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A highlight from 1278. Gensler LOST AGAIN! | Judge Shreds SEC Appeal! | XRP Update
"Let's get into some XRP news today and talk about the SEC taking another black eye. These guys are taking round after round from the judge, and it's going to be an interesting one for sure. You don't want to miss this show. All right, my name is Paul Baron. Welcome back into Tech Path. Let's get into it. A couple of topics that we'll break down from the judge, but also the kind of impact this could have for the overall crypto markets, even the Coinbase case. We'll give you guys kind of a rundown. One thing I do want to do is thank our sponsor, and that's iTrust Capital. If you guys are looking at going into long -term investing into crypto IRAs, this is one of the vehicles you can use, and it's very simple to do it. Easy to start up, there's no monthly fees, and all you have to do is you can do your own self -directed trading. So if you want to get into XRP or others, you can do that right here within the iTrust Capital IRA. Very easy to join, and you'd be joining 200 another ,000 accounts that have already created IRAs there with iTrust. So check the link down below. You get a $100 funding reward if you decide to do something there. Helps our channel out. Appreciate that. All right, so let's get into a couple things here. I want to go over to the PDF here. This is the judge response, and there's a few points. I'm going to kind of zoom in on this a little bit for you guys. There's a few spots in here. There's going to be a lot of scrolling, but the point is we're going to get to a couple of points here. I want to go down here to page five. All right, so let's get into this. First, SEC has not presented a pure question of law. This is one of the things that the judge has already pretty much put in in the judgment on the first ruling, and of course, kind of them just saying, hey, this is, you're still in the same position here. In fact, the court specifically rejected defendants' essential ingredients, the legal test, and applied the SEC's legal standards. So this was where the SEC was essentially trying to create their own rules. Judge says, nope, not going to work here. Further into the document, the SEC seeks to appeal question C, and issuers offers and sales of crypto assets and trading platforms create a reasonable expectation of profits based on the efforts of others. But the court did not hold that offers and sales on a digital asset exchange can create a reasonable expectation of profits based on the efforts of others. So I think that is pretty much the same kind of scenario that's playing out in the Coinbase trial that we will most likely, I think we're going to see a win there as well. Ripple's programmatic sales were blind, bid -asked transactions, same as almost every crypto transaction out there. Ripple's programmatic sales represented less than 1 % of the global XRP trading volume, did not make any promises or offers, and the SEC failed to provide evidence. The SEC failed to provide evidence, and she just keeps on, failed to provide evidence over and over on all of this. So really kind of hitting home on the SEC, just not holding up their end of being able to even prove that XRP or other digital assets are securities. Further in this document, it says the SEC failed to provide evidence and the development of use cases for the XRP ledger, which constitutes a tangible and definable consideration to Ripple. That's important. Court also rejected the SEC's argument that XRP provided Ripple employees as compensation and bonuses satisfies the Howie's first prong. So getting into a lot more detail here, and I think this is going to flow into the rest of the civil cases that are still out there against Garlinghouse and Larson. All right, so court rejects the SEC's remaining argument that the courts have accordingly found section five violations where unregistered crypto asset transactions occur not between the issuer and the investor, but through intermediaries, including on trading platforms, keyword on trading platforms. That is Coinbase in a nutshell. And I think that's the scenario. Digital assets I think are getting ready to fall outside of the guise of the SEC. Court rejects the argument that there is a substantial ground for difference of opinion, meaning it doesn't matter what you think the court has a rule of law to go by and we're going to affect it. And, uh, the SEC is not creating their own law, which is the other scenario. Okay, so further in the court, uh, in the document, the court cannot draw any conclusions about library's core reasoning, uh, to an issue because it was never litigated. Therefore the SEC fails to point to any digital asset cases which conflict with the court's holding as to the other distributions. If you don't know about what happened in the library case, this was a really a milestone event for the SEC, but now the court is pretty much saying, man, not really. Listen into this clip right here. After the blockchain was launched and we didn't do an ICO and this was during the ICO boom and then we said we were trying to be a conservative company and eventually the SEC sued us and they declined to actually bring the trial until shortly before the statute of limitations was going to hit on our, on our first buying time. Yeah. We came in and we did a whole presentation and they just used that stuff against us. Never answered a single one of our questions. We've said we'll destroy the entire company. We'll give you our entire pre -mon. You can have every dollar in our bank accounts, right? But what we want is the status that Bitcoin has, right? If I have to blow everything up, if that's what's somehow the difference here. Okay, fine. Just tell me that that's what I have to do. They won't tell you that. They'll say you're, I mean, seriously, it's so it like gives me an energy. That's crazy. I mean, that would be in the founder of library talking about how much pressure and just gravitas that the sec is wielding out there on small companies. And that's the problem of overreach that we talk about all the time. All right, so let's go back to, actually there's another clip I want to play for you. This is John Deaton. Listen to this one. The judge agreed with me, promised me, assured me that he was going to make sure that the world knew that his decision did not apply to secondary market transactions. And that was a very important point because judge Torres in the ripple case cites that hearing Jeremy Kaufman and library spend between one and $4 million and they spend another couple million dollars in legal fees. The sec spends ungodly amount of hours taxpayer money. And when it's all said and done, the government protected us by getting $111 ,000 in legal fees. From library. Well, we've successfully destroyed them financially. We did what we told Jeremy Kaufman we were going to do when he argued with us and we said, we will bankrupt you pal. What happened is the library is appealing the decision by the judge granting summary judgment to the sec. I think that they have been emboldened, if you will, because of the grayscale ruling by the ripple decision by maybe even the Uniswap decision by judge failure and hopefully a really good decision that comes down in the Coinbase motion to, to dismiss. Remember people, there's not a case in 80 years that supports taking an asset that may have been an investment contract in the beginning and then calling it an investment contract. The underlying asset forever. None. Yeah. So Deaton pretty, pretty benefit. I'm pretty passionate about that. And I think he does kind of hit that point home is that the sec kind of plays unfairly, not surprising and to anyone out there. But the good thing is, is now the courts are starting to rule against them. And this seems like they are finally in a position where they're taking the bully to class here further in the conclusion denied at the sec's request for a stay is also denied. So this court basically just lashed everything down. This is an interesting statement at the end prior to the final pretrial conference council for both parties along with parties themselves shall meet in person for at least one hour to discuss the settlement of the match. So they are really meaning the court is really pushing to get this done. This of course is Annalisa Torres, judge Annalisa Torres, which I think is the one that has pretty much outlined that the sec has no case here for digital asset control and most likely is going to fall under, under outside the graces of the court when it comes to the, to the Coinbase, uh, case as well. All right. Just a couple of tweets here. Uh, corrupt sec got an effort fail on their appeal. Judge Torres wrote the fail 10 times. Uh, here's Stuart Alderati, of course, the ripple attorney courts, um, July 13 ruling was and remains law of the land XRP is not a security. Jeremy Hogan comes in and says, Hey, okay, look here. A couple of things here that I want to note. Uh, and that is really this statement right here. This is a disaster for the agency. I'm going to mark that just it's there. This is a disaster for the agency, but I think this is, this is a good thing for crypto in general and digital assets. But more importantly, I think for digital asset technology and how all of this is moving forward, keeping government overreach out of industry and innovation is important because as you know, Deaton kind of mentioned, they went through all that, you know, millions and millions and millions of taxpayers money for $111 ,000 for a library case, which is probably going to get overturned out. So not a good one. Here was Scott, Scott Chamberlain, uh, further talking about the XRP case and he kind of hits something here. So there's a lot in change. SCC failed to prove its case. Now it has to push not something nice uphill with a pointy stick if it wants to win. So they have a huge boulder in front of them to get this done in being able to win. I think the SCC has lost this and I think it's going to start either looking very bad for Gensler or the SCC is going to start to pivot their position. Now you look at it politically, that could be the case because we're starting to see some things in DC that could also kind of tie into this. I want to go over to this last clip, which is Deaton talking about this a little bit further into what this might mean. Listen in. She said some XRP holders, no doubt bought XRP for speculative reasons and they may have relied on the efforts of Ripple, but the SCC didn't prove that. Programmatic sales of XRP on exchanges are not securities. XRP itself is not a security. And what she did in this decision was solidify it. And I'm telling you it's untouchable. It cannot be touched. She even said, look, I never said that it's impossible for some crypto token to still be a security when it's bought on an exchange. I've just said that XRP in this case with these facts are not period. She even made it more clear that as of right now on this day, excluding Bitcoin, XRP is the only one clearly, with legal clarity. I'm really hoping that judge failure comes through on the Coinbase decision because I think that will be when Gensler is forced to pivot. And that's when Elizabeth Warren has to accept that her anti crypto army is a bunch of old people about to die. All right, there you go. Anti crypto army dead. Uh, and I think back to my point is that I think that Gensler is going to pivot. He has to, this is starting to impede political positioning. It's also impeding the benefits of what the SCC is going to try to do in really the work they should be doing, which is real securities law. And that is the challenge because right now it's just overreached. This is just power grabs. You look at what Graywall was saying here. Of course, this is the Coinbase attorney. SCC just filed its opposition motion to dismiss their case. This is the opposition to the motion for Coinbase trying to get this dismissed. This is going to take on a light of its own. If you look back down here at the end, it says, we look forward to filing our reply in October 24th. So as always, we appreciate court's consideration. So this is probably going to move into November, but the key here is the SCC continues to lose and they're losing in very, very grandiose ways. And this is not good for anything from a governmental overreach standpoint. I think it's even worse for the political position of the SCC. And this also starts to change things dramatically, I think in digital assets as a whole. Most likely Coinbase is going to come out of this. Coinbase is going to look really good pretty soon. So, all right guys, we're going to get into that more. We're going to be covering more of this. Obviously we had the speaker house change up this week. There's a big implication there on crypto and digital assets as a whole. We'll cover that. Make sure and stick around on the channel. If you're not subscribed, make sure and subscribe right now. 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Morning News with Manda Factor and Gregg Hersholt
Fresh update on "monday" discussed on Morning News with Manda Factor and Gregg Hersholt
"Of the week for that Monday night performance beat to the Giants teammate linebacker Bobby Wagner says spoon has all the ingredients of an impact player you move can on the outside move on the inside so you know you can cover really well and so I think it's the ability to kind of interchange them in any position makes them very versatile the Seahawks are off until 15th at Cincinnati the NCAA has tweaked the transfer portal rule for division one student athletes they'll have a total of 45 days instead of 60 to enter names for a change of schools 92 degrees a kickoff Saturday in Pasadena California number 13 undefeated Washington State takes on three and one UCLA forward Raul Rui Diaz out with a back injury but the Seattle Sounders get Jordan Morris and Christian Roldan back for tonight's home match against the LA Galaxy Abbotsford BC the venue for this evening Seattle Kraken preseason hockey game taking on the Vancouver sports Canucks at 10 and 40 after the hour Northwest News Radio all right now to those chunky bears there are all kinds of competitions after all some based on skill others on looks neither of which I would ever win as Northwest News Radio's Brian Calvert points out there are a couple of big ones based on how you can eat 15 ,000 generations of humanity yet we have evolved not at all says the announcer on Coney Island before he introduces that guy can eat a lot of dogs hot but there's another eating contest taking place right now far from the Jersey Shore we take you to Alaska's Katmai National Park where there along the Brooks River we watch the bear we watch the bear eat and eat and eat some more
Unchained
A highlight from The Chopping Block: Michael Lewis Swindled, SBFs Effective Altruism Ruse, Ethereum Protocol Enshrinement - Ep. 552
"The claim that Michael Lewis makes is that he thinks that Sam lost his way, but fundamentally he was more or less the same guy. He never really believed in crypto. He always saw crypto as instrumental. And that, I think everybody who's ever met Sam agrees with, is that Sam was not a true believer. He didn't really care that much about the industry. He saw it as an opportunity to make money. But it wasn't because he loves cars or private jets or whatever. Not a dividend. It's a tale of two quants. Now, your losses are on someone else's balance sheet. Generally speaking, airdrops are kind of pointless anyways. I named trading firms who were very involved. DeFi protocol is part of the antidote to this problem. Hello, everybody. Welcome to The Chopping Block. Every couple of weeks, the four of us get together and give the industry insider's perspective on the crypto topics of the day. So quick intros. First, we've got Tom, the DeFi Maven and Master of Memes. Next, we've got Robert, the crypto connoisseur and Tsar of Superstate. Then we've got Tarun, the Giga Brain and Grand Poobah at Gauntlet. And finally, I'm Haseeb, the head hype man at Dragonfly. We are early stage investors in crypto, but I want to caveat that nothing we say here is investment advice, legal advice, or even life advice. Please see ChoppingBlock .xyz for more disclosures. Okay, so just for context for everybody listening, we are recording this on Monday morning, US time. The news by the time this drops, I'm certain is going to be 100 % about the FTX sandbankment free trial. So I believe the trial starts on Tuesday. So by the time this goes out, I think it's going to go out Wednesday morning. And so we're televising this from the past, basically. At the end, we should make our predictions and then our listeners can listen to whether we're horribly wrong or not about what will happen. Okay, all right. All right. We'll end the show with some predictions about how the trial is going to play out. The trial is going to take multiple weeks, so we'll have plenty of time to do the play by play as the trial is actually playing out. But in the lead up to the trial, all eyes have been on Michael Lewis. So Michael Lewis, a very famous finance writer. He was the author of the Flash Boys book, if I'm not mistaken, yes. And so he, long story short, he was kind of embedded with sandbankment freed for something about a year and a half since 2021, before FTX collapsed, basically more or less lived with him in the Bahamas and was writing a book, didn't know what the book was going to be about. And he's dropping the book tomorrow. So the day the trial begins, Michael Lewis's book is going to drop. It's called, what is it called? Finding Infinity or something. So I don't know, something like that. And he appeared on 60 Minutes to give something of a preview of what the book is going to be about and his perspective on sandbankment freed. And this interview has got the entire internet in a tizzy. I watched the entire interview. The first thing I'll say about 60 Minutes is it's really weird that 60 Minutes is not 60 Minutes long. Like if you watch it, it's like 27 minutes long, which is like, there are so many commercials on TV. It's crazy. There are multiple stories within an episode. So in aggregate, it's 60 minutes long, but you're right that the content is only like Oh, I didn't realize it wasn't the only story. Okay. You ever see 60 Minutes? Yeah. It's like 40 minutes of, I do not watch 60 Minutes except at very, very brief snippets when something important is on. To be fair, the ads definitely make it less than 60 Minutes, I'm pretty sure. Yeah. Well, I watched it on 2X. It was 13 minutes for whatever the period of that 60 Minutes was. So there were a few snippets from the 60 Minutes story that got the internet really excited. One of them was this anecdote that apparently near the end of the FTX, right before FTX collapsed, Sam Beckman -Fried, in part of his effective altruistic mindset and thinking about ways to ameliorate risk in the world, he believed that one of the biggest risks in the world was Donald Trump. And he knew that Donald Trump was going to be running in the next election. And so he contemplated paying Trump not to run in the upcoming election. And so apparently word of this got to Trump, Trump named a price, which was $5 billion, and SPF, at the time that FTX collapsed, apparently SPF was trying to figure out the legality of paying Trump not to run in the 2024 election, but then FTX collapsed and this never happened. Kind of an insane story. I don't know what you guys think of this. Obviously, there's no way he had the liquidity to be able to pay $5 billion in cash to Donald Trump. So this feels like kind of a harebrained story. Well, Alameda had the customer liquidity. And I feel like at a certain point, when they were doing the math, they did have access to $5 billion. I mean, there was also other stories where he was trying to invest multiple billion dollars in Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter. Like when these multi -billion dollar opportunities came up, I assume they looked at the metaphorical piggy bank, saw that there was high single digit, low double digit billions of dollars available and thought, well, what are the craziest things possible with this? It's not the first time there's stories of him using multiple billions of dollars potentially on something. So I believe it. I believe he probably tried. I'm sure that's not legal. Maybe it is. I doubt it. I can't see why that wouldn't be illegal. Not to rib a sieve like I did at that time, but you know who was doing all of these deals of trying to pay billions of dollars for both Twitter and Trump was McCaskill. So apparently the book describes the McCaskill piece as the interlocutor for all of these kind of ideas. So apparently he was the one who came up with the idea.
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Fresh "Monday" from WTOP 24 Hour News
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The HUMAN Training
How Do We Ensure K9 Culture Trainers Are Up to Our Standards?
"Know, one of the things that we do that you're a huge part of, Julie, is kind of what you mentioned, Wyatt. Now, we have trainers that are working with the dog, so how do we make sure that the trainers are training? How do we make sure quality control standards, right? Yeah. So what do we do there, Winnie? Well, I mean, to some degree, there's some micromanaging going on. There has to be. Yeah. Just to make sure that everybody stays in line, I mean, I guess that's always going to be the problem. When you start to grow as a company and you have more people, you want to make sure everybody is staying to the standard that you're wanting to provide for clients or for people. For us, for me, at least as a lead trainer, my main job is to make sure that they are keeping up to the standards of certain obedience, right, every week and things like that. And so I make sure that they... Because we know average dogs, like Tuesdays, they start on Monday. By Tuesday, they should know how to do X. By Thursday, they should be able to do X, Y, and Z. Do you have them master it? No, but we know about where the average dog should be. Yes. Right. And so we're doing trainer evals. That's really what it's called. We're just evaluating the trainers every week to make sure that they are where they should be, where their dogs. And then we acknowledge that sometimes we're going to get a dog that's extremely anxious or extremely aggressive or whatever the case is. So kind we of change the expectations for that dog, but we still want to see progress. And so it's all about making sure that they're getting where they should be. In a week's time frame, since we do board and trains and the dogs go home on Friday, we got to make sure that in those five days they're making enough progress that they're going to be able to work on some things over the weekend with owners and then move on to something else the next week. Right. Yeah. And stay on pace at the end of two, three or four weeks, whatever the training program is that that dog's in, that we've achieved the goals that the owner has. And people just naturally drift, pick up bad habits. They do. We humans are so good about that. They're saying, screw this training, I'm going to do it my way. They will subconsciously shift their training style out of line with what you want them to do. So our evaluations kind of are also geared to keep that from happening. So that way we're consistently, we're being consistent in how we're training. I do love the evals though, because I feel like it makes the trainers want to do better. It makes them want to do better with their dogs. Kind of in a group format. Yeah. The third weeks and the two weeks evals, they're always in a group setting. Whereas the first week evals, I do those one on one. To see how the dog is doing and things. But yeah, definitely. I feel like it helps them want to do better and do cool things. And then in turn, they end up wanting to show those cool things to the owners. So it's not just about doing obedience and being monotonous. It's also about showing the cool things that their dog can do.
Morning News with Manda Factor and Gregg Hersholt
Fresh "Monday" from Morning News with Manda Factor and Gregg Hersholt
"Whole foods market save on it honey crisp apples for $3 .29 per pound with prime through october 10th while supplies last shop in store or line term supply your next northwest traffic at 1244 forecast now sponsored by northwest crawlspace services here's christine sunshine returning to western washington after a misty morning with the clearing sky tonight expect a foggy thursday morning commute and that fog could be quite dense in parts of south south near olympia south into centralia for the morning drive same again friday morning but warm up that takes us well into the 70s friday and especially saturday when we could surpass some daily high temperature records for the date on sunday though that cool ocean air rushes inland knocks down this late season warmth and also would track a cold front on monday columbus day which brings back steady rain and gusty winds early next week in the kamal weather 4 center meteorologist christine clark clearing skies downtown and it's uh 59 degrees northwest news time 12 36. it's time for this week's edition of the accountability connection where we chat with a local leader about the biggest challenges and opportunities facing their community and today it's woodenville mayor mike woodenville millman
The Breakdown
A highlight from The Sam Bankman-Fried Trial Begins - Everything You Need to Know
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me and LW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on guys? It is Tuesday, October 3rd. The SBF trial has begun. This is all the background that you need to know. Of course, before we get into all of that. If you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review. Or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on The Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. Hello Breakers. As you can imagine, this is a fairly weird time for me. A year ago at this time, I was deep in the midst of planning FTX's second Super Bowl ad. And yet a month later, I had resigned, the company had declared bankruptcy, and the world had discovered a rotten core of fraud around Sam and his closest consigliaries. Now, I did a very long episode about the experience of the week of the collapse from the inside last November 14th. It was called Sam Bankman Fraud to give you a sense of how I felt about it. Since then, I've been covering the FTX bankruptcy and Sam's legal battles as I would any other crypto story. In other words, just part of the necessary cleanup of the last cycle, but ultimately something that is hopefully for the past and not for the future. When it comes to the trial, I've spent a long time deciding about how to approach it. The reality is, for the next five or six weeks or however long this takes, this is going to drown out a lot of other things that are happening in the space. I have to imagine that most products will choose not to launch during this time for fear of being outshined because everyone is just laser focused on this. The question then of course is how much time to give it. Is there a risk of over focusing on it? You bet. It's going to have lots of drama. But does it need to be covered? I think that the answer is also ultimately yes. This is something that has to get concluded for the industry to fully move on. It is in many ways an exorcism that just has to be done. And on top of that, I think that this trial and everything that surrounds it will have some impact in shaping how much the external world sees the crypto space as itself inherently fraudulent versus Sam as specifically fraudulent. So how is the breakdown going to cover this? Well, I talked to a lot of you listeners and the general request mirrored my own thoughts, which is to every few days do an update, sometimes with a guest discussion. This won't be then an everyday thing. At least there won't be some big feature every day. But you will get all the salient details as they come up. And with that in mind, I thought it would be valuable to try to create a bit of a definitive primer, something that if you haven't been paying attention at all, if you were barely watching last year, you could pick up and listen to and feel pretty well prepared to get into what you're going to see over the coming weeks. What that means is that today we're going to go over the charges, the rough timeline of events, the key witnesses, what we expect from the defense, the latest procedural news and info from the bankruptcy and the trial schedule. I don't think we'll have time to get into people's very strong feelings about Michael Lewis's book that just came out, but I imagine that that will be on the docket for later this week as well. However, where we begin is with the charges of which Sam faces seven. Those include two charges of wire fraud, two charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, as well as charges of securities fraud, commodities fraud and money laundering. More generally, Sam is accused of fraudulently dealing with customer funds in a multitude of ways. The most damning allegation, and the one prosecutors will likely focus on establishing, is that Sam knowingly diverted customer funds to FTX -affiliated hedge fund Alameda Research. Alameda, of course, served as the primary market maker on FTX. Now, FTX is widely understood not to have been able to obtain bank accounts, and so in many cases used accounts held by Alameda Research to receive funds from customers. The thing that prosecutors will seek to demonstrate is that Alameda not only held customer funds, but that it racked up billions of dollars in debt to FTX, which it could not repay. Evidence has been put forward that Alameda did not have the same risk controls as other entities when it traded on FTX, and that the lack of limits allowed Alameda to continue to operate while carrying a large negative cash balance. To put a fine point on it, the prosecution will allege that this large negative cash balance represented improperly using customer funds to trade and lose on the exchange. Now of course, Alameda had a significant balance sheet of assets held against this negative cash balance, but these assets were crypto tokens largely created by Sam and FTX. They were far too illiquid to realize it anywhere close to their full book value. The SEC summarized the allegations in their separate lawsuit by stating that Sam, Put more simply by Bloomberg's Matt Levine in an article published yesterday, It was pretty much entirely because Alameda had lost it. Now the key to proving these allegations will be establishing that Sam was aware of this financial artifice being run using Alameda. Fraud isn't fraud if it was caused by a mistake or an oversight. Prosecutors will need to show that Sam was either aware of the fraud or willfully blind to it. As the judge put it during a hearing last week, Now let's move on to the timeline of events. Much of the DOJ's case will center around the fateful final weeks as the FTX empire came crashing down. The beginning of the end came on November 2nd when Coindesk's Ian Allison published an expose on the Alameda balance sheet. There had been some rumors of trouble at Alameda prior to that, but with a partial copy of the balance sheet, this piece of reporting blew the lid off the situation. TLDR, what the balance sheet showed was that a huge portion of Alameda's holdings, the were pretty illiquid tokens and in particular, the native exchange token of FTX, FTT. Now in terms of a huge portion of their assets being in FTT, there were also a bunch of other Sam coins from DeFi projects that barely got off the ground, which in some cases had Alameda representing up to 95 % of the overall token supply. According to the Financial Times, just $900 million in assets on this balance sheet could be easily sold. The next major event was the very public sparring between Binance CEO CZ and Sam. Binance had been an early investor in FTX, but at that time had been bought out of their stake for $2 .1 billion. That repurchase, a theoretically pretty good return on an $80 million investment, had been paid out in a mix of stablecoins and FTT tokens. On the Sunday following the Coindesk article, CZ tweeted that quote, Due to recent revelations that have come to light, we have decided to liquidate any remaining FTT on our books. He said the firm would attempt to do so in a way that quote, minimizes market impact over the next few months. But of course, when you have CZ, the single biggest player in the industry, saying dump FTT and run for the hills, guess what happened next? Within the hour, Carolyn Ellison absolutely pissed gasoline all over the situation. She had taken over as sole Alameda CEO just a couple months prior and tweeted to CZ quote, If you're looking to minimize the market impact of your FTT sales, Alameda will happily buy it all from you today at $22. The market immediately plunged, with FTT's price being very visibly defended against Throughout the week before, FTT had traded around $25 and a market cap of $3 billion. By Tuesday night, with Alameda's traders and balance sheet exhausted, the token settled at $5 and FTX closed withdrawals. Now like I said, I gave my account of being on the inside. And while Tuesday when FTX closed withdrawals was clearly a final moment in the coffin for many of us inside, for me when it was clear that something very nefarious had gone on was on Monday, when I started getting hit up by other friends outside of FTX in the industry who were asking if I had heard anything about an FTX emergency fundraising round. Now of course, as an exchange that was supposed to be fully backed and given Sam's recent statements to the team that we had around $2 billion in cash and liquid assets thanks to trading revenue as well as recent fundraising, the only way in the world that we would need an emergency fundraising round was if Sam had been using FTX customer funds for purposes other than sitting on FTX's books waiting for those customers to reclaim those funds. Anyway, in the middle of that week after withdrawals were closed, there was also a weird sham sale announced to Binance, which they very quickly backed out of. And by Friday, with most FTX staffers having already fled the Bahamas, Sam finally capitulated to bankruptcy. Now to this day, Sam claims that he was forced by external lawyers to place the FTX empire into bankruptcy and appears to continue to be holding onto the idea that the exchange could have raised an emergency fundraising round to make customers whole. For most people, that might be where the event ended, but not so much for Sam. What followed was a bizarre string of press interviews, an incredibly disjointed Twitter thread, and basically an odd media tour that attempted to paint Sam as a wayward and naive CEO in over his head rather than a perpetrator of criminal fraud. This tour was capped off by a live broadcast interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin of the New York Times on November 30th. During that sprawling interview, Sam claimed that he, quote, didn't ever try to commit fraud on anyone. Authorities disagreed, and on December 12th, Sam was arrested in the Bahamas at the request of the US government. Although initially defiant, Sam ultimately agreed to be extradited to face charges and was released on bail. Once again, for any normal person, that might be the end of the story until we get to trial, but not for Sam. Although he was confined to his parents' house in California, Sam managed to continuously test the boundaries of his bail conditions. February, Sam was hauled before the judge on allegations that he had used encrypted messaging apps to contact the General Counsel of FTX US as well as using a VPN, which Sam claimed was just to watch NFL games. To the former General Counsel of FTX US, Sam had reached out to see if it was possible to, quote, have a constructive relationship, use each other as resources when possible, or at least vet things with each other. The DOJ characterized this communication as an attempt to taint a potential witness. At that point, the judge decided not to revoke Sam's bail, but instead expressly forbid Sam from using encrypted messaging apps and VPNs. And yet, in July, Sam stepped over the line once again by leaking the private journal of Carolyn Ellison to the New York Times. The judge agreed that providing this material to journalists was, at best, an attempt to embarrass Ellison, if not a brazen attempt to intimidate her and discredit her in the public eye. During the course of that hearing, it was uncovered that Sam had held more than 1 ,000 phone calls with journalists, including over 100 with the New York Times reporter who published the story. And thus, by early August, Sam had his bail revoked and was locked up at the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center to await his trial. Since then, it's basically just been a never -ending set of appeals to try to get Sam out of jail, but alas, jail is where he remains. Next up, let's talk witnesses. What became clear quite fast was that there was a cohort of around four people, including Sam, that seemed to know about the extra special privileges that Alameda enjoyed and the fact that for all intents and purposes, customer funds on FTX were just used as a slush fund for their hedge fund traders. And it turns out that while Sam was still in the air being extradited from the Bahamas, multiple FTX executives were revealed to be collaborating witnesses. Of those, Carolyn Ellison is the one likely to get the most attention. As well as being the CEO of Alameda, Ellison was also Sam's former girlfriend. The couple split prior to the collapse of FTX and there will no doubt be extensive cross -examination which questions Ellison's motives in giving evidence against Sam. Although Ellison was only at the helm of Alameda for a little over two months, recent reporting describes her as essentially in charge of the trading firm for much longer, at least as much as anyone could be in charge of the firm relative to Sam himself. Nominally, Ellison and Sam Trabuco, another Sam in this story, had been appointed co -CEOs of the firm in October of 2021 when SPF stepped away from the role. However, Trabuco had recently been described as almost entirely checked out at that point, leaving Ellison in charge of day -to -day operations. Ellison is expected to give evidence regarding the inner workings of FTX and has acknowledged that she knew about the hole in Alameda's balance sheet prior to the collapse of the exchange. Nishad Singh and Gary Wang are the other two executives known to be cooperating with prosecutors. Singh acted as engineering director while Wang was the exchange's CTO and co -founder. These two basically built all of FTX from the ground up, so anything going on with the codebase is basically going to be mostly just their work. Nishad is expected to give a first -hand account of how the Alameda backdoor was enabled in the code. Nishad was reportedly extremely distressed and wracked with guilt during the final weeks at FTX and was confrontational with Sam during that time. Gary was one of the last employees left in the Bahamas as the exchange collapsed and famously coded almost the entire platform by himself. Some have speculated about how he will be as a witness given that he is notoriously quiet. Now, each of these three key witnesses have already pleaded guilty to criminal fraud charges and have agreed to testify in exchange for a lighter sentence. Prosecutors will need to demonstrate that each one is presenting an honest account of events rather than merely throwing Sam under the bus to save themselves. There are also complicated personal relationships between each of these executives and Sam, which could be used by the defense. All three cohabitated with Sam in a Bahamas penthouse and were some of Sam's closest friends as well as employees. To give an indication of how hostile cross -examination could become, last week a DOJ motion to prevent the defense from asking questions about recreational drug use was denied. The defense will need to provide notice to the court before asking witnesses about their drug use, but the subject was not ruled to be out of bounds. Another FTX executive who has pleaded guilty to criminal charges is Ryan Salem, who served as CEO of FTX Digital Markets. FTX Digital Markets was the operating company for the Bahamas. Now, Salem was particularly involved in the political campaign side of things for Sam and was charged with violations of campaign financing law in relation to making straw donations to politicians on Sam's direction as well as operating an unlicensed money -transmitting business. Unlike the other three, Salem is not cooperating with prosecutors as part of his plea deal, but could be called to testify as a non -cooperating witness. Alameda co -CEO Sam Trabuco has not been heard from since he stepped away from the company last August. He has not been disclosed as a witness and has not been charged at this stage. The DOJ has also flagged that they have at least two additional witnesses set to testify under a grant of immunity but have not publicly identified them at this stage. By and large, speculation about who those witnesses might be include not only Trabuco who we just mentioned, but Daniel Friedberg who served as FTX's chief compliance officer and who had formerly been implicated in a major online poker scandal, and Constance Wang who was FTX's COO and was described as Sam's right hand during fundraising efforts. Now in addition to FTX executives, the DOJ will also call multiple customers and investors to give brief testimony. Prosecutors have flagged that they will call upon retail customers who traded tens of thousands of dollars on the platform, as well as institutional clients who traded millions of dollars. The high range could imply notable industry figures will make an appearance on the witness stand. Several high profile market makers are listed as top creditors of FTX and are no doubt none too happy about their funds being locked up in the bankruptcy process. Both customers and investors are intended to present their understanding of the FTX terms of service and representations made about the use of customer funds, which could be crucial in refuting possible defenses. Which indeed brings us to that section of this primer, what are the defense strategies that Sam might try to employ? SPF's legal team have flagged a few potential arguments. In a filing on Monday, they sought clarification on a few issues they may wish to present. The filing asked whether the defense could argue that FTX International was not regulated in the US and therefore did not have to follow applicable rules. They also asked whether Sam could discuss the likelihood that creditors could see massive returns from the bankruptcy process. Still, the primary defense expected from SPF relates to instructions from legal counsel. In August, SPF's team flagged a plan to argue that he relied on advice from both in -house attorneys as well as lawyers from Fenwick and West in basically all elements of FTX's operation. Sam sought to introduce advice from lawyers on topics ranging from his use of self -deleting messages, unconventional banking relationships, and intercompany financial arrangements. The DOJ objected to this defense, claiming that not enough detail had been provided, but the judge reserved their decision on this point until later in the trial. The judge said that they would make rulings on individual advice of counsel arguments on a case -by -case basis as they come up. Outside of what indications we've gotten from Sam's team, the industry and the wider world at large have had no problem speculating about how he might defend himself as well. Bloomberg's Matt Levine paraphrased his view of a likely defense as The crypto market crashed, there was a run on the bank, and the run on the bank is what evaporated the customer's money. It was an accident, perhaps a careless accident but not theft. Certainly, in media commentary, SPF has been focused on the bank run, rather than the hole in Alameda's balance sheet as the cause of FTX's collapse. Now, of course, there are some obvious issues with that defense, particularly if witnesses establish that Alameda had effectively commandeered customer funds in contravention of the exchange's terms of service. Another plank of Sam's defense will likely be to rely on prosecutors being unable to In a New Yorker article published last month, the journalist wrote, Going back to his article, Matt Levine again sketched out a plausible way that Sam could brush off an $8 billion balance sheet hole as a careless oversight rather than willful fraud. He suggested Sam could claim he thought FTX had so much money that $8 billion was a rounding error. From Levine's back of the napkin math, at its height, FTX had somewhere approaching $100 billion in crypto assets on its books. Finally, it's also expected that Sam will seek to blame Caroline for mismanaging Alameda. The publication of excerpts from Caroline's journal was an attempt to paint her as a naive child way out of her depths, and some of Sam's leaked writings also showed a belief that Alameda had failed to hedge correctly, as if that was the main issue here. Now, one thing that's important to note is that when considering defenses, SPF does not need to prove his innocence. He only needs to introduce a shred of doubt in the minds of the jury. To convict, the 12 jurors must be convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that Sam is guilty and reach a unanimous decision. Prosecutors often fail to get their cases over the line due to being unable to entirely convince each juror of the defendant's guilt. This can be even more of a difficulty when the case involves complicated financial crime which can be difficult to fully understand. And yet, many commentators are convinced that the case is damning. Daniel C. Silva, a former prosecutor who participated in the BitConnect case, said, Now, in terms of the latest from the bankruptcy, as the trial gets underway, the FTX bankruptcy process is entering its 10th month and has had no shortage of intrigue. The current focus has been on pursuing clawbacks from people and organizations that had been, in the estimation of the bankruptcy estate, unjustly enriched by FTX. On the very top of that list are Sam's parents, Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried. Two weeks ago, the estate sued Bankman and Fried, claiming that they had received over $26 million in gifts from FTX, including a luxury property in the Bahamas. The lawsuit alleges that Bankman was intimately involved in the operations at FTX and used his position to enrich himself. You may have seen the now -famous email where he tried to raise his salary to a million dollars by threatening to involve Sam's mother. Now, speaking of Sam's mother, Barbara Fried is alleged to have directed political donation efforts at FTX. This instructing included Sam on how to structure donations to avoid donation limits. She is also alleged to have knowledge of loans made to FTX executives, which were then used to fund election campaigns. All in all, the lawsuit alleged that the pair, quote, Now, for their part, Sam's parents immediately hit back at the lawsuit through lawyers saying, A last note on the bankruptcy, while current FTX CEO John J. Wray has no doubt been cooperating with prosecutors in providing internal documents, he is not currently expected to testify as a witness. Now, in terms of the latest trial procedural stuff and timeline, today was technically the first day of the trial with jury selection the goal. Both sides have alleged the other is attempting to bias the jury pool. The DOJ claimed that Sam's questions for the jury about effective altruism, political donations and ADHD are intended to paint him in a sympathetic light. In particular, prosecutors are concerned that asking about charitable and political donations could improperly introduce the idea that Sam's actions were justified outside of evidence. The defense, meanwhile, have complained that the DOJ are treating Sam's fraud as an established fact in their jury questioning by omitting the word allegedly. They also claim a question about being stopped or questioned by the police is intended to racially filter the jury in a manner irrelevant to the case. Last week, as I intimated before, SPF placed a last minute appeal to be released from jail for the duration of the trial. Sam's team claimed that his incarceration would be an unreasonable barrier to adequately preparing for each day's hearing. Unfortunately for him, the judge found this argument insufficiently convincing and stated that they consider Sam to be a flight risk. They said, Sam was granted some concessions to be allowed to meet with his lawyers early at the courthouse each day, as well as during jail visiting on off days. Now, while a decision is yet to be made on exactly how Sam can introduce the concept that he relied on the advice of lawyers, limits were placed on what can be said during the defense's opening arguments. Specifically, Sam's lawyers have been prohibited from mentioning any advice of counsel arguments while presenting their case. The judge ruled that this argument may confuse or prejudice a jury when presented without specifics and evidence. The trial is currently scheduled to take six weeks. Jury selection is expected to be completed by the end of today's hearing, although before I was recording this, there were some indications that it might go into tomorrow morning as well. In either case, tomorrow we will likely see the beginnings of opening arguments. After that, the prosecution will present its case and call its witnesses. The DOJ has estimated their case will take four to five weeks. The defense will then have an opportunity to present their case, which they have estimated will be much shorter, taking around a week and a half. Now, the defense is not compelled to present a case and can simply choose not to if they are confident the charges have not been proven. We don't yet have any indication of whether SPF will speak in his own defense. Traditional legal strategy suggests that defendants should never take to the witness stand to avoid giving prosecutors an opportunity to cross -examine them. However, this is no ordinary trial and SPF is no ordinary defendant. Judging from how extensively Sam has defended himself in the media, I would not be surprised if his lawyers have a tough time keeping him out of the witness box. Hearings will be held four days a week with a short break after three weeks. If the trial takes longer than six weeks, it will be extended, but the consensus seems to be that it will be all over by Thanksgiving. And won't that be something to be thankful for? Now, even if Sam escapes a guilty verdict, his legal troubles will continue well into next year. The DOJ will present additional charges related to bribery of Chinese officials, as well as political donation violations during a second criminal trial, which is scheduled for March. Sam will also face civil lawsuits from the SEC and the CFTC after the first criminal trial is concluded. Beyond that, there's still the possibilities of lawsuits from the FTX bankruptcy estate, as well as from former customers and investors. So my friends, that is the lay of the land. That is what we are going into. Like I said at the top, for me, the most interesting thing, the thing that I will be watching most closely, is actually the meta -narrative analysis around this. I want to know how much, especially mainstream media looks at this and treats this like what it is, which is Sam Bankman -Fried going on trial, versus what I fear it might become, which is the entire crypto industry being put on trial. But in any event, this truly is a scenario where the only way out is through. So get on your boots, friends, because we are getting into the muck. Until next time, be safe and take care of each other. Peace.
Morning News with Manda Factor and Gregg Hersholt
Fresh "Monday" from Morning News with Manda Factor and Gregg Hersholt
"Fans all to themselves this week as both the Huskies and Seahawks have have a a buy. The cooks visit UCLA at noon Saturday. The Seahawks have a long injury list coming out of Monday's win News. One of the injuries appeared to be long -term. Right guard Phil Haynes aggravated a calf injury. Left guard Damian personal opinion Louis spreading his ankle and nose tackle. Jaron Read injured his sin safety Jamal Adams left the game with a Meanwhile. Just quarterback Aaron Rodgers says he's well ahead of the normal protocols and still believes goes return Achilles injury this season. A typical recovery is six to nine months though some experts have said it's possible to return in four to five months. Mariners president of baseball operations Jerry DePoto doesn't know if signing high -cost free agents is the answer to make the team better than other clubs in the AL West. But he says there is a need for improvement and manager Scott service agrees. You know the conversation I had with players with coaches that start here immediately. Expectations are great. I talked about it in spring training. They were raised dramatically. I look forward to be up there again agency begins after after the end of the World Series sports a 10 and 40 past the hour. Eric Heintz, Northwest News Radio. Northwest News Time I'm 12 11. We're learning more about the rescue of a little girl who was abducted over the weekend while camping in New York nine old -year Charlotte sent up who was abducted on a family camping trip in upstate New York. Now back home with her family as authorities reveal new details about the kidnapping and how she was rescued. She was very emotional. I can't imagine what was going through a nine -year -old's head and it's all this is going on. Police tracking down and charging 46 -year -old Craig Ross Jr. with first degree kidnapping. A ransom note left in the family's mailbox early Monday the key to breaking the case. A fingerprint on it matched to Ross who had been arrested for a DWI in 1999. He was in the area the opportunity presented itself and he took advantage of that. Investigators tracking down Ross and Charlotte in a camper on his mother's property in Ballston Spa, New York Monday about 22 miles away from where she was taken Saturday at Moreau Lake State Park. The fourth grader last seen riding her bike alone around a short loop on the campgrounds. That bike found minutes later. Authorities telling ABC News it was upright on its kickstand SWAT teams descending on property where they they found Charlotte inside a small bedroom closet the size of a Charlotte's shirt. family overjoyed. She's home, her aunt telling WGNA radio minutes before they got news of the rescue. Charlotte's mom was hopeful. And she said, I just I don't know mother's intuition. I just feel like she's coming home today. Police tell us they are trying to give the little girl and her family some space as they also also try and piece together a timeline of her disappearance. As for the suspect, his next court appearance is scheduled for October 17th. ABC's Stephanie Ramos reporting child child investigators welfare sent to a home in southeast Oklahoma City say they were horrified by what they found. and now as we hear from ABC's Jim Ryan a couple is in custody in a years -long case of child Sexual abuse and neglect acting on an anonymous tip. Police discovered five children under 18 living in squalor and barely able to communicate. Neighbors had long had suspicions. We always thought something was going investigators say all five children were the result of their father raping an older sister who first heard when she was 12. That man faces two counts of child sexual abuse and five counts of child neglect His wife is charged with allowing it to happen. Jim Ryan ABC News. Five people recovering after a night Tuesday shooting during homecoming week at Morgan State University in Baltimore. University police were on routine patrol around 930 last night when they heard the gunfire and found four men and one woman with non life -threatening injuries the ages of 18 and 22 four of them Morgan State students. No arrests made yet. Time for an update on traffic from the High Performance Homes center. traffic Here's Kimi. Well it's looking pretty good on the roads right now I'm not seeing any major accidents in the way it's just a little slow in Seattle on South and I five across the ship Canal Bridge and again near Mercer Street where you could see some maintenance vehicles doing some work in right the lane we also have another day of maintenance on Seattle's Ballard Bridge is taking up your southbound right lane today and great looking across our floating bridges on 520 and i -90 just some light crowding scene around the Kenny Dale Hill on Southbound 405 so it's about 15 minutes to make that commute from Bellevue into Renton 167 looks wide open between Renton and Puyallup no major delays around Tacoma JBLM Olympia even Everett and Marysville in really decent shape at the moment this report is sponsored by Beacon Plumbing if you own a classic old home it could have old pipes if they clog up stop freaking Beacon and call 1 -800 FREAKIN or go to BeaconPlumbing .net your next northwest traffic at 1224. our forecast is sponsored by northwest crawlspace services weather today is going to remain pretty nice temperatures eventually
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from Rep. Matt Gaetz plans to oust GOP House Speaker Kevin McCarthy
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Now, from the ReliefFactor .com studios, here's Mike Gallagher. Can everybody sort of cool it with the attacks against Matt Gaetz right now? What is going on? I'm telling you what, nothing upsets establishment Republicans more than disruptors. I suppose that's why they despise Donald Trump. I suspect the same people, many of the same, not all, but many of the same people who are attacking the Freedom Caucus, the Ralph Normans and the Matt Gaetzs and the Marjorie Taylor Greens, the same people who hate them, hate Trump. You know, we all sit around, we talk a good game about fixing Washington and trying to stop the out of control spending and flushing good money down the drain after bad and getting some fiscal responsibility going. But then when somebody tries to do it, we lop their heads off. We want it to be business as usual. Now, let me qualify. If you're not following this, this has been a wild weekend. Matt Gaetz went on TV saying, I'm going to try to lead an insurrection against Kevin McCarthy. We're going to have an ouster of Kevin McCarthy. I'm going to get him out of there. I'm going to get Democrats to side with me. There's all kinds of reporting that he's even offering subpoena power to the Democrats because he really doesn't like Kevin McCarthy. We get it. Kevin McCarthy gets it. Matt Gaetzs has never liked Kevin McCarthy. These guys are going to be butting heads forever. OK, so be it. McCarthy led to the...was able to avert a government shutdown with no funding for Ukraine. I think that's a win. I don't know that it's a win with a capital W, but it's a win. We got through it. With hours to spare. So Matt Gaetzs is livid. I guess he wanted a government shutdown. OK. He's an elected representative. He's representing his constituents in Florida. He can feel the way he wants to feel. And, you know, if he wants to take on Kevin McCarthy, all right, so be it. Might not be a great idea. It seems to me Republicans have some momentum right now, and this threatens that momentum. But having said that, I don't know why people on our side are attacking Gaetzs the way they are. Mark Levin, who I consider a friend, I actually love the guy. I think Mark Levin is one of the smartest guys around. He's calling Matt Gaetzs a traitor. Literally a traitor. Mark Levin posted of Matt Gaetzs, This clown is a Benedict Arnold. He killed a CR slashing spending by 8 % and strengthening border security. Now he plots and schemes with the most radical Marxist Democrats in the House, including AOC and the Progressive Caucus. Reject this demagogue. He is the uni -party leader, and he has no intention of cutting spending or securing the border. Boy, that seems a little harsh, don't you think? I mean, Trump is the ultimate disruptor. And it's going to be fascinating to see what exactly Trump does with all of this. Now he's in New York today trying to ward off this wack job, you know, civil suit against him. And he's sitting in on day one of his trial. But here's what Matt Gaetzs said on CNN over the weekend as a result of Kevin McCarthy heading up an effort to avert a government shutdown. It apparently enraged Congressman Gaetzs, who took to CNN and said this. Speaker McCarthy made an agreement with House conservatives in January. And since then, he has been in brazen, repeated, material breach of that agreement. This agreement that he made with Democrats to really blow past a lot of the spending guardrails we had set up is a last straw. And then overnight, I learned that Kevin McCarthy had a secret deal with Democrats on Ukraine. So as he was baiting Republicans to vote for a continuing resolution without Ukraine money, saying that we were going to jam the Senate on Ukraine, he then turns around and makes a secret deal. Now, I know you and I probably have different views on U .S. involvement in Ukraine. But however you think about that question, it should be subject to open review analysis and not some backroom deal. So a motion to vacate tomorrow? I do intend to file a motion to vacate against Speaker McCarthy this week. I think we need to rip off the Band -Aid. I think we need to move on with new leadership that can be trustworthy. Now, this gets complicated because Speaker McCarthy is going to have to rely on Democrats to come to his rescue. If enough Democrats side with Matt Gaetz, guess what? McCarthy might be out. And you could have an argument, we could have a solid substantive debate about whether that's good or bad for us. You know what's good for us? I don't think there's any dispute. Disruptors. Do you want more of the same? Are you OK with business as usual in Washington, D .C.? Are you satisfied with the way things have been going? With the reckless spending and the over -the -top nonsense like writing Ukraine a blank check. I have to tell you, with the exception of Mark Levin, and I have tremendous respect for him, I don't know what's up with why he would call Matt Gaetz a traitor to his country. Matt Gaetz may not be everyone's cup of tea, but I thought this is a time where we all agreed that we needed some disruption. I thought this was a time when we expect fighters in Washington, not people who are going to play footsie with the Democrats. And most importantly, I don't like, pardon my metaphor here or my imagery, but I don't like hearing people urinate all over the millions of people who are lifting Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene and the other fighters in Congress up. What does that say about what those of us with a platform think of millions of people who want a good old -fashioned street fight in Washington over out -of -control spending and fiscal irresponsibility? I mean, I'm not trying to be wishy -washy on this. Again, I think McCarthy has done a pretty solid job as Speaker of the House. It can't be easy. It's not easy. You've got a lot of warring factions within the GOP, and the problem is the Republicans have some momentum right now. And I don't want to see anything interrupt the momentum heading into November. We've got an important election in Virginia. We've got big things coming. I just, I'm absolutely mystified at the vitriol that a lot of people are demonstrating towards Matt Gaetz. I don't think that's helpful. I don't think that's productive. Can't we disagree respectfully? Because I have a lot of respect for the millions of people, many of whom listen to this show, who believe that disruption is in order. I have a lot of respect for people who appreciate what Matt Gaetz is trying to do. Even if it may be the wrong outcome, even if I might disagree with trying to oust Kevin McCarthy, I don't like the wild -eyed attacks that I'm hearing directed towards these renegades in the House. Because I just think it's very, very disrespectful to millions of people who appreciate what Gaetz is trying to do. Now, do you agree with this or not? We've got a lot of text messages already pouring in on the MyPillow text line as we kick off the first Monday in October. It's October the 2nd, 2023, here in the Relief Factor studios. Here's where people are texting me right now. Here's Pennsylvania. I don't want more of the same. I think Mark Levin is a warmonger. Here's Colorado. I 100 % agree with Mark Levin. Matt Gaetz seems like he's a glory hound who hates McCarthy. He wants to oust Kevin, but he has no plan to replace him. And finally, people are attacking, this is from Ohio, people are attacking Matt Gaetz because he's an idiot. And the people who voted him in are idiots. He just wants to make a name for himself, hoping to be governor of Florida. Well, what do you think? Let's find out. I want to open up the Ph .D. weight loss and nutrition phone number to you. 800 -655 -MIKE, 17 past the hour. Do you understand my point about respectfully disagreeing with what the Freedom Caucus and the others are doing with McCarthy without taking their heads off? Do you agree with me that Matt Gaetz reflects the disruptor status that Donald Trump gave us and why we love Donald Trump? Does that make sense to you or am I missing the boat here? Straighten me out. If you disagree, you go to the top of the line. But however you feel, I want you to join us. Flood the zone here with your phone calls. I want to jam our phone lines with your voice, with your perspective. Again, the Ph .D. weight loss number is 800 -655 -MIKE, 800 -655 -6453. Hope you join us.
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Crypto Banter
A highlight from Time To Buy The Dip On These Altcoins? (LAST CHANCE)
"The market is finally showing signs of life and many altcoins are now starting to break out of their month -long downtrends. So in today's video, I'm going to discuss what altcoins I am looking at this week. I've got a variety of long setups for you. I've also got a couple short setups that I want to share in today's video. And it's funny, every single Monday I do the Watchlist shows, right? But they don't get that many views. You can see in front of you last week, I only got 4 ,000 views on the show. Yet, in my opinion, they are my most alpha -packed shows of the week. Because if we just look at last week as an example, there were many trades here which we nailed. I mean, Bitcoin, I pretty much said it was going to move sideways for the majority of the week. That is what happened, although we did get a pump in the last couple of days. LINK, I said that I was expecting us to move up heading into the conference. And then the conference could be a local top. Well, we've certainly gotten a massive move up. Now is the conference. So proof will be in the pudding when it comes to that one. But we did get the first part right. Arbitrum has pushed up massively in price. So we got that one right. OX, I was a little preemptive when it came to DCAing. That's one we can talk about later. But they have had a massive correction. And if you like OX, it could be a DCA opportunity. OP as well, I said they weren't looking as strong on a relative strength basis versus Arbitrum. And I was waiting for PostUnlock to reconsider my positioning. And I mean, pretty much you haven't missed out on a relative basis versus ARB, which has been the stronger trade. And it's all about opportunity cost in crypto. And then Frax has performed very well. And I said I was buying some Frax as well. So mostly hits when it came to the watchlist last week, 80 % hits. The only one that I did take a slight knock on was my DCAing into OX, which obviously did end up dropping. But on all the other coins, we pretty much have traded them pretty well. So that's why I believe that the Monday shows are so important. If you're not watching them, I recommend watching them every single week because this is where I go through my plans for the week. I talk about the old coins I'm interested in. I talk about what I'm seeing in the market. And it's really important. It's a great chance for us to reset and chat one on one ahead of every single week. And this week is looking to be a little more lively than previous weeks. And it comes on the very important day for Bitcoin, which is the beginning of Q4. So October, now we are officially in the Q4 period. And actually historically Q4 is the best quarter for Bitcoin. And specifically October and November are the best performing months historically for Bitcoin. You can see in front of you, October is the second best performing month and November is the best performing month for Bitcoin. So it's funny that we've kicked off Q4 in style with a very strong Bitcoin move to the upside. We've now started to break above that key 200 EMA level, as you can see here. Although last time we did break above and then we deviated below and then we didn't end up having a daily close above. So this is really what you want to keep your eye on now. Can Bitcoin actually close above and then look to use that as a launchpad to push into that major zone at 30K? That's obviously going to be the next question. Or will it close below again? Only time will tell. We'll know obviously within the next day. This video is prerecorded a few hours before it goes live. So we will be approaching daily close at that point and we will need to monitor this level. But I would like to see a few days continuously above. Just one daily close above oftentimes isn't strong enough. You often want to see multiple daily closes above and it just forms some sort of support basis, a substantive basis for Bitcoin to spring to the upside. But let's not get too much into the Bitcoin discussion because we have lots of altcoin talk today. And my plan on various altcoins I want to discuss with you in today's video. So as you can see, the market is up today. The market is up this week. Arbitrum, one of the best performers that we talked about in last week's watchlist. Solana, one of the best performers. I'm going to get into my thoughts on Solana in today's video. This is one I also called on my Twitter when I said that I thought that the pre -dump was going to be greater than the actual selling event. That is what happened. And we ended up timing the bottom pretty nicely on Sol. So overall, it's been a great couple weeks of trading, but let's get into today's one. The first thing I want to talk about is Ethereum. I think it would be remiss of me not to talk about the leader of the altcoins, given the fact that it's primarily an altcoin video today. Ethereum showing some interesting signs here, starting to push into this range high territory. It has pivoted nicely off those lows at 1540 and never quite got down to that major structural support level at 1422. And it's actually started to respond and show signs of a reversal here. Range high does correspond with the 200 MA. So that's going to be your major resistance level. Only time will tell whether Ethereum has the strength to break through there. But that is a heavy level of resistance. So if it does get rejected there, I would not be surprised. I probably wouldn't be longing ETH into resistance. But I do find more interesting is the ETH BTC chart. It did get rejected off its major resistance level. However, this is a level that it did an SR flip back in July. This is definitely a key level for ETH. If you're looking at ETH, maybe outperforming Bitcoin on a relative basis over the next couple of months, that would be your level that you really need to reclaim. This was a trade that I was in. I got stopped out. I mentioned that on the show that I did about my ETH pair trade at 62 here. But this may be a trade I get back into if we flip and confirm above this major level. So that's what I'm watching on ETH BTC. And it comes at a time where the ETH futures ETFs seem to have gotten approved, which is obviously great news for Ethereum. But we are still hanging out for that Ethereum spot ETF. Lots of speculation now about an ETH ETF. Lots of speculation also about a Bitcoin ETF. Very interested to see what happens over the next few months when it comes to ETFs. Looks like Bitcoin will be pushed forward into Q1 2024, given the fact that we got a slew of delays last week. But the Ethereum ETF is another one to keep your eye on. And the Bitcoin ETF would certainly be precedent for ETH, although ETH is on a lagging basis versus Bitcoin, typically regulatory -wise on about an eighth to, I would say, 16 months lagging basis versus Bitcoin. Now let's get a little more degen now that we've framed the market. We've looked at ETH. ETH BTC is interesting. We've looked at Bitcoin and the key levels there. Now let's get into some of the alts. Got longs, I've got shorts, and I'm going to go through this rapid fire. So I'll probably be speaking really quickly, but I want to get the alpha to you and not waste your time with 40 -minute shows anymore. First one's Radiant Capital. I like Radiant Capital long term because it's one of the only bonafide proxy bet plays for the layer zero airdrop, which is going to be in Q1 2024, most likely alongside Stargate. So Radiant's one I like. Lots happening on the third. So Radiant's one that I've been accumulating, and this is one in my watchlist every single week on the show and on my Twitter. I've been quite public about the fact that I've been accumulating spot, and I actually did buy some spot at the support level at 22 and added a little bit more lower towards the 19 to 20 zone. In terms of Radiant from a TA perspective, we have broken above major resistance at the 24 cent zone, although we have had a very explosive move to the upside. So personally, with my spot positions, I've started to unload a little, and I do think we may see a mean reversion back down into this zone here at the 24 cent level. I mean, if the market keeps pumping, clearly Radiant can pump up until this next resistance level at the 30 cent zone. But for me, at some point, I do think there is a significant amount of liquidity here that I think is logical that Radiant comes back and captures. So for me, that's why I've just started to offload a little bit, and I'll continue to offload out, ladder out if we go up in price. And I may even look to short Radiant if I have the balls to do it over the next few days. I need to firstly wait for a confirmed reversal and breaking of structure on the lower time frame, because obviously I don't take trades on the daily time frame. I would take it on the one hourly or four hourly. So that would only happen once you start to do something like this and reverse under and make a lower high. And then maybe I'll look to get into a short position. But until then, it's all longs and Radiant from a long term perspective, irrespective of the short term trading opportunities. For me, remains a good one to DC into on major pullback. So that is my Radiant update. It is definitely a token to watch this week, given the fact that they have their main net, but by the rumor, sell the news, maybe, maybe. And that's why I'm being cautious and offloading some spot. Let's get into Solana now. This is the talk of the town. This has been one of the market leaders over the last couple of days. And that comes off the back of a few different reasons. Firstly, the fact that there was a massive shorter that got liquidated and that caused a short squeeze to the upside. So this massive whale got liquidated on a huge Sol position. And also the fact Galaxy didn't end up selling any so far Solana from the FTX liquidation. So I did a tweet on this. Actually, I said, as bearish as the one Bill Sol liquidation seems at face value. And this was back in September, a month ago, the majority of the Sol's locked. Gallancy are incentivized to sell for the best possible price. There will be a $200 million a week cap on FTX sales. And I wouldn't be careful shorting. And pretty much this was spot on. In the end, the pre -dump was greater than the actual selling event. And once again, it's another reminder that peak FUD equals peak opportunity in crypto. I did a tweet saying I was buying Solana and Matic during the Robinhood sale FUD event. And that ended up being the local bottom. And I did another tweet again saying, I would be cautious shorting here, given the fact that we could likely see a pre -dump greater than actual selling event. And that's exactly what happened again. We saw the FUD, so the market's fear to do with the selling actually accelerate the downside quicker than the selling could actually be priced into the market. And no, there hasn't been any material selling of Sol yet. So this is another reason, a contributing factor as to why Sol pumped massively in price. A lot of people were anticipating selling and we didn't get major selling. So Solana definitely is one to watch. This isn't really one that I'm that interested in shorting. Maybe only if we start move up here into the $26 zone and then you may get an opportunity to short at range high. But for me, this is mostly looking bullish and Sol's one I've been stacking spot for quite some time. So any major pullbacks, I'll continue to look to add Sol at these key horizontal levels that I've laid out here. If you are looking at a leverage trade, I think you've missed the major trade. You would either wait for mean reversion back down to the 200 MA, then maybe you could long that's around the $22 zone if Bitcoin is still structurally holding up. And then the X level is obviously that short at $26 .5. So until then, we're in no man's land, but this is the hottest token. And it's funny seeing everyone suddenly liking Sol again after fighting it a couple of weeks ago. All of a sudden the price pumps, everyone likes it again. And that's something that Rand pointed out in his tweet. If you're looking at getting additional confluence with your trades on top of your TA, one tool that I've been using is Kyber AI. For Solana, it's a bit weird because there's only wormhole Sol. So it's not native Sol on the Solana What you can do on Kyber AI is you can see the Kyber score so you can get a bullish momentum score. This can tell you the momentum of the token based on on -chain analysis. Something I like to do is look at the changes in trading volume. So if I want confluence for a long, I'll look in a reversal from trading volume going from large sell amounts to flicking into that bullish territory where you start to see more buy volume kick in and vice versa. On the short side, I'll look for reversal from the buy into the sell zone. So Kyber AI is a tool I've been using to help my on -chain trading and you can also see here net flow to whale wallets. This gives you an idea as to whether whales are buying or not. So positive net flow where it's more green than it is red indicates that whales are buying and then if it's more red than green that's called negative net flow and that generally means that whales are starting to sell. So also interesting to see what whales are doing when it comes to positioning themselves in tokens and that's something I also look at when it comes to trading. But yeah it's not just soul that you can look at on Kyber AI. There's a bunch of other coins as well and if you actually go to their bullish section or their bearish section you can see the most bullish coins of the day. Kanto is actually one of them. This is one that fundamentally I've been doing some research into and I really do like as a project based on the limited research I've done so far and you can see that this is heavily in bullish territory and if you look at the on -chain analytics you can see buyers are starting to ramp up and we also seeing the trading volume to the buy side starting to ramp up as well. So yeah you can basically look at the most bullish coins and the most bearish coins for the day and this can help you become a much better trader. So yeah Kyber AI is one tool that I thought I would mention today in the context of this watchlist given it's a more trading centric show I guess although we are incorporating fundamentals of course as usual as per my you know normal show structure. But if you do want to use Kyber AI there's a link in the description and for every crypto bounty member that uses the link we're going to give you early access because if you're in the general public it's very hard to get access because there's a huge wait list that can take weeks to get approved. We are going to expedite approvals for crypto banter loyal viewers so link in the description below. If you do want access to Kyber AI it is a free tool so I'm not shilling you a paid service it's a free tool that I think can really benefit everyone and yeah of course Kyber is a sponsor of the show and they've been a great partner to work with because I believe they built an amazing AI product. Let's get into some of the other coins these are really interesting link especially very interesting trades being one of the most bullish coins over the last week or two and I actually have a controversial play here I'm thinking of picking off a short on link and I'll explain why even though a lot of people are starting to long link maybe this will bite me in the ass but I'm going to tell you why and I'll also give you my invalidation.
The Crypto Overnighter
A highlight from 687:Bitcoins U.S. Shutdown Surge, SBFs Trial, and Coinbases Singapore Milestone
"Good evening and welcome to the crypto overnighter. I'm Nicodemus and I will be your host as we take a look at the latest cryptocurrency news and analysis. So sit back, relax and let's get started. And remember, none of this is financial advice. And it's 10pm Pacific on Monday, October 2nd, 2023. Welcome back to the crypto overnighter where we have no sponsors, no hidden agendas and no BS. But we do have the news. So let's talk about that. Tonight, we delve into the intricate dance between the crypto world and various power structures. Will Bitcoin maintain its golden status amid government turmoil? What's at stake for Sam Bankman Fried as he faces a monumental trial? As Ross Albrecht marks a grim milestone, we look back at Silk Road's complicated legacy. Meanwhile, Coinbase gets a warm welcome in Singapore. But what does that mean for its U .S. operations? Swiss Bank UBS is making waves on the Ethereum blockchain and Grayscale aims to revolutionize Ethereum trading. Lately, we've been talking about the recent political drama that could have led to a U .S. government shutdown, but it didn't. And Bitcoin reacted in a way that's worth discussing. At the 11th hour, Republicans and Democrats struck a deal to keep the U .S. government running for another 45 days. This is not a permanent solution. It's a Band -Aid. The disagreements over funding levels, borders and the Ukraine -Russia war are still there. But for now, the government stays open and the U .S. citizen bears the brunt of this political circus. Now let's talk about numbers. As news broke, Bitcoin shot up over 3 % to hit 28 ,000. It also collided with its 200 week moving average, a critical resistance level. As of the latest data, Bitcoin is sitting at $28 ,360 apiece. If it consolidates above this level, we could see it test the local high of just under $32 ,000. Bitcoin's dominance in the crypto world also spiked well above 50%. On the flip side, the Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 171 points or 0 .5%. The S &P 500 fell by 0 .3%, while the NASDAQ composite rose 3%. So while traditional markets were shaky, Bitcoin showed resilience. Jay Hatfield, CEO at Infrastructure Capital Management, attributed Monday's tech sector rally as a relief sentiment from the averted shutdown. But he also pointed out that interest rates are the dominant factor in trading right now. The Senate passed the resolution just before the midnight deadline, and President Biden signed it into law. Initially, equity futures were in the green, but they fell into the red before the markets opened. Why? Because investors are now focusing on surging interest rates near 15 year highs. The 11th hour deal to avert a U .S. government shutdown had a ripple effect on financial markets but none more pronounced than Bitcoin. While traditional markets like the Dow Jones showed a decline, Bitcoin sees the moment, surging past significant resistance levels. This is a testament to Bitcoin's resilience and its role as a sort of financial safe haven during times of political uncertainty. The Dow's decline in Bitcoin surge presents a stark contrast. It's almost as if the investors are saying they have more faith in a decentralized digital asset than in the stability of the U .S. government. And if so, who could blame them? Both the Dow's dip and the spike in the 10 year treasury yield indicate that traditional markets are still heavily influenced by government actions and are not immune to the chaos of political breaksmanship. Bitcoin's dominant spiking above 50 % is another key takeaway. It's not just leading the crypto bull market, it's dominating it. This could be indicative of a broader shift in investor sentiment, favoring Bitcoin over other assets including altcoins. The 45 day extension gives Bitcoin another window of opportunity. If the bulls can maintain momentum and keep Bitcoin above its 200 week moving average, we could see it test new highs. But let's not forget, liquidity is still scarce. Unless another significant event prompts more U .S. dollar printing, progress may be slow. Yet the message is clear. In a world where traditional systems are showing cracks, Bitcoin offers not just an alternative but perhaps a better way forward. In essence, Bitcoin has once again proven its mettle by not bowing to political uncertainties. It's a reminder of why we're all here. For a financial system that doesn't play by the rules of centralized entities. That Bitcoin resilience? It may help us weather storms like what SBF is facing. Speaking of Sam Bankman -Fried, his trial kicks off tomorrow and it's far from a simple legal hiccup. Here's what's unfolding. And hey, if you're as glued to these narratives as we are, hit that follow button. You won't want to miss a beat.
Evangelism On Fire
A highlight from The Manual Flores' God Story
"Welcome to Evangelism on Fire podcast. My name is Mark Thomas, an ordained pastor, a teacher of the best selling book of all time, your host, and most importantly, your evangelism coach. Every episode, I bring you an inspiring message to help you live the most exciting life God has created you to live by actively sharing your faith in Jesus with others. I believe in the power of the gospel and the potential of all Christians to live out the mission of the great commission. I believe the best way for Christians to grow is to go. It's time for a revolution in every Christian's life around the world so that every person everywhere around the world can hear the gospel of Jesus Christ from a friend or a family member through one -on -one evangelism. I'm so thankful for our time together today. I absolutely love spending time with you, evangelism on fire nation. I believe this podcast will truly inspire you and I believe it will inspire so many people that you know. And if you're inspired and feeling moved to share this, then please message some friends, post this on social media and let people know about this episode so we can get this message out there more. I appreciate you and everyone listening right now. And a quick reminder, I encourage you to subscribe to the podcast, to rate it, to review it, spread the word on social media and spread the message of evangelism on fire forward. The youth today represent the future of our country. Many of them are putting their hope in everything other than God. They are being deceived. Grandparents aren't taking their grandkids to church like they did in the past. The church has been dwindling which means the younger generation is not hearing about God and his word nearly as much as they used to. That's why it is so important for us to get in front of them and make sure that worldly desire is not leading them astray. We want to let them know that there is hope for them through a relationship with God, through Jesus Christ. In order to do this and to make an impact, we need your help. We need you to join us on this mission of being an inspiration for the younger generation. To do this, become a partner at Evangelism on Fire Ministry. Being a partner means making a commitment to give whatever you can to help us on our mission. We can't do this without you. We can't do this without the support of God's kingdom. Let's reach the world with the most important message that exists, the gospel message. Join us for the plans we have for ministry in 2023 by becoming an Evangelism on Fire Ministry partner by going to today's show notes and clicking on the giving link to become a monthly partner by setting up a monthly donation or go to our website evangelismonfire .com, click on the donate button to give a monthly reoccurring donation or a one -time gift. Thank you for joining us to give hope to the world. All right, welcome Evangelism on Fire nation to today's special God story episode. I have a great friend of mine with us today. He's here to share his amazing God story. His name is Emmanuel Flores and I just want to thank you, my brother, my good friend for being here today with us here at Evangelism on Fire studios. How are you doing, man? Hey, thanks for having me back. It feels great to be here and opportunities to talk about God again. Yeah, I know one thing about you, man, any opportunity that you have to talk about God, you're all about that. Absolutely, gotta put them first and put them in the front of the conversation, yes. That's what I'm talking about. Now, you originally came on our podcast episode 11th, on November 2021, and this is round two for you. Yeah, feels good to be back. Man, it's so great to have you here. Now, you and I, we were talking the other day and you recently, now, one thing I love about you, man, is you're always living your life on mission. Trying my hardest. Everywhere you go, you are living on mission. You're taking the gospel to whatever people put in your path. Here in our city, we live in the Richmond Metro area, RVA, and you're just living on mission, taking God's love throughout our city, man. And that's one of the things, many things I love about you, but that's one of the things that I love. Yeah. This time, you went out of the country on a mission trip to take God's love. Where did you go, man? Tell our audience where you went. Yeah, so this is my third trip. We went down to Nicaragua. We flew into Messiah, then drove over to, I'm sorry, we flew into Managua and then drove over to Messiah. We went down there with Chosen Children's Ministry. We flew in on Saturday, flew out on Saturday. We worked in the barrio called Mount Zion for the week. We worked there Monday through basically Friday. We visited the community we went to last time and did Sunday church with them on that Sunday. So we visited them. And then on that last Friday, we went to the third neighborhood called Paradise and I visited with them. Paradise. That's where my little girl was. Your little girl. Yeah, I adopted a little girl many years ago and this is the first time meeting her this time down in Paradise. She was six years old. I met her mom. I was able to bless her with a bunch of stuff. It was great. Yeah, that's awesome. What's your little girl's name? Oh Lord, Yaris, but it sounds real different than that. I can't say it right. Right. Yeah, but you know, it was great meeting her, absolutely. That's awesome. Now, you know, one of the amazing things is when you go there and you see a child that God puts in front of you and you become their sponsor. What has been one of the greatest things about sponsoring Yaris? What kind of joy does that bring you? Well, you know, what we get to do is through Chosen Children's, we are able to share pictures of me, my wife and Isabel with her. We're able to write letters to her. We wish her happy birthday. Merry Christmas. So it's a relationship that builds. And then when you get down there and you actually are able to see them and hug them, it just adds to it. It's like, that's my child now, you know? So I care for her, you know, like you would, another child. And we send her gifts and, you know, just love spending time with her. And the number one thing she wants from us is pictures and letters. Can't go wrong with that. You got that right, brother. And then when we met her, obviously we've already shared the word of Christ with her and showed her God's love. So it's just building on top of that. That's beautiful, man. And one of the great things that you did on this mission trip, I didn't go on this mission trip with you guys. Manuel and I were on a mission trip a few years back. And listen, if you haven't heard his amazing story of The Nine, go back to Evangelism on Fire podcast on November 11th, 2021, okay? Episode 64, man, you've got to go back after listening to this episode and the hear miracle of The Nine, okay? So go back and listen to that. If you've listened to it, you're going to want to listen to it again. If you've never listened to it, you're going to need to go back there. After you listened to this episode, you got to hear this miraculous story. I'm getting pumped up just talking about it, man. The Nine. This time around, when you went to Nicaragua, walk us through that trip. Like when you first got there, man, all right, you landed in the airport. How'd you feel, man? It felt, it was almost like being home. I missed a year, so I was really anticipating going back. Before I got down there, I was very anxious, to be honest with you, because I missed that trip. So I was very focused on what God was trying to tell me. I felt like on this trip, he wanted me to focus on, obviously him, but patience and trusting him. We just finished up a Bible study in Job, and I felt like that was a couple of the big principles is patience and then just trust him. So that's what we did this trip. I made sure I focused on patience and trusting him. When you say patience and trust in him in regards to the mission trip, what specifically do you mean? Like, what are you talking about? Well, a lot of times opportunities arise, and I tend not to give God the opportunity or the option for him to move, and instead I move. I make decisions on things that I think are a good idea, but in time, I haven't prayed about it to see what his will is. So this time, I really took the opportunity when something was asked of me to pray about it, even if it's eyes wide open, to give God the opportunity to move. It was amazing. It was amazing when that happened. Yeah, so what did you experience when you're focusing on those things? So it's opportunities of when people are standing in front of you and when you're talking to them about Christ, it's not mentioning the first word that comes to mind. It's when they say something, you have to absorb those words that they had and then give God an opportunity to fill your mind with the words that need to be repeated back. It's not me first conversations. It's God first conversations. That's so good, man. That is so good. What's that expression? People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care? Right. That type of thing. Is that what you're talking about? Exactly what I'm talking about. Yeah, so when you were telling me some of the things that you experienced over there, some of the encounters you had, you were over there building in homes for people. What was the highlight for you, man, when you were over there? So there was a bunch of highlights over there. Wait a minute, wait a minute. He said there were a bunch of highlights. Come on, talk to us, share that with us. Yeah, so a lot of times what I did was door -to -door. I didn't necessarily work on the construction team, so I did door -to -door. So for our listeners and they're hearing door -to -door, what exactly is door -to -door? Yeah, so it literally means door -to -door. It's a team, three to six of us, usually two interpreters, and then we walk out the front door of the church and take a left or take a right, and then we try to meet everybody we can on every street and go door -to -door meeting everybody. This time it was a lot different. Last time we went, it was basically barbed wire and sticks, so you were able to see inside a lot of their houses. What they'd done this time is they put up a lot of metal, and so it was really hard to see. But what we learned is if you're a little bit louder walking down the street, the dogs will start barking, and then they come to see what the dogs are barking at. So generally, it took us about an hour to figure this out, but once we figured it out, we were in the middle of the street just being loud, basically, and dogs would start barking, and when we heard the dogs starting to bark, we would kind of walk that direction, and then there they were. Their number one question is, what are y 'all doing? What's going on? And so what we would do is we were down there with the church called Mount Zion. That's where the church was daily. What we were doing is we were doing vacation Bible school. We were having a time for adults to have a special time for them, and then we had a time after that for the feeding. So we were planning on feeding 150 to 250 kids daily. 150 to 200 kids daily? Yeah. Man. And it was more like 250 daily. It was never a 150 day. Right. We were usually running out of plates and cups and stuff like that, and they would run up to the store and get more. Now, when you're feeding all these people, you're talking about 150 to 250 some people. Now, I remember when I went there as part of your team, when we went together, right? I remember that that's the meals that we were giving out. It could be their only meal of the day. Absolutely. So you're feeding 250 people, and that could potentially be the only food that they get for that day. Yeah. I know for sure that happened multiple times. Yeah. That that was the only meal they were eating. Yeah. Yeah. And then a couple of conversations of just meeting people in door to door, I haven't eaten in two days was a pretty common statement. Wow. Yeah. Like they're drinking water, but they haven't eaten food of substance. Yeah. Yeah. That's normal there. Right. Yeah. So when you're going to door to door, what is the main goal of meeting people when you go door to door? So there's a couple of goals. Obviously the first one is to make sure they're connected with God somehow. In some way, shape or form, have they heard of them? You know, did they deny them? But at least start that conversation. The second thing is we point everybody back to the church so that one, they can be fed physically, but they can also be fed spiritually. So we're trying to connect on that too. And then, you know, if they choose not to go, we're still there to pray with them. So we ask what they want prayer for. You know, 99 % of everybody says house and health and you know, their job situation. And that's when this trip was very different because we started asking, well, specifically, what do you need God to do for you? You know? And then that way, when it happened, you would know that God did that for them. Cause let's be honest, we can all get a new job and you know, somebody can all help us with some food, but to have a God encountered movement, that's, you would have to know what it was that you were specifically asking for. And then when it happened, you knew it was God moving on your part. Yeah. That's so powerful. So you're asking people, what specifically do you want prayer for? What specifically do you, you know, want God to help you out with? So when you're asking those questions, what were some of the things that people told you? Yeah. So I think it was the second day we were behind the church. It was in the afternoons and it was, you know, right after vacation Bible school. So you can hear the kids just yelling and going crazy and we're a street or two away and you can still hear it. So we walked up on this one lady, I can't remember her name, but she was sitting there. She had her feet up. She, we just started talking to her and she was a Christian. She believed in God. She had all those bases covered, but I asked her, do you hear the kids yelling? And she was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, I do. But I don't know what that is. And the church was literally in her backyard. Yeah. So we told her what was going on at the church. We invited her to come eat some food. And that's what she told us. She was like, I can't, I can't walk. And I, you know, her knees are right there. I looked down and she doesn't have any scars. She's not wearing any braces, nothing out of the ordinary. I was like, well, why can't you walk? And she says she has like, I can't think of the word, arthritis in both of her knees so bad that it hurts. So the only time she walks is when she has to go use the bathroom or get something to eat. I was like, when was the last time you ate? And just like we were talking earlier, I haven't eaten in two days. I was like, oh, that's why you're a believer. Why don't we, why don't we pray for God to fix these knees? Yeah. And she gets, you know, it's something to the fact of, you know, God's got better things to do, or I don't know if God would pay and fix my knees or, you know, it was a disbelief and that God would help her. Yeah. You know, so I asked her, I said, well, you know, I believe God can move mountains and I think he can heal these two little knees of yours too. You know what I mean? I heard that bro. So, yeah. So, you know, I was with, I think it was three others of us right there. And you know, before this encounter, I'd, you know, I'd put my hand on someone's shoulder to pray with them in belief, but you know, I felt like God was telling me that day, put your hands on her knees and pray because her knees are going to, her knees are going to get healed. And I'd never done that before. So I was extremely nervous, but you know what? I prayed about it and he said, put your hands on them little knees. So that's what I did. We put our hands on our knees, prayed for our knees and said, amen. And I said, so how do the knees feel? And she said, I don't want to test it yet. And they said, I don't want to test it yet. Yeah. I don't want to test it yet. They usually always hurt. Let's just leave them where they are. Right. I said, all right, cool. We're going to bring you two plates of food today. So you don't have to walk anywhere, but be ready for them knees to work. You told, you told her that you declared that be ready for those knees to work. Right. Right. So what we did is, you know, we said, amen. And we moved on down the street, looking for someone else to talk to. We brought her a couple of plates at the end of the day, you know, fast forward to the next day. And we're out doing door to door again. We, you know, we've found a knee brace for her actually in the convenience store. So we're going to take the knee brace back to her, you know, bring her another plate or two to make sure she was taken care of. So we turned the corner of the street that she was on, you know, she's maybe a block away and we could see someone hobbling across the street. And so we take a couple more steps and it's her. So, you know, we quickly move up to her. We give her our arms so she can support herself. And as soon as she seen us, she was just crying. I mean, Niagara folks crying. Yeah. And so she grabbed her arms and we went back across the street and she, the first thing she says, my knees have never felt so good in my life. Come on. I said, what do you mean? She goes, I can't remember the last time my knees felt like this. Yeah. They're still sore, but they feel wonderful. Yeah. I said, this is one day one. God's going to keep moving. Yeah. I said, come on. Let's pray with his knees some more. And we sat down. We put her knee brace on. We kept on praying for these knees. Yeah.
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 23:00 10-03-2023 23:00
"Investment advisors, switch to interactive brokers for lowest cost global trading and turnkey custody solutions. No ticket charges and no conflicts of your interests at ibkr .com slash ria. In which a jury found him liable for defaming writer E. Jean Carroll. The trial is expected to last until December 22nd. And that's it for this edition of the Bloomberg Law Show. I'm June Grosso and you're listening to Bloomberg. Casting 24 hours a day at Bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg Radio. Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz is aiming to remove House Speaker Kevin McCarthy from his post. He filed a motion Monday to force a vote to overthrow McCarthy. Speaking to reporters outside the capitol, the Florida Republican mentioned House Majority Leader Steve Scalise as a potential replacement. The U .S. Supreme Court will not hear a challenge to former President Trump's 2024 ballot eligibility. On Monday, the high court rejected the challenge brought by a long shot Republican presidential candidate. It used a post -Civil War provision of the 14th Amendment that barred former members of the Confederacy from holding office. It argued Trump was ineligible to run due to his alleged connection to the January 6th Capitol riot. The White House is pressing Congress to provide more aid to Ukraine. To see the continuation of the brave people in Ukraine to fight for their freedom, right, to fight for their democracy. Press Secretary Corrine Jean -Pierre told reporters today they're still strong. Bipartisan support to back Ukraine, which is a top priority for the Biden administration. Everyone's phone will go off this Wednesday at 2 .20 p .m. Eastern. Lisa Taylor has more. That's because the federal government will be conducting an Asia -wide test for its emergency alert system and wireless emergency alerts.
Ethereum Daily
A highlight from Vitalik Discusses Enshrined Functionality
"Welcome to your Ethereum news roundup. Here is your latest for Monday, October 2nd, 2023. Vitalik Buterin discusses the challenges of enshrined functionality, Eth .limo announces a specialized DNS implementation for ENS, Grayscale follows a form for a spot Ethereum ETF, and Redacted Cartel launches PXE. All this and more starts right now. Vitalik Buterin published a new post exploring the dichotomy between integrating features directly into the Ethereum protocol and constructing them through additional layers. He noted a shift in interest to incorporate more features into the core protocol to enhance gas efficiency, minimize bug risk, support diverse EVM opcodes, and improve censorship resistance. In his post, Buterin discusses the complexities and potential hurdles involved with integrating account abstraction at the protocol level. He mentions various proposals for account abstraction including EIP -86, EIP -2938, and ERC -4337. Buterin states that there should be a balance between streamlining functionality and avoiding over -complexity in the protocol, advocating for a strategy that adopts minimally viable enshrinement. Eth .limo announced LimoWeb3DNS, a specialized DNS implementation tailored for ENS. The project is geared toward the direct resolution of ENS records, focusing on public name servers and the .eth top -level domain. It will allow the ENS community to host and manage their own DNS implementation of the ENS protocol. Eth .limo is in the process of developing the implementation. The implementation will feature native ENS resolution extensions to various networks, support for the resolution of all ENS record types, and a gateway optimized for seamless content hash record resolution. Eth .limo says it will be compatible with CCIP read. Grayscale Investments announced that NYSE ARCA has filed Form 19B4 with the Securities and Exchange Commission, a crucial step toward converting the Grayscale Ethereum Trust into a Spot Ethereum ETF. The development comes after the SEC's approval of the first Ethereum futures ETF. The Ethereum Trust holds nearly $5 billion and accounts for 2 .5 % of all circulating Ether. It is also owned by over 250 ,000 US investors. In alignment with its broader goals, Grayscale is working to transition its complete range of crypto investment products into ETFs. Grayscale holds over $30 billion in assets under management. And lastly, Redacted Cartel launched PXETH on the Gorly Testnet. PXETH is a liquid staking token that allows users to earn rewards from MEV in addition to staking rewards. Users have the option to deposit their PXETH into an auto -compounding rewards vault where the rewards get converted back into PXETH. The release comes ahead of the upcoming launch of Dinero, an over -collateralized stablecoin touted to be backed by Ethereum block space. The Dinero protocol will consist of its own RPC endpoint, the stablecoin, and the PXETH liquid staking token. Additionally, Redacted DAO is set to incentivize PXETH on various liquidity protocols. In other news, Altlayer supports xERC20 tokens, Synthetix launches its V3 Testnet trading competition, Farcaster introduces PAS keys, and Vannex, eFute's ETF, is now trading. Outro This has been a roundup of today's top news stories in Ethereum. You can support this podcast by subscribing and following us on Twitter at ethdaily, also subscribe to our newsletter at ethdaily .io. Thanks for listening, we'll see you tomorrow.
Coronavirus
A highlight from Vitalik Discusses Enshrined Functionality
"Welcome to your Ethereum news roundup. Here is your latest for Monday, October 2nd, 2023. Vitalik Buterin discusses the challenges of enshrined functionality, Eth .limo announces a specialized DNS implementation for ENS, Grayscale follows a form for a spot Ethereum ETF, and Redacted Cartel launches PXE. All this and more starts right now. Vitalik Buterin published a new post exploring the dichotomy between integrating features directly into the Ethereum protocol and constructing them through additional layers. He noted a shift in interest to incorporate more features into the core protocol to enhance gas efficiency, minimize bug risk, support diverse EVM opcodes, and improve censorship resistance. In his post, Buterin discusses the complexities and potential hurdles involved with integrating account abstraction at the protocol level. He mentions various proposals for account abstraction including EIP -86, EIP -2938, and ERC -4337. Buterin states that there should be a balance between streamlining functionality and avoiding over -complexity in the protocol, advocating for a strategy that adopts minimally viable enshrinement. Eth .limo announced LimoWeb3DNS, a specialized DNS implementation tailored for ENS. The project is geared toward the direct resolution of ENS records, focusing on public name servers and the .eth top -level domain. It will allow the ENS community to host and manage their own DNS implementation of the ENS protocol. Eth .limo is in the process of developing the implementation. The implementation will feature native ENS resolution extensions to various networks, support for the resolution of all ENS record types, and a gateway optimized for seamless content hash record resolution. Eth .limo says it will be compatible with CCIP read. Grayscale Investments announced that NYSE ARCA has filed Form 19B4 with the Securities and Exchange Commission, a crucial step toward converting the Grayscale Ethereum Trust into a Spot Ethereum ETF. The development comes after the SEC's approval of the first Ethereum futures ETF. The Ethereum Trust holds nearly $5 billion and accounts for 2 .5 % of all circulating Ether. It is also owned by over 250 ,000 US investors. In alignment with its broader goals, Grayscale is working to transition its complete range of crypto investment products into ETFs. Grayscale holds over $30 billion in assets under management. And lastly, Redacted Cartel launched PXETH on the Gorly Testnet. PXETH is a liquid staking token that allows users to earn rewards from MEV in addition to staking rewards. Users have the option to deposit their PXETH into an auto -compounding rewards vault where the rewards get converted back into PXETH. The release comes ahead of the upcoming launch of Dinero, an over -collateralized stablecoin touted to be backed by Ethereum block space. The Dinero protocol will consist of its own RPC endpoint, the stablecoin, and the PXETH liquid staking token. Additionally, Redacted DAO is set to incentivize PXETH on various liquidity protocols. In other news, Altlayer supports xERC20 tokens, Synthetix launches its V3 Testnet trading competition, Farcaster introduces PAS keys, and Vannex, eFute's ETF, is now trading. Outro This has been a roundup of today's top news stories in Ethereum. You can support this podcast by subscribing and following us on Twitter at ethdaily, also subscribe to our newsletter at ethdaily .io. Thanks for listening, we'll see you tomorrow.
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 19:00 10-02-2023 19:00
"With Bloomberg, you get the story behind the story, the story behind the global birth rate, behind your EV battery's environmental impact, behind sand, yeah, sand, you get context, and context changes everything. Go to Bloomberg .com to get context. They used to weigh you beforehand, and well, if you're above a certain level, you paid more. All right, the next hour of Bloomberg Daybreak Asia begins right now. Broadcasting 24 hours a day at Bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act, this is Bloomberg Radio. This is Bloomberg Daybreak Asia for this Tuesday, October 3rd in Hong Kong, Monday, October 2nd in New York. And coming up today. The sell -off in bonds intensifies as the market digests fresh comments from Fed officials. A group of U .S. senators hopes to meet with President Xi Jinping on a visit to China next week. And the Reserve Bank of Australia will probably hold rates steady for a fourth straight meeting. Matt Gaetz threatens vote to remove Speaker McCarthy. Support seems to be fading. President assures Ukraine and allies of continued aid. Trump trial on empire fraud. I'm Ed Baxter with Global News. Chelsea wins its first Premier League match in five weeks. I'm Dan Schwartzman. I'll have that story and more coming up in Bloomberg Sports. That's all straight ahead on Bloomberg Daybreak Asia. On Bloomberg 1130 New York, Bloomberg 99 .1 Washington, D .C., Bloomberg 106 .1 Boston, Bloomberg 960 San Francisco, Sirius XM 119, and around the world on BloombergRadio .com and via the Bloomberg Business Act. And it's hour two of Daybreak Asia. A little past 10 in the morning now in Sydney, Australia changed the clocks over the weekend. And so we have trading...
The Breakdown
A highlight from Bitcoin Pops As Uptober Returns
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Monday, October 2nd, and today we are talking up -tober. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find the link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. Well, friends, today we are doing our normal slate of news, but we are couching it in a slightly different framing, which is, of course, up -tober. Now, to understand what I'm referring to, let's look at a tweet from StackHodler who writes, Welcome to up -tober. 8 out of the previous 10 Octobers were positive for Bitcoin. Average gain, plus 22%. Looming bullish catalysts. ETF approval leading to Bitcoin marketing push by BlackRock, Fidelity, Franklin Templeton, etc. Bond markets forcing central bank intervention. Awareness of US debt spiral spreading. Search for a hard asset alternative to bonds. Overpriced equities in real estate still priced for 3 % mortgage rates. Looming halving in early 2024. The weak hands have been brutally shaken out. If you held through the bear market, your patience has been tested. Bitcoin's volatility is designed to scare off everyone who doesn't understand the asset. But in the end, Bitcoin always rewards the patient long -term thinkers. StackSats enjoy fall. So today what we're going to do is look at the news of the last couple days, but in this framework of October. And sure enough, October got off to a hot start on Sunday with Bitcoin, Ethereum and numerous alts pumping hard on Sunday night. Bitcoin surged by 3 % in just 15 minutes, while Ethereum gained 4 .7 % across the same timeframe. Now part of October's history with Bitcoin can probably be explained by how dismal September tends to be. Over the past 10 years, for example, September has seen an average loss of 5 .6 % for Bitcoin. Although this time around, September was actually slightly positive with a 3 .9 % gain. That could reduce the tailwind of mean reversion for crypto markets, which would leave any bullish momentum reliant on a strong narrative push. Now when it comes to bullish narrative, of course the last week has been all about Ethereum and the imminent launch of new exchange -listed products. Nine of those products, specifically Ethereum Futures ETFs, were slated to begin trading this morning. Competing products from asset managers including VanEck, Bitwise, ProShares and Valkyrie battled it out for a share of the first -day inflows. Giving a preview of the day, Bloomberg senior ETF analyst Eric Balcones tweeted, All right, we got nine funds ready to go in the Ether's Futures ETFs derby which begins 9 .30 a .m. Monday. This is totally unprecedented to have so many ETFs doing the same thing launching the same day. Going to be a fascinating experiment and great foreshadowing an undercard to the spot Bitcoin ETF race. I'm setting the over -under for total AUM for all of them at the end of the week at 200 million. Logic being that Bitcoin Futures did 1 billion and ETH funds globally have 20 % of the assets under management of Bitcoin funds. Also, I think issuers will tap their client list to get as much volume and flow as they can get early. Now, at the time of recording, it was a little lackluster. Again, Eric Balcones tweets, Pretty meh volume for the Ether Futures ETFs as a group. A little under 2 million. About normal for a new ETF, but versus BITO, which did 400 million in first 15 minutes, it is low. Tight race between VanEck and ProShares and the single ETH lane. Now, going into a little bit more about some of the specific products that launched. One of the Ethereum ETFs that began trading was a strategy change from Valkyrie. The asset manager had been granted approval to convert its existing Bitcoin Futures ETF into a mixed Bitcoin and Ethereum fund. The ETF, which trades under the ticker BTF, had struggled since its 2021 launch, gathering just 25 million in assets under management. As a Bitcoin -only fund, the Valkyrie product had launched several days after the offering from ProShares. That gave ProShares a dominant first mover advantage, allowing it to gather a near monopoly in the market for Futures -based Bitcoin ETFs. Now, on Thursday, Valkyrie had begun accumulating a small amount of Ethereum Futures positions ahead of their strategy change becoming effective. Although this move appeared to be technically allowed, analysts noted it gave Valkyrie a jump on the competition. On Friday morning, Valkyrie announced, however, that it had reversed course and would not continue accumulating Ethereum positions. It would also unwind all existing positions that had been entered on Thursday. Bloomberg ETF analysts speculated that the SEC must have threatened them to get them to reverse course. Now, moving out more broadly, once it became clear that multiple Ethereum ETFs would be launching on the same day, analysts noted that the battle lines would be drawn against two dimensions, fees and marketing. It's very clear that the companies, very clear that however these initial results look, the companies are going to be pushing very hard. From a fees perspective, VanEck is at 66 basis points compared to 85 from Bitwise and 95 from ProShares. That said, due to a difference in structure, the VanEck ETF will have a less different tax treatment, which could make the savings and fees slightly less appealing. However, on the marketing side, VanEck premiered two 30 -minute advertisements on Thursday in anticipation of this week's launch, mostly to positive response from the crypto community. Bankless co -host David Hoffman said, Now, in seeming recognition of that, on Friday night, VanEck had... Now, in seeming validation of that point, on Friday night, VanEck announced that they would be donating 10 % of profits from their ETH ETF to the Protocol Guild, a group of over 150 Ethereum core developers.
The MMQB NFL Podcast
A highlight from New England's Historic Loss & CJ Stroud Breaks Out
"Hello and welcome to the MMQB NFL podcast. I'm Conroe. That's my dog Ernie upstairs barking at the FedEx guy. Albert Breer's here and I'm going to start in New York because Albert I can't believe that we're still doing this Taylor Swift thing. And now the NFL is doing the Taylor Swift thing. Do you see that they are their subhead on their Twitter pages. The Chiefs are now 2 -0 as Swifties. I did not see that but I am more and more. It's fake. I think so too. I think on Friday like the radio show I did in Boston. They leave me at the like and these guys are really creative and they kind of like took me through their full like tinfoil hat like conspiracy theory. You know like you know what this actually really makes sense. Like because the NFL has forever chased the female demographic and they've struggled to get it. And they know that there's nothing more buzz worthy on that side of the aisle than Taylor Swift. And they were shameless enough to cut like I mean we've seen some of their shameless acts over the years to try and get the female audience. And this wouldn't even rank in like the top 10. You know what I mean like this would just be sort of par for the course that they would do something like this. So I really like I am officially on this Monday morning Connor especially after the 10 million shots that box last night. I'm all the way there. This is all fake. This is all like this is all contrived. This is it. Everyone wins situation. Taylor gets to promote her movie. What else is it? There's one other thing right is a new album coming out. I can't keep track of all of this. I have no idea. OK. So Taylor gets to promote that stuff with a different demographic. Right. Like football different demographics different than hers. The NFL gets to try to take a swing at the female audience. And then Travis Kelsey gets an enormous benefit from this. Travis Kelsey's following has exploded. Nine hundred thousand new followers. This is like an everyone wins situation. And it's all fake. A 14 point 14 whatever place jump in Jersey sales. Like we were taught in school to follow the money and it's right out in front of us. Like it's like you know we're not even it's not even like they're hiding it. And I think I'm only read some of this stuff sometimes, though, and like like over the last week, like actually clicking on some like people dot com links, you know, I've seen some stories she reads. And I always think that the page six type stuff, you know, and I always think it's funny when there's like an insider into somebody's relationship, like who would be the insider into your relationship? Connor, I, you know, when they when they when they when they put sources into your relation and then people's relationships. Yeah, the sources be I mean, it would be like my neighbor or like my mom or my wife's mom. It would be like, yeah, I think I think they're fighting, you know. Yeah. Yeah. I don't have a publicist. I always think that's great. Like is the sources into the like the insiders into the relationship? Like is that person like just coming over and hanging out on a Tuesday or something and that makes them an insider? So Brian Costello, who's awesome, Jets beat writer for the New York Post, and he tweeted the the bio for the NFL's Twitter page, which is the Chiefs two and O's Swifties. And he's totally right. This is the kind of stuff that fuels nutjob conspiracy theorists, not just the ones with the podcast. But the fans who watched that game last night and saw their saw the outcome derailed by an extraordinarily questionable call on Sauce Gardner. And listen, I'm not saying it's good, bad, right, wrong or indifferent. But if you're a Jets fan and you've already seen your entire season railroaded by the NFL's greed and desire to milk whatever they can out of this franchise and you had to do hard knocks. Every single game is on prime time. Your schedule is ridiculous, ridiculously front loaded and impossible at the beginning. You know, I don't know what else you could think right now other than your team is just being actively manipulated by by the league. And listen, I don't believe it. You know, Andy Benoit and I used to fight about the I used to get him going on the NFL's fake thing a while back. We had a lively discussion about that after Peyton Manning's second Super Bowl. But I don't believe it. I'm not one of those people. Well, you're not making them go away. I just noticed I just went to the NFL's Twitter page. It is now the header is three shots of tail left. And like if you look at the bio, I think this is a tailor. I think this is a tailor reference. We had the best day with you today. Maybe is that a reference? I think it has to be right to be clear. I'm not anti Taylor Swift. I think she's a fine musician. Yeah, I think she's a genius. Like, yeah, I think she's a legitimate genius and everything she touches turns to gold. And there's a reason for it. She's obviously incredible. Yeah, I just don't like I want you know what? I think I'm hot, too, because I'm coming off the I wrote about the way those are the lyrics to it. Those are those are lyrics from a Taylor Swift song titled The Best Day. Okay, I think I'm just a little hot coming off the Toy Story broadcast, too. Did you did you catch any of that? I was actually coaching third grade football during the Toy Story. Okay, good. Yeah, I threw that on and I was just like, what are they doing? And I get it. You're trying to get kids to watch football. But how about just allowing kids to watch football or to have kids play football and not to watch like a I mean, the technology was incredible. But it like it looked like a like a like Minecraft, you know, and like I just felt like I watch it with my son for a minute. And I was like, they're trying to just it's like cocoa melon. They're just trying to hypnotize them. So we we bang that thing fast. I mean, I just feel like that's like there are some people at the league office who don't have enough to do. And that's how things like that wind up coming to life. Like like fix, fix the problems. Like we're focused on Taylor Swift and the Toy Story broadcast, like like digital chains so that like chains don't break during the game. Grass fields like like like fix the actual problems with the games. My God. Anyway, twenty three twenty, the Chiefs beat the Jets. The Jets fall to one in three. The Chiefs are three and one. I think my takeaway from this game is the takeaway that everybody had, which was this was a feisty, very feisty Zach Wilson game. I think that Robert Sala, to me, win or lose, just earns so much credit because during the week he knew he was going to get demolished. And he said, you don't throw people away. You just don't throw people away. And I give him so much credit because honestly, this is job on the line stuff. And he stuck with Zach Wilson. He dug in. There was no sample size. And Zach played really well. I was very happy for them. And look, like I think that the biggest problem that Robert Sala had was like, can he continue to sell Zach Wilson to the locker room? Because the premise of that entire team, the construction of that team this year was we're going for it. Right. So there are guys in that locker room like Allen Lazard and Adrian Amos and Randall Cobb, guys that were like that are older vets that are there to chase the ring. And like guys like that aren't going to have patience. They don't care what this means for your franchise in 2025. They care about right now. And the younger guys in the roster are going to be worried about what's going to get them in a position to get paid. So it can be hard to sell a developing quarterback to a locker room. And I'll give Robert Sala credit for standing by Zach Wilson, because if he didn't do that, like it would have been impossible. It would have been impossible for Zach in that locker room. you And, know, it sort of made me think of something I said earlier in the day about how Josh Dobbs should get us to question everything about how we develop quarterbacks, how the NFL develops quarterbacks, how the NFL nurtures quarterbacks. Because, you know, you have this guy in Josh Dobbs who got what, six years to kind of learn away from the bright lights. And then because he was on different teams, because he had different experiences, because he was developed away from game action, because people invested in him, because he had a chance and people had patience with him. And, you know, every single movement of his wasn't, you know, litigated on a public level on a week to week basis. You know, he had a chance to kind of get better in the background. And now you have a guy who's so adaptable that he could be traded a week before the season and start and take maybe the worst roster in the league and have a competitive over the first month of the season. It really like to me, like looking at Josh Dobbs makes you question everything. And so if six years can do that for Josh Dobbs, why are we throwing guys out after two or three years? That's what I don't get about it. It's fair to make an assessment on a guy and say, like, he sucks now. But to say guys never going to be good, just ignore so much history. You know, like Alex Smith is a phenomenal example of it. Right. Like how many times was he given up on in San Francisco? Yeah. Like, oh, he can't play. But no one was looking at the fact that like he had five coordinators his first five years in the league. He had two head coaches. Everything was completely unstable around him. And then Jim Harbaugh gets there in 2011 says, no, I'm sticking with him. And he takes off and then he's in the league for another decade as a starter. You know, like it's just we have so many examples of the of why we shouldn't make definitive and declarative statements about young quarterbacks. And yet we do it over and over and over again. And like I do, I think like the intention of the Jets in the first place was we have to press the pause button with Zach Wilson. We may have wronged him by playing him too fast. Right. And by putting too much on him too early. And so the whole intention on bringing him back this year was to allow him the chance to do the Josh jobs and develop in the background for a year or two. And that got blown up. But just because that plan got blown up like that's not Zach Wilson's fault. That plan got blown up. It's not anybody's fault. So now you're going to just completely throw the kid out. Why? Because Aaron Rodgers got hurt. There's a lot of like really faulty logic that goes into the way that he's been talked about over the last couple of weeks, I think. I agree. I'm not just saying this because I wrote about it, but to not even, you know, I think we're in such a easy Twitter dunk society that when Zach Wilson and Nathaniel Hackett get paired up, everyone's just like, oh, this is going to be terrible. And without looking at any of the history of any of these guys. The AFC championship came with Blake, Blake Bortles. He got Ryan Nassib drafted out of Syracuse. I went to Syracuse. Do you know who was the quarter? The last quarterback drafted before Ryan Nassib, Donovan McNabb, Donovan McNabb. I was going to say I was going to say Troy Nunes. Like I think drafted as a quarterback. I think there was a couple of quarterbacks that turned into tight ends, but in literally broke all the school records with this guy. And then he got Kyle Wharton, I believe, to the doorstep of the playoffs. Yeah. Two MVPs with Aaron Rodgers after he was lost in the woods for a little while. The guy's good at what he does, you know, and we're seeing in Denver now, who knows? Make your own judgments about what happened there. But I think that this thing could work like, OK, yeah. The Jets are one in three, but their schedule softens up a little bit. They played a lot of their best defenses up front. You know, Zach Wilson is going to look bad against the Cowboys, but how many other people are going to look really bad against the Cowboys? Right. And now in the next few games, like they have the Broncos coming up. I mean, Zach Wilson could could legitimately put up 50 points against that team. The Eagles, who are really good defense giants, Jets, Giants before Halloween, which if he can handle the pressure. I think that's coming off a buy, too. So it's coming off a buy. You know what Wink Martindale is going to do. He does it well, but you know what he's going to do. And then the Chargers November six, the Raiders November 12th. You don't play a really good team. You play the Eagles in the bills in the next month and a half. Otherwise, you're good. Well, we're kind of like that's like and that was the whole logic behind this. And I think we talked about this last week. To me, the problem with going away from Zach Wilson, like in the whole in the first place, was a there's no better option out there right now. Right. And B, once you go away from him, you can't go back again. You know, so I think so. I think so. I knew that like it was if we bench him in consecutive years, we can't sell him to the locker room again.
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Cloud Security Podcast by Google
A highlight from EP141 Cloud Security Coast to Coast: From 2015 to 2023, What's Changed and What's the Same?
"Hi there, welcome to the Cloud Security Podcast by Google. Thanks for joining us today. Your hosts here are myself, Timothy Peacock, the Senior Product Manager for Threat Detection here at Google Cloud, and Anne Hunchuvakian, a reformed analyst and senior staff in Google Cloud's Office of the CISO. You can find and subscribe to this podcast wherever you get your podcasts, as well as at our website, cloud .google .com slash podcast. If you enjoy our content and want it delivered to you piping hot every Monday, please do hit that subscribe button in your podcasting app of choice. You can follow the show, argue with your hosts and the rest of our Cloud Security Podcast listeners on our LinkedIn page. Anton, this is a fun CISO episode that's full of growth lessons, leadership lessons, interesting stories of migrating to cloud and one of the strongest endorsements of cloud as both risk reduction and business velocity improvement I think we've gotten on the show to date. What did you think today? I think so too. I think that we should not lament that the episode did not cover how to improve configurations of your cloud armor or how to run SIEM or any of this. It's a really good episode with a guest who experienced some of the lessons that clients are learning today, but eight years ago. So it's really fascinating that it's like for many companies, his past is the future and that makes his lessons hugely valuable. Hugely valuable and his advice is applicable to both CISOs all the way down to people who want to get started and get promoted in our field. And so maybe with that, let's turn things over to today's guest. With that listeners, I'm delighted to introduce today's guest. Today we're joined by Jeremiah Kung at AppLovin. Jeremiah, thank you so much for joining us today. I'm excited to have you here because we have something in common. We've both had the East Coast to West Coast experience. I started my career in Washington, DC, and I swear to God, the people I worked with at the startup I worked at First Shape, to this day, if I get drinks with them, they rip on me for wearing a suit to my interview with them. So the East Coast to West Coast interview, the whole thing is very real. So what's your take on that distinction aside from costumes for interviews? Yeah, I totally get it. I'm not a big fan of wearing ties either. It feels like a weak pair of hands slowly strangling me all day long. Yeah, for me, it's more of a metaphorical one. I was born a West Coast surfer kind of guy for the longest time, but career wise, especially making the moves, working for bigger banks, which I saw them as East Coast, let's face it, the bigger banks are New York, North Carolina. It's very suit and tie, very more button down, very much more about the controls, the frameworks, the committees, and infosec has to give the go ahead further than it goes to production. West Coast being out here with places like Palo Alto, where innovation is rampant and it's wonderful, you got to move fast. So you live by the speed and the velocity of your releases. And if someone's slowing you down, they're going to keep you from getting to market faster than your competitors. So it's a very different approach to information security. I remember earlier when I started speaking about this about a year ago, you can tell all sorts of funny stories about being at an East Coast company. And you know, all the red tape you have to go through and everyone kind of sighs and kind of agrees with that. But you know, at the end of the day, the West Coast, you have other risks you need to be aware of too, as well. And it's about trying to find that balance and attending to what the risks are. So the fundamentals don't really change, but out here, you have to innovate faster? Innovate faster. And I think really what you need to understand to have is a clarity of the risk, right, to really understand what the risk is. Coming from a big bank, of course, losing data is a huge thing, operational risk, regulatory risk, and there's all of that layers that you need to go through. With the West Coast, you really need to kind of understand, okay, how's this company making money? Where's all our data sitting? And you know, what are all our attack surfaces? So I think this is a basic step for anybody information security is to really understand what the asset inventory is, including intellectual and data assets. But it's not just small company, large company, though, because it sounds like if you're in the West Coast startup, your risk of just dying, the risk of startup going kaput, deep in my heart, I think it's more important than cybersecurity risk. I'm joking about it. But ultimately, I understand if I am a startup guy, the startup going out of business is a higher risk than security issue. Of course, security issues can also drive you out of business. Yeah, I get that. But that's not just what you're talking about, right? There are other issues. Yeah, absolutely. Other issues on that, because operational risk is again, if your competitors beat you, and you lose market share, okay, yeah, regulators are going to come after me or something like that. But it doesn't really matter. I'm out of business. What's the big deal there. But at the same time, if you do get breached, that's going to make you lose market share as well. So you need to kind of figure out what that balance is. Okay, that makes sense. So let's shift gears. This was actually kind of a cool intro. And it introduced the whole concept in my mind. Now I kind of think, hi, are you East Coast CISO or West Coast CISO? Maybe my greeting for the foreseeable. One other thing we wanted to explore, and this may have something to do with this cost dimension is, initially, when cloud computing public cloud showed up, the default stance from any CISOs was kind of slightly negative and, or maybe strongly negative or get this cloud out. I'm not allowing it in my company. So this was probably like a good number of years ago. Now, certainly this changed, and we see a lot of CISOs embracing cloud. But here's the thing. We hypothesize that there are CISOs who are active cloud fans who kind of want cloud because it's better. And admittedly, we have a CISO here, Phil Danables, who is of that type, but he joins Google Cloud because of the belief, presumably. Now, are there other CISOs who think cloud is just superior for security and they're driving cloud adoption as opposed to resisting it? What is your take on this? Yeah, that's a great point. I've seen both sides of the coin. I've talked to people on both sides of the coin on this one, and I'm kind of obviously in the more cloud -centric side, but I'm a little bit more in the middle to the left of that, if that makes any sense. I'm very pro -cloud. I think it deals with, very efficiently, a lot of the old concerns that you would have about security, patching updates and Vone scans and Vone updates and all that other type of stuff, because you can spin these things up so quickly, the fixes and release it out there. It's not, back in the old days, some guy with a CD running around from every server trying to load and update patches and stuff like that. You know, that's such a funny thing to pause on, because maybe this is my youth speaking. I sometimes forget that people had to do that. And I think for a lot of our listeners, it's hard to appreciate that, yeah, really, that's how it used to work. If you had to patch something, it wasn't Terraform Apply, my new version. It was a dude with a CD in a server room somewhere. That's crazy. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And if you were in a freeze period to try to do patches, you had to go through all sorts of updates and things like that to try to get in, and it gets all sorts of approvals. I think the dude with a CD is the least of your problems, is the talking to all the layers for making a change, submitting requests in paper forms, you know, ideal bureaucrats. I think the dude with a CD would be like, dude comes in, sticks a CD, and does the patching. That's fast. No, no, no. But some of that still exists, right? You still need change windows, you still need approval. So maybe here's the question is, how does Cloud, for you as a CISO, change that part of the equation? What's the non -technical changes? Improved. Not changed. Take the pessimistic stuff out. How did Cloud improve this for you? Anton, I think that's known as leading the witness. Okay, fine. Yeah. I feel like you're trying to give me what the answer is there. But I mean, I'm already on that side. It's really the visibility. Because, you know, being at Apple, we're strong partners with Google Cloud and being all in Google Cloud, I can really see where our assets are, I could see trends over time, I could see the logging and the monitoring and all the alerts and the phones all in one spot, which is very nice. But I get it, not every company can be 100 % in the cloud. I would imagine that a bank, you're going to at best be some kind of hybrid approach to that, depending on the size of the bank. And I could see and outsource a lot of the running around changing. I just had this question the other day dealing with some audits. Hey, show me when's the last time you changed and rotated your keys and how often that is? Well, being in Google Cloud, they do that for you. And you guys do a random rotation of that. Whereas AWS does it to make sure the keys are rotated every 365 days, according to NIST and TIP standards. You guys do a random rotation, which it could be two weeks, it could be 365 days, but at some point, those keys will be rotated. So that's kind of the intelligence behind to keep it random, to keep it fresh, to keep it on top. I appreciate that from a security perspective. And I don't have to rely on a team to constantly run, again, running it out and changing keys and this and that, even at a cloud level where you have to, you know, you can just terminal in and do that. This is just handled for you. And as we moved more and more to Kubernetes, more and more to serverless environments, these ways old of needing to do security become less and less impactful. But then again, there's always a new attack surface that has yet to be discovered. New problems are going to come and show and raise their heads from a security perspective. We're just on the way of discovering what those are. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. So I want to go back in time a little bit to maybe when cloud was newer for you. I understand you were part of some big migrations back in the day. What did you learn about doing those, quote unquote, right? It was really lucky to be with Capital One 2015, 2016, sometime when they were deciding to be the first big bank to move everything 100 % into the cloud. So famously cloud forward. Yeah, very cloud forward. Yeah. So how did that go? It was a lot of sleepless nights, a lot of work, but it was really interesting. It was great to be part of that team to really learn how cloud can mitigate, how to move quickly, how to combine the teams. I think one of the things that I found to be the right way of doing things was they took a very strong two in the box approach, really kind of a three in the box approach. And what they mean by that is for those teams to move forward, the development team would have one lead that was the business lead and say, hey, this is what the customers want. This is what the industry and market trends are looking at. And then there would be a tech lead say, okay, this is what the teams can develop and how long it's going to take. And then I kind of squeezed my way in there to become that three in the box, the security perspective to listen, okay, this is what the business wants. This is what tech can provide. And here's the risk and the risk we need to mitigate. And to have that conversation was invaluable because you got it from every angle. You didn't just hear what IT said that I can only do so much and why is the business wanting that? You got to hear it from the business exactly what they wanted, how they wanted to do things and why too, and why this was important for the business. That makes a ton of sense. So what were maybe some, for people in a similar boat in the future, how did you get effective at communicating the risk to people? How did you help business understand that? How did you help IT understand that? What was it? The saying that they say, fools talk, cowards stay silent, wise people listen. And that was really kind of key for me on that one was at first listening to the business, understanding their pains, understanding what they were challenged with. This really helped me to assess my risk and also come up with mitigation plans that would work for the business. Again, same approach with IT is understanding, okay, what are their pains? Where are they coming from? And this way I can come up with what the plans should look like with considerations for everybody across the board. Okay, so... Wait, wait, wait. Sorry, Tim. I am kind of curious about it, but I'm nervous that we are kind of reducing all this to effective communication only. Is this... Sorry, this doesn't sound very right. But the point is that effective communication clearly had a huge role, but there are other pillars for success because a huge migration of the first half of bank to the cloud had other tricky elements, right? Yes. So that was another one. What we had was a very strong partnership with our cloud partners at the time. They had been sitting and working with, especially since there were no frameworks, there was no really references. I remember even the regulators at the time were sitting, okay, that's great. You guys are doing that. Can we just sit and listen to see what you guys are doing so we can kind of spread this out with the rest of the banks and standards out there? I think the key partnerships with your vendor, your cloud vendor specifically, was invaluable, providing advice and having that back and forth feeds. I remember working with one particular tool. We said, hey, this encryption standard is not really up to snuff. Could you guys work on that and develop something? And sure enough, I think within two or three dev cycles, they had something that was what we needed. To this day, I find that to be an ideal approach, working with my cloud vendors or just any vendors that I have. I appreciate those who will sit down, listen to me and hear my complaints and do the whole listening and coming up with an approach. I think almost all my security vendors I'm using, as well as the cloud vendors with you guys, have that type of approach. Okay. That does sound like real magic for a lot of more technically minded leaders I've met. So this is solid. This advice is worth the price of podcast alone in my mind. So to sort of progress further, like you mentioned that you learned those lessons quite some time ago and many companies are still learning them even now. And for some of them, cloud is with the future, funny enough. So now that you've went through all this and other lessons, how are you approaching securing cloud given differently the lessons? Like what are you doing better in 2023 regarding securing cloud compared to the original lessons? For me personally, it's a little bit different. Talking to some of my peers who still haven't made that jump, they seem to have that lack of trust of having their data set somewhere not on a server that they're under control over at some point and at their own personalized data center that they have, their own physical security, own the HVAC systems and all other type of stuff. They want to have that data. Okay. That's an approach. It's going to be tough to scale over time. I think one of the things that I found to be very successful here that's helped is reading a lot, a lot of reading, a lot of talking to other peers in the industries and a lot of vendors going to these discussions to stay on top of what the recent threat is and what the other trends are and what the solutions are out there. I think that's key. We're a community and that has to be pushed forward if that makes any sense to continue to talk to folks. I think sitting in your own little silo is not going to work very well. Well, I don't think I know. Yeah. I forget who it was on the show, but they said that security is a team sport. Yeah, absolutely. So I guess on that thread, actually, I want to pull on this a little more. I often joke with CISOs on the show that what they need is not another piece of technology, but rather a family therapist to help their relationships with other teams. What advice would you give to other CISOs, security leaders on first building better relationships with other teams, and two, how to get out of the saying no mentality and into that real collaborative listening mode? Yeah, that saying no mentality. I've talked to some CISOs like that who said, yeah, I'm looking to hire and I need people to join my team because I need them to get out there and say no as much as humanly possible. No, people don't actually say that? Explicitly said that? Oh, wow. Yeah. I just remember I stopped and I looked at him and I said, how are you doing, man? Are you doing okay? Wow. I can imagine his life was pretty miserable. Maybe if you're working on a highly top secret government project where you got to hide the alien bodies, maybe. That's a good example. Yikes. Yeah. I think a family therapist is a great way to do that, to work with their teams, but I think really at the end of the day, it's not that hard. Everyone wants to do a good job when they come to work, hopefully, and everyone wants to get along with their work base. I think the thing is just the key is to be available for them if they have questions. Try to initiate those conversations and also learn when to back off. Everyone's busy. They have a lot of their own success metrics they have to shoot for, so if you can be part of that formula, great on a day -to -day basis, but if they're a little too busy for you to come back at a better time, pizza and beer is always a good way to go as well, but I think it's just trying to be as value -add as possible at all times and be understanding that everyone's trying to get their jobs done as well. I think that's key. That's good advice not just for security leaders, but for PMs as well. One of my favorite pieces of advice for PMs I ever heard was framed as bring the donuts, and I think security is kind of this way too. With PMs, nobody invited you, and they can get along just fine without you for the most part, so you've got to really understand where they're coming from and what value you're bringing to the equation if you want people to work with you constructively. Yeah, it's knowing your role. Security can be a value -add and can be positive for the business, but a majority of the time we're kind of a cost to that business, a necessary cost and maybe, hopefully, a helpful business benefiting cost, but at a cost, nonetheless, people aren't usually going to go to the company for how secure it is, especially on the West Coast. It's about how much money or how handy their product is first. Security is kind of a second thought, but we can definitely work together on that. I have heard some pretty inspiring stories on this show and in my professional life of how security helps teams move faster by taking, say, risk out of the equation or automating away some risk, and so I think maybe in cloud, due to its nature, there's unique opportunities for security teams to be helpful there. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Usually, if you're already moving into the cloud, you're kind of taking a fresh start, and that's where you can really do the security by design. I get it. If you're on mainframes and you've been around for 30 years and now you're the new security person, it's really to go back and difficult to do security by design from the start, right? You're kind of retroactively trying to find fits here or there. But starting fresh into the cloud, it's like, okay, we could do this by design. AppLovin's been great about kind of doing that with protecting their data by saying, hey, I don't need a lot of sensitive data. We're going to try to use our own attribution formats and other types of formulas to grow our customers' business without taking on a lot of that sensitive information. So that helps reduce the risk, again, secure by design. So this is good, especially excellent. Okay, Tim, you can make fun of me for saying excellent, but this is excellent. However, excellence hasn't spread uniformly, right? And you do see people who are still in the saying no mentality. And regarding architecture, we do see a lot of people still stuck essentially in the 90s regarding architecture. They want to lift and shift, or they're even debating whether this new cloud thing is for them. So given your experience, what's your best advice for the leaders of these organizations where either the CISO is blocking cloud or maybe even CIO doesn't want it? So basically, they are not getting any of the benefits. And when they start doing cloud, they do it in a very on -premise way, the lift and shift way. Yeah, that's a tough one, because you're really trying to tell somebody to change their entire point of view. Yes, that's exactly right. Yeah, you need to have that aha moment, travel to Damascus moment for them. And I don't think I could give them individual advice to have that aha moment other than travel the world, talk to folks and, you know, experience and see what else is out there. I know for AppLovin, when we jumped over 100 % into the cloud, our business just naturally spiked because of the efficiencies, how quickly automating compute usage was with that intelligence to go up and down for what our demands were. That's amazing. And, you know, again, that's a strong partnership with Google on that, having just an incredible team that really kind of jumped to everything that we needed, which was fantastic. Not easy to find in the industries all over the world. So that was really helpful. But I think they need to talk to people who have those success stories and just to see what it is. I think at the end of the day, if those folks would talk to the business more and to see what the business needs, they'll kind of start to see, yeah, that it makes sense. That's where we need to kind of move towards. But that has to be that personality of I got to get out of my silo. I got to talk to people out of my comfort zone, because you may not be a business person. You could be a genius infosec person. But if you don't get the business and have that background, it's going to be difficult to travel far. Yeah, that's for sure, Drew. It reminds me of that saying, if you want to go fast, go alone, if you want to go far, go together. You really can't go far in security unless you can bring other people on board. And that's one of the things we've talked about on another show, I think, a CISO episode, talking about the challenge of developing people who've excelled for their technical skills as they rise in their career to then excel on non -technical skills. What advice do you have for those people to make that leap from I'm great because I can understand X .509 to I'm great because I can convince the person down the hall that our interests actually are aligned? Yeah, that's a great point. So even on my own team right now, I have people who are very smart, very technically have done some great things, and they want to get to that next level. So for me, to that level, to try to help coach them along those lines, I recommend understanding all the different domains and then having a very strong relationship with the business and spend time with them. I think peer mentorships and things like that to do exchange programs within the company are also very important to understand how the business works and just spending time with them. I think that's, I guess, it's almost like what a social CISO type of thing. It's just very social, and it's really about getting outside of your shell and understanding everyone else's pains and what their goals are to win for their game. That's really kind of at the end of the day, yes, technical, that's good. You need that, absolutely. But it's all about people, processes, and tools. It's a three -legged chair, right? So people are so key, and I think I find a lot of the really, really smart infosec folks tend to focus on the tools, and everyone ignores processes, right? No one wants to document anything, but that's also very important too. So those are the kind of key aspects. But this sounds like hard work. It can be, but it's really depending on your personality types. But it's really not too hard. There's a lot of great classes out there to kind of coach yourself through, and just the ways of thinking about stuff, which is good. I read this great book called Superforecasting, which was, Phil Tetlock wrote this, and it was really about a way of how to think of things differently. You don't have to be highly educated. There's these experiments that are to use folks to become, quote, unquote, superforecasters. Some of the best performers, one of them was a housewife who just had a high school education, but because once she learned how to use the little levers and stuff to do the math on this, it became about how did she see things and how she thought about things. And it was about, okay, most people would see an event and automatically change their opinion about something broadly. For her, it was about, okay, that changes my opinion a little bit towards this direction. And then she would gather more and more data, and each time it would move the dial to the left or to the right. And eventually, she was able to call out, yeah, in six months, this is going to happen. And she was right. I think it was close to 87 % of the time. People like that had that kind of approach is really helpful. And I think, again, that kind of breaks down from what we were talking about today is about seeing the trends and kind of seeing the forest of the trees and then looking at every piece of information. And they'll just stick to one piece of information, which might be legitimate, but have that kind of shade your whole approach. You got to see all sorts of factors to kind of come in and see at the end of the day. And I think if you do that, you're going to see that cloud's going to be, for most cases, not all. Again, if you're hiding UFO bodies, okay, maybe not. We'll see that it's an advantage. Well, Jeremiah, I hate to do this on such a note, but I have to ask you our traditional closing questions. Sure. First, do you have a tip to help people improve their security when migrating to cloud? And two, aside from super forecasting, which sounds great, do you have recommended reading for our listeners? Yes. Super forecasting was a great one. I read another great one recently called American generalship. I'm just about finishing it up right now. It's pretty good. It's ideal of how to become a stronger leader and a stronger follower at the same time too. This kind of helps you coach of, okay, this is how I can mentor somebody. And this is also how to be a good mentee at the end of the day. It also has a lot of really great military stories in the background on that too. So fun stuff there if you're a fan of the military. And I'm sorry, what was the other question? One tip, one easy to follow tip for people. Yeah. I'd say try to make a new friend inside the business. At least once a month, have these one -on -ones and have a cup of coffee. I think it goes a long way. I remember getting on an airplane ride home from one of these other team events, talking to sat down two folks that I don't normally work with and got to spend five hours instead of watching a stupid movie, sitting there and talking about their business and what they're seeing, talks of AI and how they're using co -pilot and chat GPT and all that other type of stuff. It was really fascinating to hear their point of view of what they saw from a line of business that I didn't normally do a lot of work in. That's a fascinating answer and fits with the theme of the episode, which I think might be listeners, go make some new friends. So with that, Jeremiah, thank you so much for joining us today. Thanks guys. Really appreciate it. And now we are at time. Thank you very much for listening and of course for subscribing. You can find this podcast at Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever else you get your podcasts. 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Markets Daily Crypto Roundup
A highlight from Crypto Update | Ether ETFs, Validator Growth, and Uptober's Strong Start
"It's Monday, October 2nd, 2023, and this is Markets Daily from CoinDesk. My name is Noelle Atchison, CoinDesk collaborator and author of the Crypto is Macro Now newsletter on Substack. On today's show, we're talking about Ether ETFs, Ethereum staking, macro moves, and more. So you don't miss an episode, be sure to follow the podcast on your platform of choice. And just a reminder, CoinDesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. October, as this month is known in some circles, is off to a strong start in crypto markets. After a few days of gently drifting upwards, prices for Bitcoin and Ether jumped sharply yesterday afternoon, with Bitcoin moving up almost 3 % within just a few minutes. There doesn't seem to be a clear catalyst for yesterday's sharp jump, which suggests that it could have been triggered by a short squeeze. The crypto market has often seen these before. They are usually unwound relatively swiftly, however. This one, not yet anyway. Since yesterday's jump, the Bitcoin price has continued to climb, and at 10 a .m. Eastern time this morning, it was trading at $28 ,500, according to CoinDesk indices, up 4 .8 % over the past 24 hours. Ether was 2 .3 % higher, trading at $1 ,725. October is typically a strong month for Bitcoin, with an average performance going back to 2011 of 25%. Bitcoin has delivered a positive performance in October in each of the last four years. Yes, including 2022. But patterns can be broken. We saw this last month, as Bitcoin rose almost 4%, breaking a six -year trend of negative September returns. Other tokens are also rallying. Earlier today, the tokens of Solana, Arbitrum, Optimism, Cosmos and others were up between 3 and 4 % over the past 24 hours. As I mentioned earlier, there doesn't seem to be a clear catalyst here. In part, it could be October psychology. There could also be some excitement around the first Ether futures ETS starting to trade today. And there is probably also some momentum chasing involved. Bitcoin has broken above the 50, 100 and 200 daily moving averages, which is a big deal for chart watchers. Whatever the reason, the uptick in interest could be enough to perhaps entice some liquidity providers back into the market. If liquidity improves along with the Bitcoin price, then we are likely to see a further pickup in new investor interest. I'll be keeping an eye on volumes and other liquidity metrics. Over in macro, the headwinds are still there, which could keep any crypto rally muted for now. There was some good news on Saturday, though. After a day of hectic negotiations and a barrage of breakthroughs, a US government shutdown was avoided. Both chambers passed a stop -the -gap spending bill that President Biden signed with less than an hour to spare. This means that government employees and all of the related businesses that serve as government departments can keep on working. This is very good. It's a temporary measure, however, and we could be going through the same type of tension in mid -November. Earlier today, the ISM Manufacturing Index came in better than expected. This data point is based on a survey of purchasing managers at 300 manufacturing businesses and gives some insight into the general direction of manufacturing activity in the US. ISM stands for the Institute of Supply Management, the organization that conducts the survey. The main index for September still showed a contraction in activity, but the slowest contraction in 10 months. It's too soon to conclude that the contraction in US manufacturing is bottoming, however. Over in stocks, the strong manufacturing data and the avoidance of the shutdown has failed to boost the mood of the US market. This comes after a fairly grim end to September. On Friday, the S &P 500 closed down 0 .03%, and over September, the index lost almost 5%. Its second monthly decline in a row. The index is down 3 .7 % on the quarter, its first negative quarter in 12 months. This is less than the Nasdaq's decline, which was 4 .1 % for the quarter, highlighting that the market is moving into risk -off territory. The Nasdaq is even more focused on tech stocks than the S &P 500, which tend to be more sensitive to increases in interest rates. In Europe, markets were feeling good on Friday, with both the German DAX and the Eurostock 600 rising by roughly 0 .5%. That was not enough to save the month, however. Over September, the DAX dropped 3 .5%, and the broader European index dropped by 1 .6%, the worst monthly performances for both in a year. So far today, weak market sentiment has returned, with all leading European indices down from Friday's close. The outlook for economic growth in Europe is flagging, with the German economy forecast to contract this year. In Asia, Japan's Nikkei index started the fourth quarter on a down note, closing just over three -tenths of a percent lower. So far, this seems like an extension of the negative performance seen last month. The index dropped almost 1 .5 % in September, losing more than 4 % in the quarter. This makes Q3 the first negative quarter for the index in a year. Chinese markets were closed on Friday for the mid -autumn festival and will be closed until next Monday as the country celebrates National Day. Chinese stocks had an ugly third quarter, with the Shanghai Composite registering an almost 3 % drop, its second quarterly decline in a row. Chatter is intensifying about more monetary and policy easing to support the market and the economy. This would be good news for Asian markets and for crypto markets since, despite recent bans, China is still a significant source of demand for crypto assets. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index was hit much harder, down almost 6 % for the quarter, as its market is more exposed to US interest rates and has also been hit by China's property sector woes. In commodities, the Brent crude benchmark was rising in early trading today after pulling back from the local high of over $96 reached late last week. Earlier today, Brent was trading at $93 .62 per barrel. Gold continues to weaken, trading at around $1 ,830 per ounce, down just over 0 .7 % from the market open. Investor appetite for the metal is being hit by the stronger US dollar. The DXY dollar index was climbing today, up 0 .4 % from Friday and up almost 3 % from a month ago.
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"It's Monday, October 2nd, 2023, and this is Markets Daily from CoinDesk. My name is Noelle Atchison, CoinDesk collaborator and author of the Crypto is Macro Now newsletter on Substack. On today's show, we're talking about Ether ETFs, Ethereum staking, macro moves, and more. So you don't miss an episode, be sure to follow the podcast on your platform of choice. And just a reminder, CoinDesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. October, as this month is known in some circles, is off to a strong start in crypto markets. After a few days of gently drifting upwards, prices for Bitcoin and Ether jumped sharply yesterday afternoon, with Bitcoin moving up almost 3 % within just a few minutes. There doesn't seem to be a clear catalyst for yesterday's sharp jump, which suggests that it could have been triggered by a short squeeze. The crypto market has often seen these before. They are usually unwound relatively swiftly, however. This one, not yet anyway. Since yesterday's jump, the Bitcoin price has continued to climb, and at 10 a .m. Eastern time this morning, it was trading at $28 ,500, according to CoinDesk indices, up 4 .8 % over the past 24 hours. Ether was 2 .3 % higher, trading at $1 ,725. October is typically a strong month for Bitcoin, with an average performance going back to 2011 of 25%. Bitcoin has delivered a positive performance in October in each of the last four years. Yes, including 2022. But patterns can be broken. We saw this last month, as Bitcoin rose almost 4%, breaking a six -year trend of negative September returns. Other tokens are also rallying. Earlier today, the tokens of Solana, Arbitrum, Optimism, Cosmos and others were up between 3 and 4 % over the past 24 hours. As I mentioned earlier, there doesn't seem to be a clear catalyst here. In part, it could be October psychology. There could also be some excitement around the first Ether futures ETS starting to trade today. And there is probably also some momentum chasing involved. Bitcoin has broken above the 50, 100 and 200 daily moving averages, which is a big deal for chart watchers. Whatever the reason, the uptick in interest could be enough to perhaps entice some liquidity providers back into the market. If liquidity improves along with the Bitcoin price, then we are likely to see a further pickup in new investor interest. I'll be keeping an eye on volumes and other liquidity metrics. Over in macro, the headwinds are still there, which could keep any crypto rally muted for now. There was some good news on Saturday, though. After a day of hectic negotiations and a barrage of breakthroughs, a US government shutdown was avoided. Both chambers passed a stop -the -gap spending bill that President Biden signed with less than an hour to spare. This means that government employees and all of the related businesses that serve as government departments can keep on working. This is very good. It's a temporary measure, however, and we could be going through the same type of tension in mid -November. Earlier today, the ISM Manufacturing Index came in better than expected. This data point is based on a survey of purchasing managers at 300 manufacturing businesses and gives some insight into the general direction of manufacturing activity in the US. ISM stands for the Institute of Supply Management, the organization that conducts the survey. The main index for September still showed a contraction in activity, but the slowest contraction in 10 months. It's too soon to conclude that the contraction in US manufacturing is bottoming, however. Over in stocks, the strong manufacturing data and the avoidance of the shutdown has failed to boost the mood of the US market. This comes after a fairly grim end to September. On Friday, the S &P 500 closed down 0 .03%, and over September, the index lost almost 5%. Its second monthly decline in a row. The index is down 3 .7 % on the quarter, its first negative quarter in 12 months. This is less than the Nasdaq's decline, which was 4 .1 % for the quarter, highlighting that the market is moving into risk -off territory. The Nasdaq is even more focused on tech stocks than the S &P 500, which tend to be more sensitive to increases in interest rates. In Europe, markets were feeling good on Friday, with both the German DAX and the Eurostock 600 rising by roughly 0 .5%. That was not enough to save the month, however. Over September, the DAX dropped 3 .5%, and the broader European index dropped by 1 .6%, the worst monthly performances for both in a year. So far today, weak market sentiment has returned, with all leading European indices down from Friday's close. The outlook for economic growth in Europe is flagging, with the German economy forecast to contract this year. In Asia, Japan's Nikkei index started the fourth quarter on a down note, closing just over three -tenths of a percent lower. So far, this seems like an extension of the negative performance seen last month. The index dropped almost 1 .5 % in September, losing more than 4 % in the quarter. This makes Q3 the first negative quarter for the index in a year. Chinese markets were closed on Friday for the mid -autumn festival and will be closed until next Monday as the country celebrates National Day. Chinese stocks had an ugly third quarter, with the Shanghai Composite registering an almost 3 % drop, its second quarterly decline in a row. Chatter is intensifying about more monetary and policy easing to support the market and the economy. This would be good news for Asian markets and for crypto markets since, despite recent bans, China is still a significant source of demand for crypto assets. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index was hit much harder, down almost 6 % for the quarter, as its market is more exposed to US interest rates and has also been hit by China's property sector woes. In commodities, the Brent crude benchmark was rising in early trading today after pulling back from the local high of over $96 reached late last week. Earlier today, Brent was trading at $93 .62 per barrel. Gold continues to weaken, trading at around $1 ,830 per ounce, down just over 0 .7 % from the market open. Investor appetite for the metal is being hit by the stronger US dollar. The DXY dollar index was climbing today, up 0 .4 % from Friday and up almost 3 % from a month ago.
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"Like fred fred. Bello of sei's fucking name. Which led me to this concert. Film and otis rush singing. I can't quit you. Baby that led zeppelin reed did a remake of called. I can't quit you babe as opposed to. I can't quit you baby. So that's how they switched it up. And then that's why. They never paid otis rush until they settled out of court. I don't know if that's true. I settle out of court with him. I know they had to do that. A couple of times but Otis rush one of the greatest live singers. I ever heard and he plays guitar left handed and he doesn't string. He plays a right handed guitar upside down and did not string it the other way he just plays it upside down strung right handed in the guy who did that was Was dick dale. I didn't know that if someone else who did it. But he's fucking unbelievable. I'm going to send you a link to this concert film The podcast this week. 'cause you really should see it and should know about this. I don't know about and And also i wanna know what concert this is. If anybody has any information on how somehow i can watch the whole concert because it's crazy it starts with you know this older black dude. Who's like playing like boogie. Woogie piano and he say he's part of that generation and then it kind of leads into these guys who are and be guys in. It's right before. I don't know it seems it's like right around that time. Right is james brown was coming out or whatever but it's just a great period where people can actually play music and shit play instruments and sing live. It's fucking awesome. And then they're playing performing recourse to this horrific white crowd that is just sitting there like their entire lives have been mapped out in front of them and they made no decisions and they have no passionate life. I don't know what it is. It's fucking embarrassing. But it's incredible footage. All right i'm gonna run my fucking mouth. let's go to. Let's go to some of your questions and information this week. I got a ton of shit last week by saying a port. A pork shoulder was actually the ass to the pig. I guess it actually is the shoulder. I guess a christmas ham is the ass or you can eat on thanksgiving. Just say hey ham the ass of the pig so this guy says bill. I love your podcast. I'm a former butcher. And i wanted to correct you on your smoke. Shoulder comment on yesterday's podcast. Pork shoulder is the front shoulder on a pig. The confusing part is they are also called pork. But's it's not the but the of the pig is the ham. Hope this helps blah blah blah. Well you know. what can you write back. Why do they call it a. But then i have no idea why. Why do they call it. That all i know is it's fucking delicious. As is the of the pig. I ate the whole fucking pig wherever the fuck the bacon is. You know that'd be. Do they have classes like that. Do they have a class that teaches you how to butcher an animal in case you know whenever the dollar collapses and i'm out there i know how to shoot a bow and arrow now i know it's fucking gutter fish pretty well but i'd like to know how to fuck and shoot a wild pig. Hey fuck this. I'm on the billy red state tour. People i'm coming out to el paso. I'm coming out to san antonio. If anybody out there goes wild boar hunting. I wanna do that shit. I want to do it. But i don't wanna fucking kill one just for the sake of killing it. All right i wanna fuck it kill it clean it do the whole fucking thing you make me do all of this shit. I know animal lovers out. There probably don't like it. I'm doing it not to do it. All the fucking time. I wanna have that skill all right. I'm basically i'm slowly. I wanna become a guy ever. I wanna not fire in order to shoot a fish with the bowen arrow. Sort of okay. I know what a loaded gun and shoot it sort of. I got some vegetables growing around my house. Kinda so if i know how to take down a fucking pig and got that fucking thing that's got to translate to a god damn deer right sort of the same shit i would think and then you need to do is get a helicopter license and i'm good to go. I know how to ride a motorcycle. Now you see what i'm saying. You got fucking if he had a helicopter. What i love the helicopter as you. Just go right up. You can escape so easily. It's almost like you literally know how to fly. We're like you know with an airplane. You need that run and start you know. I'll fucking them but anyways if somebody wants to take me wild boar hunting i would fuck do that and a second i go down to l l bean and show of my brand new. I'm going hunting. Shit looking like fucking you know like those old vietnam movies when you first get there. And you you buckle your chinstrap to your helmet then all the grizzled veteran veterans tell you not to do it cuts the concussive force of the shelves is gonna blow your fucking head off that type of stuff but what are you talking about. I don't know.
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"Am basing that on you know siegfried and roy. I think that was tired. Whatever a big cat do that thing grabbed him and within two seconds he went limp and then that was it. I'm not saying i'm happy that happened. It was absolutely horrific. Whatever but like you know. You're playing with lions tigers. Eventually going to happen so he just went fuck and limp choked out immediately. What i love about cats. Big fucking cats. Is they put. It's over they grab your leg and then they just clamped down and they choke you out. Us any person they would rather get fucking choked out then knocked out. They don't want to do. It's just you go to sleep and you woke up. Oh i lost okay. I don't have any cognitive damage. You just go to sleep and you would wake up wherever the fuck you go or you just dead. You know if that's what happens like a squirrel just dead shark is gonna bite you i. You can't fuck and see it. It's going to take a bite out of you to see what you taste like to see if there's any sort of threat there. Oh my god. Then it's going to pull you under the water as you're fighting to breathe in stay above the water not even close and the fucking loneliness of being out in the middle of the fucking ocean you. Oh my god you could just you can take that that scharping any fucking date. I absolutely i would almost a few said. Would you rather get killed by a lion or just bitten by a shark. But you're gonna live. I know survival. I would have to choose shark but just going okay. It's going to happen and they drop you in the water. Just waiting. Fuck that you know. That's why can't stand. Bears as much as i love. Bear the fact that they just don't grab their prey by the neck. Put him out of their misery. They just fuck fucking hold them down like a big dummy you know and just start biting fucking you know. I don't. it's terrible. I don't wanna get malt. I want to get choked up. That was an easy one. Absolutely fucking easy all right. Do i deserve to marry a rich doctor. Well don't marry the person because he or she is a rich doctor marian because they treat you right then the benefits she married smutty. That's bringing on the money all right. Hello mr bill. Best comedian in the world. Burr dad or get compliment. I'm a twenty five year old guy from morocco god casablanca who's lost and don't know what to do and need your take on this. I met this young lady six months ago. And we're in love. She's an amazing nice in motivated. Young lady she's on her fourth year in medical school. Dude you hit the fucking lottery. She's amazingly nice she's motivated. She super smart well. I work in an office job. That doesn't pay really well and has no future and she's fucking cool. She likes you for who you are then the thing is. I've been panicking lately. Because i feel that. I haven't found a path. Or what i want to do. Maybe i don't deserve her. Oh jesus christ. She's from a rich family full of doctors also and she seen and experienced a lot of things while i never did shit and struggle to have a good dinner out during the weekend. We're planning to spend our lives together. And she loves me for who. I am. Yes she does do. Don't fuck this up. Okay if anything go to her and tell her how much you admire her that she found her path and that you know and tell her how you feel i just tell you feel how great she is. You almost feel like you don't deserve earn in how you wanna find your path because you want to contribute to the relationship more do that don't don't sabotage this. He goes. But i don't know if i deserve her and i don't know what i could do to find a good career so i can make la la our living in the same level first of all. Don't compete with her. He said sorry for the long email helped us miserable guy who's happy for the first time in life but he thinks he'll mess it up. You've got issues. Do you got fucking issues where you're saying you're happy for the first time in life. So what did what it is is. You've been miserable so long. That misery is your comfort zone. Even though you don't wanna be miserable you're comfortable in. I know that. Because i used to be like that. You know i grew up in a very volatile crazy fucking situation in world and all of that type of stuff. And i was like. I'm not fucking doing that. I'm going to be around nice peaceful. Calm people in what you do. Is you gravitate towards what feels familiar subconsciously without even known in your surrounding yourself by a bunch of lunatics fit right in because you're a lunatic. So here's the thing. Did you found happiness. Just allow yourself to be uncomfortable with that in gradually get comfortable with it and what you need to do is communicate with her. Okay you obviously a head over heels with this woman. You absolutely love her. You should marry her and use her. As an example of the kind of person that you wanna be happy motivated and don't put pressure on yourself to make as much money as she's gonna be making. It's like the only person who's she's not doing that to you. So why do that to yourself. All right and as far as like finding out what you're supposed to do in life just follow your heart. I know it's fucking cliche but like like think about what you like. What you're interested in. Try a bunch of different things and if there's something that you know you find something that you would just do anyway if you can turn that into a job you never feel like you're working so Don't fuck this up to. That's really gonna make me sad if you do that. All right you deserve this person and you know why deserve this person because you've been miserable your whole life which means your family. Your parents probably made you.
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"Agonise i guess. Opposites of a receptor called a alcohol dehydrogenation. Come on dude. you know who i am. What are you doing with all these big words without going into a science lesson. You should have done it. I mean i wouldn't retain it but my listeners. Would it's pretty basic more. Ethanol results in less methanol being metabolize. You don't go blind from your bathtub moonshine. I've attached to source. In case you think bullshitting thanks and go fuck yourself. Ps come to albuquerque. You read. I would love to would love to go to albuquerque. Every time i go to albuquerque. I think all the wonderful experiences i had playing a very very super small role in one of my favourite. Tv shows of all time breaking. I still remember that cool airport with that giant snake thing that they have when you go down the hill. I also remember standing onset watching weather from thirty miles away approach just seeing a rainstorm. Coming fucking amazing. Absolutely gorgeous gorgeous. Part of the country New mexico is and You know a nice amount of people out there. I'm a big big fan of new mexico and also not to mention that a bunch of fucking legends have come out of there so yeah there's a lot of things to like about new mexico right independent woman rant. Billy boy saw this on reddit. Thought you enjoy girl wants to be an old school woman. Wait a minute. She wants to be an old school woman and now she seems like she's gonna trick you. All right okay. Let's see what she says here. I'm supposed to watch this thirty seven seconds. There we go and course the sound doesn't work sound does not work come on. What am i doing wrong. See this is why. I even if i can you hang.
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"Poppy bust homebrew heroin. Soon anyone be able to what. Oh my god soon anyone will be able to make illegal drugs. What i feel responsible even read this. But i just said it. Humble fungi in a home brewing kit could soon do what the combined might of the west failed to halt the frightening poppy industry in afghanistan. The source of eighty percent of the world's opium genetically like the cuban cigars like all the fucking heroin comes from afghanistan genetically engineered yeast could make it easy to produce. Opiates such as morphine anywhere. Cutting out the international drug smugglers holy shit and making such drugs cheap in more readily available if homebrew drugs become widespread. It would make the syfy in of stopping the supply of illegal narcotics even more obvious than than it is now while i i am of the belief though that you should really treat addicts like they they have a disease and you should help them out rather than put them in jail. I've seen a bunch of studies where they try to help them get. A police works way better than just stick them in jail This disick make. I'm fucking sick man. it would be as disrupted to the drug enforcement policy as it would be to crime syndicates and then this is why they'll never have this shit. I don't think we'll have this shit. Because all the money they make fighting drugs Much people be out of work growing number of drugs sense and flavors once obtainable only from plants can now be used can made using genetically modified organisms researchers want to add. Opiates to that list. Because they are part of a family of molecules that they have useful medical properties plant. That fuck outta here. What are the use criminal disruption. All right this is on news. New scientists dot com. An article called homebrew heroin. Soon anyone we will be legal drugs. Say want to make some heroin tonight. We got the kids this weekend. We do it next weekend okay. You'll be great if they could make like fucking heroine that you're not.
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"Comedian you would politely knock in. Wait till we said come in. Let's just good saying that. You know sometimes you just you know. The other person doesn't know so that one person i was talking about they weren't an asshole. I just didn't know how to fuck and communicate and see people when you take responsibility ladies. Listen to this when you take when you take responsibility for your actions you can then try to find a solution but this isn't this isn't a time for that is doesn't seem bill squishy fucking whining. You doing great. You're on the road. You sell tickets. You're going up there wearing a little silk shirt to cover your blubber. People don't know that you wear silk shirt at heights like thirty pounds joking and actually doesn't even know if it doesn't only silk shirts. I just wanted to put that fucking rumor out there so people would start doing it really does attract attention to the you know the part of the bar. You're trying to hide. Oh billy big shirt for another couple of weeks. Old billy hooded sweatshirt eight builds july. And i want to talk about it next question. Anybody see that thing. That guy did on one of the instagram's where he imitated a coach after losing like a big playoff game but he was just acting like a dad. You know like what happened out there. And he's gone like well you know we just. I just felt like we were behind the beginning of the day. You know crane on the wall and something like the guy does it fucking perfectly. It's amazing amazing piece of comedy. All right that's it. That's the podcast everybody once again. Congratulations to italy england. Sorry you got close. Man fucking sucks but go easy on that kidman. It's a nineteen year old kid. He's got his whole life ahead of him right. They'll take out your fucking childhood on this kid and don't fuck and say a bunch of ignorant shit because you raised by ignorant people break the fucking cycle. Okay be a grinch grow fucking heart you know. Bring the christmas tree back. Don't be at cut all right. That's it go. Fuck yourselves. And i'll check in on thursday..
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"Tv you only gonna watch what you wanna watch and you're going to watch when you want to watch a righty day you go back to the put. Cast here would've fox of fucking podcast. You can't always a question somebody had a bilbo baggins now people. Let's try to keep the homophobia down a little bit. He says i went to see your show in denmark a couple of years ago or year. I don't fucking remember you going to do some more shows in europe preferably in scandinavia. Thanks why yes. Yes i am. I'm going to be coming over to europe. And the beginning of december. I'm going to go howard dean here. We're going to start in ireland. we're going to england. No we're going to Start dyrlund looked at the dates yet. But i imagine. I'm going to go all the places i've been to before and maybe add another couple of cities but i'm i'm hoping to go ireland. Scotland england denmark norway sweden and finland again. And who knows. Maybe i can add something else. Maybe in Where the hell else could i go. I know if you get too far south. In europe they start to like more they. They're still on that. Benny hill ship. Will they want us. Yeah way baby today date. They want to see that shit. They're very intellect slapstick in pratfalls. I don't know if that's true. I'm not trying to insult anybody. In france. Italy or whatever i heard you can get halfway through germany amsterdam rotterdam some of those places that have been to or some other places. Maybe i could do some stand up. But i'd love to do it and i'm trying to keep up on what's going on over there over in europe. What's going on over in europe everybody. It's time for a new segment called what's going on in europe delivered by an ignorant american well. Evidently there's floods in germany on this river. That goes all the way down to the czech republic and they're they're moving people out and that story made me sick to my stomach just having water damage in my house. I can't imagine an entire fucking river coming through my house. So my condolences. Everybody out there Vladimir putin is getting divorced from his fucking wife you know. She doesn't like to be in the spotlight. Now you know he likes going out there and lifting up little boy shirts and blowing bubbles on this stomachs in front of the press that just to if they've grown apart. The kids are grown up going their separate ways. I think i think ladimir wants a nice hot piece of ass you know. Like in two thousand eight. They speculated that he was banging. Some chick always going to marry some chicken. And as far as i could tell with my ignorance they put that paper out of business and i have to tell you as fucked up as countries becoming. It's still way better 'cause you don't have to deal with stuff like that. Although i am a little disturbed with obama going to china to be like well. Hey how do you censor your your fucking. How do you censor your people that you're supposed to be doing the right thing for you. Know say there you go. That's what's going on in the world. I know what's going on with turkey. They have in those protests over there in all started off with a bunch of hippies because they were cutting down the trees in the park in one to put up a strip mall and all the hippies and turkey were like hey man that's not cool started with that shit and then all of a sudden everybody just snapped and was like by the way you know fuck the police and all this other shit. I like. Keep it up on that stuff lately. I mean going to that. Al jazeera england english. Whatever what. I was saying on the wednesday the special one that i thought that the al jazeera and i know a lot of people. Listen to it right now. Like what are you a fucking terrorist. That's what i thought because low lately. I've noticed aljazeera has been on. Tv my tv's in like hotel rooms. And i'm like what the fuck did they got this terrorist channel on here for For those you oversee listening to this and laughing you have to understand that. The only thing that we've seen Unless you seek it out over here is when they would broadcast americans get ahead sought off by you know al qaeda. That's the only thing we saw. And the way they would frame it would be like and they actually televised. They'll cattle so. I just assumed that like that was like you know like ted. Turner has tnt and tbs. I thought osama bin laden with that oil money you know that was his tnt aljazeera. But i've actually found it really fucking interesting and it's great to see I don't know scrape just read about other countries. It's not not you know it's not what you think it is. I'm not saying that they don't trust the us but it's kind of interesting to read the criticism to hear their perception of what's going on here next saying that they're one hundred percent right not saying they're a hundred percent wrong. Oh billy yet it try to brighten your check out that and somebody told me also checkout bbc world. And what. i know they're all full of shit to some extent they all have their angle. But it's You know you get enough angles shit. Maybe you could stand in the middle of that shit storm and try to make sense of it..
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"Ooh i was going to fluid comedy gold whole party you stink. I'm going to get you something i deliver. You did outside the movie theater. We'll see if we can scalp some tickets. Come on i'll give you a fucking eight bucks. What a movie tickets go for now. They're twelve dollars at the new. Beverly cinema. that's a bargain to see those two movies. Oh it's really a fucking bummer. I shouldn't have done your silly podcast. Even though i gave the people what they wanted which was like comedy on comedy on comedy. I mean they're they're just happy just to hear your voice is hockey. Bed was thought was pretty great off the top of the dome ridiculous person all right. That's it everybody all improv. Right up the dome. You should teach a class to come in improv on your husband's podcast and then fuck up his birthday. that's fantastic. What's your next trick dear. You're gonna ruin fucking flag day for me can ruin father's day for me. I know you've got the whole day. You got the whole day. Mother's day you got the whole damn day on mother's day. What am i gonna get fucking little. Titanic and a beard brush. They make those all right. That's it that.
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"Mozelle can weird that guy. Just fucking. I don't know he just took it to another level and it was a pain in the ass and piss people off and got a fuck can lady bank candidate to spare him in the balls and then he'd be back on the ice two seconds later setting up somebody for a fucking power play goal if he didn't score himself That kid twenty nine brought nelson was everywhere on defense and varlamov their goalie. He just i don't know he was just always in position. I will say that everybody was like. Oh my gosh playing unbelievable. I didn't see an unbelievable save. The fucking guy was just where we were he was never. You know quick. Pass all didn't seem like all of a sudden he's rushing to the post and he just doesn't get there in time or made a great save he just was fuck the guy he was. Just they're all wait. Reservoir dogs alarm goes off. You got five to seven minutes but man those cops they would. Just they're already all loaded for bear. So but i gotta tell you is much as it sucks that my team lost. It was fun to see. Islander fans going crazy again and that took me back to my childhood when they won those foreign a row and Just how loud that place. God and something else which is fucking crazy. They cut to the crowd two games ago and it looked like a crowd shot from the late eighties. I guess the mullet back. I think the mullets back. That was a bunch of people in that crowd. That look like if they didn't own a montek monte-carlo ss. That was their dream car. So i kind of got a kick out of that. It reminded me of some of the shows. I did out governor's way back in the day. So congratulations to them. Great fan base and all that. Good luck i'll be pulling for you. And the next round nothing against tampa bay. Because i love that franchise to but like they want it last year. either way. it'll be cool either way. It will be cool because Tampa goes to win it again. Then they went to cups in a A super bowl in last year and they start to make their mark is their case of being the next title town. Now they'll call themselves titletown because they only one three. But i mean you know. That's what newer city still the benchmark. I is boston okay. It really is and every other time could go fuck themselves because we were titletown to fucking decades when there was thirty teams in all four sports. Not this fucking malaria curly horse shit from back of the fucking day. That's my argument but anyway plowing ahead. And how about your fuck montreal. Canadian's jesus christ mop in the fucking more with the winnipeg jets. I mean they the montreal canadians. I don't know if you realize this have won. Seven playoff games in a row and are looking like they have the magic that brought them to their last cup. Nine hundred ninety three when they were not a they were not a favourite and all of a sudden they. Just i don't know. Of course. They had patrick wa before. They booed him out of town. Unbelievable that's what counts. Montreal fans are fucking nineteen ninety-three with no team. That guy fucking just stops every puck and you guys went shitting overtime when three years three years you give a fuck day. Bom outta tout god. I love bringing that up. And i always well until you when you're next cuff. Which might be your only eight games away but you go in up. Is it going to be the vegas nights. did they. beat the avs. Were looking like fucking world beaters. I was just out in fuck in colorado at red rocks. Check in that place out. Because i might film a little something there and Somebody was saying like Yeah the avs are gonna fuck it. We're gonna wipe fuck it as they were talking all this shit. I was like. Yeah you guys looked great. Let's see happened. Vegas nights i just realized is that also mean could be like all right. This series is three two all boy this birthday which i really hit. The i can't hit the client is is my nephew and i did hit declined so fucking funny and i ended up hitting declined by accident how to fuck that i to decline visit decline. Oh no that's.
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"That's fucking larry's it goes. That's something my pregnant wife would want. He totally shadow over my donut. Dream and i didn't know what to say. I was so high i couldn't think of anything to say back. I probably just shrug and gave. I don't know look but we got our own. It's a went on our way to what you should have was. You should have laughed your ass off and said sorry man. i'm high. he's not a cut. Do you were fucking high. And that is a hilarious response. Anyways he goes. I wish i could have said something like no. I'm not pregnant. You don't at baking. Don't do that don't do that. You never make fun of what a person does for a living. I learned that the hard way. I just wanna goddamn donut and peanut butter with peanut butter and jelly. A not very good comebacks bought any more donors from this bakery ever again. The worst part is the donuts are actually pretty good. Thanks to go fuck yourself all right. This is what you need to do. You need to forgive yourself being that fucking high that you ask for a grape jelly donut. You also have to give that give it up for that guy that. What he said was fucking hilarious. All right and i think it's time to go there. And you get your fucking smokes. We go in and go have some more fucking donuts right. It was funny. He just made you feel silly. Why did that make you feel so bad. You should have been able to laugh that off. I'm going to say that. Maybe your parents mean to you growing up. Were you bullied a lot. Is that what it was because seems like you brought a little bit of baggage in there because that was like depends on what he say grape jelly. What are you pregnant. I would've fucking fell on the floor laughing. I would've fell on the fucking floor laughing at the guy said that to me But it all depends on how we set it on defensive you because i remember one time when i didn't know anything about drums and i was into stewart copeland. I wanted to buy one of those little symbols that he had came walking into the music store. House like yeah. I want to buy a simple little symbols. you know. they're not like bigger. that's literally small ones. the guy just goes you meet a splash. You mean account. Like i'm sorry did make yes. Splash sorry this is why you work. Here i'm brand new. I'm going to spend money in your store. You can't get it you know. Did your friends laugh at you. Is that what it was. What are you pregnant. That's fucking hilarious. Anyway here we go keep going moving on here. What i shouldn't have said. Oh so these this person's turning the on its ear here. What i shouldn't have said dear. Billy burberry handbag. I'm the type of person who rarely says what's on their mind. Nor do i do nor do i stand up to a passive aggressive jerks but one time twenty years ago i lashed out and said what was on my mind. I was a in high school. I was in my senior of high school. And i just had finished a painting of my girlfriend jenna. I was quite proud of it and was excited to share it and my next class. My friends asked to see it. I happily past the painting over to my peers where people gathered around to look at it. Oh god you're too young to know where this was going to go. I took in various feedback from fainting interest to genuine compliments. So i thought it was gonna get meaner than that. There was a girl my school. Who was a deeply unkind person. Who behaved as if she was god's gift to men when she saw the painting she clip. That doesn't even look like jetta in her. Rude holier than thou way. She was known for ninety nine. Out of one hundred times a comment like that would be internalized and replayed on an endless self deprecating cycle. Dude i know. I got a real real machine with endless tape in my fucking head anyway. Purses says for some reason. This time i saw red and without hesitation angrily blurted out. No one asked you you fucking bitch.
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"Sixties movie. Billy bastard have you re watched point blank with lee marvin lately now. I don't think i've ever seen it. I've never seen it and only saw the poster. I'm twenty six. So i have some catching up to. I remember you saying how much you love him. So i've been watching a lot of his movies. He's fucking amazing. Yeah and just his voice and he was the real deal to that guy fought in world war two or career one of those fucking wars and his whole platoon died except for him and two other guys Acting as acting. But there's something about lines being delivered from a who actually lived it. Yeah i think comedy is probably the same way. Experience helps the details and the average viewer can see through the bullshit. that's also though what is amazing about actress. Who haven't lived at. You know anybody can kind of play them with self which is why a lot of times you'll see like you know a football player play football player and a movie and land. That guy was good. It's like true acting as the person's one hundred eighty degrees different than who you are and you pull it off the accent. The whole fucking thing is and that seems to not get any respect anyway. Ps who angie dickinson was. What a fox. Go fuck yourself angie dickinson. Hang on a second. Let me look that one and g dickinson images. That's not the chick for murder she wrote. Is it oh no. Oh jesus yes. She is beautiful All right what was the other thing. I was looking up. We'll think because my gummy internet. Bec s j w s. J w fucking hilarious. It says a picture. Because i was on images it said where did the term s j w come from and shows a white woman with glasses in her eyes wide open. Yelling at what i believe is a white dude.
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"Don't understand ladies. can you fucking please explain to me what that is. Is that just the resentment of living with somebody after while that you just fucking so. Don't you still love him but you don't like him anymore. So then you just you know all you can see is that they are an asshole that you live with so anytime they come home bitching about somebody else. Being an asshole to them secretly. You're actually excited. Is that what it is. And then you never see that you never. You never stopped to think that the guy you're with also lives with you. So maybe you're a fucking asshole to but you're such a manipulative person that he has to fuck play by the rules of your and still support you is that what is man. That fucking annoyed me. You know what annoys me. Even more about that shit is fucking happens all the time i call her out on it and then in the end she acts like they act like the victim. So this is how you feel about me. It's whatever there's there's no winning this is there. There's no winning this. Okay okay. he's living in my head there. You go and that person last week. Yes they were right and i was wrong and the person the week. Everybody's fucking right onto all right. I get it. I see how this game is fucking richt and then what happens is then you just given you given okay fine and then you get quiet. You're not mad. You know you just okay foot. And then they tried to start conversations. You just kinda whatever and then they realize that you've had enough of the bullshit. And then what do they do. They start acting nice. They start acting the way they should be acted which is nice right. That's how they start fucking acted and happens. What happens right. Couple days goes by. And you're right back to where you were again that i still love my wife. I still think she's fucking the shit and all of that but that is the bullshit right there. I'm telling you that as men we need to learn there's nothing out there that teach you how to fuck in navigate de women. Had this this fucking a whole library of fucking books on how to break down our fucking game plan so they can get a victory and there's just nothing out there for us so i'm just going to try this shit and just be like i can't do it to her because then i then i'm doing the same thing. I just have to learn those situations to just accept the fact that she's always going to take the other person's fuck. What are you going to do what he literally exhausted. Just trying to make that funny. But anyways i will tell you this early in the day i was looking at it going. Look at these two fucking beautiful kids. She gave me so. I guess that's the trade off. Maybe it's just the balance of life. Maybe it isn't a fucking fucking you know i love. It says that she gave me. I love that she gets all the fucking credit. You know what i mean like. I'm not part of that. Mix it just it just it never. It never comes out. He just have to understand that when you're a guy in a relationship you're the toronto toronto maple leafs right. And she's every other franchise all right. Sorry all right. How about those brooklyn nets. Jesus christ i mean this is just the feel good story of the summer. I just watching these these. These fucking kids somehow come together just defying the odds and just who would ever thought that if you put kevin durant fucking the our speaking of which the other guy there used to be on the celtics you see him stop on the logo walked out and that kid through the water bottle and of course then me immediately q. The clips of busing in boston from fifty years ago. It's like you also stepped on the logo. We also gave up a great part of our team to get you to come play for us and you weren't a leader and you were a problem and you're a fucking head case there is also that and we're still kind of digging out of that fucking hole that crater there is also that with obviously the obvious boston racism and all of that shit but jesus christ. I'm just glad that he you know he found a home with some other. Knock around kids. You know that they can all come together. And just defy the odds shots in los angeles lakers. I feel bad for those poor guys. You know what i mean. Just i just love a feel-good underdog story and i just hate when injury. You know. Just a dice like that. It's just really difficult to watch Fucking with you. I don't want to see anybody get hurt. Ever but like at least one of the pylon teams was derailed scion eighteen. This can you believe it absolutely believe it all right. let's do. Let's do a little advertising little twos in here. Podcast might be a little bit short. Because i have to do a little phone air or it could do pause do the phone and come back quick. Maybe i'll do that all right. Law look what is about up beyond beyond these a look at that pylon team do beyond these biondi's everybody is a name being shit out of the rest of the league. Nothing rhymes league. I don't know whether we undies. Everybody.
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"French riviera when we let me guess you wearing a hooters right. She's actually quite beautiful and his nice until she gets a little booze in her then she turns into a supercar. Like i've never seen I'm really into greek girls. And she's extremely hot. And if i could just deal with their bitchiness than i would never have to work again however i have way too much pride and after starting after. She started me around at a at a sunset boulevard boulevard barbie other night. I just took off when she went to the bathroom and have not returned to her. I have not returned her. What happened calls do you just left. Why did you do that. I totally respect respect leaving. But you should have a all right. Let me just read the rest of this. And i'll finish this in once again with the fucking spelling arizona and leaving out words. She was calling me and texting. Emailing me as i walked home down. Laurel as pissed. As i was at the time the thought of never knowing what happened is actually funny now to you. Don't love this girl if you think that's funny. You love this girl he goes. I don't. I don't know her that well but i see that crazy. Look in her. I know that she has never been told her life. My instinct is one hundred percent to never responder and not return and not turn into her bitch What do you do bill. A leader of the degenerates I think it's fucking hilarious that you left. But i think it's still funny that you just left. If she's that hot met rich if you just fucking left and never returned to phone calls that that's definitely funny. But that's also psychotic. That's something that i would fuck do You probably should've hung around And said something. Just say listen. This evening's over. I just really don't like you as a person and You beautiful and but I would never want to spend my life with someone like you. All right so have have a nice evening. I'm outta here right. that's what you could. You could have done that right. I missed my fucking meeting here. God fucking dammit. That's what i would do. So i totally respect the fact that you left but next time you should probably just say something to her. I did that one time. You know i actually did that. One time i fucking went out to Went on a date with this girl and went to go. See some fucking band and only played eighties. Music think they will call the eighties out. Santa monica the first time i lived out here and this girl fucking jumped up. I was with all of a sudden. She jumped up on stage with the band and started doing this. Dushi dance and was pointing at the crowd. And i wasn't on a date anymore was done. I was at liquor concert. Like i didn't know what the fuck happened and i was just like i just left and the reason why i left was i didn't know how to say that really just turned me off and that was just really fucking weird me out like like the ban didn't want her on stage. She went up there and they're looking at it. like who. Is this fucking idiot up on stage with us at. I just didn't know how to. I didn't know how to do it back. Then you know nowadays vow still fucking date. And i just would have been like you know. You really seem to Have a good time. All right i'm outta here. Why was the matter what's going on. I think you're great person. But i'm not feeling that second date right. Why is because of what i wore now because of that. Fucking stupid dance. Whatever the fuck he did up there all right. Those shows okay. Sorry goodbye dude. I thought laura in the motor..
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"A complete nightmare just waiting for tlc to show up Now giving you that. How can i approach this ordeal with her. I love her to death and she may be moving in with me sometime between the next few months. This shit is not going to fly with me. But i know that if a resident gets that bad that there is something wrong with them mentally she has always been messy but then again i'm a fucking cop who doesn't have time to clean up my place. So maybe this is the calm before the storm with this chick Yeah that's really fucked up now all right well you know something. You already broke the seal. This is what i would do. This is so fucking creepy. If she if you really wanna make go with this girl. I guess i guess i would go back up there again and i go into her room and just have a look around and look like if that's some parents ship or if that's her shit you know what i mean. And if it's harsh it i would be a. This is fucking brutal. The thing you know what. The big thing is is the fact that the downstairs immaculate. So they're they're they're only halfway down the rabbit hole. I don't know. Do you know what this is your tree you fucking sitting in the i. Don't there's no way to bring up that you went upstairs without just saying i went upstairs. What are you going to say. Well the bath. The is is is what you do. This is what you do your clog up the bathroom downstairs. All right just clog up the fucking toilet downstairs. I don't know how you do it but just clogged that fucker up. Okay and then. Just say i had to take a shit. There was nowhere else to go back. I had to do it right. And then you say you went upstairs. Saw what the fuck was. And then he went back downstairs. All right. that's what you do clog up the toilet and just blame it on the fact that you had to take your shit. Why am i helping you with this. Lie as funny to me. Who gives a fuck they go. And that's what you do and then address it all right or you just man up and just say listen all right. The curiosity this is this is. This is the man's way of doing it. That's that's the bitch way of doing it. So of course i know how to do that. Way the man just sits down and says let's i was fucking weirding me out that i could never go up stairs. I just wanted to top upstairs. And i looked to see what the fucking big deal was you know like was it made out of gold. They got a sex slave up there. You know some dead body. What the fuck is going on. Up there and Yeah that type of shit you know that your world that you'll life but That's not going to happen if we ever move together. All right. she's going to give. I can't believe that she went upstairs. Why i chose. You just broke the trust and and let it just do it. Let's get all of that out and then you go wait a minute wait a minute what about you. Okay so i just broke the trust. But you're the one you kind of. You had this giant secret secret so you kinda fucked with the trust. I you know there's a cat up there do you understand that. Does it fucking dead cat up there. So i don't know do do one thing or another you can do the pussy thing and do the toilet clogged up thing. I gave it to options there sir. The pussy bitch way just fucking man. Just take her out. Set it down to state. Listen i gotta. I gotta tell you something. All right Feel ashamed that. I did this but my curiosity got the best of me and i went to the top of stairs and i just peeked to see what the big deal was with the upstairs And you know then she'll probably start running away but you know women they don't know how to run most of them women can either run like a fucking track star or they just re they run like it's they run like.
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"It's time for the monday morning. Podcast for monday. June third two thousand and twenty one. What's going on how what what's going on everybody. I hope you're doing well and all of that shit. I am not doing well. I'm doing well mentally by fucking armata shape. I'm out of shape and it's fucking stops right now birthday party last night right and i was at it and my wife's like oh my god this light and the car is great for you know. Let's take a picture. Took a picture in my fucking stomach was just sitting in my lap. Lay you know like a big fat fuck and towed of had it so you know this. Is this just this time of year with is just a bunch of friends and everybody have like fucking birthdays and i have a birthday. So it's just like every other day i'm having a piece of cake and i'm just fuck in Too old to do it is just. It's just such a crime how hard you have to fuck in work to lose weight versus. How quickly you can put it on. Do it right to keep it off if you wanted to drop twenty pounds. Say whatever a pound a week two pounds a week. You're talking anywhere from three to six fucking months. Do you put twenty fucking pilots on vacation. Okay i are era. Joy myself out every day should for the whole vacation you fucking belt keep sliding over another notch. Got three days left in you. Just disgusted with yourself decide to go for a walk right those fucking seagulls hovering over as you go down. The boardwalk legless fat bastard. He doesn't have food now he's going to have some so right. I think i think we got ourselves a good league glengarry glen. Ross let's part. Let's follow this fucking pasty fat. So we stay in the sun. Long by the way i fucking hate see goes man for aggressive motherfuckers coming down on old ladies. French fries on the boardwalk right. I thought i thought this country was against that type of behavior. Terrorism you know is it. Because they're white birds they can get away with it. I'll become a to woke. I saw somewhere. I think it was jersey. They actually brought some fucking falcons in you know couple of bob pro-aborts wrestle came in there to fucking you know. Settle things down a little bit. These things coming in what seek else had at the beach in jersey was what a certain group of people fed for. Too fucking long is unchecked power. And i don't give a fuck if it's a human being or a bird. Nobody can't handle unchecked power. Very feel you do something. It's going to be too easy. These fucking birds right to get the fucking infinity pools. It got there who is right. They can just fucking bang and other seagull. They don't have to look over their shoulder. So what is jersey. Do they bring teachers. Brought a couple of falcons in and these fucking seagulls all started screaming like little bitches in each other is a falcon around. It's gonna do to us. What the fuck we've been doing other people..