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The Café Bitcoin Podcast
A highlight from Bitcoin News with The Caf Bitcoin Crew - September 21, 2023
"Hello, and welcome to the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast brought to you by Swan Bitcoin, the best way to buy and learn about Bitcoin. I'm your host, Alex Danson, and we're excited to announce that we're bringing the Cafe Bitcoin Conversations Twitter Spaces to you on this show, the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast, Monday through Friday every week. Join us as we speak to guests like Michael Saylor, Len Alden, Corey Clifston, Greg Foss, Tomer Strohle, and many others in the Bitcoin space. Also, be sure to hit that subscribe button. Make sure you get notifications when we launch a new episode. You can join us live on Twitter Spaces Monday through Friday, starting at 7 a .m. Pacific and 10 a .m. Eastern every morning to become part of the conversation yourself. Thanks again. We look forward to bringing you the best Bitcoin content daily here on the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast. All right. All right. Here we go. Good morning to all of you Cafe Bitcoiners. Morning, Mickey, Jacob and throwing you an invite. Wade, all you regulars, appreciate you guys, as usual. Morning. Do you see the email from Swan this morning, Alex? No, I have been hurting cats like crazy. I got this like DM early this morning and team at like three o 'clock in the morning and they're like, yeah, we want you guys to do Cafe Bitcoin live both days at Pacific Bitcoin, Thursday, Friday, plus all these other panels. It's been crazy. What was the email, Mickey? So it looks like it's you, me, Shane and Andrew on a Bitcoin veteran panel. Possibly. Definitely you, me and Shane. I don't know if Andrew is going to be there or not, but possibly others, too, like Gabe Lord, possibly Jordan Gambrell. So, yeah, we're going to see how this works out. I love how they like let me know two weeks, two weeks before the thing. Yeah, you're getting full. All good, all good, should be a good time. I mean, we're going to have we'll have fun no matter what is the way I look at it. Peter, I see you sneaking in here. I'm not sneaking, came right in the front door. Is that Jordan on the Bitcoin veterans handle there? Yes, sir. Morning, brother. Morning, how's everyone doing? Doing good, doing good. Shout out to Joe Calasari in the audience, throwing you an invite. We're going to be super casual today, by the way. Welcome as well to Cafe Bitcoin. This is episode four hundred and thirty nine. Shout out to our supporters on Fountain Nosternests and all of you that listen on Spotify, iTunes, of course. Our mission for this show is to provide signal in a sea of noise, teaching people on thing about this that we call Bitcoin. The bright orange future, the hope to today's show, we're basically just going to free flow and begin our Q &A, there's no future guests later today. So, yeah, we can talk about whatever you guys want to. If you have questions about Bitcoin or if you just have something you want to talk about, we're just going to like open it up. Shout out to Shane Hazel in the audience, throwing you an invite. The more I deal with the traditional banking system, the more I appreciate the properties and functionality of Bitcoin. It is, you know, it's an uncensorable aspect or excuse me, or property. My ability to transact with whom I want, when I want, where I want, and in the time frame that it allows. Is just it's phenomenal, it is just such a better way to transact value and to, you know, to be able to move your value to where you want it to, when you want it to. It's just yesterday or two days ago that walking into a bank, I'm still in shock, walking into a bank with some money to deposit in somebody's account and being told they don't take cash. It's still, my jaw is still on the floor. The attitude, though, in the banking industry has changed a lot because you've got older people who are retiring or moving into, you know, more management positions where they're not so much customer facing anymore. So the people who are customer facing are all younger and they don't remember a time when there wasn't FATCA and there wasn't the Bank Secrecy Act and there wasn't all this bullshit. So to them, they've grown up in a surveillance state and it's normal, which is weird as fuck because they have this attitude like they don't actually treat customers like it's your money anymore. They treat customers like we're in charge of your money and you have to get our permission to use it the way you want. And that is a, that's a second and third order effect of all this surveillance state bullshit and all this quote compliance stuff. It's a two, it's a double edged sword because not only has the younger generation grown up and are, you know, are accommodative of this, of this surveillance state, but the older generation, the boomers, and probably some, a lot of the Gen Xers, they are comfortable enough in their finances to not be in a position where they find a need or necessity to push back against the state. And I was just talking to my brother about this and he's like, yeah, I recognize all that stuff, but he's comfortable, you know, and so he just, he's not willing to, there's a lot of people who are not willing or have no incentive to push back against the state. So it's really a double edged kind of sword. Those that recognize it are in a position where they don't have to, they don't feel like they need to do anything. And those that should be doing something about it potentially, you know, don't even recognize it.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "mickey" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"Save 15 % on Long Fence Go decks, papers, to longfence and fences. .com today and schedule your free in -home estimate. Money news at 10 and 40 on WTOP. This is a Bloomberg Money Minute. It's getting more expensive to run a McDonald's. The company says U .S. and Canadian franchise owners who either open new restaurants or take over existing company -owned locales will have to pay Mickey D's % 5 of the sales. That's up from 4%. Existing franchise locations will not be affected and there'll be few exceptions such as those willing to sign 20 -year franchise agreements. Game on. Microsoft's $69 billion acquisition of game maker Activision Blizzard looks set to clear its final regulatory hurdle, opening the door for the deal to clear. UK antitrust regulators say Microsoft's taken the steps it needs to address their concerns. The two sides hope to close the deal next month. And Tinder is rolling out an ultra premium subscription tier for some of its dating app users. For $499 a month, VIP users gain access to features like exclusive searching, VIP matching and conversations that aren't currently available with existing paid plans. It was another down day Wall on Street to close out the week. The Dow fell 107 points. The NASDAQ lost 12. The S &P fell 10. the From Bloomberg Newsroom, I'm Erica Herskowitz on WTOP. That's done in by the long ball again to Atlanta sports in 10 minutes on WTOP for Mervis diamond importers. I'm Ronnie Mervis. I was raised near the diamond mines in South Africa, and like every Mervis, diamonds are in my DNA. The history of diamonds Africa in and of the Mervis family run together. As kids, my brothers Kenny, Zed
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Interest Rate Hikes FINISHED?! (Crypto War NOT Over)
"Welcome to Discover Crypto! It is September 20th. It's 11 .30am. How are we all doing? We got Drew and AJ on the ones and twos today, folks. We're going to talk about the Fed. We're going to talk about what are they going to be saying with the interest rate hikes. And also we're going to be talking about Bitcoin and other cryptos. AJ, how are you doing today? I'm doing great, man. Another day in the life. Let's get it. Drew, how are you doing? Oh, just great. You know, can't complain. Well, you can. You can. You complain when you get home. You'd like, you know, just really vent to your two -year -old. Yeah, that's where I do it. Deezy, did you see the tweet that went out yesterday about the show I'm doing with from George from Cryptos R Us? What? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, he's with Blockchain Boy and Neutron. Joshua Jay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. So we're all like, it's for crew, like, plus, you know, and basically we're all doing something different. I believe, like, Josh is doing like a news kind of show and Blockchain Boys. I'm not really sure what Blockchain Boys doing, but I know the videos are going to start coming out here pretty soon. We're still like brainstorming my concept, but I have a really good, like, rough idea of what I'm doing. But it's going to be really interesting to see how, like, where this goes. And I'm just fun to excited to do something different, you know? And I'm excited. We got Frankie Candles doing the charts today. I see Frankie getting ready in his neon square. He's in his, like, little neon area. I don't know if, oh, he can hear me. He's showing some recognition and anticipation of what Deezy is going to say next. Yeah, we saw the Donald Trump Jr. tweets. It looks like he got hacked. Also, Rob, you're popping it. Hey, we're going to see you back. Can't wait till you come back. All right, let's just get right into crypto. Marc Kepson's Drew is done. Am I too tall? Am I too tall? Too tall for the camera? Look, I got to stand. I got to do these shows a lot, you know? I take the shoes off. So I shrink, you know? They come in. I'm like 6 '11", and I take the shoes off. Then I drop back down to 6 '3". I got the Tom Cruise lifts. All right, Bitcoin is falling a little bit, folks. We were in the green this morning when I first woke up. Now we are down 0 .6%, and Ethereum is down 1 .3%. But XRP looks pretty good. XRP is up. It is up 0 .8 % on the day so far. Meanwhile, Cardano, I woke up this morning. It was up, but now it's down. It is down 0 .7%. Dogecoin down 1 .3%. TonCoin finally cooling off a little bit for the week here. It is down 1 .2%. Litecoin has taken a little bit of a beating, folks. Litecoin is down 5%. We talked about Litecoin a little bit yesterday on ATB. I highly recommend you check that out after this stream. All right, let's look at the top gainers. Then we're going to look at the top losers. You know, I have a streak of keeping my coins in the losers, but not today, folks. I'm feeling good. In fact, maybe I'll have a coin in the top 10. Who knows? All right, here we have Caspa leading the way. Caspa is just on fire, folks. The people who bought Caspa at $0 .01, $0 .02, looking good. Just put in a higher high too. You got past that last one, yep. All right, we are now above a nickel, and it looks like maybe price discovery mode for a Caspa. XDC is up 4 .3%. Maker is up. Radix is up. Aave is up. I have a coin in the ties. A little Solana. I think maybe I have some Arbitrum. Maybe. I'm not even sure I have to check. Then we have, you know, XRP is up 0 .8%. We got gold. Gold's moving to the upside. The graph moving to the upside, even though Bitcoin and ETH are down. Okay, so it's not all blood in the streets, but hopefully, it's not going to be blood in Deasy's wallet, guys. And again, I promise you, I do not check this ahead of time. I kind of like being surprised. I like discovering it with you. So let's discover cryptos, Deasy's coins in here. I'm looking good today. All right, I don't know how long the streak has been continuing. I don't know when's the last. I think I last held Litecoin in 2021. Never had Thor, Phrax, eCash, or I know Frankie likes to trade Adam. I like to trade Eve. So maybe we'll talk to him about the Adam is falling 4 % here. Litecoin down 5%. Thor chained down 5%. Any of these coins, you know, peak it. Well, if you go at it, I do have two in the top 10. I got two in the top 10. Just, you know, just to make it feel good. But any of these screaming at you here? Yeah, Thor, Litecoin, Phrax. Not surprised really to see. I mean, everything kind of came up yesterday. I'm still kind of sticking to the theory that the pump we're seeing could possibly be a bull trap. I think, you know, when we get into the FOMC news, the pauses that is likely coming is going to be bullish for the sentiment. I'm just still like kind of macro worried based off of the stock market sharks. Actually, the Algorand, you know, down 2 .8%. That one's kind of obviously yelling at me a little bit. I have a theory coming up, but I'm not going to say it right now. But I'm making a video about it, about Algorand. So stay tuned for that. OK, so you're going to create more? I'm going to create more. I create more crypto content every day and some of it's about Algorand. But I like how it's a period. Create more. No exclamation point. Just create. It's more like create more. Oh, OK. Great. More. Great. Great. Yeah. All right. Well, we're going to create some stories here about the feds. What are they doing? I don't know if we've ever had an article from this news organization. ABC. Shout out to Mickey Mouse and the Disney crew here. Fed to decide on a rate hike. Testing optimism about a soft landing as inflation rises again. Upon announcing the Fed Reserve's latest rate hike decision in July, Jerome Powell spoke out a lectern in Washington, DC for a half hour before he dropped a bombshell. The Central Bank staff has abandoned its forecast of a recession. Staff at the Fed, in other words, now expect the Central Bank to achieve a soft landing, an outcome in which the US brings down inflation while avoiding a downturn. Inflation has ticked up for two consecutive months, reversing some of the progress made in the effort to bring price increases down to normal levels. Meanwhile, oil prices have soared, threatening to push inflation even higher. Well, they got like moving ads. Whoa, whoa, what's going on here? Calm down, ABC. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg expect the Fed to leave its benchmark interest rate unchanged, affording policymakers time to weigh their next move as a rapid series of previous rate hikes take full effect. I was looking at Caleb Franzen's tweets. We're at 99 % on the prediction market unchanged today, right? Have you been looking at the, when is the next one? Is it November? I can pull the calendar. I'm pretty sure it's the end of October. I think it's like maybe on Halloween. Let me double check. Oh, on Halloween is going to be spooky. Okay, Drew, are you going to give out candy this Halloween? Absolutely. You know, but actually I'll be doing candied apples. Okay, I'm going to be giving out pamphlets on inflation to children. Yeah, you know, you could have got Reese's pieces, but blame Jerome Powell. You can take advantage of the time and the season to teach your children about tax. Tax them. Like attacking kids for their pillowcases of candy? Taxing them heavily. Yeah, take 33 % of every Snickers bar they get. That's right. Yeah, that's just the way it is. Why wait? Welcome to America, you know? And yeah, the next FOMC is October 31st, November 1st, so. Okay, okay. October 31st. All right, all right. Halloween, what's Jerome Powell going to dress up as? Alex from A Clockwork Orange. Pat, do you want us to dress up on the channel? I might be willing to dress up in a costume. I might be willing. You know, every - I could break out the green spandex, go old school. You know, every Halloween, AJ disappears and a Mr. Meeseeks just shows up. Okay, I heard existence is pain though. Existence is pain. We're not fumbling around for meaning here, Deezy. All right. Well, I'm fumbling around for this rate of inflation. It eases slightly 6 .7 % despite the oil prices surging. You know, like we said, I think the oil is going to be a leading indicator, so inflation will trickle down from the oil prices. If you want to think about it, it's going to cost more money to get those bananas to drive from point A to point B because they're going to have to spend more in the gas tank. This is going to be - It's just give it a while, let it roll out to the rest of the economy. Namely, food. Oil prices really, really like to impact food prices a couple months down the line. Well, we're looking at the ONS as the Office for National Statistics, and they said the consumer price index measure slowed in the 12 months to August from the 6 .8 figure reported the previous month thanks to food rising at a weaker pace during the month compared to August 22. During the X minute, I have a tweet about Canadian food prices, and I just kind of look at where they've gone over the past 20 years. It is shocking. It is shocking. I used Bard. I was like, this doesn't feel right for the price. I went to a Canadian grocery store, and I went low. I went low. There's expensive eggs and cheap eggs. I typed in the cheap egg price. It was still very scary. All right, well, we have predictions. Jerome Powell's got his ideas. You notice I was thinking about this BlackRock. What is BlackRock thinking about all this? BlackRock and others predict the Fed's next move. What does it mean for Bitcoin though? According to Marilyn Watson, is a BlackRock's head of global fundamental income strategy. The central bank's federal funds target rate will remain roughly the same until the end of the year going through its September, November, and December meetings. For the record, I think the economic data has consistently surprised to the upside, she said. That includes GDP, the unemployment rate, and the labor market. Beware, beware of recession. The analyst has previously argued that Bitcoin's price is macroeconomic determined by conditions, including its four -year cycles, which I am still a firm believer in for this cycle. Might be less of an effect of the previous one, but I'm still a believer in the four -year cycle, going to push Bitcoin to the new high. I do think we'll set in a new all -time high. I don't think we're going to hit a quarter million dollars in two years, but I think we're going to flirt with $100K, which they do not believe are related to the Bitcoin halving. So they're saying the four -year cycle is not related. I don't know what they're saying here. Risk assets go lower in recessions. So I'd expect Bitcoin would not perform well in that environment. It has not seen a real recession in its existence. It was birthed out of a recession, but yeah, hasn't really gone through one from the beginning stages to the end there. Yeah, there's never been a Bitcoin bull run during a phase of quantitative tightening. We've always been quantitatively easing the money supply anytime Bitcoin goes up into the right. And that obviously is what it takes. I think they're kind of leaning into if we're in a recession, and that lines up with the four -year cycle. But just so far, we're three for three with the having idea playing out. And the trend hasn't broken yet, so that's why I always say sticking to November 25 as a benchmark, but that's just a benchmark. It could be behind that. It could be in front of that. We don't have a crystal ball, but we can go off the pattern that we've seen before. All right. Well, speaking of quantitative tightening, we also have calfskin tightening, the tightest calfskin in the entire world. I don't care if you have a baby cow jacket for an extra small on an 800 -pound man, there is no tighter calfskin than the man I'm looking at right now. That is Frankie Candles. Frankie Candles, welcome back. How's it doing? Does it feel good? It feels good. The calfskin is tight, and so is Bitcoin's price action. But yeah, I don't want to waste time here. Let's go ahead and jump right into the charts here. Now, here we are. Now, obviously, I talk about this all the time. I don't typically trade on newsdays like this. It is usually a complete washing machine. Usually the shorts get wrecked, then the longs get wrecked, or the longs get wrecked, and then the shorts get wrecked. So I don't typically trade. Now, I am in a few trades right now. I am in this Bitcoin long right now. I have profits locked in on this trade and my stop loss is at my entry. So kind of how I am playing this today is I'm going to be holding my long. I am long from about $25 ,000 to $50 ,000 just below this range. And again, I have taken profits on that stop loss at break even. And then I am also in a short position from somewhere up here. I am slightly in profit on the short position. So I am long up and now I am in this small short position that is in slight profit. However, this is kind of how I'm playing this today, DZ. Because basically, like I said, I never recommend people trade on these newsdays just because of the complete unpredictable volatility that you're likely to see. Now, the last FOMC meeting, I believe, was on the 25th, 26th of July. I believe someone could correct me if I'm wrong on that. But we actually have seen a few FOMC meetings where we didn't really have too much happen. And I've been telling people that we are likely in that kind of boring accumulation phase of the bear market. A lot of times, if you go back to at least the 2017 or 2018, 2019 bear market, we had that bear market rally. And once we topped off at that point, we kind of just bled out. And for the most part, if you kind of just ignore this panic wick from March of 2020, which was obviously a Black Swan event, we kind of just wiggled sideways. We got that big bear market rally, we topped off, bled out a little bit, and then we just kind of went sideways again with the exception of that panic wick. And I do think we are in somewhat of a similar situation here where the rest of this bear market may not be the most exciting thing ever. But for today, basically how I'm handling this, DZ, is I'm going to be kind of...
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "mickey" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"Only need protection from one but not both options the vaccines should only be given between thirty two weeks and thirty six weeks of pregnancy new tonight out of the world of politics new jersey democratic senator bob menendez following his indictment tonight in a bribery scheme a new bribery scheme is stepping down from chairing a key committee prosecutors say the bribes included gold bars major cash payments and a mercedes wtops mitchell miller today on the hill the senator and his wife accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars bribes u s attorney damian williams announced the three -count indictment which alleges the bribes came from various businessmen in exchange for senator menendez using his wants to protect into enrich those businessmen and to benefit the government of egypt menendez has denied the charges calling them baseless but the democratic lawmaker is temporarily stepping down as chair of the senate foreign relations committee maryland senator ben cardin is expected to step into that role as the ranking democrat on the panel menendez had previously been indicted in a separate case but a jury deadlocked in 2017 on capitol hill mitchell miller w t o p news with menendez's massive legal issues here we expect for democrats in the senate in their effort to hold on to that chamber they had a two -seat majority it's 51 49 in the u .s senate right now there are an awful lot of tough re -election races facing democrats next year menendez is one of those up for re -election whether he runs or not this can be a deceit republicans target and it's quite possible they use menendez's legal troubles his alleged bribery scheme against all cbs news congressional correspondent scott mcfarland who joined us earlier coming up here on wtop most mcdonald's restaurants are not owned by the company it's franchisees who run them and own them and those franchisees are not too happy with the parent company at mickey d's tonight will tell you more coming up eleven thirty six the following is a paid commercial message i'm telling you that fame and fortune are not what they're cracked up to be hi this is lon solomon and madonna said that what's interesting is that people will sacrifice their integrity their honor and their reputation to get the very fame and fortune that madonna was talking about jesus comments on this in the bible however he said what good is it if person a gains the whole world and loses their own soul instead jesus calls us to a different a higher way of living he calls us to live for him and to live for eternity where everything we're living for is everything it's cracked up to be and more why not joining not a sermon just a thought for more information check out our website not a sermon .com that's not a good to have you here to start the weekend on
Milk Crates and Turntables. A Music Discussion Podcast
A highlight from Ep.118 - Rewind to 1967: The Year That Changed Music Forever
"Well here we are episode 118 I think I think I forgot to list a few this might be like episode 120 or 121 I don't know I guess that's a good thing when you do so many you lose count anyway on this episode we're gonna be talking about the year in music 1967 and as usual I have the wrecking two in the house Mark Smith and Lou Colicchio of the music relish show very interesting yeah a lot happened sit back relax it's gonna be another two and a half hour podcast but we love it enjoy the show the KLFB studio presents milk rate and turntables a music discussion podcast hosted by Scott McLean now let's talk music enjoy the show yes let's talk music thank you Amanda for that wonderful introduction as usual welcome back my friends to the show that never ends welcome to the podcast you know the name I'm not gonna say it was streaming live right now over Facebook YouTube X formerly known as Twitter twitch D live and again I always I don't know how many other things and this podcast will be heard on every podcast platform yeah yeah 1967 so it was quite a year think you're in for a little little ride tonight yeah and you know who wasn't born in night oh he was three in 1967 marksmen from the music relish show good evening I was two years from being on this earth so you weren't even really thought of no you thought of it 67 think of that think of that yeah you weren't even thought of you weren't even like a sparkle in as they say in your father's eye there might have been the beginning of a sparkle who knows so let me see I'm looking at my is my screen still fuzzy on my end but I'm not even seeing it on YouTube right now I'm seeing it's live but I just got the image of the vinyl really yeah what the hell wait wait wait wait yeah no it's on it's on I see it I see it but my screen looks fuzzy right yeah that's how I'm seeing you from my end yeah what the hell let me check something here hold on okay let's do a little in show my you know that smooth little March of colors next to you when you open up the show yeah happy it's all like gone really weird I'm looking at this right let's go back to this see what happens I'm supposed to be in 1080 and I'm looking at it right now now you're sharp you just got sharp it goes back and forth it's a strange see like hearing yourself huh I guess I don't know what do a refresh here I'm playing it right Tom Benwald says it looks good patty says it's blurry that was in the beginning and it looks like it's sharp now so it goes back and forth you're starting to get blurry again it's strange got any storms down there no this this would this will drive me crazy now this is it's not supposed to be like this come on it's like a Grateful Dead show warts and all rice we're talking about 1967 there's no digital so it was still waiting for Luda come on so you know I'm going to do I hate doing this but I'm going to do it to you buddy what's that no don't cut me I'm not cutting you I'm gonna I'm gonna hit a refresh which might take me off the screen so the show is yours for about I don't know 60 seconds let's see what happens here let's see reload I'm gonna reload it so I'm going off the screen I guess it's time to advertise the music roll show with my friend Perry and my friend Lou we discuss opera we have fun how am I now you look better look yeah yeah looks better yep and I just advertised my podcast is that the opera I'll pay you I'll give you the money later on then I lose my this is like okay here we go you look better though all right good yeah good you know me I the technical stuff drives me crazy especially you know it's not only sound it has to be oh it's this is a live stream so it has to look yeah good and you don't want to drop out in the middle of the show no like me and Lou do once in a while race right let's see is the chat working let's see now I'm not seeing any I'm not seeing any comments so let me try this well sorry for the podcast listeners but I gotta get this shit right hey it's okay I should be seeing I should be seeing comments because people have already made three comments you over here maybe they're bored and they don't want to comment anymore no it's there it should be showing up on my screen over here right we know that my boss you busting balls only Bono does that let's see public so it should be getting huh this is crazy seven minutes in and I'm here we haven't done anything yet let me see send comment test I just sent a text to message I see I see you as I see mine okay good we're good we're good let me switch over to my other account and do the same thing I just want to make sure yes just our audience is bored they don't want to comment actually this is all Lou's fault yeah yeah always the you know I would probably lost the other comments is because I rebooted so hmm all right well you know what we're gonna start without Lou right as I say that as I say that does he have what does he what do you let's get the full screen nose is that why you were late you had to clean your nose and he's back in Paris again you brown nose er I've been a bad dog my laptop and he's back in pair you left here in Paris you must have left it back in the United States I did I left on the plane how you doing Lou I'm doing alright how are you guys doing well I just had a little technical difficulty and we blamed you because you weren't here so you left me alone and I had to talk opera with myself talked opera yeah rigoletto did you talk about rigoletto this time I'm just really boring you know I'm like all right this is why this is a two and a half hour podcast some of us have to work tomorrow all right here we go let's jump right into 1967 musical events in 1967 and the year kicks off right away with a bomb a bomb on January 4th the doors release can arguably one of the greatest debut records ever arguably if you had a top 25 greatest debut that albums would have to be in the top 10 it would have to be yeah you know if you had a top 50 that would have to be in the top 10 right even if you don't like them you have to say that was so ahead of its time oh it's so different nothing out there was like the needle and all you hear it kicks I mean fucking what a way to start an album it's a heavy song it with a bossa nova beat yeah I mean that's pretty clever yeah 67 so you know bossa nova was pretty hip again John Densmore over underrated underrated underappreciated I think you are you are so correct you know never gets the the the consideration that I I don't know you can't put him in greatest of all time but could he be okay if there's a top there's a top 25 drummer top 25 drummers is he in it good question and in rock we'll just say in rock I think he could be I could see him making so I don't know if he's a universal pick but I could see him on some list I mean he's something you'd have to think about like you said like it doesn't get noticed so much you know yeah yeah or it I mean although his drumming wasn't shy I mean he's jazzy as hell I heard um writers on the storm yesterday and his adjustment playing is great in his adjustments during the shows just for that yeah yeah the unpredictability of you know how the how the song was gonna go right because they could rehearse it all they want once Morrison got into that zone well in the drama keeps the beat right yeah yeah the drummer has to stay up with that yeah and played to the clown so to speak right you know and my my problem is if some of the clowns don't have the beat you know at one point they've got to give in like I said Morrison or even Dylan they'll set the tone but they've got to be steady themselves you know it's yeah otherwise it's just erratic but you know yeah guy like Dan's more I mean I had skill I had a lot of a lot of technical ability right feel yes cool so obviously his drums always sounded good yeah on the earlier on the other records even you know three years worth of music whatever I guess I would be who produced some Jack Holtzman was the producer did a good job Jekyll or now wait so no what was it Paul Rothchild yes yes yes I'm sorry Holtzman was he on the record company yeah yeah was that it was that chrysalis or chrysalis I think or just like yes that's a lecture a lecture weren't they on chrysalis though also I thought they were yeah maybe maybe chrysalis was a subsidiary but uh yeah Jack Holtzman's son is Adam Holtzman he's a keyboardist right now he plays with here we go Stephen Wilson but he does a little blog on Facebook and he talks about growing up and he was like six years old and his father brought him to a club to see the tour Wow at six years old he just talks about like yeah it's a great little blog Wow all right and four days later on January 8th Elvis Presley turned 32 on January 14th the human be in right the human be e -i -n human being takes place in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park polo fields with spoken words from Timothy Leary Allen Ginsberg Gary Snyder in others live music was provided by Jefferson Airplane the Grateful Dead Big Brother in the holding company and Quicksilver Messenger Service speeches from Jerry Rubin and others were also given at the event although it's one band there I liked yeah Quicksilver Messenger Service who was it on January 15th 1967 who is your favorite poet of all them I know you're not asking me Arthur Rimbaud who influenced Jim Morrison good answer good answer way to bring that first opening segment rough full circle we're getting better Scott we're good now you guys get a lot of good trust me I'm getting a lot of good feedback so let's keep it at that I don't want you son ask for more money and on January 15th 1967 the Rolling Stones appear on the Ed Sullivan show at Ed Sullivan's request finish it he asked them to let's spend sing let's spend some time together is that the one there you go yeah and then he told him a really big shoe I hate to do this I mean I come back on penalty box I don't say just he beat my record okay look he just got on the show after late and these are either he's stuck he's frozen put the dog nose back on where'd it go are you throw it at the camera like your headphones on January 16th 1967 the monkeys begin work on headquarters the first album to give them complete artistic and technical control over their material and it was fucking horrible fucking horrible what were they thinking they know they were thinking the egos got too big they thought they were the music well the argument can be made that you know Mike Nesmith did write different drum yeah so he could write songs but I don't think he was a pop songwriter you know headquarters and they try to be all fucking like 60 ish and shit they weren't looking for pop were they they're trying to be like more psychedelic yeah I think so there were their channel on the Beatles with those quirky little yeah with anti -grizzelles on that I don't know some weird shit I'll tell you what though I don't care about it myself but it was surely a harpsichord on it because that's what all those records had they had to have a harpsichord and I have the book this the 100 best -selling records of the 60s the monkeys got a they've had quite a few albums on there oh they do yeah they were they were but I mean I thought it was just a condensed period of the show which it probably was but it's still I mean they've got I mean most of their albums sold really well yeah yeah ah you like the show what's it is like the show I did I still like it I still love it I love that that that's so that humor is great like dumbed down brilliantly done though humor yeah way was what they were supposed to act like that yeah you know what I mean there was no like these guys are bad actors they knew exactly how to do that they pulled it off great it was campy it was great for its time it's still great to watch now yeah I do think that banana splits were a better band yeah that's I'll give you the banana splits were a kick -ass band yeah yeah kick -ass man did you see the movie recently came out it's a horror movie with the banana splits the banana splits movie it's a horror movie yeah yeah it takes place in an amusement park and they're they're robotic and in Dyson and slicing baby Dyson and slicing I have to say oh man that's yeah okay yeah Dyson and slicing it's good it's kids again campy movie but I couldn't not watch it yeah I have to say I'm sure Fleagle is a total psychopath well I'm not gonna give you any and no no no spoilers here those was it just Dyson and slicing on January 17 1967 the daily mail newspaper reports four thousand potholes in Blackburn Lancashire and Guinness air Tara Brown is killed in a car wreck these articles inspire lyrics for a day in the life a day in the life yes on January 22nd 1967 Simon and Garfunkel give live can't give a live concert at Phil harmonic Phil harmonic call in New York City some of this concert is released on October 4th 1997 on their box set old friends but most is not released until July 2002 that's some more okay January 29th mantra rock dance the quote ultimate high of the hippie era is organized at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco featuring Janis Joplin grateful dead big brother in the holding company for three Moby grape quirky that would've been interesting that's the best man that's the best as though for they're almost like the MC five kind of I think they were just kind of but they're they're a San Francisco band and beat poet once again Allen Ginsberg shows up to do his spoken word I heard he was a member of NAMBLA I wouldn't the National Association of Marlon Brando look -alikes I heard I'd someone I remember he actually he was a sponsor of NAMBLA but anyway on January 30th 1967 the Beatles shoot a promotional film for the forthcoming single strawberry fields forever at Noel Park in Seven Oaks have you seen it I have seen it I haven't seen it in a long time it's really cool yeah yeah it's kind of dark speaking of dark on February 3rd 1967 UK record producer Joe Meek murders is it his landlady and then commits suicide by shooting himself in the head in Holloway North in London it's kind of dark didn't he produce sleepwalk yes letter Telstar some early we talked we did it bit of a genius really yeah let's see February 7th Mickey Dolan's no let me stop February 6th Mike Nesmith and Mickey Dolan's of the monkeys fly into London Dolan sees till death do us part on British TV and uses the term Randy's scouse grit from the program for the title of the monkeys next single release Randy's scouse grit not releasing it is an offensive term Britain's British census forced the title to be changed to alternate title and then the next day Mickey Dolan's meets Paul McCartney at his home in st.
Masters in Business
Fresh update on "mickey" discussed on Masters in Business
"In a massive expansion opportunity for direct lenders and a widening of pricing for the direct lending market in addition to the floating rate going up you know 400 basis points 500 basis so let's talk about that first time in decades treasuries and investment grade corporates it's an attractive yield at five five and a half percent what does this mean for what's going on in the in the world of privates if you can very relatively safely get in the fives what does it mean for for private credit for clos for direct lending compared to that you know the two -year the 10 -year you're not that far off yeah it's it's from an absolute return standpoint treasuries i g corporates are high -yield bonds are more attractive than they've been in very long time now in the case of private you do pick up a lot more return for in exchange for the complexity of the situation as well as the illiquidity you know in the case of private credit to large businesses you know these are companies that 100 have million of EBITDA or more or have an enterprise value of a billion dollars or more and they're being bought out by private equity firms the pricing we're seeing on first lean debt in those types of situations is about twelve percent but from a relative value perspective in a risk -adjusted return perspective getting twelve percent to lend to that size of a business with that type of backing from a household name type private equity firm it's a very attractive risk -adjusted return and frankly the topic we're discussing about favors credit over equities actually over the over the next few years because if you think about the size of the corporate pie you know with with COVID -19 and with inflation the size of that corporate pie generally hasn't changed too much over the last few years but with a sudden increase in rates essentially the Fed has said well I'm gonna slice off more of that pie for creditors than I am for equity and and that was the opposite in this easy money period following the global financial crisis and ending you know 2021 in the time frame when when QE was was then you know reversed. coming up we continue our conversation with Armin Panosian incoming co -ceo at Oaktree Capital Management discussing discussing his new role as co -CEO I'm Barry Ritholtz you're listening to Masters in on Bloomberg radio missed your favorite Bloomberg Radio Show, Bloomberg Business Week, Masters in Business, Bloomberg Intelligence and more are also available as podcasts listen today on Apple Spotify and anywhere else you get your podcast this is a Bloomberg money minute it's getting more expensive to run a McDonald's the company says US and Canadian franchise owners who either open new restaurants or take over existing company -owned locales will have to pay Mickey D's five percent of the sales that's up from four percent existing franchise locations will not be affected and there'll be a few exceptions such as those willing to sign 20 -year franchise agreements game on Microsoft 69 billion -dollar acquisition game of maker Activision Blizzard looks set to clear its final regulatory hurdle opening the door for the deal to clear UK regulators antitrust say Microsoft's taken the steps it needs to address their concerns the two sides hope to close the deal next month and tinder is rolling out an ultra premium subscription tier for some of its dating app users for for $499 a month VIP users gain access to features like exclusive searching VIP matching and conversations aren't that currently available with existing paid plans it was another down day on Wall Street to close out the week Dow the fell 107 points the Nasdaq lost 12 the S &P fell 10 Erica Herskowitz Bloomberg Radio and I'm Charlie pellet at Bloomberg World headquarters we do check markets all day long here at Bloomberg stock struggled at the end of a jittery week but saw investors positioning for a higher for longer Federal Reserve stance tenure yields dropped after a briefly topping four and a half percent for the first time since 2007 seem a choice chief global strategist at principal global investors and she was interviewed in London on Bloomberg surveillance so I think that the market is really gonna be very range -bound through the first half of next year because there is no very very clear narrative if you have high growth and you have high if you have low growth it's offset by interest rate cuts so until you get to point a in the second half of the year where you do get an economic downturn but then it becomes quite clear that the economic downturn is shallow and then that's combined with rate cuts that's I think when the market can really rally with some conviction and you can hear more of the conversation with Seema Shaw on the surveillance podcast you can download it wherever you get your podcast so what about recession calls David Rosenberg is the president and founder of Rosenberg search he was interviewed on Bloomberg markets the soft landing is here but it's the transition to the inevitable inevitable recession because recessions are inherently part of the business cycle unless you think the business cycle has been repealed and I don't. And you can hear more of the conversation with David Rosenberg on the tape podcast you can download it wherever you get your podcasts industry data suggests US business activity stalled this month and with that story here's Bloomberg's Vinny del judice the S &P global flash index covering manufacturing and services lowest level of the year backlogs contracted at the fastest pace in three years reinforcing a picture moderating demand inflation remains an issue to stemming from rising interest rates fuel costs and labor costs Vinny del judice Bloomberg radio Apple's latest iPhones and watches are now on sale and with that story here's Bloomberg Steve Rappaport Charlie it's a test of whether a new smartphone design and modest smartwatch changes can help return the company to growth the devices went on sale in about 40 countries in its first wave including Australia in Hong Kong mainland China the US UK and France the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max models 2014 Apple's will represent Apple's biggest sellers throughout the rest of the year and the ability to both create and fulfill demand for the products will make make or break its holiday period Charlie Bloomberg Steve Rappaport on a down day for stocks Apple shares were up five five -tenths of one percent tender is rolling out an ultra premium subscription tier to its dating app users charging $499 dollars a month to access features like and matching stocks lower S &P down 10 points down two tenths of one percent the Dow down down three tenths of one percent and stack lower by 12 down one tenth of one percent global by more than 2 ,700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries I'm Charlie and this is bloomberg financial advisors are you looking to add or switch which custodians are you going independent interactive brokers provides lowest cost trading and turnkey custody solutions for all size firms trade globally from a single integrated master account with no ticket charges no custody fees no minimums and no tech platform or reporting fees plus IBKR has no advisory team or prop trading group to compete with you for your clients switch to the custody solutions that work for you at ibkr .com
The Café Bitcoin Podcast
A highlight from "Cryptosovereignty" with Erik Cason - September 20th, 2023
"Hello, and welcome to the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast brought to you by Swan Bitcoin, the best way to buy and learn about Bitcoin. I'm your host, Alex Danson, and we're excited to announce that we're bringing the Cafe Bitcoin Conversations Twitter Spaces to you on this show, the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast, Monday through Friday every week. Join us as we speak to guests like Michael Saylor, Len Alden, Corey Clifston, Greg Foss, Tomer Strohle, and many others in the Bitcoin space. Also, be sure to hit that subscribe button. Make sure you get notifications when we launch a new episode. You can join us live on Twitter Spaces Monday through Friday, starting at 7 a .m. Pacific and 10 a .m. Eastern every morning to become part of the conversation yourself. Thanks again. We look forward to bringing you the best Bitcoin content daily here on the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast. All right. All right. Good morning to all of you Cafe Bitcoiners. Good morning, Peter. Good morning, Ant, Dombey, Jacob, Wade, everybody else in the audience, all the loyal listeners. If you're new, we play that song at the beginning of every show. I highly encourage you to go look up the words and read the words to that song. It's mind blowing. Welcome back, Ant. Thank you. Thank you. I see you guys held it down. Yeah, we were all sad. We missed you. Oh, I'm really sure. I had to explain you to my sisters yesterday, Ant. Oh, I'm sure that went well. You were the technical guy, that's the other technical guy who does other technical things and has other technical knowledge. All the technicals. We did have like the Wicked show yesterday, was it yesterday? I don't know. We had a moment where the scale was up, came up and she was like, I have a wicked question. And then that was KSD. It great. was All right. You're listening to Cafe Bitcoin. This is episode four hundred and thirty eight. Shout outs to our sponsors on Fountain Nosterness. Our mission for this show is to provide the signal in a sea of noise, teach the other seven billion people on this planet why there is hope because of this bright orange future that we call Bitcoin. Today, again, we're going to try and discuss near perfect energy arbitrage. I've been meaning to do that for three different episodes now. We never actually get to it because the content is so dang good. The questions are good. The discussions are good. Hopefully we get that today. There's also a bunch of nonsense that the lizards are up to that I think needs to be highlighted. We shine lights on lizards and lizards doing lizard things. And it's I hope it helps you guys. Peter. Speaking of lizards, my banking saga continued. So, you know, yesterday I was talking about having trouble transferring money in my account being frozen, et cetera, et cetera. I thought, well, I'll just go into the bank, get out cash, and then I'll go make the deposit into my friend's account. Right. So I put my tweet up in the nest. I'm just going to it's real quick. I'm just going to read it. I said friend needed financial support, went to their bank with cash to deposit. Teller, we don't take cash. Me, what? Teller, sorry. Me, manager? Manager, we don't take cash. Random patron looks at me and mouths, what the fuck? Me, thank God. I literally said this. I said, thank God for Bitcoin. I walked out of the place. My friend, thanks for the BTC. You said that in a bank, Peter. What? You said that in a bank, Peter? Yeah. You're on the list. Hell yeah. You're on the list. That's like saying bomb on a plane. I looked at this lady, this manager, I looked at her. I was like, what the fuck is cash for? She goes, well, you can go buy stuff. I said, you're a bank. You don't take cash? No, thank God for Bitcoin. I fucking walked out. I couldn't believe it. You're all on a list. Every single one of you. It's OK, Peter. I got on the list a long time ago. I was on a phone call with my bank a long time ago and it was just like a lowly customer support person. And I was like new in Bitcoin, like brand new and like, you know, feeling it. And I was like, this is why y 'all are going down. You see, this is why Bitcoin is going to take you all out. So I'm sure I'm on the list as well. OK, later today, second half of the show, we've got Eric Kaysen joining us. Looking forward to that. That dude, he's one of my favorites. He's an extremely passionate Bitcoiner and deep thinker, in my opinion. He says some stuff that is I mean, there's a lot of edgy people in Bitcoin that are willing to say and call out lizard nonsense. Eric pulls no punches, man. This dude, when he's laying it down, I'm like looking around the room thinking, are any of these guys that are in here fed? Because he's definitely on the list. And so is everybody in this room. Oh, I'm sure we've had feds in this room for a long time now. Yeah, probably. I mean, these are all recorded, right? So, yeah, I guess they let it back. Yep, yep, pretty much. Good morning. They won't get the emojis, though. Yeah, screw them. I wish these guys would do something illegal. Mike Hobart, good morning. Mickey Koss, good morning. Terrence Yang, good morning. Oh, by the way, congratulations, Terrence. Terrence was on Bloomberg again. Dang. Thank you. Thank you. He's a regular now. Whenever they want to know something about Bitcoin, they call Terrence Yang. Your star's rising, Terrence. And Terrence is like, oh my God. And Terrence is like, hang on one second. I got to hang on one second. I got to park this dim sum cart so I can go get into a nice background place and do my interview with you guys. Exactly. Exactly, due to my crappy or just something's not great with faces for my audio, so it doesn't do noise suppression. So but it's motivating me to take a walk. So instead of you guys listening to the piano music from the hotel again. As long as you don't walk into that ballet center again, Terrence. I think that was Beetlejuice. I did not record. Terrence, if you don't mind me asking, since I didn't see the Bloomberg appearance, what did they ask you about? Did they ask you about any of your opinions on the Binance situation or is it just strictly Bitcoin and price? A little bit Binance. It was price, not as much price this time. I think I'm not sure why, but it was more about ETF kind of timing. And we got into spot versus futures of the SEC loss badly against Grayscale. So actual signal then, that's good. Allegedly, yeah. No, they ask good questions. That's good questions. And then talked about some tax stuff, stuff like that. Terrence, you were telling them how it's going to go down this year. That's interesting. How did they react to that? I did point out that 75 % of quote unquote experts surveyed said that Bitcoin ETF will be approved by year end, which I don't agree with. Yeah. Who are these experts? Are they the writers that coined it? These crypto people, right, because sometimes our stars do align a little bit with the crypto people short term. So their PR machine is formidable. So I think they just go around and random crypto experts opine on Bitcoin ETF timing based on their chat TBT law degrees or whatever. Here's a big wrench, Terrence, and you have a law degree, so you can tell me if this is possible. This may throw a wrench into the some of the bets on the side chains. What is it possible for the SEC to approve Grayscale, but with a go live date that's next year or far out or some kind of ambiguous, like, yeah, it's approved conditionally with this. And then people, well, it wasn't approved. It was approved. That I don't know, but typically they just kind of approve, delay or deny. And then when they approve, you just have to do all the paperwork. It's like they're always approved with conditions. Everything the government does or lawyers do. And now you're talking about government lawyers. So every approval is like if you meet the, you know, registration requirements, blah, blah, blah, you can do it. Go ahead and file the paperwork and, you know, give us comfort that you're compliant. Yeah, but they can attach conditions like, OK, so you're saying you're doing the surveillance sharing agreement. We are only doing this if that actually gets signed is, you know, not clear that that signed it, blah, blah, blah. They might add some details. I think that's possible. I don't actually know that much about ETF approvals, but that should be how it goes. It's kind of based on all the other stuff that government regulators tend to do. Yeah, because that's that's my new thing is, is this is backed by no for the listeners, no legal knowledge whatsoever, zero. But if they can find a way to approve Grayskills, put a timing on it that somehow screws them and lets BlackRock, whoever's first in line for the ETF, go live first. That's what I see them do. Yeah, that's possible. I feel like they're not that explicit. Like, OK, so a couple of things. One, if you're a Gensler, political animal, Bitcoiner, allegedly, you would probably want to do what? Delay approval just because, you know, hurts to lose three to zero in the D .C. In or batches dispersed would be one of the big four. It doesn't have to be BlackRock, right? Because the public perception, at least in some corners of the universe, they tend to think that BlackRock is super evil because they're so big, totally misunderstanding how asset managers work. But anyway, you might pick one of the big four, the new one being Franklin Templeton, 1 trillion .4 AUM, I think Invesco is like 1 .6, Fidelity and BlackRock are orders of magnitude. So one of those big four. Maybe do it in batches, politically you might do, I hate to say it, Cassie Wedge from ARK because she's a woman and she's very vocal.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Fresh update on "mickey" discussed on Mike Gallagher Podcast
"Thinking of a rewrite. Hey, Mikey. He's so fine. He's so fine. He blows my mind. Hey, Mikey. This is not just me being cute. It's a musical birthday. You remember that video of Tony Basil doing Mickey on MTV circa the early 80s? Yeah, kind of. Yeah, vaguely. And the credit to her is it was, you know, X number years down the road wearing her cheerleader outfit from Las Vegas High School, and it still fit. So early 80s MTV hit, Tony Basil's birthday, choreographer of note before that huge one-hit wonder there. How old is she? Oh, gosh. Think about it. Seventy-two? She's 80. Wow. It's like Debbie Harry of Blondie, right? Big 80s, late 70s, early 80s. She's 78. Guess what? Fame doesn't always strike when you're 19. Right. You know, not everybody is going to be a child star. She was well into her 30s when that day. I'm still waiting. I'm still waiting for fame to strike. Exactly. He's 60. Sixty-three. Oh, fame has struck. Fame is absolutely struck. What struck was dry socket. I had a relapse yesterday. I'm telling you what. Dude, what is your path out of – what's the exit strategy from this, man? The dentist looked at me with sympathetic eyes and he said, you know what? This is really rough. And I said, that doesn't sound like a scientific explanation. How about a cure? He said, you just got to get through it. Seven to ten days. And man, I'm telling you what, this has been a rough, rough week. And it's just – and of course then like a dummy, I go online and look up every horror story. Oh, no. No, no, no. Do not Google. Do not Google. Big mistake. Family of 12 dies from dry socket. I was like, got to be on the back end of this, I would think. And here's the weekend. And here's the weekend. Two days to not worry about any of this. Just sit at home, do everything. Watch some college football. And I was also pondering driving into work today. You said, we have stories here at 735. Let's talk stories because you and I were kind of comparing notes yesterday to some reporting that you got on the DeSantis campaign. One hour from now, the sage of East Texas, my broadcast buddy, Paul Gleiser, who owns KTBB and Tyler and Paul – I mean when you go to the – I guarantee you, you and I and Paul Gleiser have been in the same building a number of times. Sure.
The Café Bitcoin Podcast
A highlight from Store of Value and Proof of Work with Ben Justman, Founder of "Peony Lane Wine" - September 18th, 2023
"Hello, and welcome to the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast brought to you by Swan Bitcoin, the best way to buy and learn about Bitcoin. I'm your host, Alex Danson, and we're excited to announce that we're bringing the Cafe Bitcoin Conversations Twitter Spaces to you on this show, the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast, Monday through Friday every week. Join us as we speak to guests like Michael Saylor, Len Alden, Corey Clifston, Greg Foss, Tomer Strohle, and many others in the Bitcoin space. Also, be sure to hit that subscribe button. Make sure you get notifications when we launch a new episode. You can join us live on Twitter Spaces Monday through Friday, starting at 7 a .m. Pacific and 10 a .m. Eastern every morning to become part of the conversation yourself. Thanks again. We look forward to bringing you the best Bitcoin content daily here on the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast. All right, all right. Good morning to all of you Cafe Bitcoiners. Happy Monday. It is time for another awesome week in Bitcoin. Man. It is so cool getting up on a Monday morning. You know, most people are like, oh, God, it's another Monday. They don't even want to get out of bed. They're dragging ass. They're like, oh, but Bitcoiners are like, let's go. All right. Good morning to all of you, Lisa. Good morning, Peter. Good morning, Mickey. Morning. Good morning. Don Bay Terrence. Good morning to all of you. Shout outs to my cobart in the audience. Joe Carla. Sorry. Hi, guys. Alex, the other Alex, there is another Alex. Alex talks tweets. She works at Swan. Shout out to you. You're welcome to come up. She does some amazing stuff. I'm not there's other people in the audience here who work for Swan. I'm not going to talk to you because you guys have some semi names. I don't know. Anyway, morning, Jacob as well. Welcome back from your golf excursion or the weekend. Tone vase morning there on you an invite. I just found out I'm on a panel with tone vase for Pacific Bitcoin. I'm moderating tone vase and Pierre Richard and Jimmy song. That's awesome. And I guess our mission is to talk about shit coins. So for whatever that's worth. All right. Welcome to Cafe Bitcoin episode four hundred and thirty six. Shout outs to our supporters on Fountain and Noster Nests. Our mission for this show is to provide the signal in a sea of noise, teach the other seven billion people on this planet why there's hope because of this bright orange feature we call Bitcoin. Today's show, we're going to be discussing BTC performance versus other assets. There's a tweet Saylor put out with a really interesting chart. We'll be talking about that. United States interest payments are at insane levels and the near perfect energy arbitrage of Bitcoin later today. We have Ben Justman from Penny Lane Wine coming on the show. Very excited. He's an example of the Bitcoin circular economy. So you've got people who are craftsmen making really fine high end things and they're selling them directly to big winners. And man, I love to see it because this is the future. Like we're moving away from this entire consumer rush, rush, rush, get on the hamster wheel, make money that is constantly devaluing and then spend it on shit that you're going to replace one month or one year from now because it's garbage. But that's the entire consumer economy system. It's insane. But Bitcoin is switching that. I think we're going to flip this thing completely on its head. How long will it take? I have no idea. But I think it's coming. Anybody have any opening comments you want to make before we start digging in here? Just that the coffee and the Bitcoin charts are hitting hard this morning. So let's go. Yeah, what's up with that? I saw there was something like, I don't remember the exact stat, but the open interest has is skyrocketing, I guess. We went from twenty six, what is this, five ish to twenty seven thousand two hundred and thirty ish per Bitcoin right as of right now this morning. Lisa Huff, what did you do? You know, I missed the days when Bitcoin was actually volatile, like I am excited to see that it moved and I was also excited to see that it moved down last week. But as for me personally, Alex, what you said is correct. Bitcoiners were ready to get up and do it. And in the last several months, I have, because of Bob Burnett's lovely wife, Lola, I heard a comment that she said she made about health and fitness. She said you have to approach it like it is your lifestyle. Yeah, kind of kind of changes things up. I'm raring to go at like five o 'clock in the morning. Start workout, just went to Pilates. That's my whole life story, guys. Now you know it. Nice. I like it. I think it's awesome. Like I've shifted also because now I'm on the East Coast. So the showtime starts differently for me now. And I have time first thing in the morning, get up and go do physical things. And man, it's it's been amazing. It's been awesome. You've got to exercise for life to keep your life long and healthy. It is a lifetime thing. And finding something that you enjoy doing while you exercise is critical to that. Personally, since I'm on the West Coast, I make my bed and it's a successful day before Cafe Bitcoin. And I am not qualified to discuss anything, just so everybody knows. It's all good. Shout out to Mike Germano in the audience, throwing you an invite if you would like to come up here and obligation to do so. Alex, good morning. Welcome. I think this is the first time you've been up here now. Hey, good morning, everybody. Yeah. Thanks for inviting me up. This is a lot of fun. I'm always listening while changing diapers in the morning and doing the whole mom thing before I clock in. So thanks for having me. Yeah. What are you excited about in Bitcoin and with Swan and with everything? What are you excited about? Wow. That's a loaded question. But I mean, short term, I am stoked on Pacific Bitcoin coming up. I sent out an email blast this weekend. Hopefully many of you guys received it. And I heard you mention your panel, Alex. And the description in the email of that panel is... So the title is Shitcoin Slayers, but that's pretty awesome. And basically, shitcoiners are shaking in their boots and stand no chance against Alex, Tone Vays, Jimmy, Pierre. There'll definitely be some fighting words and not some subtle jabs. It's going to be an awesome talk. Yeah, just a lot of good stuff in the pipeline for PB. Hope to see you guys there. Tone Vays, good morning. We're on a panel together. Good morning. Yeah, I saw that in the email that you were sending that over. Yeah, so that's great. Do you guys know which day that would be? That first day or second day? I have no idea. I just literally just found out myself because I got the email just like everybody else. It's funny, right? They're like, they don't even tell me. Yeah, no, it's good. I actually tweeted out just last night. Ethereum had a brand new weekly low 12 -month close against Bitcoin. And that is a very weak TA symbol for Ethereum. And it's already going down a little bit today as well. So I think, yeah, shitcoins are in a bit of trouble. But the weird thing is, though, have you guys seen what is going on over in Singapore right now with token 2049, which pretty much has become the biggest shitcoin conference in the world? It is crazy. That conference is so scary to me. It tells me that shitcoiners still have an unreasonable amount of money. And maybe the bear market's not over yet. I don't know if anyone's seen the party videos from there. No. What I wonder about is, in this next cycle, are they tapping Asia? Are you going to see a lot of shitcoin conferences over in Asia? And are they going to be gigantic? Oh, I was going to just say probably. But the scary thing is that that conference was massive. And they're renting out sweets with the best views of the... Let's get some context. Let's get some context. What do you mean by massive? What does this mean? What does massive mean to you? Numbers? Do you have an idea of a number of attendees kind of thing? I don't. I'm assuming 5 ,000 to 10 ,000 people. I wasn't going to watch that much. But it was like the after party, right? Like renting out the most expensive restaurant in Singapore. Getting front row seats or the best views of F1, a race that was happening the day after the event. If you just do the hashtag token2049 and just look at their after parties, I don't think anyone really cares. It seemed like a borderline Bitcoin 2022 or one of their older ones. It was insane. And based on how well the shitcoin community is doing, I'm like, man, this bear market may not be over yet. Well, Tone, they're long on other people's fiat, but that tells me they're short on their own tokens. That's why they're spending so hard. It's possible. Is Ethereum ever going to make new highs against Bitcoin? Nope. No, no way. And I said that on a show. I was on Ben Cohen's podcast and a lot of his audience is apparently shitcoiners. And I said that no shitcoin has ever made a new high versus Bitcoin in the following bull market of Bitcoin. Like it's never happened. Actually, I did find one exception. That exception was Doge. But that's because of Elon Musk. It's not because of anything Doge did. And BNB, right? No, BNB never really pumped in the 2017 market because it was just launching then. So BNB's high is the 2021 bull market, and that will never be surpassed. In the case of Ethereum, it's the 2017 bull market. In the case of Litecoin, it's the 2013 bull market. So if a token has been around for like a full year before the bull market, that is its ultimate high. Like it never breaches it. Ethereum will never break its 2017 high. No way.
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A highlight from Central Planning Myths with Daniel Harmon, Tuttle Twins - September 12th, 2023
"Hello, and welcome to the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast brought to you by Swan Bitcoin, the best way to buy and learn about Bitcoin. I'm your host, Alex Danson, and we're excited to announce that we're bringing the Cafe Bitcoin Conversations Twitter Spaces to you on this show, the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast, Monday through Friday every week. Join us as we speak to guests like Michael Saylor, Len Alden, Corey Clifston, Greg Foss, Tomer Strohle, and many others in the Bitcoin space. Also, be sure to hit that subscribe button. Make sure you get notifications when we launch a new episode. You can join us live on Twitter Spaces Monday through Friday, starting at 7 a .m. Pacific and 10 a .m. Eastern every morning to become part of the conversation yourself. Thanks again. We look forward to bringing you the best Bitcoin content daily here on the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast. All right. All right. Good morning to all of you Cafe Bitcoiners. Morning, Jacob. Terence throwing you an invite. Good morning. You know, a while back, there was a video that got made with Tip and Z and the lyrics to that song got put on there, and it really helped because like for a while, you know, like when you listen to music, you kind of make up the words in your head if you don't know the exact, you know, lyrics. But once I read the lyrics to that song, and it's pretty interesting, if you know how to what the words are in that song and you're trying to talk to someone about Bitcoin, you literally can just recite that song to them, kind of. And it like totally flows like it makes you understand like Bitcoin in such a great way. I think if you like the lyrics in that song are very powerful, I guess is what I'm getting at. I have to agree. Morning, Peter. Good morning. All right, let's get rolling. Welcome to Cafe Bitcoin. This is episode 432. Our mission for this show is to provide the signal in a sea of noise, teach a whole bunch of people on this planet why there is hope because of this bright orange future that we call Bitcoin. We're gonna be kind of riffing today, getting various different newsy stuff. Later, we have the co -founder of Angel Studios, also the co -founder of Harmon Brothers and the creator executive producer at Tuttle Twins, Daniel Harmon. It's going to be joining us. Really looking forward to that. For those you don't know, Angel Studios, Tuttle Twins is like a cartoon series, and they teach a lot of incredibly adult concepts. I suspect that the kids that watch these shows have a better grasp on economics than a lot of the adults that are wandering around out there. Just my opinion. Morning, Mickey. Good morning, Dombay. Good morning. Yeah, in sort of that economics vein, I still meet like fully grown adults that think the dollar is backed by gold. Yeah, yeah, all the time, right? And it hasn't been that way since like, what, 50 years now? Come on, Alex, 1971. We all know this. Oh, for, yeah, 52 years at this point. It's crazy. Morning, Dombay. What's up, man? What up, y 'all? Just getting off the work grind. How's everyone doing this morning? Doing good. You're just getting off duty. Yeah, I was on for three days straight, but, you know, it was forgiving three days. Right on, right on. Are you, I don't know if you know this or not, I was curious, are you working the Pacific Bitcoin Conference? No, sir. I took that whole week off and I will be just around. I will be like free at the conference, in the conference, out of the conference. I'm going to really soak this one in for sure. Nice. Glad to hear it. Good morning, Rizzo. How are you doing, man? Thanks for joining us. Yo, good to have you back, sir. Thanks, man. It's good to be back. Good to be back. We're getting settled in, getting unpacked, all that jazz. Love the love being on the East Coast. Love it. It's a complete life. Why you gotta trigger me? Why you gotta do that? What? Why you gotta trigger me? It's early here. I don't sleep anymore. Sorry, bro. It's interesting. Hang around your buddy's ankle, dude. He's getting surgery here in a couple of days. about He lost a quarter inch of it, of the bone right above the ankle. It's kind of just gone. I assume if he's your buddy, he's orange -filled. But if not, I mean, that's a lot of good time to read and catch up on Bitcoin. Oh, man, he's a tough cookie. He's really proud of his entry into bonds last summer. Yowzers. And I showed him the Nakamoto portfolio, and he was like looking at it. And he was like, wow, OK, yeah. But you know, I mean, you can take a horse to water, but you can't make it drink. I mean, when the horse is thirsty, it'll drink on its own. And everybody gets Bitcoin at the price they deserve. And I used to hate that saying, but it's just really true. And it's because everybody, you know, people will purchase Bitcoin at whatever price it is when they have a need or necessity for one or many of its properties. And I don't know, you know, what do you do? It's that funny effect where it's not like Bitcoin's a new thing, right? We're in year, what, 14 now? Almost, what would you guys say if you had to guess, what is the percentage of human beings that have at least heard of Bitcoin at this point? 50 percent? More? I don't know what the number is. Do you guys have a guess? It's got to be pretty high. I think the we are early folks, sir. I think we're getting out of the early stage personally.
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A highlight from Hodl'er Mentality, Understanding Volatility, and What Makes You Bullish About Bitcoin? With D++, Gary Cardone, GoodGuyBiker, and Wicked - September 11th, 2023
"Hello, and welcome to the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast brought to you by Swan Bitcoin, the best way to buy and learn about Bitcoin. I'm your host, Alex Danson, and we're excited to announce that we're bringing the Cafe Bitcoin Conversations Twitter Spaces to you on this show, the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast, Monday through Friday every week. Join us as we speak to guests like Michael Saylor, Len Alden, Corey Clifston, Greg Foss, Tomer Strohle, and many others in the Bitcoin space. Also, be sure to hit that subscribe button. Make sure you get notifications when we launch a new episode. You can join us live on Twitter Spaces Monday through Friday, starting at 7 a .m. Pacific and 10 a .m. Eastern every morning to become part of the conversation yourself. Thanks again. We look forward to bringing you the best Bitcoin content daily here on the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast. All right. All right. Good morning. All you Cafe Bitcoiners out there, I hope you all had a great weekend. Fired up, looking forward to this week, man, I cannot tell you how awesome it is for me being on East Coast time. I can't even begin to tell you how cool this is for me. Go fuck yourself. No, fuck yourself. I'm on the West Coast, dude. It's Monday morning. Bro. Oh, it's so good. It's so even retired people recognize Monday mornings. Oh, I'm in so much of a better mood all the time. I don't know if you guys can tell me with that. Good morning, Peter. Morning, Mickey, Terrence, Tomer, Jacob, and of course, all of you awesome, loyal Cafe Bitcoiners out there. So much going on. Uh, where to start? Geez. Okay, well, let's just enter the show. First of all, you're listening to Cafe Bitcoin. Good morning and welcome. This is episode 431. Our mission for this show is to provide the signal in a sea of noise, teach the other seven billion people on this planet why there's hope because of this bright orange future that we call Bitcoin. Today, we're discussing US debt. There was a $500 ,000 on -chain transaction fee. We'll talk about that a little bit. Bitcoin Lots more news. Later, we're going to be doing some beginner Bitcoin beginner Q &A. So if you're new, you have questions you want to learn. You can ask a question, you can do it live and come up on the stage. We'll be kind to you. I promise there is no stupid questions, no such thing. We're all here to learn. No one's gonna make fun of you. If you want to ask questions in the telegram chat, you can do it in text. If you're shy, you don't want to come on the stage or for whatever reason, if you can't come on the stage, that's t .me forward slash cafe Bitcoin club, go check that out. We also post lots of stuff in there as well. Where do you guys want to start so much? Let's talk about this gigantic, ridiculous $500 ,000 transaction fee. So it is block number 807 ,058 if you guys want to go check it out. Um, modern not made a little post about this. He's like, so essentially the sat per V bite fee for this block was 8 ,182 ,079 sets per V bite. There's this big red overpaid by 479 ,000 times as necessary. Um, man, it's just mind blowing. My modern odd is saying his best guess is that it was created manually. Like somebody was pasting addresses and the amounts into some kind of wallet software. They meant to set a fee of 8 ,632 sats, but accidentally pasted an output into the fee box. Turning it into that is a really big number. Um, it's a really big number.
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A highlight from Bitcoin News with the Caf Bitcoin Crew + Panties for Bitcoin - September 6th, 2023
"Hello, and welcome to the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast brought to you by Swan Bitcoin, the best way to buy and learn about Bitcoin. I'm your host, Alex Danson, and we're excited to announce that we're bringing the Cafe Bitcoin Conversations Twitter Spaces to you on this show, the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast, Monday through Friday every week. Join us as we speak to guests like Michael Saylor, Len Alden, Corey Clifston, Greg Foss, Tomer Strohle, and many others in the Bitcoin space. Also, be sure to hit that subscribe button. Make sure you get notifications when we launch a new episode. You can join us live on Twitter Spaces Monday through Friday, starting at 7 a .m. Pacific and 10 a .m. Eastern every morning to become part of the conversation yourself. Thanks again. We look forward to bringing you the best Bitcoin content daily here on the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast. All right. So that's the first time I played that, I think, for one of the live shows. Volume OK? Volume was pretty good, Alex. It had a couple of dips, but overall, it hit good. All right. Cool, cool. Good morning, everybody. Good morning to all of you Cafe Bitcoiners, Dom Bay, Mickey, Tomer. Good morning. I haven't seen you in a little while. How are you? How are you doing? I'm doing good. Yeah, it's nice to connect again. You were on vacation. I was on I don't know, I wasn't on vacation, but I was doing some stuff that was keeping me quite busy and a little bit away from the show. But and maybe you weren't on vacation, but you were away. Who knows? Nice to hear your voice again. Nice to be in dialogue. Let's see where today takes us. Yeah, I mean, officially it was classified as vacation. But the reality is I was busy as hell, but whatever. All good. Good morning, Peter. How are you doing? Good morning. I'm having a great morning. I've had a great week and unfortunately I won't be around. Well, I might be around tomorrow and Friday, but I doubt it because I'm taking my motorcycle and heading up into the mountains. That's awesome. Elaborate. Elaborate. Let's see, I'm driving east of the Cascades to a city called Chelan, and from there I'm going to we're going to I'm going to spend the night there with a friend. And then tomorrow we're going to head up into the we take a series of dirt roads called the Washington BDR, which is the back road discovery route. It's about 100 miles of dirt roads to the next town, which is Wenatchee. And then the next day we do the same thing to Ellensburg. And the next day after that, we do the same thing to a town called Natchez and then I'll head home. So 300 miles or so on dirt roads should be should be fun on the on the behemoth that I drive. I don't know why I have to have the biggest enduro in the universe, but apparently I've got Napoleon syndrome. I just hear in the background, I was the highwayman along the coach roads I did ride. Nicely done. Alex, you got a response to that? I actually I do. There is some nonsense that we have to get out of the way, so we might as well do that now. By the way, good morning and welcome to everyone. You're listening to Cafe Bitcoin episode 428. Our mission for this show is to provide the signal in a sea of noise and chase the other seven billing people on this planet why there's hope because of this bright orange future that we call Bitcoin. And for the nonsense, here we go. Crowds are coming by the dozens to get an up close view at what some say is a piece of Irish folklore, a leprechaun. I don't want to know what I don't want to go in here to go back home. Sorry, I had to remove Alex from the stage for playing that song, but we'll let him back up. What was Alex up to the last two weeks? I think you got booted, bro. Jerk, I think that counts. I'm pretty sure it counts. Some of you motherfuckers out there owe me five million sets. Let's go pay up. Oh, that's fucking awesome, dude. That's amazing. Oh, that's the funniest fucking thing I've seen in a long time. All right, that took me to get the co -host back. Some of you might be highly confused by this. Just just ignore it. Pretend it didn't happen. For those of you who know, you know, somebody owes me five million sets. Let's go. I'll expect payment by the end of the day. Thank you. You need to publish an address, then I'll wait for them to reach out to me. All right, that's good. Well, congratulations. Don't spend it all in one place. Thanks, man. If they pay, I doubt they're going to pay. They're going to come up with some weasel way to say, we don't know you because you didn't follow the rules because of whatever. I don't give a shit. Yeah, you didn't read the fine print. It said the temperature had to be 85 exactly. Hold on. The best part is, is that you played the game. I mean, come on. That's all you can do, right? At some point, you just got to bow down and play the game. I am bound on a nobody. Fuck that. Good morning, Matt C. How you doing? Hey, all doing well. It's nice to be back from summer vacay. Hope everyone had a happy Labor Day and excited for the fall. It's been good. It's been good. What have you been doing in this sideways crabby kind of market, Matt? Just laughing at how predictable this, let's just call it the fourth quarter before the halving always is. Every single cycle, the weirdest FUD comes out and it's the too long, didn't read it is basically what if the Bitcoin halving somehow breaks BTC every single cycle, new cycle, same FUD. It's just a different reiteration. It boggles my mind just how exact history repeats every four years. But I mean, what are you going to do? Mickey, good morning. What's up? Yeah, so it's like it's kind of like that mining death spiral story that pops up every four years. And I think it just illustrates how little these shit coiners really understand about Bitcoin, because because they get, you know, I get my buddy, I talk about him every once in a while, but he loves ETH, you know, and he'll talk shit to me. But every once in a while, he'll text me with just like the most insanely basic question about Bitcoin. And it's like, oh, dude, I thought you were like the crypto expert. I thought you were Bitcoin. I thought you understood everything, but they don't. They're just fed these these narratives from these influencers who are sort of obviously grifting to most of us. But yeah, it's just it's just dumb shit. So, I mean, the minor death spiral is pretty easily fixed by a couple of difficulty adjustments. And then, boom, the day is saved. It's not even it's not even that it's so this is the perfect place to talk about this because you can't explain it in a tweet or two. But what we're watching is the most competitive race of accruing hashrate, increasing your efficiency and putting your competition out of business. You you you're right. You might have the weaker miners that go out of business after the twenty twenty four, but you have the big players that have never been more profitable today. Names that you know of, like Riot, Marathon. These guys are sitting on 60, 70, 80 percent margins today. And you ask, like, well, how is that possible? It's because they keep slamming on the latest and greatest Bitcoin miners that are twice as more powerful and efficient and profit generating as the previous generation. So you're literally putting your competition out of business. You don't have to hire tons of new people or more administrative costs just for putting a couple more computers online. Your only your only impediment is energy costs. But these smart players, they they set their deals in terms of years, three years, five years. And if they're in Texas, they get energy credits just for shutting off. So it's such a it's a nuanced, complex conversation. And you're right, like grifters, crypto influencers, they prey on that FUD, that fear that a new person just doesn't understand. Like, well, I read that if Bitcoin doesn't hit 50K by having all the miners are going to, you know, go bankrupt, it's like that's so there's so much wrong with that and it's impossible to explain in just one tweet. Tomer, do you have any thoughts here? Is there a lot of that FUD going around more than usual or are we more sensitive to the relatively same amount of it that's going around because it's kind of a bear market and it's dull and and the halving is indeed coming up. So we're taking it a little more seriously. I don't actually know. I'm I'm a little bit surprised to hear this because I would say it's hard to put your finger on the timing because you forget, but all this talk of security budget and whatnot seemed like it was a conversation that was maybe at the beginning of this year, if my memory serves correctly, and then it kind of went away because the Bitcoin price went up and the fees went up to use Bitcoin. So it suddenly seemed like the security budget, which is made up, fallacious concept, went away. But it sounds like it's coming back. I think there's always there's always a lot of confusion about Bitcoin and there may always be, but certainly because it's so new, because so few people understand how it works, because it's got so short a history. There are people who are going to try to take advantage of that by intentionally spreading false information. There are people who are going to be honestly mistaken and honestly confused and have pretty rational sounding arguments for why they genuinely believe something is is wrong with Bitcoin. And the only thing that proves them wrong is that Bitcoin keeps functioning exactly as designed. And I think this is really this kind of gets me going on where the whole altcoin space always comes from. All these forks of Bitcoin, the overwhelming majority of altcoins are just copy paste code of Bitcoin and change a few variables and see where it goes. Or they've gotten a little bit more sophisticated since because all of those have died out. But it's really like, why bother? What what's your hypothesis as to what's wrong with Bitcoin that needs to be fixed, especially if Bitcoin is offering itself, presenting itself as money? I think other coins came into existence and tried to offer different things, but wouldn't let go of the fact that like, oh, and we're also money like Bitcoin. And they weren't money like Bitcoin. So they they ended up suffering from this tremendous identity crisis, which still devours them. But I'm kind of going off on a few different tangents. Happy to pick up anywhere without trying to confuse the conversation too much. I see lots of hands up.
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A highlight from "Spirit of Satoshi" - The World's First Bitcoin-Centric AI with Aleks Svetski - September 5th, 2023
"Hello, and welcome to the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast brought to you by Swan Bitcoin, the best way to buy and learn about Bitcoin. I'm your host, Alex Danson, and we're excited to announce that we're bringing the Cafe Bitcoin Conversations Twitter Spaces to you on this show, the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast, Monday through Friday every week. Join us as we speak to guests like Michael Saylor, Len Alden, Corey Clifston, Greg Foss, Tomer Strohle, and many others in the Bitcoin space. Also, be sure to hit that subscribe button. Make sure you get notifications when we launch a new episode. You can join us live on Twitter Spaces Monday through Friday, starting at 7 a .m. Pacific and 10 a .m. Eastern every morning to become part of the conversation yourself. Thanks again. We look forward to bringing you the best Bitcoin content daily here on the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast. All right, all right. Good morning, all you Cafe Bitcoiners. How are you guys doing? Morning, Peter, morning, Zombae, Mickey, Jacob, shout out to Joe Carlisari in the audience, Mitchell, Robert, and all you regulars who come in here. Appreciate you guys. Good morning, Alex. Can you feel it? Can I feel what? We're winning. Telling you we're winning. We're winning? Yeah, we're fucking winning. Why do you say we're winning? I can feel the tide. I can feel the tide changing. I can feel the I can feel it in the air. I can feel it in the in in the the energy that is coming from from the people. I don't know. I can just feel it. We're winning. Be more specific. What do you what are in what area are we winning? Is Bitcoin winning? Is adoption winning? Is the cultural shift winning? Like what's happening here? What are you talking about? The cultural shift is winning. I mean, if we get outside of our of our echo chamber and really start to listen to what is going on in the general populace, it just really feels like we are winning. There is it is we the turning is happening. Give me some examples of what you mean. Oh, my God, what are you saying? Well, look, I'm my opinion, not trying to look, it's just a positive opinion. First thing in the morning, I wake up and I just can feel it in the air. OK, first of all, I'm not trying to exasperate you and I'm not trying to say that it's not true. I'm trying to say, tell us why you think this so that the audience can hear you and understand why you're seeing why you're coming to this conclusion. Because I'm really starting to hear people question things that I haven't in my lifetime heard them question before. Well, it's not that I haven't heard them question. I haven't heard as many people questioning the same thing. They're questioning what our government is doing. They're questioning what fiscal policy is. They're questioning what's happening in the world. They're looking around, they're waking up and they're starting to ask questions. And when you start to get critical thinking in on mass, I think it changes the direction of of society. I think it really it really starts to to to push communities to to look inward and figure out how they can provide for and make them make their their communities better. And, you know, it's just it's things like what's what's going on in Maui, what's going on in in in in Burning Man, what's going on with the things that are happening behind the scenes, this whole mosquito thing with with Bill Gates. I mean, it's just like there's just weird. Yeah, what's that all about? I said, yeah, what's that all about? I don't know, but but that's my point is, is that I'm starting to see I'm starting to see questioning of these kinds of things from places that I hadn't seen it before.
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A highlight from Alex Returns!, "The Orange League" with Neil from Dustup, and Macro with Dr.Jeff - September 4th, 2023
"Hello, and welcome to the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast brought to you by Swan Bitcoin, the best way to buy and learn about Bitcoin. I'm your host, Alex Danson, and we're excited to announce that we're bringing the Cafe Bitcoin Conversations Twitter Spaces to you on this show, the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast, Monday through Friday every week. Join us as we speak to guests like Michael Saylor, Len Alden, Corey Clifston, Greg Foss, Tomer Strohle, and many others in the Bitcoin space. Also, be sure to hit that subscribe button. Make sure you get notifications when we launch a new episode. You can join us live on Twitter Spaces Monday through Friday, starting at 7 a .m. Pacific and 10 a .m. Eastern every morning to become part of the conversation yourself. Thanks again. We look forward to bringing you the best Bitcoin content daily here on the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast. What is up, all you Cafe Bitcoiners? It's good to be back. Good morning, guys. Good morning. Welcome back. Thank you. Good morning, Mike. Good morning, Mickey, Dom Bay, Peter, Jacob, all you Cafe Bitcoin regulars, all the hardcore, you know, the hardcore ones, they're the ones that show up. Bright and early on Labor Day. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? This is late for me, so it's just it's easy. I'm sorry, but this is late. I've been up since four thirty. Alex, man, it's good to have you back. Peter has just been out of control and it's great to have you back for things you just get like back in order. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You're the one who's been singing on the show, Dom, not me. Don't you try and push this off, Dom Peter. We all know you're the one that's getting unruly in here. I thought the best way to celebrate Labor Day would be we're waking up early and working hard to spite the communists. Love that. Hey, Mickey, are you are you out? Are you no longer active duty? Not quite yet. All right. I can tell you've already got that short time's attitude, though. He's got he's got the itch, that's for sure. He's already got he's already got one one foot off the wall. Well, I'm looking forward to when you're a civilian and you can actually say all the things that are running through your mind that you won't let come out of your mouth. I have no idea what you're talking about, Alex. I'm sure you don't. Can neither confirm nor deny. Ollie North, plausible deniability. Good times, good times. Yeah, I got to hang out on the way down here, so some crazy shit happened on the way down here, by the way. So where you took us? No, I didn't stop at Burning Man. That was some I heard. That's crazy, too. They're like, are they still there? Are they walking around in the mud right now? Is that what's happening, man? The stuff that is coming out of Burning Man is just crazy. Some of the like what I've heard, Denny fever, I've heard Ebola. I mean, all the crazy shit coming out there. Bro, what is that organ? Is that Oregon Trail you're talking about or Burning Man? But to answer your question, Alex, as far as I understand, they are still stuck there. It's wild, man, FEMA, FEMA went in apparently and and are not allowing them to leave. What? Apparently, FEMA responded and they are not allowing them to leave. So so Burning Man has become a quarantine zone. You know, it's really hard to tell. I mean, do I really trust TikTok? I don't know. Hey, but hey, at least Diplo and Chris Rock walked their way out of there and got out safely. No, good for them. I mean, there seems to be a a real lack of news coverage on some of these or traditional media news coverage on some of these events. I'm not you know, there's there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of information coming out of Maui. It doesn't seem to be a whole lot of information coming out of Burning Man now. I mean, except for what's what what we're getting on social media. And, you know, I'm just not so sure how much I trust any of that. What are you trying to suggest, Peter? I don't know. I think it's odd. I think it's odd that that, you know, that there's not, you know, CBS and ABC helicopters flying over Maui. You know, I mean, I mean, when when the when the campfire in Northern California happened, what, three years ago and that that town was just completely devastated. Or the one in Colorado, the news media was all over it. You know, I mean, they were there. We were seeing we were seeing pictures. We were, you know, I mean, Maui's different. I don't understand.
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A highlight from #brunchtalk: Should you go on a 1st date if you're not 100% sold?
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It feels like a while since we started to answer your burning dating questions. We know you have so many because we see the list of questions we have in queue and we are here to help like the superheroes that we are. They have been coming in strong the last couple of months. So we're really excited to get back into this. And then for anyone who's new, we dissected all any question you might have about your dating life. This is meant as a side dish to the rest of the podcast. You know, our longer form content that runs every Wednesday. So make sure to also check that out, too. And why is it called Brunch Talk? Because we release these episodes on Sundays where we're hoping you're listening to this as you're getting brunch with your friends, with your buddies, with your date or with yourself. Yes. We're here to do brunch with you every Sunday. You can't get rid of us. A long standing brunch buddies. So let's get to the question for this brunch talk. This comes from Bodie McBoatface. And the reason why I am giving this username a shout out is because we promise if you put your brunch talk question in the body of your Apple podcast review, we will push it to the front of the queue. We'll answer it as fast as we humanly can. So here is the question. Should you go on a first date with someone off an app if you're not 100 percent sold on them yet? Yes. And for more context, they also wrote, I would like to be more excited about it. But how can you be excited about someone you don't or barely know? It is hard. It is hard to be excited off of a 2D photo. We will go into that. But that is absolutely true. Bodie McBoatface, you are not alone. You know, it's funny, some people can get really excited about a profile that they see because they fantasize about what this person is. I've definitely been there before. And ninety nine point nine percent of the time you're going to be disappointed by the person you meet because they're not going to meet your fantasy image of who they are. So I rather be in the side of Bodie McBoatface, which is like, you know, low expectations, maybe not as excited. But when it comes to online dating, I feel like you're never going to be 100 percent sure about someone now just from their profiles and some message exchanges. You have to go off of a feeling, right? A feeling of do I want to spend some time with this person because I find them intriguing and I want to get to know them better. I think that's the best you can do. Absolutely. You know, we go into much more detail at last week's episode. So this is actually coming at perfect timing. But we talk about all the limitations of apps and how it's near impossible to decide if someone is a match based off their profile and any conversation that you have. But the best you can do is a maybe is a yes and just keep going with it and seeing what develops. One of the challenges with apps is that people say that they can't ever actually get to that in real life date. And that's the only place where the magic is going to happen. So if you're feeling like a maybe again, there's some attraction, maybe you're not blown away by their photo, but you could see something developing, then go on the date. You could be really pleasantly surprised. I know for me, for all the partners I met on the apps, like, of course, I was attracted enough to like have the conversations, but I would never say that I looked at their profile and was like, this is it. This is my person. That never happened. It was meeting in person, seeing the energy. I was way more attracted in person. And I've seen it go the other way, too, that you get really excited about the profile and you meet in person and it's a letdown. So just accepting apps for what they are, bring in that sense of curiosity. Yeah. If we're expecting excitement, we're setting ourselves up for disappointment. But we bring in the curiosity. We come in with the what can I learn about and from this person? Your chances of being happy about the outcome of that meeting are much higher because you are going to learn something new. I don't ever get that excited about meeting new friends. I'm not like, oh, my gosh, I think this could be my BFF and I'm going to be seeing them a lot. This new person that I just met. No, you're just come in with a sense of curiosity and maybe you're going to spend some fun times together. And also, I always make sure that the first meeting I'm doing something that I would otherwise enjoy anyway. Yeah. Maybe it is going for a meet up at my favorite park where I would do that anyway on my own. So now I get to meet someone new. It just feels more additive in that way. The expectations of data gaps is what's getting us in trouble. We think that it's like Amazon, that we're going to just be able to sift through, find the perfect partner. They get sent to us in 24 to 48 hours and the rest is history. And we're in a relationship where I'd love. It just doesn't work that way. These are people at the end of the day. These are not products. They are people. So we need to remember that and we need to change our expectations. I agree with you with the fact like we don't treat friends or professional contacts like this. It's just I'm going to meet someone new. And, you know, meeting someone in real life versus online, it's really interesting to me because I feel like they're actually the total opposites that in real life you have the chemistry. You can tell if you're attracted, but you don't know anything about them. The basics of what you would just say, like, is this someone that I could be with? Like that's not there in real life. You don't know any of that. But online, it's the exact opposite. You know their entire resume, you know all the criteria, maybe too much that you're making assumptions on height and things that don't ultimately matter because those are the variables that are there. But you don't know the attraction until you're in person. And how we start to use dating apps just replicate in real life meetings. That's kind of like, in my opinion, merging the best of both worlds that you know this is maybe someone viable you could date, but also bringing that magic of like that reveal in real life when it comes time for it. I know I feel like that's a million dollar question all apps are trying to solve is how do we merge reality and the virtual world? And it's very tough, but I know most people don't do this anymore, but taking your messaging to another platform like a phone call or a video call does help with some of that. I mean it does gauge some level of chemistry. I remember being so in love with this guy's profile once on the league. Like, oh my gosh this is my guy, you know everything he's saying he's so quirky and witty and his pedigree is exactly what I'm looking for. This is back when I didn't know what the fuck I was doing on dating apps. And when I got on the call with him there was absolutely zero chemistry and I'm so glad I didn't meet him in real life because it would have been such a letdown, but I'm glad I took that next step of just hearing someone's voice. Right, at least you wasted, you know, 10 minutes of your life or took 10 minutes supposed to getting dressed up, building up your hope and expectation. I 100 % agree. I think that was something that I did a lot was that extra vetting stage because, you know, one of it is that I had to in the pandemic when I was like back in the thick of dating again. But I really wish that could live on a bit more and I really don't think it's too much to ask someone to do a phone call before you meet. No, and if someone says no then that's a sign right there. Like if they can't jump on the phone with you for 10 minutes, that's saying a lot and I agree with you. I don't think there's a way that you can necessarily know that, you know, you're so compatible by phone either. It kind of goes back to the 2D photo on dating apps and profile. Like yeah, I think it's maybe a step up because you hear their voice and you can see how your conversation is meshing, but I wouldn't say it's a silver bullet either, but it does eliminate a lot of the people where there's just no connection and compatibility. So you can at least focus on the people that are the maybes so when you meet up you're at least set up for success in the sense that you know that you can already have a conversation with them. What do you think about not calling the first date a date? 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The Café Bitcoin Podcast
A highlight from Drivechains, Upgrades, and Bitcoin Workshop with BTC Sessions, and Tone Vays + Swan Private Macro Friday - September 1st, 2023
"Hello, and welcome to the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast brought to you by Swan Bitcoin, the best way to buy and learn about Bitcoin. I'm your host, Alex Danson, and we're excited to announce that we're bringing the Cafe Bitcoin Conversations Twitter Spaces to you on this show, the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast, Monday through Friday every week. Join us as we speak to guests like Michael Saylor, Len Alden, Corey Clifston, Greg Foss, Tomer Strohle, and many others in the Bitcoin space. Also, be sure to hit that subscribe button. Make sure you get notifications when we launch a new episode. You can join us live on Twitter Spaces Monday through Friday, starting at 7 a .m. Pacific and 10 a .m. Eastern every morning to become part of the conversation yourself. Thanks again. We look forward to bringing you the best Bitcoin content daily here on the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast. All right. Good morning, Cafe Bitcoin. Happy Friday, everyone. Welcome to September. Jacob, good morning, man. Terrence and Dom, good morning, guys. It's a beautiful day here in New York City, kind of like a West Coast weather type day. I almost thought about hosting from outside, but that's a little too difficult. Terrence, how you doing? Good morning. Good morning. What's up? Unemployment rate, that's what's up, Terrence. Yes, wage growth, still pretty good, higher than pre -pandemic. But yeah, coming down. I think we get a hard landing. What do you think? Hard landing, no landing, soft landing. I don't know. We will debate. There's always a landing. Yeah, no landing is a cop out. Dom, to our other West Coast crew member, what's going on, man? Good morning, y 'all, for everyone on Payday Friday. Y 'all made it with the return to the cheap sats. Dom, the last time I was hosting, it was Tuesday, the grayscale win against the SEC just came out. You were in the process of buying a Ferrari and a Lamborghini and Bitcoin has given back all its gains. I just wanted to ask you, how do you feel about all that? Yeah, I'm at the Toyota dealership right now working on some service, learning how to fix a transmission. So, you know, things are good, but we adapt and, you know, we keep moving forward. That's right. You got to be ready for anything. Things changed in a few hours in this world. Ant, what's up, man? Good morning to you. Morning, John. Weather finally broke around here. It's not so fucking hot anymore. Same with New York, by the way. It's like the first day that it's not hot first thing in the morning. We'll see if that holds. September is kind of a tricky month weather -wise. But yeah, it's like significantly cooler in New York today, too. Mickey, what's up, man? Good morning to you. Hey, good morning. Do you see that Forbes article that was going around yesterday saying you should start DCA -ing into Bitcoin? I did see it and the first thing I went to check was if you wrote it. And you did not write it, but I was still pumped to see it. No, I think that guy was like a senior contributor. I'm not allowed to write things that avert. Gotcha, gotcha. You have to be a little bit more subtle. But yeah, that was a good article to see the headline just like blatantly saying. I think the words were, now is the time to start DCA -ing into Bitcoin or something like that. Yep, something like that. Yeah, just sort of more evidence that it's starting to just infect the mainstream consciousness, I think. Yeah, and I recall skimming the article. It just seemed to be like a lot of the stuff that we talk about here, which is like the cyclical moves in Bitcoin's price and looking at different time periods and saying, hey, even if the great stuff Wicked does or Swan's Nakamoto portfolio tool, even if you start DCA -ing at a high point in the price cycle, if you stick with it and keep doing it on a daily or weekly basis, you end up being in profit even when Bitcoin's price can be down from point to point. So it was great to see that kind of stuff covered in Forbes. Thanks for highlighting that, Mickey. Shelly, good morning to you. How's the day going so far? The day's going well. We've got a lot of rain out here and excited to be here. Didn't see the Forbes article, but that's pretty much it. Yeah, check it out. What part of the country or the world are you in, if you don't mind sharing that? Yeah, I'm in Vegas right now. Oh, okay. Raining in Vegas. How long does that typically last? Is that like a comes and goes kind of thing? Yeah, we get these little storms where it's tropical, it's hot, feels like the world's going to end. It's usually a couple of days, but this started last night. Gotcha, gotcha. Well, cool. So just to set the stage, we're going to have Ben with the BTC Sessions showing up at some point in the first hour, which I'm always excited for. He always has a ton of great things to share. For anyone who does not know BTC Sessions, which is probably very few people on the call, he does, I think, without a doubt, the best tutorial content in the world of Bitcoin. So highly, highly recommend if you're ever testing out some new product or thing within Bitcoin, check out to see if Ben has a video on the topic. But we will be talking about all that again when he hops on. And we'll also be doing plenty of macro chatter. So on private macro Friday is the usual thing here. So, yeah, that's kind of the stage for the rest of the show. I will share this to kick things off. Just the other day, Wednesday night, I was in Midtown in New York City. My wife and I just got casual dinner in Bryant Park, which is kind of a cool spot of Midtown. And this woman, you guys might know her from like macro Twitter. Giana Smialek, who wrote this book called Limitless about the Federal Reserve, she is kind of like a macro econ type person. And she was doing a talk in Bryant Park. It was kind of a cool setup. There's probably, I don't know, 50 people just like sitting down and listening to her with a microphone. And she was talking about her book and she's talking about Federal Reserve policy and the economy. And she's kind of saying several things that my wife picked up on what she was saying. And my wife is not deeply into Bitcoin by any means, but she knows I am. So she can tell that this woman is talking about things that I would be interested in. And my wife is kind of looking over to me like, you should ask her a question, like you should you should start arguing with her, like challenge her. Do we agree with her? Do we not agree with her? And it was just kind of a funny thing because I had to explain to my wife I was like, look, I could ask this woman a million questions, but I don't think I'm going to be the person that she wants to hear from. And it was just like an interesting thing for me to see, because if I had asked her questions, they would have been like fundamental disagreements with her way of thinking. You know, she's arguing like, did the Fed raise too quickly? Did they not see inflation coming? And I would be the guy that's like, hey, the Federal Reserve shouldn't even exist.
Awards Chatter
A highlight from Cedric the Entertainer - Flipping Boxcars: A Novel
"The It's Always the Right Time deal. Hey, wanna go to Mickey D's for lunch? Ooh, let's go now. But it's not lunchtime yet. If we're going to McDonald's, it's always the right time. Yeah, it's hard to argue with that. There's a deal for every lunch hour at McDonald's. Now's the time to get two for $3 .99. Mix and match a four -piece McNuggets, a McDouble, a McChicken, or a hot and spicy McChicken. Price of participation may vary. It cannot be combined with any other offer. Single item at regular price. Hi, everyone, and thank you for tuning in to the 505th episode of the Hollywood Reporters Awards Chatter podcast. I'm the host, Scott Feinberg, and my guest today is a stand -up comedian, actor, and author who has been a fan favorite for decades. Perhaps best known as one of the four stand -ups featured in Spike Lee's blockbuster documentary The Original Kings of Comedy back in 2000, he also starred on TV programs such as the WB's The Steve Harvey Show from 1996 through 2002, and on CBS's The Neighborhood, which began in 2018 and is heading into its sixth season. And he's also been in numerous films, most notably the Barbershop trilogy, with installments in 2002, 2004, and 2016. Back in 2002, A .O. Scott wrote in the New York Times, quote, He takes his obligations to the audience seriously, and no comedian working today holds up his end of the bargain better, close quote. He, of course, is Cedric Kyle's, better known as Cedric the Entertainer. Over the course of our conversation at the L .A. offices of The Hollywood Reporter, the 59 -year -old and I discussed his unexpected path to comedy and the origin of his unusual stage name, his occasional forays into dramatic acting in films such as 2007's Talk to Me, 2008's Cadillac Records, and 2017's First Reformed, his debut novel, Flipping Boxcars, co -written with Alan Eisenstock, which was inspired by a grandfather he never met, and which Amistad, a division of HarperCollins, will release on September 12th, plus much more. And so, without further ado, let's go to that conversation.
Tech Path Crypto
A highlight from 1232. Gensler Demands All NFTs & Royalties Destroyed SEC Infighting Continues
"All right, so the hits keep coming for the SEC, and when I say hits, hits across the bow because they are taking incoming fire like crazy. Today we're going to be breaking down what the SEC is trying to do in the NFT space. You guys are going to really love this one. My name is Paul Beryl. Welcome back into Tech Path. Let's go right to it. I want to jump over to the SEC charges on the LA -based media and entertainment company Impact Theory for unregistered offering of NFTs. Couple of things they note here, Impact Theory raised approximately $30 million and hundreds of investors. Theory emphasized that it was trying to build the next Disney and as successful it would deliver a tremendous value to founders key purchases. There was a founder NFT. And then they ordered it to pay a combined total of $6 .1 million in the disgorgement. The order was also establishing a fair fund to return the monies. This is where it gets crazy. The monies that injured investors paid to purchase the NFTs. Impact Theory also agreed to destroy all founders keys and its position and or control published for notice of the order on its website and social and eliminate any royalties that Impact Theory might otherwise receive from the future secondary market transactions involving the founders keys. So this is a pretty heavy position I think overall. And the fact that they're asking for these kinds of actions first of all starts to showcase that the SEC doesn't really understand NFTs apparently. And I think this is the scenario that is really going to play out as to the struggle that is happening within the SEC and what I'm talking about is between Hester Peirce and of course Gary Gensler. I want to jump over to Hester's statement right here, NFTs and the SEC statement on Impact Theory. Now this is coming in from these two commissioners, Ueda and Peirce. Let's go right to some of the highlights here. NFTs were not shares of company and did not guarantee or generate any type of dividend or purchase. Adults should be able to spend their money as they choose, totally agree. Even if the NFT sales were fit squarely within the Howey test, this sets off facts as one of the warrants on enforcement action. The typical cure for a registration violation is a rescission offer which the company already made in the form of a repurchase program. So that's interesting. It also paid out a total of $7 .7 million worth of Ether. Presumably other purchasers likewise could have sold their NFTs back to the company. So this is another scenario that all of these kind of aspects, at least Hester Peirce seems to understand the scope of where NFTs are in the market, how a smart contract works, how all this plays out. Further on they go in to say commissions should have grappled with these questions long ago. Any attempts to use this enforcement action as a precedent is fraught with difficulty. In other words, these are just more case losses if we were to get into a scenario of the case going to a judge. How should recent legislative editors construct a framework of crypto inform our thinking about the application of security laws and NFTs? That's a big question. What type of information do these purchasers want? Might other regulatory frameworks be more appropriate? All of this is good. These are great questions for determining this. And then would compliance with any requirements be prohibitively costly? If so, what alternative approaches would be more workable, but still achieve the commission's objectives of protecting investors and the integrity of the marketplace? Totally agree. This settlement includes an undertaking by the issuer to destroy the NFTs in its position. And then also what precedence does not set is the future cases in which the NFTs at issue represent unique pieces of digital art of music. And then number nine, they go on to say, is that the settlement includes an undertaking to revise the smart contracts, which you can't do. Or any other programming codes or computer codes underlying the key NFTs to eliminate the royalty. Given that one of the promising features of the NFTs is the ability to reward creators with royalties every time an NFT, of course, is sold, what a precedent does not set for its future cases. This is getting to a point now where it's comical. And of course, understanding this technology, and it just does not seem like what has happening at the SEC makes any sense at all. As I said in a previous video, they have to be very educated litigators in understanding where this technology is moving. And this is one of the monetary systems and technologies that is going to be driving the markets for the next several decades. So they need to get under on this. It's a big one. I want to play this clip right here. Let's jump to this. This is an interesting one. This is Tom Bilyeu of Impact Theory responding to this. Listen to this from his Twitter space. The settlement is what's called a neither admit nor deny basis. So I am not admitting to agreeing with the SEC's take on it. And at the same time, I'm not denying anything from the SEC. And the reason that we wanted to settle was we ran the map. And the reality is that the thing that seemed best for the community was to instead of spending the double amount that it would have cost us over the settlement to end up in either the same place, possibly worse, possibly better, but possibly worse situation, we'd rather take that money and put it into what we're building. The SEC right now is not able to give the industry clarity yet moving forward, which I think is going to be very, very, very important. And for them to give the clarity, I think the commission has five voting members, three of them voted against this, and they believe that the commission really has to answer eight or nine questions to give the industry clarity. And so we were very encouraged to see that, to see that they're trying to think about how this moves forward. All right. So I think impact theory, obviously, to break it down, it is financial. It's an issue where you have one of the biggest litigators in the land going directly at a business that has no ability to really defend itself at a level like, say, a Mark Cuban or someone else who's willing to really go and spend a lot of money to fight this off. So Tom basically said, hey, we're going to go ahead and settle it. It doesn't mean we're right. It doesn't mean we're wrong. What they can't claim is victory. And it's a scenario that we think we can take the difference in what we settle and what it'll cost to defend this and may win, may not win, and reposition that into profitable and more innovative. Good decision, I think, on their part. I think any business owner would make that decision of going and not trying to fight against the SEC. But the good point that he also made was that at least some of the commissioners, three of the five, have already started to align these question alignments. That was the questions we just read through here recently on the show. And I think this is the factor. This is the things that have to be answered. But again, it just showcases that this is so idiotic. All right. So here was another tweet from John Deaton. I might be in trouble. Under Gary Gensler's interpretation of the U .S. securities law, my sign game warned MJs could pose a problem. So this is another issue. This is the thing we've talked about. And it's kind of the whole issue of the Howey case in general of the secondary market sales. And again, if you look at flow, flow comes in just in. Disney's Mickey and Friends digital toys are making their way to crypto on flow. Again, this is another scenario where we're going to see digital assets gain value. Does that mean that they are securities? Does that mean what? This is the kind of silliness that we're facing in the technology scope only because it's dealing with money. Every technology that has moved into innovation in the past has never dealt with the monetary system like this technology. And it's why the SEC is running around in shambles trying to defend this and basically trying to run roughshod over the industry as a whole. I want to go to another clip. Let's take a look at this one. I think you're gonna like this is Cenk Uygur on Young Turks listening. Now I've seen this in three different cases in the last two months or so. There is no reasonable expectation of profit. That's not a thing.
The Café Bitcoin Podcast
A highlight from Greyscale Wins Case Against SEC with Joe Carlasare, Dr. Jeff, and the Caf Bitcoin Crew + Bit Block Boom Recap with Gary Leland - August 29th, 2023
"Hello, and welcome to the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast brought to you by Swan Bitcoin, the best way to buy and learn about Bitcoin. I'm your host, Alex Danson, and we're excited to announce that we're bringing the Cafe Bitcoin Conversations Twitter Spaces to you on this show, the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast, Monday through Friday every week. Join us as we speak to guests like Michael Saylor, Len Alden, Corey Clifston, Greg Foss, Tomer Strohle, and many others in the Bitcoin space. Also, be sure to hit that subscribe button. Make sure you get notifications when we launch a new episode. You can join us live on Twitter Spaces Monday through Friday, starting at 7 a .m. Pacific and 10 a .m. Eastern every morning to become part of the conversation yourself. Thanks again. We look forward to bringing you the best Bitcoin content daily here on the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast. Good morning, Cafe Bitcoin. Morning, Peter. Morning, Jacob. Morning, Dom. Morning, Mickey. Peter, I'm not even going to ask you to sing your rendition of Richmond of North Richmond this morning. I'm not even going to bring it up. So you're welcome. Mickey, Peter, Peter's just rolling his eyes. I can feel it. Mickey, what's going on, man? How was the workout this morning? Did you do one? It was good. I actually just got in the door. So 8 ,700 steps at 7 a .m. here. So it's a it's a good morning. Good stuff, man. Good stuff. Dom, what's going on? How are you doing? What up, y 'all? We got Bitcoin holding steady around 26K here. I see BNB also holding steady around 217, 218. Looks like it's fine. I knew you guys were just spreading FUD. BNB is totally fine. Nothing to worry about there. When you've got 100 ,000 BTC to sell at any moment to back up your BNB, it's fine, I'm sure. Totally fine. So a lot of support around 218, it seems. So somebody is a buyer. All right. What else is going on here? I'll set the stage for topics for today. I think we're going to chat with Gary Leland at some point, who, as most of you know, the Bitcoin boomer on Twitter, he is the organizer of the Bitblock boom experience. He actually grew up not too far away from where I grew up in New York. And then we'll have some other topical things to talk about. We might might chat about some of the drama that's going on with drive chains and a lot of the debate that's going on there. We'll see. How did you grow up in New York and were able to skip the accent? You know, I get that a lot, actually. People will say, you don't sound like you're from New York. I don't sound like surfer Jim at all. You could tell surfer Jim is from New York when he starts talking. And I love that, by the way, that that is a compliment to surfer Jim. I don't know. I don't know. My parents grew up in Queens. They definitely had some more of a New York accent than I did. But but, yeah, most people cannot identify that I'm from New York when I start speaking. I feel like you don't have a particular American regional accent, Peter. Well, that's because I'm from Ohio. OK, OK, fair enough. But yeah, I've gotten that one before, for sure. I see Joe Carlosari is listening right now. Joe, if you're hearing this, would love for you to come up at some point, would really like to get your take on the latest Treasury IRS announcement. I don't think we've covered it in detail yet. Doesn't have to be now. It could be later in the show whenever. But this is obviously kind of a big one for Bitcoin companies, for Bitcoiners. Don't do it, Joe. Don't do it. It's just it's just bait. He just wants you to sing your rendition of North of Richmond or wherever that stupid song is. That's just you, Peter. That offer is on the table for you. Standing offer. It's out there. Before we get into news topics, I will just ask the the crew here, anything in particular that caught your attention, Dom, Mickey, Peter, in the last 24 hours that you guys would like to be a topic today. There's got to be something. Yeah, there's got to be something. Gosh, there's always so much stuff. I think you guys have the big ones, though. I know there's a lot of stuff with the there's a few things cooking today. Maybe Joe touch on with the spot ETF as far as things getting punted or kicked coming up. And then obviously you mentioned the drive chain stuff is interesting to hear how that's playing out. And those are the two main ones, I think. Yeah, and I'm just looking at what the I saw at least the headline SEC ruling on Black Rocks spot Bitcoin ETF do this week from other things that I've read. It was. Yeah, it's like a ruling, but I believe it can be extended. I thought I thought the kind of consensus was that was going to get extended until March. But it is possible that I missed something there. Because I believe the idea is that there's like all these deadlines along the way in when the SEC has to respond, but there is not necessarily there's a final deadline at some point, but there are a lot of intermediary deadlines where they have to, quote unquote, respond. But it's not a final yes or no. They can basically delay it and say, you know, we're responding and these are the issues we have or maybe they don't even have to say that. Maybe they can just delay it. But latest I had heard is that it would be March, most likely March before we get a, quote unquote, final ruling on these. But if anyone knows otherwise, they can correct me on that. I did see, I don't know if you all saw the SEC's first strike against an NFT company. I think it was like, I don't know if they're a podcast company that issued NFT, but I saw that there was a ruling that the manner in which they issued their NFTs satisfied the Howey test and they are they need to start returning funds to investors.
Daily Crypto Report
A highlight from "US DOJ seeks to prevent SBF's 'expert witnesses'" Aug 29, 2023
"It's 8 a .m. Eastern, August the 29th, and this is your daily crypto report. Bitcoin is down slightly at $25 ,960, ETH is down slightly at $1 ,641, and Binance Coin is up slightly at $217. While the U .S. Department of Justice is seeking to prevent all seven of the expert witnesses proposed by Sam Bankman -Fried from testifying at his upcoming trial, the DOJ questions the credibility and reliability of these witnesses, stating that their disclosures lack the necessary foundation, reliable methods, or relevant opinions required for expert testimony. The DOJ will call its own witnesses, including former colleagues of SBF who have pled guilty if convicted he faces over 100 years in prison. ARK Invest says Bitcoin adoption in Argentina is outpacing El Salvador. While El Salvador granted Bitcoin legal tender status, its actual adoption is mixed with higher awareness but lower usage. Factors like Salvadorians' preference for the U .S. dollar and Bitcoin's price volatility contribute to this cautious approach. In contrast, Argentina faces high inflation, driving rapid Bitcoin adoption. Pro -Bitcoin presidential candidate Javier Melaez's rise has further boosted Argentina's interest in Bitcoin. While Binance is reportedly reevaluating its presence in Russia due to legal risks, the exchange is considering options including a potential full withdrawal from the Russian market. This decision follows Binance's removal of sanctioned Russian lenders from its peer -to -peer service. The move comes amid reports of Binance helping Russians move money abroad, raising concerns about potential regulatory violations. Well despite recent market fluctuations and a lack of favorable catalysts, long -term holders of Bitcoin are continuing to accumulate the crypto, indicating a stronger bullish sentiment for the future. Around 40 % of Bitcoin has remained unmoved for over three years, a record high for this metric according to data from Bitfinex. Holders are refraining from trading or using their Bitcoin as collateral, signaling optimism and resilience against market volatility. Well, Cryptoys, a Web3 startup backed by A16Z, is expanding its Disney -themed crypto collectibles after launching Star Wars characters as NFTs. They're now introducing a Mickey and Friends collection featuring iconic character Mickey Mouse. The 15 -piece collection includes different skin designs and rarity levels, though notably while Cryptoys' NFTs are based on the flow of blockchain, there's currently no public on -chain data to verify sale numbers. And finally, Ben Armstrong, the controversial face behind the BitBoy Crypto YouTube channel, has been removed from the brand by BJA Investment Holdings, the parent company of the network. The removal is attributed to concerns about Armstrong's substance abuse and the negative impact it had on employees and the BitBoy crypto community. The company expressed regret for the situation and emphasized support for the BitSquad community moving forward. Well, that's all for us today. Visit us at dailycryptoreport .io for sources and links and listen to us everywhere else you podcast under Daily Crypto Report. Hey guys, welcome to the collective. I'm Brianne Helfrich, a 26 -year -old bioethics PhD student and clothing brand CEO. Welcome to my podcast where we talk all things health and wellness, navigating your 20s and becoming the best version of yourself. So sit down, play that episode and join the collective. Hey, this is Marybeth Lassiter. Are you craving a new podcast? I've got a recommendation. Check out Gravy, the James Beard award -winning podcast that shares stories of the changing American South brought to you through the foods we eat. It's produced by the Southern Foodways Alliance and distributed by APT podcast studios. Listen to Gravy on your porch during happy hour to hear about the mystery of the missing Pappy Van Winkle bourbon. Don't miss out. Follow Gravy wherever you get your podcasts.
The Café Bitcoin Podcast
A highlight from "Fiat Ruins Everything" with Jimmy Song + Bitcoin Art, Education, and Fun with Bitcoin Trading Cards - August 28th, 2023
"Hello, and welcome to the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast brought to you by Swan Bitcoin, the best way to buy and learn about Bitcoin. I'm your host, Alex Danson, and we're excited to announce that we're bringing the Cafe Bitcoin Conversations Twitter Spaces to you on this show, the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast, Monday through Friday every week. Join us as we speak to guests like Michael Saylor, Len Alden, Corey Clifston, Greg Foss, Tomer Strohle, and many others in the Bitcoin space. Also, be sure to hit that subscribe button. Make sure you get notifications when we launch a new episode. You can join us live on Twitter Spaces Monday through Friday, starting at 7 a .m. Pacific and 10 a .m. Eastern every morning to become part of the conversation yourself. Thanks again. We look forward to bringing you the best Bitcoin content daily here on the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast. Hope you guys are doing well on this fine Monday morning in the late summer. I think we've got plenty to talk about here. We've got Bitblock Boom recap. We've got a guest later on in the show. Len Alden's new book came out. We've got a handful of news items to talk about. But really, I'm just glad to see Peter's on because Friday he promised us that he would be doing his own personal rendition of Richmond, north of Richmond. No, don't know it. Don't even really like the song, to be honest with you. Peter, Peter, I mean, now you're just playing with us. I'm sure your vocal cords are just not warmed up yet, so we'll give you a minute or two. And go fuck yourself. It's never too early for a G .F .Y. from Peter. So, hey, let's do a Bitblock Boom that offers on the table, though. Peter, any time you want to bust out your rendition, feel free to. We got Tomer, Dom, Mickey, Peter. Great to see all you guys. Jacob, of course, as well. Out of everyone who was at Bitblock Boom out of this crew. Mickey, were you there? No, unfortunately not. I feel like I'm the only one that was at the event of the people on stage. But if anybody in the audience was at Bitblock Boom and would like to share, you know, their their experiences and how good of a time they had, it'd be great to have you. Personally, it was an amazing, amazing time. I mean, just getting to see everybody and and having like technical conversations with people, meeting all the people that enjoy the shows and people. It was just it was just like one of the best experiences I've had. And it just seems like every time you're going to one of these events, all the people that you met from the previous one, it's great to see them. And then you get to meet new people and they just get better and better every time. So I really could not have had a better experience of Bitblock Boom, but I did miss you guys. That's awesome, Jacob. Thanks for that. And did you happen to hear roughly how many people go to Bitblock Boom? I'm sorry to say I've never been to one. I'm just trying to get a rough sense of the size compared to some other Bitcoin conferences. Lynn's on her way up. I think she'd have a better idea than I would. But I would say it's similar to Pacific, like fifteen to fifteen hundred, like two thousand maybe. It's not the biggest. So it's really like intimate to where, you know, if you do want to talk with people, then, you know, you're going to be able to to do that at one of these conferences like Bitblock Boom. Right. Right. Yeah, I think most people prefer that. And I do see Lynn up. So good morning, Lynn. Would love to get your thoughts on this. From what I hear, most people prefer that smaller setting. Fifteen hundred, two thousand, three hundred, you know, three thousand, something like that rather than twenty five thousand to thirty thousand at some of these other massive conferences. Lynn, good morning. I would love to hear your thoughts. Anything you want to share on Bitblock Boom if you were there? Yeah, good morning. Thanks for inviting me up. I was there and I really had a fantastic time on a number of levels. I mean, I just jumped into the conversation, but I think the comment was made that the size of the conference was smaller, which it was just I mean, it was the perfect size. I mean, I certainly didn't meet everybody there, but, you know, it's great to interact with a lot of people. You see people, you know, you get to meet a lot of people. It's an easy forum to meet people just the way Gary organizes a lot of those social events that are more interactive. But one of the things that I noticed is this is a long standing Bitcoin conference. And I think I'm hearing some comments that a lot of the conferences tend to have the same the same sorts of topics on stage. So you end up hearing things that you really don't hear. I mean, that you really hear pretty much every day on Cafe Bitcoin or on podcasts. And so the content isn't as fresh. But I found the content at Bitblock Boom this year really, really, really mind expanding. Like Bob Burnett's talk, I think in particular, I want to shout that out, was great. Just talking about, you know, block size space and just giving a lot of things to think about. I thought Natalie's talk was fantastic, too. We don't often hear her as a speaker. We hear her as an interviewer. And I really enjoyed her conversation just talking about a media perspective and things that we all can do to kind of contribute to the space.
The Café Bitcoin Podcast
A highlight from Bitcoin News, 3% Inflation Target, and BRICS Expansion? With Dr.Jeff, Joe Carlasare, and The Caf Bitcoin Crew - August 24th, 2023
"Hello, and welcome to the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast brought to you by Swan Bitcoin, the best way to buy and learn about Bitcoin. I'm your host, Alex Danson, and we're excited to announce that we're bringing the Cafe Bitcoin Conversations Twitter Spaces to you on this show, the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast, Monday through Friday every week. Join us as we speak to guests like Michael Saylor, Len Alden, Corey Clifston, Greg Foss, Tomer Strohle, and many others in the Bitcoin space. Also, be sure to hit that subscribe button. Make sure you get notifications when we launch a new episode. You can join us live on Twitter Spaces Monday through Friday, starting at 7 a .m. Pacific and 10 a .m. Eastern every morning to become part of the conversation yourself. Thanks again. We look forward to bringing you the best Bitcoin content daily here on the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast. Good morning, everyone. Peter, Mickey, good morning, guys. Thanks, everyone, for being an early joiner on a late August morning here. I know people have a lot to do in the summertime, so thanks, everybody, for joining. Peter, how are you doing? Good morning. Doing well. It's another good day watching what's going on with the BRICs and their conference in South Africa. That is one of the many topics we'll be chatting about. Mickey, how are you doing, man? Good morning. Hey, good morning. 7 a .m. here. Just finished my exercise for the morning. So channeling my inner Steven Libka finished 8 ,000 steps before 7 a .m. today. So it's a good day. Dude, that is impressive. You're an early riser to have already done 8 ,000 steps by 7 a .m. Good for you. Steven would be proud. Well, hey, before we start getting into some topics, I just want to let everyone know today will be a little bit shorter of a show than normal. We got some people traveling to Bitblock Boom, the Bitcoin conference put on by Gary Leland in Austin, which is a fantastic conference. If anyone was thinking about going to a Bitcoin conference, we definitely recommend that one. It's a great one. If you're just thinking about checking out some of the content from it, we definitely recommend you do that as well. And speaking of that, we're going to be streaming some of the content tomorrow. So there won't be a normal Cafe Bitcoin show tomorrow, but we're going to be streaming some of the Bitblock Boom content because, again, that's just a great Bitcoin only conference. So definitely check some of that out. We'll talk more about that as the show goes on. All right, where to start here, plenty of topics that I think we can just do quick hits. Peter, I'm proposing that the Fed's new inflation target be 2 .17 percent instead of 2 .0 percent, and I wanted to know what you think about that. I think it should be 3 percent or whatever number they want it to be, because that's just what they do. There's no rhyme or reason as to why they've decided that 2 percent is the benchmark other than, I guess, they figure that they can steal that much money from people. And, you know, it's not really noticeable, of course, once you live as long as I have and you've been stolen from it 2 percent a year for the last 50 years, it's very noticeable. Yeah, quick shout out to some mental math, which I'll be honest, I don't do as much anymore. I used to be good at mental math when I was a kid in school, but with calculators and Excel, I am not nearly as good at mental math as I used to be. But there is a good one known as the Rule of 72, and this is how long it takes your money to either double or to lose half of its purchasing power. So if you get 1 percent returns per year, you double your money in 72 years. If you get 2 percent returns per year, you double your money in 36 years. That's a 72 divided by 2 and so on and so on. And it works the other way, too. So if you have 2 percent inflation every year, you lose half of your purchasing power in 36 years. If you have 3 percent inflation per year, you lose half of your purchasing power in 24 years, which I guess is approximately a generation. So at 3 percent inflation, you lose half of the purchasing power in 24 years. And that's somehow supposed to be positive for all of us. I will shout out my own tweet this morning, if you guys can bear with me here for a moment, but I just was looking at Krugman and Furman and these guys talking about how they think they've arrived at 3 percent being like a better inflation target. And they're pretending like there's some some real explanations, some real rationale. And, you know, they show a bunch of charts and stats. And I can't help but think that that's probably what the Catholic Church sounded like back in the fifteen hundreds when they said, no, no, this is why you have to pay for your indulgences. It's, you know, we're not making it up. It's not just for you to line our pockets. It's, you know, it's what the religion says that, you know, this is for your benefit and we're just telling you how it is. I honestly think it's that much B .S. that they talk about 3 percent being the quote unquote right inflation target. I just don't know how they do this stuff with a straight face, quite frankly. Not not only that, John, but but what are they basing that on? You know, I mean, they've continuously taken the, you know, components out of the the tool that they use to measure what the real inflation rate is. So, you know, to to adjust it for whatever their narrative is. And so, you know, I guess the real question is, how do we in in a in a world economy and in in, you know, in this kind of complex world, how do we really, you know, measure what real inflation is? Because I don't think the numbers they're using are real inflation. And I also don't think that the other extreme people who say that we're in a, you know, 25 percent or 20 percent inflation era, I don't think that theirs is correct either. So that that's my question is, is how do you actually what metrics would would we really need to use to get a real idea of what inflation actually is? I'm going to throw my thoughts on that. I think it's actually impossible and I'm not being overdramatic. I think it truly is impossible because there is no such thing as a singular number that objectively represents, quote unquote, prices.
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"mickey" Discussed on Wisdom From The Top
"CEOs who built companies beyond the expectation of where they go. But a lot of companies, one classic CEOs because they don't want to fool around. They don't want to have any trouble with the marketplace with the stock price or with taking undue risks. Steve Jobs was the furthest thing from a classic CEO. Sure. I've shared every thought I've always had with the boards. If you ask any of the board members, do I share, I probably share too much, not too much, 'cause you can't share too much, but I'm an open book and my emotions and feelings are open. I say exactly what I think at the board meetings. And I ask a lot of questions. That's the way I am. I don't think that the model CEO necessarily is the model CEO. I think the best CEO is a founders, people who like myself have a stake in the company, both emotionally and passionately and really care and fight for everything and care every single day. And I think it's usually a founder, even if they could run or not run the business well, they care a lot, and give me those kinds of CEOs. Yeah. You know, I read a quote, I think it was Jim Kramer, who said, Mickey is the most successful CEO I don't. Something like the most successful CEO I know in the most insecure, but I wonder if that's true. And B if that is true, do you think that insecurity actually fueled your passion and your desire to make things work? I think fear and insecurity drive so many successful people. It's the fear of failure. It's the responsibility you have. And it creates this huge drive in us that, you know, that never ends. It never stops. You know, and you know this over the course of your career, certainly anybody in a position is always going to have detractors or people that you upset. People get to fire, but you also inspired a lot of loyalty, how do you, how did you and do you know, keep people motivated and inspired to work hard for you? What do you do? Well, it's an interesting question. What I do is I treat people exactly how I wanted to be treated when I wasn't treated the way I wanted to be treated. I want someone who really cares desperately about their products, who answers their emails. Try to do the CO email gain. How many CEOs answer their emails? I used to play that game. It was rare. Rare. And I have always had a rule that it's respect. You answer employees emails associates emails, customer emails, and answer them in fix the problem immediately. That's the rule. How many CEOs do that? Mickey, do you think that you were born with leadership skills or do you think you developed them over time? Well, I think I wasn't born with it because I don't think I was a leader early on in my life. I mean, I did run for the 8th grade president's position, but I think as I became successful at a relatively early age, it just built a lot of confidence in me. And I had a gift. I think nature versus nature. I was given a gift in merchandising and intuition maybe in reading people. And that took a lot of years to come out. And I think helped me become a much better leader than not. We've obviously we've talked about some of the mistakes you've made, along with the triumphs, what is the is there a mistake that you can think of that really shaped you and helped you become a better leader, some screw up that actually you're glad happened? It's a good question. Screw up that I'm glad happened. I think getting fired at gap made me a much better leader. Yeah. And then he told me, I'll never forget this. He told me he made a mistake. Don, it tells you he should never have fired you. Yep. So, you know, I think it taught me to go on, rebuild, get up, I got knocked down, badly, by the way. And I think it made me feel stronger, less fearful. As I said, what's the worst thing that happens? I always tell people, look, I was fired. It's okay. And that gift gives you the confidence to go on and do better. That's Mickey drexler. He's a former president of gap and former CEO of J crew. By the way, after we recorded this interview, Mickey announced that he is also stepping down as the chairman of j.crew in order to devote more time to his own project, drexler ventures. But he said he's still going to stick around as the Pfizer to the board. Thanks for listening to the show this week, the music for this episode was composed and performed by drop electric. I'm guy Roz and you've been listening to wisdom from the top from luminary, built in productions and NPR.
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"mickey" Discussed on Wisdom From The Top
"To wisdom from the top. I'm guy Roz. So it took a few years, but Mickey drexler completely turned around gap from what he calls an ugly discount store to a trend setting powerhouse. And he did that by buying better materials using brighter colors and simpler designs. And of course, really striking advertisements. Including one particular ad campaign starting in 1993, that showed people like Miles Davis and Andy Warhol and Ernest Hemingway wearing clothes kind of similar to what you could buy at gap. And it turns out that campaign was pretty effective at making gap cool. Usually, hugely effective. The individuals of style campaign, which was done by women Maggie, who I worked with for years at Ann Taylor, I'll never forget she showed it to me. I said, what do you think? And I went crazy. It was just pictures of actors and writers, musicians, right? Just black and white photos of people in gap clothing. Yes. Yes, but the backstory was that we wanted to show that gap was cool clothes, but you can wear it with every other kind of cool clothes around designer clothes went with gap. The gap T-shirt was very chic. What's the actress's name who wore the gap mock turtle at the Academy Award Sharon Stone, wore it at the Academy Awards and I forgot what year it was. Yeah, I mean, I remember a gap in the 90s. It's just a very sort of simple place. Jeans and solid color shirts, maybe if you were stripes, just very clean, simple clothing. And I imagine that was dramatically different from the way it was when you joined. Oh, dramatically, it was a hip company. It was cool. It was high taste. You could be proud of wearing the clothes. We improved quality, it was absolutely different. It was night and day. Did you think about who you wanted your customer to be? Always. And who did you want your customers to be? Well, it and Taylor, it was always Jackie Kennedy. Always Jackie. That would she like it. I didn't have an individual at gap, but it was always someone who fit the ideal of a cool hip customer who didn't want to spend a fortune on their designer clothes. Right. Who could be cool, and it was, you know, aspirational, but I didn't have a name of a customer. Yeah. But I knew what he and she looked like. And you have to know, you have to know who they are, but it was a broad range at gap. Gap was for everyone. So how did how did old navy start? Because old navy obviously is a spin off of gap. And I guess I started in the 90s. No, I'll tell you old navy's a really interesting story. And it wasn't a spin off. What it was is I read in a newspapers, you know, gap in the 1992 1993, everyone gets copied in the fashion apparel business. You always get copied like crazy. And there's very few fashion companies that don't hit a wall. They come back, but they hit a wall. Gap was in early 90s, starting to hit a wall, Walmart had a gap department. Everyone was copying gap because that's what happens. Today, you can see the same thing going on with people copy lots of other people because it's successful. Sure. I read an article in The New York Times one day. And I'll never forget this. It was Dayton Hudson now target was starting a new company called everyday hero, and they said in the article, I don't know if they put in their press release, it was going to be a copy of the gap at cheaper prices. And I, of course, competitively got, well, the hell with them. I got pissed off because you just get that way. But I said, you know, this is a very smart research centric company. Something's going on here. And you know, I got over my upset very quickly. When a store opened a month later, went to mall of America to see their first everyday hero as the name of it. And it was in fact a copy of old gap. And I said, this is really a very weak copy of gap. And not good, but they did something to come up with this idea. So I got back to San Francisco, gave ten people $200 each in the demographic I thought would be old navy, which was lower than gap. And I told him to come back in a week, I signed the K Mart Sears Walmart, come back in a week and tell me what you bought and your impressions of the goods. So they did that. And then the most important statistic that I found was the genes in America. This is 1994. 80% of the genes in American 1994 were sold for less than $30. While gaps started at $35 for genes up to 50 or 60, and I'm saying, oh my God, I'm thinking we are in the sweet spot of the genes business and we are not even close to the sweets, but 80% are under $30. So that was all I needed, and then decided to open up old navy. Now we didn't have a name then. And I was in Paris with Maggie, who I worked with in those days. And we're driving by on rue saint Germain a bar. It just happened to be a bar in the way of the airport. We didn't stop by. It was called old navy, it's still there. If you look up old navy, there it is, a bar that's still around. So took the name and said, what a great name for a company. Old navy sounds like it's been around forever. So registered the name in America for free because no one had the name. And we opened up the first old navy store was called gap old navy, Cindy Crawford was our opening like our celebrity guest, and we had lines up out the door. And it was wildly successful. And an old navy was really designed to be like, if you didn't have the cash for gap or banana republic or J crew or whatever, you could go there and you could find some great stuff. Absolutely. It was fantastic stuff. And I'd say the advertising campaign put old navy on the map, along with great goods and great marketing in a nanosecond. It was then the fastest to a $1 billion apparel company. Wow. It was very successful. And still is, I think, a very big chunk of gab corporations earnings today. You know what, you turned gap around, it became like a rocket to the moon for years. Pretty much until 2000 and then bam
Wisdom From The Top
"mickey" Discussed on Wisdom From The Top
"For two years. So I went off to school. Of course, everyone had science went to college. So that was a huge positive in my life going to Bronx science, made a huge difference for me. When you, when you were, you know, when you went after college and sort of started to think about what you wanted to do with your life, did you think I'm going to get into retail? I'm going to, I'm going to run companies, like what was the thing that you thought you were going to do? Well, you know, it's a funny thing. My father always talked about owning a company someday getting into business, buying a house. So he created these imaginary fantasies I had in my life. So I think for me, it became part of my life where I worried about how will I make a living? No, I never thought about retail. I never thought about anything other than getting a good job and hopefully doing well. I always worked. One thing my dad did for me is he always made me work when I was in high school. Yeah. Get up. Don't sleep late, go to work. It wasn't kind and gentle. So you went off to, I guess you got your degree in Buffalo and then you went off to do an MBA in Boston, the Boston University. How did you how did you end up? How did you end up getting into the apparel world? Like, what was your first job in that first of all, I'm a big believer in DNA. Right. Nature nurture, and I always ask people I interview and meet, how did you get into art, science, commercial this banking? And there's usually a thread that runs through people's lives musicians, singers, artists, and the how do you get into for me was my father loved clothes. He was impeccably dressed and he spent what I thought was a lot of money on clothes because sometimes I go shopping with him and he really cared about the way he looked. So I think I think there was this DNA of my dad being in the garment business. I was delivering peace goods. I was doing all sorts of menial tasks, deliveries and all, but I never looked at his meaning. It was a way to kind of make some extra money, which I hoarded in my drawer at home. We saved the cash. I always was afraid of not having any money. But I think when I was in graduate school, there was a job at ANS in Brooklyn, which is now Macy's a and S is no longer around. Loved the job. I felt grown up. I was making a $125 a week. And that was between my first and second year of graduate school. So that was my first real Garmin job aside from working with my dad's company. And so when you finished your MBA program, you went to go work for ANS. No, I'll tell you what happened, and this is a long story short. So I was going to work for a and S, I really did a great job. They told me I was I did a project. I did this. They offered me a job for $11,000 a year. And I was ready to take it, but a friend of mine was a finance guy, and they offered him a job for $11,500 a year, and the $500 I was furious, the nerve of them to offer an unknown $500 more than me. So there was something going on in my life there. The fairness of it all, which exists today, by the way. I have that thing in me that still exists in terms of, is that fair? Is that right? Is that this? Is that that? And so at the end of the day, Bloomingdale's offered me 11,500. And the best thing I ever did at that point was take the Bloomingdale's job, they were up and coming, and I was fortunate enough to work for a woman named Katie Murphy who kind of taught me the fundamentals of buying nice goods, buying color, buying focused goods, and from then on, I kind of had my own private formula to build companies. I mean, it sounds a little dramatic and silly, but Katy was extremely influential for the year and a half I worked with her as my mentor. Yeah. I guess you sort of worked your way up through Bloomingdale's and Macy's. Pretty quick. I worked my way up through Bloomingdale's. I was the youngest, fastest buyer in the company. I was there 6 months and they made me a buyer. And that never happened. I was so happy and touched, I cried. For someone like myself where I always wanted to be successful, you know, I was 23 years old or whatever. I said, oh my God, what an endorsement this is. And so I did really well there. I worked for 6 years at Bloomingdale's. I then went to work at Macy's I stayed a year and a half, and I left. Because I felt it wasn't for me. And then I went to work for a and S and so I spent 12 years working in the department stores of which my first three years were the fun. Sure. And then after that, you know, you can work your way up, but working your way up in lots of companies is saying the right thing to the boss and looking the right way, being political enough, sucking up, so to speak. Right. So I didn't really work my way up. I did, but it wasn't fast enough. I wasn't doing enough quickly enough. And I wasn't able to think the way I wanted to think about things when I could make things better. Yeah. How do you make things better? No one's listening. No one's really paying attention. Lucky to get a hello. I wanted to keep moving fast like a racehorse as I could handle more in my career. And I guess like late in the 70s, you were recruited to be the president of the women's fashion brand and Taylor, how did that happen? Yeah. It was 1980 to be exact. And I was at a and S not happy. And the not happy on my work was not a rare thing for me. You know, it was like, okay, I'm ready for the next I had this burning desire to keep moving. And keep kind of this creative drive internally, which, you know, when you're going through a lot of these things, you really can't explain it. You can identify it well. But I met the corporate people who owned Ann Taylor. It was not doing very well. And I was 35 years old. I said no twice because I first said I didn't want to work for the founder. Not for any reason other than I didn't want to work for him. I wanted to be the boss. So I was having dinner one night after I said no twice, not happy in my job at ANS. And a friend of mine who was probably
Wisdom From The Top
"mickey" Discussed on Wisdom From The Top
"This interview of wisdom from the top was recorded in 2019. From luminary built of productions and NPR, its wisdom from the top. Stories of crisis, failure, turnaround, and triumph from some of the greatest leaders in the world. I'm guy raz and on the show today, the story of Mickey drexler and gap. You know, it was always the sense that those who were there didn't realize it was a crisis. But I knew it was a crisis. And that was all that really mattered. And when the earnings came out and the stock dropped from maybe in the 20s it dropped to the teens. And I'm thinking, oh my God. What have I gotten myself into? A Mickey drexler took a failing retailer and turned it into one of the hottest brands of the 80s and 90s. Okay, so if you're under the age of, say, 25. It might have thrown you off a little bit to hear me describe gap as a hot brand just now and I don't blame you because right now the brands with the most buzz aren't necessarily the legacy brands that have been around for a long time. But hear me out because at one point it seemed like everyone was talking about gap. There were SNL skits that parody the stores. Jeanine Garoppolo played a gap manager in the cult classic film reality bites. Sharon stone even wore a gap turtleneck to the Oscars. In other words, gap was a big part of pop culture. And the person who was pretty much responsible for that was Mickey drexler. But when Mickey got to gap in 1983, the brand was actually in trouble. And the company's founder Don Fisher was on the hunt for someone who could turn things around. So he hired Mickey, who at that point had already rescued the women's clothing brand and Taylor. And so for the next 20 years, gap became the place where the cool kids shopped. And as you will hear, Mickey even went on to create old navy, then eventually ran j.crew and started a brand new brand, madewell, which is a pretty incredible story, especially considering that Mickey drexler grew up a pretty shy kid in a working class family in The Bronx. With zero plans to become a businessman. I don't remember having the greatest childhood in the world, I think there were issues my mom was sick with breast cancer when I was a youngster and I kind of knew that. My dad worked in the garment business, he worked as a button and peace goods buyer for a coat manufacturer. I knew intuitively as a young kid, he wasn't that successful. Because I go to work with him at the coat manufacturer's offices, he worked in the shipping room, and the reality of his job was not one where he was kind of a boss to anyone. He was actually taking orders from a lot of people. It all led me long story short to be very ambitious about what I did to try to not be my dad. And so I think that was a really important motivation for me growing up in The Bronx. When you were when you were a kid, I have to assume that you didn't have a whole lot of money that your family didn't, like, did you live in a house? Did you live in an apartment? Yeah, I grew up in a ground floor apartment, it was a one bedroom, small apartment, you know, small kitchen, a tiny foyer, a living room and a bedroom. I slept in the foyer after I was out of my crib. So as you walked into the apartment, there was my bed. Wow. Right? In the center of things, but you know, when you're a kid growing up like that, you don't realize if you're rich or poor or whatever, because the only life I knew was the life in The Bronx. But my father reminded me that we were not really rich. Well, I remember how much money he made, because he always had a wallet with a lot of cash in it, but he actually made in those days because I once took the payroll to the bank, and I was always curious what he earned. So I was probably 15 years old or 16. So I took the payroll to the bank, and I went through everyone's paycheck, I felt a little guilty about it, but what the heck I was curious, and he was making $15,000 a year, probably in 19 60 two. But what would really disturb me is most of the other people were earning more of a salary than he was earning. People who I thought would be earning less than him were earning more than him. So that was very difficult for me to take. Because he always talked about the rich people he did business with and rich in the 1950s, a 60 sometimes meant owning a Cadillac, but he instilled in me this wish and I say he and still did and it was probably him and maybe myself to get out of The Bronx someday to live a better life someday and I was quietly very ambitious in that regard. What about school were you or are you talented student, which is school come easy for you? Well, I had school phobia. I remember going off to school and one could be in hindsight more psychological, so to speak. But I believe I was deathly afraid of leaving my mother. So my father would drag me off to kindergarten the first few days. And he wasn't a warm fuzzy guy at all. As I know him and remember him. But so I had a school phobia. I never said this to anyone before, but every morning I'd wake up and I gag a bit about going to school. So I disliked an intensely. I was, I was always anxious about it. And I carried that through my years now, either gagging, I'm embarrassed to say, I gag, but I did. And I didn't take that through my entire life, but through the grade school, et cetera, I was incredibly unhappy leaving home every day, not at home was so great, by the way, it wasn't like I was leaving anything. But I was fearful of school. But the irony is the irony is I think I did pretty well. I was very shy in class, but I think I did pretty well. There were 5 kids who got into Bronx high school of science in a class of I'm guessing 250 kids. And I was one of the 5, which kind of was privately a huge honor. Oh my God, you know, that's really, I mean, I know all you do is you took a test. So I passed the test, made a huge difference in my life. By going to science and therefore I went on to college in which I am not sure I would have. Gone on to college because it wasn't even though it was a Jewish family where education is important. It didn't hold the same importance in my family and my mother died when I was 16, so she wasn't there pushing me at all. Yeah. And my father wasn't ever pushing, but I went to city college for two years. And
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
"mickey" Discussed on The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
"We are aware, for instance, the critical race theory and a lot of the movements around censoring one's identity on these particular groups that have been deemed by Marxist philosophy as being oppressed or having a sort of they have something to be able to say, look, we've endured this or we are enduring this and we therefore have a chip on our shoulder and we deserve to be able to use this sort of collective vicarious experience of oppression to demand certain things in society and to kind of forge our entire identity around that. And again, I want to make clear. I'm not denying the fact that racism does exist and there are people who experience trauma that shouldn't be and I think as a society like you said, we are better. We are moving to a way from that kind of heinous history of that past, but there's a strange sense in which we're still moving towards this, as you said, this intoxication of racial identity. And one of the things that I just want to really touch on as well. I've noticed that race tends to be used in a means sort of science or to blame and to cultivate resentment in society. And particularly see these sort of tactics of white people generally are seen to be the only people able to basically be racist. And as a result of that, they should take vicarious sort of blame and shame for racism that ever existed or still exists. And then so called black people who are the kind of perpetual victims of racism, regardless of whether they even experience anything that the obsession that they should therefore wear this sort of robe of I am a victim of racism, perpetually, and any kind of issues in my life can be scapegoated to that. And that's the that's the other problem as well. So it's the wearing of victimhood and I think it's such a problem and it
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
"mickey" Discussed on The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
"Is paying a very high price for its own colossal stupidity. And normally,
TFG Truth
"mickey" Discussed on TFG Truth
"To vote, Democrat, Republican, blanks, anyone who wants to participate can vote and the election will be in November. What are we 45 days away now, I think? 44? We're a little bit more than that. Almost over about 65 days, 5, 'cause we got two months. The election is not till November 8th. November 8th. Oh, no, I'm thinking October. I'm sorry. That's why I lose my mind. That's why I'm losing my mind. We're well over 60, yes. Okay, I'm thinking I'm thinking November is a month away. How can people, can you give that website out again, Mickey? How can people find you again? Yep. Currents for western New York, WW dot kerns for western New York and like I said, if you go there, we appreciate your support. You can we need volunteers. We need people to make phone calls, deliver literature. And of course, you know, finances. We know I was kidding around. I was at an event. I don't have the money that some people have and I just can't go out and buy 10,000 signs and run commercials. So financing is really important to candidates and, you know, of course, I'm one of those people that we need your support and we hopefully, it doesn't have to be a lot of money. It could be $5. It could be a dollar. I was kidding around. I know my finances inside and out from my campaign. And I can't believe because of these supply chain, signs are $7 a piece. Yeah. Yeah. They're expensive. So when someone runs up to you and says, hey, can I have a sign? I start kidding them and say, you got ten bucks? They're like, what? And I'm like, that's saying $7. They're like, wow, I never thought about it that way. So believe me, I'm always thinking about making sure that we're financially solvent, especially during our campaigns. And that's why you're the guy that should run our county. So Mickey kerns Erie county clerk, folks. You can support Mickey online as he just mentioned. You're always invited to speak with us. You're always very honest and Frank about the issues and about what needs to be done. Again, you have the will to actually help people, which is, you know, you'd think that's common, but it's just not anymore these days. So we really appreciate you, Mickey. No, thank you. And thank you for giving me the opportunity to sort of talk about my opinions. And you know, this is what I like.
TFG Truth
"mickey" Discussed on TFG Truth
"Truth where each and every week we report facts expose hypocrisy in a spouse common sense, here I am along with my partner Mike spaz, I'm Mike hayflick, and we are really happy to be joined again by Mickey kerns, Erie county clerk. That'd be Erie county in New York. Not PA. We're all buffalo guys, right? So let's just be clear for anyone else out there listening outside of our local Erie county, New York area. Mickey, nice to see you again. Nice to see you as always. Thank you. Yeah. You know, I wanted to start with this. I think the talk of the nation has been inflation. And we see the administration be able to pass through what they call the inflation reduction act, which I think it's debatable whether that actually is going to be one of the, you know, the effects of that climate change and healthcare bill. I'm wondering on the local level.
podcast – Lawyers, Guns & Money
"mickey" Discussed on podcast – Lawyers, Guns & Money
"Marion Barry against senator sasser, who was head of the D.C. commission in Congress when Marion Barry was doing his thing. And I said, I said, it was perfectly okay. And Josh said there was a racist dog whistle. And once we had it out, it was actually Josh had a very sophisticated argument. It was settled by will Saladin on completely third grounds. He disagreed with both of us. But that was, that was civil, but because it was a long form, it wasn't that on Twitter. You know, that's interesting, right? Because, I mean, I would say, and Scott, I'm curious, your thoughts on this. I mean, I would say that there were probably months between when we started LGM and when you essentially, it was essentially partisan fighting. That, I mean, I don't think we ever sort of viewed the corner as a set of reasonable interlocutors or Josh trevino. Maybe a little bit more for some people. But I mean, I don't know, it felt to me like the part of the polarization really preceded Twitter and was definitely present in however we framed the silver age, the golden age of the Bronze Age of the blogosphere. What are your thoughts, Scott? I actually think the one of the biggest factors is the Iraq War itself. That, you know, I think that a lot of that perception of the blogosphere as one community came out of the 2000 election and the perception of that at the time was that it's a very low stakes election. There's not I myself argue vociferously against that view contemporaneously. But you know, I think that, you know, and frankly, you know, the Iraq War, and I think Mickey couch something there in that, you know, not only were there a lot of democratic supporters, the Iraq War, there were a lot of people who were sort of sympathetic to some of its press, premises, even if they sort of had the good judgment to back away at the last minute. You know, I mean, and that was essentially the Clinton position. You know, Saddam is very bad. He's threatening in some sense to the United States, but there was something kicked in. We're like, we're not going to go further. But once the Iraq War happened and turned into a complete fiasco, you know, I think that, but people continue to dig in on it. And leading to sort of a very sort of bitter and divisive election in 2004, and it's all because it's not like, you know, John Kerry is more liberal than gore and a deed carry was formally a supporter of the Iraq War. But I think that the sort of war coming out so badly, but sort of the sort of pro war side being just as again the or at least I should say that I guess maybe that's the difference that for the most part liberals who were sympathetic to the war supported at had pretty much backed off by 2004, whereas sort of conservative supporters of the war were as dug in as ever. I don't think that's a complete explanation. But I think that's at least a substantial part of that. That polarization stopping over such a sort of high human stakes issue. I guess you're right. It does predate Twitter. Let me just give my personal perspective, which is not any way universal, which is, why does everybody on the left hate me? And I like this, I'm a wash the monthly person in the classic watch the monthly piece was, you know, there are Democrats are wrong about this, okay? Or the Republicans are right about this. That doesn't mean that Charlie's wasn't a Democrat. He's a died in the wool new dealer. Has his subsequent books have proven, but that was the sort of additive. That's what you got out of bed in the morning to do. And I was shot and then so I kept doing that. I like to trash the left. The right often seems like it's either so obviously wrong that it's not worth trashing or they're all my friends now and I don't trust them. And I was shocked for first Brad along has some beef with Kinsey and me that predates all of this and I've never understood this. He's always hated me. And he really hated kinsley and I don't I don't know why. It also predates me trying to destroy Ezra Klein's career. It's something and I don't know. I like his, I think he's a, when he's not attacking me, he's a great blogger. I was also shocked that the new republic when Friends of mine and at the Washington mostly were suddenly attacking me as if I was just this figure where there's worth attacking. I'm on your side. I like social security. I like national healthcare. I just like sniping at Democrats. But the venom that was there was sort of surprised me. It wasn't our good colleague Mickey has gone astray. It's like cows this asshole is saying this. And where does that come from? I don't know. I could say some very self serving things. And I guess this is a great opportunity for some stuff. Now I'm going to avoid them. But I guess if you were a, I'm trying to take somebody, people who are perceived as apostates get treated very badly. JD Vance is a classic example. I think JD Vance is a great guy. I think he has potential to be a great president, but the left thought he was something else, and then he drifted to the right. And they will never forgive him, because they thought he had him. Now they think he's become a corrupt Trumpist. That's going to play really well in our comment thread. So when the. Right half apostates have gone to the left, who they hate. Trump, Trump sort of makes that debate completely. He destroys that debate because the debate is not whether you depart from right-wing principles, but whether you are pro Trump or anti Trump the person, and so Lindsey would be an impostor except if she's not really an unposted ideologically, she just hates Trump. So I don't know. I think there's something about. The drawing of partisan lines that led to, that happened sometime in the early 2000s, I think, because you're right that led to this. The 2000 election was considered a nothing burger. It was, I wrote of this long agonized series who should I vote for? Don't rush me. You know, and it took me like ten installments to figure out to finally vote for gore. Because Bush was going to do this benign sort of moderate Republican and gore was sort of, I
The Eric Metaxas Show
"mickey" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"We when we left we were at a cliffhanger. You mickey were just telling us that after these insane miracles you can't fall asleep. Always i was couldn't fall asleep because i was so stunned that my faith was so little about going to this place and so i couldn't sleep so i hit so god had to embarrass you by showing up big time right so hit on and it comes on italian television. There's almost nothing in english. Okay yeah so it's on a show. That's playing the history channel with me sharing my testimony in italian with english subtitles. You're kidding not kidding. I'm not gonna lie in front of you think you're lying is he lying look this look laze away. Wait so you're in nowheres ville italy. You can't sleep and after this insane outpouring that day you turn the tv and you're on the tv giving your testimony the part of the talian subtitles in from the history channel. That was didn't even know they didn't you know from. I did it in the united states but they did it in italian so it just happened to be on that say i get it go everywhere and preach mightily and expect me to show up. I've been that way all along anyway but this is just another installment how much god cares for people so this. How much of saying to you which you are now saying to god's people go everywhere preach the gospel and expect god to show up in signs and wonders salvation. Signs and wonders encouragement transformation. The very least we can do is put a dent in broken us or build a bridge that they jesus can meet on the very least we can do. Oh man because okay. I got some emails after it was on the history channel. Not it by the way. Why are we on the i don't get. Why are we on the history channel special about hell about hell on. They went all over the world. They spend millions of dollars. Are they desperate for ratings alvin. We haven't done a hell week in years. So i was down here at old saint patrick's cathedral the old saint pet like fifty feet from where did the godfather baptists and we shot all day. And they were really great. But i was the only one i mean. They had all kinds of weird stuff on there but they had me they what they only had one other christian pastor and he a church in every message is about hill now. That is one hell of a church church. I don't wanna say every message about hell. Yeah you could say that. The real bummer. But it's also kind of a sobering refreshing gay that i don't wanna judge it but i got some emails because they didn't it wasn't the kind of thing that you you doing. Any kind of media follow up on one of them. Some woman sat down with a cup of pills to kill herself. Cup of whatever it sleeping bills paying bills. Whatever for some reason she puts on the tv the history channel. It just comes on the history channel. She gets scared she google's me and she doesn't take your life. She gives your life to the gets scared from the hell which is a great thing to get scared about just little. She listens to my whole story. That i like. I'm telling you because you google me other stuff on okay and another one. I get this email. Says my name is blah blah. I was registered nurse. I just retired for years. You're my first patient in. I was in intensive care. I cannot believe you are alive just like you're all these decades later. This woman did know what happens. You expected me to be dead and are more alive. Then you can explain and i get enough. I get enough of a trickle that to know that this message of jesus christ is the only hope that is real hope and he really works. I mean it's it's all about me by myself. I'm just a person but me christ in me. The hope of glory. I'm paul writes at night. I should ask you what the translators you're not just a mere man you know. And when he comes out he comes out. He can president a conversation. I want people right now. Experiencing god i mean really right now and you can prey on your own. You can pray with me. Whatever you can pray with you we need the lord just like it the similarity between nineteen sixty eight. You know we had an election. Jack kennedy was. It was bullets and not ballots with. Rfk with martin. Luther king rfk bullets and not ballots in nineteen sixty eight. We had all kinds of commotion going on this these last couple of years. There's so much division so much of it's it's like in the bible with different elements but whether were economic factions spiritual factions sickness. Disease trouble tribulation. This is a perfect time for the gospel to be preached with boldness. There are a lot of people listening. I'm guessing who they think of themselves as christians and they believe in god but they don't do anything about it they don't even go to church. They don't read the bible. They kind of feel like. I believe that's enough. What do you say to somebody like that. Maybe they believed in not or incomplete message a lot of a lot of the messages sound. Like it's about getting right so that when you die when you go to heaven what are we supposed to do here. you know. I know what i got. Save from. And i know what we're going to. But what was i save for. And the lord took this mess you know all the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put mickey back together again. But god who is rich in mercy and full of power reassembled me a different way and may be useful to him enemy. They'll they'll a lot of people that they don't think god made them to experience the miraculous. That's for guys like you or maybe me but they act as though that's that's for those religious people and i think you know you and i both want to say you're wrong. God made you for that. You're different so you're gonna experience it differently. Nobody experiences both both ways the same way twice but you know i always feel like i want to say before we go to the break. That for anybody. Who's listening god made you for miracles. He made you to experience him one way or the other. It's never going to be you know the way you want. God is god but people need to understand. That's why you're on the planet. You're not you're not gone yet. You're still here and god has steffi to do here. you don't wanna miss it. We'll be right back. Wants to Hey there folks. i'm talking to mickey robinson mickey. The new book is supernatural courage. Activating spiritual bravery to win today's battle. I remember when i first got saved..
NewsRadio WIOD
"mickey" Discussed on NewsRadio WIOD
"Mickey Mark off the executive producer of this massive event happening at Miami Beach Memorial Day. Weekend, Nikki. Thank you so much for all the fantastic work that you and your team are doing And thanks for joining us this morning. Thanks for having us Thank you for your support. Of course, and many you're gonna be out there. Correct that weekend. Yeah. We've been doing this for many years. Proud to do. It s so looking forward Torto tend on the beach for Memorial Day and saluting our ship. It should be great. And you know, we may have to talk about this As we get closer to Memorial Day. I had this discussion on my show for the past couple years. I'm in Mickey mention this. I'm not a big fan of some of The advertising. Around Memorial Day weekend, You know, I mean, it just doesn't fit. Summer holiday that it is I don't know if you feel the same way Some people don't care, but I think he makes a good point. You know, It's not just about selling things and buying things and all of that kind of stuff. People miss the point of what the holiday is supposed to be about. I don't think yeah. No, And it's a really, really important holiday, too. So I'm sure we'll talk more about that Memorial Day weekend. Couple weeks away here already in May this year is flying by coming up next. If you missed my chat with us Senator George Lemieux, we're gonna have that for you. Plus weather and traffic and more trending stories on the way here on 6 10 wi Oh, date with everything that moms do they deserve a lifetime's worth of. Thanks and appreciation. So don't wait until Sunday to surprise.
On the Road with Mickey
"mickey" Discussed on On the Road with Mickey
"But it's just what it on the thing. Because i'm reading all of this off of an archive that i have called this day in disney history and this is what popped up for january eleventh. So i'm not quite sure how it's controversial but it was for the time period. Yeah okay so what else do you have. you said. there's three there are three and two of them happened on the exact same date. Nineteen ninety skipping forward. A few decades disneyland kicks off. Its thirty fifth anniversary celebration on hand for the first time since nineteen fifty five are all three of the original host of the parks grand opening live broadcaster broadcast art. Linkletter bob cummings and ronald reagan reunite in front of mainstream station before taking part in the party Gras parade featuring new orleans style floats and forty foot tall balloons now. That sounds like an anniversary celebration. That i would love to see little known fact. I don't know if you knew this or not. Probably did sophie but before ronald reagan became a politician. He was an actor. I did know that. Okay and so for anyone. That didn't know that that is Part of the charm of president reagan. And so yeah and this would have been after. He had been president. So that's kinda cool that he came back to do that after being president s. Okay and what else in nineteen ninety nineteen ninety january eleventh. Thirty fifth anniversary celebration. Meanwhile down in florida the walt disneyworld sw one resort holds. Its grand opening for those of. You weren't sure what i'm.
On the Road with Mickey
"mickey" Discussed on On the Road with Mickey
"We talked about tron being open. We don't know about walt disney world railroad. But i hope. I'm able to bride the watson world railroad around magic kingdom. 'cause i wanna take again. It's been far too long so it's just a relaxing ride it is. It is a very relaxing ride and it also has a lot of history so you know that it has a deer spot in my historically based heart and just like the walt disney world railroad. There are all the other original attractions at the magic kingdom. That were there when the park first opened and we would really love to experience all of those for the fiftieth anniversary. Exactly that's on. My list is to take on all of those you know so so now. We're down to the final four. Yup and i want. I have never done this one. I think i know which one we're talking about then. Yeah i want to see about experiencing mickey's very merry christmas party. I do as well. I do as well i've been. We've been to the halloween party. We have not been to the christmas party. But if it's anything like the halloween party than it's something. I really want to be a part of because the halloween party was awesome. Deal is that on your list. Yes it is that the next one. That's the one i was going to talk about. Yes okay go ahead and talk about it. Well like i said. The halloween party is awesome. Then there is so much candy. I would love it. I love it again so much. Candy and the headless horseman. I don't know if many of you know this. But i am a huge legend of sleepy. Hollow's fan so the fact that the headless horseman makes an appearance in mickey's not so scary. Halloween party is just off the charts for me. It has me over the moon..
On the Road with Mickey
"mickey" Discussed on On the Road with Mickey
"I've got this in this in this on this day. And i like it and i wanna do it and i hope that disney brings it back and it and i think it helps so come on. Disney was return. A fast passes now. I don't know when that will be. But i'm hoping for return of fast passes hopefully before we reach maximum capacity at the parks. Yeah okay so that is on my list all right so what is on your list. Sophie on my list next has to be one attraction that has opened and one attraction that hasn't opened yet. I really want to go on vermes relatively adventure in the french pavilion. When and i would also love to ride mickey and minnie's runaway railway again. I want to yeah. I remember the first time we were at the parks. After mickey and minnie's runaway railway opened and we did not go on at that time because we were so hot and it was sweltering in july. And i think we all agreed that it wouldn't be worth waiting in that line and with the heat it's a fifty fifty chance for me. It could have been worth. It could have not been worth it. I don't know it was seventy five minutes in the heat. I'm still not entirely sure but waiting in that line when we first wrote it it wasn't nearly as hot and it was shaded a lot. I think it was entirely worth however long we waited in that line to go on mickey and minnie's runaway. That reid was absolutely fantastic. It was it was Had a couple of things against it. I thought it was way too loud and i thought If you have a child with sensory issues that you might want to pack your ear plugs or your headset. Your your your your headphones. You know all that to kinda mute tattle little bit. 'cause i felt like it was way too loud for me so but i do want to do it again. I wanna give it another chance. Because i did like it. I just there some things. I didn't like about it and so i would like to do it again and and i grouped Ready to adventure and runaway railway together because of the the fact that they have they both have the similar ride vehicle concept so With a track list right. So i'm kind of i wanted to see what remedies going to be about. You know. I'm looking forward to both of them. Yeah coincidentally both mickey and minnie's runaway railway and ramiz readily adventure. Also work on the same way that rise of the resistance work. They are on new movers. Oh yeah i didn't even think about that yeah Thank you so it's gonna be good if it's an omnium. Override chilly how of the riots in tokyo disneyland disneyland. hong kong and disneyland shanghai. That's how a majority of those rights work over there. just a little bit of ditching. Al thank you. I like that okay so for me my next one going back to old school because you know we talked about it in the cheddar..
On the Road with Mickey
"mickey" Discussed on On the Road with Mickey
"This is from my friends out in california. I cannot wait for the day. That disneyland in california adventure. Park are reopened cannot wait for when that is able to happen in california. It's it's obviously been way too long and you know i'm not going to get into the politics of it. I'm not gonna do that at all. I'm just going to say that. It has taken a bid of the soul of the people of california. And it's kinda made it a little bit for them to exist this past year so so i will be ecstatic when they are able to reopen. And i saw that picture. Sheila sent a picture. She posted it on her facebook or something of her and jagan in front of the gates. You know the gates are closed. Obviously but with but with the With the railroad in the background for disneyland and it was a great picture and it just struck home how how close and yet how far away they are from being able to be in that environment again you know the been there they can go up to it and they can look at it but it's not the same the even though they can be within feet of it they're still not able to experience it and it's just it's just heartbreaking. You know so we are ready to celebrate with them with that being reopened. You know that will have a big time impact on on a lot of people when that happens Okay well speaking of that this one. I was originally going to leave this bullet for the last one that we talked about. But when disneyland reopens. I know that aunt sheila on randy jagan are going to be absolutely thrilled and i really want to be there with them. I want to celebrate life with them once. Disneyland reopens because that means that the pandemic is over and that it is safe for us to be together again and it's just it is so hard to be separated from the people that we love. I was thankful that. I could see them for thanksgiving but i really do miss being able to hug jagan even though the germaphobe in her hates it when i do that. so celebrating life. That's part of what you know. This past week was a hard one for our country with what went on in dc and no one is condoning any of that you know when and it just reminds us how precious life is and so that's why we have celebrating life with our friends and family on the list because in the midst of a pandemic in the midst of of You know what's going on politically and everything like that. It's easy to forget what really matters. And what really matters. Is your faith in your family. And and those are the things that you need to focus on in times like this. So i love being able to celebrate life with our friends and family. You know even if it's just over facetime is still a big time deal so yeah and on and on that note you know coming back just a little bit.
On the Road with Mickey
"mickey" Discussed on On the Road with Mickey
"There. You missed out on life kind of thing but it was fun you know they had a lotta characters that you didn't normally have you know like we had Jiminy cricket was out there and Chorus horse collar in clara bell cow and some other characters that you don't see that often were out there So there was a lot of neat stuff and of course. I'm just. I just picked that one because it's mickey and minnie. You can't go wrong with mickey minnie so so we had that that opening parade and then You know so for the fortieth. It seemed like The idea we had coming into that day was that we were going to try and hit up all of the opening day attractions from october one. Nineteen seventy one and so So we focused on trying to ride all of those original attractions. And i think we wrote the majority of them and then some that weren't open on on october. One seventy one so. I think that'd be kind of fun to do that again. Who 'cause those those kind of attractions are neat to me Because they've They've withstood the test of time. You know and just as a shameless plug remember. If you haven't listened to we ranked sutphin. I ranked our favorite opening day attractions on october. Twenty six So go to that podcast and find it in you. can you can hear. I rankings and you can Come up with your own rankings and see which see how it compares but anyway But you know it's it's what i one of the things i remember most about the fortieth anniversary is that it seemed like the famed disney magic. Okay where everything is perfectly done to the to the nth degree and it just works the way it's posted do because disney magic seemed like that was dialed in right spot on. It seemed like the day was absolutely perfect. There wasn't a there was not a raindrop to be found. It was almost like the whole mythical dome over the magic kingdom wasn't place and all that you had with sunshine and nice temperatures and a beautiful breeze you know It just seemed like nothing could go wrong on that day for the fortieth. And i want to see that same thing happened. The fiftieth agree. So part of it. Is you know you make of it what you want to be. You know so if you're excited to be there. You're gonna be excited whether it rains that day or not Or whether it's perfect or if there's some tarnished from something that happens you know you're gonna make it what you want it to be but it seemed to me like the fortieth anniversary was perhaps one of the absolute best disney days i've ever had that would be although to me. It was like most other distinct tastes. Sure sure so anyway so soaking it all in soaking in the atmosphere of being there in that celebration especially coming out of covid That will be kind of neat. You know yes. And hopefully the atmosphere will be a little more complete and there will be some things open. That aren't open right now as it stands and i think it will be. I think it will be. And i think there will be so okay so So what else are you looking forward to from the magic kingdom. While i mean i already touched on the decorations and stuff but and i slightly touched on how i hope. There are some things that will be. Open the people mover. Yeah the what disneyworld railroad us. If that's open the toronto be open. That's trill just a new right for us. We haven't Nobody's been on tron yet. What am i saying not this anyway. Of course there's other tribes throughout the arts. We ever been on any of them. So yeah because we haven't been to was it. Shanghai or hong kong disneyland that trauma Originally debuted on honey. That's okay it was from one of those two and i would like to go to disneyland. Shanghai one day one day and then of course there is this as i was writing out all my show notes and i don't have a lot. They all fall under the fiftieth versus sixtieth mentality. That i have. But as i was writing them all out there was this pun that i came up with off the top of my head and it's about how jewish new land has already gone past. Its diamond anniversary. And it has the golden horseshoe and then disney world is coming up on its golden anniversary. But it has the diamond horseshoe and neither of them are open yet. So let's see if we can get them open exactly But that is a funny thing to a very funny thing to think about and of course we all know that rose gold years those of us who like ears we all know. The role rose gold. Mickey users are very pretty. But i want like a pure gold mickey here please. Match my diamond anniversary many years. Well save your money if you want. Pure gold okay. Not pure gold but like the color. Ones are rather pinkish okay. Well that's a little different. Then maybe they'll have that you know and that's an idea. What kind of kind of merchants going to be out for this yet. There's a bunch of diamond merge. So maybe they will be a bunch of golden merge certain of it. I am totally certain of it. So.
On the Road with Mickey
"mickey" Discussed on On the Road with Mickey
"One really really seems really short but the taste of epcot that they had that started when we were there in july Actually was super long because it started in july went through november and they don't usually lasts that long stretch so yeah and i was there for the first and the last days of the food and wine festivals a highlight that is definitely a highlight from twenty twenty for you definitely also. Let's move on and talk about baby. Yoda like talking about group who We don't know if everyone's seen the no. No no no. We are not spoiling this for anyone. If you have not seen the mandalorian daddy didn't say anything. We did not spoil it. Go watch it right now before you listen to this podcast go go. Go go go okay. Don't cut off my youtube though. Don't worry we're good all right. We're not saying that again. We promise anyway back to the yoda yes in baby. Yoda news there is a brand new. Whimsical baby yoda lounge. Fly backpack that is an exclusive product from entertainment earth. It retails at wait. That's only sixty dollars a late christmas present for me. Maybe and the new backpack arrives this month. There is a link which i have clicked. And i am checking it out and you should to put it. I am right sixty dollars right. Fifty nine ninety nine okay. I thought so. But then all of a sudden i thought maybe it said fifty five ninety nine fifty five aristocrat lounge fly boxes that all the ones i've seen aside from the one that i own all retailed for like eighty dollars so mine retail that seventy so okay so anyway. It's fifty nine ninety nine right fifty nine ninety nine. Okay all right. And i am going to give us one. Last bit of cheddar that comes to us from instagram And it is from the disney instagram account. And i have paste. I posted a link but there was a really cool video From giancarlo esposito Who is the actor. Who portrays the imperial muff gideon. Wow and he talked to us about how he brings off gideon to life. The interview is about two and a half minutes long but it is fascinating. It is so good and it really i mean. I don't like moth giddy. I think he's an arrogant imperialist but when when he's talking about him it really does show. Just how good enactor that that he is you know to be able to portray it especially when you think about the fact that he is doing it just from lines and he s to picture it all in his head and make the world the world that we see you know. He doesn't have that after post editing to look at when he's recording so yeah really good is really good. Go check it out i. I was very impressed. So but that is all. I have for cheddar cheese for this week and now let's move on to our feature topics. Shelly sophie yes we show and i'm going to click off of entertainment earth before i get lost in all these many backpacks. So here's the idea. you know. Obviously our feature topic is talking about. Walt disneyworld fiftieth anniversary. That will happen on october. One twenty twenty one so before you know it. Nine months down the road will be there. Ten months down. The road will be there. Okay yeah right time. Don't blink 'cause it'll be gone. It's better yes. This year is going to be a great one. Exactly now. i'm going to. I'm gonna hopefully not scare too many if you had young children. Just be prepared. But we're gonna take a walk. Inside of mike's mind. You couldn't scare anyone if you try daddy my idea here. Is you know. They're so much planning going on for the fiftieth anniversary. And like we already said we don't we're not privy to that information but we thought we would talk about what we want to see happen at each of the parks and we thought we would break it up. You know like this week. We're going to talk about the magic kingdom. You know down the road. We're going to talk about epcot down the road. We're gonna talk about hollywood studios down the road. We're going to talk about Animal kingdom and on and on and on you know we'll talk about maybe there'll be something special at one of the resorts or something. I don't know if there will be or not by it'd be worth you know kinda highlighting all those sorts of things because obviously walt disney world is in just one part and it's not just you know a place you go and then you come home. This saint after the day done. It's a place where you go in you experience. The whole environment of the walt disney world resort. So maybe they'll meet things going on at different resorts to we don't know yet but So that's my idea you know we're gonna we're gonna kinda talk about what we're most excited to see in. Think about an experience for the fiftieth anniversary. Yeah does that make sense great idea. Did i scare anyone no. I don't think so okay but that is out of the idea. That's the idea in. Mike's mind might be a new feature topic what's going on in my mind. Okay we'll see how it received by the audience. All right okay. We'll say well table that one for now. Okay all right so sophie. I have talked a lot. So why don't you start us off all right then. Well as well as their being. An idea in mike's mind there is an idea in sophie's mind as well and i'm just going to spoil a little bit. Daddy was thinking. About how the fiftieth anniversary of walt. Disneyworld won't compare to the fortieth anniversary of walt disney world. But the thing about the fortieth. I was ten in the fortieth was a thing so i don't remember much of it. Okay fair enough. Yeah members in manufacture. I do remember from the fortieth. That was what do you remember from anything..