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"Investments calm legacy p.m. investments calm check it out welcome back talking to pastor Neil Eaton of New Hope Chapel in Plymouth Massachusetts does that ring a bell folks Plymouth Massachusetts we were talking about the the monument the forefathers monument Kirk Cameron has talked about it and has made these gorgeous replicas I don't know if I've seen one or whatever but they're just these beautiful replicas and the monument I just found it here it says in the in this book that it was conceived the monument was conceived in 1820 by the Pilgrim Society a group of Plymouth citizens who formed to build a monument in memory of the virtues the enterprise and the unparalleled suffering of their ancestors who first settled in that ancient town it is 81 feet tall the largest freestanding granite structure in the nation so it was finally dedicated in 1889 and if you can get to Plymouth folks you got to see it it's made now how do people get a tour of it because I got a wonderful tour I don't remember the name of the man who gave me the tour but Leo Martin aha yeah is your website he has the Jenny Museum right there right there and put on the waterfront and he gives tours of the rock the Mayflower all over Plymouth we have monuments and statues and everywhere it tells the story of our Christian heritage what what a great thing to do with your kids it's like a homeschooling project or vacation project just to go to visit Plymouth and to see these things if people go to where what website can people go to where they can find links to all this stuff should they go to at new hope calm do you have information there for the tours yes yeah they can yeah well we'll make sure we add links to that because also Michelle who wrote this Michelle Gallagher she also can give tours as well so they both come to our church the two of those those both of those historians come and yeah so if you contact us at new hope calm we will get you to the tours so you were saying that revival is happening in Plymouth I mean just to hear about a church with 700 people on a Sunday in Plymouth Massachusetts folks that's not normal I am from New England so that's that's just great news that's great news what you were you were talking about building a larger facility yes we have a facility on the waterfront that only holds 220 people so we way outgrew that a long time ago we actually have to rent right now until we're done building a church the next town over in Kingston Sacred Heart High School is that where I spoke yes right that's right remember now yes it says as you walk in for God and country which is pretty cool yeah and so they closed about four years ago so that property has sold so we're in a in a pickle but God God's a god of our pickles right yeah that sounds kind of funny but so he so we we have so much time to get out of there and into our new building so we began three years ago trying to get this church approved and we had no idea what we were in for with some of the resistance a very small small amount of people but they were loud why like what what what coven do they belong to that they are hostile to the idea of a church well you know they're nimby's right not in my backyard yeah but they thought of every kind of reason why they thought we shouldn't be there you know they thought we were gonna hurt the environment but actually we are far above at every point for federal regulations state and local we've gone above and beyond in our plan so it was you know you just could sense I mean we love our neighbors so we have you know we just are always trying to love them but there were other people in the community there's a an environmentalist that you know they try to stop all kinds of developments and she has two appeals out for hours and so just just loves to loves to cause problems and it seems especially that she she was against this church so we just keep pressing through we're pressing on toward this goal and yeah we got we got unanimous approval from finally from the zoning Board of Appeals so when do you start building so we actually this is very cool Eric we actually pour we're starting to pour the foundation Wednesday the day before Thanksgiving and I love the the the connection because that's gonna be today I believe yes yes this is today this is when today is yes today's Wednesday so you're pouring concrete today yes we're and that's very when you think about the connection about how the pilgrims laid the foundation here for our nation pretty significant and so we're gonna yeah so the day before Thanksgiving here we are Wow yeah so this is happening today yes it's how you're pouring concrete today yes and so how long is the building process when will the building be a building the the builders are telling us for sure we will have a Christmas service but they believe wholeheartedly that by fall we will be able to open the church that is that's pretty terrific yeah it's nearly 800 seats we're gonna have multiple services it's surrounded by gorgeous tall pines it's everyone that goes there senses the presence of God so it's very special and the oldest road is not on our property but just behind it that the pilgrims traveled on it no longer is a road but I discovered it one day just walking around and I found out that that's the oldest road I guess in the country from what they say okay so if people want to find you in the church they go to at new hope dot-com so what is your sense of what is happening because I feel like you know we talk about redigging the old wells yes this is anybody who knows the history of this nation knows that New England was the center of really you know Christian activity of the birth of Liberty so it seems right that this would be happening but it's interesting that it took such a long time yes we with that glory of God prayer group with all the multiple denominations that we've come together once a month we pray different churches hosted every time and we have been praying for revival for many many years now here's I have you know I'm careful about prophetic words that I get but I want to know you know always I kind of judge them with with prayer but we I heard over and over again what you just said that God is going to use us to redig dig the ancient wells of the Covenant that the pilgrims made with God in and beginning in Plymouth County and for 21 years now I've heard from people all over the nation that travel literally from Dallas deployment and all over the country to say I came here to tell you that a revival is going to begin right here in Plymouth and you're gonna be part of it so I took that you know I tried to measure that and be really careful with whether or not I could fully receive that as a word from the Lord right but over time hearing these things time and time again I realize the Lord is speaking we're gonna step out and well it's interesting to me because when you think of you know Philadelphia when you think of Boston Plymouth this is where it all started and most of these places have become very spiritually dark very anti-liberty you know it's it's ironic but it but it does seem to me that that's God's poetry that he does that he goes back and I you know I'd like to believe that those prophecies are really from the Lord and I'd love to come back to New Hope at some point to speak because it's it's it's exciting to me it's very exciting to me now the the monument that we were talking about that I'm trying to remember when did Kirk Cameron bring it into prominence because I mean it's been there for a long time but he did a film people who listening to the program know the film I'm talking I can't think of the title right now monumental it's my money okay so that it is really so beautiful that I hope people listening to the program will get a bug in their ear they think you know what I need to make a pilgrimage to to Plymouth and obviously you know if you go to New England you can you can go to to Boston you can go to Paul Revere's house I've been there I build the model of Paul Revere's house it's just it's all there and it's in so inspiring and so so beautiful how far the church that you're building now where is that is it in Plymouth or is it in Plymouth it's we are so we have a waterfront campus I don't think you came to that no we have we've had it now for a long time 15 14 years I think so we're right down the street from the monument literally I walk to it easily in our backyard is is Mayflower and Plymouth Rock right behind us we can see the ocean from our windows from the from the back of the church so we are right there so we're right near the the monument I I didn't I had no idea that's gonna call yeah and I think the movie came out I want to guess 2016 17 something like that yeah yeah I was actually you know with Kurt you know we were Kirk and we were praying together yeah all that so well I want to go to his website and look to see those if he's still selling those 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three oh five seven I use these towels they work I promise you you shall welcome back we're talking about Thanksgiving we're talking about Plymouth Massachusetts I'm sitting here with the pastor pastor Neil Eaton of New Hope Chapel in Plymouth Massachusetts and again just to know that there's a thriving church in Plymouth it blesses people all over the country to hear that I hope they'll visit I hope they'll think of an excuse to to get up there take a road trip with the kids or whatever because it really is important that we reconnect with our roots with our Christian roots with our historical roots in that area were you always aware of that because you say you grew up in Massachusetts did you always have a sense of that or did that come to you later in life when did you come to faith I came to faith at 12 years old listening to Billy Graham on the on TV I was home alone and I heard the gospel and it was a really difficult time in our lives our family was going through divorce and I felt a lot of despair and I listened to him and then you know it wasn't really growing super mature until my middle 20s when I had my first my first child and that made me really wake up and say it's time to grow up it's trying so I that year when my daughter was born I read through the Bible from Genesis to Revelation for the first time and it when I got to Romans it ignited a fire in my spirit that has never gone out praise God defecation now that's not normal you know like people that that's that's a supernatural thing suddenly you decide to read the entire Bible yeah what were you doing professionally up to that point you obviously I was I was asked I was a contractor for 27 years and while I was contracting I would just tell customers about you know the power of the gospel and my crew my my crews and just bringing people to faith I held a Bible study at my house and it was mostly my crew and they were coming to Jesus and it was just an overflow of what was happening in me and so they were there's some of them are it's many of them are still serving Christ and you know become some have become pastors and did you ever think when you were in your 20s that you would be a pastor never in a million years really I told God I wouldn't choose me well that's the funny thing we wouldn't choose us but the Lord knows so and when did you decide that you you wanted to pastor a church how did that come about I mean thankfully I didn't decide it but God called me and it was it was everybody else telling me you're a pastor because I was pastoring people and I loved I loved evangelism so I was sharing it with people and they and I just realized you know what maybe I am called I was fighting it because I just kept reminding God of all the teenager and early 20s and he the whole justification through faith was what really made me realize this is all about it's not about religion which is spelled do this is about the gospel which is spelled do any Jesus Christ paid the price and it's over and so now I can just go on and live for him I must have missed something religion is spelled do yeah it's it's all about what you do to earn favor with whatever religion is all to do yes and following Jesus it is finished that's his one of his last words on the cross yeah so I had actually in my early years I was exposed to the Jesus revolution and that was a revival that came all the way across to the East Coast so I have been longing for a revival like that since then so what 40 50 years had gone by and so we are now seeing it in Plymouth you know I'd say early stages right it's at the flames of revival of beginning the to move yeah and that's the really that's what's really exciting here and you know we got back to the basics what did Jesus do what did he do well he preached what else did you he healed the sick what else did he do he cast out the demonic so we started saying we've kind of come away we've moved a little far away from the basics of Christ I mean can I read a scripture here of course in Acts chapter 10 38 Peter was saying how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit in power which we also have that same anointing and how he went about doing good and healing all who are under the power of the devil because God was with him Jesus commissioned us to do the same thing so there are many people they're called cessationists they have a doctrine which does not agree with what you just said I obviously do agree with what you just said I've had many folks on this program who have spoken about you know I have a dear friend Ken fish he has a healing and deliverance ministry so I know this is for today I have seen it it's the power of God and I always think who would want to go to a church where they don't do that stuff there are many people listening to this program right now who go to churches if they go to churches that they don't they don't do this stuff so it's not fun to go to church it's not exciting no it's not an adventure with God it's just like we're going to church we're gonna hear some words and we're gonna you know and there's more right there's a lot more the devil offers things that people are spiritually hungry for but it's an imitation of the real thing and you know Paul the poly apostle when he went to Thessalonica and started a revival there he wrote to them later in 1st Thessalonians and he said the the word came to you I'm sorry the gospel came to you not only in word so it came in word but with power it came in the Holy Spirit with full conviction so the Thessalonicans because they received it that way they also brought the word all over Greece this that one little church brand-new early you know young church they were pressing the gospel with with the word with power right with and with the whole in the Holy Spirit and with great full conviction which you could say boldness and it they were they were saturating the community with it so that's how we should be yes it is but there's some people say no no no that was just for then we don't do that anymore those people would be wrong give you the script go to America's Hometown revival.com we'll be right back with Pastor Neil Eaton of New Hope Chapel Welcome back talking to Pastor Neil Eaton of New Hope Chapel you can visit at the the website is at newhope.com AT at newhope.com you just we're gonna tell a story yes so part of the things we're seeing many many stories I could tell you for hours of individuals experiencing Christ in real ways and by the way when when your viewers go to see this mini documentary they will see you know one or two powerful stories but there was a young lady who came to our services not that long ago early 20s super anxious depressed and she was suicidal of course I didn't know that I didn't know her when she came in but while I was preaching I sensed a nudge from the Holy Spirit to just take a pause and then I said there's someone in here who has suicidal ideations something like that and I said I want you to know that the devil comes to steal come destroy he wants to take your life but Jesus comes to give you life and he he is going to give you life so he's going to empower you to overcome this whole thing so she came to me and it was months later when she told me this and she told me that was her I had no idea I didn't know anything about what was going on in her and she said she had planned that day that she was going to take her life but she came to church and I allowed the Holy Spirit to interrupt me and in a good reform church nobody was said nothing no I got a joke and her life was completely honestly if you had not been willing to do that you know we don't want to think about it but how beautiful that you you you get this feeling the sense from God and you're willing to say something about it and then months later she tells you that there was there another story you I know just like her life has been dynamically changed her whole family told us that her whole life she was in depression and anxiety and could never crawl out of it and now she has a barbershop a really nice one called Kingdom barber and anytime somebody sits in her chair they get the gospel it's it's amazing unbelievable so what is the book that I'm holding in my hand here it's got a forward by Dave kubal whom I just met at the intercessors for America 50th anniversary in DC it's called monumental prayers what is this so that is a 14-day devotional that was designed for IFA and they Michelle Gallagher and her husband Dan are going to give they wanted to do this give a book away for anyone that supports the America's Hometown revival cause and what is the gift over $100 if somebody goes to America's Hometown revival dot-com what are they so we we as I shared with you the adversity that we were faced with in building this building it's an eight million dollar building our churches raised three million dollars just within ourselves and we are we we have a lot more to go to get this thing built so we're just we're basically saying America all over the Bible that will wherever you are in the South and the Midwest would you pray for us pray for the roots of this nation Plymouth Massachusetts Plymouth County because we need your prayers we need your prayers revival is stirring and we're we're making room for all of the hungry souls in Plymouth County that are turning to Jesus do you know Eric we do not own one parking spot and we've grown to the point that we do so we are now provide we're gonna have provision for large capacity for people to come to find Christ and have their their whole lives revolutionized by his love by his power well I think that there are people you know all around the country that are that are hungry for God but in places like Massachusetts whatever you where do you go where where is there a good church to go not easy to find there are there are few and far between obviously yours is one that I know about and again I want to encourage people at new hope dot-com is the website at new hope dot-com and then America's hometown revival dot-com to find out more to see the documentary but you you said you had another story that you wanted to tell this is quickly I before I forget with that book there so once again they're gonna give away a book for anyone who donates $100 or more to that so thank you that for that oh there's so many stories Eric one that is highlighted in the video is this man who is he was a rock-and-roller he was just traveling all the time and he was doing all kinds of drugs and alcohol and he came to what happened is one of the church members from our church lived across the street from him he was he was addicted to so many things and he was so lost so broken his wife wanted to have a baby and he told her he didn't want to have a child he said if you have this child I will not have anything to do with this child anyways she shares the gospel with her he comes to our church finds Christ gets baptized the same day and this man is the one of the best fathers you could ever see see his life is dramatically changed and that the moment that he was saved and delivered he was complete he had never had a desire to go back to any of the drugs any of the alcohol so this guy is is one of the the main characters in the film people need to know miracles are real and I I just have to be clear I've seen a number in my life I've experienced a number I've written haven't written about most of them yet but people need to know God is real he's alive and he's doing these things and he's doing these things because he wants to bless us wants to get us to get our attention that he's not just you know a set of precepts or a moral law no he's a and he wants to change lives and have relationship with us and speak to us and there's so many people that they don't even know that that's possible yeah and so it thrills me that in New England in Plymouth Massachusetts that there's a body of believers that are moving in that stuff and understanding that stuff and living it out I I really can't wait to get back up there I don't know when I can but it's just it is exciting to me that that you are there you have services every Sunday at what time yes so we are meeting at the at that sacred high school yeah Kingston yeah and we have a it's a nine o'clock service and a 1045 sir okay all right so the folks in 1045 you got to check it out go to at newhope.com and definitely go to America's Hometown revival.com America's God bless you thanks for being here thank you so much for having me.
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Find your folks welcome to the Eric Metaxas show sponsored by legacy precious metals there's never been a better time to invest in precious metals visit legacy p.m. investments calm that's legacy p.m. investments calm welcome to the Eric Metaxas show have you heard that some people have a nose for news well Eric has a nose for everything that's why this is called the show about everything now welcome your host who definitely passes the smell test Eric my taxes hey there folks welcome to the program as you know tomorrow if tomorrow is Thursday is Thanksgiving and we thought wouldn't it be nice to have someone a pastor perhaps from Plymouth Massachusetts on the program obviously that was impossible so we reached out to pastor Neil Eaton and then it turns out he's actually from Plymouth Massachusetts pastor Neil welcome it's so good to be with you Eric I can't believe you're here in the studio in New York thank you for coming down actually you're coming by way of Dallas that's right we've got to tell my audience the story that you invited me to speak at your church in Plymouth Massachusetts about what a year and a half ago something like that's a year and a half to yeah yeah and I was thrilled anytime I'm invited to speak in New England I'm really thrilled because New England is not exactly the buckle of the Bible belt that's first it's it's been spiritually dark for some time but it's where it's where it all started it's where the pilgrims landed it's where there's been tons of faith and you know we think of the first great awakening and Jonathan Edwards that's all New England but in this day and age it's spiritually on the darker side so when I was invited to speak your church I was really excited and and here we are to talk about what's happened since then and I mean where do we start so that that actually was a gathering of multiple churches of all denominations that have been praying for revival in in Plymouth County what was a gathering that the event that you came to speak at we invited you to come okay so it was a it was a it's a prayer initiative and you came to pray with us but also to be the keynote speaker and it's it's interesting because we had people coming from all over because they found out you were going to be there and we have this couple from Rhode Island that came he's a colonel in the air for a retired colonel in the Air Force and he had his wife came and they never stopped coming to New Hope after that event that's always my dream is you know I go some place and I say hey I'm gonna be at this place or this place whatever and people maybe who listen to this program or read my book so they go oh we we'd like to go here Eric and they go to the church it's happened with other churches around the country and they go hey this is a pretty great church maybe we should go here even though right it's it's a little bit of a drive but I'm that's actually you know music to my ears to hear that that gathering resulted in people finding you in the church and they're not the only ones we had several other people because they were looking for a pastor and I'm not trying to promote myself at all but they were looking for a pastor who would not be afraid to speak truth to culture so that continues on but so here's the great thing about that that couple that came and they've been they come four or five times a week from Rhode Island it's an hour and a hour away but they have invested their lives in something we're calling calling a learning pod because parents have decided to no longer send their kids to public school and they became homeschoolers but the learning pod at our church is a place where they can gather twice a week and those who are experts in you know English or science or whatever language they the parents can teach and and the Chabronos have be have have changed our church for the better to provide opportunities because they care so much about this country there are great things happening and I and I say this often I don't say that often on this program but I go around the country and I get to see what God is doing and I think boy I wish more people could see what I see because they would have hope right for for this nation we're going through a really hard time right now but I see hope and in your church in Plymouth is one of them so gotta ask you now you're the pastor of New Hope Church the website is at new hope.com at new hope.com how did you end up in Plymouth did you grow up in that neck of the ancestors or came on the Mayflower actually like three or four families and I had been an associate pastor of another church about a half an hour away or so and I just kept sensing a magnetic magnetic pole to plant a church there in Plymouth that's history there had never been an evangelical church that went that grew beyond 200 people there were so many splits and they you know the church would end it ceased to people don't understand what what hard ground New England is right I mean a church of 200 people is is a big church in New England because it's just it's just hard ground it's spiritually very dark so but you felt that what year was it that you thought that you would plant the church so we planted in 2002 okay about 50 people and now with in person and online regular online faithful viewers we are at a thousand we're at 700 in person and about 700 yeah in person yeah in Plymouth Massachusetts folks that's big news that's a big church in Plymouth Massachusetts in in Massachusetts it's wonderful and that's not including all this we have 50 small groups I'm telling you we're calling it a revival because we believe it's stirring and there's ministries and we're ministering to the under-resourced in the in the area and so all through the week there are there are so many ministries have so it's come alive and we started this we we wrote this mini documentary and produced it called America's Hometown revival okay yeah that is okay I don't want to forget folks write this down America's Hometown revival.com this is the documentary that you made it's only 10 minutes long America's Hometown revival dot-com and what is that 10 minute film so what it does is it it tells a little bit of the history of Plymouth and you know how the pilgrims left in 1620 they had been experiencing religious persecution in England because the state was controlling how they worshipped and because they read their Bibles they came from the Reformation they read their Bibles and realized that they're way off base they wanted to practice their faith based on what scripture said not what the king said not what King James said exactly so they had gone to Leiden Holland hoping to get a better life there and they decided that they wanted to come to this new world so in 1620 they left they came that winter half of them died 102 came 51 of them passed away and they were stalwart people because they had a faith that made them stalwart and they did not give up they wanted to be people of character so they came for the advancement of the Christian faith and the glory of God and also to to it to establish just laws so that religious freedom could continue on now I'm holding in my hand here a book you're involved I was just a speaker at the 50th gala of intercessors for America and you are involved with intercessors for America yes how many many members that are involved and very very supportive of that ministry it's powerful my friend Keith Junta was just on the program he's involved with intercessors for America and the book I have in my hand is titled monumental prayers should we should really talk about the monument shouldn't we talk it is so huge it's monumental and it is it is the the pilgrims monument in Plymouth right which I had the privilege of seeing but it's so huge and so beautiful largest solid granite monument in the country I didn't know that yeah yeah how tall is it I mean it's it's huge I forget but it really is like it's gigantic and and Kirk Cameron has drawn a lot of attention to it and has had replicas of it made I still don't have one of those but I will get you seen them and I got to tell you it is just it's so it's so beautiful but when I spoke at your church a couple years ago I was blessed to get a tour of of that monument and when we come back I want to talk about it but it is folks these are our roots these are the Christian roots of this nation it's in it's very controvertible it is real and we need to know it and teach it to our kids so first of all go to America's hometown revival calm America's hometown revival calm you'll see the video there when we come back I continue my conversation with the pastor of New Hope Chapel Neil Eaton I wear it for the prisoner who is long paid for his crime there's nothing worse than hearing about people living in pain that's why I want to tell you about Keith from Washington and his relief factor story after years of activity from college football to running a martial arts studio at 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The Café Bitcoin Podcast
A highlight from Bitcoin Bull Run Activated? with Alex Stanczyk, Neil Jacobs, American Hodl, and the Caf Bitcoin Crew - November 9th, 2023
"Hello, and welcome to the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast brought to you by Swan Bitcoin, the best way to buy and learn about Bitcoin. I'm your host, Alex Dancic, and we're excited to announce that we're bringing the Cafe Bitcoin conversation from Twitter Spaces to you on this show, the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast, Monday through Friday every week. Join us as we speak to guests like Michael Saylor, Lynn Alden, Corey Clifston, Greg Foss, Tomer Strohleit, and many others in the Bitcoin space. Also be sure to hit that subscribe button. Make sure you get notifications when we launch a new episode. You can join us live on Twitter Spaces Monday through Friday, starting at 7 a .m. Pacific and 10 a .m. Eastern every morning to become part of the conversation yourself. Thanks again. We look forward to bringing you the best Bitcoin content daily here on the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast. All right, yes, yes, I know we're early, and you all probably know why, right? It's crazy. Good morning, everybody. Good morning, Tomer. Jacob. Good morning. All right, anybody in the audience that wants to come up here and just start rapping about what's going on with the price, let's go. Request to come up. We'll bring you up. All right, I don't know who's watching this thing or not, but yeah, if you haven't seen it, we had a client last night, he called me at like, well, I should say he texted me at like 6 .30 in the evening, and I was prepping for Bitcoin Veterans, which we did last night with Preston Pish. By the way, you should check it out. It was a really great show. We had a lot of fun. Some great laughs, too, but anyway, so my client texted me, and he's like, hey, as long as we're around 35K, go ahead and buy with all the USD on my account. I'm like, I didn't see it because I'm prepping for this podcast, or I didn't see it till this morning. And then like 20 minutes or 30 minutes after he sent it, he goes, no, no, no, as long as it's under 36K. And then at some point last night, it busted through 36 and then busted right through 37, and here we are on our way to 38 right now. Pretty wild stuff.
WTOP 24 Hour News
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"Today around 5000 Americans will hear you have cancer. At Pfizer we won't rest until they hear the all clear see how we're innovating at Pfizer .com slash oncology it's 123 a sexual assault in a high school bathroom that's what what police say happened in Woodbridge and now there's been an arrest Prince William County Police say it happened back on October 18th a teenage student says she and a male student were in a bathroom together sexually assaulted her she told a family member who contacted police yesterday the principal of Garfield High School sent a note to parents that police would be releasing information 18 -year -old Lamanae Maluk of Dale City is charged with misdemeanor sexual battery wtop neil logenstein news a small dog gets stuck in an unlikely place at her home but is now safe thanks to some local first responders Maya a 17 -year -old Shih Tzu somehow found herself lodged in first responders from the Fairfax County Police and Fire Departments tried to get her out but didn't reach her a little drilling and the basement ceiling panel came off and out Maya came reunited with her owner Fairfax County Police posted the video of the rescue and reunion on social media shayna still in wtop news sports at a five in fifty five powered by red river technology decisions aren't black and white think correct i'd steve drasner it's been sort of an up -and -down start to the season in doubt more down
Simply Bitcoin
A highlight from Taiwan's Next Embracing Bitcoin?! | EP 863
"It's all going to zero against Bitcoin. It's going on forever. You're against Bitcoin. You're against freedom. Yo, what's up? We are back. We're back for another episode of Simply Bitcoin. And today is an interesting story. I did have to do some deep dive for this one. So game theory is heating up in China, guys. The first reading of Taiwan's crypto bill passes. And depending on the source, Taiwan might be on the verge of making Bitcoin legal tender January 24th. It almost seems like this is happening. It's almost like it's inevitable. And Taiwan is embracing Bitcoin. And we all know the saga between China, that we know that we won China policy. We've been covering this all year. And we know how many times China banned Bitcoin. They banned mining. We've seen even Taiwan themselves try to ban Bitcoin. But of course, you can't ban Bitcoin. You can only ban yourself from Bitcoin. And even this week, on Mainland, Hong Kong has been mulling over whether they are going to embrace an ETF as well. So it really makes you wonder. And if you go back for a couple episodes, Niko and I went over this, the idea of maybe China is using different proxies to embrace Bitcoin after officially banning Bitcoin. The dip last we saw, I think that was 2021 now, it's all a blur at this point. Some days they're banning it. Some days they're embracing it. Well, it seems like China or Taiwan, forgive me, is about to make Bitcoin legal tender. And remember, one of the IRLs we did, we had a friend come on here and I'm blanking on exactly which one it was. But he said basically that what they mean when they say crypto is really Bitcoin and they do not talk about what they have under their mattress. So whenever you're hearing crypto come out from the Asian countries, from China in particular, remember that they know what we know. It is Bitcoin only. And there's Bitcoin and then there's other cryptos. Anyways, Bitcoin's global game theory chess match is playing out in real time, guys. And as a Bitcoiner, you just love to see it. The Mexican standoff is continuing to get spicier. It's continuing to heat up. And it's going to be very interesting to see which countries get left behind, which countries don't embrace hard money. And also in that same vein, which countries are fighting their citizenry. And as we always say, forcing them to have fun staying poor. Anyways, welcome to Simply Bitcoin. We are your number one source for the peaceful Bitcoin revolution. We cover breaking news, culture and nomadic warfare. We bring on Bitcoiners from all around the world, from the biggest names to the everyday Bitcoiner. We got them all and we will be your guide through the separation of money and state. And of course, I am not here alone, guys. I am here with Dell, the funky hodl sapien. How are you doing this morning, Dell? Good. I'm dandy. I'm chilling, relaxing, moisturized in my own lane, sitting in a 45 gallon tub of lotion right now. It feels pretty luxurious. Absolutely love it. OK, well, Dell, what are we going to cover on the culture today? We're going to cover that you can't really stop the Internet. You can't stop things from happening the way you want it to. I imagine most of the people that come to this channel are interested in Bitcoin surviving. That's my assumption. There might be some people that come pass by like, oh, what's this all about? But I get the impression that the regulars that I see in the chat, you're Roman, you're wine a kiss. Tyler Durden, what I'm not going to try and talk for wine a kiss. He's a he's a he's a strange cat. That one is people that I see in day in and day out. They're people that are they understand Bitcoin to some degree. They like it to some degree. And they're yeah, thumbs up to that Bitcoin thing. But the idea that it could die or shut down is not something that a lot of us think about all that much. We're like, oh, it can't happen. But here's a question for you, Opti. If you were given a challenge, let's say let's say somebody comes along, Michael Saylor, whatever anybody that you know has the money to say, I'm going to give you a million dollar bounty to shut down Bitcoin. Could you do that? You think you could? Not for a million. There's literally a half a trillion dollar bounty on Bitcoin. You got to you got to you got to put those numbers up. Well, like, do you think you could do it at all? Me personally? No. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. And so the idea that there is some individual out there or group of people that can shut it down is preposterous. But yet there's still and we're going to play this clip. People out there that are honestly, they're relatively smart people in many fields and there's a lot of really smart people that don't understand Bitcoin. It's like shut down. Shut down the Internet. What are you going to do? Go in. People, people are concerned about that, Del. That is definitely on people's minds. Well, I get that. But why? Like, tell me how that happens. Like, walk me through exactly how how it how that would work. Like, please. Like, if you can do it, if somebody can do it, I truly as much as I would like to see tomorrow, would like you would like to see somebody shut down Bitcoin. So we're going to be talking about that in the culture. Like, you can't do it. Like, I want you to if you can, if somebody in chat can do that, by all means, go and do it. Because we need to know that that's a vulnerability when we need to know how that could happen. And oh, wow, there's a guy that's in the simply Bitcoin chat that has the ability to go and flip a switch and shut off Bitcoin. That we should know about that. And I mean, that'd be so funny. Someone in the chat just shuts it off. Anyway, anyway, side tangents. I mean, we even see it and we hear this all the time. I hear this all the time when I talk to my normie friends out there. They're like, what if, you know, like in twenty seventeen, it was like, what if China bans Bitcoin? And like they did it and it didn't stop Bitcoin. I am convinced that every three letter agency around the world, that nation states have also tried to attack Bitcoin and they continue to try to attack Bitcoin. But they can't stop this. They cannot stop digital money for the digital world. And even if the even if we got like some weird by chance EMP or something that shut off all of electricity, we will never go back to a time without the Internet. I am fully convinced of that. The Internet is something that that is ubiquitous with the modern world. It put a pause on things. If people talk about that, like, oh, well, what about. OK, well, just imagine if things that are escalating over in the Middle East and then the whole Russia, Ukraine thing, like imagine things really take off. And they detonate a nuke in the atmosphere over every country in the world and all the Internet goes out. What about your Bitcoin then? Like, do you even hear what you're saying? Like, imagine that scenario and the thing that is going to be on people's minds is food, shelter, is my family safe? And then probably after the first 24 hours, where can I get a I'm just going to say it, a hand job where where the sex workers like where where can I go and trade these bullets that have been stocking up for, you know, a little me time with with Old Destiny over there? And I do mean old because she was in the business for a hot minute and she's looking a little more now, but she's got the experience. And that's what you're going to want to go to when times are tough. You're going to want to go to the person that knows how to get you to that happy place. So, yeah, you're going to check in on Destiny and give her some bullets for some fun times. But you're not going to be thinking about Bitcoin. You're not going to be thinking about all my cat pictures and all the trad wives on Twitter talking about how they're grass feeding their goats. No, you're not going to be paying attention to any of that. You're gonna be like, what do I need to survive? That's it. That is that is it. That's all you're going to be paying attention to. So this idea that, oh, what happens to your Bitcoin? It's like, go fuck yourself. What are you talking about? Listen to yourself. Is grandma alive in a nursing home? Because there's no oxygen on. What's your first concern if the nukes go off and there's no Internet Opti? Is it is my note still on? No, it's thinking about people in my local community and can I survive? Exactly. Exactly. All right. Well, this is going to be a spicy one. I can already tell this is going to be a spicy one. Let's get into the show, guys. This time seeds do it yourself kit has everything you need to hammer your seed words into commercial grade titanium plates instead of just writing them on paper. Don't store your generational wealth on paper. Paper is prone to water damage, fire damage. You want to put your generational wealth on one of the strongest metals on planet Earth, titanium. Your words are actually stamped into this metal plate with this hammer and these letter stamps. And once your words are in, they aren't going anywhere. No risk of the plate breaking apart and pieces falling everywhere. Titanium stamp seeds will survive nearly triple the heat produced by a house fire. They're also crush proof, waterproof, non corrosive and time proof. All things that paper is not allowing you to huddle your Bitcoin with peace of mind for the long haul. Stamp your seed on stamp seed. Yeah, the chat. You guys are wild. Love you guys. Anyway, we made this easy for you. Scan the QR code. Make sure your seed phrases backed up on something stronger than just a piece of paper in your sock drawer. Make sure it's backed up on titanium, guys. This is the way scan the QR code. Get yourself a stamp seed kit. And we have been in the talks of getting a simply Bitcoin branded one. But maybe maybe you don't want that OPSEC unfriendly version. But anyways, scan the QR code. Go check it out. Get yourself one. Stamp your seed in titanium. All right, guys. Anyways, we're over here on the numbers. We're at Clark Moody's dashboard. Of course, my favorite number is the block height. We are currently at eight hundred and fifteen thousand eight hundred and eighty six. Take talk next block. Honey, bad you don't care. Blocks keep coming in. We are what? Twenty four thousand one hundred and fourteen blocks away from the halving roughly around April 20th of twenty twenty four. So it's happening in time, guys. We know exactly what's happening with the monetary policy that is Bitcoin. You love to see it. Bitcoin is my stable coin. Bitcoin is stability. Anyways, the current price on Bitcoin is thirty five thousand three hundred and forty dollars per Bitcoin. The Moscow time, a .k .a. how much your fiat dollars worth, a .k .a. how much Bitcoin you can buy for a single U .S. dollar is two thousand eight hundred and thirty cents per dollar. The percentage of total Bitcoin that will ever be issued is ninety three point zero three percent. The market cap and fiat terms of Bitcoin is six hundred and ninety billion dollars or six hundred ninety point three billion dollars. The realized monetary inflation of Bitcoin taking fiat currencies to school is one point seventy four percent. It's going to get cut in half. Well, I think it's going to slowly. Is it going to get cut in half? I think it's going to cut in half. I think that's what the halving does to it. Anyways, Bitcoin versus gold market cap is currently at five point two seven percent. We are only at five point two seven percent of the gold market cap. The hard money gang. We're coming for gold. Gold market cap is ten trillion dollars. Only five percent of that, guys. And you guys are bearish out there. Couldn't be me. Can't relate. Anyways, the total public lightning capacity is five thousand three hundred and five point zero seven BTC. The hash rate has been going absolutely parabolic. Of course, this is just a rough guesstimate of what is going on on the Bitcoin network. But something is happening and people are uploading and turning on a lot of A6. The last 90 days, we are at four hundred and twenty point one exahashes. The pending fees. Oh, my goodness. It's spiking right now. Eleven point four four BTC, at least according to the mempool that Clark Moody is connected to. We've been telling you for a while. You wanted to make sure that you are consolidating your UTXOs because things are going to get crazy. This will probably cool down a little bit. I think I did hear that there's some like ordinal BRC 20 stuff going on right now. Yeah. So that's probably why we're seeing this spike right now in the fee market. So once it gets a little cooler, oops, oops, sorry. It gets a little cooler. Not wrong, though. Yeah, not wrong. Once you once you get a little cooler in the fee market, I suggest you guys take the opportunity to consolidate your UTXOs. Make sure that you have good UTXO hygiene. Anyways. All right, guys, I'm going to connect last night's TTO that I did with CJ. I hope you guys watch that. I do have it up here for you guys to show you that you need to go watch this. And I took a little piece out of there. But here we are. We got Neil Kashkar. And remember who he is. He's the crazy guy that was coming out when we were going through the the, you know, the flu pandemic. And he was telling us that they can print unlimited money. And they clarified that question. And we got the memes of him with crazy eyes, like, wait, so you're telling me you can print unlimited money? And he said, yes, that's exactly what I'm telling you. Well, here he is again. And if you listen to last night's TTO. And you will listen to this this morning. You really start to realize just how detached these quote unquote elites are, how detached the Fed is from reality. You really would ask yourself what is going on. And again, I reference the white paper constantly on here because it's literally in the first paragraph of the white paper. Satoshi was so prescient when it came to this because he saw the fundamental problem of the fiat system. It is its trust based system, inherent trust that you need to just trust that these people know what they're doing. And we're seeing in real time that people still seem to trust them. And if you look at the data. There is no reason to trust them. Anyways, Neel Kashkari in this little video here goes, I'm not seeing a lot of evidence that the economy is weakening. And he discusses market expectations for an interest rate cut by the central bank next year. So let's just listen to him and remember the idea that the only reason the system is continuing to hobble along as it is, is because people out there still believe these people in the suits that they know what is going on. Trust the experts. They know exactly what's going on. Trust the guy in the suit on the television telling you that they have the economy under control, that interest rates are under control, that the Fed knows where we're going. And if you really look at the data, it may be completely different and telling you a different story. Anyways, let's listen to this, guys. You said that people want certainty and that you can't give it to them. And I understand that. But people don't just want certainty. They also want some sort of guiding philosophy. Do you think that Fed Chair Powell has outlined some sort of guiding philosophy on where the bar is to cut rates, on where the bar is to raise them further? Well, I think he's articulated very clearly that we're committed to getting back to 2 % inflation, right? There's been some chatter amongst economists that maybe we should raise the inflation target. I think he's done a great job saying that is not on the table. We're not going to do that. We're going to get inflation back to 2%. And we're going to let the data guide us. We've moved very aggressively. We've made a lot of progress on inflation. We're not done yet, meaning inflation is not back to our target. And if we need to do more, we will. There seems to be a feeling in markets that the bar to cut rates has been lowered over the past week or two weeks. That suddenly, not only are we reaching a pause, and have we seen a peak in the Fed funds rate, but that also the Fed will cut next year, maybe surgically. Neil Dutta is talking about that. He's coming up next. Do you want to push back against that? Do you think that the bar to cut is still just as high as it was? I have no idea where market participants are getting that. There's no discussion amongst me and any of my colleagues about when we're going to start preparing to cut rates. The only thing that's been talked about at all is that at some point, when inflation is well on its way back down, if we didn't back off a little bit, the real rates would be getting tighter and tighter and tighter. And that's real, but that's math. But is there enough weakness currently in the market, in the economy, I should say, to give you that sense at this point? Look at the last GDP print. I mean, does anybody look at that and think, oh my gosh, the economy? For the last 12 months, GDP has been very strong. The labor market continues to be quite robust. Yes, the unemployment rate has ticked up to 3 .9%, but we've also seen a huge surge of labor supply, which is really positive, come online. So I'm looking at this. I'm seeing consumers that are strong. By the way, my airplane that I came here on was 100 % full yesterday. It's going to be 100 % full today. I'm not seeing a lot of evidence that the economy is weakening.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "neil" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"With misdemeanor sexual battery. Neil Lloyd I can stay in WTLP news. Now a source familiar with the investigation tells WTLP as soon as Prince William County Public Schools were made aware of the allegation the suspected student was removed from the school restricted and to online work and with the student removed from the school population the decision was made not to notify parents while police investigated that allegation. For 35 years there's been a coordinated battle to fight HIV and AIDS but the work is not done. On this World AIDS Day the theme is remember and commit. Yemisi Odusanya senior advisor for the Health Resources and Services Administration says there are things to celebrate. HIV has.
Markets Daily Crypto Roundup
A highlight from Crypto Update | Institutional Interest in Chainlink, Circle Considering an IPO
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by CME Group and PayPal. It's Wednesday, November 8th, 2023, and this is Markets Daily from CoinDesk. My name is Noelle Acheson, CoinDesk collaborator and author of the Crypto is Macro Now newsletter on Substack. On today's show, we're talking about a possible crypto IPO, Chainlink, Fed comments, and more. So you don't miss an episode, be sure to follow the podcast on your platform of choice and turn on notifications. Just a reminder, CoinDesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. Now, a markets roundup. Crypto markets perked up yesterday, with a sharp jump late in the day at one point pushing the Bitcoin price above $35 ,700. It has since settled back some, but seems to be holding on to the gains. At 9am Eastern Time today, Bitcoin was trading at $35 ,400, up 1 .8 % over the past 24 hours. Ether was trading up 1 % at $1 ,890. Elsewhere, Chainlink, Polygon, and TonCoin are up 8%, Solana, Cardano, and Polkadot are up 3%. In macro indicators today, it's time to talk about talking. I'm referring to the attention paid to speeches and interviews given by Fed officials, at events, on television, at universities, wherever, and why it matters. And I mention it today, because Fed officials do like to get out there and deliver their message, nothing new there. But this week seems to be particularly noisy. This morning, I counted 15 scheduled Fed official public remarks for this week alone, and there were probably some I didn't catch. Two are from Fed Chair Powell himself. First, let's look at why they do this, and then we'll get into why we should pay attention, and also what they are saying. They do this for several reasons, one of which is personal branding. Another is broader education, that's part of the job. In case you haven't noticed, the Federal Reserve even has an Instagram account now and posts regularly. Perhaps the most relevant reason, however, is the messaging coming from people involved in setting US interest rates. Each Fed official is allowed to say what they think they don't have to conform to any official statement, and because of this, their comments shed light on what goes on behind the closed doors of the FOMC committee, and what factors could influence the next interest rate decision. For that reason, we should pay attention. This may be hard since there is so much Fed speak, but even just glimpsing at reports of official comments can give a feel for where the collective mood is, and this can help to shape expectations of where interest rates could go from here. So, let's take a look at what Fed officials are saying. On Friday, Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic said he thought the Fed was done raising interest rates. On Monday, Minneapolis Fed President Neil Kashkari hinted that he thought there were more interest rate hikes ahead. In speeches on Monday and today, Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook said that she hoped that no more rate hikes would be needed, but that escalating geopolitical tensions could spill over into higher inflation. Yesterday, Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee hammered home that any move on rates will depend on inflation, not on jobs or economic growth. In other words, heading into a recession will not budge the Fed. There are several other comments as well, and taken together, they give the impression of a Federal Reserve Board that is not in unanimous agreement about the rates outlook, but that does with one voice stress the importance of the inflation numbers. That does not mean other economic data points are not significant. After all, pretty much everything is intertwined. But it does mean that the inflation data is the most significant.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "neil" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"In a local high school bathroom on Neil Orkenstein. We preview Commander's Dolphins at 9 It's 9 o 'clock. This is CBS News On The Hour presented by Indeed I'm Deborah Rodriguez. Fighting has resumed between Israel and Hamas. Rescuers in Gaza's southern communis pulling a body from the rubble after a week -long cease fire ended with each side accusing the other of violating terms of a truce agreement. CBS's Robert Berger is in Jerusalem. When the cease fire collapsed, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement saying that Israel is committed to achieving the three goals of the war namely releasing the hostages, eliminating Hamas, and ensuring that Gaza can never again impose a threat to the citizens of Israel. More than 100 hostages and 240 Palestinian were released during the cease fire. The New York Times is reporting Israel had a blueprint of Hamas's October 7th attack plan a year before it happened but dismissed it as too difficult for the group to carry out. The Middle East Institute's Bilal Saab. There's going to be a day of accountability for sure. It's not today because we're in of the midst war still. The Israeli public are not going to punish or exact political cost on this Israeli government. But that day is going to come. Here in the U .S. there's bad weather on the way for the northwest. According to the forecast a series of atmospheric rivers will dump heavy rain and two to three feet of snow across portions of Washington and Oregon over the next few days. A federal judge in Montana has blocked the state's first in the nation ban on TikTok. Critics say it's harmful to kids. CBS's Jared Hill. In his ruling the judge said the law quote oversteps state power and infringes on the constitutional rights of users and businesses. A TikTok spokesperson tells CBS News the company is pleased with the judge's decision while Montana State's attorney's office notes the ruling could change. World leaders speak out about climate change at the COP28 summit in Dubai. Britain's King Charles warned we need to rapidly repair nature's economy to our ensure survival. The earth does not belong to us we belong Hill's to president the earth. Lula promised to stop Amazon deforestation by 2030 but the leaders of the world's two biggest carbon polluting nations the US and China were glaringly absent as presidents Biden and she stayed home. Elaine Cobb CBS News. The Buffalo Bills Von Miller has surrendered to police near Dallas after he was charged in a warrant with roughing up the pregnant mother of his children. Sports attorney Rocky Dunn says the linebackers troubles aren't over. Just because you turn yourself in doesn't mean that you complied with the good conduct clause that the NFL and the NFL teams put in every player's contract. Dow futures down 28 this is CBS News. You don't need a job platform you need a hiring partner. Indeed lets you schedule and conduct virtual interviews all from one place. Start at Indeed .com slash credits. It's 903 on Friday December First we're at 43 degrees reaching up to 50 today with some rain
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from MARKETS DAILY: Crypto Update | Institutional Interest in Chainlink, Circle Considering an IPO
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by CME Group and PayPal. It's Wednesday, November 8th, 2023, and this is Markets Daily from CoinDesk. My name is Noelle Acheson, CoinDesk collaborator and author of the Crypto is Macro Now newsletter on Substack. On today's show, we're talking about a possible crypto IPO, Chainlink, Fed comments, and more. So you don't miss an episode, be sure to follow the podcast on your platform of choice and turn on notifications. Just a reminder, CoinDesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. Now, a markets roundup. Crypto markets perked up yesterday, with a sharp jump late in the day at one point pushing the Bitcoin price above $35 ,700. It has since settled back some, but seems to be holding on to the gains. At 9am Eastern Time today, Bitcoin was trading at $35 ,400, up 1 .8 % over the past 24 hours. Ether was trading up 1 % at $1 ,890. Elsewhere, Chainlink, Polygon, and TonCoin are up 8%, Solana, Cardano, and Polkadot are up 3%. In macro indicators today, it's time to talk about talking. I'm referring to the attention paid to speeches and interviews given by Fed officials, at events, on television, at universities, wherever, and why it matters. And I mention it today, because Fed officials do like to get out there and deliver their message, nothing new there. But this week seems to be particularly noisy. This morning, I counted 15 scheduled Fed official public remarks for this week alone, and there were probably some I didn't catch. Two are from Fed Chair Powell himself. First, let's look at why they do this, and then we'll get into why we should pay attention, and also what they are saying. They do this for several reasons, one of which is personal branding. Another is broader education, that's part of the job. In case you haven't noticed, the Federal Reserve even has an Instagram account now and posts regularly. Perhaps the most relevant reason, however, is the messaging coming from people involved in setting US interest rates. Each Fed official is allowed to say what they think they don't have to conform to any official statement, and because of this, their comments shed light on what goes on behind the closed doors of the FOMC committee, and what factors could influence the next interest rate decision. For that reason, we should pay attention. This may be hard since there is so much Fed speak, but even just glimpsing at reports of official comments can give a feel for where the collective mood is, and this can help to shape expectations of where interest rates could go from here. So, let's take a look at what Fed officials are saying. On Friday, Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic said he thought the Fed was done raising interest rates. On Monday, Minneapolis Fed President Neil Kashkari hinted that he thought there were more interest rate hikes ahead. In speeches on Monday and today, Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook said that she hoped that no more rate hikes would be needed, but that escalating geopolitical tensions could spill over into higher inflation. Yesterday, Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee hammered home that any move on rates will depend on inflation, not on jobs or economic growth. In other words, heading into a recession will not budge the Fed. There are several other comments as well, and taken together, they give the impression of a Federal Reserve Board that is not in unanimous agreement about the rates outlook, but that does with one voice stress the importance of the inflation numbers. That does not mean other economic data points are not significant. After all, pretty much everything is intertwined. But it does mean that the inflation data is the most significant.
The Café Bitcoin Podcast
A highlight from "Bitcoin's Purpose," SEC Hiring Woes, and Matt Hill with Start 9 - November 7th, 2023
"Hello, and welcome to the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast brought to you by Swan Bitcoin, the best way to buy and learn about Bitcoin. I'm your host, Alex Dancic, and we're excited to announce that we're bringing the Cafe Bitcoin Conversations Twitter Spaces to you on this show, the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast, Monday through Friday every week. Join us as we speak to guests like Michael Saylor, Lynn Alden, Corey Clifston, Greg Foss, Tomer Strohleit, and many others in the Bitcoin space. Also be sure to hit that subscribe button. Make sure you get notifications when we launch a new episode. You can join us live on Twitter Spaces Monday through Friday, starting at 7 a .m. Pacific and 10 a .m. Eastern every morning to become part of the conversation yourself. Thanks again. We look forward to bringing you the best Bitcoin content daily here on the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast. What's up? More is up. What's up? What's up? That's ridiculous. Mike Terence with OneR, Jordan Tomer, Peter. We've got Jacob on the Pacific Bitcoin handle. However, he's doing best producer game things. He's doing, yeah, he's doing things. We've got Neil Jacobs on the Swan handle. Good morning to all you guys. Good morning, Mickey Koss. Good morning, and shout out to Lindsay Koss in the audience. I am throwing you an invite, young lady. If you want to come up here, you're welcome to do so. No obligation. We won't embarrass you. I promise. She's awesome. She's had several articles now published. And is it Bitcoin magazine? I think it's Bitcoin magazine. Alex, we know you're old, but Lindsay's the mother of three children. I think calling her a young lady is a little inappropriate. It's a compliment. Kiss my ass. Most gals are young ladies to me. It just is what it is, bro. Because Alex is old. I'm just glad that over the weekend with the Bitcoin Veterans handle, we had a space that kind of seemed like we maybe broke Lindsay into the comfortability of getting into spaces and getting into talking. So hopefully she engages more often. It's nice to hear from her and Mickey at the same time. How was the profanity in the space? I don't know. So probably pretty normal for us. Yeah, I didn't notice anything. So I guess it's probably pretty bad. But we got Lindsay to throw up the fist at the end there. It was awesome. Made it worth it. Yeah, I've been trying to encourage Mike to do some relationship -oriented spaces. I'd rather not. People need it though, man. There's so many confused people out there. I'm not sure. Yeah, we would probably get us in trouble. Completely off topic from Bitcoin. Alright, let's come back to Bitcoin. Welcome to Cafe Bitcoin. This is episode 471. Shout -outs to our supporters on Fountain and Noster Nests. Our mission for this show is to provide the signal in a sea of noise, teach the other 7 billion people on this planet why there's hope because of this bright orange future that we call Bitcoin today. We're going to be covering Bitcoin's purpose. is And this basically going to be opinions because nobody really gets to say what its purpose is. Satoshi had a white paper which states what Satoshi's purpose for Bitcoin is. But it's interesting how evolution and time and things like that. I mean, will Bitcoin change because of the people who continue to join it in concentric rings of adoption? I don't know. What do you think, Mike? I would say that Bitcoin does have a purpose in the sense that it provides an economic constant so you can accurately assess the economic viability and activity that's going on. It's like the analogy that I dropped in one of our recent episodes. The thing is episode 18 with regards to comparing it to if you were to constantly drift mercury into a thermometer and your AC is based on a thermometer. You're going to have an inaccurate reading. You're not going to understand why the system is not operating properly. So when you have something like Bitcoin that is not capable of being flippantly printed at the whims of whatever Federal Reserve governors or politicians want to do for government spending, you get a more accurate representation of what something is actually worth or what economic activity is actually doing.
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 07:00 11-07-2023 07:00
"With Bloomberg, you get the story behind the story, the story behind the global birth rate, behind your EV battery's environmental impact, behind sand, yeah, sand, you get context. And context changes everything. Go to Bloomberg .com to get context. This is Bloomberg Radio. There's a little shift underway here that I think we'd want to be mindful of. We could see some positive action through the end of the year. The macro heightened uncertainty means investors do need to be nimble. We don't think we're getting any more rate hikes from the Fed. It's far too early to be talking about easing, so just be aware of that thing in the tail. This is Bloomberg Surveillance with Tom Kean, Jonathan Ferro and Lisa Abramowitz. What a tone shift in the last week, just amazing to see. Live from New York City this morning. Good morning, good morning. For our audience worldwide, this is Bloomberg Surveillance on TV and radio. Alongside Lisa Abramowitz, I'm Jonathan Ferro. Your equity market this morning, negative a third of 1 % over the last week. Gains, gains, gains, day after day. Six days of it on the S &P 500. Brahmo, seven days of it on the NASDAQ 100. And we were talking yesterday, is this real? And people were saying it really depends on what happens at the yield space. I've got to say, a tone shift, yes, but every guest who's come on set with us pretty much either rolls their eyes or looks exhausted. Because there's no sort of clear sense unless you have a conviction that comes true of what exactly is behind some of these moves and how durable they are. It is difficult to come up with a narrative behind the strength because it will be a narrative that will get disproved within a day. Well, the consensus for you right now is the Fed is done. Rick Reader at BlackRock, the Fed is done. Even Andrew Hollenhorst of Citi says the Fed is done. Retmax Neil Dutta says we can discuss surgical rate cuts. We'll catch up with Neil later this hour. I love the tweets, the posts on X, call them whatever you want. This one here, the odds of an alien tea party in our backyard are as sensible as expecting a rate hike. That was momentum down to run on X a moment ago.
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 15:00 11-01-2023 15:00
"When your baby starts to move, you need a diaper that can keep up. Pampers Cruisers 360, the only diaper with no tapes and a 360 stretchy waistband for up to 100 % leak free fit. No tapes or tabs means they're easy to put on and babies have all the stretchy freedom they need to bust their wild moves. Pampers Cruisers 360, live wild and free. Tap the banner to learn more. All of those things that we look at and then we're, you know, we've come very far with this rate hiking cycle, very far. And you saw the spread at the September meeting of, you know, it's a relatively small spread of people think one or two additional hikes. So you're close to the end of the cycle. That was an impression as of, a belief as of September. It's not a promise or a plan of the future. And so we're going into these meetings one by one, we're looking at the data. As I mentioned, we're also, you know, we're being careful, we're proceeding carefully because we can proceed carefully at this time. Monetary policy is restrictive. We see its effects, particularly in interest -sensitive spending and other channels. So that's how I think about it. Thanks. Hi Chair Powell, Neil Irwin with Axios. In light of the run -up in long -term yields we've seen the last several weeks, have you given any consideration to the pace of your asset run -off program? And if there were a judgment that the higher term premium was endangering the dual mandate goals, would that be a reason to think about slowing or suspending QT? Or should we think of that as more of a technical question around reserves? So the Committee is not considering changing the pace of balance sheet run -off. It's not something we're talking about or considering. And I know there are many candidate explanations for why rates have been going up. And QT is certainly on that list.
What Bitcoin Did
A highlight from Here Comes Bitcoin with Steve Lee & Haley Berkoe
"People think that I'm here to make them money. I'm just here to make money better. You know what I mean? Hello there from rainy Bedford this weekend. Weather's rubbish here. It's raining all week. I missed that California sunshine. Please take me back. I'm going to get it. It's so good to be back home. Love being back in Bedford. Have you checked out my latest film? Follow the money part four. Argentina's inflation crisis is out now. You can check it out on our Rumble page. It's also on our YouTube page. And thanks for all the great feedback. Really appreciate it. I do want to thank everyone involved in that, specifically Neil, who worked really hard on the research and the production, but also my DP Kurt, who also co -directed it with me, and also Aidan, who was the BCAM operator on the film. Thank you to everyone involved in that. Anyway, welcome to the What Bitcoin Did podcast, which is brought to you by the absolute legends at Iris Energy, the largest NASDAQ listed Bitcoin miner using 100 % renewable energy. I'm your host, Peter McCormack. And today I've got a very different show for you. I've got an exclusive actually. I have got Bitcoin on the show. Now we know Bitcoin. We love Bitcoin. We understand Bitcoin, but not everybody does. Bitcoin has been through a very difficult few years, highs and lows, probably mainly misunderstood from all the rubbish that's in the press, all the stories that circulate, the misinformation, the, the thought about Bitcoin. Bitcoin's had a tough life, but we thought it's time to get Bitcoin on the show. We wanted to talk to Bitcoin. We wanted to find out what life has been life for Bitcoin, what Bitcoin is doing now, what are Bitcoin's hopes for the future. So yeah, this is an exclusive interview. I hope you enjoy it. If you've got any feedback about this or anything else, you know how to reach out to me is hello at what bitcoindid .com. All right, Bitcoin, welcome. How are you? Oh, I'm good. I'm doing good. How are you doing, Peter? Yeah, I'm good. Doing good, man. Thank you for coming on the show. Oh, my, my great pleasure. It's a bit surreal for us. Yeah. So kind of reminds me of when we did the Bukele interview. I love that episode, by the way. Yeah. It's a real pleasure to be here. I was probably as nervous for that one as this one. You're not nervous. Well, I mean, Bitcoin, I mean, it's the first time. Yeah, he was my first president. Is it your first time? First time meeting Bitcoin. Oh, all right. You know what? I've made a lot of people nervous for that very reason. Listen, right. We're the first one to have Bitcoin on the show. And that's like, we feel privileged, right? You should. But we have got some questions for you, man. All right, go for it. We don't know anything about your past. We don't know about your childhood, growing up. Oh, man. You know, I only got to know you about eight years ago. I read about you. Yeah. Got involved with you. Yep. The tabloids, of course. I'm kidding. I heard some stories about you. I heard you like milk. I heard you like pigeons. Oh, my God. I can't get enough of them. Yeah. So, you know, I grew up in New York. I'm in the East Side, I live now. And I don't know, I guess my past is simple, you know, like most like most kids, you know, I had my issues, my social issues, social anxiety. I wasn't breastfed. So I think that might have something to do with my and my therapist says that's why I'm so obsessed with the white stuff. You know what I mean? But what was it? What was it like growing up in New York? Because you're you're a bit different from most kids, right? I mean, yeah, I mean, listen, New York, New York in the in the late 50s, early 60s. I mean, it was a very different place, first of all. Okay. So, you know, it was a different time. It was a simpler time. Definitely, definitely different than the other kids. But you know, we all get picked on. So I'm no victim. You know what I mean? Yeah, but what would they pick on you for? Honestly, um, was it the red hair? What were they picking on me boy? Honestly, you know, that's a good point. It might have been my red hair. A lot of redheads get picked on, you know. You're the edgier in a crypto currencies. That too. How about you? How about you? Did you get picked on as a kid? Yeah, I did. What did they pick on you for? I was from I was from a little poor suburb of Bedford called Kemston. Oh, that'll do it right there. Kemston. Okay. They said I grew up in a wheelie bin. They did. They made a song up a wheelie. We got we got to do the song please. What's up? I'm not gonna sing it. But it was it was you gotta sing it. It was on the rugby coach. And then the in the style of we all live in a yellow submarine. They were saying we all live in a yellow wheelie bin. And they'd say by day, that's true story. Wow. You know what, I don't want to re dramatize you. So I need to reenact that. But it does sound hilarious. I can't sing it. Danny. It's pretty funny, right? It's very funny. I might cry if I say get brings up choke. But then I fucking proved. I proved these guys wrong. I was gonna make money. There you go. Is that what you know? That where your drive comes from? Yeah, a little bit. A little bit. Yeah. Prove them wrong. I can see that kid from Kemston come good. I can see that. Yeah. Yeah. I guess I got some of that in me too. You know, people don't understand me. Okay. People do not get me. And, you know, I have to I have to, you know, I got to contend with that every day. People think that I'm here to make them money. I'm just here to make money better. You know what I mean? Like, why is that so difficult? So speaking of which, I can't believe you guys have this thing sitting here. Why not? Really? Well, we wanted to know your value. How do you think that feels? How do you think that feels Peter? Fucking Danny's idea. Danny. Fucking MBK. Danny. MBK. Bitcoin. You and I have got something in common, man. So I get a lot of shit online. And you get a lot of shit online. A lot of shit online, man. I see you take shit. Actually, you get it worse than me. I just get it on Twitter or in the YouTube comments. You get it from the New York Times. You get it from the, what is it? The Wall Street Post. That's right. The Wall Street Post comes out. The New Yorker. Yeah. They'll all come after you all the time. They said you're boiling the oceans. What do I have against the oceans? You know what I mean? I can't barely boil water. Anyway. Yeah. It's rough, man. How do you deal with it all? There's like a lot of pressure. You know what I do? I take a deep breath in through my nose, out through my mouth. Ready? One, two, three. Really? I just do that all day. I try to take it easy. You know, I try not to be too hard on myself. I try to remember that people don't get me and that's not my fault. People don't get me. You know, I've got a good Sarah. I'm a pissed. That helps. She's the one who taught me to breathe. I got good friends, you know, like my good, my girl Haley over here. You know, why, why do you think people don't get you? Can we rephrase the question? What don't people get about me? Hmm. What don't people don't get me because of their own concerns with their own self worth. You know, I think people have low self -esteem and they want to feel more valuable. They want to feel like they've got something of value. And then they want to know how much your value is. I'm like, you know, if you valued yourself, maybe we wouldn't be talking about numbers right now. Maybe we'd be talking about purpose our in life. And my purpose is to make life easier. You know what I'm saying? You get, you feel me, right? Hey, listen, you've made my life easier. I get it. Can we talk about that for a second? Can we, can we please post about that? How have I made your life easier? Well, I mean, you gave me purpose. I met my boy Danny because of you. And Danny's like one of my best friends in the world. I mean, come on. Who doesn't love Danny, right? And that, that wouldn't happen without you. I bought my local football team because of you. I put you on our shirt. Do you know you're on our shirt? I do. Yeah. See? Honestly, first of all, I'm honored. Thank you for that acknowledged moment. I really, you know, I'm here to make a difference. And I'm glad I made a difference with you. Oh, you did it for all of us. We've been lucky with doing this job, job to travel around. We've met some great people. We've been privileged to interview some great people, but to finally get a chance to sit down with you is like, this is a, this is a big deal for us. It's an important moment. You wouldn't understand how big a moment this, like, we've been talking about this for weeks. Like we don't want to fuck it up. Want to make sure you had a good time. Like we respect you, respect your time. We understand that this is exclusive. And so this is a big deal for me and Danny. You know, um, you've already fucked it up. You've already fucked it up because you haven't brought my girl Haley into the mix. Haley, come on. Haley, come sit down. Come here. Come here. Get in here, girl. Get down. And Steve, what about Steve? Come on. Let's go on. Steve. Good to see you. Come on. That's right. Listen, a couple of questions before we go. Okay. Okay. What are you, what are you going to be doing this weekend in LA? Oh man. I got so many things to do in LA. What did we talk about? Uh, I'm gonna go to the Santa Monica pier. First of all, I love kettle corn. So I'm going to get some of that. And I'm mostly pigeon hunting. I'm going to go, and I'm going to go feed the pigeons. If you know what I mean, Danny, and I'm going to go feed the pigeons. If you know what I mean.
Telecom Reseller
A highlight from Office in a box, HP/Poly offers Crexendo ecosystem partners a deep portfolio of products delivering consistent experiences in all the places hybrid workers, work, Podcast
"This is Doug Green, and I'm the publisher of Telecom Reseller, and I'm very pleased to have with me today Dave Finney, who's the director of Global Alliance for HP Poly. Dave, thank you for joining me today. Thanks, it's good to be here. Well, I want to congratulate you. You are my very first audio podcast here at the Crescendo User Group Meeting 23, a NetSapiens platform event, and we're holding it here in beautiful Phoenix, Scottsdale, Arizona, a magnificent facility. So, with all that said, Dave, you know, I think everyone knows Poly, everyone knows HP, but put it together a little bit for me, maybe for people who don't know the whole story. Where are we with all that? Well, first of all, you've set very low expectations if I'm your first, so. Oh, it's a great honor to have HP. So, anyways, our legacy is Polycom. I joined Polycom back in 2006, and we were the company that built the starfish -shaped conference phone that's in the middle of our conference table. Plantronics started off in the 60s building headsets. Actually, they were the first headsets on the moon. Neil Armstrong spoke his first words from the moon through a power plantronics headset. We came together a few years ago, Plantronics bought Polycom, and we became Poly as a joint company. So, headsets, our audio devices, our video devices, and that's where we've been. Now, HP was looking for a way to figure out how to do the work from home thing. So, that's kind of this hybrid work or work from home, and they said, we don't have cameras, and we don't have handsets, and we don't have headsets. And so, we're going to buy Poly, and we're going to create this work from home. So, imagine office in a box. I come home, my company has sent me an office in a box, I open it up, I get a PC, a printer, a camera, a headset, and now I'm off and running, and it's all remotely managed. So, that's the whole goal is to continue to develop for the hybrid work environment and for the work from home environment because we think that's the way the world is going. After pandemic. So, how does this office in a box vision that you guys have put together fit in with your relationship with Crescendo? So, we still have the legacy relationship with Crescendo, which is our phones, our phones on desk and our conference phones. The hope is over time as Crescendo goes upmarket, there's more video involved. So, now you have this video. So, even video rooms as well as video in the home. And what you'll find is that as people are moving back and forth, they might go into a cubicle in an office temporarily and then go home. And then they have some camera and video capabilities in the office and they have those camera capabilities for video conferencing and everybody's using Teams and Zooms and, you know, ultimately Crescendo for things like that. So, we want to be able to build products that support them when they go into the office and when they come home from the office. And Crescendo is a service provider that's moving up from UCAS to CCAS to CPAS. They're going to move upstream into those enterprise markets where you're going to have people that are going to be working from home working in an office. So, if I've chosen to stick with the Crescendo platform or if that's where I'm going, why pick HP Poly? Quality, things like noise block AI, the technologies that we're building into the directory AI and cameras, noise block AI in the phones and headsets, acoustic fence on the phones and the headsets. So, this ability to create an environment where if I'm talking to you and I'm saying I'm a contact center agent, I'm talking to you, you're calling in and you're trying to get some advice on your credit card, I've got a technology that blocks all the noise around me as an agent. So, I'm going to have 100 agents and they're all talking at the same time, but you don't hear that. So, our communication is crystal clear. In the camera environment, if we're in a conference room like this, we've got a bowling alley effect. Instead of having that bowling alley effect, our cameras will focus on the speaker, they'll frame multiple people in the room, they'll block noise from outside of the room. So, really, we're trying to create environments where people can work well and communicate well because the more noise that you have to deal with, the harder your brain works, the more fatigued you are at the end of the day. So, Dave, do you have any news for us this week? You know, we've got a booth full of products. As far as new news, no, nothing really new. We've been working for a show to make sure that all our products are onboarded on the platform and available to their partners, their solution partners, and we've got a sales team ready to help them. Dave, I really want to thank you for joining me today. Being my first interview, it was great. And stepping by, taking some time out here at The Busy Show, where can we learn more about PolyHP, and where can we learn more about this connection with Crescendo? So, the connection with Crescendo, you know, I am the relationship manager with Crescendo. Darren Knapp's team has the partner relationship, the selling partner relationship. So, partner .poly .com, the Crescendo website, we have a landing page on the Crescendo website, or the other Crescendo website. And we also, every Crescendo service provider that's using the NetSapiens platform as an account manager associated with it. And then hp .com, poly .com, all that information is there. Dave, thank you very much indeed. Thanks, appreciate it. Thank you.
Markets Daily Crypto Roundup
A highlight from Crypto Update | The Tone of the Federal Reserve Is Shifting
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by CME Group. It's Wednesday, October 11th, 2023, and this is Markets Daily from Coindesk. My name is Noelle Acheson, Coindesk collaborator and author of the Crypto is Macro Now newsletter on Substack. On today's show, we're talking about spot ETFs, Bitcoin, inflation, and more. So you don't miss an episode, be sure to follow the podcast on your platform of choice. And just a reminder, Coindesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. Now, a markets roundup. Crypto markets are particularly choppy at the moment, with general risk -off sentiment keeping a lid on prices. After drifting lower yesterday, Bitcoin's price dropped sharply this morning, at one point shedding 1 .1 % in just five minutes. It has since recovered part of the loss. According to Coindesk indices, at 8 a .m. Eastern time today, Bitcoin was down 1 % over the past 24 hours, trading at $27 ,230. Ether dropped even more sharply, losing 1 .5 % in the same five minutes. Unlike Bitcoin, however, it has since clawed back all of that loss. However, it is still down roughly four -tenths of a percent over the past 24 hours, trading at $1 ,575. Even though Bitcoin's price has not been doing well this week, it is still up 1 % so far this month. October is typically a strong month for Bitcoin, with an average return of all Octobers since 2010 of 25%. Obviously, averages are just that, the average of a range of movements. But if that average is met this month, that would put Bitcoin at just over $34 ,000. Moving on to signals in the macro market, we now have more confirmation that the tone of the Federal Reserve is shifting. In yesterday's episode, I spoke about comments on Monday from two Federal Reserve officials. These suggested that the central bank was now more willing to let the bond market handle some of the tightening going forward, implying that the Fed wouldn't need to raise rates quite as much. Well, yesterday we heard from more central bank representatives. Minneapolis Fed President Neil Kashkari echoed the earlier comments of his colleagues. So did San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly. Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic went even further and said the quiet part out loud, I quote, I actually don't think we need to increase rates anymore, end quote. On this bond yields fell further. Remember that bond yields move inversely to price. Earlier today, the 10 -year US Treasury yield almost reached 4 .5%, its lowest point since late September, after yesterday, registering its steepest one -day drop since August. This yield adjustment is largely in the long end of the yield curve. The rate on US two -year notes is up on yesterday's close, while the 10 -year yield is still falling down 1 .4 % or 6 basis points earlier today. Yields are still high across the board, though. This will continue to apply pressure to corporate profitability and bank balance sheets. In other macro news, yesterday we saw the leading small business optimism index decline for the second month in a row. A small increase had been expected. Also, US producer prices are just out. These measure selling prices from domestic producers and are another way to look at inflation. The index rose half a percent month over month in September, more than expected, but the smallest increase in three months. In other words, inflation continues to moderate, but is far from vanquished.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from MARKETS DAILY: Crypto Update | The Tone of the Federal Reserve Is Shifting
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by CME Group. It's Wednesday, October 11th, 2023, and this is Markets Daily from Coindesk. My name is Noelle Acheson, Coindesk collaborator and author of the Crypto is Macro Now newsletter on Substack. On today's show, we're talking about spot ETFs, Bitcoin, inflation, and more. So you don't miss an episode, be sure to follow the podcast on your platform of choice. And just a reminder, Coindesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. Now, a markets roundup. Crypto markets are particularly choppy at the moment, with general risk -off sentiment keeping a lid on prices. After drifting lower yesterday, Bitcoin's price dropped sharply this morning, at one point shedding 1 .1 % in just five minutes. It has since recovered part of the loss. According to Coindesk indices, at 8 a .m. Eastern time today, Bitcoin was down 1 % over the past 24 hours, trading at $27 ,230. Ether dropped even more sharply, losing 1 .5 % in the same five minutes. Unlike Bitcoin, however, it has since clawed back all of that loss. However, it is still down roughly four -tenths of a percent over the past 24 hours, trading at $1 ,575. Even though Bitcoin's price has not been doing well this week, it is still up 1 % so far this month. October is typically a strong month for Bitcoin, with an average return of all Octobers since 2010 of 25%. Obviously, averages are just that, the average of a range of movements. But if that average is met this month, that would put Bitcoin at just over $34 ,000. Moving on to signals in the macro market, we now have more confirmation that the tone of the Federal Reserve is shifting. In yesterday's episode, I spoke about comments on Monday from two Federal Reserve officials. These suggested that the central bank was now more willing to let the bond market handle some of the tightening going forward, implying that the Fed wouldn't need to raise rates quite as much. Well, yesterday we heard from more central bank representatives. Minneapolis Fed President Neil Kashkari echoed the earlier comments of his colleagues. So did San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly. Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic went even further and said the quiet part out loud, I quote, I actually don't think we need to increase rates anymore, end quote. On this bond yields fell further. Remember that bond yields move inversely to price. Earlier today, the 10 -year US Treasury yield almost reached 4 .5%, its lowest point since late September, after yesterday, registering its steepest one -day drop since August. This yield adjustment is largely in the long end of the yield curve. The rate on US two -year notes is up on yesterday's close, while the 10 -year yield is still falling down 1 .4 % or 6 basis points earlier today. Yields are still high across the board, though. This will continue to apply pressure to corporate profitability and bank balance sheets. In other macro news, yesterday we saw the leading small business optimism index decline for the second month in a row. A small increase had been expected. Also, US producer prices are just out. These measure selling prices from domestic producers and are another way to look at inflation. The index rose half a percent month over month in September, more than expected, but the smallest increase in three months. In other words, inflation continues to moderate, but is far from vanquished.
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 07:00 10-11-2023 07:00
"Now, through October 13th, you can join Planet Fitness for just $1 down, $10 a month. With free fitness training and most clubs open 24 hours, it's the most convenient place to get that big fitness energy. Join for just $1 down, $10 a month, no commitment, cancel any time. Deal ends October 13th. See you above for details. This is Bloomberg Radio. Investors are lacking conviction one way or another, and I think perhaps key to this will be whether or not this conflict does expand. When you see rates move at this speed and in this quantity, you always worry that something may fall off the bus. I think the mindset and the thought process is finally shifting after years and years of low interest rates. Everybody's worried about their ability to finance. We're not fully back to where we need to be to say mission accomplished. This is Bloomberg Surveillance with Tom Kean, Jonathan Market move is absolutely phenomenal. Life from New York City this morning. Good morning, good morning. For our audience worldwide, this is Bloomberg Surveillance on TV and radio. Alongside Lisa Brabits, I'm Jonathan Ferro. Yields down, double digits, twos out to thirties in yesterday's session. This morning, we're down another 10 basis points on a 10 -year lease of $4 .55. And why? Is it just perplexing, as Neil Kashkari says, or is there something real behind this move, whether it has to do with concerns about geopolitical risk or whether it's having to do with this idea that maybe Fed officials won't raise rates again and will take a more dovish stance, given that rates had gone up so much. And yet, if they reverse too much, that creates a bit of a problem. It's odd that Kashkari is equally perplexed, but also saying it's possible that rising yields might mean the Fed has to do less. So without any real understanding of why they're higher, they're happy to outsource monetary policy to whatever the bond market is doing. I mean, essentially, monetary policy uses the bond market as a transmission mechanism. So if the bond market is going in a certain direction, they don't have to understand it. And if it be...
The Eric Metaxas Show
Why Sean Feucht Is an Inspiration to Eric Personally
"You have been one of the few people that has been an encouragement to me personally, because a lot of people are playing it a little safe. And I thought, you know, I used to be one of those people. But things have gotten so bad that if you don't speak, you're guilty. And that's why I want to warn people, folks, you do not want to be counted guilty. You want to be one of the ones helping and fighting, doing your part. And, you know, what you refer to, Sean, about the people. I mean, there are these books that come out right now that they get sent to our studio in New York. Right. Like, you know, de -churching or like why people aren't going to church and then how we can fix it and what we need to do. And I just laugh. I think if you're talking about what people care about, if you're talking about the things that Sean Foyt is talking about, people will come to your church. If you're somebody like a Jack Hibbs or a Rob McCoy or a Greg Locke or a down, down, down the line, there are churches around the country where they're actually talking about this every Sunday, where they are arming their people to fight for their children's sake in the culture. And by the way, there's a website called my church finder dot org. We've had Neil Mammon on talking about it. If you want to find a good church, tell your pastor to sign up. It's my church finder dot org. This is an amazing tool, my church finder dot org. But if you're not going to a church that is talking about this stuff, my attitude would be like, why go to church? Why go to church that is pretending like, well, it's 1985. We don't believe in the gifts of the Spirit. We don't believe God is alive. We just think it's a nice place to go on Sunday morning before brunch effectively. That seems to be what a lot of people think of his church. And I'm here to tell you, sorry, folks, that's not the church. That's the devil's church. I'm sorry to to tell you the bad news, but that kind of dead religiosity that is perfect. The devil says, you know what, go to a church like that, because the Germans who went to those churches in the 1930s enabled me to use the Nazi Party to unleash satanic evil and to murder millions.
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A highlight from BIG RIPPLE XRP NEWS! JUDGE DENIES SEC GARY GENSLER APPEAL! RIPPLE SINGAPORE LICENSE, SEC VS COINBASE & BINANCE
"Welcome back to the thinking crypto podcast, your home for cryptocurrency news and interviews. If you are new here, please hit that subscribe button as well as the thumbs up button and leave a comment below. Please also hit the five star rating on the podcast platforms. Well, folks, as you can probably tell by my voice, I am sick. I'm under the weather. I think I picked up something at the ripple proper party, but it was certainly worth it. The ripple proper party was incredible. It was amazing to meet many of you in person and to chat with you all and then get to know you a bit better. Thank you all for your support. It was just an awesome experience. Well, folks, let's jump into the news. The SEC's motion to appeal the loss in the ripple case has been denied. Judge Torres once again denying the SEC and scumbag regulator Gary Gensler. Gary Gensler's lies, failed talking points and bullshit are not, of course, going to be holed up in court so he can continue going on TV and telling lies. But it's not going to happen with the judiciary branch. This is great, folks. We are seeing a government agency that is run by a corrupt bureaucrat being put in their place. They've obviously fallen far from their core mission of protecting investors. They become political and they are trying to go beyond above and beyond what powers have been given to them. Their goal is to protect investors, but they're doing all kinds of nonsense. We know Gary Gensler is a puppet on strings trying to protect the trad fi banking incumbents who are being disrupted by cryptocurrency and blocking companies. So this is amazing. Let me give you some details. So district judge Annalisa Torres said in that brief ruling Tuesday that the SEC had failed to meet its burden under the law to show that there were controlling questions of law or that there are substantial grounds for differences of opinion. So Gary is getting shut down. You know, there's obviously going to be a trial next year, but we'll see. There could be some sort of settlement here wrapping this up because I don't think the SEC can continue to take losses like this. Here's what Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse had to say on the matter. The SEC's request to file an interlocutory appeal is denied. I am not a lawyer, but it seems the court just told the SEC, you asked me to apply the Howey test. I did. And like it or not, you lost. Exactly. Stuart Alderadi, chief legal officer at Ripple said the court's July 13 ruling was and remains the law of the land. XRP is not a security. Here's what John Deaton's crypto law highlighted. In footnote six of her ruling today, Judge Torres raped the SEC for shifting the inconsistent arguments as to its legal theory about other distributions. This is in line with Judge Netburn's earlier admonition on the SEC's lack of faithful allegiance to the law. So you have a government agency that doesn't even respect the law folks. They use our tax money to do their jobs, right? That's how they're funded primarily. And they don't even It's unbelievable. This is why we need a total revamp. And if you've seen my interview with Congressman Warren Davidson just a few days ago, he has a bill called the SEC restructuring act or whatever it may be, where it would eliminate that chair role and add another commissioner to bring more balance. And I think we need something like that because clearly, I mean, whether you're a Democrat, Republican, independent, it doesn't matter if you just look at this reasonably, you see something is wrong here. There's this agencies rotten at its core. Here's what attorney Jeremy Hogan had to say. The SEC's motion for interlocutory appeal denied, which means the case either goes to trial in April or goes away. And this order allowed the judge to explain parts of her ruling even better, making the appeal that much harder for the SEC to win disaster for the agency. Now, quick word from our sponsor, and that is uphold, which makes crypto investing easy. I've been a user of uphold since 2018. So I can vouch for this platform. They have 10 plus million users, 250 plus cryptocurrencies, and they're available in 150 countries. You can also trade precious metals on here as well as 37 Fiat currencies. And you can very easily switch between the Fiat precious metals and cryptocurrencies. So that's a very unique feature to this platform. If you'd like to learn more about uphold, please visit the link in the description. Now, attorney Fred Rispoli also weighed in on this, and I've had him on the podcast many times. He said XRP community, the big win was on July 13th, of course, but this is a but this is also pretty sweet options for the SEC are dwindling at a rapid pace. This opinion to me oozed with contempt from Judge Torres for the SEC for wasting her time and in a disrespectful way. I still maintain it all went south for the SEC the day it took such widely hypocritical positions in the Hinman email saga. What an epic fail decision for show me the De Niro to narrow the TLDR of this order to me is the footnote six that first sentence the court further notes that in its summary judgment briefing, the SEC presented shifting and inconsistent arguments as to its legal theory about other distributions. This statement was completely unnecessary for Judge Torres to make and only exists to jab at the SEC out of character for Judge Torres but fully necessary. The SEC may seek an emergency writ to the Second Circuit, but that will be denied. It would waste time and money. So I cannot put that at a zero percent probability. The order's many references to facts yet to be decided was saturated with implications by Judge Torres and that any and all arguments by the SEC will be greeted from a starting point of being non -credible. Wow folks, these judges are taking the SEC out to the woodshed and it's Sarah Netburn going back to saying the SEC has no faithful allegiance to the law. Even recently in full of it. Like what are you trying to tell us what is the security and what's not? Obviously they can and they greenlighted Coinbase to go public. So I think these judges are seeing this is nonsense. What are we doing here? Right? The SEC is not abiding by the law. Now Neil Hartner of Ripple highlighted the following. He said, by my count, the SEC got an F on their interlocutory 10 times in her 14 page ruling.
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A highlight from Short Stuff: Rhodium
"Get ready to dive into the future with Technically Speaking, an Intel podcast, the groundbreaking podcast from iHeartMedia's Ruby Studios in partnership with Intel. Each episode unveils the incredible ways AI technology is transforming our world for the better. Join host Graham Klass as he speaks with the experts behind the technological advancements that are powering a brighter and more accessible future for everyone. Listen to Technically Speaking, an Intel podcast, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or Hey and welcome to The Short Stuff, I'm Josh and there's Chuck and let's take it back to Christmas Eve, the year is 1800, and I'm an English scientist named William Hyde Wollaston. Who are you Chuck? Well, I guess that would make me your colleague, Smithson Tennant. Neil Tennant's great -great -great -great -grandfather. I don't believe you, I'm not falling for anything anymore. Okay, so what are we doing on this Christmas Eve 1800? Well, we're coming, we're unwrapping a very special thing, a precious metal, platinum ore. That's right, we paid a pretty penny for it too, it came from what we would call Columbia today, what Wollaston and Tennant, us, called Nueva Granada, which is fancy, but they paid something like 795 pounds for it, which in 1800 that'd be a thousand dollars, and today it'd be like $23 ,000. I would have thought inflation would have made that way more, but still, that's a decent amount of money to pay for a hunk of platinum. Even back then, the reason why they paid so much for it and why they had to smuggle it out is because it was essentially pure platinum, which is very very hard to find, and one of the reasons that Wollaston wanted it was because he was trying to figure out how to create a chemical reaction that could make platinum malleable, and therefore even more useful than it already was. That's right. He's like, I think I can do it, I'm pretty smart, and I think we can get a lot of uses out of malleable platinum, and so he worked on it for a few years, or rather, you worked on it for a few years. And you helped? I helped a little bit. I got your tea and stuff like that, latched at your jokes, kind of like this podcast. Here's your tea, by the way. And he eventually would, or you eventually would get that chemical process down pat and isolate that platinum, and it was in fact malleable. But what he noticed was, was like, wait a minute, there's something left over here, these reddish salts, and like what in the world could this be? And it turns out that Wollaston and Tenet had also discovered not just one other precious metal but two, we're going to focus on rhodium, but they also discovered palladium. Yeah, pretty neat stuff. That's a big bang for your buck. The reason they called it rhodium, it was after the Greek word for rose, which is rhodon, right? Which sounds like kind of like a robot that assembles from different parts and fights. I was going to say the same thing. So and the reason why is because those salts are kind of like a reddish rose color. So that's pretty cool. That's a great name right off of the bat. But even more than that, they figured out that rhodium and palladium were related to platinum. They're part of what's called the platinum group metals. Don't know if that's a band name or not. I was waiting for it. Maybe like a prog rock, like an all -star prog rock band. Yeah, that's not metal. No, not at all. Yeah, yeah, totally. Yeah, it's one of the noble metals. It is, the rhodium has a chemical, it's a chemical element with the symbol RH, atomic number 45, and it is in the group with iridium and ruthenium and platinum, palladium. What else? Don't forget iridium and osmium, yeah. So it's a pretty big deal that they found this. And also, obviously, gold and silver, also precious metals. And it turns out that rhodium is super valuable today and very useful today. Yeah. And rare. It is rare. It's incredibly rare, actually. It's I guess almost never found or never found in pure form. It's found in alloys with other stuff. And it's usually found in just minuscule amounts. So it's rare, it's scarce. And it was, until very recently, in really high demand, so much so that the price of 2021 approaching was $30 ,000 an ounce. Yeah, that was the peak, the rhodium peak. That's one of the most expensive commodities on the planet, if not the most expensive, I'm not sure. What's interesting, Chuck, though, is that it's now down to about $4 ,000 an ounce. And I say, we don't tell anybody why until we come back from a message break.
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"When the most greatest nation in the world was founded and we are here now, I went back to and I said, what is the conservative total of the population? And the U.S. population has been growing, too. But guess what? The population of conservatives have been growing faster than the U.S. population. The U.S. population has grown 15 percent in the last in the last 20, 20 years. But the church population has grown almost 20 percent. We are it means I think this is your your wonky way of saying there's hope. but think about the 91 million people going to churches and 27 percent of Americans in 2000, only 24 percent of Americans went to conservative church. A lot of people leaving church, but they're leaving the liberal churches. But 24 percent, 23.4 percent went to conservative church in 2000. And today in 2020, this is 20, 20, 20, 23, 27.7 percent. That means almost 60 percent more people attend a conservative church, but a conservative church today than in 76. We're we're out of time. But I guess once more, the punch line, folks, it's not enough just to attend a church that says they believe in the Bible. They have to live it out. And we want you to go to my church finder dot org. Tell your pastors this is important. Do it as soon as possible. My church finder dot org. Neil, ma'am. And God bless you, my friend. Thank you. And you're right. I. Folks, welcome back, I'm talking to Robert Netsley right now, who is with Inspire Investing, Robert, I can't help but get excited about what you've created, an opportunity for people to find out if their money is funding wicked things, if they have money in a 401K or retirement from whatever it is that is invested in companies that are doing evil things that is promoting pornography, promoting abortion, promoting any number of things or ideologies with your money, folks. So Robert Nestle has created something where you can get a free report that tells you where your money is, and they will help you get your money into companies that are doing good things. So you have to go to inspire advisors dot com slash Eric, inspire advisors dot com slash Eric, you get a free report. But this is something I, you know, Robert, I guess it just gives me hope that it's possible to turn things around in America, because when I think of how much money people have invested out there, if they would understand what's going on and shift that money to good stuff, it's just huge. It's just absolutely monstrous. Like what is enormous? It's enormous. And we are seeing fruit from that labor. It's remarkable. It doesn't have to even be trillions of dollars to change things. I've been on the phone, you know, in recent weeks with investor relations and CFOs and whatnot, we regularly engage with companies that we invest in or are like to invest in or kind of just speaking biblical truth to corporate power. And, you know, one of the things we hear is often that number one, these people have never heard they tell us they've never heard from a faith based investor before they've been doing their job for twenty, thirty years. You know, executive major organizations never heard from a faith based investor. So number one, they need to hear our voice. Number two, they're thankful to hear it. Even in some of these sort of, you know, woke businesses, you think that this don't care. There are people in those businesses of influence that actually do care about what we have to say and oftentimes have enough influence to change things. So, for instance, Costco stopped giving money to gay pride parades. Chevron stopped giving money to Planned Parenthood. There's a laundry list of other organizations that have changed things. That is unbelievable. Robert, that is unbelievable. It is so wonderful. I want to tell people, folks, what you do and don't do, you can change the world if you take an interest in this. When I hear that a company like Costco would stop giving money to something like that or Chevron, these are huge, huge companies and you shop there, your money may be invested there. When we get involved in these things, we can change the world. And so I want to say that the action point is go to invest. I'm sorry, inspire advisors dot com slash Eric, inspire advisors dot com slash Eric. You'll get a free report that will help you figure this out. And I know, Robert, that you guys will help people if they want to transition to invest in companies that believe in their values. But this is a this is a gigantic thing that we we have. I mean, it's to me scandalous when we have power and we don't use that power, it's like when I say I'm not going to vote, I'm not going to do this, I'm not going to do that. When you don't do those things, the people who don't share your values, who share opposite, who have opposite values, they're going to prevail. So I just want to say to you, Robert, thank you for for for taking this on, because it is game changing. Like you said, it's a movement. The more people that do this, it's an amazing thing when we think of the money that is out there, that that many people of faith with traditional values have invested in woke companies, ladies and gentlemen, you've got to do something about it. You've just got to do something about it. This is like a mandate that we've got to live our faith out in every sphere. And where your money is, that's a big deal. So please go to inspire advisors dot com slash Eric. This is a free report. Inspire advisors dot com slash Eric. 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"Welcome back, folks, talking to Neil Mamet. Neil, I want to say again how excited I am and how proud I am of you and of my friend Roger Elswick for taking the bull by the horns and actually making this a reality, creating the website MyChurchFinder.org. Folks, this is a dream come true. I remember talking about this a year ago with Roger and just saying that, wouldn't it be amazing if people could, you know, you know, people always say, well, I don't know where where is there a church that I could go to that, you know, is talking about this stuff? I'm going to my church. I've been there for years. And and I always say to these people, get out of those churches. The hour is late. This is serious. And now because of MyChurchFinder.org, you're going to be able to find those churches. You can tell your friends, stop going to the church you're going to, where they refuse to deal with this. Ladies and gentlemen, it's scandalous. If Christian leaders refuse to deal with this stuff, I want to be real clear. It is scandalous. It is not neutral. It is scandalous that they refuse to take a position on these issues that are destroying lives around this country, destroying homes. This is this is very serious. It's a Christian obligation and we need to support churches that are taking a stand, which is why MyChurchFinder.org has come into existence. So, Neil, what what else do we need to know about the website? I wanted to add something about how important it is for Christians to be involved in politics. As you know, I wrote a book called Jesus is involved in politics. Why aren't you? Why isn't your church? And one of the things I found out when I was writing that is I realized that it's heartless to say we should not be involved in politics. And I have this little dialog I have occasionally passed and I say, well, do you believe in child sacrifice? They go, no. So what do you believe in child prostitution? They go, no. I said, do you believe in the abandonment of elderly in the wild or killing twins superstitiously or killing widows on their husband's funeral pyres? They said, no. I said, well, in that case, you if you say you should not be involved in politics, you're being heartless. Because every single one of those laws, those practices were banned only because a pastor and a Christian got involved in politics. And there are thousands and thousands of this throughout history. How heartless can we be? Oh, no, we shouldn't be involved in child prostitution. We should let twins be killed superstitiously. We shouldn't. That's not our business. Of course, it's our business. In fact, what's what's even more amazing is that even today, if you talk to an atheist, they don't believe in child prostitution or twins being killed superstitiously. Why? Because they've adopted our moral capital. So we have changed the culture by changing our laws. And if you as a pastor don't think that's your responsibility, we should not be funding your church. We should not be tithing to your church. And we want these people to be out of that church. And that's why my church find that our work is so important. I mean, it's so critical that you find those churches and we need you to go there and get your pastor to get his church on there. And, you know, because you're because your family's from India, I have to say what you just said about. The practice, if anybody has read my book, Amazing Grace about William Wilberforce, one of the things that Wilberforce did and this was political action, folks out of his faith in Jesus. It caused him to care about strangers in India, about women in India. And he said, by the grace of God, I need to do what I can as a Christian man to affect the lives of women in India. What were they doing in India? They had a practice called Sati. It's unbelievable that they would burn the widow alive on her husband's funeral pyre. Now, there were plenty of people at the time who said, you know what? We don't take a position on that. That's their culture. If they want to burn the widow alive, we don't take a position on that. Wilberforce said, I take a position on that. That is evil. And so he fought in parliament, fought very hard. People know about his battle against the slave trade, fought very hard to allow missionaries into India because a lot of the people in the East India Company didn't even want missionaries. They don't want any Christian influence there. They just wanted to make money. OK. And so they over time were able to abolish this sick satanic practice that was called getting politically involved because of your faith in Jesus. And this is happening all around the world today. There are evil things being done. If Christians aren't leading the pack and saying we believe in humanity, we believe in the sanctity of the individual, that we're made in the image of God, we have to protect these people. But this is what it means. So this idea that we're not supposed to be politically active is from the pit of hell, folks. It is absolutely wrong. If you care about any moral issue, if you care about other human beings, you're going to want to be involved politically. And so the churches at my church finder dot com, I'm sorry, my church finder dot org, those are the ones that are sort of arming their congregations to say we need to be a force for good in our world, not just to sit in our pews, to bless ourselves and then to go to the country club for brunch, but to live out our faith 24 seven. So I hope that pastors will go to my church finder dot org and they will fill out these forms. This is really this could be a sea change in our culture, Neil. I'm just I believe so. Yeah. So let me I want to end with that quote. I started with this quote. I said only 17 percent of Americans go to church. The interest in religion is minimal. And in New York, single women are more likely to be sexually active than attended church. Worse, 33 percent of all pregnancies in New York are out of wedlock. And if you ask people what decade is, they think it's the 1990s. Well, the answer is appointed Rodney Stark, Stark historian Rodney Stark. That is 1776 statistic.
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"By Monday night, after the word got out on Sunday, I had pastors all over the state calling me, saying, is it too late to put my name on that press release demanding that the governor sign 871 and not veto it? I had 18 pastors totally in the end and 18 other organizations. Now, here's what I want you to understand. There's one point eight million people in Idaho. There's one point eight million people in Silicon Valley where I spent the last 40 years before I left. I called my pastor friends there. I like and I said, guys, if I did a by the way, and we delivered it to the governor and he did not veto it. Right. So great. We won that battle. So I asked a pair of pens in California. I said, if I had in Silicon Valley, if I try to get 18 pastors to sign a letter to tell the board of supervisors not to go out to make or to do anything like that, how many pastors do you think would sign it? And my pastor friend left. He says you'd probably get four and I'd be one of them. And this is the problem we're having in California and why we're not having an idea. So we went a step further in Idaho. The pastors got together and said, we want the state legislature to be afraid of the pastors in Idaho. So we formed that. But this is exactly I mean, this is this is how democracy is supposed to work, that that people are supposed to register their views so that your politicians say, well, I better not do this because, you know, all those people, crazy Christians who believe in the Bible and Jesus, they're going to give us problems if they don't fear you. And when I say fear, I mean, have to respect your views because you are going to go to the voting booth. You're going to do things. There's going to be trouble for them. And this is what has been the problem. Neil, as you know, many Christians have bought the lie that they shouldn't be politically active, that they should go with the flow. Ladies and gentlemen, that is how Hitler took over the church in Germany and took over Germany and wreaked unbelievable evil on Europe and the world. That's when the church is silent. So the church needs to rediscover a biblical view of cultural engagement. And and listen, does anybody object that churches were involved in the civil rights movement? The civil rights movement came out of the churches. So to be politically involved is it's it's fundamental that it's part of who it's part of our witness to say I'm going to stand up for biblical values in the marketplace because I'm a Christian and and not just talk about the gospel, because I already got the gospel. I believe in the gospel because of the gospel. I'm now going to speak truth. I'm going to disciple the people around me. I'm going to decide people about what is true. And then we have to bring these values into the marketplace. So there are churches that are doing this, folks, and there are churches that are refusing to do this. So if you go to some church that is saying that, you know what, we're going to take a pass. We don't want to offend anybody. You need to get out of that church. And thank God we have my church finder dot org.
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"Well, look, this is exciting. So, folks, if you go to one of these good churches and you know what I'm talking about, you know, this is like Jack Gibbs's church in Chino Hills here in California, where I am right now. Or Rob McCoy's church up in Thousand Oaks. Or you go to any number, you know, I've been around the country and there are churches that I have been to that have just been there. Amazing. And I want to tell the world about them. I don't have time. But if you go to any of these churches, particularly ones where I've spoken, where I know that they're tremendous folks, go to the website, make sure you get your your pastor to fill this out ASAP. My church finder dot org. Because, you know, Neil, for me, this is about the free market. This is about giving people information. Where do I go? Where can I go that is going to give me what I need right now, which is somebody willing to speak about where we are in the culture, about what political candidates believe in an atheistic Marxist globalist world view and which candidates have a biblical world view. All of this is important. And where you go to church on Sunday, you shouldn't be going to a church that is taking a pass on this, folks. In my book, Letter to the American Church, I talk about in Germany, there were 12000 pastors who refused to decide. They said, oh, we're just going to, quote unquote, preach the gospel. We're just going to do church. Those churches open the door to hell on earth. And if you're going to one of those churches, if you're tithing to one of those churches, if you're supporting one of those churches, you're part of the problem. You need to find a church that is serious about where we are today and that is speaking biblically on where we are today. And so finally, because of my church finder dot org, we have a tool. So I just hope people will take advantage of this because it's just amazing to me, Neil, that you and my friend Roger Elswick have put in the work to make this a reality so that people in America can can can find places where they're going to get fed and they're going to be part of the solution. This is just wonderful information. I'm so excited. I want to add a bit more, too, because as you may know, I escaped to Idaho as a political and religious refugee. And when we got there, we thought, oh, great red state. We've been in a blue state for 40 years now. We're moving to a red state. Everything's going to be hunky dory. And then we found out that it's not that the case. In fact, the legislation and we have a lot of what we call rhinos in Idaho because you can't win as a Democrat. So everybody runs as a Republican. So you've got a lot of Democrats running as Republicans. So we've got that's infiltrating the state. So we had a bill that was on the docket. It was called 871. And the bill basically said that any kid under 18 could not have transgender if it banned dental mutilation. Well, our governor of Idaho threatened to veto it. Here's why. There are two huge hospitals in there. They get about four hundred thousand dollars per child that transitions. So you get two thousand five hundred kids transitioning. That's a billion dollars in funds for that. Right. So he was going to veto it. So I sent out a call and I said, we've got some great pastors out there in Idaho. Marty Yost, Mark Ryan, Dave Axe, all these guys from calories and harvesters. And and even Campbell, you know, Napa Christian, Caldwell Christian. So they all I called out and said, I want to do a press release. And we said on a Saturday, I want to do a press release. And we had to give it to the governor by Tuesday.
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"Welcome back. I'm talking to my friend, Neil Mammon, who is behind my church finder dot org. Neil, this is so exciting because I'm just repeating myself, but everywhere I go, I hear the same story. I find a church like Calvary, San Jose with Pastor Mike McClure. It's a heroic church. It has been fighting the battles. It's been on the front line. It's not ashamed of speaking truth on controversial issues. People are dying of hunger to go to a church like that after in this post covid era. But the question is, how do I find a church like that? And you and my friend Roger Elswick have created the answer to this. And obviously, I'm very excited about this. I can hardly believe that you did this. So if people go to my church finder dot org, what are they for? They just put in a zip code. How does that work? Yeah. So normally you would just put in a zip code and you find a church. We're just launching. So we barely have any church there. So now what we want everybody to go to my church finder dot org. And there's a place where you can click and says, have my pastor add my our church here. And you click on it and it allows you to send your pastor an email. And then he comes in. And what the way it works is the pastors have to fill out the survey. So it's a pastor's themselves filling it out. It's not somebody, you know, voting. It's not a Yelp. It's like the pastors fill out a survey of forty five questions. And the forty five questions allow us to rate the church with four ratings. Now, the lowest the lowest rating is biblically sound. And if you're not biblically sound, you get a would not recommend. And we don't think many people will fill out our form if they know that we're not going to recommend them. So you're definitely going to be a would not recommend church if you're not going to fill it out. So we might have a few, but we're not going to have too many. But the the lowest rating is biblically sound. That means you're a biblically sound church. We asked a number of questions. You're saying is that's the minimum, the minimum of your biblically sound. You're not preaching heresy. You're not preaching heresy. We've tested you. We've checked you against certain things. Right. So that's a minimum. The second one is you're biblically sound and you're either legislatively active or you're culturally aware. That means you're not woke. You're not teaching CRT. You're teaching apologetics. You understand the difference. You're culturally aware. So you're either legislatively active or biblically sound. And that's a B rating. But if you're an A rating is you're all three, you're biblically sound, culturally aware and you're and you're legislatively active. And let me explain legislatively active. That means you are calling for voter guides. When the candidates are running, you're encouraging your congregation to run. You're encouraging your congregation to have an involvement in the the the different campaigns. And if there's ever something that's legislate, like a proposition or something, you're talking about it like right now with this whole stuff, transgenderism and in California, they just passed this law that basically says the state can take your child away if you don't affirm the transgenders. Right. So is a pastor talking about this? So these are the kind of things that you are. So the A rating is what you want. And that is your biblically sound. You're culturally aware. You're not woke and you're legislatively active. And now you can now go and punch in your zip code and find the churches in your area that meet that A rating.
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"neil" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"My church finder dot org, this is something that gives me hope for America. Everybody listening to this program, you can tell your friends to go to my church finder dot org to find these churches, to leave the churches that are avoiding these hot button subjects and to go and support the churches that are on the front lines. We'll be right back talking to Neil Mammon, my church finder dot org. With the overturn of Roe v. Wade, lots of companies are coming out saying they'll pay for employee abortion travel and expenses. Most of you have heard about some of these companies. You've decided to stop shopping or doing business there. But did you know that you most likely own stock in those companies through your 401Ks, IRAs and other investment accounts? Folks, this is a huge problem and we need to do something about this to send a message to Wall Street through our investments. You need to go to inspire advisors dot com slash Eric and get a free inspire impact report. This biblical investment analysis will educate you on what's really in your investment accounts, like companies paying for abortion travel. You need to go to inspire advisors dot com slash Eric to connect with an inspire advisors financial professional who can run your report and help remove companies paying for abortion travel today. Go to inspire advisors dot com slash Eric. That's inspire advisors dot com slash Eric advisory services are offered through inspire advisors, LLC, a registered investment advisor with the SEC. Legacy Precious Metals has a revolutionary new online platform that allows you to invest in real gold and silver online in a few easy steps. You can open an account online, select your metals of choice and choose to have them stored in a vault or shipped to your door. You'll have access to a dashboard where you can track your portfolio growth in real time anytime. You'll see transparent pricing on each coin and bar. This puts you in complete control of your money. The platform is free to sign up for. Visit Legacy PM investments dot com and open your account and see this new investing platform for yourself. Gold can hedge against inflation and against the volatile stock market. A true diversified portfolio isn't just more stocks and bonds, but different asset classes. This new platform allows you to make investments in gold and silver no matter how small or large with a few clicks. Visit Legacy PM investments dot com to get started. You're going to love this free new tool that they've added. Please go check it out today. That's Legacy PM investments dot com.
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"Everywhere I go, because I speak all around the country, the churches that have been heroic, the churches that didn't comply with covid lockdowns, the churches that are politically active and they say that our parishioners need to know where the candidates stand on all of these issues, all of those churches, almost every one that I have gone to, they have the same story. Our numbers have exploded since covid. People are obviously looking for this kind of church, which means that all of the other churches, including what would have been considered conservative churches, but that are being, you know, I say, well, we're just gospel centered. We don't want to talk about these hot button issues to be controversial. Those churches are struggling to keep their doors open. And everywhere I go, I say to people, folks, you need to go to one of these churches that have been heroic. And if, by the way, if your church wasn't heroic, did they repent? The pastor repent and pivot, usually not. But if they did support them in that. But then the question is and this comes to the punch line, which is so exciting, how do I find one of these churches there around the country? How do I know? Even I, Eric Metaxas, I keep getting invitations to church. There's like I never heard of that church. There's another one. There's another one. That they have been really heroic, brave and all this stuff. How do I find those churches? So the punch line and we're going to get back to cover all the information throughout the hour. But the punch line is something called my church finder dot com. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm sorry, my church finder dot org, my church finder dot org. I am so excited about this. Ladies and gentlemen, this is a very big deal.
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"neil" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Ladies and gentlemen, looking for something new and original. Something unique and without equal. Look no further. Here comes the one and only Eric Metaxas. Folks, welcome to the program. I am so excited right now. I could burst almost literally, but not literally. I have on a friend, Neil Mammon, who is involved in something that I've been talking about for some time. It's really exciting. So before I tell you all about it, why don't I just say welcome, Neil Mammon. Thank you, Eric. Good to be here again. Okay. We're going to be talking about something. I can't believe it exists. I feel like I dreamt it up, but nobody would ever execute such a thing. But you and Roger Elswick have made this a reality. This is a big deal. This is an answer to a real problem we have. I say everywhere I go that folks, if you're going to a church that is not dealing with the issues in our culture, that is unwilling to face this and that is whistling in the wind, that is fiddling while Rome burns, you need to find another church. I say this over and over and I beg people, God will judge you for sitting in a church that is shrinking from its duty before God to speak to these issues. And then the question is, people say, well, where would I go to a church? So, Neil, tell us. Well, the problem is really, really obvious and I get that all the time. I go around speaking, people go, oh, do you know a good church in this area or that area? Well, it turns out that more than that, it turns out 1.7 million people look for a new church every month. 1.7 people look for a new church. A billion. A billion. And now if you assume that's a family unit here or there, that's about 5 million people looking for a new church every month. 5 million. Most of them, turns out, it's Sunday morning. So I wanted to do some research on it, so I went on, you know, the source of all information is Google's Bard Artificial Intelligence. And I said, tell me what sort of churches these people are looking for. And Bard comes back with, oh, they're looking for progressive, more loving, more accepting churches. That's what Google's Bard said. And I said, really? Is that true? I don't believe that. So I said, give me the information. Give me the evidence of that. By the way, before I start, I should mention this. I have a statistic. I want a statistic. I want your readers. I don't want you to guess because you'll know the answer. Here's a quote. Only 17 percent of Americans go to church. The interest in religion is minimal. And in New York, single women are more likely to be sexually active than attend a church. Worse, 33 percent of all pregnancies in New York are out of wedlock. Now, I ask people, what decade do they think that is? And they always say, oh, oh, that's 1990s, 2000s, whatever, right? You know, actually, this is 1990s because today is probably a lot worse. But we'll come back to that. But so so I asked Bard, I said, what what since you think that these are people looking for progressive churches, can you give me a list of the growth rate of progressive churches? And Bard said, OK, so it gives me this rate and it's you know, it shows me this list of people of churches and like the UMC. They've dropped like 50 percent, the Presbyterian, the USA, you know, the liberal Presbyterian Church, they've dropped by 38 percent. And so I go down that list and I ask I ask I say, well, give me the list of all the progressive churches and how they've grown in the last 20 years. So from 2000 to 2020. So in 2000, the progressive total people going to progressive total was about 18.7 million. And today it's about 16.8 million. So they've dropped by 10 percent total. There's no surprise people going to these ridiculous, you know, quote unquote progressive churches that have veered away from biblical doctrine. I'm surprised anybody goes to those. Exactly. I mean, the the Presbyterians, they've dropped. The Presbyterians were the ones that dropped by 50 percent. The UMC has dropped by 15 percent. Yeah, because why go to a church like that when you could go to to like a local, you know, Neil, where are you going? What's the punch line? Because I'm getting confused. Are you? I know there's my assumption would be that most people who actually care about church are trying to find a conservative church, a church that teaches biblical doctrine, but also that speaks to the issues that people like because many people can go to these ridiculous mega church or whatever, where they they're avoiding the hot button issues that everybody has to deal with when they leave that church, their kids are dealing with it, everybody's dealing with it. What's going on in America? So the idea is, how do you find those churches? So I know that's where you're heading with this. So I turned the bar and I said, OK, now give me the conservative churches. I'm on board just looking for liberal churches, progressives. I said, give me the conservative churches. And it gives me things like, oh, the Orthodox Presbyterians, they have grown by 50 percent in the last 20 years. The Orthodox Russians have gone by 29 percent. Independent Baptists have grown by 33 percent. The conservative. And so I did I said, what about the Calvary church? The Calvary churches have grown by one hundred and fifty percent. And then the you know, even the Southern Baptists who's stuck in the news all the time, they've grown by seven and a half percent. OK, but conservative total have grown from sixty seven million people in 2000 going to these conservative churches to ninety two million going to these conservatives. So they've grown by almost thirty seven percent in the last 20 years. Now, what's interesting about this and this is the kicker here. This is all pre covid data. It didn't have any data for twenty one, twenty two, twenty three. This is twenty twenty. And as you know, and you're going to be preaching in my church in Santa and in in San Jose and sometime in your future Calvary Chapel, San Jose, right. They grew from three hundred people to three thousand people over covid. Why? Because a couple of things is very important here. Pastor Mike said, I'm not going to let the state determine what I'm doing. I'm going to be legislated, be active with voter guides. We had candidates coming in who's fighting the state. Remember, we say we're the finest church in all of America because we have four million dollars in Calvary Chapel, San Jose, because we wouldn't shut down for covid. So churches like these have been exploding all over the nation. So just these numbers are three years old and I can't seem to get the twenty twenty three numbers. So, no, the people who are looking for church. And so I went back to Bartlett said, well, this is the growth rate. Our people are really looking for more progressive rates. And, you know, I always say, well, I'm really sorry. I apologize. Yes, you're right. They must be looking for conservative Bible believing fundamentalist churches is what it comes back to. So it actually says, oh, yeah, you're right. You were correcting me on it. Right. So the issue here is then why? How do we find these if five million people are looking for churches every single month, how are they going to find these conservative churches? OK, this is this is a very long way of getting to the punch line, because this is such an exciting punch line, Neil, that I am just at the bit to get to this. We started. I know what I mean. I just want to say.
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A highlight from Neil Mammen
"Ladies and gentlemen, looking for something new and original. Something unique and without equal. Look no further. Here comes the one and only Eric Metaxas. Folks, welcome to the program. I am so excited right now. I could burst almost literally, but not literally. I have on a friend, Neil Mammon, who is involved in something that I've been talking about for some time. It's really exciting. So before I tell you all about it, why don't I just say welcome, Neil Mammon. Thank you, Eric. Good to be here again. Okay. We're going to be talking about something. I can't believe it exists. I feel like I dreamt it up, but nobody would ever execute such a thing. But you and Roger Elswick have made this a reality. This is a big deal. This is an answer to a real problem we have. I say everywhere I go that folks, if you're going to a church that is not dealing with the issues in our culture, that is unwilling to face this and that is whistling in the wind, that is fiddling while Rome burns, you need to find another church. I say this over and over and I beg people, God will judge you for sitting in a church that is shrinking from its duty before God to speak to these issues. And then the question is, people say, well, where would I go to a church? So, Neil, tell us. Well, the problem is really, really obvious and I get that all the time. I go around speaking, people go, oh, do you know a good church in this area or that area? Well, it turns out that more than that, it turns out 1 .7 million people look for a new church every month. 1 .7 people look for a new church. A billion. A billion. And now if you assume that's a family unit here or there, that's about 5 million people looking for a new church every month. 5 million. Most of them, turns out, it's Sunday morning. So I wanted to do some research on it, so I went on, you know, the source of all information is Google's Bard Artificial Intelligence. And I said, tell me what sort of churches these people are looking for. And Bard comes back with, oh, they're looking for progressive, more loving, more accepting churches. That's what Google's Bard said. And I said, really? Is that true? I don't believe that. So I said, give me the information. Give me the evidence of that. By the way, before I start, I should mention this. I have a statistic. I want a statistic. I want your readers. I don't want you to guess because you'll know the answer. Here's a quote. Only 17 percent of Americans go to church. The interest in religion is minimal. And in New York, single women are more likely to be sexually active than attend a church. Worse, 33 percent of all pregnancies in New York are out of wedlock. Now, I ask people, what decade do they think that is? And they always say, oh, oh, that's 1990s, 2000s, whatever, right? You know, actually, this is 1990s because today is probably a lot worse. But we'll come back to that. But so so I asked Bard, I said, what what since you think that these are people looking for progressive churches, can you give me a list of the growth rate of progressive churches? And Bard said, OK, so it gives me this rate and it's you know, it shows me this list of people of churches and like the UMC. They've dropped like 50 percent, the Presbyterian, the USA, you know, the liberal Presbyterian Church, they've dropped by 38 percent. And so I go down that list and I ask I ask I say, well, give me the list of all the progressive churches and how they've grown in the last 20 years. So from 2000 to 2020. So in 2000, the progressive total people going to progressive total was about 18 .7 million. And today it's about 16 .8 million. So they've dropped by 10 percent total. There's no surprise people going to these ridiculous, you know, quote unquote progressive churches that have veered away from biblical doctrine. I'm surprised anybody goes to those. Exactly. I mean, the the Presbyterians, they've dropped. The Presbyterians were the ones that dropped by 50 percent. The UMC has dropped by 15 percent. Yeah, because why go to a church like that when you could go to to like a local, you know, Neil, where are you going? What's the punch line? Because I'm getting confused. Are you? I know there's my assumption would be that most people who actually care about church are trying to find a conservative church, a church that teaches biblical doctrine, but also that speaks to the issues that people like because many people can go to these ridiculous mega church or whatever, where they they're avoiding the hot button issues that everybody has to deal with when they leave that church, their kids are dealing with it, everybody's dealing with it. What's going on in America? So the idea is, how do you find those churches? So I know that's where you're heading with this. So I turned the bar and I said, OK, now give me the conservative churches. I'm on board just looking for liberal churches, progressives. I said, give me the conservative churches. And it gives me things like, oh, the Orthodox Presbyterians, they have grown by 50 percent in the last 20 years. The Orthodox Russians have gone by 29 percent. Independent Baptists have grown by 33 percent. The conservative. And so I did I said, what about the Calvary church? The Calvary churches have grown by one hundred and fifty percent. And then the you know, even the Southern Baptists who's stuck in the news all the time, they've grown by seven and a half percent. OK, but conservative total have grown from sixty seven million people in 2000 going to these conservative churches to ninety two million going to these conservatives. So they've grown by almost thirty seven percent in the last 20 years. Now, what's interesting about this and this is the kicker here. This is all pre covid data. It didn't have any data for twenty one, twenty two, twenty three. This is twenty twenty. And as you know, and you're going to be preaching in my church in Santa and in in San Jose and sometime in your future Calvary Chapel, San Jose, right. They grew from three hundred people to three thousand people over covid. Why? Because a couple of things is very important here. Pastor Mike said, I'm not going to let the state determine what I'm doing. I'm going to be legislated, be active with voter guides. We had candidates coming in who's fighting the state. Remember, we say we're the finest church in all of America because we have four million dollars in Calvary Chapel, San Jose, because we wouldn't shut down for covid. So churches like these have been exploding all over the nation. So just these numbers are three years old and I can't seem to get the twenty twenty three numbers. So, no, the people who are looking for church. And so I went back to Bartlett said, well, this is the growth rate. Our people are really looking for more progressive rates. And, you know, I always say, well, I'm really sorry. I apologize. Yes, you're right. They must be looking for conservative Bible believing fundamentalist churches is what it comes back to. So it actually says, oh, yeah, you're right. You were correcting me on it. Right. So the issue here is then why? How do we find these if five million people are looking for churches every single month, how are they going to find these conservative churches? OK, this is this is a very long way of getting to the punch line, because this is such an exciting punch line, Neil, that I am just at the bit to get to this. We started. I know what I mean. I just want to say.
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A highlight from World Data Products Int. (WDPI) achieves ITAD certification, Podcast
"This is Doug Green, and I'm the publisher of Telecom Reseller, and this is a special podcast for the ASCDI, and I'm very pleased to have with us today Neil Vild of WDPI. Neil, thank you for joining us today. Thanks, Doug. Great to be with you. Well, it's really wonderful to be able to do this podcast on behalf of the ASCDI. You're a very long -term, very active member of this association, a very prominent person and company within this industry and within this organization, so it's really a pleasure to have you here today. We're going to be talking about your recent certification, or really certifications, with ITAD and how that changes the game and why that's important to ASCDI members, to the community and to many technology companies, enterprise companies that might be just happy to be listening or watching. So we're going to dive into that in a second, but Neil, first of all, what is WDPI? So WDPI stands for World Data Products Incorporated. We've been in business since 1987 in the Minneapolis suburbs, currently in Plymouth, Minnesota. We started off as an independent hardware reseller, selling brands originally manufactured by companies such as Cisco, HP, Dell, and IBM. We're also an authorized reseller of Dell. Along the way, over those last number of years, we developed an internal repair business, which we can offer to clients as well, where we repair all of those items I mentioned that we can go down to the board level, repair power supplies, other devices such as laptops and Chromebooks. And then about 10 years ago, we acquired a company in the certified tape media business that basically goes out and acquires used tape media, those cartridges that everybody remembers, and we bring those back to our facility, fully eradicate the data and resell them. And that's the business that really got us into ITAT services about 10 years ago. That company, and we still do that, has a team of people that goes onsite and does IT hardware decommissioning, onsite audits, data sanitization, secure transport, and a host of other ITAT related services. So in fact, you guys had really been sort of in the ITAT market already, and this sort of solidifies that position. It does. And we decided to pursue these certifications for a number of reasons. One, our customers started to ask for them, both on the end user side and the wholesale side. We deal direct with end users, we also go through other resellers, and we work with other ITATs as a subcontractor. And as a number of them have been paying more attention to data security and the environment, they've been asking us about these certifications. So one of the reasons we pursued these was to really be responsive to our customer requests. Another is we view it as a differentiator. Those are really confirmation of the standards that we have. Not everybody has that certification out there. More people are getting it, which is great for business and for the environment. And thirdly, it really helped us improve our processes in certain areas and kind of raised the bar. So it was a win -win among all three of those elements. Let's dive a little deeper into ITAT. So first of all, can you explain to me what ITAT is? What does that mean? ITAT, IT Asset Disposition. It's a whole host of offerings and processes where, you know, starting if a company is looking to, you know, upgrade or refresh its data center or close something down, it needs to really find a responsible home for the used equipment, whether that's in a resale environment or in a recycling environment. Part of that involves onsite services, such as I mentioned, you know, data center decommissioning, data sanitization, whether that's onsite or at our site, the commitment to either resell these devices, which could be economically beneficial to the seller and to the purchaser, also making sure that the data is fully eradicated. But then in some cases, the data bearing devices have to be destroyed either logically or physically. And that leads us into working with responsible recyclers who can track these devices, provide certificates that they've been disposed of in an environmentally sound manner. So it's a whole host of services and processes. We don't have the time to go through that. That'd be a several day podcast, Doug, but I know we're a little bit time constrained today. Well, you know, as you can see behind me, it looks like beams of light are coming off my head, I think, but I'm actually reporting live from Las Vegas at the Mobile World Congress. Lots of carriers here, lots of enterprises, lots of interests. You know, this is a good example for this question. Why does it matter to the outside world? Why does ITAD matter to really everybody? Well, it matters, it's the biggest issue is really sustainability and protecting the environment. But there are also other elements within these certifications that are more internally oriented for the welfare of businesses and our employees. You know, if you go down the list, the R2 -V3 is really a phenomenal standard. You know, really stands for responsible recycling and reuse. Some really strict requirements on data sanitization and eradication and data security, which is a real differentiator. Part of these certifications involve several ISO standards, ISO 9001, which is a quality management standard, your world data had been ISO 9001 certified for about the last 10 years. So we renewed that one. ISO 14001 is environmental management. ISO 45001 is employee health and safety. And we're very proud of world data. We've been have a track record of over three years of accident free operation in our facility in Plymouth. And we intend to keep that going, God willing. And then the ASCDI ITED certified certification is also very important where, you know, in addition to the processes and the operational aspects that those other standards focus on, ASCDI adds to it the commitment to a code of ethics, which is unique in the industry. And every ASCDI member has to adhere to that. You know, we have stringent membership requirements for that association. And so as a long time member, as our company, a long time board member and former chairman of ASCDI, I am very proud to see our association going in that direction as well. So, you know, Neil, it sounds like this is also a great opportunity for the channels to go out there and sell a really amazing value added service. It is, Doug, you know, it helps the channel in a number of ways. One, you know, given and also end users in terms of the resale value that we can achieve for the equipment that is, you know, coming through the ITED process, you know, the highest and best use of a piece of equipment is to keep it in use. And, you know, the origin of our business was hardware resale. So our wholesalers or equipment traders know how to maximize the value of that equipment for the client, whether that's an end user client or a wholesaler or another ITED who has the end user relationship. So that is a huge advantage, I think, that World Data can deliver, given our history of being in that resale market. We're not just turning it around and flipping it on eBay or somewhere else. We can really maximize value. So, you know, Neil, it also sounds like, you know, channels should be really alert to this because if you're working with customers and you're in the course of sales and working with them, you're pulling out equipment, you are really not doing them a service if you're disposing of it incorrectly. That's correct. And so by virtue of the processes we've always had, plus now with the new certifications, you know, we're disposing of everything appropriately. You know, items that can be reused will be reused and resold at the maximum value we can get. Items that are no longer suitable for reuse will be recycled in a proper manner. And so, you know, channel partners can trust us as they've trusted us with, you know, other areas of business since 1987 to do the right thing and to uphold, you know, the environmentally sound and business sound practices. Another advantage we can offer is additional resources and feed on the street. You know, some of these ITAT opportunities are, you know, to use a technical term, lumpy. You know, they're not necessarily regular. And if a project comes up where a channel partner needs additional resources, whether that's feed on the street or processing capability, warehousing or logistics, we can offer that through our facility in Plymouth, Minnesota, from a facilities perspective. But we can also send our team, you know, anywhere in the country to help with onsite projects. You know, Neil, with regard to the end users of the enterprises, we're living at a time of great transition, hybrid companies getting rid of whole floors of office space and all the equipment on those floors. Sounds like enterprises need to be alert to this too. They do. And hopefully, you know, with the movement toward ESG and environments, you know, social aspects, governance, I think more enterprises are becoming aware of this. In fact, they're adopting goals along these lines. So we're here to help in terms of achieving those particular goals. And again, it's the right thing for the business. There are certain business objectives that can be met and environmental objectives that can be met. Does – you said when we were preparing for a podcast today that it even has some opportunities for the other ITAT companies. The benefit we could offer to other ITAT companies is, as a subcontractor, we can facilitate your broader reach, the processing capability that we have, the resale capability that we have to maximize value, relationships we have with responsible recycling partners, and also logistics. We have a facility in the upper Midwest that is very convenient to several major cities, can help reduce costs of transportation for this equipment. You know, we can't – if we can ship it via ground versus air, for example, or the closer it is, we can go pick it up with our own people on secure trucks and that sort of things. We can help reduce costs and increase their reach and provide a better service to the end -user enterprise customers that the other ITATs have. So Neil, you were telling me something very interesting that is unique about WTPI amongst the companies in the ASCDI, maybe in the – really most of the ICAT industry as well. Well, we were fortunate, Doug, to actually buy back the company from a private equity investor about 18 months ago. And now we are 100 % owned by nine employees and we're not an ESOP. You know, these ESOPs have different kinds of restrictions. But I think it's unique in our industry that we're a fully employee -owned company of that nature. You know, many times it's founders, founder and spouse, sort of an inner circle of owners. And I'm really proud that we've been able to offer this common equity ownership to a broader range of employees. And it is unique, I believe, in our industry. And certainly our people are very revved up about that. And I'm very happy to see that. Well, Neil, you know, we've talked in our conversation today about enterprises, about channels, about different types of companies. How does everyone do business? How can we learn more about your company and these services? Well, we have our website, which has extensive content on that and contact information. Feel free to email me, neil .ville at wdpi .com. That might be on the screen later, maybe not. But I'm in the ASCDI directory. I'm on LinkedIn. We have a great team of people, too, who I could direct anybody to for particular, more detailed advice on resale, valuation of products and that sort of thing. But certainly please contact us in whatever is easiest method for you out there. And we'd be happy to help. Well, Neil, I really want to thank you for joining me today. This has been really interesting. I hope you get to do one in a few more months and find out how everything's going. Update us on what you guys are doing. But for now, thanks very much. Thank you, Doug. Look forward to that. Appreciate the time. Thanks very much.
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"All the years ahead of you and I would give anything I call. Folks, welcome back. I'm talking to Robert Netsley right now, who is with Inspire Investing. Robert, I can't help but get excited about what you've created, an opportunity for people to find out if their money is funding wicked things, if they have money in a 401K or retirement from whatever it is that is invested in companies that are doing evil things that is promoting pornography, promoting abortion, promoting any number of things or ideologies with your money, folks. So Robert Nestle has created something where you can get a free report that tells you where your money is, and they will help you get your money into companies that are doing good things. So you have to go to inspire advisors dot com slash Eric, inspire advisors dot com slash Eric. You get a free report. But this is something I you know, Robert, I guess it just gives me hope that it's possible to turn things around in America, because when I think of how much money people have invested out there, if they would understand what's going on and shift that money to good stuff, it's just huge. It's just absolutely monstrous. Like what is enormous, it's enormous. And we are seeing fruit from that labor. It's it's remarkable. It doesn't have to even be trillions of dollars to change things. I've been on the phone, you know, in recent weeks, you know, with investor relations and CFOs and whatnot, we regularly engage with companies that we invest in or are like to invest in or kind of just shift speaking biblical truth to corporate power. And, you know, one of the things we hear is often that, number one, these people have never heard. They tell us they've never heard from a faith based investor before. They've been doing their job for 20, 30 years. You know, executive major organizations never heard from a faith based investor. So number one, they need to hear our voice. Number two, they're thankful to hear it. Even in some of these sort of, you know, woke businesses, you think that this don't care. There are people in them, in those businesses of influence that actually do care about what we have to say and oftentimes have enough influence to change things. So, for instance, Costco stopped giving money to gay pride parades. Chevron stopped giving money to Planned Parenthood. There's a laundry list of other organizations that have changed things. That is unbelievable. Robert, that is unbelievable. It is so wonderful. I want to tell people, folks, what you do and don't do. You can change the world if you take an interest in this. When I hear that a company like Costco would stop giving money to something like that or Chevron, these are huge, huge companies and you shop there.Your money may be invested there. When we get involved in these things, we can change the world. So I want to say the the action point is go to invest. I'm sorry. Inspire Advisors dot com slash. Inspire Advisors dot com slash. Eric, you'll get a free report that will help you figure this out. And I know, Robert, that you guys will help people if they want to transition to invest in companies that believe in their values. But this is a this is a gigantic thing that we we have. I mean, it's to me scandalous when we have power and we don't use that power. It's like when I say I'm not going to vote. I'm not going to do this. I'm not going to do that. When you don't do those things, the people who don't share your values, who share opposite, who have opposite values, they're going to prevail. So I just want to say to you, Robert, thank you for for for taking this on, because it is game changing. Like you said, it's a movement. The more people that do this, it's an amazing thing when we think of the money that is out there, that that many people of faith with traditional values have invested in woke companies. Ladies and gentlemen, you've got to do something about it. You've just got to do something about it. This is like a mandate that we've got to live our faith out in every sphere and where your money is. That's a big deal. So please go to inspire advisors dot com slash Eric. This is a free report. Inspire advisors dot com slash Eric. Robert, that's the thank you. Pleasure. Thank you, Eric.
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"When the most greatest nation in the world was founded and we are here now, I went back to and I said, what is the conservative total of the population? And the U.S. population has been growing, too. But guess what? The population of conservatives have been growing faster than the U.S. population. The U.S. population has grown 15 percent in the last in the last 20, 20 years. But the church population has grown almost 20 percent. We are this means I think this is your your wonky way of saying there's hope. Well, I mean, that's all. But think about this. Ninety one million people going to churches and 27 percent of Americans in 2000, only 24 percent of Americans went to conservative churches. A lot of people are leaving church, but they're leaving the liberal churches. But 24 percent, 23.8 percent went to conservative churches in 2000. And today, in 2020, this is 2020, not 20, 23, 27.7 percent. That means almost 60 percent more people attend a conservative, not just a church, but a conservative church today. Then in 76, we're we're out of time. But I guess once more, the punch line, folks, it's not enough just to attend a church that says they believe in the Bible. They have to live it out. And we want you to go to my church finder dot org. Tell your pastors this is important. Do it as soon as possible. My church finder dot org. Neil, ma'am. And God bless you, my friend. Thank you. And you're right.
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"Look, it comes tomorrow. Neil, let's just keep going. Is that OK? Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I want to tell you more of that story, too. Yeah, OK. We're starting out. We're starting a passage legislatively advisory council. OK, hold on. Here we go. OK. Folks, I'm talking to Neil Mammon. Very excited because of the creation of my church finder dot org. This is a dream come true, folks. Write this down. My church finder dot org. This is going to make it possible for anyone in America to find churches that are on the right side of things that are not just biblically based, but that are culturally engaged, that are living out their faith, not just talking about it, not just holding the ideas in their heads, but living out their faith heroically. If you're not going to church like that, you need to go to a church like that. You need to leave the church that refuses to take sides. Shame on those Christian leaders that refuse to take sides. So, Neil Mammon, the website is my church finder dot org. And right now you're saying that it's just in the beginning. So, folks, tell your pastors, go to my church finder dot org, fill out the form and get on there so people can find your church. OK, so, Neil, what else is you just mentioned? A legislative initiative. Go ahead. Yeah. So the pastors are getting together in Idaho. If you want to join it, go to BAC dot org and and contact me or Neil at BAC dot org. You have to live in Idaho. I'm a little confused. Yeah, yeah. This is for the Idaho one. This is separate. We're going to expand this later. And we're and I'm going to talk about my church finder dot org in a bit. But I just want to put that out there. So we're getting together and we're going and this I'd like to see all pastors, all of the United States do this, where we they're going to get together in a few weeks and we're going to go over all the candidates for office. We're going to go through all the propositions and we're going to be working with the legislators saying, yes, we agree with this legislation. No, we don't. And they're going to talk to their congregations about these things. Those are the kind of churches you want to be going to. And so my church finder dot org will allow me to find the churches that are active that way. You know, because remember, we've got four ratings and the lowest one is we don't recommend you. The second lowest one is you just teach the Bible and that's all you do. You teach the Bible, but you're in those churches, those 12,000 churches, like we're staying away from it. The next level is you teach the Bible, but you also talk about CRT and the openness and transgenderism, all that. But you can talk about all that. I went to a great church and they talked about all that. They talked about homosexuality. They talked about all that. But the pastor never said, now go do something about it. And that's why we have the A rating and the A rating is your pastor is then going to call you to action. He's going to say, this is what you need to do. You need to have a we have a voter booth, a voter guide outside. We've got a table outside that's telling you how to react. Oh, by the way, we have candidates coming in to visit. We that's kind of church you want to go to. You want a church that's making an impact not only in the culture, but also in the laws, because, you know, laws change hearts. A lot of people don't believe that. But it really is true because look at the history of how our laws have changed our hearts against slavery, against a marriage, same sex marriage. It changes the bad way, right? We didn't vote for same sex marriage. The court get forced to go on it. And now everybody's like, oh, yeah, same sex marriage. Of course we believe this is. I don't know who said it. It could be Plato. I don't know who said it. But the phrase is the law is a teacher. And the fact of the matter is, when you legalize abortion, when you legalize marijuana, when you legalize these things, it sends a message to many people that these things are OK and that this doesn't mean that legislation is the answer to everything. But it is part of it. Our laws reflect our values and we have to take that seriously. And churches have to take that seriously. And in fact, the left has known this for years. They have you can get PhDs in the role of legislation and cultural transformation at Harvard. Right. I mean, they know this. This is what they've been doing for that. But we don't seem to realize that the laws can change people's art. It may not change your heart, but it'll change the heart of people going up. Let me ask you. So this is right now. The test case is in Idaho where you live. And you said there are pastors that are getting involved in this kind of thing. So if there aren't many people listening to this program in Idaho, but for those who are or if you know somebody in Idaho, what is the website that you're recommending? They go, oh, it's the AC dot org and then the AC dot org. Values advocacy council dot org, values advocacy council dot org. The AC dot org. So you have a lot of people in Idaho listening to you. Well, you praise the Lord. So you're saying that you're you're you're starting this as a test case in Idaho, because obviously this has been you've been successful. The AC dot org. But folks, you know, when you talk about changing America, I want Christians to be involved politically because Christians have values that are going to bless everybody. Don't let anybody tell you that, oh, you're imposing your Christian values. Yeah, I'm going to I am going to impose my value that slavery is wrong, racism is wrong. They're the idea. First of all, we can't impose our values anyway, but we need to present and propose our values in the marketplace of ideas. And when Christians don't do that, there's a vacuum and evil ideas come in. And we're seeing that happening. And this is why Christians have to rediscover the role of the church. Bonhoeffer said the church is the conscience of the state. We need to be preaching from our pulpits the truth on everything. That's called discipling people, not just bringing them to faith. And then and then what? Once you come to faith, it's like, OK, now what are we going to do? That we know Jesus is Lord. The Bible is true. What how are we going to put this into action to bless our neighbors, to bless our culture, to bless our state, to bless? That's that's a large part of what God asks the church to do. We are to bless the world in which we live, bless the cities in which we live by by living outwardly, not just saying like white. I have my private thoughts. And on Sunday morning, I go into that building there and we do some stuff, but it doesn't have any effect on anything. I don't take an issue on. So I don't take a position on slavery. That would be preposterous. So the website we're talking about now is my church finder dot org. Please, folks, write this down. This is important. My church finder dot org. If you live in Idaho, go to VAC dot org. This is all very important stuff. We'll be right back talking to Neil Mamet.
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"Welcome back. I'm talking to my friend Neil Mammon, who is behind my church finder dot org. Neil, this is so exciting because I I'm just repeating myself, but everywhere I go, I hear the same story. I find a church like Calvary, San Jose with Pastor Mike McClure. It's a heroic church. It has been fighting the battles. It's been on the front line. It's not ashamed of speaking truth on controversial issues. People are dying of hunger to go to a church like that after in this, you know, post covid era. But the question is, how do I find a church like that? And you and my friend Roger Elswick have created the answer to this. And obviously, I'm very excited about this. I can hardly believe that you did this. So if people go to my church finder dot org, what are they for? They just put in a zip code. How does that work? Yeah. So normally you would just put in a zip code and you find a church. We're just launching. So we barely have any church there. So now what we want everybody to go to my church finder dot org. And there's a place where you can click and says, have my pastor add my our church here. And you click on it and it allows you to send your pastor an email. And then he comes in. And what the way it works is the pastors have to fill out the survey. So it's a pastor's themselves filling it out. It's not somebody, you know, voting. It's not a Yelp. It's like the pastors fill out a survey of forty five questions. And the forty five questions allow us to rate the church with four ratings. Now, the lowest the lowest rating is biblically sound. And if you're not biblically sound, you get a would not recommend. And we don't think many people will fill out our form if they know that we're not going to recommend them. So you're definitely going to be a would not recommend church if you're not going to fill it out. So we might have a few, but we're not going to have too many. But the the lowest rating is biblically sound. That means you're a biblically sound church. We asked a number of questions about what you're saying is that's the minimum. The minimum is OK, you're biblically sound. You're not preaching heresy. You're not preaching heresy. We've tested you. We've checked you against certain things. Right. So that's a minimum. The second one is your biblically sound and you're either legislatively active or you're culturally aware. That means you're not woke. You're not teaching CRT. You're teaching apologetics. You understand the difference. You're culturally aware. So you're either legislatively active or biblically sound. And that's a B rating. But if you're an A rating is you're all three. You're biblically sound, culturally aware and you're and you're legislatively active. Let me explain legislatively active. That means you are calling for voter guides. When the candidates are running, you're encouraging your congregation to run. You're encouraging your congregation to have an involvement in the the the different campaigns. And if there's ever something that's legislated, like a proposition or something, you're talking about it like right now with this whole stuff, transgenderism and in California, they just passed this law that basically says the state can take your child away if you don't affirm the transgenders. Right. So is a pastor talking about this? Is he? So these are the kind of things that you are. So the A rating is what you want. And that is your biblically sound. You're culturally aware you're non woke and you're legislatively active. And now you can now go and punch in your zip code and find the churches in your area that meet that A rating. Well, look, this is exciting. So, folks, if you go to one of these good churches and you know what I'm talking about, you know, this is like Jack Kibbs's church in Chino Hills here in California, where I am right now, or Rob McCoy's church up in Thousand Oaks, or you go to any number, you know, I've been around the country and there are churches that I have been to that have just been they're amazing. And I want to tell the world about them. I don't have time. But if you go to any of these churches, particularly ones where I've spoken, where I know that they're tremendous folks, go to the website. Make sure you get your your your pastor to fill this out ASAP. My church finder dot org. Because, you know, Neil, for me, this is about the free market. This is about giving people information. Where do I go? Where can I go that is going to give me what I need right now, which is somebody willing to speak about where we are in the culture, about what political candidates believe in an atheistic Marxist globalist worldview and which candidates have a biblical worldview. These all of this is important. And where you go to church on Sunday, you shouldn't be going to a church that is taking a pass on this, folks. In my book, Letter to the American Church, I talk about in Germany, there were 12000 pastors who refused to decide. They said, oh, we're just going to, quote unquote, preach the gospel. We're just going to do church. Those churches open the door to hell on earth. And if you're going to one of those churches, if you're tithing to one of those churches, if you're supporting one of those churches, you're part of the problem. You need to find a church that is serious about where we are today and that is speaking biblically on where we are today. And so finally, because of my church finder dot org, we have a tool. So I just hope people will take advantage of this, because it's just amazing to me, Neil, that you and my friend Roger Elswick have put in the work to make this a reality so that people in America can can can find places where they're going to get fed and they're going to be part of the solution. This is just wonderful information. I'm so I want to add a bit more, too, because as you may know, I escaped to Idaho as a political and religious refugee. And when we got there, we thought, oh, great red state. We've been in a blue state for 40 years now. We're moving to a red state. Everything's going to be hunky dory. And then we found out that it's not that the case. In fact, the legislation and we have a lot of what we call rhinos in Idaho, because you can't win as a Democrat. So everybody runs as a Republican. So you've got a lot of Democrats running as Republicans. So we've got that's infiltrated the state. So we had a bill that was on the docket. It was called 871. And the bill basically said that any kid under 18 could not have transgender if it banned dental mutilation. Well, our governor of Idaho threatened to veto it. Here's why. There are two huge hospitals in there. They get about four hundred thousand dollars per child that transitions. So you get two thousand five hundred kids transitioning. That's a billion dollars in funds for that. Right. So he was going to veto it. So I sent out a call and I said, we've got some great pastors out there in Idaho. Marty Yost, Mark Ryan, Dave Axe, all these guys from Calvary's and Harvesters and and even Campbell, you know, Napa Christian, Caldwell Christian. So they all I called out and said, I want to do a press release. And we said on a Saturday, I want to do a press release. And we had to give it to the governor by Tuesday, by Monday night, after the word got out on Sunday, I had pastors all over the state calling me, saying, is it too late to put my name on that press lease, demanding that the governor sign 871 and not veto it? I had 18 pastors totally in the end and 18 other organizations. Now, here's what I want you to understand. There's one point eight million people in Idaho. There's one point eight million people in Silicon Valley where I spent the last 40 years before I left. I called my pastor friends there, and I said, guys, if I did a by the way, we delivered it to the governor and he did not veto it. Right. So great. We won that battle. So I asked a pair of pens in California. I said, if I had in Silicon Valley, if I try to get 18 pastors to sign a letter to tell the board of supervisors not to go out to Mike McClure or to do anything like that, how many pastors do you think would sign it? And my pastor friend left. He says you'd probably get four and I'd be one of them. And this is the problem we're having in California and why we're not having in Idaho. So we went a step further in Idaho. The pastors got together and said, we want the state legislature to be afraid of the pastors in Idaho. So we formed that. But this is exactly I mean, this is this is how democracy is supposed to work, that that people are supposed to register their views so that your politicians say, well, I better not do this because, you know, all those people, crazy Christians who believe in the Bible and Jesus, they're going to give us problems if they don't fear you. And when I say fear, I mean, have to respect your views because you are going to go to the voting booth. You're going to do things. There's going to be trouble for them. And this is what has been the problem. Neil, as you know, many Christians have bought the lie that they shouldn't be politically active, that they should go with the flow. Ladies and gentlemen, that is how Hitler took over the church in Germany and took over Germany and wreaked unbelievable evil on Europe and the world. That's when the church is silent. So the church needs to rediscover a biblical view of cultural engagement. And and listen, does anybody object that churches were involved in the civil rights movement? The civil rights movement came out of the churches. So to be politically involved is it's it's fundamental that it's part of who it's part of our witness to say I'm going to stand up for biblical values in the marketplace because I'm a Christian and and not just talk about the gospel, because I already got the gospel. I believe in the gospel because of the gospel. I'm now going to speak truth. I'm going to disciple the people around me. I'm going to decide people about what is true. And then we have to bring these values into the marketplace. So there are churches that are doing this, folks, and there are churches that are refusing to do this. So if you go to some church that is saying that, you know what, we're going to take a pass. We don't want to offend anybody. You need to get out of that church. And thank God we have my church finder dot org.
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"Ladies and gentlemen, I'm sorry, my church finder dot org, my church finder dot org. I am so excited about this. Ladies and gentlemen, this is a very big deal. My church finder dot org. This is something that gives me hope for America. Everybody listening to this program, you can tell your friends to go to my church finder dot org to find these churches, to leave the churches that are avoiding these hot button subjects and to go and support the churches that are on the front lines. We'll be right back talking to Neil Mammon, my church finder dot org. For 10 years, Patriot Mobile has been America's only Christian conservative wireless provider. And when I say only trust me, they're the only one. Glenn and the team have been great supporters of the show, which is why I'm proud to partner with them. Patriot Mobile offers dependable nationwide coverage, giving you the ability to access all three major networks, which means you get the same coverage you've been accustomed to without funding the left. When you switch to Patriot Mobile, you're sending the message that you support free speech, religious freedom, the sanctity of life, Second Amendment and our military veterans and first responder heroes. They're 100 percent U.S. based customer service team. Make switching easy. Keep your number, keep your phone or upgrade. Their team will help you find the best plan for your needs. Just go to Patriot Mobile dot com slash Metaxas or call 878 Patriot. Get free activation when you use the offer code Metaxas. Join me. Make the switch today. Again, go to Patriot Mobile dot com slash Metaxas or call 878 Patriot. Do it now. Legacy Precious Metals has a revolutionary new online platform that allows you to invest in real gold and silver online in a few easy steps. You can open an account online, select your metals of choice and choose to have them stored in a vault or shipped to your door. You'll have access to a dashboard where you can track your portfolio growth in real time. Any time you'll see transparent pricing on each coin and bar. This puts you in complete control of your money. The platform is free to sign up for. Visit Legacy PM Investments dot com and open your account and see this new investing platform for yourself. Gold can hedge against inflation and against the volatile stock market. A true diversified portfolio isn't just more stocks and bonds, but different asset classes. This new platform allows you to make investments in gold and silver, no matter how small or large, with a few clicks. Visit Legacy PM Investments dot com to get started. You're going to love this free new tool that they've added. Please go check it out today. That's Legacy PM Investments dot com.
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"Folks, welcome to the Eric Metaxas show sponsored by Legacy Precious Metals. There's never been a better time to invest in precious metals. Visit Legacy PM investments dot com. That's Legacy PM investments dot com. Ladies and gentlemen, looking for something new and original, something unique and without equal. Look no further. Here comes the one and only Eric Metaxas. Folks, welcome to the program. I am so excited right now I could burst almost literally, but not literally. I have on a friend, Neil Mammon, who is involved in something that I've been talking about for some time. It's really exciting. So before I tell you all about it, why don't I just say welcome, Neil Mammon. Thank you. Good to be here again. OK, we're going to be talking about something. I can't believe it exists. I feel like I dreamt it up, but nobody would ever execute such a thing. But you and Roger Elswick. Have made this a reality, this is a big deal, this is an answer to a real problem we have, I say everywhere I go that folks, if you're going to a church that is not dealing with the issues in our culture, that is unwilling to face this and that is whistling in the wind, that is fiddling while Rome burns, you need to find another church. I say this over and over and I beg people, God will judge you for sitting in a church that is shrinking from its duty before God to speak to these issues. And then the question is, people say, well, where would I go to a church? So, Neil, tell us. Well, the problem is really, really obvious. And I get that all the time. I go around speaking. People go, oh, do you know a good church in this or that area? Well, it turns out that more than that, it turns out one point seven million people look for a new church every month. One point seven people look for a new church billion million. And now if you assume that's a family unit here or there, that's about five million people looking for a new church every month. Most of them turns out it's Sunday morning. So I wanted to do some research on it. So I went on, you know, that the source of all information is Google's barred artificial intelligence. And I said, tell me what sort of churches these people are looking for. And Bard comes back with, oh, they're looking for progressive, more loving, more accepting churches. That's what Google said. And I said, really, is that true? I don't believe that. So I said, give me the information. Give me the evidence of that. By the way, before I start, I should mention this. I have a statistics. I want a statistic. I want your readers. I don't want you to guess because you'll know the answer. Here's a quote. Only 17 percent of Americans go to church. The interest in religion is minimal. And in New York, single women are more likely to be sexually active than attend the church. Worse, 33 percent of all pregnancies in New York are out of wedlock.
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"Folks, welcome to the Eric Metaxas show sponsored by Legacy Precious Metals. There's never been a better time to invest in precious metals. Visit Legacy PM investments dot com. That's Legacy PM investments dot com. Ladies and gentlemen, looking for something new and original, something unique and without equal. Look no further. Here comes the one and only Eric Metaxas. Folks, welcome to the program. I am so excited right now I could burst almost literally, but not literally. I have on a friend, Neil Mammon, who is involved in something that I've been talking about for some time. It's really exciting. So I before tell you all about it, why don't I just say welcome, Neil Mammon. Thank you. Good to be here again. OK, we're going to be talking about something. I can't believe it exists. I feel like I dreamt it up, but nobody would ever execute such a thing. But you and Roger Elswick. Have made this a reality, this is a big deal, this is an answer to a real problem we have, I say everywhere I go that folks, if you're going to a church that is not dealing with the issues in our culture, that is unwilling to face this and that is whistling in the wind, that is fiddling while Rome burns, you need to find another church. I say this over and over and I beg people, God will judge you for sitting in a church that is shrinking from its duty before God to speak to these issues. And then the question is, people say, well, where would I go to a church? So, Neil, tell us. Well, the problem is really, really obvious. And I get that all the time. I go around speaking. People go, oh, do you know a good church in this or that area? Well, it turns out that more than that, it turns out one point seven million people look for a new church every month. One point seven people look for a new church billion million. And now if you assume that's a family unit here or there, that's about five million people looking for a new church every month. Most of them turns out it's Sunday morning. So I wanted to do some research on it. So I went on, you know, that the source of all information is Google's barred artificial intelligence. And I said, tell me what sort of churches these people are looking for. And Bard comes back with, oh, they're looking for progressive, more loving, more accepting churches. That's what Google said. And I said, really, is that true? I don't believe that. So I said, give me the information. Give me the evidence of that. By the way, before I start, I should mention this. I have a statistics. I want a statistic. I want your readers. I don't want you to guess because you'll know the answer. Here's a quote. Only 17 percent of Americans go to church. The interest in religion is minimal. And in New York, single women are more likely to be sexually active than attend the church. Worse, 33 percent of all pregnancies in New York are out of wedlock.