he's like they don't want to debate they just want to curse at me you know so now he's this is their opportunity to have intelligent discussion if they're capable of it well so we're gonna bring that to you on the nights that he does these and there's they're spread out here over the next couple months I think couple nights and it'll interrupt the last part of our show but we're happy to do it because I think it'll be great to watch so first one is tonight we expected around 930 or so maybe a little earlier maybe a little later but we'll throw to Charlie out at University of San Jose whenever he goes live so let's do some news with David I'm not gonna talk the rest of this I'm done it's turned over to David's ear and slick Rick we'll start with news news is brought to you by our friends over at seven cells David Zia what's going on I have nothing to say for a change don't make me pull the fire alarm to get us out of here he was upset about that too huh wasn't a principal too he said he didn't know what it was for he thought the door would open when he pulled the thing come on sounds very insurrection to me and yeah be charges should be filed already get 22 years at least he was in DC while he committed in the building committed it an obstruction so okay lot going on and it'll be fun they should film the parking lot after Charlie Kirk's done tonight of all the kids getting in their parents Lexus to go home you know after they scream about social justice anyway Gingrich let's see Anthony Agüero RAV correspondent extraordinaire you know listen all of them Benjamin Michael Yan Ben Burke qualms the greatest Anthony Aguero Oscar Obleu watch this footage it's heartbreaking so if I could talk over this you know what you're watching is illegals on their way up I don't know if they're in the u.s.
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"Watch Watch out when we have AI acting like an angry, entitled, disrespectful, moody teenager. I love it. I love it. You and I will both be making tinfoil hats at that point. It's, it's, it's, listen, there's some things it's really good at. It's just a work calculator right now. I mean, it's just really good. There are some areas of where it can be super helpful, especially in the areas of like translations, it compiling things, having some basic ideas around stuff, getting, you know, getting like, Hey, give me a list of, you know, I want to, I want to make nachos, but I don't want regular nachos. Give me four different nacho recipes. And man, it will just, it will just crank that, you know. It's really good at that. So it'll be interesting to see what co-pilot, just to bring this back around, like, I'm really interested, like, what's that really gonna do for the average consumer? Listen, the co-pilot they use in Visual Studio writes code. What are we, like, is the average consumer in Windows really ready for? Not that we're gonna expect it to write code. I don't put co-pilot in everything. Like, here's a mouse with co-pilot. You're like, I don't need co-pilot in the mouse. You know? So, I don't know. Jim Harter. You'll find out when you do. It'll, it'll, it'll tell you why you need, why you need it in the mouse, Jim Collison. You're like, I don't know, maybe, maybe they'll have co-pilot-enabled monitors, you know, since John's hanging out out there. Co-pilot-enabled monitors where it'll tune itself to the color thing and do, you know. Jim Harter It's just gonna help you move your mouse cursor to the buttons you really need to be clicking, Jim, and, and you don't know what those songs are. Jim Collison It'll have shock, shock response. It's like, No, no, go that way. No, no, no, no, no, no. It'll just say move. That's what it'll do. It'll sit there, move, and then it'll just start moving the mouse for you so you can have it do its thing. Well, anyways, good conversation, Christian. Always great to have you, have you on. Can you hang out for one second as I close this thing up? Jim Harter Yeah, absolutely. Jim Collison All right. Couple reminders on the way out. We do this every show, but of course, you know, The AverageGuy.tv, and we made it all the way through a show without talking about Maple Grove Partners. So we'll throw it in here. If you need high, if you need reliable, high-speed hosting from people that you know and you trust, of course, that's Christian. Check out MapleGrovePartners.com. Plan's still starting at 10 bucks. Is that 10 bucks? 10 bucks a thing, and Christian can do just about anything. So check it out. If you need something, give them a call. Or check it out on MapleGrovePartners.com. If you want to send me an email, jimattheaverageguy.tv, you can join the Discord group, theaverageguy.tv slash Discord. You can leave a message if you're looking for a, just an easy way, 30-second message. You can call it in and leave a question or whatever comment. Go out to homecadgetgeeks.com. There's a little voice button down on the bottom right-hand corner, a little microphone. Click it and leave me a message. Love to hear from you on that as well. We are live every Thursday, 8 p.m. Central, 9 Eastern, out here at theaverageguy.tv slash live. I got a couple shows lined up. I know Bob and Ryan are coming back here pretty quick. Let me bring that up really fast just to, I've been keeping track of shows since Show 100, and we're at 585. So it takes me a while to get there. Christians, this week, I actually have an opening next week. I may be calling, if you're listening to this, Jay, I may be calling to fill in for next week. Bob and Ryan, the week after that, Dave McCabe is checking in after that. So we've got some shows coming up. We'd love to have you out there in the show and us live. Big thanks, Katie, Jay, Brian, John, Tony. I saw Ken out there a little bit earlier. Joe was out there. Thank you guys for coming out in the chat room. Appreciate you guys. And we'll do it again, I think, next Thursday. Thanks for coming out, everybody. With that, we'll say, Goodbye.
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"Says goodbye to Fleetwood Mac the singer shared pictures of the Barbie on Twitter saying when I look at her I see my 27 year old self the Barbie dolls dressed in Nick's era rumors outfit later in a conversation with Vulture Nick says that she doesn't see any reason for Fleetwood Mac to continue without Christine McVie she said McVie was her musical soulmate and her best friend after her death last year says Nick she figured Fleetwood Mac couldn't go any further and there's really no reason to Nix is on a solo tour now and will hit the West Coast in December MGM Resorts and Caesars Entertainment now facing a combined nine federal federal lawsuits following last month's cyber attack the attack brought down many of the operations of MGM's hotels and casinos Latinos thousands of customers had their personal information exposed. Caesars says that a hacker managed and managed to get a copy of their rewards loyalty program database the company was sued by a long Caesar time Rewards member last Friday Northwest News Times 626 sponsored by Muckleshoe casino National Geographic live is Benaroya Hall tonight with scientists photographers filmmakers and adventurers all live on stage it's a week filled with fantastic
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"Jim Collison, ER, PhD Yeah, I think the development of AI is following human development in a lot of ways and that, you know, we began with just in, put stuff in, get stuff out, it's a baby. Put food in, you poop out, right? Whatever. Right. It just, it responds to don't, you know, stop, don't, you know, direct commands. We may be in this early childhood phase where it's starting to learn to talk. It's starting to make things like, it's starting to put concepts together. It has ideas. But when it gets lost, it's smart enough just to start making things up or to, to try to say, well, I know this. I'll try to make that like this, even though that's experience would say that's, that's horribly wrong, right? Don't do those kinds of things. And I still think it doesn't, it doesn't, because it, the human experience is pain. And that we learn from that. It's a response back, right. And it's not, all learning's not that's not built in in any way. It has no good, I think we're struggling with the feedback. Like, what's good feedback? I also wonder if having humans teach it is the right thing, right? I mean, we're, we're, we wonder why the software is flawed, because we're training it, and we're horribly flawed, you know, in a lot of ways. And so we're expecting this perfect, like, Oh, this should be perfect. Well, wait a minute, who, who, who trained it on this horribly complex problem that we're, we're working on? Are you perfect? Like, do you, you know, so anyways, I think we're, we're at this 7- or 8-year-old kind of thing. And maybe the next phase is an angry teenager. Watch out.
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"Yeah, and what does it mean when AI data sets begin to become localized again? Because we know that's going to happen, right? We know right today, they're in the cloud, or they're somewhere else. We know there's going to be situations where they're, those are going to get pushed farther to the edge to be used, right? Yeah, I think it's inevitable. Really, I do. Yeah. So what is that? Because we always think, Oh, processing power at the local level is not going to be needed anymore. Well, maybe not this cycle. But when it cycles back around, and we need to get some of that processing power back to the edge, and there's an advantage to it, that always drives it, right? When there's an advantage to the end user to have that power on the edge, and to be able to do things with it, OK, well, that becomes a little bit of a different, I mean, game streaming has changed. What they've done to get good at game streaming has certainly changed the way we look at remote desktop, or remote computing in that way, right? But that doesn't mean it's always best to think about cars and planes. And planes. You want the computing power on the edge, right? Yeah, and you have to be able to run it in environments where you're not always going to have a persistent connection. Right. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. It's, it's, it's interesting, to say the least. Tony, a couple of comments. Joe, Joe says the, the, some of the changes in Windows have driven him to use keyboard shortcuts. Because the, the mouse experience has gotten kind of jankety in Windows. Yeah, yeah, it's, and it's a little less, I'm, like, I think I'm pretty intuitive with this stuff. And I'm kind of like, OK, where did that go? Like, where did they remove that thing to? Now search, search for those things has never been better, right? There's, you can easily go down and search for it, type it in and find it pretty easily. But there's a lot of changes going on. Tony said, worked part time in the mountains recently. They didn't have my dictation account set up. I used dictation from Windows, copied and pasted it to the EMR, adapt and overcome. Yeah, you can do that. You certainly can do that as well. He goes on to say they're switching to a new electronic record. So it's not a lot of effort to troubleshoot the old one. And boy, it's old. Looks like Windows 2000, or 2000 Mac software. And, yeah, well, there's some, there, I think there's some pretty sizable changes coming on the Windows side. And they're, they're doing some things, depending on who you are. You like it or you hate it, just like everything else, you know, from that perspective. But I think it just came out today. So it's, I think it's, it's brand, it's brand new. But Panos apparently wasn't happy with some of the cutbacks on Surface. I think eventually Microsoft's going to abandon Surface. But, so maybe he saw the writing on the wall. So he's hanging out over there. Yeah, good for him, get swallowed up by the giant, by the giant. Well, Christian, we did it. We got through it once again. Anything, anything you're looking ahead on that, that is that you haven't, you know, you haven't put all this stuff together yet, but that you're keeping an eye on ahead? Generally speaking, in a topic area or ... Yeah, just generally, like, what are you keeping your eye on that, that's going on? I'm watching to see if OpenAI continues to lose or gain market share. And I think because that is the default thing everyone gravitated towards, it'll be really interesting to watch now the bifurcation of what I call the spin-off technologies of that. So I am watching that pretty closely. I'm also watching how they're evolving, what they offer in their free version from their premium version and understanding like those distinctions and those differences. I think that's really important. And I'm also starting to look more seriously at how are we in the computing industry going to deal with the hallucination problem? Because when you look at what's going on with AI, there's some areas where you really don't have to worry about hallucinations. So if you're having the AI write code from known open source libraries, like I don't, I never just outright trust the code, but I can independently verify it very quickly. And it can save hours of time, especially if you're trying to learn something new by only reading documentation as a human versus studying examples that are working backwards from questions. It's incredibly effective. But one of the challenges that AI is going to have to overcome in the next couple of years to really move to the next level is handling the hallucination problem. And for those not familiar with that terminology, it really is just a fancy way of saying that AI seems to be very good at making stuff up. And it does it more so in some areas than others. A good example of this is in the legal community. There have been all sorts of wild stories you can go read or hear about, where lawyers have been submitting documents to the court. And instead of writing their legal briefs, they have the AI write it. It's almost like classic school plagiarism, right? And then when I was going through school, they had launched a service called Turnitin.com to catch the cheaters, right? It's like, we're doing this in our legal system now, but with open AI writing the legal briefs. And so it's been a big problem. But one of the reasons it's been so easy to catch is that the AI was making up entire legal theories based on case law that didn't exist, or precedents that didn't exist, and extrapolating in a way that would never make sense in a legal argument. And this applies to many other areas. The legal example is a good one, though, because it shows how, in that topic area, the AI is much more vulnerable to inaccuracy than in other areas. And so I think this is a matter of when, not if, but it's an open question to me how we're going to go about solving that problem while also dealing with the traditional concerns around how do you bias or not bias training algorithms and making the AI reflect certain personas or certain viewpoints. And that is a problem. But the hallucination problem is almost a subset or an add on problem that I think is going to need to make much more progress in the next couple of years before it reaches the next level of trust by the end user. And currently, there aren't any silver bullet strategies out there that address this problem. So I'm watching to see early movers in this space that say they're starting to tackle that problem head on. And I think that'll be a good indicator that we're moving past just the concept of generative AI into generative AI that has high degrees of accuracy.
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"And a lot of times what I'm doing now is I've set up a domain and I have all these different inbox aliases, so to speak. So, like, let's say you have, like, orders at Jim Collison dot com. Right. And you start putting orders at Jim Collison dot com and anything where, like, you're going to buy something. That's cool. But if your email gets, like, leaked or data breached or whatever, and then you start getting spam and all these other things, you can't really track, like, where did it come from because I've given this email out everywhere. So then you start doing what's called aliasing, which is you don't need to create creating inboxes or aliases in the actual system. You can use the plus sign character, the period. Like, you have to look at what your mail provider supports. But for example, I use a plus sign. So then it'll be like orders plus Best Buy at Jim Collison dot com. And that wasn't I didn't have to set anything up on my mail server. I didn't have to add any new inboxes or any new aliases. But when all of a sudden I start getting weird stuff showing up in my inbox that I know I didn't sign up for, I didn't deal with, I know exactly where that email got leaked from. And I can basically zilch that entire email alias in my mail configuration to say never deliver anything that comes in over this again. And so increasingly, I've moved to a system where I only am handing out aliases to people. And then I control and protect my underlying mailboxes because all the stuff that's auto consuming my address information is coming through an alias. And it doesn't look, you know, I was never really a big fan of some of the like the temp email boxes or the weird aliasing services. They just were kind of cheap. But it's a whole nother service you got to go check in or switch over to or whatever. Right. But, you know, if you're on a commodity mail provider like Gmail, or if you even you're on your hosting your own domain, right, you point your domain to Google Mail Services, and you can do kind of the same capabilities. So it is something that I have really taken to heart in the last few years. And it's helped tremendously manage my understanding of how my email is getting out there and how I can best filter and protect my information coming in. Such a great way. That's such a great way to do that. I need to start doing that as well. By the way, jimcollison.com, I don't own it. So if you want to spam that as much as you can, this poor guy, and he's a real estate guy. I've been, I've been trying to get jimcollison.com forever. I thought at one point, I even set one of those alerts to watch, see if the domain ever, but he's, no, he's, he's, here he is right here. You just have to make him an offer he can't refuse, Jim. There he is. That's, there's, that's the other, that's the other Jim, not the real JC.
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"So SPF and DKIM is a really just simple way to shut that down. But you know, a lot of the Google Workspace tools are including things now that are commonly deployed in enterprises, right? So one of the example kind of simple things that I think is really effective is having companies and or Google Workspace add the external badge to either email subject lines or it's like a tag that will show up in the Gmail interface. And what that really does is it lets you know as someone visually consuming that email message that like, hey, this email is coming from external to your organization. Because now what a lot of people are doing is they're compromising some email or figuring out names and making very similar mailboxes where they'll still represent themselves as someone in your organization with the email that's clearly not from your organization, but it may look like, oh, he's deciding to use his personal Gmail today instead of his corporate address. And so that external badge really helps because then you can train your employees to say basically, hey, when I see the external tag, I should at least have some cautioned or heightened alert that this message didn't come from within my organization and that what I might be receiving in this message is not something I should act on, right? So and then there's things that are more just common sense, right? I've seen a lot of local churches and parishes in the area be impacted by staff that didn't have these tools, were very easily convinced to do something on behalf of what they thought was someone else in their organization. And before you know it, they're changing bank account and routing number information to go to places it shouldn't. And again, kind of same concepts as like the MGM attack, for example, it is rumored that it took about 10 minutes on a phone call after the hacker group found the appropriate employee on LinkedIn, used that to create their persona, call in the help desk and get the initial foothold. I mean, most of those tests that they're doing with phishing, they're a bit obvious. A lot of the ones that are out there are very sophisticated. They're going to do a lot of research to make it super personalized when they're going after high value targets. And so, you know, a common practice should be use these tools to basically, yeah, continue to receive emails from whoever you want to receive. But whenever someone is telling you to do an action over email, you should have some tools that either tell you that it's safe to act upon that or, hmm, I don't have enough here to be confident. I'm going to just pick up the phone and call. And so an example I give to a lot of the organizations I work with is like, anyone's telling you to do anything with money, no matter how legit it does or doesn't look. Because a lot of times it's not stuff about gift cards. It starts out as small innocuous administrative stuff like, hey, you're overdue on this invoice or, you know, hey, we need to move the funds here for this purchase. And they know it's a real purchase coming up, right? That's your spidey sense to just say, okay, I'm going to pick up the phone. And if so and so really does want me to do this, they're not going to be angry or upset if I call to verify, right? So I think common sense goes a long way. But the tools are getting better in the email space. It's still amazing, though, how much we trust doing privileged actions or things based on email or even in some cases a phone conversation I wouldn't trust, right? Like, depending on what's involved in that negotiation, like, do it in person. And it's much harder to fool people in person. Not impossible, but helps avoid a lot of this. And I think it's, it's an interesting statement in social psychology, how trusting we are of people and how trusting we want to be of people over the technology platforms that we use. Well, it's so complicated. Sometimes we go the oversimplified route of, OK, I'm just gonna trust it because I don't want to think about it. It's just too much to think about. And then, or we don't do anything. I mean, I, I know folks, they won't, they don't, won't and don't trust anything. I mean, I'm, and I'm being really even careful. I mean, I do have an account that I sent all the ads to. And, you know, there's sites I trust, and I know, and I see their marketing. I'm pretty sure they're not going to get spoofed, but I don't know for sure. And so that's probably one of those reminders, be a little more careful about, you know, the deals, the deals that are coming in. I haven't seen a lot of those being spoofed. Oftentimes, it's, I get this one, Hey, Microsoft, from Microsoft, air quotes. Someone's trying to change the phone number on your, on your account, right? That's been one real, real common lately. And, yeah, so it's, it's, well, it's, it's a good reminder. And I, you know, we went through an era where we, we just opened up a bunch of email accounts because they were all free. You know, and I think I probably have 6 or 7. You know, I'm down to 6 or 7, and changing from them is painful sometimes, you know. We, we, you know, it's like, I'm still, I'm still, I shouldn't admit this, but I'm still working on the cutover from last pass to bid award. And there's just so much. There were like 600 things I had to, literally, right. And I'm getting to the point now where I'm just getting ready to export it out of last pass, close that account. I have all the, all the important things moved over, but I had all these ancillary things. Now, the other thing is, you could just always go back and say, Well, I'll just reset the password if I need it. You could do that as well. So, yeah, it's super complicated, man. No, it absolutely is. At least on the password storage front, Bitwarden has continued to be a game changer. It's been a great win this year in terms of technology improvement for the average guy. But, you know, when you talk about the free email services or any email service, one, one other suggestion that I have for folks that I don't know that I've actually ever talked about on our show before is email aliases are a damn powerful tool in your toolkit.
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"So pretty impressive, pretty surprising, fascinating how long it took the media to care about covering it. This was a 10-day outage for MGM, so about 80 to 90 million have lost. I don't know if that's revenue or profit, but I mean, just insane. So I thought this was a very splashy, not really a data breach in the kind of the classic sense. Maybe there is data that's been stolen that we don't even know about yet that would make it more of a data breach. I don't think we really have that information. They have that kind of lateral access. Yes. What got downloaded? Everything probably. Absolutely. And I just think that it's fascinating that we still have headlines in the space that ransomware, you know, we see so many different enterprise products around ransomware this. You buy an AV product even for the home, and it talks about all the ways it's going to protect ransomware. But yet, here we are, and it's still very effective at major institutions. Well, it's not going to stop ransomware if you ignore it. Like, that's the thing. Like, you install this stuff maybe locally, and then it tries to. The other, the other night, a few, a few warnings popped up for me. And I'm like, OK, I click them off. And then I'm like, Wait, wait, wait a minute. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Let's open that back up. I should probably go through and see what those warnings are, you know. And so the human, you know, we become the weak link. Is there, I mean, we haven't talked about this in a while, a year or two maybe. Are there any, as we think about, like, I just don't even answer my phone. So no one's going to get me that way. But, but as we think about maybe that the, the email, you know, that's, that seems, seemingly getting more and more sophisticated. Are there things from an average consumer perspective? You know, I feel fairly protected at work. We're doing a lot of things. We test ourselves all the time. You know, part of pen testing has become, I get, I get these crazy texts. You know, it's like, Hey, this is the CEO. Can you send me some gift cards? Right? They're just testing us, right, at that point. The first time I got that, it was really weird. I'm like, because my first thought was, Why is he, why is he calling me on a holiday? Why is he asking me for gift cards? And then it, for a minute, I was like, I'm not doing this stuff. I was like, Oh, wait a minute. I, this is a, this is one of those automated, or this is one of those attacks, right? When we think about those, Christian, are there better tools? Have we gotten, do we have some things to help us with that? Especially in the world of email. Email is terrible. Like, it's awful. It is. And you know, I, there's a lot of easy, easier sets of options that are now coming in with a lot of the managed email services. So even like Google Workspaces, like if you're using that to host your own domain and then email, they have a lot of nice features to make it easy to help customers turn on SPF and DKIM signing, which I highly recommend anyone validate that either they've turned that on or their mail provider is doing that for them. Because what that does is actually prevents your email from being directly spoofed. So like if I wanted to try to spoof like Jim at the average guy.tv and those records weren't exact email. Now, if you apply to that spoof, it's going to go to actual Jim, but I may have gotten you to do something by sending you something looking like I'm the real Jim.
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"How long do they last, generally, for you? You know, it's interesting. It depends on use, right? Mine did not last as long as I think, and I wonder if I had accidentally left it on after one of the trainings. So that's something that's kind of easy to do because they say it should last, you know, for dozens of hours. But yeah, you can see the Sport is the USB rechargeable model, the Premier and the Sport, and then the other two are battery replaceable. And you can see, yeah, the rating on the Flex, which would be pretty comparable. They're saying 350 hours. I definitely did not make it to even a third of that. So even if you want to say the Classic is half as good as the Flex, I did not make it to 150 hours. So I think I must have left it on accidentally one day, so. No, that's cool. Well, it looks like the Flex is the upgraded Classic. And then they've added Sport and Premier to it. So cool. Well, no, that is a, that's a very, that's a very cool gadget I didn't anticipate. You know, you're like, Huh, I have to keep that. Well, especially for people that struggle with motion sickness. And it's awful. I mean, it was just awful. So, so very cool. Well, let's transition a little bit into maybe something not so cool. And we'll do a little Cyber Frontiers segment here as we think about the world of what's going on at MGM right now and kind of the madness. For those who don't know, give us a little synopsis and then maybe a little commentary what's happening in MGM. Yeah, it's funny because we were out for our annual haunt at DEF CON this year. And my experience checking into an MGM owned property was interestingly within like 20 minutes of being there. Their automated kiosk systems were not working. So you would go to check in and scan your driver's license. It would find who you were. And then the system was just like lost. And so we managed to get there earlier enough that like we were able to get a person before the line like out across the the casino started forming. But I was like, huh, DEF CON starting early this year. You know, we've already arrived and automatic check in isn't working. But yeah, within a month, this this article kind of comes into the full four where really all the classic things that we've talked about so many times on cyber frontiers. Right. Okta was the identity management vendor for MGM Resorts. And so they were running a lot of key systems that run the casino network, the hotel reservation network, like pretty much core business functions of this company. And this all started with basically very poor reporting in American media in the sense that this was happening for several days and no one was covering it. And it was like it blew my mind how hush hush all this was. But essentially, you know, classic story of a sophisticated phishing campaign, social engineering, working the phones. They were able to compromise MFA related credentials for super administrators, move laterally through the system. And I haven't had a chance to study the full amount of information that is out there. But what some of the initial reporting is saying is that, you know, there was lateral movement in their systems in ways that were novel, that weren't just traditional. You know, once they got the foothold, what came next was not traditional at all. And what's really fascinating about it is that if you've ever been to Vegas, most of the properties on the strip now are pretty much owned by one of two major companies, MGM Resorts or Caesar Forum. So if it's not Caesar, it's not MGM. I'm not saying there are other big names on the strip, but they own a lot of the real estate on the strip. And Caesar's got hit with this kind of same thing several weeks prior to MGM. And no one heard about it. It wasn't reported at all. And why? As we come to find out only after the fact, Caesar's like, this is above our pay grade. We're paying these guys off because we're not dealing with this. So they paid off the ransomware and they walked, you know, I don't want to say scot-free, but clearly whatever amount they paid is much less than the 8.7 million estimated per day that MGM has been losing in trying to deal with this. So MGM was like, we're not negotiating with the hackers. So their response was to shut down all of their systems. And I mean, pretty much all of their systems, which meant you were only playing in the casinos on machines that took cash. No one was booking in or doing online reservations. I mean, pretty crippling for a resort and entertainment industry like MGM. And so it's still just, you know, my commentary is pretty simple on this one. It still amazes me how effective phishing is and really the social engineering piece. And I kind of remember every year, you know, at least every two or three years, we try to go to the social engineering village at DEF CON and they go into the soundproof phone booth and they call random company and they see how far they can get. And it's just, you sit there and you're so impressed how many people, it's just like a, I don't know, it's like almost an automated natural response for people to want to provide information for a variety of different social pressure points that that adversary can apply, right? Sometimes it can be, you know, job-related stress of like, you know, I'm going to escalate this to your supervisor so it can be that type of like veiled threat. Other times it can be just, you know, I'm a harmless, nice guy. I'm looking for information. I'm running a survey for your company. I mean, the quantities and different types of ways that people get creative and really hacking human social capabilities for lack of a better phrase is pretty unbelievable. And if you're good at it, there seems to be ample amounts of zero-day ammunition in the toolkit for attackers to leverage once they get that initial foothold.
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"The, I looked up this vagus nerve, because I hadn't heard it before, and it said, The vagus nerve is involved in regulating important body functions, including breathing, heart rate, digestion and immune response. It also plays an important role in controlling mood, I'm sorry, mood, emotions and social behavior. Did you see any positive side effects beyond, you know, helping you, and maybe this was part of getting through it, but did you sense any of those other benefits of it as you were, as you were wearing it as well in those areas? You know, I think it's certainly mood, not, not particularly. I mean, my mood was very focused on trying to fly the aircraft, trying to control the, the response. But I would say I wouldn't be surprised if it helped quite a bit with the actual, that, it's like the anxiety climax drop off phase of the motion sickness. And so if that's kind of the contour in which they mean mood, I think absolutely, because that is a big part in what holds you back from feeling like you can go through that experience again. Social behavior, not so much, emotions, not so much. Definitely, though, the breathing and the ability to handle the kind of, that stomach response. Yeah, they say in this article here, and I'll have all these links in the show notes if you want to go out and look at them, but it says the vagus nerve is sometimes called the wandering nerve because of many of the different parts of the body it interacts with. Stimulating vagus nerve can also have calming effects on the body, which I think is what you were looking for, right? That recovery, because you were going into it while it was still happening, you were going into it. Man, I think about, for folks who, you know, in boating or in, you know, maybe any of those situations where that's debilitating, this could be, you know, this could be one of those things. And so how long, how long did you use the watch? You're off of it now, right? At this point, you're not, you're not using. Would you consider bringing it back for, for any reason at some point? Or, or you're good, you feel like you're good at this point? I mean, unless I was like in hurricane conditions out at sea and felt like, gee, this might be a good thing to have just in case, like maybe. But I mean, my goal with it was to not have it become a crutch where, Oh, I'm only going to be in the plane if this thing is zapping my arm. But I keep it in the flight bag as like an honorary, like it's there. It's pretty small to stow. So like, there's no harm in having it and keeping it. But no, I mean, for me personally, like I said, it was about 20 to 25 hours of use of flight time of the 61 hours that I've logged. So about a third of my journey. And if I were to put out on like a chart, because my pilot journey has been around November 16th of last year was my first flight. And I did a couple of flights in November and December. The first kind of experiences with motion sickness were a bit enough for me. So work and other stuff was pretty busy and that on top, I was kind of thinking about, OK, what's my next move here? So I took January, February and most of March off. And then in the last week of March, I got back into it and had the relief band. And, you know, you can plot out like what was my kind of productivity or advancement against the hours I was doing the logbook. And you can see just how much the relief band accelerated that. So even though I've been flying for almost a year in November, really my core training to get where I've gotten today has been six months of very focused two times a week. I'm out there flying. I'm working with the instructor. I'm doing ground instruction at home, et cetera. And that definitely wouldn't have been possible without the relief band. But definitely for a good third of that journey, it was the way that I was able to get to that six months of really core focus in, in doing the pilot training. Yeah. Now, that sounds cool. I wonder if you could compare that to your, do you, do you get any watch data? Are you wearing any kind of, any watch that's doing any kind of health? I'm not. You know, it's funny. My wife wears the Apple Watch every day and loves it and has all the health data. And I guess I'm, I'm an old fart in that respect. I just don't have one. It would be interesting to correlate, you know, to have the relief band on one side and the Apple Watch on the other, whatever. There's, there's a variety. Apple's not the only one in this space. But to kind of see what kind of health conditions that would, that would bring. Maybe even, oh, yeah, can you get, you got me kind of thinking on this thing now. It's kind of cool. From like, even from just a regular wear on a regular basis of, or you're sleeping with it. I wonder what that, you know, if that, maybe first time it would keep them awake, right? Because obviously, do you feel it? Do you feel the physical stimulation as it's happening? On the higher power settings, definitely. It's, you know, if it's on like full power setting, it might even be a little uncomfortable, depending on your weight, how tightly you have it installed, how much gel you have, etc. But certainly on a low power setting, it, you know, after a while, you would, you would forget it's there. Yeah, I just think of maybe for individuals who have, and sometimes I have a tendency, I'll mess with my, like I'll pinch my fingers in a, in a response to just, if I'm agitated or if I'm stressed, you know, I kind of, and that's a obvious pain response. I'm doing that to stimulate something in, on my body, wondering if this could be one of those devices for stress, where, you know, you might, if you're feeling, if you're feeling stressed, that may be one of those things with something like this and a little meditation practice or something along those lines. I don't know. Sounds interesting. Yeah, no, right on. But it was a, it was a cool gadget to introduce, only because I just feel that a lot of people, even in my own life, didn't know about it. And it certainly has a lot of applications outside of flying. Well, and you've got a story, like, I mean, just think, fill in bags to, to not at this point. Yeah, I think John asked, John asked earlier if the, if the CFI charged extra for that service. And yeah, he's been very kind and patient and Zip it up and put it back in the bag. Oh, cool. Just can't imagine. Brian says, figure if you buy meds for nausea enough, buying this device would pay for itself. And, and to your point, I mean, man, if you can have a mechanical device that would help you overcome that, as opposed to, to, to, you know, to drugs, right? I, yeah, I mean, I, for me, the drugs was really like, it was a red line for me. I mean, maybe if I really got beat down that like nothing else is working, I would try one of the FAA-approved drugs just to see if that would be enough to jumpstart me. But it's really so awesome that, yeah, you don't have to ingest anything in your body to get the benefits. It's like, there's really not many things out there that, that can do that for you. So. A little bit of gel, put it on, set, set the, dial it in. I'm assuming those numbers are what, what, yeah, the power level. How does it charge? Is it a, it's got the batteries? Is that where you were showing earlier? Yeah, so there's different models. So the higher-end models have like a USB-C charger, and the base model, like the one that I have, is just two CR2032 batteries. So once they're done, you're replacing them much like you would replace a CR2032 battery in your watch.
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"The, I looked up this vagus nerve, because I hadn't heard it before, and it said, The vagus nerve is involved in regulating important body functions, including breathing, heart rate, digestion and immune response. It also plays an important role in controlling mood, I'm sorry, mood, emotions and social behavior. Did you see any positive side effects beyond, you know, helping you, and maybe this was part of getting through it, but did you sense any of those other benefits of it as you were, as you were wearing it as well in those areas? You know, I think it's certainly mood, not, not particularly. I mean, my mood was very focused on trying to fly the aircraft, trying to control the, the response. But I would say I wouldn't be surprised if it helped quite a bit with the actual, that, it's like the anxiety climax drop off phase of the motion sickness. And so if that's kind of the contour in which they mean mood, I think absolutely, because that is a big part in what holds you back from feeling like you can go through that experience again. Social behavior, not so much, emotions, not so much. Definitely, though, the breathing and the ability to handle the kind of, that stomach response. Yeah, they say in this article here, and I'll have all these links in the show notes if you want to go out and look at them, but it says the vagus nerve is sometimes called the wandering nerve because of many of the different parts of the body it interacts with. Stimulating vagus nerve can also have calming effects on the body, which I think is what you were looking for, right? That recovery, because you were going into it while it was still happening, you were going into it. Man, I think about, for folks who, you know, in boating or in, you know, maybe any of those situations where that's debilitating, this could be, you know, this could be one of those things. And so how long, how long did you use the watch? You're off of it now, right? At this point, you're not, you're not using. Would you consider bringing it back for, for any reason at some point? Or, or you're good, you feel like you're good at this point? I mean, unless I was like in hurricane conditions out at sea and felt like, gee, this might be a good thing to have just in case, like maybe. But I mean, my goal with it was to not have it become a crutch where, Oh, I'm only going to be in the plane if this thing is zapping my arm. But I keep it in the flight bag as like an honorary, like it's there. It's pretty small to stow. So like, there's no harm in having it and keeping it. But no, I mean, for me personally, like I said, it was about 20 to 25 hours of use of flight time of the 61 hours that I've logged. So about a third of my journey. And if I were to put out on like a chart, because my pilot journey has been around November 16th of last year was my first flight. And I did a couple of flights in November and December. The first kind of experiences with motion sickness were a bit enough for me. So work and other stuff was pretty busy and that on top, I was kind of thinking about, OK, what's my next move here? So I took January, February and most of March off. And then in the last week of March, I got back into it and had the relief band. And, you know, you can plot out like what was my kind of productivity or advancement against the hours I was doing the logbook. And you can see just how much the relief band accelerated that. So even though I've been flying for almost a year in November, really my core training to get where I've gotten today has been six months of very focused two times a week. I'm out there flying. I'm working with the instructor. I'm doing ground instruction at home, et cetera. And that definitely wouldn't have been possible without the relief band. But definitely for a good third of that journey, it was the way that I was able to get to that six months of really core focus in, in doing the pilot training. Yeah. Now, that sounds cool. I wonder if you could compare that to your, do you, do you get any watch data? Are you wearing any kind of, any watch that's doing any kind of health? I'm not. You know, it's funny. My wife wears the Apple Watch every day and loves it and has all the health data. And I guess I'm, I'm an old fart in that respect. I just don't have one. It would be interesting to correlate, you know, to have the relief band on one side and the Apple Watch on the other, whatever. There's, there's a variety. Apple's not the only one in this space. But to kind of see what kind of health conditions that would, that would bring. Maybe even, oh, yeah, can you get, you got me kind of thinking on this thing now. It's kind of cool. From like, even from just a regular wear on a regular basis of, or you're sleeping with it. I wonder what that, you know, if that, maybe first time it would keep them awake, right? Because obviously, do you feel it? Do you feel the physical stimulation as it's happening? On the higher power settings, definitely. It's, you know, if it's on like full power setting, it might even be a little uncomfortable, depending on your weight, how tightly you have it installed, how much gel you have, etc. But certainly on a low power setting, it, you know, after a while, you would, you would forget it's there. I Yeah, just think of maybe for individuals who have, and sometimes I have a tendency, I'll mess with my, like I'll pinch my fingers in a, in a response to just, if I'm agitated or if I'm stressed, you know, I kind of, and that's a obvious pain response. I'm doing that to stimulate something in, on my body, wondering if this could be one of those devices for stress, where, you know, you might, if you're feeling, if you're feeling stressed, that may be one of those things with something like this and a little meditation practice or something along those lines. I don't know. Sounds interesting. Yeah, no, right on. But it was a, it was a cool gadget to introduce, only because I just feel that a lot of people, even in my own life, didn't know about it. And it certainly has a lot of applications outside of flying. Well, and you've got a story, like, I mean, just think, fill in bags to, to not at this point. Yeah, I think John asked, John asked earlier if the, if the CFI charged extra for that service. And yeah, he's been very kind and patient and Zip it up and put it back in the bag. Oh, cool. Just can't imagine. Brian says, figure if you buy meds for nausea enough, buying this device would pay for itself. And, and to your point, I mean, man, if you can have a mechanical device that would help you overcome that, as opposed to, to, to, you know, to drugs, right? I, yeah, I mean, I, for me, the drugs was really like, it was a red line for me. I mean, maybe if I really got beat down that like nothing else is working, I would try one of the FAA -approved drugs just to see if that would be enough to jumpstart me. But it's really so awesome that, yeah, you don't have to ingest anything in your body to get the benefits. It's like, there's really not many things out there that, that can do that for you. So. A little bit of gel, put it on, set, set the, dial it in. I'm assuming those numbers are what, what, yeah, the power level. How does it charge? Is it a, it's got the batteries? Is that where you were showing earlier? Yeah, so there's different models. So the higher -end models have like a USB -C charger, and the base model, like the one that I have, is just two CR2032 batteries. So once they're done, you're replacing them much like you would replace a CR2032 battery in your watch.
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"mgm" Discussed on Telecom Reseller
"Right. It's the people. It's always the people. Chuck, I think that's actually a very good point. And you've made that point before on this podcast series that and maybe it's some cold comfort that I shouldn't be so surprised because up until now, a lot of this has happened, but it was never reported. Folks just moved on. They didn't want to disclose it for many reasons. I think that's I think that's right. I mean, no organization wants to lay out the path that some if they could find it. Right. Because they have to reverse engineer it. It's embarrassing. It's a damage to your brand. You know, Chuck, it also reminds me of what they say about fraud on the personal level. In other words, there's the fraud we know about senior fraud, regular fraud. People are defrauded and so on. But so many people, you know, they go, hey, this isn't me. I'm not the type of person that can be fraud. I can't believe this happened to me. I'm not reporting. It's not worth it to me. Right. Even though I lost some money, I'm just not going to do anything. It's embarrassing, right? It's absolutely embarrassing. And nobody wants to be embarrassed. And it's not for the fact that that there are now there's these new requirements. But if if an organization did lose information related to you, I mean, you might find out about it at some point in the future where you're offered credit protection. Like that's oftentimes and oftentimes as well. There's a there's a there's some sort of huge class action suit associated with that organization for losing data. So it's it's a very expensive proposition. But even then, they never tell you why. They never tell you what you get. And if you I'm sure you've seen these, we've already seen these now over the course of our careers. You know, your your data was subject this it might have been missing and so forth. Here's your credit monitoring service for one year. Well, how did you lose it? Never, never disclosed. So, Chuck, you know, I'm almost going to pretend I'm in Fort Lauderdale doing those panels at the MSP Expo where we always close out with what are five things I can do now to protect myself. And let me ask it this way. You know, we have enterprise readers watching on behalf of their own organization and our guys actually are in charge of voice. Usually that's usually our readership. That's part of the responsibility. We have our channel partner and MSP readers and watcher watchers who are looking over that or for that for their customers. And of course, we actually have carriers, including rural carriers. So for the whole community, what are five or six things folks can do right now? Well, you can obviously you can come go to our website. There's a plethora of information to learn more about the problem of unwanted calls, whether that be a nuisance call and nefarious call. You'll see that there. And it's by vertical by organization. I mean, there's there's there's just lots of good data there. You can also learn more about about our solution in our solution is enterprise grade. It's carrier as well. So we can we can we have actually we're working towards a model that that a carrier would be able to offer to their customers. And our our solution is so easy to use. If an MSP wanted to to offer that to their customers. There's a there's a beautiful back end and administrative, very easy for them to help create the rules necessary so that an organization can filter their traffic based on their specific needs. But but, you know, to get get really down to the ground level on this. And I'll speak to the enterprise for a moment. If you have the ability to to to to submit call detail records to Mutari, we have a free process. It's it's very simple. You send us CDR records. We actually run it through our system. We have five layers of protection. We'll run it through one layer, which is the known bad numbers, the reputation database. We'll run it through there and we'll come back and actually report to you historically exactly how much bad traffic you had. And we don't charge for that. We absolutely don't charge for that. That's. And so for the first time, you're going to see quantified the amount of bad track you have coming into your voice network. Also offer offer up one more thing. If you're if you have a UCAS or a CCAS platform, we actually have an API driven version of our model and in an hour. This is very different than a couple of years ago where you'd have six months implementation times and product matters in an hour. We can and we can install our voice traffic filter and let you try it for 30 days. So there's lots of ways for an organization to get a sense of what's actually happening in their own environment is right now. And that's unfortunate. People just don't know. You know, check that that that free service where you can just find out what the heck's happening. Is that something you can do almost as a first step? Can you just go in there, set that up and see what's going on? It's available right on the site. I wish I could. You know, if you want to, I can send you a link to it, but it's available. But you can. Yeah, the voice traffic assessment is what we call it. So we'll we'll take it. We'll run it through and we'll write it up in terms of, you know, what it means, what the cost is and so forth. And we'll look at it in multiple dimensions. Well, Chuck, I am looking forward, obviously, to our next call on this. We're not through on this topic that by any means. So where can we learn more? www.mutari.com. That's our that's our URL. And and of course, feel free to reach out and reach out to me directly. Well, I'm looking forward to the next podcast, but thank you very much. We always learn a lot from you, Chuck. A pleasure. Thanks so much for having me.
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"mgm" Discussed on Telecom Reseller
"So, here we are, and basically what you and so many other people have been talking about for a long time has happened in it and not and I don't want to, you know, make small other incidents at other organizations. But here we have a wealthy organization, a big world class company experience. And the thing that I can't get out of my mind is here's an organization that 24 hours a day is looking for people that might rip them off. That's what a casino does, right? They're constantly in defensive mode, unlike unlike, let's say, a hospital or university or a city government and so on. So where's the hope for the rest of us? In other words, if it could happen in Vegas on the strip, you know, what can we do? And so so what you described, though, and I want to I want to I want to address the point you just made here is that the entire security industry has a bias that the voice traffic coming in poses less risk to a business. Right. Then then the data side. Right. And in reality, it's flipped around. It's it's always the humans. It's always it's it's why we have some these systems in place. That guy, if you were in a large organization, you would probably get training. You would have your security team sending you emails and oftentimes to try to control you into clicking a link. Right. They would be doing that on purpose to training. Right. To click a link. Now, there was there would be there would be a a a software solution in place to help prevent that link from doing something bad to the system. But here we are. Here we are with voice traffic where there is no filter for most organizations. Right. There's probably no training because people don't get trained on voice the same way. And there is no technical control back there to prevent the bad action from happening. So is a human and be social, be socially engineered, you know, professional social engineering professionals. They're so good. They are so good. They know how to research. They know how to create a sense of urgency around things. And and they they they are very and there's nothing to prevent them from coming in and getting to an employee, which means they're getting into your your your customers data. They're getting into your gear. They're impacting your enterprise, you know, value. You're all bad things happen. So what can you do? Well, you would take like you would and this is what I would recommend. You would take a layered approach to security. Right. Just like like a normal organization does around data. Right. You would have a layered approach to security. And so in in the world that we're in. Right. We would recommend at a minimum, you have a voice traffic firewall or a filter to look at the type of calls that are coming in and determine whether or not. Do I want that call to be connected? Do I want to challenge that color? Do I want to push information maybe to security teams? Right. Because if it's a suspect call, do I want to send it to voicemail? I want to send it to a group of people that maybe are trained specifically to take suspect callers at a minimum. You want to do that as another layer potentially. And this is a lot of context. You obviously have caller authentication. Right. We're using knowledge based approach or you're using voice analysis or you're using some other means to authenticate that someone is who they say that they are. And lastly, there's a whole suite of solutions to prevent fraud. Right. That's the last line of defense fraud where I mean, they're there. This is DARPA stuff at this point where they're looking at the latency in the line. You're purporting, you're from here, but you couldn't possibly be from there. They're looking at the device settings and so forth. So you really need a layered approach, but at a minimum, at a minimum, help the humans out. And at least at the first layer, make it create some resistance for your organization. So that would be our recommendation, which obviously is something that we're involved with. So this so, you know, you've made a good point that that's interesting, right? That just, I guess, like in any other situation in history, people look for the weakest part of the down. Right. They're probing and they notice, well, no one's guarding the voice conversations. No one's the elaborate procedures on texting and emails and so on. Maybe not as much in voice. And a frustration comes through, Doug, for many years working at this. But I have to tell you, the analyst community have not been putting enough of a spotlight on this, even though they know it's true. The consultants community are the resellers that are supposed to be advising, particularly resellers today, that have to reinvent themselves. Right. The carriers aren't stopping these calls. I mean, nor would you want them to. They can't. They want to stay in the safe harbor. But this is this is one of those moments which I have to tell you, it's terrible and I feel bad for MGM. But there's hope for the rest of us because most people never know. And part of this is the SEC has some new rules about disclosure. It's, you know, to protect shareholders. It's a requirement now. But you have to start telling not only your cybersecurity posture and your tools and so forth, but also if you have an event that you have to be material. So who knows what that means? It's open for, you know, open for debate. But we're now starting to see the impact. And what do what do smart people do? Right. You know, particularly if you're a bad actor, you're going to find the point of least resistance to get into these organizations. Right. And if it's unprotected, I'm going to spend more time there versus work because we're getting pretty darn good at protecting the data set.
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"mgm" Discussed on Telecom Reseller
"This is Doug Greenan, I'm the publisher of Telecom Resiller, and I'm very pleased to have with us once again Chuck French of Mutari. Chuck, thank you for joining me today. Doug, a pleasure. Thank you. Well, we're, you know, we have talked in the past about cyber security, and of course on this podcast series, we've been doing a lot of work on that all year long, but this time I think it's a little bit less abstract. We're doing this literally while, even as we're recording this, MGM hospitality company is being basically hacked. You can't make a reservation on their line. There's still many operational problems that they're having. So we have the spectacle of one of the world's richest and most well-prepared companies, you know, having basically an episode about which we've talked about many times in this program. So Chuck, we're going to be sort of diving into that to find out, you know, what that's all about. And if anything can be done by, you know, the rest of us who are maybe in companies that have fewer resources, less visibility and so on. But what is Mutari? Well, Mutari is a 30-year-old, not just more than 30 years old, but we're an independent software vendor, been focused in business communication software for all those years. We're based in Chicago, 400 enterprise customers. We enjoy a pretty good reputation for building great software and supporting it in the way that our customers enjoy, very little turnover of our employees, our customers, our partners. And as an organization, we're buying the company right now through an employee stock ownership. And I tell people this every time I meet them, because I think it's important. We're aligned and we're the most aligned company you've ever spoken to, Doug. And we're aligned around buying the company, but with a specific purpose. We need to do it around solving a problem. And then for the last couple of years, we are focused on being the leader in voice threat defense, which is why this conversation is so timely. You know, before we get off the topic of your company's core identity, I understand Mutari is actually a Latin word. Yes, it means to change in Latin. So think mutant, mutate. I always have to remind myself of that to make sure I'm saying Mutari. Pretend you're an Italian person saying Mutari, right? It's Latin for to change. And at first, I didn't know what to make of the name because everybody has a hard time with it. But I really do think it's more apt today than ever because this world, by the day, changes faster and faster and faster. And we know how to respond to that. We're a agile company that still acts like a perpetual startup. Well, let's talk about today because as we were just discussing before we started our podcast, and I'm sure a lot of our watchers, listeners are paying close attention to this. I am really just dazzled as much as we've talked and talked with you and many other people about the cybersecurity threat. I think very few of us imagined that what you guys have been telling us in terms of, gee, guys, you know, this could be really bigger than anyone could imagine. Well, here we are. It's seven days. It's still unfolding. I welcome anybody to go to our website and look in the resources column for all the content we put out there around this specific topic. Long-form articles about all of this, statistics, everything you'll ever want to know about the voice. And I'll bring it back to voice, Doug, because you didn't mention it yet. But, you know, the MGM ransomware attack, the cybersecurity attack that's happened has really brought MGM to its knees. You mentioned people can't make reservations. People can't get into the rooms right now, right? You can't, machines are not working. You know, from some estimates, MGM right now, because their systems are all offline, is losing somewhere between $3 million and $7 million a day and $1 million in pure cash. So those would be revenue and a million in cash every day because of this. And why this is so interesting to our firm is because the catalyst for all of this was a voice call. It was a telephone call from someone into the IT area, the customer service area of the IT department at MGM that allowed the bad actors to get the credentials necessary to put their software in, to allow them to take control of all of MGM, a voice call. So how about that? Well, you know what, it's very interesting because for those of you who are movie fans and like the Ocean's Eleven series, not the original with Frank Sinatra, but the more recent one from 20 years ago, there was, for those of you who are telecom fans, there was a PBX hack in that. That was part of what they did. And that was still in the era when the PBX was mostly a non-integrated system, a separate system running alongside the rest of IT. And of course, in the last 20 years, that's been departed. And now, you know, that call presumably occurred on the same set of servers, I think, that a lot of this is happening. Yeah. So, you know, so let's dive into this. So this is exactly what happened. This apparently started with a phone call. And then you were telling me that once they got in, they were able to do sort of some sort of horizontal thing. Tell me more about that, what that means. Yeah. And so I'll provide a little context around that. These are not people who, you know, stumbled upon this and, oh, I was able to get the credentials and so forth. These are large, large, sophisticated organizations, virtual organizations that are all over the world. And when I say sophisticated, and I know I've mentioned this in the past, these are, they have HR departments. They have areas where they can adjudicate conflicts. They have health plans in these organizations and they have specialization. So oftentimes what happens, and if you were to go on the dark web, you know, you can actually purchase some of these things. You can purchase the software to be able to enact these things. But there's just like in a hospital, right? You might have people whose job is the anesthesiologist, then you have the physicians and you have the nurse. They have that regarding ransomware attacks. So there are things called initial access brokers, people whose sole job is to be able to get access to a system. And that might be where their job ends. They sell that, they sell that and they put that in the marketplace. Another group picks it up, say, we're going to be the group now harvests us. That means they take the credentials and they go laterally and they infiltrate systems throughout an organization. They don't do anything. They lay late for a little while. I want to make sure that if you're backing up the copies, they're in the backups, all of their software is there. They lay in there. And then ultimately there comes a day when they say we're going to attack. And that's when someone, and I'm sure you've seen these before the screen pops up, you know, someone, some administrator that, you know, we have your data. You know, here's the information. Send some, you know, so much Bitcoin to so and so. Well, the encrypt your files and destroy them and still proof of life, if you will, to that end, and then you can continue on your way. So, yes, to answer your question, they received through three socially and through social engineering, a customer service person. It's this organization and they this group they call swirly spiders. I forget. I forget the name of these. Yeah. Yeah. They they. Yeah, that's right. That's right. They went ahead and then got access and told MGM that they had their systems in and ultimately MGM ignored them. And guess what happened to MGM when they didn't take this group seriously, everything that we're talking about today.
Telecom Reseller
A highlight from Cybersecurity attack on MGM may have begun with a ten-minute phone call: How it happened, Special Mutare Podcast
"This is Doug Greenan, I'm the publisher of Telecom Resiller, and I'm very pleased to have with us once again Chuck French of Mutari. Chuck, thank you for joining me today. Doug, a pleasure. Thank you. Well, we're, you know, we have talked in the past about cyber security, and of course on this podcast series, we've been doing a lot of work on that all year long, but this time I think it's a little bit less abstract. We're doing this literally while, even as we're recording this, MGM hospitality company is being basically hacked. You can't make a reservation on their line. There's still many operational problems that they're having. So we have the spectacle of one of the world's richest and most well -prepared companies, you know, having basically an episode about which we've talked about many times in this program. So Chuck, we're going to be sort of diving into that to find out, you know, what that's all about. And if anything can be done by, you know, the rest of us who are maybe in companies that have fewer resources, less visibility and so on. But what is Mutari? Well, Mutari is a 30 -year -old, not just more than 30 years old, but we're an independent software vendor, been focused in business communication software for all those years. We're based in Chicago, 400 enterprise customers. We enjoy a pretty good reputation for building great software and supporting it in the way that our customers enjoy, very little turnover of our employees, our customers, our partners. And as an organization, we're buying the company right now through an employee stock ownership. And I tell people this every time I meet them, because I think it's important. We're aligned and we're the most aligned company you've ever spoken to, Doug. And we're aligned around buying the company, but with a specific purpose. We need to do it around solving a problem. And then for the last couple of years, we are focused on being the leader in voice threat defense, which is why this conversation is so timely. You know, before we get off the topic of your company's core identity, I understand Mutari is actually a Latin word. Yes, it means to change in Latin. So think mutant, mutate. I always have to remind myself of that to make sure I'm saying Mutari. Pretend you're an Italian person saying Mutari, right? It's Latin for to change. And at first, I didn't know what to make of the name because everybody has a hard time with it. But I really do think it's more apt today than ever because this world, by the day, changes faster and faster and faster. And we know how to respond to that. We're agile a company that still acts like a perpetual startup. Well, let's talk about today because as we were just discussing before we started our podcast, and I'm sure a lot of our watchers, listeners are paying close attention to this. I am really just dazzled as much as we've talked and talked with you and many other people about the cybersecurity threat. I think very few of us imagined that what you guys have been telling us in terms of, gee, guys, you know, this could be really bigger than anyone could imagine. Well, here we are. It's seven days. It's still unfolding. I welcome anybody to go to our website and look in the resources column for all the content we put out there around this specific topic. Long -form articles about all of this, statistics, everything you'll ever want to know about the voice. And I'll bring it back to voice, Doug, because you didn't mention it yet. But, you know, the MGM ransomware attack, the cybersecurity attack that's happened has really brought MGM to its knees. You mentioned people can't make reservations. People can't get into the rooms right now, right? You can't, machines are not working. You know, from some estimates, MGM right now, because their systems are all offline, is losing somewhere between $3 million and $7 million a day and $1 million in pure cash. So those would be revenue and a million in cash every day because of this. And why this is so interesting to our firm is because the catalyst for all of this was a voice call. It was a telephone call from someone into the IT area, the customer service area of the IT department at MGM that allowed the bad actors to get the credentials necessary to put their software in, to allow them to take control of all of MGM, a voice call. So how about that? Well, you know what, it's very interesting because for those of you who are movie fans and like the Ocean's Eleven series, not the original with Frank Sinatra, but the more recent one from 20 years ago, there was, for those of you who are telecom fans, there was a PBX hack in that. That was part of what they did. And that was still in the era when the PBX was mostly a non -integrated system, a separate system running alongside the rest of IT. And of course, in the last 20 years, that's been departed. And now, you know, that call presumably occurred on the same set of servers, I think, that a lot of this is happening. Yeah. So, you know, so let's dive into this. So this is exactly what happened. This apparently started with a phone call. And then you were telling me that once they got in, they were able to do sort of some sort of horizontal thing. Tell me more about that, what that means. Yeah. And so I'll provide a little context around that. These are not people who, you know, stumbled upon this and, oh, I was able to get the credentials and so forth. These are large, large, sophisticated organizations, virtual organizations that are all over the world. And when I say sophisticated, and I know I've mentioned this in the past, these are, they have HR departments. They have areas where they can adjudicate conflicts. They have health plans in these organizations and they have specialization. So oftentimes what happens, and if you were to go on the dark web, you know, you can actually purchase some of these things. You can purchase the software to be able to enact these things. But there's just like in a hospital, right? You might have people whose job is the anesthesiologist, then you have the physicians and you have the nurse. They have that regarding ransomware attacks. So are there things called initial access brokers, people whose sole job is to be able to get access to a system. And that might be where their job ends. They sell that, they sell that and they put that in the marketplace. Another group picks it up, say, we're going to be the group now harvests us. That means they take the credentials and they go laterally and they infiltrate systems throughout an organization. They don't do anything. They lay late for a little while. I want to make sure that if you're backing up the copies, they're in the backups, all of their software is there. They lay in there. And then ultimately there comes a day when they say we're going to attack. And that's when someone, and I'm sure you've seen these before the screen pops up, you know, someone, some administrator that, you know, we have your data. You know, here's the information. Send some, you know, so much Bitcoin to so and so. Well, the encrypt your files and destroy them and still proof of life, if you will, to that end, and then you can continue on your way. So, yes, to answer your question, they received through three socially and through social engineering, a customer service person. It's this organization and they this group they call swirly spiders. I forget. I forget the name of these. Yeah. Yeah. They they. Yeah, that's right. That's right. They went ahead and then got access and told MGM that they had their systems in and ultimately MGM ignored them. And guess what happened to MGM when they didn't take this group seriously, everything that we're talking about today.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
A highlight from Over the Rainbow
"United States Border Patrol has exciting and rewarding career opportunities with the nation's largest law enforcement organization. Earn great pay, outstanding federal benefits, and up to $20 ,000 in recruitment incentives. Learn more online at CBP .gov slash career slash USBP. Dennis Prager here. Thanks for listening to the Daily Dennis Prager Podcast. To hear the entire three hours of my radio show commercial free every single day, become a member of Pragertopia. You'll also get access to 15 years worth of archives as well as the daily show prep. Subscribe at Pragertopia .com Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I know what you're thinking. This sounds nothing like Dennis. Has he transitioned? Is he now a woman? No, it is 23 year old Amala Epenobi from PragerU who is subbing for Dennis today. I'll be your guest host and I hope so far your day has been well. Mine's been great. Woke up happy and healthy. If you're a regular of this show, you've probably heard my voice before and you probably know who I am, but just in case you're not a regular, again, my name is Amala Epenobi. I'm 23 years old. I'm currently working at PragerU, hosting a show called Unapologetic Live where on the daily we talk about trending stories, pop culture, news topics from a Gen Z perspective as I was born in 2000 and am a generation. And yeah, that has been my life. That's what I do now. And every now and then I get the pleasure of guest hosting Dennis' show here on the Salem News Channel. So good morning to you all. I woke up happy and healthy today. So it's a good day. We're not going to skip a beat. We're going to get right into stories today. I often wake up and by virtue of what I do, have to go and check out what's trending online and what people are talking about, what's getting buzz. And often the topic of cancellation or cancel culture comes up. And I'm always interested to see who is the next person who's going to get canceled on the internet. Now, much to my dismay, I woke up one morning and hopped on Twitter and saw Judy Garland's face. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Judy Garland, she was the star of The Wizard of Oz, a star is born, just an icon within the space of Hollywood. And I saw a viral tweet go out that said, quote, two movies a year apart, the same B word, shout out to Gen Z for teaching me this. And underneath those words were two pictures of Judy Garland, one of her playing her famous character, Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, and a second of Judy Garland in blackface. For those of you who don't know what blackface is, it's when a white person puts on black makeup, maybe does their hair in a way that is intended to make them look like a black person and is often used to portray a caricature of what it means to be black. Now, this old picture of Judy Garland was in her teenage years. I believe she was about 16 or 17 when she starred in a movie called Everybody Sing. It was in 1938, and it depicts a teenage Judy Garland painted with dark skin, large white lips, and dreadlocks. She played a character known as Judy Belair in the musical comedy who joins a music show as a blackface singer to escape her dysfunctional family. Now, of course, this tweet goes crazy. So many people have something to say. They're the cancellation, which is strange because it would be the cancellation of a woman who was long since passed. Judy Garland passed away over 50 years ago now in a very tragic way due to drug addiction. But amongst those calls for cancellation was an overwhelming force to defend Judy Garland, and this made my heart sing. It was wonderful to see people come to her defense, and the main defense being that, one, if you know the story of Judy Garland, you know that she had a very abusive history within Hollywood. That, especially in her teenage years and young years, she was forced to do a lot of the work that she was doing. She was constantly given drugs. She was on extreme diets to keep her shape for these films. She had a particularly abusive relationship with her mother and abusive relationships with the studio heads at MGM Studio, where she was signed from a really early age. And so often when you hear these stories of cancellation, where people come after these celebrities, the one very important thing that is missing and that we should all be looking for is context. For some reason, we always forget the context of the situation. And if people had just taken two seconds to get a quick Google search about Judy Garland, her past, what she was going through at a time where she might have been depicted in blackface, like 1938, you would have found that she is really not the one to blame here. Not only because of the abusive environment that she lay in, but also because blackface and minstrel shows were something that were not necessarily looked down upon at the time. Remember, a studio was producing this film and putting it out to the general public. This was seen as largely a very normal thing for a white actress to do. So to come after a woman who, for one, is not here to defend themselves, but also has a circumstance that would have led to this sort of behavior makes absolutely no sense. But of course, we're in 2023, right? Sense is not a top priority for us. Context is not a top priority for us. Nuance is not a top priority for us. And I must put out the reminder that Judy Garland, even for her time, was a massive supporter of the civil rights movement, the LGBTQ movement, and was a force for good in those directions, if the left wants to look at Judy Garland as an icon in that sense. So to come after her for something she did as a minor with very little agency over her own actions just really astounds me. But that's exactly what cancel culture is, right? There is no room for redemption. And even an action that you committed as a minor, you know, decades and decades ago, you cannot come back from. Which is really interesting when we get into the main players behind something like cancel culture. Because I imagine that if you spoke to them and asked them what their goal was in canceling individuals, deplatforming them, stripping them of their livelihoods, they would say that they view cancel culture as a force of progress and accountability, and that they want to have people take responsibility for things. But I can understand accountability in a sense. That maybe you recognize, hey, this is something that was of the time, certainly not something that I would do in today's world, and I recognize that I did that, but I've moved forward.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Sonny Bunch Discusses Guy Ritchie's "Operation Fortune"
"You got to go to the movies. And the good news is John Wick is back. The bad news is operation fortune has not been much noticed by anyone. Sonny munch is here, the official movie critic of the Hugh Hewitt show. Airline miles rolling downhill towards him faster than boulders in an avalanche. Sunny, I want to talk to you about operation fortune and Guy Ritchie before we go to John Wick. Why didn't no one know that movie was out? It was very entertaining. Well, you know, that movie has had an interesting and kind of cursed release. It was supposed to come out, it was supposed to come out last year. It was supposed to come out more than more than 12 months ago. And it ended up getting kind of caught in the Russia Ukraine news cycle because originally the villain in that movie was a series of Ukrainian gangsters. Oh my gosh. No kidding. Yeah, so it got kind of caught up in that news cycle. The final version, they edited out the Ukrainian gangsters. They changed the villains around a little bit, I think. I don't know if they reshot any of the scenes or if it was just a little bit of sniffing here and there. I mean, I for one really enjoyed operation fortune. Even the fetching misses Hewitt, who generally doesn't, she won't go see John Wick, but because Hugh Grant was it using the Michael Caine access. She wanted to go see it. Yeah, so this is the second movie, I think. That Hugh Grant has done with Guy Ritchie, the first was the gentleman, which came out. A couple of years back. And I feel like Guy Ritchie is kind of unlocked something a little bit different within him. He's not. He's funny and bad. Yeah, no, it's interesting what he's doing. Anyway, I like to operation fortune a lot, but because it got kind of, again, it got wrapped up in all this. And there was also stuff with the distributors so that this movie was financed by a company called STX, which has kind of gone out of business that sold off their interests. So this got bought up by I can't even remember who MGM or somebody.
Asia Crypto Today
What is Kingdomverse Mobile Metaverse KMM
"2 a.m. Thursday, February 9th, 2023. What is kingdom versus mobile metaverse kmm? Kingdom verse is a new and innovative gaming platform, offering players a unique and immersive gaming experience. This mobile gaming metaverse MGM is the first of its kind, comprising multiple mobile games all connected by a dynamic and open world social hub. Here, players can interact, game, trade with one another, form guilds, battle, conquer resources, and the post what is kingdom versus mobile metaverse appeared first on Asia crypto today.
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
How Greta Garbo Got Her Hollywood Start
"And here I am doing this show about garbo who got her start in 1924 because one day the studio had Louis B Mayer, saw her in the movie joyless street, and he said, you know what? I'm taking a chance on garbo. He signed an MGM, moved at a Hollywood, and for the next 15 years, she ruled the film world. I don't know if you've seen classics like mana Hari or grand hotel or Anna karenina. Good stuff. And while she was making movies in Hollywood, she met the actor Melvin Douglas, never slept with garbo, but he did costar in three movies with her. And he just said that garbo oozed sex.
The Drill Down
"mgm" Discussed on The Drill Down
"Welcome to the drill down. We've got business stories behind stocks on the mood. I'm cory johnson today october. Twelve gives us episode number one hundred fifteen. We'll just ahead shortsellers go after max linear. So how does the company explain. It's controversial acquisition strategy and mgm sees. The nfl is driving online sports betting more than they even imagined and how buying a bank his transforming a company called new tech business services. We're gonna get into that with new tech ceo berry sloan from the l. d. micro conference in los angeles but first it's sponsor time. The drill down is brought to you by era. Never miss another critical event or insight. Ever with era customize. Your company watch watchlist track key events mentioned filings and more all with an easy to use customizable interface. That's era a. R. a. dot com. And you can listen to drill podcast everyday on your smart speaker just asset smart speaker to play the drill down podcast and.
Chasing Poker Greatness
Tom Wheaton, Founder of FadedSpade & Above the Felt, Shares What He's Up To
"Tom local back onto. Cpg sir it's been awhile while. Ben what's up brad. Do my thing chasing poker greatness as the title of the show is i guess and it's been a whirlwind few months last man but i appreciate the invite back. So what kind of poker greatness you've been chasing in this world wind of a few months last time you're on you know you talk about your new agency above the and there's more things have been added to your plate since then. Yes it's pretty wild man. So let's see how have i been chasing over greatness. Let's see on the poker side actually started playing live tournaments again We'll talk about that later but Getting into some of these world poker tour main main tour events has been something. I've really aspired to over the last few years Since i started my actual poker training back again and Was fortunate in fortunate enough this year to have a deep run at the w. p. t. seminal hardrock tournament Finishing thirtieth out of like twenty five hundred or something so it was like the great experience to get that deep. You know inexperienced that. Because i've never been that deep you know And it's a different ballgame and So that was great. I'm gonna fire up a few more here in the next couple of months with world poker tour with online Which we'll talk about. And then also you know for the waso p coming up on the business side. Man is trying to faded spade as much as i can. Try to grow the agency. Which is is ahead of where i thought it would be and the team would be. I told you that tom i could've told you that. The demand is going to be much higher. I think when you as soon as you were describing the idea to me. I was like this makes sense and this giant need in the industry. It's a slow and steady. But it's like it's it's password. I thought it would be after six months. And thanks for saying that man And through that work with the agency A couple of really great things have happened. So one offer darren elias. Who was part of above the felt from a talent perspective. We worked out a deal for him where he is becoming the brand ambassador of the party poker. Us network which. I know you asked me what is that. And we'll get into that and then while that was all going on. You know some of the relationships i built with the people during that process They've asked me to come be a poker marketing consultant for them over the next foreseeable future. And you know help them. What is happening here. Marketing team basically. What they're asking me to do is asked me to come in and craft all new strategic marketing plans for the party poker. us network which is forgot poker online plus bet. Mgm poker plus party poker new jersey in new jersey right then in pennsylvania. You've got mgm poker and borgata poker online in pennsylvania and michigan. You've got mgm poker. And all of that together is known as the party. Poker us network. The parent company is bet mgm. So they're asking me to come in and help support their team and develop some new marketing plans in terms of how they expand in those markets. They go to him. Why the dan what what they told me is when they realize like my corporate marketing leadership background in terms of doing this type of like leadership executive work In like the hotel resort industry and technology industry. And then i think they liked the fact that there was a blend of all this entrepreneurial experience and the poker industry over the last four years and i think just how got along during the discussions about bringing darren on as a brand ambassador. I think that all came together. And they were transparent with me and said you know we have this need the company and rethink. You could fill it. And i said you know what i would love to have that experience with you guys and let's talk about making that
Fred + Angi On Demand
Johnny Depp Says Hollywood Is Boycotting Him
"So johnny depp. Said he's being boycotted by hollywood as his latest film. Meena motto has yet to score a us release in a recent interview. He called his fall from hollywood's good graces and absurdity of media mathematics. That's a fancy way to say that. I've run doesn't like him right now if you forgot about his acts Amber heard she did accuse him of domestic violence last year he lost a libel case against a british tabloid rich referred to him as a wife feeder. That's a direct quote The court ruled that the content of the article was substantially true and the judge found that twelve of the fourteen alleged incidents of domestic violence had occurred. Mg mgm then reportedly switch the us release date of minimata from february of twenty twenty one to now it's tv. A and johnny depp ex Accident his lead role in the fantastic beats franchise Talking is hard day So
Standup Comedy "Your Host and MC"
Four Teriffic Headliners Kenny, Piper, Bennett, and Mark Schiff Show #77 - burst 1
"I'm in las vegas a lot. I was at the mgm last halloween night. I'm in my room. Knock at the door. A little kid was trick or treating in the hotel. I gave them a towel. Couple ashtrays in the bible. Give a child a bible. You feel good about yourself. Old people driving cars. that's scary. that's gotta stop talking old people in their hundreds. I was in miami last month. I got passed by a cadillac. There was nobody in. It was just these knuckles up on top of the couple. Blue hairs coming going over the top sprite. And i like old people. I'm not knocking people. My grandpa's still alive. He's ninety six. I saw at christmas. He says to me braun. It's a miracle. I get up in the middle night to go. The bathroom and god turns a light on for me. When i'm done. He turns the light off for me. I say grandpa. i think you're in the refrigerator.
Just Hands Poker Podcast
Holding Pocket Tens and Flop
"Talk about some poker Flop we've got pocket tens to lamps. We raised twenty and we got called. The flop is nine for deuce rainbow. So there's a forty seven going in In the from law what do you think about the spot here. I think i would probably go ahead in bet large. I do think check raises kind of fun and it can be effective against players. Who c- who does too much in this situation. Bud one three limber. I just don't trust as player to bet enough. So i think we should be putting ourselves now a little bit bigger because i think that this is not this is not a hand benefits as much from like keeping over card type hans in play so if we had. Let's say queens making bit smaller because let's opponent has like king jack Votes that there's some downside obviously with king but there's also some serious upside with jack With hens that doesn't that dynamic doesn't exist in the same way so i would be targeting just our opponents pairs mostly expecting quite a few unpaid hands to fold and then having a high confidence in us having the best hand going forward. I do think we have to be a little careful about like not sure that i'm trying to over bet turning river in member. Dvr four hundred effective so Of ten ultimately. I think we can probably just size to get all in. There's not much much better to do Like i do think if we were a little bit deeper we might want to size up on the flop and then better a more conservative amount on the turn and river mike. Let's say fifty percent pop. Just because i think if we four hundred one. Three games like can't be a lot. I mean it's philly. So i guess that players are a little bit looser. Her used Losing four hundred dollars in these environments. It depends a little bit. You're playing against like are getting stacks in here is a huge pot or is that like one of the mental. Like if you're in the casino in dc the mgm. That seems to be a game where this would be a big pot to get here. But it like the jack in cleveland. You know getting four hundred dollars in in this situation in like a one three game. A lot of the reds there in recreational players are not that rich porn stars think took change end. You might expect like a nine or a pair of aids or something like that to fold At some point the hand in if you are all in as the aggressor you might be facing calling range which has been pretty bad shape.
The Journal.
"mgm" Discussed on The Journal.
"Our colleague eric schwartz all covers hollywood and for years. He's heard rumblings that a big tech company like apple or amazon might by a hollywood studio. It's inspired a lot of speculation. A lot of conversations cocktail parties a lot of fan fiction among investors and last week that fiction became reality amazon is spending eight point four billion dollars to acquire. Mgm now mgm. Is the studio. That really came to encapsulate hollywood. And this is the one with the line logo right. It is the lion's roar. I mean this is a story studio and.
Voice in Canada
What Does It Mean for Amazon to Buy MGM Studios
"Got a question from someone who was asking. If it's true that amazon had bought mgm studios and the impact this has on streaming and lexi. Well it is. Indeed true amazon bought mgm studios for eight point four five billion dollars and that makes it the company second largest mission since amazon acquired whole foods and that was back in two thousand seventeen so studios. They're the ones that. Make the james bond series along with four thousand other films and seventeen thousand. Tv shows. So what does that mean. Well it means looks like going forward. We're going to be seeing a lot more video content. That is going to be available on amazon prime for streaming. And what does that mean. Well course it means that you will be able to access these types of films and tv shows on your echo show devices so yes it is true and this is setting amazon to be even a bigger competitor when it comes to other services like disney plus. Hbo netflix
The Deep Dive Podcast
"mgm" Discussed on The Deep Dive Podcast
"While the film was initially successful when it was released it was so expensive to produce. It actually lost money. It wasn't until a decade later when the wizard of oz was re released into theaters that it managed to turn a profit. The movie's popularity only grew after it began airing annually on television beginning in nineteen fifty-six well. Mgm remained profitable over the following decades. They began relying on. Big budget. blockbusters like their remake of ben hur to carry the studio through less profitable smaller pictures but that strategy is failing in the late. One thousand nine hundred sixty s it looked like mgm was making a comeback releases like doctor zhivago the dirty dozen and two thousand one a space odyssey were signs that the studio was back to making hits again that didn't last in nineteen sixty-nine controlling shares of stock in mgm were purchased by businessman. Kirk kerkorian. Now by all accounts kerkorian had little interest in the motion picture business. He was interested in the branding itself. In fact he put the mgm name on his las vegas casino hotel the mgm grand kerkorian began selling off mgm's assets including real estate music publishing and even dorothy ruby slippers in the nineteen eighties. Mgm purchased another movie studio united artists which included the popular and lucrative james bond franchise since then ownership of mgm has been shuffled around more than a deck of cards at the mgm. Grand itself the company filed for chapter eleven bankruptcy in twenty ten but it emerged as a veritable remake machine with new versions of classic. Mgm properties like robocop. Red dawn and poltergeist while by no means has the lion's share of the motion picture business after nearly one hundred years. Mgm is still alive and still making speaking of lions there have been eight lions that have lended their regal presence to the opening of mgm films. Leo was the last and has been seen and heard in mgm movies since nineteen fifty seven. There are still questions about this megamerger though what movies will make it to amazon prime video streaming service. We already know that classics. Like the wizard of oz. Singing in the rain and on with the wind won't be there because all mgm titles released before nineteen eighty-six belong to warner brothers. Now what about. The james bond franchise will your amazon delivery person. Show up at your door wearing a tuxedo and carrying a vodka. Martini shaken not stirred. Well if nothing else this deal. Almost instantly makes amazon a major player in the motion.
Talking Tech
Amazon to Buy MGM in $8.45 Billion Deal
"Listeners. It's brett molina. Welcome back to talking tech co. Mike snyder is off today. So how's this for a summer. Movie blockbuster amazon confirmed on wednesday that it will acquire movie studio. Mgm in a deal that's valued at eight point. Four five billion dollars in a statement amazon said they will help preserve. mgm's heritage a films which includes more than four thousand titles including a lot of names. That i'm sure many of you are familiar with james bond. The magnificent seven raging bull rocky legally blonde a lot of very popular very well known films. Mgm also owned several popular tv shows including the handmaid's tale which is currently in the middle of its fourth season on hulu. The deal is still subject to regulatory approval amazon. Didn't say when they expect to steal to close and when they would officially own mgm but clearly. This is a pretty significant step on several factors it highlights a lot of consolidation that we're noticing in the streaming market These there are a lot of these Different services out there and it's getting very competitive and we're seeing a lot of consolidation here. One example of this is a t and t. They announced that deal earlier this month to combine its media business with discovery so that brings together stuff like. Hbo max and then cnn tbs tnt with discovery networks like food network hdtv now if you are a subscriber to amazon. This is an interesting proposition because now if you have a subscription to prime video you have this new collection of movies and tv shows the you can draw from if you subscribe to other services. I don't know exactly which. Mgm movies are available in one which services. But it's possible. Maybe some of those movies. We'll transition
WSJ What's News
HCA Enters New Partnership With Google Cloud
"Google has struck a deal with hospital. Chain h see a healthcare to develop algorithms to improve care and operations. The company is say they'll consolidate and store data from digital health records and internet connected medical devices. It's google's latest venture into the healthcare space after making deals with other hospital systems including ascension. And the mayo clinic. Our hospital reporter. Melanie evans has more. They are hoping to develop new algorithms for for example patients who have congestive heart failure who are in the hospital in need close monitoring or ways that they might be able to use this information to treat infections more quickly effectively
KIRO Radio 97.3 FM
"mgm" Discussed on KIRO Radio 97.3 FM
"Take off gloves Just really go at. Okay. Let's move on to other news, A zoo you just heard and Heather's newscast. Of course, Amazon has acquired MGM Studios and a bill for Penny deal for over $8 billion. What does this mean for you? If you were an Amazon subscriber? Well, this will bring the James Bond franchise in over 5000 other films under Amazon control. I'm just going to ask you guys very simply, in film parlance. Do you give Amazon two thumbs up or two? Thumbs down? Whenever you hear of any of these blockbuster acquisitions, Ursula, let's start with you. I give two thumbs down because I feel like Amazon is already dominating the world and this justice Maura domination, and I worry that when we have no competition, that quality goes down, and that goes for Not just movies and by the way, let me just say one other thing as someone who now is finally on Netflix and watch his Netflix. Even I've been paying for years and years that was to subsidize my kids. And now I actually enjoy it. Um, I can't keep up with a Amazon. Who, Lou? You know all these differences I would literally have to spend All my life watching and be glued to the TV to be able to take advantage of all these things Just okay, that was just in the site. But you need to you need to review all streaming service is the same. How's that? I don't know. I just I just wanted to say OK, That's what winning argument, But let me just go back to this. Um, no, I don't think it's a good thing When you keep hearing about Amazon taken over this, that and the other thing just because they can because again What other people in on it, and I think that keeps things fresh. And that keeps things competitive. You know, we have brought this topic of earlier today and I need to get this off of my chest. I was so disappointed sitting there. Listening to chef in Ursula. You guys were so upset about this. Like, why are you shocked? Did you not know that this was basis plan once he started to get the game that at some point Now this at some point, he might acquire State farm real estate, so he's going to be doing all this all the time. The on Li Wei. To put a pause to this is the crack down on some of the taxes that it's not being paid. And some approach things right. So obnoxious right that that to me and don't get me wrong. I love my Amazon Prime. I love Amazon music, etcetera. So in in a way, I'm a hypocrite. But just because you can doesn't mean he should, Unless he's going to do something that's really gonna revolutionize like plate, like play James Bond and one of the movies now you guys see. Did you guys see Jeff Basil is being the new bond? What I saw a National Enquirer was enough. Is there gonna be a new fee on our Amazon orders? Uh, point double. Oh, seven. You're just going to keep saying that one till it lands G still not landing something that you're trying not to do, Andy. I just want to say that's one of my best parts of the story, and that joke has not landed. She did you? Ah, to counter your point. Yes, we knew Amazon is basically taking over the world. One of the details I saw the D C Attorney general is suing Amazon for antitrust violations, arguing that there, you know, jacking up prices, knocking out third party competitors, knocking off the products that proves successful on their website. The statistic that blew me away. They believe that 50 to 70% 50 to 70% all online retail sales go through Amazon. That is the kind of market domination that we're talking about. That being said, I wholeheartedly cheer for MGM because I do not have a Netflix account. I do not have Ursula's Netflix account password. And because I'm a prime member, I get to watch James Bond movies now. Okay, well, so I'm happy for you. But you brought up another point. And this is what I'm learning more and more. The more I look at what I'm buying on Amazon. Here's the other thing. I feel like some of the quality has gone downhill. And I feel like the more and more that they acquire. And the more more people selling on Amazon as a platform. Yeah, some of the things I'm buying like this is complete junk and getting this because it's convenient. But yet, I think to myself why didn't I go to actually brick and mortar and go to the store? Because I cannot use this item? Okay? This is completely random ride with me for a second, because earthly just made a point. I need to ask you guys, I need help here. So Yes, I agree with you. I've noticing more and more things than I order from Amazon. Like, Hey, that doesn't look like the picture that doesn't look like I look like I thought it was gonna be or this material's really cheap. It's gonna fall apart. So here's my question to you. When that happens to you. Do you keep it to yourself? Or do you tell others in the house? Because I totally don't tell anybody else in the house. I wear that grip. You look I brought. I got some mask from Amazon like like two weeks ago. And I was like, Oh, here, Lillian. Here you go. I gave her life like 10 of them like you put this in your car and I go to get in my car and I go toe you taking on the package? It was as Dennis toilet paper so much, So I hurried up and went in and says Hey, let me let me get those got to your car. I said, um, I think I'm gonna take these back. Oh, why was wrong with him? I found another color is better. I didn't even admit to her that they were cheap. Oh, you.
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"Official amazon has acquired mgm studios for eight point four five billion dollars including debt. It's amazon's second largest acquisition. Ever after whole foods quoting cnbc amazon says it hopes to leverage. Mgm storied filmmaking history and wide ranging catalogue of four thousand films and seventeen thousand. Tv shows to help bolster amazon studios. It's film and tv division. The real financial value behind this deal is the treasure trove of ip in the deep catalog. That we plan to reimagine and developed together with mgm. Talented team said mike hopkins senior vice president of prime video and amazon studios quote. It's very exciting and provides so many opportunities for high quality storytelling and
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"80 news. Good morning. I'm Ed Donahue, The secretary of State in Michigan. Jocelyn Benson says she's concerned about the future of democracy. After the 2020 election, she tells the AP propagating what she called the big lie. If the election was rigged is changing Voting rules propagate this idea this falsehood that the election was anything but safe and secure to codify legislation in furtherance of that and really undo a lot of the policies that led to such enormous turnout and security in 2020, Republicans in Michigan and elsewhere are working to enact new limits on voting. The Taliban is warning the departing U. S military in Afghanistan against setting up bases in the region and Pakistan vowed no American bases will be allowed on its territory. Secretary of State Antony Blinken wrapped up a visit to Egypt as he presses ahead on his efforts to shore up a cease fire that ended an 11 day war between Israel and Hamas. Amazon is by MGM Studios in an $8 billion deal. Amazon, which owns Prime video already has its own studio with shows like the marvelous Mrs Mazel. But adding MGM means access to thousands of films like the James Bond franchise, along with TV shows and the opportunity to develop more from intellectual property. Amazon Also get cable channel epics, which MGM owns. The deal still needs the customary approval from regulators. It's the latest media industry deal that's aimed at boosting streaming services to compete against Netflix and Disney, plus a TNT and Discovery announced earlier in the month. They were combining I'm Julie Walker to crowds gathered overnight in Portland, Oregon, to mark the one year anniversary of the death of George Floyd. One of the crowd's got violent people were lighting fires, breaking windows and throwing objects at officers. Five people were arrested in Portland, former Virginia Senator John Warner has died. Warner was also married at one time to Elizabeth Taylor. His family says Warner died of heart failure. He was 94. This is AP News. Actors getting ready for Broadway's return, optimistic and every finger and toe crossed that we could get back to Ah full theater and a full Broadway and a vibrant new set of works that people hopefully have been writing for the last year. Will Swenson hopes the pandemic has provided a new path forward as theaters reopened? Stephen Pascal says It's not just the show to be concerned about. It's the audience. If you've been vaccinated, then I'm feel totally safe being in a room with you because I've been vaccinated. I think the only thing becomes if if people feel like they can come and they haven't been vaccinated, that feels the responsible. So I'm really hoping that we start to hear that kind of rhetoric more On much less about air filters and masks and social distancing. Hamilton, Lion King and Wicked Return September 14th as the Chicago The pandemic is added new safety fears for everything from handling props to theater cleaning Broadway seats are very close together in the venues are not particularly area or spacious. I'm Ed Donahue. AP News Amazon is buying MGM Studios in an $8.45 billion deal. Amazon, which owns Prime video already has its own studio with shows like the marvelous Mrs Mazel. But adding MGM means access to thousands of films like the James Bond franchise, along with TV shows and the opportunity to develop more from intellectual property. Amazon will also get cable channel epics, which MGM owns. The deal still needs the customary approval from regulators. It's the latest media industry deal that's aimed at boosting streaming services to compete against Netflix and Disney, plus a TNT and Discovery announced earlier in the month. They were combining I'm Julie Walker, the Kremlin's seeking to temper expectations. The next month's summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin on President Joe Biden in Geneva. Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov warns against anticipating a research after the June 16 summit, emphasizing the differences between Moscow and Washington run too deep. Escort ads. It's hard to expect that it would be possible to reach understanding on disagreements, joining just one meeting. Rushes ties with the U. S and its allies have sunk to post Cold War lows over Russia's 2014 annexation of Ukraine's Crimea. Its support for separatists. Rebels in eastern Ukraine Moscow's interference with election on various hacking attacks. I'm Charles Dillon asthma. I'm Rita Foley with an AP News Minute It's a big deal. Amazon is buying MGM, the movie and TV studio behind James Bond, legally Blonde and Shark Tank. Amazon is paying almost $8.5 billion for MGM President Trump says it's another witch hunt. A grand jury will convene to consider evidence in a criminal investigation into his business dealings. Here's our Julie Walker. The new grand jury is the latest sign of increasing momentum in the criminal investigation into the Republican ex president and his company. The state's attorney general, said last week that she assigned to lawyers to work with the Manhattan district attorney's office on the probe. After her civil investigation into Trump evolved into a Criminal matter, Trump says This is purely political and driven by highly partisan Democrat prosecutors. The Tokyo Olympics. They're set to open in July but now a leading newspaper in Japan says the game should be canceled. As hard hit Japan battles the surging coronavirus. I'm Rita Foley.
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Amazon to Buy MGM Studios for $8.45 Billion
"MGM for a $0.45 billion MPR's mentally Del Barco reports. It's a second largest acquisition for the company after purchasing whole foods. Amazon already runs a film studio, prime video streaming service and a video game streaming site. But the MGM deal is its biggest move into entertainment. Amazon will assume MGM is debt, and it will also get the rights to the Golden Age Studios, film and television library. With its mascot Lion roaring logo, MGM made such movie classics as singing in the Rain and 2001. A Space Odyssey. MGM also owns the epics Cable Channel and runs a TV studio that produced the Handmaid's Tale and Fargo. Bond. James Bond. MGM also shares the James Bond movie franchise with a family that controls the double. Oh seven movies. Mandali del Barco. NPR News
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"With an AP News MINUTE former Virginia Senator John Warner has died of heart failure. He was 94 members on both sides of the aisle. Look to John as a trusted mentor. And forever Minority leader Mitch McConnell pay tribute to Warner on the Senate Floor. Warner was a Republican Democrat Mark Warner. No relation also from Virginia, replaced him in the Senate and says John Warner was a lot of things a statesman. Patriot. Mentor. Friend. In someone You love this institution. As much as anybody I know. Warner's popularity in Virginia was amplified by his marriage to Elizabeth Taylor, which drew huge crowds when he was elected to the Senate in 1978 Warner was the sixth of Taylor's seven husbands. They were married in 1976 and divorced in 1982. I'm Ed Donahue, Amazon is buying MGM Studios in an $8.45 billion deal. Amazon, which owns Prime video already has its own studio with shows like the marvelous Mrs Mazel. But adding MGM means access to thousands of films like the James Bond franchise, along with TV shows and the opportunity to develop more from intellectual property. Amazon will also get cable channel epics, which MGM owns the deal still needs the customary approval from regulators. It's the latest media industry deal that's aimed at boosting streaming services to compete against Netflix and Disney, plus a TNT and Discovery announced earlier in the month. They were combining I'm Julie Walker, the Kremlin's seeking to temper expectations for next month's summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin on President Joe Biden in Geneva. Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov warns against anticipating a research after the June 16 summit, emphasizing the differences between Moscow and Washington run too deep. Escort ads. It's hard to expect that it would be possible to reach understanding on disagreements join just one meeting. Rushes ties with the U. S and its allies have sunk to post Cold War lows over Russia's 2014 annexation of Ukraine's Crimea. Its support for separatists. Rebels in eastern Ukraine must goes interference with election on various hacking attacks. I'm Charles Dillon asthma. I'm Rita Foley with an AP News Minute It's a big deal. Amazon is buying MGM, the movie and TV studio behind James Bond, legally Blonde and Shark Tank. Amazon is paying almost $8.5 billion for MGM President Trump says it's another witch hunt. A grand jury will convene to consider evidence in a criminal investigation into his business dealings. Here's our Julie Walker. The new grand jury is the latest sign of increasing momentum in the criminal investigation into the Republican ex president and his company. The state's attorney general, said last week that she assigned to lawyers to work with the Manhattan district attorney's office on the probe. After her civil investigation into Trump evolved into a Criminal matter, Trump says This is purely political and driven by highly partisan Democrat prosecutors. The Tokyo Olympics. They're set to open in July but now a leading newspaper in Japan says the game should be canceled. As hard hit Japan battles the surging coronavirus. I'm Rita Foley. Is it time for.