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What Is the Richmond Promise? Executive Director Chris Whitmore Explains
"What is the Richmond Promise and what are your goals with the organization in the community? Absolutely. So Richmond Promise is a post -secondary access and success initiative that launched here in Richmond in 2016. And Richmond Promise is actually an initiative of the Richmond City Council. So our, our city leaders created Richmond Promise and created our organization using $35 million in seed funding that has been on a pay schedule here at Richmond Promise over the course of nine years. And so our seed funding that the city council secured for us actually sunsets next year. But as a post -secondary access and success initiative, our goals are to help young people in Richmond access higher education pathways and educate young people about what higher education pathways exist for them to access. We support students with a scholarship that is applicable for up to six years of their undergraduate experience. And our scholars, and that's a scholarship of $1 ,500 per year, again, for up to six years of a student's undergraduate education. And our scholars can use that scholarship at any not -for -profit and accredited two -year college, four -year college or university or career technical education program throughout the United States. Now I'll talk about that a little bit more. So that's higher education access and scholarship support. When our students are in college or are in a career technical education program, we also support them with scholar success programming. And this is wraparound support to ensure that students not only get accepted into a degree program or into a career technical education program, but they're also supported to ensure that they earn their degrees, earn their certifications. And then after they've reached that milestone, and this is a growing portion of our organization, we are building out our career access and success programming to ensure, again, that young people not only go to college, but they can come back home to Richmond. They can come back home to the Bay Area or wherever in the world they choose to be and have support in pursuit of their career ambitions and career goals. So since 2016, our organization has supported more than 3 ,300 Richmond youth, and on average, we serve a little more than 1 ,300 youth per year who are scholars in our program. So that's a quick snapshot of what we
Food Addiction, the Problem and the Solution
Recovering Food Addict Colleen Y. Shares the Ups and Downs of Her Journey
"On the podcast, our guest is a recovered food addict, Colleen Y. Welcome Colleen. Colleen Y. Thank you. It's a pleasure to be here. Susan Branscombe Yeah, it's great. I heard about your story. I've read about your story and I'm looking forward to sharing it with our listeners. We're going to talk about your story and how you found recovery from food addiction. I understand you became abstinent at 55 years old in 2018 when you joined a 12 -step food recovery program. Talk about that and what brought you into recovery. Colleen Y. Yes, it was late getting into. I had never heard of any 12 -step recovery programs. I had never heard about food addiction. I was just a person who thought I had a moral issue that I needed to diet, that I didn't have willpower, that that was the only way that I could overcome the excess weight. I was getting up there. I was 250. I was up to 300 pounds when I finally went into the rooms. So up until that point, I just thought that I just had no willpower. But it got to the point where all I could do was think about the food. I could not function unless I was thinking about food. So that's what brought me into the rooms. Talk about you got into recovery when you realized that you needed help in this way. And then you relapsed after two months. What happened there? Well, actually, it was after five years. I was in the program for five years. So for the first two years following the program, I was good. I followed it. I lost weight. I was working the steps in the program. But then I thought I didn't need it anymore, that I knew what I was doing and slowly started deviating from the program to the point where I left it and just started doing diets again and the weight started creeping back on. But I was still not eating the sugar flower wheat. So that's what I considered as still being abstinent. But the weight came on. I was still eating high fat. And then finally, after five years, I just couldn't white knuckle the diets anymore. And I relapsed. And in that two months that I relapsed, I gained over 25 pounds and really came to believe that I had a serious problem with food addiction. I just could not function at all over that two months. And I just did not want to live anymore. I just did not want to wake up in the morning. It was a brutal experience for two months. For critical level food addicts, some of us can get suicidal, where we just can't see a way out and that we're always going to suffer from this and food controls our lives. Yeah, I prayed every night that I wouldn't wake up in the morning. And that was the thing. And then I'd be so devastated that I had another day in this disease and that somehow I had to function. So talk about this history then. You got into recovery, five years, doing well, lost weight. Then you relapsed. Tell me about the weight that went off and came back on. You said you gained 25 pounds. You got up to 300, but were you close to maintenance weight during that five years? I had never been a normal weight my entire life, never. So I got close. I had lost, by this point I started at 300, so I was probably down to 170, which was just absolutely new territory for me. Then I gained some weight back, but then I knew I could not get abstinent on my own. It didn't matter what I did, I could not keep it. So I tried to go to Renasant and Renasant was running an outpatient program and I signed up for that. And then just before they were going to run it, they contacted me and said that they weren't prepared to run it anymore. And I was devastated. I ended up getting in touch with Dr. Vera Tarmon, who is a director at Renasant, and she told me about, in fact, was going to run their intensive for their students. And Esther usually does it in Iceland, but this time she was actually doing it in Ontario where I'm from. So it's like three hours away from me, I had this opportunity. So I jumped at it and I went and did that intensive where Esther Helga had Amanda from Shift come in and run the intensive. And it was mind -altering. It changed everything about the way that I looked at food addiction, totally, totally opened my eyes.
Mark Levin
UN Security Council Calls for Urgent Humanitarian Pauses in Gaza
"They're in constant communication that Israel is doing everything humanly possible to protect the lives that Hamas once killed once dead the US which has veto power in the Security Council said it supported the resolution but vote did not for it because it failed to condemn Hamas what a bunch flimflam of and it is unacceptable it is unconscionable that it is way to meet one of the greatest genocidal maniacs on the face of the earth Joe Biden didn't have two minutes to stop at the massive rally in Washington DC could have gotten out in of and there 300 ,000 people he didn't even send a recorded statement, a video to be played look I'm busy but let's send a nothing not a word he sent some Joe Biden in supporting the provision of arms to Israel has done nothing differently in that respect than
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A highlight from Chinese Communist Bitcoin Miners? And Lobbying For Bitcoin Mining W/ Dennis Porter
"Welcome back to the mining pod on this week's show. We're joined by Dennis Porter of the Satoshi Action Group to discuss Bitcoin mining and Politics we're mainly focused on the national security concerns when it comes to Bitcoin mining So we discussed with Dennis about moving into state houses and lobbying on behalf of the Bitcoin mining industry as a note Dennis is throwing a dinner at the end of this week on Friday at the North American blockchain summit Be sure to use promo code mining pod to get 25 % off your ticket. We'll be seeing you down in Fort Worth Do you have dinner plans November 17th? Well you do now down in Fort Worth, Texas at the North American blockchain summit Satoshi Action Group is hosting a dinner along with a lot of our friends in the Bitcoin mining industry You can join us November 17th at 6 30 p .m By going to Satoshi dinner calm and using promo code mining pod to get 25 % off your ticket again That's Satoshi dinner calm use code mining pod to get 25 % off your ticket. We'll be seeing you there Did you know that you can make more money by merge mining other networks check out make more money mining dot -com for information on bits 300 and 301 a proposal to bring more revenue to Bitcoin miners through side chains and merge mining called drive chains increase your mining revenues And learn more about participating in Bitcoin governance by visiting make more money mining dot -com Are you a miner who wants to activate Bitcoin improvements check out activation dot watch see what Bitcoin improvements the Bitcoin community? Developers and miners are considering and show support by signaling for one of many bits up for consideration activation dot watch Is your mining operation happening ready take control of your own future with the right energy strategy Link coin energy training platform is a tool used by miners to design monitor and seamlessly orchestrate sophisticated energy strategies within electricity markets such as or caught New York and PJM avoid penalties Participate demand response programs and capture hundreds of thousands of dollars per megawatt per year by deploying the right block and index strategy secure your competitive edge at link coin calm Are you a retail or institutional investor interested in Bitcoin mining companies the minor mag brings you free data and analysis from all major Nasdaq listed Bitcoin mining operations to know who stands out check out visualize metrics and data dependent stories at the minor mag Welcome back to the mining pod. Dennis is joining me today. Dennis Porter. Welcome to the show. How are you today? I'm doing excellent. Just coming back from a break. So are ready to dive into a jam -packed week of back -to -back calls Yeah, nice and tan back from your travels, right? Yeah, this is as tan as I get too So it's like, you know, ten days ten days in the Sun and this is as good as it gets So just everyone's prepared for that Are you ready to jump back into the Bitcoin grind or did you like really stop when you were vacationing? I oh, I never really truly fully stopped working the tweets keep coming, huh? Yeah It's an unfortunate byproduct of working in a 24 -7 365 non -stop nascent ever faster moving Industry that is Bitcoin Bitcoin mining when it combines two crazy worlds the one that I work in which is Bitcoin Bitcoin mining side which is the 24 -7 365 thing and then it's the Political realm which is just a total mess all the time. So it's a great combo. Yeah, I remember talking I want to stay sane Yeah, exactly my point. I was about to make you took the words out my mouth I remember talking to you like a year ago about the political side of things I was like, I don't know why anyone would ever want to get in that world at all. You're like, oh, I love it I love the I love the pool. I love being in the midst of it and still today don't get it Probably won't ever but I'm glad there's people like you who care about it And we you know agree on most things when it's firstly when it comes to Bitcoin mining so glad that's there Okay was transition over to Satoshi Action Fund. So you're the president and CEO you founded it. It's been two years Or so, it's a little over a year. We launched in June of last year and I am yeah I'm the president CEO I say CEO and president of Satoshi Action I'm there are two organizations now actually one is Satoshi Action Fund and one is Satoshi Action Education one I'm the CEO of and one of the president of so for simplicity's sake we just say it's all under the Satoshi Action umbrella But yeah, it's been going really really well We've had a ton of success and I'm sure we'll jump into that But I launched that in June of last year and we've been off to the races ever since Yeah, let's go into a little bit and then we have much more talking to show specifically We brought you on to talk about all the recent headlines with like rural Bitcoin mining and like the pushback We had a New York Times article about that there's some stuff in Arkansas going on So we'll get to that probably towards the second half of the show But let's talk about Satoshi Action Fund some wins recently and then maybe like a little more Flushed out what you guys are trying to to work on is like the product if you could say that for I guess a lobbying organization Yeah, yeah I mean it's good and that's that's probably one good area to start though with when it talk what comes talking about Satoshi Action is The one big difference between us and let's say like a lobbying organization or even a trade association Is that we don't we don't actually like do most of the lobbying. In fact, we hire lobbyists and we don't have members We have donors like more or less the premise of Satoshi Action Is that if you believe in the mission that we have pursued which is to make the United States? One of the best places in the world to be a Bitcoin miner or to be a Bitcoin er Then you want to support us if you agree with you know having the opportunity to stay here in America That's thriving off of this new technology versus being forced to move abroad You know that again is why I created Satoshi Action I think it's why people buy buy into the vision and the mission of what we're doing but we're very very structured very very different from from any of these other organizations that you might see out there and Once we launched Satoshi Action, the first thing that we wanted to do was try to go out there and show Right off the bat. What could we do? How could we be successful? How could we show that we can be effective because one of the most dangerous things that you can do with a political organization is You know get out there do all this, you know, make all this noise and then you don't produce any results You can do that a couple times you can even do it for years But eventually people will grow tired and they will move on and they will want to hear from someone else They will want to see someone else produce results There's definitely two the unfortunate part about politics Is there sort of two things you have to do one is you do have to produce results and the other is you have to? market your results market even what you're trying to do so that you can get people to buy into that they should buy into what you're trying to accomplish and fund essentially fund your operation because 100 almost 100 percent aside from our like You know, two three little s19 miners that we have plugged in that were donated to us The vast majority of our money comes from either donations or people that we get to come to our events was essentially a form of a donation So we rely a lot on on our donors to support the work that we do on a constant basis But right away we wanted to make sure that we were proving to our donors that we were having success So we said, okay, what can we do? We we got to the drawing board right away We brought on Eric Peterson who is our current policy director. Who's a wizard on the policy world and We had my two co -founders Mandy and Syria and we sat down we were like, alright, what are we gonna do? We started crafting public policy model policy For the Bitcoin Bitcoin mining space and what that means is that we created sort of like this like, okay here is a Example of a bill you could pass in your state that helps you advance this industry You know what we would do is we'd go in we'd say okay We have this great bill that we wrote up and we think you should pass it It'll really help you and they'll say like, you know, why would you want me to do that? Like we go in we pitch we say okay Bitcoin mining is great for jobs Great for local investment grid stability environmental cleanup the ability to enhance green and renewable energy projects really any energy project But policymakers particularly like when you can help solve some of the problems with green energy And then we win then we give them that bill the most popular of those bills that we did We know we have four of them Two of them have sort of moved or I should say three of them have moved around like have been introduced Or been worked on at the state level So far only one has passed into law which is a very big accomplishment but not to say only one but yeah I'm pretty yeah, it's pretty big deal Yeah, just one. It's just one of dates. So yeah so in then, um that bill ended up being called our right to mine bill initially originally was called the Digital Protection Act and then it transformed into becoming the rights mind bill and essentially that bill just protects Bitcoin miners from various forms of discrimination We saw real -time discrimination taking place across the country and we created real -time protections for that form of discrimination And we ended up being able to pass that bill into law in two states, Arkansas and Montana in fact in Montana is one of the states where Two things happen one. We actually saw some of the discrimination taking place where I don't know if you heard of the Missoula County there Where they changed the zoning laws and they like went drove a twenty million dollar bank when mining operation completely bankrupt because of it so Completely wiped them out all because they were concerned about things that were not true about Bitcoin mining, you know environmental concerns Oftentimes we see at the local level not necessarily in Montana But a big one is a concern is around Chinese mining particularly CCP mining I should say not Chinese owned but just that they're concerned that the CCP controls them So we saw real -time discrimination taking place in Montana We solved that problem the other problem. The other thing we discovered while we're there that we learned is That we can add things to this bill And we'll get into sort of like where we got to from that point But it was an important moment in the history of Satoshi action We added in a ban on any additional taxes on Bitcoin when uses a form of payment Which is critical because in the state of Montana, you know If you let's say you sell me a car like they'll tax that like peer -to -peer transaction Let's tax it like right off the top. So if I just sell you some Bitcoin or pay you in Bitcoin They would do the same thing. They'd be like, oh are we you owe us a tax for that? So we banned that which was great. And um, yeah, we'll talk about a little later but that was our big initial success huge success a small tear came down my eye when I When I passed my first bill into law Eric was like, you know done 10 ,000 times So he didn't he didn't really care as much but it was it was a big moment But I was like, we've done it. We've done it, you know, like he was like, ah Alright now I'm time for the next one right? So yeah right to mine. How'd you guys come up with that? It's like a very it's very catchy right and it's hard to argue against that Yeah, I don't know. I just can't use Brilliant top ahead. Okay, I came up with it sent it to I sent it to someone and said hey You should call this right to mine. I didn't even we didn't publicize it a really large news account I said hey just call it right to mine. That makes more sense. Yeah, and they did and then it just took off. Yes It was interesting for sure it's very amenable in a good way Okay, so you guys have passed some bills you're creating like this donor network to be able to to move it forward You've told me about a few wins here. I want to hear about some of like the obstacles which you already kind of alluded to so and we'll get to that later in the show the discrimination which we're seeing pop up right now, whether it be Chinese Bitcoin miners who are being Unfairly maligned for being associated with the CCP or not. And then also just like other Bitcoin miners who are unwelcome in certain areas But to the obstacles, what are some things that you've sort of like learned about why you come through this process creating Satoshi Action Fund and moving forward into these different these different State houses to lobby on behalf of Bitcoin Yeah, I would say that an overarching theme to the work that we do is that Things can go wrong very quickly and can be can be unrecoverable. They can be recoverable, but they can also be unrecoverable You know politics is very much like the real world so when real -world actions occur, there will be Consequences or there will be you know, either good or bad, right? You'll have good things or bad things happen because of real -world actions I'll give an example of a positive real -world example that Leads to us to do where we are today having a lot of success and that is the current consistent worry and fear around central bank digital currencies, so for some reason Which I definitely am aware of I Can't share too much on the story but definitely aware of a lot of Americans became very very concerned around central bank digital currencies and so Eventually, what happened was you had governors across the country including Governor Noem and Governor DeSantis eventually Working to ban central bank digital currencies at the state level There was this big huge kerfuffle around it and everyone was like doing everything they could to like stake their claim Literally Governor Noem took out like a steel Stamp of like a veto stamp and was like like stamped it into the bill. Like it was very it was very cool Actually, I loved it. Um so all of a sudden this like firestorm picks up where central bank digital currencies become this thing that Generally, I would say conservatives are against or Republicans are against but like really really opposed to like hyper opposed to it more so than I have seen anything in the The crypto space broadly I would I would consider CC central bank digital currencies to sort of be adjacent to the to the crypto space and because of that fervent Fear and concern around central bank digital currencies we've actually been able to use it as an effective way to demonstrate the value of Bitcoin because What happened was initially when they said Oh central bank digital currencies are a problem people started to say oh Well Bitcoin is a digital currency Is that also going to have the same problems as a CBDC and of course, we know we started education right away No These things are like way way different and then we just started to realize that it was best to classify them as polar opposites because they literally are like one is You know authoritarian sort of at least you when used on the retail level go ahead Yeah, send a CBDC between a bank or an institution. I don't I don't care at all force it on individuals In the United States without proper regular regulations and regulatory frameworks and then all of a sudden you have something that could be used in a way that you know is Sort of unimaginable to some extent to manipulate human behavior. So We started saying okay, these things are opposite and now when we're going into these states and we're saying okay, you should pass this bill It's pro Bitcoin. Also, it's anti CBDC people are like, oh hell yeah, let's go like we want to pass that bill So that's what that's one positive example of like how real -world things have had a really positive impact on what we're doing There's a lot of headwinds around creating or doing anything that you can to oppose CBDCs and so and as we pitch Bitcoin Bitcoin mining and You know all of our digital asset policy where there's always that thought in mind of how can we tie this into? Concerns around CBDCs which are valid and are linked We are not making some sort of leap here Bitcoin and CBDCs couldn't possibly be more more polar opposite. Gotcha Tell tell me about the some other stories Involving I have one video in mind of you going to Montana and speaking in front of Yeah, and there was someone before you who was just like going off and like kind of rabid It was good. And then you came in after and like kind of calmly presented some is Counter information this typically how the process is? Because I just think you are basically working in like the Parks and Rec version of Bitcoin. You have to like go deal like these Officials and like they don't know anything about it and they're like China bad Bitcoin bad That's that's my understanding every time I see this which is a really unfair characterization of it, but it's also it's stuck in my mind So lay it on yeah. No, it's it's you got you got it. You nailed it, right? Is the funnest example of Just how wild that can be out there So we go and we are getting ready to testify and every time we testify You know Especially because it's around Bitcoin mining we do get some sort of pushback usually at the local level typically from environmental groups Which is unfortunate because there's so much. I mean everybody knows in the mining space There are so many benefits from the methane component to balancing renewables to balancing the grid there's so many benefits that the You know Bitcoin mining space can offer to those that have come from even staunchly environmental the staunchly environmental realm so Needless to say there was two Opponents strong opponents to the bill one was a gal from an environmental group. She didn't get too out of control but the second guy he was a young a young gentleman from from Montana not originally and he worked at UCLA and he Was very opposed to Bitcoin and he started to go on this like speech like this really long drawn -out like monologue and Eventually at one point he says that that Montana will will like Die on the cross of Bitcoin essentially, right? It'll burn on the cross of Bitcoin I can't remember the exact word he uses but it's like very extreme very dramatic and Then he goes on to say that people are dying because of Bitcoin mine houses. I wish the camera was on me There's these cameras in every single Hearing room generally speaking every state Capital building when you're testifying in front of these hearings like they have cameras just like DC but obviously a lot lower tech But I just remember when he said that people are dying because of it He was so people are dying because of Bitcoin. He was so serious about it I just remember looking down my notes and just my face looked looking up at him was like So confused and I just wish the camera would have caught it because it would have been a perfectly it would have been a meme Like forever, but yeah, fortunately, there's a lot of great policymakers out there and actually, you know sometimes you love to rag on these guys, but You know, they do a good job a lot of these guys. They do a good job one guy asks him he says You know, he tries to run out actually that's part of the stories and this is important part of the story So let me backtrack so he finishes his speech. He tries to leave right away, which you don't do never do very rude tries to leave And as he gets to the door one of the people was like hey before you go even you usually we do questions at the End let's have you do some questions right now. We want to be able to talk to you a little bit Bring him back up to the podium He's like now son You made some pretty egregious claims there around Bitcoin mining Do you have anything to back up the statement that Bitcoin mining is killing people and the guy just is like well I don't have it here with me, but I can I can get it to you and He just like this this guy just is like, I mean you gotta remember this you see you sell a guy's like 22 years old he's a kid. Yeah Great great on him though. Great. Love the love the getting active at a young age, but he's just like son if You're gonna come in here and make egregious claims. You better have something to back it up and The kid just was like so upset like cuz he just got he's gave this great speech And he wanted to just walk out like drop the mic and walk out So he just blew him up I was anyways, it was it was definitely the most entertaining moments in the entire history of my experience And it's only been a year and a half So I I'm really looking forward to other stories that I can tell in the future Please catalog all these because I just like very Specifically remember watching that entire video and laughing pretty hard because it was it was pretty funny Okay, let's keep diving into this a little bit more. What have you been seeing in a lobbying front? That's been sort of helpful that you would encourage other people to look at we've had the call lines We've had the emails. We've had people going speaking to people I Think for the Bitcoin community we can all take like a breather and be like a lot of what we've been doing has not been working What has been working to speak with these people in state houses who need to learn about Bitcoin because Bitcoin's coming their backyard What has been working from your year and a half of doing this actively and putting boots on the ground? The things that have helped the most are Well, first of all getting clear of FTX collapse. I mean that is this is what I just tweeted this out yesterday. It's like I Still can't believe that we passed two bills into law in the middle of that collapse and it was a very testy time in the space so getting clear of FTX is Only gonna help us the other is just the way we Approach the conversation around Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining the way we pitch it is that we really focus on the benefits We do not talk about the technical side We do not try to explain how Bitcoin or Bitcoin mining works We give a very brief overview if they want more information Of course, we will dive deeper with them and we are very good at doing that you always have to be ready for those questions, but It's very important to just keep it as simple as possible Most of these policymakers have not made up their minds at all about any of this stuff They hear it in the news over there. They're their nephews trading crypto You know, like they're it's like they've got stuff all over the place, you know, you got some hardline anti -crypto anti -bitcoin Democrats You know, you've got some vocal Republicans, but they're not really like hardline yet. Like there's just not a lot of like really built -in statements or viewpoints on this on this technology and So what we do is we just go in and we say okay like Out of everything you've heard a lot of some of it is true some of it is not but most importantly what we're here to do is try to explain to you the value of Bitcoin mining for your state so we pitch Bitcoin mining and we it's a five benefits I mentioned earlier it can bring jobs local investment great stability Environmental cleanup and the ability to enhance green and renewable energy projects and out of those five No one ever says anything bad about it But out of those five usually a policy maker will say oh What kind of jobs does it make or like, you know, oh I I didn't know it could clean up the environment it's like an instant like gateway to being able to have a conversation about something they care about because usually you're hitting on something there like if it's not the economy if It's not the environment if it's not energy like at the local state level like those topics are huge Because the vast majority of energy policy is set at the state level. The vast majority of job creation is done at the state level And then a lot of this these like sort of decisions around how much green energy they're going to be building done at the state Level a lot of environmental stuff done in the state level Yeah, DC throws around big pockets big buckets of money at everybody and they certainly have regulations But a lot of these decisions are made by local state policymakers And so they care if they care a lot about these issues probably themselves, but also their voters care a lot about those issues Particularly the jobs one comes up a lot because we we know in the mining space that we create a lot of rule And jobs and jobs and economically depressed zones where it's very difficult to create jobs nearly impossible to create like long -lasting jobs So the moment you say oh we create jobs in rural areas. They're like boom the brain turns on like well How do you do that? Because that's really important to me As an example in New Hampshire, we've I've been there a few times now In the there's an area called the North Country. There's like no jobs It's a whole thing like they call it jobs for the North Country is like one of their pitches So when we go there and we talk about Bitcoin mining, we're like jobs for the North Country jobs for the North Country It's because it's true and it's something they care a lot about so that yeah, that's that's generally how we pitch it We do not talk about Too much about Bitcoin in the past We haven't talked too much about Bitcoin to the extent that it's like oh you're gonna need this because it's good as hedge for inflation or XYZ like we sort of stay away from that and focus on things that Like mining that we know will deliver value now, we've expanded our policy. We've expanded the way that we that we talk about it But we haven't gone into this new legislative cycle yet So yeah, that was all done everything that we just talked about that we've done and that we have done It was done in early 2023. We prep for it in early 20 or in late 2022 Now we are prepping for 2024 in late 2023 So we got we sort of have an idea of where things are gonna go and what we're gonna do and we're in a really Great position. In fact, we could be active in up to 20 states we probably won't be active in that many but we have the opportunity to be active in up to 20 states and as a Form of context we only introduced law or excuse me introduced policy in seven states, so we were only able to actually convince seven states to Try to pass our bills Whereas like this cycle, I think that number will be closer to like 10 or 15 only seven states That sounds like a lot of airline miles to me so it can be yeah. Yeah, this seems seems like a lot of work Okay, so we got a lot of that laid out Let's go and talk about some of the more aggressive headlines We've seen recently and we're speaking about the New York Times article that dropped to believe a week ago for listeners Check out that in the show notes will include that I think we also talked about the news roundup last week Essentially, there's a Cheyenne Wyoming based Bitcoin miner They are owned and operated by a Chinese national group that has some ties according to the New York Times to the Chinese Communist Party essentially the story boiled down to Microsoft is near this plant it's Bitcoin mining plant the US government has a missile siloed nearby an Air Force base nearby and Microsoft is worried that this Bitcoin mining base could be used for foreign intelligence reasons Then we also have the story down in Arkansas, which we'll get down to in a second But let's start with this first one this this thing with Chinese nationalist groups Bitcoin mining obviously to to you and I is more of an energy game and it's very simple, right? It's just like plugging machine. Let it hash I'm gonna collect some Bitcoin and then there's those five benefits you talked about to outsiders though. They're not thinking about that They're thinking about all these people coming into rural areas and even foreign investment Has that been a struggle when you've been talking to lobbyists groups or talking to people in state houses have they brought this up to you? Yeah, definitely it's um, it's a major concern I would say Most Americans like average American especially rural Americans care a lot about the encroachment of the CCP on on the United States from from a physical perspective so like from a geographical perspective they don't like the idea of a CCP owned controlled or even highly influenced business You know being next to them and then definitely not being in and around me sort of military installations I believe the location in Cheyenne is near a Also, is that the one that's also near a nuclear plant or a nuclear missile site as well? So yeah, something like that Yeah, so I share the concern like that I think the premise is like Do you want foreign adversaries to be in and around any sort of? Military installation any sort of critical infrastructure You know generally I like my stance is like I'm very like pro people coming here starting their businesses You know trying to accomplish the American dream, but at the same time We also have to be concerned about whether or not those businesses have strong links to You know the CCP or you know A lot of people care a lot about also like Russian oligarchs and their ability to influence America American politics American infrastructure you know the big argument today is that the electrical infrastructure is a critical part of national security and That we need to be doing everything we can to protect it and I agree I think that's important all of those things are important that we should we should keep an eye on them The the thing that I don't like is when the New York Times tried to spin this article as if like Bitcoin mining was some sort of like really powerful tool in the hands of the CCP like next to these sites I don't think it really matters what business was there.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
A highlight from Is Solana The Next Ethereum Killer
"Can a Solana overtake Ethereum? We're seeing a lot of metrics that have a lot of people, their heads are spinning. They're surprised. They don't know what's happening. They don't know why Solana keeps continuing to pump, or we're seeing a lot of positive numbers. We're seeing active users skyrocketing. And also we're getting listed on Perpetual's futures on a very major exchange. You're going to want to check this out. This is Discover Crypto. Thank you for joining everybody. Welcome back, Rodney. We're talking about some altcoins. And now we're not going to talk about ranked 8 ,000 meme coins. Is that okay? We're talking about Solana. I guess we could talk about... Everybody's talking about Grok, I thought. That's right. Grok. Well, yeah. It was like, what? Maybe a top 200 at this point. Hit $186 million market cap. I just saw Kyle Chasse tweet, or Chasse tweet. He's like, I bought the top. Ah. You know, so it happened. As they do. Did you get in on Grok, Rodney? I did not get in on Grok. I faded Grok at 20 million. Sorry. Excuse me for not buying a meme coin. You know. It went up to 150, right? So you missed out on about a seven and a half X. It's still sending, yeah. All right. So you're only missing out on a 10X so far. So far, it's a 10X. But Rodney, you just got in last night, correct? Yes, sir. Yeah. How was that? How was it flying into the Atlanta airport? I heard it's... My fiance, she has Follow Atlanta now, and they're shutting down the whole airport. Apparently, it's like, you know, entire hallways are like two foot wide. What was your experience? Well, I actually drove here from Charlottesville, Virginia, so it was an eight hour drive, but very nice. Got to listen to Joe Rogge on the way here. Some of my favorite cryptocurrency channels. Okay. Yeah. All right. Well, speaking of cryptocurrency, let's just get right into the stories here, folks. We are going to talk about Solana in a bit, but first, let's look at the crypto market. We have Bitcoin down about 1%. Let me go ahead and hit refresh just in case we're getting a little bit fresher. All right. Bitcoin down 1%. But Ethereum is up about 2 % right now, XRP down 2 .5%. Solana is cooling off, folks. Solana is almost down to 5 % along with Cardano, but both of them had a positive week. Solana just had a 10 times better week than Cardano there, 38 % to a 3 .8 % pump there. So if you're holding Solana over Cardano, you're feeling pretty good. If you're holding both, you're wondering, you're looking at your Cardano bag, poking it with the stick, like the meme, come on, do something, do something. It'll happen eventually, folks. Just trust me. Then we have Chainlink down to 5 .5 % as well, but Matic is up. But we look, look at Celestia, Tia, Tia is up. We were talking about Tia, Tia is up 25%, 125 % for the week. Now, TJ, did you see any Tia actually, you saw Celestia? I mean, I know it's Drew's wife's name, so he's been big on it, but he actually, I think was talking about Celestia. Yeah, we did a short on it a while back. We noticed it when it very first popped out. Obviously it's strong in some of the Asian markets, a competitor, so to speak, coming out of nowhere. We're seeing, we're moving up very quickly through the top 100. I think it's ranked 65, 68, something like that right now. I mean, it was under 100 a week or two ago when we first covered it. Definitely something to keep an eye on. And this is something that's important that I wanted to mention on today's stream. As we're getting into a new bull market, there's a lot of different ways to look at different altcoins and value different things. When you're building out your portfolio, there's something to be said for projects that have been around for a little while that you know are going to perform into the bull market. Again, we've looked at them a lot. They're in the top 20s, top 50s, the Maddox, the Mutables, the avalanches, the Solanas, kind of the big performers of the last cycle. However, the ones that tend to have the most explosive gains can be the things that are launching around this time, the newer things. It'll be interesting to see if that trend proves through in this cycle. But Tia, Celestia would be one of those ones that it looked like tech had been around for a while, the team had been around for a while, and they were waiting for the right time to launch to really capture attention in this bull market. So watching how those perform over the next few months, I do think is going to be key. We're going to be doing a deep dive on Celestia coming up in the next week or so. I have some of that going into the works. But watching layer ones, layer twos in the narratives, obviously, in this cycle, I think is going to be a good strategy if you're looking to make those gains. All right. But speaking of gains, we also have the other side of the coin, and that's the losses, folks. The biggest loser is Rollbit for the day, down 10 percent and then Kronos. But if you look at the week here, the biggest loser is Trust Wallet and then followed by XRP. Oh, no. XRP was the number two loser for the week, folks. So it's just interesting to see a top five coin be one of the biggest losers right there. Nio, Nio as well. Nio is down now. Nio is on a video I'm working on right now, the top five coins out of Asia, everybody. And Nio is one of the five. So that might be one. All right. I'll be joining in in a second here. But I think it's time for us to talk a little Solana here. Now, Rodney, what are your broad thoughts on Solana as a sign in real quick? Yeah, well, I think that could be one of the bigger comeback stories of this next run, because really the reason why it dumped down so much, because look at everything dumped during the bear market. But the reason why it dumped down significantly was the negative association it had with Almeida Research, Sam Beckman Fried and stuff like that. But now that we're putting all that stuff behind us, it's probably going to recover. I mean, beside what the occasional network outage is, it's actually a pretty solid project. So a lot of people bought that dip understanding that the reason why it was down wasn't because of function. It was because of the negative publicity. Just like Elon Musk going on Joe Rogan's show, smoking some, you know, green and then dumping Tesla stock. Yeah, I always talk about that podcast. I saw that podcast and I remember thinking, oh, wow, this guy is incredibly bright. I would want to own Tesla stock. A lot of people say, oh, yeah, let's dump it. Well, Solana is overtaking Ethereum by active users after a 70 % spike. Everybody let's look at some of the numbers here. So this is according to Arnimix, they had 356 ,000 unique users on Saturday beating Ethereum's 330 ,000. So beat them by 26 ,000 right there. The milestone was driven by a sharp uptick with the network hosting only 200 ,000 just one week ago, less than a week ago. So it was $100 ,000 less. For comparison, ETH consistently holds around 300 to 350 with two brief spikes above 400k in a surge of more than 1 million wallets. But the price of Solana has plummeted. Is it still more than 96 % from 2021 high of 250 bucks? Does that sound right? I don't know about 96%. Yeah, no, no, that's not right. At one point, at one point when it fell to $10 in January, active addresses on the network shrank 85 % from over a million, 1 .28 to around 200 ,000 this September, according to the block. But Solana refused to stay down and now it is up 145 % just in the past four weeks. So everyone holding on to the profit feel good. And then some analysts have been quick to pronounce that Solana has flipped Ethereum by active users due to the recent uptick. However, the ecosystem has expanded beyond its base layer with the majority of ETH activity now taking place on layer two. So Solana may surpass Ethereum, but there's a giant asterisk because if you want to incorporate little activity, two well, Ethereum, the EVM as a whole greatly surpasses Solana there. But TJ, what do you think about Solana ever surpassing Ethereum as far as, you know, being the number one chain? What odds would you, would you put it less than 5%, less than 1 %? No, I think what you just said really matters there by what metric, right? You know, so you've got transactions, you've got daily active users, you've got a market cap, you've got volume, you know, there's so many different metrics to measure a chain by. So I could see it passing it in transactions one day. That's what it's designed for, right? If you get some good, if you get some good games running on it, you could see it hit higher active users, higher transaction or, you know, but volume, probably not, you know, like DeFi is going to most likely live on Ethereum for the foreseeable future. We talked about that a little bit last week. The ecosystem really matters there. And so I think what we're seeing right now in price gains in the short term, sure, it could, it could outperform there. And I think part of what we should talk about here today is why we saw all that price movement happening over the weekend. And I think, I think you've got my screen here, BJ, you can pull it in here, but some of the factors that came up on this article on Cointelegraph, why Solana Price woke up this week, it really has to do with, you know, obviously FTX getting reopened back up. A lot of people thinking there's less likely for Alameda and what's held on the FTX balance sheet, less likely to dump.
The Dan Bongino Show
Dan's Northvale, NJ Book Signing Was an Epic Success!
"That for this weekend special so a lot happened since I've been with you last first we had a book signing Friday in Northvale New Jersey I expected like 350 people 500 people showed up it was crazy the nicest people huge shout out to the cops and a lot of people showed up I I had some DEA guys FBI guys couple of 75 precinct guy ESU SWAT guys there and one guy came up to me and said Dan I love it when you give shout outs to the truckers and the HVAC guys and the carpenters and the electricians and the steam fitters but you got to mention this railroad guys shout out to the railroad guy and railroad guys out there we love you too but seeing everyone up close and personal is crazy we were there three and a half hours guy said the book signing was nuts our last book signing for a while little while probably not the last one but for a while is this week in Dallas so this is kind of a weekend update on Diana Ball here Dallas this Friday November 17th 2pm local time Grapevine Texas at the Books -A -Million don't miss it we will be there their WBAP audience Jim is saying this is going to be the most packed one yet we've had anywhere from 300 to 800 people these things they're always crowded I don't know we'll see Jim's saying yes WBAP audience represent Grapevine Texas this Friday November 17th 2 p .m. local time book signing at Books -A -Million and Grapevine if you want the deets it's on my Instagram Twitter and true social just scroll through you'll see a lot of them there that's pretty cool so that happened and I want to thank the guy who his gave up parking spot in front of the bookstore they forgot to save us a parking spot so we there was not a single spot in this entire parking lot and the guy in the black truck who he's I said listen if we get you line in first will you give us his spot I had
Accelerate Your Business Growth
Leveraging AI in Communications
"Really? Yeah, I love asking, what do you need from me to do this? That is one of the best prompts you can put in there after you finish your task or after you finish like a little bit of the direction. Because it gives it so much better and stronger direction. Wow. I love that. And I also noticed something else. I give really short prompts, but it sounds like you give really rich, detailed prompts for what you're looking for. Is that true? I would say it depends. Yeah, I would say most of the time I'm giving it pretty detailed prompts. But it doesn't take me very long because again, like I said, I have this little prompt library where I copy and paste. But I always tell it who it is. Because again, it was trained on all this information, so you want to try and focus it with where it needs to be looking for in its memory banks for what it's asking. So you're a social media manager, you're a multi -million dollar fundraiser, you are the number one copywriter or journalist for Forbes magazine. You can tell it who you want it to be. Then you tell it what you want with some bullet points, because again, you always make the difference in all of the content. So if I want to tell someone how to do podcasting, I'm going to give them tips. Well, I'm going to tell the AI system what tips I want included in whatever it is that I'm having it right. Then I tell it the voice, and the voice is a copy paste from my other stuff. Then I can give it formatting direction, you know, format it with emojis or format it in bullet point or write it in markdown format so it's easy to read. Short, you know, 300 words, 100 words, only two paragraphs, whatever you want to give it direction for the formatting. And then, again, you make all the difference. So editing, rewriting, and creating is the key.
Crypto Banter
A highlight from This Strategy Will Make MILLIONAIRES In The Crypto Bull Market! (Watch Till The End)
"I want to show you the most powerful tool that I have in this bull market. Trust me, it's the way that I've made the most money since I started trading. We've just had a huge breakout in Bitcoin. I know it doesn't look like it, but Bitcoin has been battling this resistance line for a long time and we've just broken through the resistance line beautifully, beautifully right over there. And what that means is it means that we are getting into the next stage of this raging Bitcoin bull market. The next stage is going to be a much, much, much faster and much more vicious stage of the bull market. Up until now, we've been battling this resistance line, but once we get through it, we get into the next part of the Bitcoin bull market. And if our thesis is right, if our thesis has been right up until now, we are about 30 % of the way in this bull market. The first 300 days were the build up, the accumulation phase of the bull market. And the next 600 days is when all the action happens and we do something like this. So what does that mean? Well, it means that you've got about 600 days to make real life changing money. Because if you don't make real life changing money in the next 600 days, I think the next cycle for crypto is going to be a lot more relaxed, a lot more regulated, and to be honest, a lot less fun. What it means is that we've got 600 days left to make real life changing or wife changing money. Now listen, I've been in crypto for a long time. I've been around for the previous two cycles. I lived through this 2015 to 2017 high. I lost most my money. And then I lived through this 2021 2022 bull market. And if I learned anything in those bull markets, I learned two things. The first thing is that making money in a bull market only happens if you have a plan. If you don't have a plan, you ain't going to make money because what you're going to do is you're going to end up riding this bull market right up to the top and you're going to get flushed out because you don't have a plan. And the second thing I learned is that even if you've got a plan, if you don't have the right tools to execute on your plan, you have got zero chance of keeping your money. I've seen this twice. In 2017, I made fortunes and I landed up losing fortune. In 2021, I ended up making fortunes and luckily I ended up keeping it. So when it comes to making a plan, we have a great plan. And to be honest, we've been executing on our plan and our plan is performing. What we said is we said that we put 80 % of our money into this diversified portfolio, which by the way, up until today is up 60 % in just one month. It's a beautifully diversified portfolio that talks to all the narratives and has a well diversified number of coins. And you can see it's broken up beautifully. So that's our plan and we're executing as per that plan. 80 % of our money is going into that ETF and 20 % is going into a whole lot of small speculative bets that can really, really, really explode your portfolio. Things like the next Casper or the next Kojira. That's what our plan is. And if you want to know more about our plan, I'm going to leave a link to the video below where we actually devised the plan, where we actually made that plan. Today's show though is about the second thing that you need. I want to show you the most powerful tool that I have in this bull market. I built it because of what I learned in the previous bull markets and because of the mistakes that I made. And I want to show you the tool and I want to show you why it's so powerful. So listen, if you're watching this and you want more of this content and you want more plans, subscribe to the channel. Now's a beautiful, great time to subscribe. And if you're already a subscriber, just smash the like button. Let's get everybody else listening and let's get everybody else looking and using these tools to make you guys life -changing money in the next, well, 599 days now. So the tool I want to show you today is Banter Bubbles. And to be honest, when we built this tool, we never realized how powerful this tool was going to be. It's only when we started making real money on this tool that we realized exactly how powerful it is. So what is it? Well, here it is. Or in fact, here it is because it's available on iPhone, on Android, and of course, on desktop. What is it? It's a tool that's designed to show you how tokens are moving very, very quickly. The idea is that you can, with a quick glance, understand exactly what's going on with the bubbles. When the bubbles are green, it means they're going up. When the bubbles are red, it means they're going down. The bigger the bubble, the bigger the move. So you can see on today's bubbles, Neo is up 15 % today, FTT is up 80 % today, and Alluvium is up 30 .62 % today. Now, I always used to use this tool when I used to wake up in the morning, look at my phone, see if it's going to be a good day or a bad day, or if I was going to a restaurant and I snuck off to go to the toilet, I quickly went and looked at the bubbles, and I realized which tokens were going up and which tokens were going down. But that wasn't enough because knowing whether the why they're going up or down. And so what we did was we built a chat in every single one of the bubbles. So when you see a bubble going up, you click on the chat, and it's a place where the community gather and share alpha as to why the token is going up or down. So you can see the whole Casper community is gathered here in the bubbles. And it gave you an idea. The idea was to say, hey, the bubbles are going up, but why are the bubbles going up or down? And that's where the chat came in. But that wasn't enough. We wanted to give you guys more alpha, we wanted to make the bubbles more interactive. So what did we do? Well, we created a general chat. An idea behind the general chat was to say, you can sit down, you can watch every single one of the bubbles. And while you're watching the bubbles, you can see what the community is talking about in response to the bubbles moving. And there's a lot of alpha in this chat. In fact, this is where I'm starting to get a lot of my alpha. That's amazing. We then built a whole lot of features in the bubbles. Like for example, you can add filters. So you can add a filter over here. And you can say, I want to see the performance of gaming coins only. And there we go. It's now showing you the performance of gaming coins only. You can filter it even further by saying I want to see it on the hourly chart. And now I'm looking at gaming coins specifically on the hourly chart. You can add watch lists. So you go over here, you press on lists, you add a watch list, and you can add your tokens that you have in your portfolio. So let me add in Bitcoin. I have Bitcoin in my portfolio add token. Let me add it over there. I have Solana in my portfolio. Solana is doing fantastically well. I have Casper in my portfolio. I'm going to add it there. And so you can add your own, you can create your own watch list with just the tokens that you're interested in watching. So you can block out the noise. You can obviously do a whole lot of other things. You can see the top 100 coins or even go all the way down the list as you see fit. And if you like categories, well, that's simple. Just go to filter, find the categories that interest you, whether they're gaming, centralized exchanges, liquid staking tokens, metaverse, and click here, and you'll immediately see just those coins. So that's what we did. We built an amazing tool, but we weren't happy. We wanted to give you guys even more alpha. And even though our competitors thought we were crazy and the market thought we were crazy, we did something absolutely insane. We took the banter newsroom, the place where we get all of our research, and we added it to the bubbles for free, which means that effectively if you go onto the newsroom, you can see every single tweet, every single article that, that our 40 researchers are looking at real time. As we see them here, we have 40 researchers and what they're doing all day long is they are looking for research that we make our trading decisions with, and that we use to make our content. And it's all available right here for you to see. And to be honest for our competitors to see too, because we don't really care. People said we were crazy, but you know what we decided to do? We decided to double down. Not only did we make our entire newsroom absolutely free for everyone to see so that you can watch the news and watch the effects that the news is happening on the bubbles. We also gave people free access to our research call. This is a call that happens once every day with the entire banter team. And it's where we discuss all the alpha for the day. And we discuss what we're going to put into our shows. It happens about six hours before our shows.
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 16:00 11-10-2023 16:00
"Interactive Brokers charges USD margin loan rates from 5 .83 % to 6 .83 % rated the lowest margin fees by stockbrokers .com. Their clients can also earn extra income by lending their fully paid shares of stock. Join Interactive Brokers clients from 200 plus countries and territories to invest in stocks, options, futures, funds, and bonds on 150 global markets. Rates subject to change. Learn more at ibkr .com compare. Hosting a gain on the week. Remember those first three days of the week even though we were in the green it was relatively tepid gains here so the strength that we're seeing here on this Friday really just kind of clawing us back I think to kind of where we were about a week ago. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is gonna finish out the day higher up by about 1 % or about 390 points and change. The S &P 500 higher by about 68 points or 1 .6 % and if an official close above 4400 4415 and change which is also above that 100 day moving average. Meanwhile the NASDAQ composite higher by almost 300 points or 2 % on the day and for once the Russell 2000 decides it actually wants to play along up a percent on the day. Alright well that's pretty broad -based at least in the S &P 500. Peeling back the layer there Scarlett you see 436 stocks in the S &P 500 higher today only 65 moving lower. I feel bad for whoever's doing decliners Scarlett. Yeah that'll be me later on. I look at the New York Stock Exchange almost three stocks higher for everyone that is lower and that it's pretty much reflected in the industry groups as well. Chip companies are the best performers on the day and for the week as well up about five and a half percent this week. Software services and autos that's really Tesla bringing up the rear in terms of the best three performing groups. In terms of laggards because all the industry groups are higher food beverage and tobacco telecom and farmers so the more traditional defensive sectors are not doing as well today. Alright let's take a look at what's going on.
HASHR8
A highlight from US Bitcoins Big Celsius Deal W/ Asher Genoot & Scott Duffy
"Welcome back to the mining pod. On today's show, we're joined by Ashton Gnut of US Bitcoin and Scott Duffy of the Celsius creditors committee. In this show, we're talking about everything with Celsius, Fahrenheit and US Bitcoin. US Bitcoin recently entered an agreement to purchase and operate some of Celsius's assets, which are now under management from a new company called Fahrenheit. We go through the obligations between the different parties, the new operations of the fleet that US Bitcoin is going to run, and how this impacts the merger between HUT8 and US Bitcoin. Did you know that you can make more money by merge mining other networks? Check out MakeMoreMoneyMining .com for information on BIPs 300 and 301. A proposal to bring more revenue to Bitcoin miners through sidechains and merge mining called Drivechains. Increase your mining revenues and learn more about participating in Bitcoin governance by visiting MakeMoreMoneyMining .com. Are you a miner who wants to activate Bitcoin improvements? Check out Activation .watch, see what Bitcoin improvements the Bitcoin community, developers and miners are considering and show support by signaling for one of many BIPs up for consideration. Activation .watch. Is your mining operation happening ready? Take control of your own future with the right energy strategy. Linkcoin Energy Trading Platform is a tool used by miners to design, monitor and seamlessly orchestrate sophisticated energy strategies within electricity markets such as ERCOT, New York and PJM. Avoid penalties, participate in demand response programs and capture hundreds of thousands of dollars per megawatt per year by deploying the right block and index strategy. Secure your competitive edge at linkcoin .com.
The Mason Minute
Lost Continent (MM #4615)
"I've always been fascinated with continents. In particular, how the world started out as one continent, Pangaea, and over the course of hundreds of millions of years split into the now, depending how you look at it, six or seven. It's all based on tectonic plates. But for a long time, scientists have been puzzled how Australia and Southeast Asia really fit together. Because when you start looking at the areas around Indonesia and the Philippines, it didn't make sense to where there was a fit. Well, it's taken them 155 million years to figure out there's a missing continent that they've now named Argo Land. And it's the continent that kind of gets shoved underneath Indonesia and underneath the Philippines, and it's kind of like buried and missing when all the plates started clashing together. This stuff is way above my knowledge of science, but it's fascinating to read and to try to understand just how this world has evolved over 300 million years. I can't even fathom it. But it's interesting to think another continent that's there, but isn't.
The Mason Minute
Lost Continent (MM #4615)
"I've always been fascinated with continents. In particular, how the world started out as one continent, Pangaea, and over the course of hundreds of millions of years split into the now, depending how you look at it, six or seven. It's all based on tectonic plates. But for a long time, scientists have been puzzled how Australia and Southeast Asia really fit together. Because when you start looking at the areas around Indonesia and the Philippines, it didn't make sense to where there was a fit. Well, it's taken them 155 million years to figure out there's a missing continent that they've now named Argo Land. And it's the continent that kind of gets shoved underneath Indonesia and underneath the Philippines, and it's kind of like buried and missing when all the plates started clashing together. This stuff is way above my knowledge of science, but it's fascinating to read and to try to understand just how this world has evolved over 300 million years. I can't even fathom it. But it's interesting to think another continent that's there, but isn't.
The Mason Minute
Lost Continent (MM #4615)
"I've always been fascinated with continents. In particular, how the world started out as one continent, Pangaea, and over the course of hundreds of millions of years split into the now, depending how you look at it, six or seven. It's all based on tectonic plates. But for a long time, scientists have been puzzled how Australia and Southeast Asia really fit together. Because when you start looking at the areas around Indonesia and the Philippines, it didn't make sense to where there was a fit. Well, it's taken them 155 million years to figure out there's a missing continent that they've now named Argo Land. And it's the continent that kind of gets shoved underneath Indonesia and underneath the Philippines, and it's kind of like buried and missing when all the plates started clashing together. This stuff is way above my knowledge of science, but it's fascinating to read and to try to understand just how this world has evolved over 300 million years. I can't even fathom it. But it's interesting to think another continent that's there, but isn't.
The Mason Minute
Lost Continent (MM #4615)
"I've always been fascinated with continents. In particular, how the world started out as one continent, Pangaea, and over the course of hundreds of millions of years split into the now, depending how you look at it, six or seven. It's all based on tectonic plates. But for a long time, scientists have been puzzled how Australia and Southeast Asia really fit together. Because when you start looking at the areas around Indonesia and the Philippines, it didn't make sense to where there was a fit. Well, it's taken them 155 million years to figure out there's a missing continent that they've now named Argo Land. And it's the continent that kind of gets shoved underneath Indonesia and underneath the Philippines, and it's kind of like buried and missing when all the plates started clashing together. This stuff is way above my knowledge of science, but it's fascinating to read and to try to understand just how this world has evolved over 300 million years. I can't even fathom it. But it's interesting to think another continent that's there, but isn't.
The Mason Minute
Lost Continent (MM #4615)
"I've always been fascinated with continents. In particular, how the world started out as one continent, Pangaea, and over the course of hundreds of millions of years split into the now, depending how you look at it, six or seven. It's all based on tectonic plates. But for a long time, scientists have been puzzled how Australia and Southeast Asia really fit together. Because when you start looking at the areas around Indonesia and the Philippines, it didn't make sense to where there was a fit. Well, it's taken them 155 million years to figure out there's a missing continent that they've now named Argo Land. And it's the continent that kind of gets shoved underneath Indonesia and underneath the Philippines, and it's kind of like buried and missing when all the plates started clashing together. This stuff is way above my knowledge of science, but it's fascinating to read and to try to understand just how this world has evolved over 300 million years. I can't even fathom it. But it's interesting to think another continent that's there, but isn't.
The Crypto Conversation
A highlight from StealthTest - An end-to-end solution for Web3 Development
"Hi everyone, Andy Pickering here, I'm your host and welcome to the Crypto Conversation, a Brave New Coin podcast where we talk to the people building the future in the Bitcoin, blockchain and cryptocurrency space. Five years ago, deep in a bear market, a group of traditional finance experts founded Bitget, and they've been building ever since. Now, with 20 million users worldwide, Bitget is committed to helping users trade smarter by providing a secure one -stop crypto investment solution with copy trading, future trading and spot trading. Your security is their priority and Bitget has one of the largest protection funds in the industry, with US 300 million to cover potential trader losses from unforeseen events that are not due to misconduct from the user or platform. Bitget wants to inspire everyone to embrace Web3, so if you're new to crypto, learn more at the Bitget Academy with free blockchain courses, crypto guides, cryptocurrency trading strategies and more. Or, for the experienced investor, trade smarter with daily access to institutional -grade crypto market intelligence and trends analysis with Bitget Research. I've put links to Bitget Research and the Bitget Academy in the show notes, so get amongst it or simply go to bitget .com. Thank you to Bitget and now it is on with the show. My guest today is Colin Woodward. Colin is the president of StealthTest, a secure cloud -based environment that enables teams to create test networks across chains. various Welcome to the show, Colin. Thanks for having me, Andy. I appreciate it. It is a pleasure. Let's do what we do at the beginning of the show, Colin. Could you please introduce yourself? It would be good to hear a bit about your personal and professional story. It's an interesting one. I've had a look. What have you been doing in the lead up to getting involved in StealthTest? Yeah, certainly. So as you mentioned, I'm Colin Woodward. I'm president and general counsel of StealthTest, which is an API -based software platform and developer toolkit that features private test networks for most EVM -compatible chains. Right now, we're live on Ethereum and Polygon, Moonbeam, Arbitrum One and Arbitrum Nova, and we have a couple of new networks that we're adding just about every month now in two to three -week sprints, so very exciting there. I guess to kind of reel back things a bit, my background is actually as a corporate lawyer by trade, one who was very interested in emerging technology and kind of just markets in general. And as you might imagine, emerging tech plus markets, I quickly found my way to crypto in 2017 and actually kind of was introduced to crypto and perhaps a common fairly way that many people might encounter it for the first time. I was working in a large law firm at the time, and I shared an office wall with a colleague of mine. And one day in 2017, during kind of one of the previous bull cycles, he kind of popped in my office while I was busy at work, and he's like, hey, you ever heard about this crypto thing? It's really big right now, and I think you should check it out. And I said, Dave, I have no idea what you're talking about, but feel free to have a seat and share what you know about crypto with me. And so we chatted for a bit.
The MMQB NFL Podcast
A highlight from AFC Favorite & Our Midseason Awards
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We had four games that everybody thought were gonna be great and as it turned out, three of them were pretty good. One of which was a blowout. We'll get to all them here in a minute then of course we have our week 10 lines of five games that we're gonna focus on from our SI Sportsbook odds and then from there we also have the midseason awards that we have to get to as we are halfway home in the 2023 NFL season. Before we get to all that, let's welcome the other man of the tandem, Gil, what's going on man? How you been? Yeah, I'm doing well. Matt, as you know, I like to brag about my wins and complain about my losses and last week was a good week. I went 12 -2 with the picks but I am pretty disappointed that I betted against Joshua Dobbs. What a game, right? Unbelievable. I'm annoyed. You went 12 -2, I went 11 -3 and I feel like 11 -3 should have given me some bragging rights for the week and yet it did not happen. So I will say on the whole, our group, yourself, myself, Connor, Orr, Albert Breer, Mitch and John our editors and Claire, another editor of ours as well that does great work, I feel like everybody's picks have been really pretty good this year. There are some years you look at picks and go, oh my god, I'm barely above 500. Right now, I've got the sheep pulled up in front of me, so the best record is Albert who's 95 -41, went 11 -3 last week and then after that, Claire Kawana is right behind him with 92 wins and then in gold it says 87 wins and then it's myself, yourself, John and then Connor Orr at 75 and 65 pulling up the rear, so Connor's got to step up. Connor is bringing down the credibility of this entire group. That's not bad for last play, so 10 games over 500? His thing is, we all do our upset picks and he's done 50 upset picks. I think I've done like 16. So that's part of the reason, but yeah, the picks are good and of course people that want to can read those over at SI .com, we put them out every week. The editors are nice enough to put that together. All right, so last week, like I said, we had some great games. We had Chiefs Dolphins over in Germany and then we had Ravens, Seahawks, which we thought would be a great game, turned out to be a massacre, Late Window, Cowboys, Eagles, which was one of the wildest games I can remember seeing in quite some time and then of course we had Bills, Bengals at the end, the Sunday night game there and so like I said, we'll get to all those. Let's just start with how the day actually started. Over in Frankfort, Chiefs build up a 21 -0 lead on Miami. Miami comes back, makes it 21 -14. They had a couple drives at the end where they could have tied the game, even taken the lead if they went for two. They got into Kansas City territory both times, but both times ended up going backwards, lose the game. They dropped to 6 -3. Chiefs, of course, improved to 7 -2. Both teams go on their bye weeks. I'll So, let you set the stage here, Gilberto. What is it to you, is it more about the Dolphins that game or is it more about the Chiefs? It is more about the Dolphins because they can't beat a team with a winning record and don't tell me the Chargers are .500 and the Dolphins beat them. They barely got to .500, so I am concerned about the Dolphins, but I don't want to let the Chiefs off the hook, Matt, and I know you've been writing about this, but the Dolphins have been pretty average. It got to a point where now Mahomes is saying, yeah, we sting. We're pretty bad. Go talk about the defense. That defense is carrying us the entire season. You know what's kind of funny, Matt? This season, it feels like the team with the best defense might win the Super Bowl, and the Chiefs still have the best defense right now, it feels like, so it's kind of a weird irony, but you expect better from Mahomes and Kelsey, but the wide receivers, they can't create separation. And it wasn't for that awesome fumble, reverse play, whatever it was from Cook there. They would have probably lost a game there, but what's going on with the Dolphins offense? Averaging 17 points against the Bills, Eagles, and the Chiefs, so I go with the Dolphins there because I feel like the Chiefs could figure it out. It's halfway point in the season, they're just cruising by, and I think something will finally break out there, but I'll let you maybe talk about the Chiefs a little more. But the Dolphins, man, you're supposed to be the most explosive offense, highest scoring, and you can't even get a first down. It's like, do they have too many home run hitters? Too many touchdown makers? How about some chain movers? How about some first down people? How about some quick outs, and just get four or five yards, and everything just feels like a home run, and they don't adjust, and they don't kind of make end game adjustments because credit to the Chiefs, and Tyreek Hill said it too, they covered, there was great coverage on Tyreek Hill, so it's kind of one of those games where like, why not get a tight end that can help you out here? Why not get some guys that can make it easier? How about go to Raheem Oster a little more? He had like 12 carries, and he's averaging 7 .1 yards per carry, so I don't know what's going on with Mike McDaniel on two, and two was pretty bad in that second half there. Yeah, he had the touchdown to Cedric Wilson, but make some adjustments, Mike McDaniel, and stop going for the home run ball, Tua. Yeah, look, first of all, I agree, I think the Dolphins are the bigger storyline coming out of the game. Like, they've now played three really good teams, and they've lost all three of them, and they came back against Kansas City, but they were getting killed in that game too. They were 21 -0 midway through the third quarter, and frankly, if Chris Jones doesn't take one of the dumbest personal fouls you've ever seen, it's probably 21 -7, and we're having a different discussion. I think your point though, man, is good with the Dolphins in the sense of like, there's timing strung off. They're just dead in the water. They have no answer for it, and we've seen that now multiple times, this year and last year. Kansas City basically said, we're going to get up on the line of scrimmage, we're going to get our hands on Tyreek Hill, we're going to reroute them, we're going to cause problems. Look, who knows them better than the Chiefs, right? I mean, they know what can cause some issues, and they actually went back and watched practice tape of a couple years ago to try to figure out how to stop them. They went back and watched how they worked against him in team drills and practice, and tried to figure out some things, and it obviously worked. But from the Chiefs' angle of this, listen, the offense is a disaster, okay? They had 46 yards in the second half of the game in a turnover. But they're 7 -2 in the number one seed in the AFC because the defense is incredible, and they're just shutting people down left and right. If you go and look this year at teams that have played the Chiefs, nobody's thrown for 300 yards. Kirk Cousins came the closest. He was up in the higher 200s because he threw a million passes. But if you look at Gough's numbers, 253 yards, one touchdown, which was a good game. That was without Chris Jones that week. Trevor Lawrence, they didn't score a touchdown. He threw 41 times for 216 yards. Justin Fields threw for 99 yards. Zach Wilson, of all people, had one of the best days against him, 245 and two touchdowns. That game. wild And then you had Cousins, who went for 284 and two touchdowns on 47 attempts. Russell Wilson threw for 95 yards one game, and in the other game, the game that they won, he threw for 114. These teams, two I didn't throw for 200 yards. Nobody's throwing for yardage against them. They're second in the league in sacks, the first in pressure rate. They've got two elite corners in McDuffie and Sneet, and so, look, the question with Kansas City is obvious. Can this offense get going? Because if the offense gets going, they're probably the best team in the NFL. I mean, if they get even borderline top -10 production out of that offense, forget it. They have the week now to scout. I was texting with some people around the team, and I think there's a general thought of like, look, it's a bunch of little things that are throwing off the whole thing. Question is, how many of those little things can you fix in the next couple of months? The good news is you have Mahalem, you have Kelsey, you've got a good offensive line, you've got Andy Reid. The bad news is they have you and me at receiver. So, I mean, that's the question. My guess? They'll fix it to an extent. I don't think it's going to be a unit that you'll look at and go, oh my God, they're incredible. I think it's probably going to be a top -10 unit right around there at the end of the year. They're in the mix, but yeah, I agree, man. The Dolphins are definitely the thing that you'll look at right now, and the team you'll look at right now and go, all right, you're going to make the playoffs, but what are you going to do when you get there? Are you going to beat somebody good, or is there going to be a one -and -done? Matt, let me ask a quick question, because you watch this team closely, and I think I watch them good enough because they're always on prime time, but all these analytics people are saying, look at the EPA, look at the DVOA. They're top five in offense in all these categories, and I'm like, I get it. You keep showing me the numbers, but I keep watching the games, and the wide receivers are not that great. They're not scoring points. They had nine points against Denver, so I don't know what it is. Maybe when you said disaster, I'm like, okay, cool, because I was trying to play it safe. Maybe they're average because there's something here that I'm missing with the DVOA and the EPA. They're a disaster by their standards. By anyone else's standards, yeah, they're probably still an above -average offense, but by their standards, they're a train wreck. I will say this. People forget it because they won the Super Bowl last year. They were somewhat of a train wreck offensively the first half of last year, too. They had a bunch of games last year. They lost to the Colts last year. They muddled through a Chargers game that they ended up winning because of a pick -six that went 99 yards the other way. They struggled offensively against the Bills. They ended up beating the Raiders on a Monday night last year, but they were down 17 -0, and they needed to come back in that game. They were not good offensively for stretches of last season, and then they're them. In January, they cranked it up, and that was it. Even on one ankle, Mahomes did enough to win. But this has been the year before that. They were 3 -4 at the beginning of the year. They couldn't score a point in that season. That was the year Mahomes played, again, by his standards, not by anybody else's, but by his standards. He played poorly. You go to 2021, and they lost in the AFC title game. They were 3 -4, and then people say, oh, well, then they came out of it. They did in terms of that they won games. Their point totals after that 3 -4 start, they won 20 -17, 13 -7. Then they blew the Raiders out, scored 41, 19 -9, 22 -9. The last couple of years, they've had stretches like this, but by their standards, they're a disaster offensively right now. By the NFL's standards, they're probably somewhere between 10 -12th in the league offensively. So, got to take it for what it's worth. Yeah. All right. Let's get to the next game here. The Bengals and the Bills will go right to Sunday Night Football, speaking of a team that by their standards is an offensive disaster, despite what EPA will tell you. I'm not here to bag on the analytics, guys. I will tell you this. I'm a big eye test guy. You watch the Bills. My eye test, I don't care that they're fourth or whatever in EPA offensively. They have not been good over the last month and change. I don't think there's any way to say that otherwise. They go to Cincinnati. They made it a little bit closer at the end, but they were down 24 -10 with a few minutes left. They score a touchdown. They get the two, but they can't get the ball back. The Bengals now, 5 -3. Winners of four straight playing like we expected them to play at the beginning of the year. The Bills are 5 -4. It has been a struggle for them. They started the year 3 -1. Since then, they're 2 -3 going in the other direction. They have a very hard schedule. We'll get to that in a moment. What was your main takeaway from that Bengals -Bills game? Just the difference in quarterback play between Joe Burrow and Josh Allen and how to cover that game. I wrote about it. I kept seeing Joe Burrow moving around the pocket and extending plays. Then I look at the boxer, I'm like, wait, he has four rushing yards? I thought he ran for a bunch of yards. I know he had that one where he had the first down kind of signal. It's just when pressure comes, he knows how to move. It's smooth. It's not like he has to speed it up. He just says, okay, cool. You're right there, but I'm still going to do what I have to do and just extend plays. Matt, when it's Drew Sample and Tanner Hudson and Erskine Jr., Trenton Irwin, these guys are making plays. Then you look at Josh Allen, when the pressure comes, it looks difficult. It's chaotic. He has to kind of see what's out there and then, okay, force a throw or miss a throw. I get the Bengals defense is better than the Bills defense, so Burrow had maybe an easier time, but there was pressure. He was fighting pressure. I get it. The second there is not as good there, but it just seems harder for Josh Allen.
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"It seems like our local GOP leadership, well, I'm not gonna say the conservatives, but the constitutionalists, they don't really care about the community. You never see community initiatives or outreach. And the Democrats and the socialists have that locked down. I mean, as much as there's crime and there's this and that, they're still out in the community kind of giving back. I mean, Mark Poloncarz was just at the Grider Street Community Center a week or so ago, giving out free hot dogs. And unfortunately, that's what people, the voters, the Democrat voters who do outnumber us, that's what they see. It's like instant gratification and they forget everything that's been done. And how do you defeat that? ["Oh, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa"] Hey, welcome back. Mike Lomas, Glenn Wiggle actually taking off, Ron Rheinstein in with me. We've got a special guest on the live line here. We'll talk a little bit about what happened last night. Erie County stuck on stupid again. The pain, the pain. Nationwide though, just not Erie County. Yeah, we're going to talk to an optimist in a little bit who's a workhorse here in Erie County, Nancy Ortecelli. But I got to be honest, I texted her this morning. I'm like, I feel like drinking. And it's like seven o 'clock in the morning. Can we take a personal day? Can we take a personal day? You're just so beat up. I mean, it's just, you know, it's like, you have to ask yourself, how could these people be this dumb? Well, how could you be this dumb? And it's not even rhetorical. Everything you've touched has turned to shit and you continue to vote for the same exact shit. It's just unreal. Because here's, this is just from a sleepless knife yesterday into today. People that left the cities, they're just like, I got to get away from the crime. I got to get away from the poverty, all the above. And their shitty voting has metastasized like a cancer in the suburbs. And it just keeps going and going and going. Well, they don't show up. That's what's so frustrating. Well, there's also that. I mean, you look at the numbers and it's like, how in the world do you not show up? I'm actually going through my phone yesterday. I'm saying, don't forget to vote. Don't forget to vote. Who's on the ballot? That's what I've got to think about. Like, how could you be that freaking stupid? I know. But the other, I mean, even if you look at an area where I grew up in Chictawaga and yes, the demographic has changed substantially since I left in 1998, but for the fact of the matter of the third world that has been imported, the taxes, the last county executive or not, the supervisor, she hammered two increases on the property assessments. It's back to back. Highest taxes in the country. And on top of that, the last one, because she's, again, the politicians, how they're just full of shit. Oh, that's our bad. You know, we're not even, well, maybe up for a second. Oh, we're not going to do another reassessment for two years and then literally the next year, here comes the next increase and all our bad, but we won't do it again. However, you got to pay. Yeah, sorry about that. And that's, and you look at the votes that were cast for supervisor. And I mean, again, how close it was and it'll go to recount. That's it? That's the amount of people that voted? Yeah, well, the GFP didn't do anything with absentee ballots there. So it'll go the other way. Before I forget, download our app, search Financial Guys Media in your app store and be sure to click notifications so you don't miss our weekly media drops. So don't forget about our app. Let me introduce Nancy Oreticelli. I was able to grab her. I know she's extremely busy. Nancy, what is your title today? Besides a miss of everything. I don't know, like, what is your exact title? You're everywhere, you know, constitution coalition, all this stuff. What is your, do you have a title? I mean, Antifa has called me a lot of things. So I know I work for an assemblyman, for assemblyman David DiPietro. I am on the executive board of the Erie County conservatives. I do, I'm the president of the constitutional coalition of New York state. So yeah, I do a lot of things. So that's who I am. I just, I believe in freedom and liberty and no matter what it looks like, I'm not a person who gives up and talking to a couple of people this morning, they're like, why do you sound so happy? I was like, well, I'm used to this. This is how it is here in Erie County. It's nothing new. It's not like - I know, you'd think all of us between the political environment here and then the bills and sabers, we'd be used to disappointment, right? We're like, let's roll out of that. Like, all right, I get it. Let me ask you, let's start out with the county executive race. I mean, what happened there? You know, you can't, first of all, he's literally, the cops are showing up because he's restraining a woman. We had people die in a storm because of his mismanagement. We had a record amount of businesses closed because of the way he handled COVID, right? I mean, you can't ask. And then he drops off all these illegal immigrants. They, 13 out of 50 of them get arrested and brought it up on charges. They destroy a hotel. I mean, it's like, okay, maybe you're not happy with Chrissy, but boy, you have to be some kind of a mental midget to say that's a good - And crimes on the rise. And crimes on the rise, record number. We don't want to enforce laws. Here's your appearance ticket. Yeah, number two in the entire country for Carstola. Number one is our neighbor Rochester. Number two, so what the heck happened? So people are misinformed. And it's like you just said, when you called and texted people and they said, who's on the ballot? Nobody cares anymore because it seems like our local GOP leadership are, well, I'm not gonna say the conservatives, but the constitutionalists, they don't really care about the community. You never see community initiatives or outreach. And the Democrats and the socialists have that locked down. I mean, as much as there's crime and there's this and that, they're still out in the community kind of giving back. I mean, polling cars was just at the Grider Street Community Center a week or so ago, giving out free hot dogs. And unfortunately, that's what people, the voters, the Democrat voters who do outnumber us, that's what they see. It's like instant gratification and they forget everything that's been done. And how do you defeat that? And I think the GOP needs to get out in the community more. I mean, they've had their get out the vote rallies that of consisted maybe 20 to 25 committee members. It wasn't the community. Do you know what I'm saying? And they don't - No, I get it. I was gonna say, but how - Nothing beats a good sailing hot dog. Yeah, here's your meat cylinder, go vote for four years and more tyranny. It's true, it's true. Well, that's, you're right. But the thing is, is, but then you take it a step further. You go fill up your car, holy shit, part of my life. That's even higher than it was a month ago. You go to the grocery store and our household, we do okay. But every time, between my wife, myself, and our two kids, and here's four bags, that was 300 bucks. Daughter, oldest daughter and my wife were down in Tennessee last week. My daughter was looking at the possibility of University of Tennessee. And she says to me, she said, "'Dad, do you know gas is a dollar a gallon cheaper there?' So I went through this whole thing about, you know, it's taxes. She's like, you're kidding me, just taxes. I said, yep, yep, that's the difference, difference between one state and the other. And every time somebody puts gas in their tank, it's an extra 30, 40 bucks here, as opposed to down there. So - So that's you and that's me, but that's not the urban voters. The urban voters are in poverty because of Democrat policies. But yeah, it's still vote that way. But they still vote that way because they'll come and give you free stuff a few times a year. They'll give you hot dogs. They'll give you backpacks. They'll give you this and that. A lot of them maybe don't have vehicles to fill up. Do you know what I'm saying? That's a fair point. But it's, you know what? Now that we're talking, Nancy, that also works against us too. I mean, we are top 10 in the country in poverty. Yeah, top three, I think. Per capita. Yeah, the city of Buffalo is, I think, two or three. Here's the, you know, our fair city. To your point, and I think you mentioned this, you know, the GOP will run on reducing the taxes. And Nancy, you said, these people don't pay taxes. That's true. That's not a problem for them, right? Although it is funny when you interview some of them, they actually think they do. They'll say, well, it's not fair. We're paying our fair share. Like, now you don't pay any federal taxes, and you don't pay any state taxes. If you look at it, and this isn't to be negative, but, and again, money's money. And let's just say they make $50 ,000, they're married filing joint. With your standard deduction, you're probably, you have $25 ,000 maybe in taxes total. Yeah, well, most of them. But that's what I'm just saying. And then you're probably getting a real fund. That's right. Most of them are public assistance. That's right. Talk about the women vote. I mean, you know, you look at other places, other parts of the country, and the women have really rallied together to really change things. And it just, you know, last night, I was really hoping that like town of Amherst, town of Cheektowaga, the women would step up and say, okay, we've got a guy who's clearly, you know, he's abused women. He's threatened a process server, a female process server that he's going to shoot her. And then the cops are showing up. I mean, well, I would think the moms would say, and it's amazing to me, I'm watching his speech last night, I'm thinking all these hypocrite Democrats, they're all, oh, believe the women, believe the women, unless it's a Democrat that can shove the left -wing agenda down your throat, then we don't believe them. So here's my take, two points I want to make. You know, talking about the women vote, I had a phone call the other week and somebody, it was actually Stephon, and he said, do you know a strong woman leader in Western New York who could do calls for Chrissy? And I was like, no, do you? I don't know any woman. There is no strong woman. I said, what about Lynn Dixon? They already had her. And I had thought about it. Mike, you probably remember a few years ago, I came to visit you. I wanted to start a women's group, but the coalition took off. And you know, if there's any women out there, women who would like to start a women's group, I'll help. I mean, I can't run it, but I'll help to get strong women elected. But there isn't. And then you have Moms for Liberty here in Erie County, but for some reason, the GOP will not unite with the grassroots organizations. Moms for Liberty have been phenomenal across the nation because the establishment has partnered with them. I don't know why they won't do it here. I don't get it. And if you would just unite, and it's the same issue with the conservatives and the Republicans, it's no secret we are outnumbered by Democrats. And so what happens with the conservatives and the Republicans who should be working together? The Republicans try to take over the legislature seat that was supposed to be conservative. You know, it was supposed to go to Lindsay Larrigo and they fought it with Jim Malcheski. I like Jim Malcheski and Lindsay Larrigo. They're both great people, but the GOP spent so much money on that primary that they had nothing to give to Chrissy to get her name out during this election because nobody knew who Chrissy was. And then they tried to do a party takeover in Evans where they switched a bunch of Democrats to conservatives, the GOP there did, to try to take over that party. And Ralph Larrigo did a lawsuit and the lawsuit is not finished yet, but the GOP candidate lost miserably. So they're focusing on things that should be uniting us, but they're dividing us instead of uniting. Look at West Connecticut and Lancaster. Those towns won amazingly for their town boards because the conservative committees and the Republican committees there are united and they work together. And I don't understand what the whole issue was with the Republicans trying to take out the conservatives this summer. It was baffling to me. So instead of focusing on Mark polling cars, you're gonna try to take a legacy away from a conservative candidate that it was already in the bag for them. You're gonna focus on a fight that was already a constitutionally minded candidate that was in there. It was a given, what a waste of resources and what a waste of time. That's a shame. Yeah, that's a shame. Absolutely. Well, the financial guys are here to help. I'd like to get you on the radio as well. We'll find that, hopefully we can find a strong female. That's what we need. You need the female vote. I mean, last night, the female vote shows up because Mark had been called, accused of holding a woman, I don't know, hostage or whatever. I mean, holding against her will, but they didn't show up. And they're like, God, that's so frustrating. The last thing before I let you go, the frustrating part to me and folks like Ron is we're in the business community, right? And so we're constantly getting involved. We're constantly trying to do our part. And sometimes I feel guilty because I look at somebody like you and I'm like, oh, I feel like a slug. But yeah, like, oh man, I really do. But the business community, I am just at awe this morning that they didn't show up at all. I mean, at all. How many restaurants did Mark destroy during COVID? How many gyms did he destroy? Now, some of these folks were strong enough to make it through, but I'm gonna be honest with you. If I owned a restaurant, I am never forgetting that. Now, I might be a little bit different of an animal because his picture and Gal Bernstein's picture would be on the front door and there would be a message that says, hey, if you're these people and you're walking in, do not bother, right? I mean, that's where I would be. But I get it. Some of these folks say, well, you know, I don't wanna be that aggressive. Okay, could you send Christie a hundred bucks? Could you put a sign out front of the restaurant to say, hey, just saying, I mean, like, not one. Well, that was the fault of the GOP, that they don't know how to fundraise. They really don't. And like I said before, their fundraisers consisted of just their own committee members. The public doesn't want anything to do with the GOP because the GOP has alienated them. Now, Michael Crocker is a good guy. I've met him. I've worked with him. He's really good, but he's got a lot to fix from the previous leadership. And yeah, I wouldn't want that job. I know. I know. You know what? It's funny you said that because I was talking to Glenn about it and Glenn's like, oh, they needed this. The hardest part about that is so many people have left. When you look at, and I'll say for America, I think it's a great thing, right? I mean, Florida is gaining delegates. New York is losing delegates. Florida had a $21 billion surplus. New York is going to go bankrupt at some point. I don't know when, but the math doesn't work, right? You cannot have the, and the 25 % of people that have left, they're all the top taxpayers, right? They're the ones paying the bills. Mike, this all sounds racist. Stop. That's right. Math is racist. But I mean, that's, even if the people that leave and, you know, from clients and friends and family that are in these Southern states, they still care, but they got up and left. Oh yeah. I mean, it's just - Well, they're not voting, right? They're not participating. Even if voting, but like, even if they've sent a check, like you said to Chrissy, but that's just the whole thing. They're gone. They're gone. I know, but you have, for the people, and I guess maybe this is where my deficiency comes with this, is that I'm like occupying common sense, I guess, way too much. But how the hell do people, again, you look at this, this sobering statistics or drive around the area, what the hell is coming here? Nothing. What is leaving here? A lot. A lot. What is beneficial that is derived from low -T polling cars? Let's just go over the last five years, the scandemic. How many people were affected by that? And how many businesses were lost? How many people, again, how many people have been Vax injured? Because, well, I can't go to the Bills game or the Sabres game, but seriously, I'm gonna roll up my sleeve. You were able to see the playoffs wave, but now you got my old car died. Or, again, my employer's forcing me, because this shit bag in City Hall is following crime wave Kathy, or Andrew, I killed your grandmother, Cuomo. Then you take it further. How many people died in nursing homes alone? One of my best friend's sister died in a hospital alone. Why is that, you may ask? Oh, because she tested positive for the Wuhan sniffles. Yes, I know. And these stories are out there. Yeah, I know. And yet there is zero messaging. And this is from Chrissy. This is from the GOP. This is from any Republican candidate that you can absolutely, and again, voting aside, fundraising aside, but if you got that message out there, debt would resonate. You need money to do that. You do, which is fair. And you need lots of it. I said from day one, I said for Chrissy to win, she probably needs a million bucks. And I think that's a fair number. And I think she got a total of about 150 ,000 from the business community. She was well, well, well underfunded. And I don't know, I was down there last night, I don't know if you got a chance to see her speech last night, but you could tell she cared. There was a few conservatives are sending messages, oh, she can't cry. I'm like, bullshit, she can't cry. She can do whatever she wants to do. You have the stones to step up. Then I was able to see her in the hallway before I said, Chrissy, that she's like, oh man, I feel like a failure. I said, Chrissy, I said, there's a million people in this freaking town, a million people. Do you know who was the only one that stepped up against this piece of shit, Mark Poloncarz? You. So don't let anybody ever tell you that you shouldn't do what you wanna do. There are so many armchair quarterbacks that oh, I should have done this, should have done that. I'm like, Chrissy, you're the only one. Guess what? Mike Lomas could have ran. I could have ran. I could have signed up. I didn't. Now - I feel like I told you to.
WTOP
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"This hour. The Israeli military has called up more than 300 ,000 reservists to join the fight against us and one man in our area is watching closely his son is among those on the front Mitchell Bard who lives in Chevy Chase has been having sleepless nights after his 26 -year -old son an Israeli Army reservist was called up to serve. I think the first response was to feel pride respect and that he was prepared to make kind this of sacrifice but at the same time Bard says it was difficult news for his entire family. Things are going to be very intense they're going to be horrible casualties on sides. both Bard says he has been able to talk to his son but they have limited now contact and there's a lot of uncertainty. Nick Ionelli, WTOP News. An area high school robotics club took an international trip for a competition and now that group is finally making its way home from Israel. As of now everybody is out. Tim Stevik's a mentor with the Fresno Valley Robotics Club based in Fauquier County. They were in Jerusalem and took cover when the sirens blared Saturday. By Tuesday they learned flights home were being delayed or canceled. We were all scrambling trying to find replacement trips. They stayed off social media and avoided walking around. Was anxious maybe more so for the parents and the mentors than it was for the high school students. You know that there was a lot of people that were praying for us which we really appreciated. All the group members are expected home by tonight. Neil Lloyd -Constein, WTLP News. More information about a deadly crash
WTOP
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"Dalia churned up the coast at last North Carolina with pounding rain and maximum winds sustained of 60 miles per hour. Intense winds created a brief tornado in Goose Creek, lifting this car straight off the ground. Miraculously, the local police chief said two people sustained only minor injuries. At least three deaths, including one in Georgia, are now blamed on Dalia. Yep, more than 300 ,000 customers in the southeast have no power. There are new concerns over Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's well -being after the 81 -year -old froze up during a Q &A with reporters in Kentucky. Correspondent Scott McFarland. Did you hear the question, Senator, before resuming? Okay. His staff said McConnell became momentarily lightheaded and planned to see a doctor before his next event. It's the second time it's happened this summer. McConnell was hospitalized hospitalized after a fall earlier this year. More than 70 people have died in a fire at a rundown five story building in Johannesburg, South Africa, among them at least seven children. The BBC's Nick Isles. This was a building that had been taken over or hijacked by gangs and then rented out to hundreds of different people, most of them homeless migrants. Lebogang Maile is a housing official for the city. This is a tragedy of monumental proportions and it's unfortunate that today we are here and this for us demonstrate a chronic problem of housing. There's been another deadly air crash involving the Ukrainian military correspondent, Tammy Kami McCormick. Six Ukrainian soldiers were killed when two military helicopters collided in the East during a combat mission. Both helicopters were destroyed. This comes after a jet crash that killed three Ukrainian fighter pilots during a training exercise here in the US. A lot of people are still spending. Economists credit hit summer movies coupled with concert tickets for shows like Taylor Swift's. All in all the Commerce Department says prices rose 3 .3 % in July, down sharply from the 7 % peak a year ago, but above the feds Inflation target. S &P futures up eight. This is CBS News. When you think of hiring, think of Indeed.
Northwest Newsradio
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"Saturday morning for from there, a smaller closure involving the express lanes will last until Sunday morning. There's a small army fanning out across Washington to stop a foreign invasion force of tiny bugs that can do a lot of damage. The team at the State Department of Agriculture is putting out traps to see if they can find any members of more than 130 species. The department's amber bet says among them is the Japanese beetle, which loves to chow down on more than 300 plants, including many commercially farmed. They don't have a national predator. So they can just lay their up to 60 eggs every year. Each one of the females, and they can just grow, grow, grow, and population. Bugs found a traps that help give the experts an idea of where they've shown up each year. Has now four 50 time for the stock charts dot com, money update, stock markets got a midweek bump after President Biden called the most recent talks on raising the debt ceiling productive. The Dow Jones gained 409 points to close the session at 33 four 21. The S&P the NASDAQ and the Dow all picked up around one and a quarter percent on the day. One consequence of failing to raise the debt limit, payments on billions in federal student loans and grants could stop. Observers though say the students and schools may avoid a financial meltdown since this fight is happening close to the beginning of summer, not the end. Some of Twitter's previously most prolific users just aren't anymore. The Pew Research Center has found the decline in postings among the top 20% of users by tweet volume coincides with Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter last year. Coming soon to have fast food restaurant near you a customizable dispenser with more than 200 condiment combinations. Kraft Heinz will unveil the remix machine at the national restaurant association show in Chicago. Jim Ryan, ABC News. It's now four 51. If you're a business owner, you've likely already received calls and emails from companies promising you thousands of dollars in what's called employee retention tax credits or ERCs. This is Brian Calvert, and the first red flag is that they're reaching out to you. They'll likely say you're entitled to these credits when you're really not. And that could mean an audit and fines. Look, employee retention tax credits are real, and many businesses do qualify. Log on to Seattle tax credits dot com today and work through the online qualification tool to find out if you can earn ERCs by filing an amended payroll tax return. You don't even have to leave your name or number. Now, I've spoken with
Bloomberg Radio New York
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"Event this fall. So stay tuned for more details on that. I'm Mark gurman, this is power on. Thank you, Mark. I want to stick with Amazon's prime event and bring him Melissa burdick, pack through president in a ten year Amazon, a veteran. So Melissa, anecdotally I feel like I got a few more things on prime day than usual. I don't know if that is an example of a broader trend, but how did it stack up for you? Yeah, well, if you notice what he was just talking about in terms of what people were buying, it was different this year. There is a bigger focus on household essentials and home. Usually prime day is a big consumer electronics event, big ticket item event. But this year, I think that we're seeing a lot of inflationary impact where food prices are up over 12% versus the inflation average of 9%. So people were coming in looking for deals, deals were at least 30% off in the food space. And so tough items day one were things like Frito lay chips, Amazon basic trash bags, cascade dish pods. This is a different year for things like that. So I think that what we're seeing is just the different categories shift of what people are actually buying this year. Why did it take so long for Amazon to get it right? I mean, I feel like we've talked about so many prime days over the years. We're underwhelming. You know, I think, honestly, Amazon did not lead as much with their electronic items or brand when they had all these deeply discounted products. Their products were discounted up to 48% off. So they definitely had a good year with their own private label products. In the past, I, to me, I always thought instant pot, iRobot, 23andMe DNA kits. Those were kind of the big products that they were always pushing. But this year, they did a couple of different things. One was they had better personalization, widget. So when you logged into Amazon, you had more personalized items that were for you. So that might have been a way that you found things. They also had a better emphasis on influencer marketing. In my opinion, that had a hit and a miss. So the hit was they did a much better job of priming influencers on Amazon to drive havoc to Amazon. The myth that I saw this year that has just been a continuation of Amazon live stream. So that's kind of their QVC like influencers talking about products and some of the Cheddar that I've heard about is people didn't really find it productive or engaging, although it was something Amazon called out today and their notes that they had a 100 million views of their live stream. So it continues to be something that they focus on. But hopefully they will get a better for prime debut too coming in the fall. Let's talk about V two. What do you think they'll learn from this and what do you expecting this fall? You know, that's the beauty of Amazon. It's this constant hotbed of test and learns. And so this personalization, this influencer marketing, the ways that people are buying more products, they're going to learn from that and they're going to focus on a V two. One of the other things I like about the prime day in October, they did this in 2020 when they moved prime day during the pandemic from the summer to the fall and they moved demand forward. And that really spread out the demand during the whole Q four. And I kind of sped up, you know, people buying things earlier in Q four. So it has a lot of benefits for Amazon. And something that we haven't talked about as much is advertising on Amazon. I understand that that was a more interesting story. This prime day around. Well, every prime day, people always spend more money. It was a little bit of a question because of inflation and raising costs with advertisers come in, but they absolutely did. We actually did a study, a sample size of a sample size of some of our clients. And we saw that CPM increased 36 to 75% above normal levels, but also there were millions more impression volumes. That means that just so much traffic that they're able to take advantage of. Amazon also has this great metric for especially CPG companies called new to brand. That metric shows incremental people are coming in and buying their brand and that was a hundreds of basis points. So maybe it's a certain maybe it's not just that the deals were better. It's that the advertising was also more effective. Yeah, and it was just
Bloomberg Radio New York
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"Hepburn with this Bloomberg radio business flash the UK CPI that dropped 17 minutes ago for February shows consumer prices continuing to rise even more than estimated 6.2% in February So there you have the inflation shock writ large bonds extending steep losses why because central banks particularly the Federal Reserve are increasingly backing the idea of rate rises to counter sawing inflation So you've had daily bullard and others backing Jerome Powell's push towards tougher stance in the U.S. treasuries Yields have hit their highest since 2019 ten year yields at the moment traded 2.4% up one and a half basis points As for stock markets that they seem to be perhaps a safe haven looking to hedge those inflationary risks we saw U.S. markets U.S. stocks gaining yesterday S&P 500 evening futures just about impostor territory U.S. stock 50 futures gaining 6 tenths of 1% Chinese stocks though have had a tougher time although they've been lifted by tech names this is I 300 up by half of 1% compared to that let's say the nikkei two two 5 gaining 3% this morning why Again it's another set of COVID-19 lockdowns in parts of China Oil up this morning by shunning a Russian crude oil the expectation perhaps of more sanctions as we get diplomatic meetings NATO G 7 EU ministers gathering this week WTI crude futures at a 110 bring food a 116 pubic dollar spot index stronger tenth of 1% the pound also clinging to gains one 32 65 on cable That is your Bloomberg radio business flash has Hannah George with our top stories Good morning Good morning Caroline Thank you Well here in the.
Bloomberg Radio New York
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"Bloomberg quick take He's a Bloomberg business lash Bomb Bloomberg world headquarters I'm Charlie pellet Microsoft shares down 5% after hours after posting second quarter sales and profit gains but it reported decelerating revenue for its Azure cloud computing services Texas instrument shares now gaining by 6 tenths of 1% it delivered an upbeat sales forecast for the current quarter indicating the demand for electronic components remains strong These reports closely watch tomorrow we'll be hearing from Intel also reporting tomorrow Lambert and we will be hearing from Tesla The stock rebound failed today we had the S&P 500 Index down 53 points a drop of 1.2% the Dow down 66 had dropped there of two tenths of 1% worse level of the day the Dow had been down more than 800 points NASDAQ down 315 a drop of 2.3% Ten year yield 1.76% spot gold 1847 ounce West Texas intermediate crude up 2.8% 85 60 a barrel I'm Charlie pellet That is a Bloomberg business flash This is Bloomberg's sound on with Joe Matthew on Bloomberg radio There is so much good information about the Russia Ukraine standoff on the terminal The first thing I've been doing each day this week type the letter N in the word Ukraine You don't have to do any more than that Bloomberg Ukraine update will pop up the headline right now Biden says he might sanction Putin in attack We played the cut for you.
Bloomberg Radio New York
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"Stocks this morning after yesterday's wild turnaround on Wall Street S&P futures are down 44 points or 1% and we get the details on these moves live with Bloomberg's John Tucker John Karen the S&P 500 fell about 4% yesterday before ending slightly higher Volatility is climbing the vix just closed shy of 30 compared to a lifetime average just shy of 20 According to calculations by bespoke investment group Monday was the 6th time since 1988 that the NASDAQ erased of 4% plus entered a decline to close higher on the day Strategists tracked by Bloomberg are still bullish with their yearend average forecast for the S&P 500 close to 5000 live in New York and John Tucker Bloomberg daybreak All right John thanks and Bitcoin's in focus as well after yesterday's wild swings and its trading lower again today Let's get the latest live from Bloomberg's ready to young granita Nathan yesterday headlines were all about the crypto crash but Bitcoin snapped a 5 day slide Analysts from Bloomberg's markets live blogs say don't read too much into today's modest decline though While Bitcoin appears to be trading in correlation with stocks turns in the digital asset came before those in stocks both on the way down and back up And right now Bitcoin is trading at 36,000 Live in New York I'm ready to young Bloomberg day break Ready to thank you this slump and risk assets is being blamed on forecast for fed policy and we get more clues on that this week is the fed kicks off its two day policy meeting today And Karen earnings are front and center as well Microsoft reports results this afternoon on the heels of upbeat numbers from IBM the shares are up almost 2% after the best sales growth in ten years On the flip side General Electric earnings out in moments ago missed and GE's shares are down 7% And taking a turn to geopolitics now it's all about Russia and Ukraine The Biden administration has put as many as 8500 troops on alert for deployment in Eastern Europe former Obama campaign foreign policy adviser David fury says Vladimir Putin is a threat Until the last 6 months people didn't really recognize the threat that Putin closed to Ukraine and to our other allies in Eastern Europe And I think people in both parties are waking up to that now Former Obama campaign foreign policy adviser David furry spoke with our Washington correspondent Joe Matthew on Bloomberg sound on And that's the 5 things you need to know to start your day brought to you by interactive brokers This is Bloomberg We experience 6 33 on Wall Street 37° in Central Park and Michael Barr is here with more on what's going on in New York and around the world Good morning Michael.
Bloomberg Radio New York
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"List of judicial nominations is all about California, where the federal district courts have the most emergencies and vacancies of any state. Joining me is Professor Carl Tobias of the University of Richmond Law School. So how many nominations did Biden make to California courts last Wednesday? The president nominated three nominees for the ninth Circuit from California. And to Central District of California and one East industry California nominees, But there are still in California many, many openings there are emergencies another 15 district ones that have no nominees. So still, the state is the worst case scenario. But it's great to have at least some nominees and to have the three for the ninth Circuit is important, of course because President Trump confirmed 10 people for that, 29 judge Court, Senator Dianne Feinstein said in a tweet after reviewing more than 300 applications to the federal judiciary. I'm confident that these nominees will make outstanding jurors. If they have reviewed hundreds of applications. Why haven't they proposed more nominees to fill the spots? Well, that's a good question. I assume that she and Senator Padilla's sent much smaller packages of recommendations to the White House. And my guess is they are in the White House. But there are many other vacancies around the country and other senators, I think sent their recommendations earlier and so there may be a bit of a backlog there, but White House has been moving very quickly. And I assume we'll have another package of California nominees in the short term. So hopefully that will Work.
News Radio 920 AM
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"Mike Davis was a night manager here at the Dixie News some years back, and the rest, as they say in the movies is history. There's a long line of them needed to show off that, like being celebrities Al Capone, John Gotti, Nothing devious. He had those same inclinations He wanted to be known. He wanted to be a public figure. He was not shy. Are you serious about movie making? Do you want to be a movie mogul? I'm very serious about the movie making. In fact, we've moved our facilities from MGM in Hollywood to Atlanta. It is the money. Obviously that attracts organized crime. Beavis has managed to insulate himself and others in his organization by setting up paper corporations. Sources tell me he has managed to set up more than 300 of those corporations. There's no doubt in my mind that they are are nervous at best about having to do business with Mike. Beavis. I don't have any knowledge is what happened to Mr Hammer. He was a personal friend of mine. And there's just think it's a terrible tragedy. Indictment spells out so many charges against you. You think you can beat them off? Oh, yeah, like Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon. I'm ready to do battle. So Mike Davis walked out this door to freedom. Some are speculating he may be in Colombia or Costa Rica countries, which before was radio 9 21 47 FM. Live from the Matthews Brothers Studios. 844.
KTRH
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"The infamous D B. Cooper hijacking occurred in the fall of 1971 at the height of an epidemic during the six year span between 1967 and 1972. More than 300 commercial airplanes were hijacked worldwide. With over 130 of those occurring in the United States alone. This was the golden Age of skyjacking. But it's Cooper's hijacking that we remember because he provided the blueprint for how to pull it off. And get away. When I decided that I would skyjacker plane, I started to make preparations for which airport would grab a plane from Six months after Cooper's legendary heist a small time crook from Detroit would attempt his own bigger and bolder skyjacking score. Just grab a weapon. Grab a note. Go on the plane and order all the stuff you need. Parachutes, money and bail out. This decision would set in motion one of the most epic American true crime. I'm Peter Harris for grain berry cereals with Amazing Onyx sorghum. We got into the healthy food business decades ago to bring the absolute healthiest cereal into your home without losing a drop of flavor with less sugar than other cereals..
KIRO Radio 97.3 FM
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"We gotta get two scenarios coming up at 11. O'clock is agree to disagree, and today I said I was going to agree with everything that Ursula said. And somebody said, I bet $50 you don't and they probably already won them. But right now, let's get two scenarios. Here we go, Yo. Yo, yo. So I saw someone that scenario carefully. You're gonna love this one, man. I think I'm about to make a horrible mistake and I need to fix it. I'm getting married to my high school sweetheart in October. We've been together for more than 10 years. He's a great guy treats me well and we get along, but I don't think I'm head over heels in love with him. Now, here's the problem. My family has already paid for a huge wedding more than 300. People are coming and let's just hope that we can sneak everybody in. But anyways, it's going to be very expensive if I call off the wedding. Or even delay it. They will want to know why. And there really is no good reason other than I just don't feel it right now. So here's what I'm thinking about doing. I want to know what you think. You know that part of the ceremony when the minister asked if there's any reason this marriage should not take place. I'm thinking about asking one of my friends to stand up and say. I know blank very well. She's like my sister and I don't think that they should be married Blank. You're a great guy, but I don't think she loves you. Then I can respond. Cry and then rush off is that Lane? Is there a better idea to stop the wedding without it looking like it's my fault. What should I do? Ursula 98973 is a statement from text line. Ursula, you're off the bat first. That is such a lame plan has totally lame. Work. First of all they've been dating for 10 years. Years. Uh, the idea that you're just you know, which is madly in love Well, After 10 years. I mean, you're you're in love in a different way. It's I think that people have this unrealistic expectation that is going to be just like it was when you first started dating and some people can maintain that, but that's generally not how it goes. Okay? And you have a deeper love. But instead of going through all that rigmarole and and Having this wedding ruined. How would you go to counseling? How about you.
KTRH
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"North Broadway eight westbound from Aldine, Westfield to Imperial Valley Drive. I'm considering Lucky terry disorders dot com 24 hour traffic center. The chance to rain will increase a little bit towards the afternoon on Labor Day. As far as this Sunday, a mix of clouds and sun hiding human with an isolated thunderstorm at a high of 97 still slight chance for a thunderstorm tonight below 77 that a few scattered afternoon thunderstorms on Labor Day with a high hitting 94 Tuesday an isolated thunderstorm behind the low nineties. I'm meteorologist Jeff Mar from the Weather Channel Lady at the John More services Ktrh 24 Hour Weather Center. 9 31 Our top story. A woman is injured after a fall from a boat on Clear Lake in league city at about six last night. She got caught up in the boat's propeller and has now been hospitalized. Texas Children's Hospital in Houston says it has given more than 2000 covid tests per day across their network and more than 300 kids tested positive in the past 24 hours. One doctor says the ages most at risk for getting very sick or young Children under the age of five and unvaccinated teens. And NBC's longtime weatherman Willard Scott, has died at the age of 87 News on Demand and Katie are age dot com. We'll have another update at 10. I'm Nikki Courtney on Houston's news, weather and traffic station. NewsRadio 7 40 Ktrh kind of next question coming up on the board about Live oaks and Like point this out. I know when we talk about verdant tree farm we've been since February really focused on their palm tree expertise,.
WTOP
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"The Taliban has been moving quickly to capture more and more of Afghanistan. This is the U. S. Troop withdrawal from the country nears completion Afghanistan's president met with President Biden Friday but was offer little more than monetary support. CBS's Charlie Dagga is in Kabul, with Afghan military forces buckling under an overwhelming Taliban offensive. Local militias have taken up arms against the extremists in 10 provinces across the country, furthering the prospect of an all out civil war. President Biden's message to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani at the White House. The fate of the country is in its own hands. Now the Afghans are going to have to decide their future. US. Military sources tell us the withdrawal of forces will be complete by early to mid July. President Biden pledged $3 billion to help support the military and more than 300 million in humanitarian assistance. Flight crews are getting a lesson on how to protect themselves with a rise in bad passenger behavior. The T S A is bringing back self defense training for flight crews. The voluntary four hour course, which was postponed due to Covid 19 restrictions will be led by federal air marshals next month. It teaches the staff how to de escalate intense situations and, if necessary, defend themselves against an attack on a plane. The agency says it has started nearly 500 investigations involving unruly passengers more than three times a Total number in 2019 Lisa Matteo CBS News Some classified British defence documents sitting in a soggy heap were found by someone at a bus stop outside of London. The documents were given to the BBC by the person who found them. The British government says an employee reported the loss of the sensitive documents, which total about 50 pages. Just ahead in money news. Demand for the delivery of pet supplies surges. It's 11 53. On.
Bloomberg Radio New York
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"Is a Bloomberg money minute. The FBI saw a 66% jump last year in the number of ransomware attacks on cos That's when malware encrypts computer files and holds those files for ransom, so old school extortion scheme. It's a very difficult position for companies to be in the victim has to decide what's the best thing for them to Diogo Bloomberg's Michael Riley notes. There have been some high profile attacks this year Colonial pipe. Blind paid nearly $5 million to hackers earlier this month, and CNN Financial gave its Attackers $40 million at the end of March. Law enforcement warns that those kinds of payouts only encourage more hacking. If everybody got hit didn't pay ransoms. The hackers will go find something else to do, and you wouldn't have any more victims. But on an individual basis victims look at it differently, and they often decide to pay research by cyber firms finds a big jump and ransoms being paid to hackers, with total payouts growing more than 300. Percent last year over the year before police a parental, Bloomberg radio Wake up and text. Text and eat. Mm text and catch the bus. Text and miss your stop. Wait text and be late to work. Sorry. I'm late Text and work text and pretend to work text The next surprised when someone calls you out for not working Who me text and meet up with a friend you haven't seen in forever high Okay, text and complain that their on their phone the whole time. Text and listened to them complain that you're on your phone the whole time. Texting whatever. But when you get.
KCRW
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"What's behind new clashes in Jerusalem between Palestinians and Israeli police. Ah plan from the Biden administration to help people who are homeless and allegations of doping that could unseat the winner of the Kentucky Derby. It is Monday. May 10th SNL's Keenan Thompson is 43 years old today. The news is next. Live from NPR news in Washington. I'm winter Johnston pharmaceutical giant Fizer has applied for full FDA approval of its vaccine for covert 19. NPR's Allison Aubrey reports that approval would have several implications, including the possibility of more vaccination mandates across the country. Full approval would give the vaccine makers the ability to market the vaccine directly to consumers. But also Steve full approval could pave the way for more mandatory requirements. For instance, many hospitals health care institutions, they require their employees to get the flu shot every year. We could see that for covert vaccines, perhaps in the military or more schools may require it. NPR's Allison Aubrey reporting. The FDA this week is expected to authorize the emergency use of the Fizer vaccine for Children between the ages of 12 and 15. There's been renewed violence in Jerusalem more than 300 Palestinians were wounded during confrontations with police today at a sensitive religious site. NPR's Daniel Estrin reports from outside the walls of Jerusalem's Old city. Israeli police say Palestinians threw rocks as police responded.
KTRH
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"Economists are too They're worried, but it might be a good thing for Republicans. We now know more about that SWAT standoff in Austin yesterday it resulted in a murder suicide. Police say Dr Baratz now Amant she was given on Lee weeks to live with cancer. He volunteered his services at that medical clinic yesterday, but was turned down, allegedly killing Dr Katherine Dotson before killing himself. And a sad anniversary Today. In this day in 1986, the space shuttle challenger exploded just 73 seconds after launch, killing all seven crew members, including teacher Christa McAuliffe. Everyone remembers where they were when that happened more on these stories at ktrh dot com. Our next news update is coming up at 5 30. The ones that are under construction to 88 6, 10 accidents and alternate next on the 10 17 40 ktrh, You know, it's really amazing to me how the liberal elite no longer even pretends to have empathy for blue collar workers. They don't even pretend They used to. Do you think there's seating blue collar workers, too? Republicans because of Trump. Maybe. Maybe that's got something to do with it. Or maybe they're just, you know, up there in the rarefied air so far that they can't even begin to relate. To anybody. That's a blue collar job. Well, some of these workers Getting laid off. Some of them have energy jobs. Some of them were working on the pipeline. We play a little that yesterday. Here's some other workers. We're losing their energy jobs. How can you not have empathy for these people? They said they want us to move toward a cleaner future in a cleaner type of energy. But the problem is the people that they're they're losing their jobs right now. It's devastating. To see this happen to American workers. Just like a kick in the stomach, you know, knocks the wind out of you. You come look at him in the face. And tell him that you know, I just from just one stroke of the pen. Till 11,000. Happy jobs. So what did John Kerry saying? They got such a big reaction from Senator Ted Cruz. Workers have been fed a false narrative. No surprise, right. For the last few years, they've been fed. The notion that somehow dealing with climate Is coming at their expense. No, it's not. What's happening to them is happening because of other market forces already taking place. What what market forces are you referring to, sir? Market forces had oil and gas in a pretty dog gone good place when we were generating enough oil and gas toe actually not only provide for ourselves but ship overseas. Pretty dog gone Good. If Of market forces mean we shouldn't have any more oil and gas? Why do the Canadians continued to produce oil and gas and want to ship it to the United States for refining? He's way out of touch. And Senator Ted Cruz. Here's the longer version of him calling it on on. You know, Last week, I sat outside the capital. I listen to Joe Biden give his inauguration speech. I thought it was a good speech. I was glad to see him make an appeal towards unity. I think all of us would like to see greater national unity at this time when we have so much division so much anger and hatred pulling this country apart. But then he left giving that speech and he returned T to the Oval Office and literally within minutes began signing these executive orders that were radical. And extreme is you noted, he signed an order canceling the keystone pipeline 11,000 jobs with the stroke of a pen. He made go away 8000 of those air union jobs and At the same time, he rejoined the Paris climate deal, which threatens to destroy thousands of high paying jobs across this country. And the answer. I've asked multiple Biden nominees. What they would say to the union workers who just lost their jobs because Joe Biden decided they didn't deserve a job and an essentially nominee after nominee after nominee has said, Well, Tough luck. You know John Kerry and that same news conference you you put up, he said, Well, they need to learn to make better choices. What an arrogant out of touch statement for a sentimental Ian air to say. And by the way, This new president 46. Is signing executive orders left and right. In fact, he's setting a new record for executive orders. I think he once made a comment something along the lines of on Lee Tyrants. Rule through executive orders. Of course, he wasn't referring to himself in the time. And now, he said, an all time record he's got Maurice signing today. On access to quality, affordable health care. More more executive orders on healthcare coming today. How's that going to impact your world? By 26 down time to take a look at your money courting Don hose here on this Thursday morning. Good morning, Jimmy. This morning s and P futures little changed. But what's putting pressure on the market is disappointment over earnings results from the likes of Apple. Ah, cautious outlook from executives overshadowing quarterly revenue that topped $100 billion for the first time yesterday. Wall Street ended the day battered and bruised following its worst sell off since October. Better. Reserve chair J. Pell said the economy was a long way from full recovery. The Dow dropped 633 points oil edging slightly lower $52 a barrel. China's flight and road travel has declined to head of the Lunar New Year, which typically sees a seasonal boost to fuel consumption. And it has been wild trading for Texas based game stop yesterday, the biggest day yet of its dizzying rally, adding more than $10 billion in market value Day trader chat rooms has turned Gamestop into a target and huge volatility has come with it. But the surge is showing newfound power of individual investors. At the same time, it's become a major headache for institutional investors. 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"Early transition when Joe Biden takes office. I'm David Anthony Fox News. President. Trump announced that early this morning through someone else's Twitter while locked out of his social media right after vice president Pence announced the vinyl election certification just before 4 A.m. Joseph R. Biden Jr of the State of Delaware has received 306 votes. Donald J. Trump with the state of Florida has received 232 votes, the president added In his statement, He disagrees with the outcome, still claiming it was stolen from him. The certification was interrupted for hours when Trump supporting protestors stormed the capital, mob violence is instantly accepted. A lot will form of political expression, GOP Senator Tom Cotton. Some Republicans have joined Democrats blaming the president for inciting the violence and The president was supposed to address Republican National Committee winter meetings today. They're going on in Florida, but that is not gonna happen. Explosive devices were found near the Capitol closed to RNC and Democratic National Committee headquarters. Now it's calm today in D C minute, intense investigation. Fox's Jeff Man also explains Live Dave. The FBI is asking for the public's help in identifying people who the bureau says instigated violence in the U. S Capitol building Wednesday, accepting tips, photos and videos for People died, including 35 year old Ashley Babbitt. Ah, U S Air Force veteran who prior to her trip from seven California tweeted. Nothing will stop us. They can try and try, but the storm is here and descending upon D. C. Babette's husband says she was unarmed and loved her country with all her heart. Dave Jeff. The White House just put out a statement, grieving the loss of life in the protest, extending sympathies to their families and prayers for a speedy recovery. For those injured now Wall Street keep shrugging off all that capital chaos. The Dow is surging more than 300 points, hitting.